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Implications of academic medicine's failure to recognize clinical excellence.

OBJECTIVE To better understand the implications of inadequately recognizing clinical excellence in academia by exploring the perspectives of clinically excellent faculty within prominent American departments of medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING 8 academic institutions. PARTICIPANTS 24 clinically excellent department of medicine physicians. METHODS Between March 1 and May 31, 2...

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POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUw 1997 Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem - Oriented Policing Awards Nomination

One of the first priorities of a police department is to handle 911 calls in a timely, efficient, and effective fashion. The department had been plagued with complaints of citizen dissatisfaction in the timeliness of answering emergency calls through the 911 telephone system, and a comprehensive review was initiated by Deputy Superintendent Duane D. Johnson. Daily statistical reports indicated ...

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A long-standing concern of information systems (IS) and business managers is the alignment between IS and business strategies as a prerequisite for organisational performance. This paper considers the processes of alignment in coordinated interorganisational networks (sometimes called virtual organisations). We present a case study of a systems development project in ARC Transistance, a network...

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The representation paradigm used by a cognitive architecture helps to determine the kind of processes that it can perform more efficiently. Vector LIDA is a variation of the LIDA cognitive architecture that employs high-dimensional Modular Composite Representation (MCR) vectors as its main representation model and Integer Sparse Distributed Memory as its main memory implementation technology. T...