this paper investigates the factors affecting the organizational commitment of the khorasan razavi’s gas company’s staff in the central office of mashhad. the method of research was survey and the data was collected using a standard questionnaire. the population was consisted of 200 personnel and the sample included 66 individuals from the company’s staff which were selected though stratified s...

In early 1991, a networked current awareness service was implemented by two units of the University of Michigan (UM), the Alfred Taubman Medical Library (TML) and the Office of Health Sciences Information Technology and Networking (ITN). The goal was to expand on the success of UM-MEDLINE, which allows faculty, staff, and students free, unlimited searching of MEDLINE and other databases via Pap...

BACKGROUND Purchasing an office computer can be time consuming and frustrating. Financial costs and time demands make it difficult for the family physician, especially in solo practice, to follow the many recommendations offered in the literature. The purpose of this study was to identify the most helpful selection factors used by family physicians who had already purchased an office computer. ...

Three new direct-service staff participated in a program that used a video model to train target skills needed to conduct a discrete-trial session. Percentage accuracy in completing a discrete-trial teaching session was evaluated using a multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline, performances ranged from a mean of 12% to 63% accuracy. During video modeling, there was an imme...

CONTEXT Earnings have been shown to be a critical point in workforce recruitment and retention. However, little is known about how much governmental public health staff are paid across the United States. OBJECTIVE To characterize earnings among state health agency central office employees. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey was conducted of state health agency central office employees in late ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the ability of clinicians to recognise deaths which require referral to the coroner. DESIGN Postal questionnaire consisting of 16 fictitious case histories, 14 of which contained a clear indication for referral to the coroner. SETTING Large teaching hospital. Coroner's office. SUBJECTS 200 clinicians from general medical and surgical firms and senior staff of the local...

In this paper we relate university licensing revenues to both university research expenditures and characteristics of the university and the university technology transfer office. We apply the Hausman–Taylor estimator for panel data with time-invariant explanatory variables and the Arellano–Bover dynamic panel model to unbalanced panels for the years 1991–2003 and balanced panels for the years ...

Methods. This study will describe the design steps of Web-based MLIS. Type of research is qualitative action research. The object of this research is the MLIS to support tasks in the Health Services Sector of Semarang City Health Office. Subjects in this study were divided into 2 internal users and external users of MLIS. Internal users consist of the Head of Semarang City Health Office, Head o...