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Advice for Manufacturers Advice from Experienced Manufacturers to Aspiring Manufacturers

Part of the second goal of the project was to develop information that could help organizations hoping to develop and commercialize medical devices to understand the managed care market environment and to prepare accordingly. We asked interview respondents representing manufacturers to offer advice for such organizations. Interview respondents generally offered extensive and thoughtful answers ...

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ASPIRING LEADERS’ PERSPECTIVES 1 Measuring Change as a Result of Program Pedagogy: An Exploration of Aspiring Leaders' Perspectives

National attention on effective schools has focused on the issue of the quality of leadership preparation programs (Davis, Darling-Hammond, LaPointe, & Meyerson, 2005). The need for more and better-prepared principals (Hale & Moorman, 2003) raises the question of how to measure the impact of program preparation on the perspectives of aspiring leaders. While other research may rely on self-repor...

Between Naivety and Cynicism: A Pragmatic Approach to Donor Support for Public Sector Capacity Development

Airway epithelium-derived relaxing factor: myth, reality, or naivety?

The presence of a healthy epithelium can moderate the contraction of the underlying airway smooth muscle. This is, in part, because epithelial cells generate inhibitory messages, whether diffusible substances, electrophysiological signals, or both. The epithelium-dependent inhibitory effect can be tonic (basal), synergistic, or evoked. Rather than a unique epithelium-derived relaxing factor (Ep...