INTRODUCTION Public health organizations have recommended restricted access and safe storage practices as means to reduce firearm injuries and deaths. We aimed to assess the effect of four firearm restrictions on firearm deaths in Norway 1969-2009. METHODS All deaths due to firearm discharge were included (5,660 deaths, both sexes). The statistical analysis to assess impact of firearm legisla...

a r t i c l e i n f o Management literature frequently proposes the use of a set of managerial practices in order to facilitate the management of organizational change processes. This paper analyses differences in perception in the use of such practices, between change strategists and change receptors, and the impact these practices have on the outcomes of organizational change programs and on ...

Background Awareness about the process of law making and the factors that affect the legislative process have an important role in improving legislations that are approved by parliaments. Objective This study aimed to explore and analyze the process of development and enactment of law in Iran's parliament, and factors that might affect the enactment of laws that are related to the allocation ...

BACKGROUND Drug shortages are currently on the rise. In-depth investigation of the problem is necessary, however, a variety of definitions for 'drug shortages' are formulated in legislations, by different organizations, authorities, and other initiatives. For international comparison, the underlying definition for drug shortages is important to allow appropriate interpretation of national datab...

An exploratory survey of business professionals from a broad range of organizations indicates that potential intranet benefits are both difficult to achieve and highly interrelated. Although many organizations implement intranets in the hope of generating cost savings or improving knowledge sharing across organizational units, this study indicates that the only likely benefit of implementing an...

Despite limited study in recent years, entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in economic growth, both in society at large and within specific ommunities. 2 In a capitalist market economy, firms initiate and coordinate a wide range of ongoing economic activity, and have increasingly been the site of innovation. The formation and nurturing of firms, of organizations which can create and sustain e...

The issue of administrative and legal support the regime martial law was considered. Scientific views on such categories as "legal provision" "administrative-legal in various spheres social relations have been studied. concept "administrative law" is key features are established, namely: specified carried out by special entities whose powers defined legislation; regulated norms law; implemented...

eSciDoc is as a joint project of the Max Planck Society and FIZ Karlsruhe, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), with the aim to realize a next-generation platform for communication and publication in research organizations [1]. The result of the entire eSciDoc project is intended to ensure open and persistent access to the research results and materials of the Max Pl...

Over the past several decades a number of organizations have made significant progress in evolving highperformance production systems. Anecdotal observations of successful systems typically provide the basis for organizational initiatives that practitioners attempt to copy and transplant into other organizations, sometimes resulting in successful applications and sometime in expensive failures....

F years ago, the worst one could be called was a communist. Today, it likely is not flattering to be so referred to, but worse yet to be called a regulator. Regulators are found at all levels of government; one of the missions of government is, after all, to regulate for the greater good. But because opinions vary widely on just what is the “good” that is to be served, there is the Newtonian ef...