Audit of human resources as a business process

Auditing is a practice of vital social and economic importance for every company. It is an instrument that organizations have at their disposal in order to generate information that let managers make appropriate decisions based on real facts; therefore, auditing is an improvement mechanism or tool capable of generating information. The importance of this tool relies on the relevance that a company gives to the human capital, knowing that the staff is the most valuable capital and therefore organizations need to really know their people, how is their performance, how they are continuously changing and what practices are helping to their improvement, or on the contrary, making it more difficult. To get to know that, the Human Resources audit is a valid instrument that must be strategically developed as a method of analysis that shows significant results, both failures and successes in all Human Resources processes in order to determine, in a near future, proposals to improve procedures. Currently, this practice is not often applied, not with the frequency that is required. The human resources department should always be aware that it role within a company is vital, since it manages personnel and is always seen as the model department of the company, with the best practices and processes. This area should also realize that the audit process could have a strong educational impact, since it allows relating the quality of human resources management and the various efficiency indicators of the company. This process also helps to show indicators such as the quality of leadership, motivation at work, deficiency of supervision, continuous growth and employee development

Time for change: a new training programme for morpho-molecular pathologists?

The evolution of cellular pathology as a specialty has always been driven by technological developments and the clinical relevance of incorporating novel investigations into diagnostic practice. In recent years, the molecular characterisation of cancer has become of crucial relevance in patient treatment both for predictive testing and subclassification of certain tumours. Much of this has become possible due to the availability of next-generation sequencing technologies and the whole-genome sequencing of tumours is now being rolled out into clinical practice in England via the 100 000 Genome Project. The effective integration of cellular pathology reporting and genomic characterisation is crucial to ensure the morphological and genomic data are interpreted in the relevant context, though despite this, in many UK centres molecular testing is entirely detached from cellular pathology departments. The CM-Path initiative recognises there is a genomics knowledge and skills gap within cellular pathology that needs to be bridged through an upskilling of the current workforce and a redesign of pathology training. Bridging this gap will allow the development of an integrated 'morphomolecular pathology' specialty, which can maintain the relevance of cellular pathology at the centre of cancer patient management and allow the pathology community to continue to be a major influence in cancer discovery as well as playing a driving role in the delivery of precision medicine approaches. Here, several alternative models of pathology training, designed to address this challenge, are presented and appraised

Compositions, probiotic formulations and methods to promote digestion and improve nutrition in poultry

The present disclosure relates to probiotic compositions, formulations and methods for promoting digestion and improving nutrition in birds, and probiotic compositions and formulations for increasing enzyme production and improving parameters and indications in birds

Poultry probiotic vaccine compositions and methods of use thereof

Provided herein are compositions including a probiotic including at least one strain of live bacteria and a Marek\u27s Disease vaccine. Compositions including a probiotic or a probiotic and a Marek\u27s Disease vaccine may be administered to subjects, including poultry. The compositions may be administered in ovo to increase early lactic acid bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract of the subject, to decrease the gram negative bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract of the subject, to reduce the level of Salmonella in the gastrointestinal tract of the subject and to increase the body weight gain of the subject. Also provided are kits including a probiotic and a Marek\u27s Disease vaccine

Belastungsabhängige vertikale Doppelbilder und Ptosis

Zusammenfassung: Eine 43-jährige Patientin wurde uns vorgestellt, da seit 2-3Monaten ihr linkes Augenlid in wechselnder Ausprägung hing. Ferner nahm sie auch Doppelbilder in Extrempositionen oder nach schnellen Augenbewegungen wahr und war lichtempfindlich. Die Diagnose ergab ein Keilbeinmeningeom. Es wurde in der Folge 2-mal innerhalb von 3Monaten mittels Radiopeptidtherapie mit 90Y-DOTATOC (Somatostatin-Analogon) behandelt. Bei unserer Patientin führte diese Therapie zu einer Volumenreduktion des Tumors sowie zu einer klinischen Verbesserung und dann Stabilisierun

Mucosal adjuvants and delivery systems

Adjuvants comprising chitosan cross-linked with an aldehyde or mannosylated chitosan are provided herein. Methods of making the adjuvants and methods of combining or linking the adjuvants with antigens are also provided. The adjuvant-antigen combinations can be used in vaccine formulations and the vaccine formulations can be used in methods to vaccinate animals against the source of the antigen or to enhance the immune response in a subject

Ianus: an Adpative FPGA Computer

Dedicated machines designed for specific computational algorithms can outperform conventional computers by several orders of magnitude. In this note we describe {\it Ianus}, a new generation FPGA based machine and its basic features: hardware integration and wide reprogrammability. Our goal is to build a machine that can fully exploit the performance potential of new generation FPGA devices. We also plan a software platform which simplifies its programming, in order to extend its intended range of application to a wide class of interesting and computationally demanding problems. The decision to develop a dedicated processor is a complex one, involving careful assessment of its performance lead, during its expected lifetime, over traditional computers, taking into account their performance increase, as predicted by Moore's law. We discuss this point in detail