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Online Financial Services Strategies for Commercial Banks in China
No full textThe development of Internet-based financial products and services is challengingthe managers of commercial banks in China. Promoting the transformation ofcommercial banks by offering digital products and services is an important issue.Employing the resource-based view (RBV), we analyze different strategies forlarge and small commercial banks to develop their own online financial services.We mainly study the cases of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China andBaoshang Bank
Diagnostic methods for Helicobacter pylori infection: ideals,options, and limitations
No full textAbstractHelicobacter pylori (H. pylori) resides in the stomach, colonizes gastric epithelium, and causes several digestive system diseases.Several diagnostic methods utilizing invasive or non-invasive techniques with varying levels of sensitivity and specificity aredeveloped to detect H. pylori infection. Selection of one or more diagnostic tests will depend on the clinical conditions, theexperience of the clinician, cost, sensitivity, and specificity. Invasive methods require endoscopy with biopsies of gastric tissuesfor the histology, culture, and rapid urease test. Among non-invasive tests, urea breath test and fecal antigen tests are a quickdiagnostic procedure with comparable accuracy to biopsy-based techniques and are methods of choice in the test and treatmentsetting. Other techniques such as serological methods to detect immunoglobulin G antibodies to H. pylori can show highaccuracy as other non-invasive and invasive biopsies, but do not differentiate between current or past H. pylori infections.Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is an emerging option that can be categorized as invasive and non-invasive tests. PCR methodis beneficial to detect H. pylori from gastric biopsies without the need for the cultures. There is no other chronic gastrointestinalinfection such as H. pylori with a set of comparable diagnostic methodologies. Despite the availability of multiple diagnosticmethods, it remains unclear on the choice of any one method as the gold standard for detecting H. pylori infection, especially inepidemiological studies. In this work, we review the principal diagnostic methods used to detect H. pylori infection and theiradvantages and disadvantages, and applications in clinical practice.Keywords Helicobacter pylori . Characteristics of infection . Diagnosis . Invasive tests . Non-invasive test
Organizational Psychology and the Rise of Human Resource Management
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is to explain the development of both human resourcemanagement and psychology. The major contention of this chapter is that bothhuman resource management and psychology were created to supplement, butnot supplant, Taylorism, by providing a better understanding of social motivesand tests to scientifically select workers
