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Choosing how to choose : Institutional pressures affecting the adoption of personnel selection procedures
Get PDFThe gap between science and practice in personnel selection is an ongoing concern of human resource management. This paper takes Oliver´s framework of organizations´ strategic responses to institutional pressures as a basis for outlining the diverse economic and social demands that facilitate or inhibit the application of scientifically recommended selection procedures. Faced with a complex network of multiple requirements, practitioners make more diverse choices in response to any of these pressures than has previously been acknowledged in the scientific literature. Implications for the science-practitioner gap are discussed
An early Flecker radiograph of Hydrophis elegans, and new information on its feeding habits
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Process Capability Evaluation for the Process of Product Families
No full textprocess capability index, process yield, product family,
Construction of spinal cord cDNA library and application for subtractive cloning of spinal cord-specific cDNAs
No full textInfluence of Flavonoids on Nodulation and Carbon Partitioning in Pea-Rhizobium Symbiosis
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Identification of Proximal Spinal Muscular Atrophy Carriers and Patients by Analysis of SMNT and SMNC Gene Copy Number
No full textIntragenic telSMN Mutations: Frequency, Distribution, Evidence of a Founder Effect, and Modification of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Phenotype by cenSMN Copy Number
No full textConverging Cognitive Enhancements
No full textCognitive enhancement, the amplification or extension of core capacities of the mind, has become a major topic in bioethics. But cognitive enhancement is a prime example of a converging technology where individual disciplines merge and issues transcend particular local discourses. This article reviews currently available methods of cognitive enhancement and their likely near-term prospects for convergence.
