Perspectives of Executives and Students on Leadership Characteristics for Healthcare Managers: Does a Gap Exist?

Preparing healthcare managers for the complexity of the healthcare industry poses a heavy challenge on healthcare organizations, CEOs, managers, and educational institutions. In order to ensure that future healthcare managers are prepared to enter the workforce, it is important that the characteristics and skills deemed important by current CEOs in the field are similar to those of undergraduate healthcare management students that will be entering the workforce

On feasible and infeasible search for equitable graph coloring

An equitable legal k-coloring of an undirected graph G = (V, E) is a partition of the vertex set V into k disjoint independent sets, such that the cardinalities of any two independent sets differ by at most one (this is called the equity constraint). As a variant of the popular graph coloring problem (GCP), the equitable coloring problem (ECP) involves finding a minimum k for which an equitable legal k-coloring exists. In this paper, we present a study of searching both feasible and infeasible solutions with respect to the equity constraint. The resulting algorithm relies on a mixed search strategy exploring both equitable and inequitable colorings unlike existing algorithms where the search is limited to equitable colorings only. We present experimental results on 73 DIMACS and COLOR benchmark graphs and demonstrate the competitiveness of this search strategy by showing 9 improved best-known results (new upper bounds)

A rating scale to be used as a guide in grade determination for clinical practice of freshman students in the nursing course of a specific school of nursing

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Gravity for FDI

Gravity equations explaining foreign affiliates’ sales are ad hoc and hence, estimated coefficients are hard to interpret. We therefore provide the theoretical underpinnings of the gravity equation applied to the analysis of sales of foreign affiliates of multinational firms. We argue that the success of the gravity equation results from the fact that it can be derived from various theoretical models. We illustrate this point by deriving a gravity equation from three different models of multinational firms. Using data on real affiliate sales, we show how this derived gravity equation can nevertheless be used to discriminate between the different theoretical models

グローバル・リスクとしての海外腐敗行為 ―ナイジェリア贈賄事件を巡って―

In this article, we describe three main reasons why foreign corrupt practices are considered one of the most serious risks to globally-operating corporations. First, many countries, especially the 38 countries which ratified the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, have begun to share information to combat this problem. Particularly noteworthy is that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) started to apply its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) extraterritorially far more actively than ever. Second, countries such as the USA and EU countries began to impose severe sanctions against offenders who broke laws that prohibit corporations from providing illicit money to foreign politicians and officials. Over the past several years, the amount of penalties levied upon corporate offenders has risen exponentially. The maximum amount one corporation has paid already reached 1.6 billion US dollars. Third, the DOJ (as well as the SEC) has acquired very effective measures and tools (e. g., discretionary power to determine final penalties, plea agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, and the establishment of the FCPA Reporting Center), which make it much easier to collect and accumulate criminal information and to bring charges against FCPA offenders. For the purpose of understanding the third reason, we examine how the DOJ has tracked down the criminals (both corporations and individuals) at the Nigerian Bribery Scandal

Ultrafast Control of Crystal Structure in a Topological Charge-Density-Wave Material

Optical control of crystal structures is a promising route to change physical properties including topological nature of a targeting material. Time-resolved X-ray diffraction measurements using the X-ray free-electron laser are performed to study the ultrafast lattice dynamics of VTe$_2$, which shows a unique charge-density-wave (CDW) ordering coupled to the topological surface states as a first-order phase transition. A significant oscillation of the CDW amplitude mode is observed at a superlattice reflection as well as Bragg reflections. The frequency of the oscillation is independent of the fluence of the pumping laser, which is prominent to the CDW ordering of the first-order phase transition. Furthermore, the timescale of the photoinduced 1$T^{\prime\prime}$ to 1$T$ phase transition is independent of the period of the CDW amplitude mode