Background: Organizational culture has been defined as an important characteristic that influences the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of providing quality health care services. Nurses are an important group that can influence the overall culture of a health organization positively or negatively. Objectives: To identify the organizational operating culture in total and within levels of the pub...

The data mining research community is increasingly addressing data quality issues, including problems of dirty data. Hand, Blunt, Kelly and Adams (2000) have identified high-level and low-level quality issues in data mining. Kim, Choi, Hong, Kim and Lee (2003) have compiled a useful, complete taxonomy of dirty data that provides a starting point for research in effective techniques and fast alg...

In this paper we suggest that online environments can function as alternate “organizations” for pre-service and beginning teachers who may find themselves struggling in schools. Building on prior work on framing and reframing in organizations and schools, the authors present a new frame of analysis specifically geared for web-based learning/support communities. Data consist of transcripts from ...