Surgical Patient Case One: Activity One: With reference to anatomy explain how a gall stone can migrate into the pancreas, causing pancreatitis. The pancreas is in the upper abdomen and lies behind the stomach and intestines. It makes a fluid that contains enzymes that are needed to digest food. The enzymes are made in the pancreatic cells and are passed into tiny tubes. These tubes join together to form the main pancreatic duct. This drains the enzyme-rich fluid into the duodenum. The enzymes
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Essay Questions 101. Compare and contrast strategic planning with strategic management. Strategic planning is more often used in the business world, whereas strategic management is often used in academia. Sometimes, strategic management is used to refer to strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation, with strategic planning referring only to strategy formulation. The purpose of strategic management is to exploit and create new and different opportunities for tomorrow; long-range
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DISTINCT EFFECTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON FIRM ORGANIZATION Nicholas Bloom Luis Garicano Raffaella Sadun John Van Reenen Working Paper 14975 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14975 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We would like to thank the ESRC for help with financing this research at the Centre for Economic Performance. We thank participants at the LSE Labor workshop, at
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Contents 1.0 Technical, Business and System Competencies 1 1.1 Technical Competency 1 1.2 Business Competency 2 1.3 System Competency 2 2.0 Four Major Information Systems 3 2.1 Management Information System 3 2.2 Knowledge Management System 4 2.3 Customer Relationship Management 4 2.4 Supply Chain Management System 5 3.0 Cloud Computing 5 3.1 Characteristics of Cloud Computing 6 3.1.1 Elasticity & Scalability 6 3.1.2 Provisioning 6 3.1.3 Standardisation
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internal marketing BNFL Corporate Communications Unit, University of Salford, Manchester, UK, and Manchester School of Management, UMIST, Manchester, UK Keywords Internal marketing, Employee communications, Marketing theory, Case studies, Literature review Abstract Internal marketing has been of interest to practitioners and academics, in marketing and other disciplines of management, for some years, and published papers focus on definitions, the role of internal marketing in organisations, and various
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Risk and Protective Factors for Depression: Implications for Prevention Depression in Children and Adolescents Linking Risk Research and Prevention Judy Garber, PhD Abstract: The National Institute of Mental Health has called for translational research linking basic knowledge about vulnerabilities that underlie mood disorders to the development of effective preventive interventions. This paper highlights research about risk factors for depression in children and adolescents and links it to current
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At the roots of globalization there are a lot of mechanisms conected with economies of scale. The higher border of demand and bigger problems with knowledge and capital using in high developed countries went far towards some solutions for easier entries to different markets. That is why countries deleted administrative and economic borders limiting competition. Free flow of information, ideas through the world, caused that some values, lifestyles, consumption models are common for some nations
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Cancer KEY POINTS Biology of Cancer Cancer encompasses a broad range of diseases of multiple causes that can arise in any cell of the body capable of evading regulatory controls of proliferation and differentiation. Two major dysfunctions present in the process of cancer are (1) defective cell proliferation (growth) and (2) defective cell differentiation. Cancer cells usually proliferate at the same rate of the normal cells of the tissue from which they arise. However, cancer cells divide
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Knowledge Management. Contemporary Trends and Issues ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Povilas Brilius Baifoteka Ltd, Lithuania, povilas@baifoteka.com Abstract: Organizational Learning (OL) is recognized to have established itself as a discipline. However, it remains unclear what it is primarily focused onto – practical problem solving or theoretical descriptive analysis. Due to largely fragmented literature, sometimes interweaving concepts and a variety of attitudes, practitioners find it difficult to
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Research Paper No. 2009/03 Source of Finance, Growth and Firm Size – Evidence from China Jun Du1 and Sourafel Girma2 January 2009 Abstract Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the latter. Generally, it finds financing source matters for firms of different size, and the extent
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