Does adding pharmaceutical medication contribute to empirically supported psychological treatment for anxiety disorders?

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Comunicação numa empresa de cariz farmacêutico : factores críticos de sucesso

Nesta monografia pretendeu-se compreender de que forma a capacidade de comunicação é um factor preponderante ou não no desempenho de uma empresa. Seja a comunicação interna (para com os seus funcionários) ou externa (para com o público alvo). constatou-se que existem várias maneiras de a fazer, tendo todas elas por base uma análise detalhada da mensagem que se quer passar com fim a determinado efeito no alvo. No que respeita à abordagem do tema proposto foram apenas consideradas as farmácias comunitárias que se inserem nas pequenas e médias empresas portuguesas. Assim, foi feita uma exposição de uma série de mecanismos comunicacionais que têm como objectivo garantir o sucesso da comunicação entre farmacêutico-utente. E, do mesmo modo, através de um inquérito avaliar até que ponto os utentes se encontram satisfeitos com as técnicas comunicacionais dos seus prestadores de cuidados farmacêuticos. De uma maneira geral, a comunicação nos dias de hoje pode determinar o sucesso ou o fracasso de determinada instituição, sendo por isso muito mais do que passar uma simples mensagem. O farmacêutico como profissional de saúde que lida diariamente com os utentes de uma forma privilegiada, deve ser um comunicador por excelência, sendo esta capacidade essencial para que o utente se sinta seguro e capaz no cumprimento da terapêutica.

Local development companies and the regeneration of Britain's cities

Efforts to decentralise the pursuit of economic and social development have increased in recent years. The authors examine the rationale for establishing local development companies in areas of high unemployment and deprivation. The broad purpose is to establish a new style of organisation that combines attributes of the public and private sectors-to adapt and integrate economic and social services to meet local needs, to champion local interests in external arenas, and to act as enabling agents to promote local investment and development. These arguments are elaborated and illustrated with reference to one of Britain's most successful local development companies, Govan Initiative. The analysis reveals important strengths of the Initiative, including its action orientation, commitment to quality, and a local leadership role, but also certain weaknesses including its limited leverage over wider policies and resource flows. Local development companies need meaningful commitment from regional and national public organisations to fulfil their potential.

High-pressure structural studies of the pharmaceutical, chlorothiazide

The pharmaceutical material chlorothiazide (6-chloro-4H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine-7-sulfonamide 1,1-dioxide) has been studied under high-pressure conditions using single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. An isosymmetric phase transition to a second polymorph occurs at 4.4 GPa. An analysis of the structural changes that occur during this phase transition has been performed.

A review of growth for construction service companies in global markets

Throughout the developed world, professional services play an increasingly important part in an economy, with many countries showing a substantial positive trade balance for services. Yet, there has been relatively little research on construction services (CS) and, in particular, how well professional service companies (PSFs) perform in the international arena. The method for collecting services export information differs to the way in which goods and products exports data are gathered because of the intangible nature of services. Organisational growth of companies aims to share risks across different regions and sectors, however, the rapidly changing business environment challenges companies with the increasing foreign ownership and changes in procurement. The complexity of today’s international construction services organisations raises two questions: how the organisations can successfully manage growth and what are their motives for international trade. The research focuses on top UK consulting engineering companies to understand their organisational strategy, their export strategy, and drivers for overseas activities. The data will feed a model of professional services exports, which can help to inform the way services export data could be collected to better reflect the industry’s performance.

Do construction companies need to match employees' expectations?

Commitment of employees is relatively low in construction. This problem is exasperated by companies inability to attract, motivate, and retain talent that is then often channelled into other more attractive industrial sectors where the prospects, conditions and rewards are perceived to be much higher. The purpose of this study is thus primarily to develop a generic model to maximise employees' engagement, improve their motivation and increase the retention levels. To achieve this aim, the investigation looks into how perceived employment obligations and expectations impact commitment and through that organisational performance. The study is based on the postulations of Luhmann's theory of social systems with communication viewed as a constitutive element of a social system. Consequently expectations of a particular party in an employment relationship are represented in a communicative space requiring the other party's understanding in order to align expectations of both sides in the relationship. Explicitly, alignment of by an employee perceived manager's expectations determines his/ her commitment to fulfil obligations towards the manager. The result of this first stage of research is a conceptual model developed following the substantial supporting evidence in the literature and it forms the framework for mitigation of low commitment, motivation and retention of employees. The model particularly focuses on factors affecting employees' perceived expectations like reneging, incongruence and the process of communication. In the future the model will be validated using empirical data from a combination of observational and enquiry-based research. Once completed, the model will provide a framework for informing Human Resource Management policies with the aim to improve commitment of employees, increase the levels of retention and consequently improve the performance of construction organisations.