Tetanus clinical features and management Epidemiology and pathogenesis Cl. tetani is found in human and animal faeces and itsspores abound in soil. It is anaerobic and proliferates inischaemic or necrotic tissue, usually in a poorly tendedwound. In rural areas farm workers or gardeners areinfected, but in cities the disease has been observed in drugaddicts. Because immunization against tetanus toxin isstandard in western countries, tetanus...more
PLANNING AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Planning is a particular kind of decision-making that addresses the specific future that managers desire for their organizations. We listed planning as the first of the four major activities in the management process - planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. We might think of planning as the locomotive that drives a train of organizing, leading, and controlling activities. Or we can envision...more
Social Savvy Means Time Management How can you budget for social media time? People keep asking me how they can add social media to their already packed daily schedule. They fear that employees will be using their work time to Tweet about personal things or to talk to their friends on Facebook. One of the biggest complaints I hear from salespeople as well as CEO's relates to time.Mike Damphousse with Green Leads, a small business with 30 employees designed to help sales generate leads, said, "If we're not careful, this place could come to a grinding halt." He went on to explain that he wants people to use the social media but at their own pace. Employees are encouraged to spend time on social media while they are still held accountable for meeting their sales goals. Damphousse hired a junior marketing person on staff who dedicates a third of her time to coordinate the social media activity. She reads 75 to 100 RSS feeds and when she finds something of interest to someone's online persona, she forwards it to them to Tweet. "She spends a few hours a day doing this to make it easier for everyone else," he said. With this strategy, Damphousse is able to get...more
Traditional advertising is based on the principle that you pay a fee in advance for your advertisement, no matter how many potential customers see it. This is fine if you have a guaranteed audience like on the television or in a magazine. However, how can you guarantee how many people will see your ad on the Internet? One answer to this is to use...more
Ministry of Information Industry Planning Research Institute of Telecommunications carriers of fat, said Xu, director: importance of the value chain in the CRM system, by developing new products and new business, the customer base will be better for mobile multimedia services. He optimistically predicted that the next TD and operators conduct...more
Plague diagnosis pathology and management An acute severe infection caused by Y. pestis manifests byeither lymphadenitis with suppuration (bubonic plague) orby necrotizing pneumonitis (pneumonic plague). It is azoonosis.Aetiology The organism is a Gram-negative aerobic bacillus of theparvobacteria family. It grows well at 28°C. At 37°C itproduces an antigen which inhibits phagocytosis. It has alipopolysaccharide capsular endotoxin.Distribution and incidence Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas (SouthAmerica and the southern states of the USA) are endemic areas with comparatively small numbers of reported caseseach year. The disease is probably under-reported. Plagueis considered a re-emerging disease because the number ofcases being reported to the WHO is increasing, and since1994 it has reappeared in several countries such as Malawi,Madagascar, Mozambique and India, where it had not beenexperienced for 15-30 years. Also, the number of foci haveincreased in some countries, including the United States.The last pandemic started in 1894, and by the middle of thetwentieth century public health measures had led to itbeing purely sporadic.Transmission The infection is...more
Bartonellosis clinical features and management Bartonella bacilliformis is a Gram-negative aerobic bacillustransmitted by the bite of the female sandfly Lutzomyiaverrucarum. The disease is limited to the valleys of thewestern Andes, mainly in...more
Choose The Correct Weight Loss Management Program There are as many weight loss programs that are available out there. But which one is for you and will not fail? If you have tried the celebrity diets, carb less diet, or any other programs and...more
Talent Management Alone Leads to Failure Talent management is the American management theory that concludes that the very best performing organizations are the one who have leaders obsessed with hiring, developing, ranking, and ruthlessly...more
Time Management - You Can Be a Winner Procedures for handling time-management rarely allow for busy and demanding life styles. Plus, busy people rarely allow enough time to accomplish tasks. This makes it tough not to wonder how successful...more
ERP : A Management Perspective For the past many years, there has been a fairly recurrent theme when we go out and meet companies that want to buy an ERP software. Many of them are manufacturing companies and almost all of them say that they...more
Three Twitter Time-Management Strategies So, you've jumped on the Twitter bandwagon and have embraced the experience wholeheartedly.You're doing everything that you should be doing, Tweeting out industry tips, quotes and strategies, connecting...more