Aims and method This paper aims to review colleague and patient feedback from the 10-year period of the operation of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' 360-degree appraisal system, specifically: (1) examine the overall distribution of ratings; (2) examine the effect of working primarily with detained patients on patient feedback, represented by forensic psychiatrists; and (3) look for a relati...

purpose: this paper aims to determine the individual factors that influence on knowledge sharing behavior of library & information science(lis) faculties that in this context refers to trust, cooperations, communications and it capabilities. methodology: the methodology of this study is based on survey research. the instrument for collecting data was questionnaire and the research population co...

this research is a descriptive study which had been performed in order of settlement of communication between the nurses with the confinded patients in the internal cardiac wards in the hospital affiliated to ministry of health and medical educations of tehran. this research has been done in twelve internal cardiac. wards of the hospital affiliated to the ministry of health and medical educatio...

0020-0255/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2013.06.042 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Departament d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili., Av., Països Catalans, 2 Tarragona, Spain. Tel.: +34 977 559657; fax: +34 977 559710. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Sánchez). David Sánchez ⇑, Montserrat Ba...

Model atmosphere fits to high-resolution optical spectra of Wray 977 confirm the B hypergiant classification of the massive companion to the X-ray pulsar GX301−2. The models give a radius of 62 R ⊙ , an effective temperature of 18,100 K and a luminosity of 5 × 10 5 L ⊙. These values are somewhat reduced compared to the stellar parameters of Wray 977 measured previously. The deduced mass-loss ra...

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50 words Text: 1014 words * Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unitat de Microbiologia, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Carrer Sant Llorenç, 21.43201 Reus, Spain. Phone 977-759359. Fax: 977-759322. E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. doi...

The paper presents the results of a study on usability methods for evaluating Web sites. It summarizes the "Heuristics for Web Communications," and reports the practical experiences with these heuristics, contrasting them with the "Keevil Index" and combining them with user testing with thinking aloud. It concludes that working with the "Heuristics for Web Communications" takes more time and ef...

During the last decade, the Web has changed from a simple hyper textual repository of documents to a powerful communication media. This shift has made Web applications highly suitable for the support of educational activities, which often include collaborative sessions. However, e-learning groupware technologies are still not supported by established evaluation methodologies. Basing on previous...