Leaked internal report criticizes government oversight of antimicrobial resistance

Leaked internal report criticizes government oversight of antimicrobial resistance.

sight of antimicrobial resistance is sorely plagued by deficiencies, according to a draft report prepared by officials at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The internal government report, Antimicrobial Resistance in Canada: A Gap Analysis, argues that the government needs to tackle a series of “key” deficiencies in its current efforts to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Those in...

Strengthening state government through managed care oversight.

Energy Exchanges: Internal Power Oversight for Applications

This paper introduces energy exchanges, a set of abstractions that allow applications to help hardware and operating systems manage power and energy consumption. Using annotations, energy exchanges dictate when, where, and how to trade performance or accuracy for power in ways that only an application’s developer can decide. In particular, the abstractions offer audits and budgets which watch a...

Rights report criticizes Cuba , China ; praises Soviet Union

The t ic k e t, em phasiz ing "Experience Guides, Dedication W orks," gained the m ajority vote needed w ith 90 percent of the student’s votes. "We are happy w ith the turnout of vot­ ers and although we ran unop­ posed, we're not any less ex­ c ited about the v ic to ry ," Schmidt said. "We plan to so­ l ic it ideas from the student body, since there weren 't other candidates, there w asn 't a...

The Internal Organization of Government

So far, incentive theory has been mainly motivated by and applied to private organizations. Yet, in view of the important role played by civil servants and politicians in our economies, it is worth asking what differentiates a corporate executive and a government official. The first part of the paper discusses some specificities of the design of incentives in the public sector: Multiplicity of ...