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2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-477
Author(s):  
Bruno Henrique Rocha Fernandes ◽  
Claudia Cristina Bitencourt ◽  
Graziella Maria Comini

Purpose: To investigate into the strategic alignment of competency-based management (CBM) models implemented in 95 Brazilian organizations, leaders in their respective segments.Design / methodology / approach: The study is a longitudinal, exploratory-descriptive study under a qualitative and quantitative approach.Findings: A great similarity was found in the competencies in the CBM models, both in terms of incidence of competencies and similarity of their descriptions.Research limitations / implications: The study reveals a trend towards a disconnection between individual competencies and organizational strategies and values, and suggests four possible propositions to be investigated in future studies: P1: Absence of conceptual rigor for competences; P2: Insufficient dedication of time to implement a model; P3: Dissemination of “off-the-shelf models”, and P4: Institutionalization of CBMs as a dominant practice for people management.Practical implications: The results point to the need for organizations, when building or updating their CBM models, to pay attention to the concept of competencies used, ensuring the incorporation of the organizational strategy into the model, and dedicating adequate time to its elaboration and implementation in order to customize the CBM  model to their needs.Originality / value: It constitutes one of the few longitudinal surveys with a representative sample of existing CBM models in Brazil and worldwide; hence, it captured a phenomenon (homogenization of CBM) that has been difficult to be observed outside this research.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-320
Author(s):  
Adut Jervase Manyuat ◽  
Kashi Carasso ◽  
Mulatedzi Makhado

BackgroundIn order to deliver quality health services, safe, effective, affordable and quality medicines are needed. Inappropriate storage conditions, poor infrastructure and poor medicine management practices may lead to poor medicines quality, stock damage and expiration.ObjectiveAssess storage and inventory practices to improve the medicine supply chain in South Sudan.MethodologyThe study used a descriptive cross-sectional design. The study population comprised 12 Health Centers in Juba where inventory management was practiced. Both questionnaire‐guided interviews for staff self‐assessment, and observer assessment were used by the researcher. With regard to storage and inventory management, the researcher collected data on the condition of storerooms with regards to availability of enough storage space, availability of enough storage equipment, and temperature conditions of the medicines stores, among others.ResultsThe study found that store and inventory management practices varied widely in the different health facilities. Hospitals and central medical stores exhibited good or average inventory and storeroom management practices, respectively. The two hospitals and medical stores scored 100% in the elements in the assessment of storerooms and stock management. Some primary health care centers exhibited good inventory and store room management practice, whilst others were rated as average or poor. Most of the elements assessed scored 37% in storeroom assessment while elements assessed for inventory management scored less than 75%. There was great similarity between the observation assessment and the self-assessment.ConclusionIn conclusion, store and inventory management practices and knowledge of the respondents varied in the different health facilities. Hospitals and central medical stores exhibited good, average and poor inventory and storeroom management practices assessed through self-assessment and observation assessment by the researcher. There was a great similarity between the observation assessment and the self-assessment. Rwanda J Med Health Sci 2021;4(2): 310-320


2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-624
Author(s):  
A. N. Mironovsky

Abstract Analysis of the diversification of barbs of the generalized form of the Barbus (= Labeobarbus) intermedius complex in the monomorphic populations of Langano and Awasa lakes and in the polymorphic population of Lake Tana makes it possible to reveal parameters of the variability that is directed to trophic resource partitioning. The great similarity of the parameters revealed in the three studied water bodies shows that in monomorphic populations the structure of variability directed to trophic resource partitioning is identical to that in the polymorphic population. The concept of “vector of trophic resource partitioning” is introduced. In the polymorphic population, this vector makes the main contribution to the diversification of individuals, while its importance is secondary in monomorphic populations. It is concluded that the different evolutionary potential of polymorphic and monomorphic populations is determined by the specific weight of diversification caused by the vector of trophic resource partitioning. The original method of data analysis used in the study may be promising for studying similar situations in other systematic groups.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-338
Author(s):  
Ibtisam Jebur MNEHIL, Ban Salih Mahdi AL KHAFAJI ◽  
Rasheed Ghazwan MAJEED

The research paper focuses on the morphological affixes in the two languages, Arabic and Hebrew and the impact of these affixes in the linguistic economy. The study aims at gaining knowledge of what linguistic economy achieved by morphological affixes which contribute in creating the rich meaning by little pronunciation as well as making a comparison between the two languages to know the language that is the most economic than the other and investigating the reasons behind this economy. The research is divided into three sections. The first one focuses on the morphological prefixes; the second one on the internal affixations; and the third one on morphological suffixes. The study concluded that there is a great similarity between the Hebrew and Arabic languages in many of the morphological affixations in addition to the simple differences between the two languages. An aspect of this difference is that the Hebrew language tends to borrow the affixations from the foreign languages more than the Arabic language.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Sazhina

The article describes the noun derivation system of one of the lesser-studied idioms of the Komi-Permyak language. The main focus is on the morphological means of expressing the categories of number, possessiveness and case. The paper analyzes the peculiarities of forming plurals, considers the secondary meanings of the plural marker, identifies the number of grammatical categories of possessiveness and case, describes each item of the case paradigm in terms of morphological formation, and reveals the features of the possessive declension. The empirical base of the research includes language materials collected by the author in her dialectology expeditions to the area where the Kirov Permyaks resided. Linguistic materials are analyzed and interpreted in the context of the Komi language dialectic landscape. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the noun derivation in the idiom in question is characterized by simplification and shows great similarity with the southern Zyryan dialects in its main features.


Author(s):  
A. I. Zheltikov ◽  
N. M. Kostomakhin ◽  
D. S. Adushinov ◽  
O. A. Zaiko ◽  
V. G. Marenkov ◽  
...  

The purpose of the research was to study the frequency of erythrocyte antigens of 9 genetic systems, the number of genotypes and the frequency of alleles in the F-V system in sires Simmental and Red-and-White breeds, as well as to establish the index of genetic similarity between them.The characteristics of 106 sires Simmental and 103 Red-and-White breeds in OJSC “Barnaulskoe” Stud bull farm have been given according to the frequency of erythrocyte antigens of 9 genetic systems. 53 antiserums have been used in the tests. The high occurrence of erythrocyte antigens A2 (system A), B2, G2, O1, Y2, G’, O’, and Q’ (system B), C2, E, W, X2 (system C), S1, H’ (system S), and Z (system Z) has been found in the sires of both breeds and ranged from 0,204 (O’) to 0,825 (X2) in Red-and-White bulls. The maximum frequency of the F antigen was and it was 0,874 in Red-and-White and 0,906 in Simmental bulls. On the contrary, the occurrence of blood factors B1, I1, I2, O2, P1, P2, Q, T1, T2, I’, D’, J2’, K’, P1’, P2’, Y’, B”, G”, R1, J, H, U and U’ was signifi cantly lower and amounted to 0–0,107 in Red-and-White sires and 0–0,094 in Simmental sires. Only 42 erythrocyte antigens have been detected in Red-and-White bulls using 53 antiserums, and 44 antigens have been detected in Simmental bulls. The index of genetic similarity between Red-and-White and Simmental sires calculated according to A. S. Serebrovsky was quite high and amounted to 0,8765, which is understandable because the maternal breed when breeding Red-and-White breed was Simmental breed. The number of genotypes and the frequency of alleles in the F-V genetic system also revealed a great similarity between these breeds, a significant difference has been found only in the number of heterozygous animals.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
I. D. Pokladov ◽  
O. N. Chernova ◽  
A. V. Vazhenin ◽  
R. E. Shtentsel

Pelvic tumors are quite common. Of these, angiofibromas are very rare. It is causes difficulties in differential diagnosis. But getting the right diagnosis is important, given the great similarity with other, often malignant tumors. According to the literature, the average size of angiofibromas does not exceed 12 cm. We present the case of a patient with an unusually large angiofibroma.


Author(s):  
Henk J. Diependaal ◽  
Jelle W.F. Reumer

Abstract Fossil remains of fishes found in Rhaetian (Late Triassic, c.208.5–201.3 Ma) sediments collected from a subrosion pipe in the Winterswijk quarry are described. The fauna shows great similarity to material known from the British Triassic of the Penarth Group and from other localities in Northwestern Europe. Both chondrichthyan and osteichthyan teeth and scales are present. Most abundant are the sharks Lissodus minimus and Rhomphaiodon minor and the actinopterygians Gyrolepis albertii, Saurichthys longidens and Birgeria acuminata. Isolated teeth of the latter two taxa were known under the name Severnichthys acuminatus, but the genus Severnichthys is here considered a nomen dubium; it should be suppressed in order to make the taxonomy less complicated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-637
Author(s):  
Abdhiel Bustamante-Navarrete

The distribution of the genus Neda Mulsant in Peru is expanded with the record of three species in the southeastern department of Cusco: Neda patula Erichson, 1847, Neda aequatoriana Mulsant, 1853 (first record for the department), and Neda boliviana Weise, 1898, which confirms its presence in the country. The collections were made in the Apurimac River Valley, in an altitudinal range between 2700-3100 m, where in the town of Choquequirao the three species of the genus are present sharing the habitat. The great similarity in the genital apparatus of the three species, and of the rest of the Andean species of the genus, forces to support the identifications in the external morphology, of wide variability in most of the Neda species and raises the need to study if they are valid species or variations of a single species.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2557-2563
Author(s):  
Ting Xu ◽  
Jun Ouyang ◽  
Junbiao Hu ◽  
Yongfeng Zhu ◽  
Huiling Wu ◽  
...  

Considering that the kidneys segmentation challenge for image processing because of the gray level from abdominal computer tomography (CT) scans is a great similarity of adjacent organs, partial volume effects and so on, a novel multi-feature sparse constraints strategy is proposed to diagnose the benign and malignant renal tumors, which can improve the accuracy and reliability of segmentation. The weighted sparse measure is defined by introducing weights in the l1-norm of vectors. The weight is inversely proportional to the similarity between data, therefore the weighted l1-norm penalty on the linear representation coefficients tends to force similar data be involved while dissimilar data uninvolved in the linear representation of a datum. The resulted representation can overcome the drawbacks of l1-norm penalty that the presentation coefficients are usually over sparse and not robust for highly correlated data. Experimental results and objective assessment indexes show that the proposed method can effectively segment CT images with good visual consistency. In addition, the dice coefficients of renal and renal tumors were 0.933 and 0.854, respectively. In addition, our method can also be used for the diagnosis of renal tumors, and has also achieved good performance.


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