Tsukuba's Initiatives to Promote a Society That Values Diversity

Initiatives and resources to promote antimicrobial stewardship.

The development of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) requires institutional support. However, obtaining sufficient institutional support is often a complex task that requires convincing the hospital's managers of the benefits of these programs. Additionally, in the design and implementation of an ASP, antimicrobial stewardship (AS) leaders need tools for diverse purposes, such as measu...

Workforce Diversity Initiatives -1- Running head: Workforce Diversity Initiatives Defining the Attributes and Processes that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms

Harnessing Values to Promote Motivation in Education.

PURPOSE We review the interventions that promote motivation in academic contexts, with a focus on two primary questions: How can we motivate students to take more STEM courses? Once in those STEM courses, how can we keep students motivated and promote their academic achievement? DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH We have approached these two motivational questions from several perspectives, examinin...

European initiatives to promote cooperation between speech and text communities

In this paper I intend to touch a few initiatives recently promoted and carried out in Europe with the aim of strengthening the cooperation between the communities – until now mostly separated – of Spoken and Written language processing. I give some thoughts to the current state-of-the-art with respect to initiatives common to the two areas, in particular within ENABLER, ELSNET, and ELRA. Doing...

Evaluating Maori community initiatives to promote healthy eating, healthy action.

Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, experience poorer health than non-Māori across a range of health measures. Interventions focused at an individual level have proved largely ineffective; 'bottom-up' approaches where communities determine their own priorities may be more sustainable than 'top-down' approaches where goals are determined by health authorities. The purpose of th...