for their participation in conducting the trial and analyzing the data, Rich Silacci-Cal Poly Dairy Herd Manager (SLO, CA) for animal care and management, Cal Poly Dairy employees (SLO, CA) for animal care and treatment/ control application, DSM Nutritional Products (Basel, Switzerland) for funding and analysis of treatment/ control enzyme activity, Cumberland Valley Analytical Services (Maugan...

 N. A. Smith, MSc, MRCS, Specialist Registrar, Trauma and Orthopaedics  J. Achten, PhD, Senior Trial Manager  N. Parsons, PhD, Statistician  D. Wright, BSc (Hons), Senior Knee Physiotherapist  B. Parkinson, FRACS (Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon  P. Thompson, FRCS (Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon  C. E. Hutchinson, MD, Professor of Imaging  T. Spalding, FRCS (Orth), Consulta...

Trial start up is a frenetic time for any trial manager: once a trial has been funded the clock is ticking to get the first participant recruited. There are a number of key activities that need to happen during this stage, so developing standardised processes to help improve effectiveness can make the system more efficient, and help promote best practice. Three of the key processes that have be...

intreduction: nowadays, organizational eultcure plays an important role in the process of developing and reconstructing an organization. the selection of an appropriate leadership style by the manager has an significant impact on the development and establishment of a favorable oragnizational culture wich pares the ground for the organization to comete with others. metheds and materials: the is...

We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, firm managers told a crew of tree planters that the piece rate had yet ...

BACKGROUND Chinese American patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) tend to underutilize mental health services and are more likely to seek help in primary care settings than from mental health specialists. Our team has reported that Culturally Sensitive Collaborative Treatment (CSCT) is effective in improving recognition and treatment engagement of depressed Chinese Americans in primary ...