The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has become the most widely used personality instrument for nonpsychiatric populations (DeVito, 1985; Lynch, 1985). Companies like American Telephone and Telegraph, Exxon, General Electric, Honeywell, and Transamerica employ the Myers-Briggs indicator in their management development programs where the focus is on improving decision-making and building effective te...

BACKGROUND Foot complications due to diabetes impose a major economic burden to society and loss of health-related quality of life for the patients. Early diagnosis and intensified preventive measures have proved useful to limit the incidence of foot ulcers and lower limb amputations in diabetes, and the development of new tools for early diagnosis has therefore become an attractive option. Thi...

An instrument fo r recording optical absorbance of s ingle living cells was demonstrated . The apparatus is based on a grating polychromator and measures absorbance simultaneously at several different wavelengths. It was designed for high-resolution recording while leaving cells accessible to multiple microelectrode impalement. The instrument has been used on nerve cells containing the indicato...

When comparing the average citation impact of research groups, universities and countries, field normalisation reduces the influence of discipline and time. Confidence intervals for these indicators can help with attempts to infer whether differences between sets of publications are due to chance factors. Although both bootstrapping and formulae have been proposed for these, their accuracy is u...

In order to make performance indicators a useful instrument to support managerial decision making, there is need to thoroughly analyse the business context indicators are used in as well as their mutual dependencies. For this purpose, it is recommended to design indicator systems that do not only include dedicated specifications of indicators, but that account for relevant relationships. In thi...