 J. R. Berstock, MBChB, MRCS, Advanced Hip Research Fellow  A. D. Beswick, BSc, Research Fellow  E. Lenguerrand, BSc, MSc, PhD, Research Fellow  M. R. Whitehouse, PhD, MSc(Orth Eng), BSc, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Clinical Lecturer in Orthopaedics  A. W. Blom, MD, PhD, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Southmead Hospital, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, AOC (Lower Level), Westbury-onTrym...

Sharon Anne Maria Stevelink BSc, MSc1,*, Ingeborg Charlotte Wu BSc, MSc1, Carlijn Gabriëlle Nicolette Voorend Voorend BSc, MSc2, Wim Herman van Brakel MD, MSc, PhD1,3 1Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands 2Netherlands Leprosy Relief, Amsterdam, Netherlands 3Royal Tropic...

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss how to integrate the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) with intellectual capital (IC); and handle the issues of creation, formation, measurement, reporting and even management of strategic intellectual capital (SIC). Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a case study to illustrate the integration between the BSC and IC, and to handle the significant issues re...

Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Mona Al-Houli, MB, BS, BSc; Mamoun AlQaseer, MB, BS, BSc, FRCPath; Nada Madi, PhD; Naser Husaain; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait; Clinical Virology Unit, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Nephrology Cons...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) initially developed by Kaplan and Norton, is a performance management system that should allow enterprises to drive their strategies on measurement and follow-up. In recent years the BSC has been applied to information technology (IT) and currently the first real-life IT applications are starting to emerge. In this article, it is shown how the IT balanced scorecard ...

ndrew G. C. Sutton, MA, MB, MRCP,* Philip G. Campbell, MB, MRCP,* ichard Graham, MB, MRCP,* Dallas J. A. Price, MB, MRCP,* Janine C. Gray, BSC(HONS), PHD,† ver D. Grech, MD, MRCP, FACC,* James A. Hall, MA, MD, FRCP,* lun A. Harcombe, MD, MRCP,* Robert A. Wright, MD, FRCP,* oger H. Smith, BSC(HONS), MB, FRCP,‡ Jerry J. Murphy, MB, BS, DM, FRCP,§ nanthaiah Shyam-Sundar, MB, BS, MD, DM, FRCP,‡ Mic...

We study the classical problem of noisy constrained capacity in the case of the binary symmetric channel (BSC), namely, the capacity of a BSC whose inputs are sequences chosen from a constrained set. Motivated by a result of Ordentlich and Weissman [In Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (2004) 117–122], we derive an asymptotic formula (when the noise parameter is small) for the ent...

When considering education, quality of educational service and stakeholder satisfaction can be taken as more important. Most of the performance models are fails to address the evaluation of organizational performance. This study examines the performance of entire management faculties in Sri Lankan Universities and the perception level of management employees about the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). ...

Benzylselenocyanate (BSC), a novel organoselenium compound, has been found to inhibit azoxymethane (AOM)-induced colon carcinogenesis in rats during initiation. To investigate its mechanism of action, we examined the effects of BSC feeding on the following parameters: (a) metabolism of [14C]AOM to 14CO2 in vivo; (b) metabolic activation of AOM to MAM and of MAM to formic acid and methanol by ra...

a r t i c l e i n f o The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how the boosting approach can be used to define a data-driven board Balanced Scorecard (BSC) with applications to S&P 500 companies. Using Adaboost, we can generate alternating decision trees (ADTs) that explain the relationship between corporate governance variables, and firm performance. We also propose an algorithm to build ...