associated with frequent hospitalizations and high mortality. Evidence-based practice guidelines aid health care professionals with treatment management and provide pathways to optimize individual patient care. The main goal of treatment is to slow the progression of the disease and control its symptoms. These pathways address all stages of the disease beginning with the early recognition of patients at risk and ending with the need for end-of-life care. Pathophysiology Heart failure (HF) is a condition in
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JOHN MOLSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DOWNSIZING: IMPACT ON PRODUCTIVITY AND EMERGENCE OF SURVIVOR SYNDROME Literature Review By ARUN KUMAR DURAIRAJ (7416008) VINAY P PARAMANAND (7283504) VIPUL PARTI (7246307) 10/20/2014 ABSTRACT Most downsizing initiatives fail to achieve the expected synergies. In many cases‚ behavioural or human factors are attributed to failures. This article examines the impact of downsizing on the productivity levels of the firm. The productivity of the firm gets affected
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Introduction: Strategy and management is one of the prominent and most discussed topic in the organization and business studies. Organizations today are challenged by many factors both internal and external and need to effectively address such‚ which makes only possible by the organization effective leader and their strategic view to overcome and take their company into profitable‚ competitive‚ innovative and change. Further‚ the shift of organization from being local onto global and so the factors
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1.1 Introduction Food is particularly important in our everyday lives. Singapore’s Food and Beverage (F&B) Industry contributed 3.5% to the country’s GDP (Emerging Markets Direct‚ 2011). In order to satisfy this craving for food‚ people would either cook their own food or head down to food establishments and restaurants would be an example of such an establishment. A restaurant‚ by a report from V.M Patel Institute of Management (2006) is defined as “an establishment that serves prepared food and
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REVIEW OF LITERATURE T. Koshy‚ 1997‚ “Depository in the Debt Market:The Unfinished Agenda” Though the Indian capital market is over 100 years old‚ it continues mainly as a market for equity related products. Debt is more or less financed through banks and financial institutions‚ although in the recent past‚ financial markets are playing an increasingly significant role. Even the Government securities market essentially consists of primary issues and inter-institutional trades.However‚ due to a
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David Friedman Charles Wright Dan Kalowsky John Daniel Electronic Voting Literature Review Computer scientists who have done work in‚ or are interested in‚ electronic voting all seem to agree on two things: Internet voting does not meet the requirements for public elections Currently widely-deployed voting systems need improvement Voting on the Internet using everyday PC’s offers only weak security‚ but its main disadvantages are in the areas of anonymity and protection against coercion and/or
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Research reviewed. The articles utilized for this literature review provided an array of information that allowed for a greater understanding of the topic. However‚ it was difficult to find articles that addressed the topic of minority incarceration. Most of the articles explored during this phase of research lacked a focus on the issues of minority incarceration‚ and were generally accompanied by a sub topic that deviated the conversation. The articles explored also lacked fitting methods of data
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becoming inevitable. In order to be successful an organisation must adapt to the constantly changing and highly competitive environment in which it operates. This suggests that an understanding of the concepts of organisational change is crucial. But before trying to understand change in relation to organisations‚ one must understand the concept of change in general. Tsoukas and chia (2002567) define change as the reweaving of actors webs of beliefs and habits of action to accommodate new experiences
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Assertiveness in ELT: A Review of Literature Nur’ain Balqis Binti Haladin Faculty of Education Universiti Teknologi Malaysia nurainbalqis@utm.my Noor Aireen Binti Ibrahim Language Academy Universiti Teknologi Malaysia naireen@utm.my According to Sigler‚ Burnett and Child (2008)‚ in 1940s research on assertiveness started to gain the scholarly interest. In its early popularity‚ assertiveness was mainly focused on the differences in assertiveness based on gender and race of the communicator
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http://www.paper.edu.cn Review on Studies of BSC Yang Liang Department of Humanities and Economic Management China University of Geosciences Beijing‚ PRC 100083 Liangyang22@163.com Yan Wang Department of accounting and finance Napier University Edinburgh UK Eh105lw Abstract Because of the weakness of the traditional performance measurements‚ the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) has become one of the most known and most studied models. This thesis introduced the studies on BSC from foreign scholars
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