Municipal Training Needs and Personnel Practices: Implications for Program Planning and Policy Making

Workload Measurement for Juvenile Justice System Personnel: Practices and Needs

In 1997, U.S. law enforcement agencies made some 2.8 million arrests of persons under age 18. With the growth of referrals for serious and violent offenses, the demands on the limited resources of juvenile courts are greater than ever. To help States meet those demands, the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants (JAIBG) program provides Federal funds to increase the number of juvenile c...

The Study of Critical Realism Implications in Evaluation of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Making

Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and extract the implications of critical realism for science, technology and innovation policy-making as one of the later research traditions in social sciences. Nevertheless, its main focus, according to the different stages of the policy-making cycle and extent of its contributing factors, is on the stage of "policy evaluation". Methods: Thi...

Empirical Study of Nova Scotia Nurses’ Adoption of Healthcare Information Systems: Implications for Management and Policy-Making

Background This paper used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), which was extended, to investigate nurses’ adoption of healthcare information systems (HIS) in Nova Scotia, Canada.   Methods Data was collected from 197 nurses in a survey and data analysis was carried out using the partial least squares (PLS) technique.   Results In contrast to findings in prior studies that used TPB to investig...

Eu Electricity Planning and Policy-making

products’ supply planning and policy making in oil industry

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