Cancer "tsar" invites ideas for modernisation

ABO invites question for phase II examination.

On July 1, 2004, all accredited orthodontic residency educators were sent information about the AAO Educators Conference and the establishment of a new Web site, http://www. americanboardortho.com/q_submit, where they can submit questions for the ABO Phase II written examination. Although the ABO seeks continuous question submission, each educator was asked to submit 10 questions to the Web sit...

[Major depression invites major concerns].

OBJECTIVE To overview limitations to the concept and construct of major depression. METHOD The objectives in initially conceptualizing major depression are examined against its subsequent utility and relevance to clinicians and researchers. RESULTS It is argued that, as defined, major depression does not differentiate clinical depression well from expressions of non-clinical depression or s...

TSAR - Tool for System Availability and Reliability Analysis

The article describes the TSAR tool for system availability and availability analysis. Failure and repair model is based on Markov chain defined by states and transitions. Each state can be interpreted as working or broken. Transitions are defined by transition probabilities and transition time probability density functions. Availability and reliability analysis is based on discrete event Monte...

Ecological Modernisation: A Basis for Regional Development?

Modernisation of British Government

This article critically reviews the approach to evidence based policy-making (EBPM) advanced in the Labour government's modernisation agenda. The article contends that EBPM must be understood as a project focused on enhancing the techniques ofmanaging strategic policy-making as opposed to improving the capacities of the social sciences to influence the 'practices of democracy' as envisaged by L...