O.C.R.--benefits and pitfalls

Concurrent planning: benefits and pitfalls.

Concurrent planning-working with families toward reunification while developing alternative permanency plans--was designed to fit an out-of-home care population much like that projected for the year 2000 and beyond: very young, chronically neglected children from multiproblem families. As large-scale programs begin to develop nationally, those implementing concurrent planning must be aware of t...

Software for PID Design: Benefits and Pitfalls ⋆

The most common PID design methods in industry are based on formulas. This article will present some major advantages of instead using the power of computer based softwares for PID controller design. The Matlab based software used in this work was developed in 2007 and derives robust, IAE minimizing, PID controllers. The experiences of using this software are collected in this article and inclu...

Experiences with EPAs, potential benefits and pitfalls.

Reforms in postgraduate medical education (PGME) exposed a gap between educational theory and clinical practice. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) were introduced to assist clinicians in bridging this gap and to create better consonance between the intended and the enacted curriculum. In this viewpoint paper, we discuss the potential and the pitfalls of using EPAs in PGME. EPAs promise...

The living will--pitfalls, benefits and a way forward.

Emissions Trading in the Kyoto Protocol : potential benefits and pitfalls

This paper sets out from a brief overview of the fate of market-based instruments in environmental policy in the past and proceeds to discuss the potential benefits and pitfalls of international carbon emission trading (IET), the most promising of the Kyoto mechanisms (IET, JI and CDM). The problems of trading ’hot air’, the supplementarity requirement in Article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol and at...