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Over the last 20 years, the increasing complexity and technical intensiveness of health care in French hospitals have increased the level of uncertainty in the process of care. This paper argues that beyond quality management approaches, the most important issue in health care management is the need to implement new organizational methods in response to the dynamic changes that are transforming...

In 1990, an attitude survey was conducted of 402 animal rights activists attending a national march in Washington, DC (S. Pious, 1991). The present article reports the results of a follow-up survey of 372 activists attending a similar event in 1996. A comparison of the 1990 and 1996 surveys suggests that during this time a significant shift took place in the priorities of the animal rights move...

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BACKGROUND In 1993, the Performance Scales© was created to assess multi-dimensional disability in multiple sclerosis (MS). This tool has been used in a variety of settings and study designs internationally. The present work provides an overview of the history and psychometric characteristics of the Performance Scales©, reviews its use over the past two decades, and summarizes its responsiveness...

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raven progressive matrices (rpms) and wechsler intelligence scale for children (wsic-r) are two common general intelligence measuring scales used in iranian high schools. in this paper the relationships between g factor scales and students’ reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary was examined by correlation and regression analysis. standard tests of grammar and vocabulary and cambridge k...