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The Challenges of Strategic Human Resources Management in Southeast Asian Universities
Nowadays the Higher Education Institutions face major challenges in its development.
Demanding from different actors and the orientation of the research, more oriented to
innovation and value creation, request news capacities to answer to that.
Southeast Asia shows a strong economic growth with a large increase in GDP and a
growing improvement in the position of The Human Development Index promoted by United
Nations.
This reality creates a different pressure on the higher education institutions in southeast Asia
that requires a change in the universities, in the way they implement the mission and in the
requested capacities, specially the human resources capacities.
In this way, a new paradigm and model of human resources management for southeast
higher education institutions need be developed to create the conditions to answer to this
new reality, where the main analysis variables will be talent, performance, motivation and
retention, coaching, cross cultural, integrity and permanent adaptability and flexibility.
The main objective of this communication is to reflect and contextualize in terms of
theoretical models where we find the assumptions for the implementation of strategic human
resources management for southeast Asian universities.
What kind of profile is request for the staff in this new reality?
What we need to change in human resources management?
How can this change be implemented?
What HRM tools are most relevant to this reality?
These are the main issues on which we will reflect with a critical thinking approach in order
to present a set of clues to southeast Asian universities according to our analysis and
interpretation, as Portuguese and European
Manejo do solo para a cultura da soja.
Consequencias do preparo incorreto do solo; Compactacao do solo; Desenvolvimento radicular da soja; Compactacao e produtividade da soja; Cobertura do solo; Sistemas de preparo do solo; Sistemas de preparo utilizados na cultura da soja.bitstream/item/51178/1/12.pd
Membrane Type 1 Matrix Metalloproteinase Regulates Monocyte Migration and Collagen Destruction in Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global pandemic and drug resistance is rising. Multicellular granuloma formation is the pathological hallmark of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The membrane type 1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP or MMP-14) is a collagenase that is key in leukocyte migration and collagen destruction. In patients with TB, induced sputum MT1-MMP mRNA levels were increased 5.1-fold compared with matched controls and correlated positively with extent of lung infiltration on chest radiographs (r = 0.483; p < 0.05). M. tuberculosis infection of primary human monocytes increased MT1-MMP surface expression 31.7-fold and gene expression 24.5-fold. M. tuberculosis-infected monocytes degraded collagen matrix in an MT1-MMP-dependent manner, and MT1-MMP neutralization decreased collagen degradation by 73%. In human TB granulomas, MT1-MMP immunoreactivity was observed in macrophages throughout the granuloma. Monocyte-monocyte networks caused a 17.5-fold increase in MT1-MMP surface expression dependent on p38 MAPK and G protein-coupled receptor-dependent signaling. Monocytes migrating toward agarose beads impregnated with conditioned media from M. tuberculosis-infected monocytes expressed MT1-MMP. Neutralization of MT1-MMP activity decreased this M. tuberculosis network-dependent monocyte migration by 44%. Taken together, we demonstrate that MT1-MMP is central to two key elements of TB pathogenesis, causing collagen degradation and regulating monocyte migration
High Efficacy of Two Artemisinin-Based Combinations (Artesunate + Amodiaquine and Artemether + Lumefantrine) in Caala, Central Angola.
In April 2004, 137 children 6-59 months of age with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria (Caala, Central Angola) were randomized to receive either artemether-lumefantrine (Coartem) or artesunate + amodiaquine (ASAQ). After 28 days of follow-up, there were 2/61 (3.2%) recurrent parasitemias in the Coartem group and 4/64 (6.2%) in the ASAQ group (P = 0.72), all classified as re-infections after PCR genotyping (cure rate = 100% [95%CI: 94-100] in both groups). Only one patient (ASAQ group) had gametocytes on day 28 versus five (Coartem) and three (ASAQ) at baseline. Compared with baseline, anemia was significantly improved after 28 days of follow-up in both groups (Coartem: from 54.1% to 13.4%; ASAQ: from 53.1% to 15.9%). Our findings are in favor of a high efficacy of both combinations in Caala. Now that Coartem has been chosen as the new first-line anti-malarial, the challenge is to insure that this drug is available and adequately used
Quasi-one-dimensional system as a high-temperature superconductor
It is well-known that quasi-one-dimensional superconductors suffer from the
pairing fluctuations that significantly reduce the superconducting temperature
or even completely suppress any coherent behavior. Here we demonstrate that a
coupling to a robust pair condensate changes the situation dramatically. In
this case the quasi-one-dimensional system can be a high temperature
superconductor governed by the proximity to the Lifshitz transition at which
the Fermi level approaches the lower edge of the single-particle spectrum.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Impacto da insulinoterapia prévia no prognóstico dos pacientes diabéticos com síndromes coronárias agudas
Impact of previous insulin therapy on the prognosis of diabetic patients with acute coronary syndrome
Tratamento do coco verde para exportação com ênfase no controle da podridão-basal-pós-colheita.
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The importance of ultrasound findings in the study of anal pain
ABSTRACT
Objective: endoanal ultrasonography can detect organic causes
of anal pain without pathology on physical examination. The
aim of this study is to evaluate the importance of endoanal ultrasonography
in the diagnosis and therapeutic management of idiopathic
and functional anal pain.
Material and methods: retrospective study, between 15
March 2005 and 15 June 2008, of all patients with proctalgia
and normal examination or with alterations not responsible for
anal pain at proctologic exam that have undergone an endoanal
ultrasonography.
Results: a total of 90 patients were analyzed, with a mean
age of 50.5 years, 58% were female. Twenty-three patients had
functional anal pain clinic criteria. Endoanal ultrasonography revealed
alterations in 49% of patients. The primary findings were
changes in sphincters in 14 patients, followed by anal sepsis in 12
patients, anal fissure in 10 patients, perirectal lesions in 6 patients
and ulcer of the anal canal in 2 patients. Of the patients with
sphincter defects, 5 patients had criteria of chronic anal pain. In
this group of patients, no differences were found in manometric
and defecographic results between the different ultrasound abnormalities.
Conclusions: the endoanal ultrasonography detected occult
organic lesions to proctologic examination, in half the patients
with anal pain. Ultrasound abnormalities were found in 22% of
patients with functional anal pain. However, there was no correlation
between ultrasound findings and physiological studies, and
therefore could not find etiological or pathogenic factors of functional
anal pain
Estratégias de controle de podridões em pós-colheita de melão: uma revisão
Aspectos gerais; Patologia pós-colheita de melão; Aspectos ecológicos e epidemiológicos das doenças em pós-colheita; Maturação de frutos x patologia pós-colheita de frutos; Considerações finais.bitstream/CNPAT-2010/10923/1/Dc-112.pd
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