Evidence of acute nursing shortages in urban hospitals has been surfacing since 2000. Further, new graduate nurses account for more than 50% of total nurse turnover in some hospitals and between 35% and 60% of new graduates change workplace during the first year. Critical to organizational success, first line nurse managers must have the knowledge and skills to ensure the accurate projection of...

Monitoring our natural resources will increasingly rely on genetic tools in order to understand and respond to invasive species, habitat degradation, fragmentation, disease, or climate-related changes. In recent years, the rapidly evolving field of genetic monitoring has seen explosive growth in sampling methods, genetic markers, and analytical approaches designed to estimate a wide range of pa...

Bing and Google are finely tuned to quickly serve the frequent and popular information needs of the masses. Topic specificity, customizability, and automatically pursuing the long term unique information needs of individual users are not among the strengths of current main stream search engines (Jansen, Spink, and Saracevic 2000) (Teevan, Dumais, and Horvitz 2005). This gap has inspired web per...

The amount of scientific data generated by simulations or collected from large scale experiments have reached levels that cannot be stored in the researcher’s workstation or even in his/her local computer center. Such data are vital to large scientific collaborations dispersed over wide-area networks. In the past, the concept of a Grid infrastructure [1] mainly emphasized the computational aspe...

What is the line manager‟s role in terms of Human Resources Management (HRM)? A new contribution calls for the re-conceptualisation of HRM as signals that management send to employees rather than systems, practices, or bundles. That contribution argues that HR professionals operate at a conceptual level and also in terms of more specific practices level. We examine a large hospital and suggest ...

The Barcode of Life Data System ( BOLD ) is an informatics workbench aiding the acquisition, storage, analysis and publication of DNA barcode records. By assembling molecular, morphological and distributional data, it bridges a traditional bioinformatics chasm. BOLD is freely available to any researcher with interests in DNA barcoding. By providing specialized services, it aids the assembly of ...

Storage Resource Managers (SRMs) are middleware components whose function is to provide dynamic space allocation and file management of shared storage components on the Grid. They complement Compute Resource Managers and Network Resource Managers in providing storage reservation and dynamic information on storage availability for the planning and execution of a Grid job. SRMs manage two types o...

COVID-19 has brought an unexpected need for change within organizations, particularly regarding human resource management. The nature of this global crisis meant that these processes remain under-systematized. aim study, which uses exploratory design and mixed-methods analysis, is to contribute describing the changes in management practices resulted from pandemic present outlook managers future...

empowering employees in specialized and general qualifications fields is required for urban management organization (tehran municipality). planning and establishment of comprehensive system of electronic learning is considered the main goal of human resource and educational managers. . this study tried to investigate the feasibility and execution of electronic learning courses for in-service st...