This is another in a series of articles about some of the most effective models, methods, and processes of organization development (OD), also known as change management, a discipline that offers much to the OR/MS practitioner who is determined to help clients solve real-world problems. Because it is based on a systemic view of organizations, OD includes the whole universe of fuzzy people issue...

This article considers that the National Plan of Workers’ Qualification – Planfor established too audacious general objectives: democratization of access to professional qualification; the search of a sustainable development model; and new State’s performance. It also considers that the Plan succeeded in the first and third objectives, while its limits have had great impact on the second one.

This document contains the full theory files accompanying article “Inductive Study of Confidentiality — for Everyone” [1]. They aim at an illustrative and didactic presentation of the Inductive Method of protocol analysis, focusing on the treatment of one of the main goals of security protocols: confidentiality against a threat model. The treatment of confidentiality, which in fact forms a key ...

This report emerges from a workshop convened by the National Eye Institute (NEI) as part of the "Audacious Goals Initiative" (AGI). The workshop addressed the replacement of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) from exogenous and endogenous sources, and sought to identify the gaps in our knowledge and barriers to progress in devising cellular replacement therapies for diseases where RGCs die. Here, we...

y and perhaps reconsider previously held This paper examines one such approach in online learning, where an alternative pedagogy was utilized to offer opportunities for rich and sustained dialogue amongst the teachers (participants in the study) involved in a course, Reflective Practice for Teachers. The pedagogy referred to in this study is predicated on Fenwick’s (2005) notion that pedagogy i...

Assisted mechanical ventilation (MV) may be a favorable alternative to controlled MV at the early phase of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), since it requires less sedation, no paralysis and is associated with less hemodynamic deterioration, better distal organ perfusion, and lung protection, thus reducing the risk of ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI). In the present review, we...

BACKGROUND Understanding and addressing the needs of frail persons is an emerging health priority for Nova Scotia and internationally. Primary healthcare (PHC) providers regularly encounter frail persons in their daily clinical work. However, routine identification and measurement of frailty is not standard practice and, in general, there is a lack of awareness about how to identify and respond...