dear colleagues, welcome to the fourth issue of the journal of cardio-thoracic medicine. we are grateful that with support and cooperation of our dear colleagues, the first year of jctm publication passed successfully. we are expecting to promote the indexing of journal of cardio-thoracic medicine in the following year. in this issue, a valuable review article has been written by dr.corlateanu ...

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to translate the Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors (CHIEF) into Persian language and to evaluate the validity and reliability of Persian version of CHIEF to use for children with cerebral palsy. Methods: The CHIEF was translated from English into Persian based on the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) approach. The Persian v...

Editors ́ Network Members (Editors-in-Chiefs of National Society Cardiovascular Journals): Loizos Antoniades (Editor-in-Chief, Cyprus Heart Journal), Eduard Apetrei (Editor-in-Chief, Romanian Journal of Cardiology), Michael Aschermann (Editor-in-Chief, Cor et Vasa), Leonardo Bolognese (Editor-in-Chief, Giornale Italiano Di Cardiologia), Mirza Dilic (Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal), Istvan Edes...

This paper presents a literature review discussing empirical as well as conceptual papers concerning the CTO – the Chief Technology Officer – his tasks, responsibilities and authority and his relations with other corporate functions. It further presents first results of a CTO survey conducted in the Japanese electrical engineering industry in the fall of 2006. Based on both, a set of propositio...

Between May 1986 and September 1990 a total of 43 patients with metastatic transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary tract have been treated at our institution with combination chemotherapy (CMV) consisting of cisplatin 100mg m2 IV day 2; methotrexate 30mg m2 IV days 1,8; and vinblastine 4 mg m-2 IV days 1,8. Chemotherapy was recycled on day 22 and continued for a maximum of six cycles i...

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Andreas Kindt born in 1964, is CIO of Loyalty Partner GmbH and CEO of Loyalty Partner Solutions GmbH. He has been a member of the T-Home Board of Management, responsible for IT from June 2006 to September 2008. He was a Member of the Board of Management of T-Online International AG, responsible for Technology, from January 2002 to June 2006. Peter Bruhn ([email protected]) born in 1972, has be...

This paper discusses a course partnership involving Day & Zimmermann, Inc. (DZI), a large engineering and professional services company, and Temple University. The course was taught between the months of May and July of 1999 and its main goal was to teach students business process redesign concepts and techniques. These concepts and techniques were used to redesign five business processes from ...

This paper presents an empirical study of changes that firms implement in their board-level IT governance (ITG) upon experiencing operational IT failures. Consistent with the separation of oversight from management decisions, boardlevel ITG is responsible for monitoring managerial IT decisions and policies for controlling IT resources. We expect that operational IT failures indicating inadequac...