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An important aspect of human resource management is understanding employees' values, motivations, and factors satisfaction. Relationships between employee satisfaction, positivity negativity, retention, industry allow managers to make decisions on recruitment techniques budgets, retention efforts, even company image initiatives. Traditional methods for identifying job linkages outcomes are thro...

the main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment among employees at khuzestan ramin university of agriculture and natural resources. this study is applied and research method was survey research. population of the study has been staff of khuzestan ramin university of agriculture and natural resources )n= 210). the sample was i...

The authors acknowledge the comments of Pete Dachler, Dick Hackman, Tim Hall and Ed Lawler on earlier drafts of this paper. Data analyses reported in this paper were partially supported by the Computer Science Center, University of Maryland, College Park Campus. Three studies attempting to achieve convergence between different measures designed to assess need satisfaction in organizations are r...

Background: The authors herein report a case of pain, femoral vein thrombosis, and inguinal subcutaneous hematoma caused by percutaneous femoral vascular catheterization in a hemodialysis (HD) patient complicated with vascular access occlusion. The pain was well-controlled without using analgesics such as non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The thrombosis and hematoma increased in si...

An experiment was performed at the National Library of Medicine((R)) (NLM((R))) in word sense disambiguation (WSD) using the Journal Descriptor Indexing (JDI) methodology. The motivation is the need to solve the ambiguity problem confronting NLM's MetaMap system, which maps free text to terms corresponding to concepts in NLM's Unified Medical Language System((R)) (UMLS((R))) Metathesaurus((R))....

Automatic document categorization is an important research problem in Information Science and Natural Language Processing. Many applications, including Word Sense Disambiguation and Information Retrieval in large collections, can benefit from such categorization. This paper focuses on automatic categorization of documents from the biomedical literature into broad discipline-based categories. Tw...

We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 74 community health workers in rural health houses to investigate overall job satisfaction and satisfaction with 8 aspects of the job (work itself, co-workers, management, workload, promotion, organizational structure, working conditions, and payment and benefits). Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire based on the Job Descriptive I...