the acrylated epoxidized soy oil (aeso) was synthesized from epoxidized soy oil and its properties were investigated.  wheat straw particle boards were produced by the synthesized resin with 8% and 13% contents based on straws weight at three pressing times: 8,10 and 12 min. boards’ modulus of rapture, modulus of elasticity, internal bonding, minimum degree of thickness change and water absorpt...

background and purpose: according to developments related to the relative autonomy of universities and acquired extensive powers by the board of trustees of universities of medical sciences and healthcare services in a twenty-year perspective of country and in the context of the fourth and fifth socio-economic cultural development of country, necessity of developing financial and transactional ...

Today’s competitive health care markets demand innovation and risk taking on the part of organizations. However, increased government regulation and stiffer penalties enacted in the wake of recent high -profile corporate scandals and the resulting Sarbanes–Oxley legislation, may render boards less willing to undertake entrepreneurial ventures. This article extends the typology of corporate entr...

Over the past decade the importance of governing boards as policy-making setting and oversight units within organizations has increased dramatically. Although this is true for both corporate- and private-sector organizations (Bacon and Brown 1977; Gelman 1988), it is particularly relevant to the health sector. Hospital governing boards, long considered inconsequential in hospital management, ha...

Pension de-risking strategies have been widely adopted by firms with defined-benefit (DB) pension plans to reduce risk. This paper investigates the influence of board composition on within UK, focusing particularly three strategies: changes asset allocations, switches from DB defined-contribution (DC) and buy-ins buy-outs. Our findings suggest that larger boards more independent directors are l...

In Washington State, health care workers have the highest rate of compensable back injuries. Washington Hospital Services, a self-insured workers' compensation program, implemented a zero lift program in 31 of its 38 hospitals. Zero lift was defined as replacing manual lifting, transferring, and re-positioning of patients with mechanical lifting or use of other patient assist devices. This prog...

Background The critical role that the board plays in governance of universities clarifies the necessity of evaluating its performance. This study was aimed to evaluate the performance of the boards of medical universities and provide solutions to enhance its performance.   Methods The first phase of present study was a qualitative research in which data were collected through face-to-face semi-...

the purpose of this reseach was to examine the influence of resin consumption gradient and press time on the physical and mechanical properties of particleboard produced from citrus tree residues. four resin consumption gradients; 0, 2, 4 and 6% difference between surface and core layers (10-10%, 11-9%, 12-8% and 13-7%) and two press times of 4 and 5 minutes were applied and totally 24 laborato...

BACKGROUND Transformational change in health care calls on hospital boards of trustees to engage in quality ata level that has never been asked before. Yet little research has been conducted regarding the role of hospital governance in quality. METHODS Interviews were conducted with chief executive officers (CEOs) and board chairpersons from aconvenient sample of 30 hospitals, representing 14...

3(5) of the Act: the State Department of Labor and Industry; the State Highway and Motor Vehicle Department; State, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies as well as penal institutions; State, county, and municipal judicial bodies; State University Boards of Trustees; State, county, and municipal public school boards and commissions; and public libraries. (2) Depending on the facts in t...