News tagged with management practices


Green practices: When do corporations respond to stakeholders' pressure?

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a new study published in Strategic Management Journal, researchers explain when external stakeholders can effectively influence organizations to adopt greener management practices. In an effort to appease the demands of ext ...


A model to measure soil health in the era of bioenergy

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

One of the biggest threats to today's farmlands is the loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic matter (SOM) from poor land-management practices. The presence of these materials is essential as they do everything ...





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Researchers restore some function to cells from cystic fibrosis patients

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 13 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In an encouraging new development, a team led by Scripps Research Institute scientists has restored partial function to lung cells collected from patients with cystic fibrosis. While there is still much work to be done before ...


New study finds barriers to pain treatment in children with sickle cell disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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A new study by researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, found a substantial variation in hydroxyurea utilization for pain and other sickle cell disease complications in children. Barriers to its use ...


Managing doctors' practices made easier with new software

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A McMaster University-led research team has developed an innovative software tool that gives family doctors up-to-date information on their patients in two seconds or less.


The e-waste dilemma

The e-waste dilemma

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices could create significant environmental and health problems after they are thrown away. UC Irvine researchers are working with engineers, manufacturers and public health ...


Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...


CDC Confirms Four New Cases of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-Resistant H1N1

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tests performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the request of infectious disease experts at Duke University Medical Center have confirmed this week that isolates from four patients with H1N1 influenza ...


Researchers studying link between climate change and cattle nutritional stress

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kansas State University's Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology, and KC Olson, associate professor in animal sciences and industry, have teamed up with some other scientists from across the ...


Researcher finds forest birds ‘commuting’ to attract mates

Researcher finds forest birds 'commuting' to attract mates

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ecologist at the University of Rhode Island studying habitat use by a forest-dwelling game bird found that the birds unexpectedly exhibited what he described as "the bar scene phenomenon" ...


Water-conserving irrigation strategies minimize overwatering, runoff

Water-conserving irrigation strategies minimize overwatering, runoff

Biology / Other

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Conserving water and reducing the environmental impact of runoff are two of the most important issues confronting container nursery operations. Current regulations and laws in five states limit water consumption ...


Newly revised guidelines for managing thyroid cancer published in Thyroid journal

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American Thyroid Association has released new, revised Management Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. The new guidelines are published in Thyroid, a peer-reviewed journa ...



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