Hospital management staffing and training issues

Hospitals dominate health care in most parts of the world and for a variety of reasons are likely to continue being a key factor in the overall performance of the health care system. Any efforts to improve this performance must therefore give greater hospital efficiency the highest priority. After discussing key issues of managerial, clinical, and production efficiency, this paper suggests an agenda for the most useful areas of research.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Pharmaceuticals&Pharmacoeconomics,Housing&Human Habitats,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Systems Development&Reform

Les métamorphoses de l'acanthe sur les chapiteaux arméniens du Ve au VIIe siècle

International audienceSoumise à une forte déformation, entre stylisation et dégénérescence, l'acanthe a été assez souvent utilisée par les sculpteurs arméniens de la période paléochrétienne et préarabe (Ve-VIIe siècle) pour la décoration des chapiteaux (ou plus exactement des impostes, les chapiteaux engagés). Avant de disparaître du répertoire décoratif de cette région, l'acanthe dénaturée, figurée de part et d'autre d'une croix centrale ou d'un médaillon à croix, semble avoir donné naissance à d'intéressantes dérivations qui s'épanouiront au VIIe s., comme par exemple le chapiteau à épannelage "sphéro-cubique"

Fannish healing and “the tentative step forward”: Musical affect and parasocial directionalities in BTS fan narratives

Situating itself within the frameworks of musical affect and relational labour, this research examines the healing practices of BTS fans from all around the world. As the biggest Korean musical act to enter the global stage to date, BTS as a group have fostered a unique iteration of the parasocial relationship with their fans and, in doing so, redefined the structures and potentials of the fan-artist relationship. Both through their music and public image, the resulting expansion has allowed fans to create individual networks for affective healing. The purpose of this research is then to establish relational networks as a conceptualization of fannish healing as it is transformed and reappropriated into the lives of individual fans

Quality in Health Care: Whose Responsibility Is It?

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66941/2/10.1177_0885713x9300800202.pd

A tentative plan for introducing an extended orientation program into the American University of Beirut School of Nursing

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

APPLIED PHOTOPROPERTIES OF PHENYLENE ETHYNYLENES

Light-absorbing molecules can be used as powerful tools to perturb and understand biological systems by fluorescence, sensitization, or photochemical reactions. A thorough understanding of the delivery of dyes to specific biochemical targets and the processes that control the fate of excited-state energy is needed to engineer useful technology out of organic photochemistry. This thesis presents four projects investigating different aspects of pathogen destruction and biochemical sensing in a variety of systems, using the properties of p-phenylene ethynylenes (PEs), an especially flexible and well-studied class of conjugated molecules. Of particular relevance, some PEs are found to be effective dyes for amyloid protein aggregates both in solution and in mouse and human brain tissue. As well, control of the solvent microenvironment can be used to tune accessibility of the triplet state, which has implications for targeted photodynamic inactivation of both pathogens and cancer cells