Patient safety culture

Background In recent years there has been a growing interest in patient safety culture and the central role this concept plays in understanding patient safety in both primary and secondary health care.(1’4) Patient safety is defined by the US Institute of Medicine as ‘the freedom of accidental injury to patients’, or in other words the … Read more

Memristors

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Computers transform to the smaller, faster and more reliable devices year by year. Accordingly designing more efficient logic gates, as the basic blocks of the VLSI chips, are essential for circuit designers. Since the integration reached to its limits through the conventional technologies mainly the CMOS based VLSI designs the quest for … Read more

Human resources in the US

America Employees Through the law of the US workforce there are few restrictions imposed on the employment of an employee or his dismissal. Because of this, employees of US companies are willing to change frequently the workplace. Changing job occurs: ‘ both from the company’s initiative, dismissal for economic reasons or otherwise; ‘ but also … Read more

The buy-green trend in hospitality and tourism

Trend Description In the past few years, the word ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’ are the keywords that receive a lot of concern from every industries. Especially for hospitality designer, according to Roger G.Hill, sustainable design practices are becoming common place in pursuing Green Design, creating value, reducing dish and solving problems for their customers as each … Read more

ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND OXIDATIVE STRESS

The Effects of Antidepressant Treatment on Oxidative Stress and Anti-oxidants in Subjects with Depression INTRODUCTION Depression is a common disorder characterized by persistent feelings of hopelessness and sadness. According to the DSM-IV criteria, the 2 core symptoms are a depressed mood and anhedonia (reduced pleasure and loss of interest in activities). Depression afflicts large populations. … Read more

Types of Perfectionism in Different Perspectives

Definitions of perfectionism have many different descriptions depends on perspectives and viewpoints. (Flett&Hewitt, 2002) However, it mostly refers to a tendency to regard anything short of perfection as unacceptable (Merriam & Webster, 1988). While the descriptions may show differences, perfectionist people may show samely symptoms such as to set high standards, to try to avoid … Read more

Measuring Structural Code Quality Using Metrics

________________________________________ Abstract: Object-oriented technology has rapidly accepted as the preferred way for large-scale system design. With the help of this advanced technology we can develop software product of higher quality and lower maintenance cost. It is evident that the available traditional software metrics are inadequate for case of object-oriented software , a set of new … Read more

Mobile data analytics

1. INTRODUCTION This chapter describes brief introduction of this project and it also includes problem statement, objective of the study, methodology used in the project, scope and limitation of the study and it also describes hardware and software requirements for this project. 1.1 General Information The rapidly evolving mobile landscape is compelling businesses across every … Read more

CCCenter: Energy- Efficient Continuous Context Sensing Middleware

1 Introduction and Background 1.1. Introduction In recent years, the usage of mobile phone is increasing significantly across the world. According to statistics as of 2013, 73% of internet users accessed the internet resources via a mobile device and this percentage projected to nearly 90% by 2017[1]. Mobile phones numbers and other types of integrated … Read more

United States – Egypt relations

The United States has been in a diplom1atic relation with Egypt since 1922, after Egypt regained its independence from a protectorate status under the political and economic influence of United Kingdom . The government claims that America would ‘share a relationship based on mutual interest in Middle East peace and stability, revitalizing the Egyptian economy … Read more

The Indian banking industry

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A financial system, which is intrinsically strong, functionally varied and displays efficiency and flexibility, is creating a market-driven, productive and competitive economy. A strong system supports higher levels of investment and promotes growth in the economy. The financial system in India consists of financial institutions, financial markets, financial instruments and services. The … Read more

Gait quantification through technology

INTRODUCTION The aging population is expanding and although we name it the ‘silver generation’, sounding glamorous and fun, healthy aging is not obvious for everyone. The number of adults older than 65 is growing fast, and with the improving health care the number of people with chronic diseases and multiple co-morbidities is rising [1]. Most … Read more