The main mission statement of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) is 'to promote excellence in clinical diagnosis, research, technical development, and education in cardiovascular ultrasound in Europe'. As competence and quality control issues are increasingly recognized by patients, physicians, and payers, the EAE has established recommendations for training, competence, and qua...

Taking as its starting point a recent statement of the Goals of Medicine published by the Hastings Centre, this paper argues against the dualistic distinction between pain and suffering. It uses an Aristotelian conception of the person to suggest that malady, pain, and disablement are objective forms of suffering not dependent upon any state of consciousness of the victim. As a result, medicine...

Web-based social software can play an important role in introducing innovative internal and external communication processes. In this paper we discuss the participation-oriented and web-based development of a corporate mission statement for the University of Regensburg. The design of a communication process as well as the quantitative analysis of the communication on a bulletin board system est...

As independent or “indie” games become more visible and prominent in the digital game industry and in gaming culture, the idea of independence becomes increasingly difficult to pin down. This short paper provides a starting point for scholars interested in studying indie games. Beginning with a mission statement that addresses some of the challenges and opportunities of indie game studies, the ...

Accomplishment, recognition, innovation, discovery, respect, successes, titles, achievement, emulation, mentorship, growth, and completion of one’s objectives...coupled with impediments, peer resistance, frustration, uncertainty, disappointment, and occasional failures. These words represent the positive and occasionally negative experiences of many (if not most) physician-scientists who are de...

According to the Mission Statement of this journal, neuroinformatics is a field devoted to the development of neuroscience data and knowledge bases together with numerical models and analytical tools for the sharing, integration and analysis of experimental data and the advancement of theories of nervous system function. An important distinguishing feature of neuroscience is the heterogeneity a...

A mission statement is the most visible element of an organizational strategy; it ought to be effective in terms reflecting its purpose. Particularly, top global brands, corporations, and business schools are expected have modular statements that comply with definition ideal statement. To determine how closely they adhere components statement, this study compares actual organizations desired Th...

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) can be used in a wide range of monitoring and controlling applications. These networks consist of nodes with sparse resources, which makes application implementation challenging. Therefore, many middleware systems were developed in the last decade. Furthermore, unattended and long-living deployments of WSNs need fault-tolerant software architectures. The goal of t...

The Permanente Journal /Spring 1998/Volume 2 No. 2 Tom Janisse, MD, Editor-in-Chief 1998-99 Strategic Planning The Editorial Team and members of the Advisory Board of The Permanente Journal met in February for 1998-99 strategic planning. Although the group discussed many subjects in detail, I would like to highlight three important strategic intents. Our work first focused on review of the Jour...

the water deficiency is one of the serious problems in the arid zones. in order to investigate the effect of cycocel on different growth aspects of two olive cultivars (mary and mission), a greenhouse experiment was conducted using three factors of: cycocel at three levels (0, 500 and 1000 mg l-1), irrigation of three levels (irrigated at 5, 10 and 15 days intervals) and tow olive cultivars (ma...