BACKGROUND Conflicts of interest may bias the findings of systematic reviews. The objective of this methodological survey was to assess the frequency and different types of conflicts of interest that authors of Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews report. METHODS We searched for systematic reviews using the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Ovid MEDLINE (limited to the 119 C...

ERP implementation and post implementation initiatives involve organizational changes. Conflicts, due to technology and processes, regularly arise in such a change process and the dialectic model of change is useful to understand such conflicts. The categorization of ERP conflicts can provide a better understanding of ERP implementation. The aim of this research-in-progress paper is thus to dev...

Most professionals face work-life conflicts as they move through their profession’s hierarch and progressively advanced stages. This study explores the impact of work-life conflicts on employee performance. A sample of 130 respondents was selected from the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). There appears to be a positive and significant relationship between work-life conflict...

background marital conflicts are among the most common problems in today’s society. conflicts are unavoidable since people have different viewpoints, personalities, and goals. marital conflicts can ultimately lead to divorce. this study aimed to assess the effects of conflict resolution training on marital satisfaction in a sample of iranian couples. methods this interventional and clinical tri...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to address the relation between task and relationship conflicts at work and employee well being. It seeks to examine psychological detachment from work during off job time as a moderator in the relation between conflicts and well being. Design/methodology/approach In a field study, 291 white collar employees completed survey measures of task conflicts, relat...

The performance of a vector processor accessing vectors is strongly dependent on the conflicts produced in the memory subsystem. These conflicts delay the work of the functional units. The concurrent memory access of several vector streams causes inter-conflicts between the references of the different vector streams. In a memory system where several memory modules are mapped in every bus (compl...

Violent political conflicts dominate in the global mass media sending almost every day. It is a matter of the new terrorist related conflicts that have become so conspicuous in the 21st century. How are we to understand the new pattern of political conflicts involving the massive and indiscriminate employment of terrorist attacks? To reply to this question, one may contrast the new pattern of f...

BACKGROUND Financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interest in medicine and surgery are troubling because they have the capacity to skew decision making in ways that might be detrimental to patient care and well-being. The recent case of the Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) hip provides a vivid illustration of the harmful effects of conflicts of interest in surgery. DISCUSSION We identify ...

The separation of concerns at implementation level with AspectOriented Programming (AOP) tools raises the conflicts among aspects. The conflicts detection and resolution are critical operations. First the detection of conflicts is a manual task in most of the AOP tools, second the resolution of conflicts is enclosed to order-schemes. The AOP tools structures and mechanisms do not always support...

Conflicts identification among non-functional requirements is often identified intuitively which impairs conflict analysis practices. This paper proposes a new model to identify conflicts among non-functional requirements. The proposed model uses the matrix mechanism to identify the quality based conflicts among non-functional requirements. The potential conflicts are identified through the map...