What makes a just healthcare system?

What makes a good healthcare system?: comparisons, values, drivers

enod40 is a plant gene that participates in the regulation of symbiotic interaction between leguminous plants and bacteria or fungi. Furthermore, it has been suggested to play a general role in nonsymbiotic plant development. Although enod40 seems to have multiple functions, being present in many land plants, the molecular mechanisms of its activity are unclear; they may be determined though, b...

What Makes a System a Legal Expert?

Since the 1980s, AI and Law has attempted to capture legal expertise in computer programs. But what is this expertise? This paper reviews a number of approaches, from the 1980s to the present day, which represent different answers to this question. It argues that our notion, and understanding, of expertise has developed and improved over the decades. As yet, however, only a few rather specific ...

Performance in E-Learning Courses --Just What Makes It Happen?

This paper reports the results of a study of college students in the US that examined specific learner characteristics affecting satisfaction with e-learning courses. It finds that satisfaction is largely governed by the degree to which one is confident in one’s ability to regulate the factors that influence course work and one’s goals in taking them. These goals can be both in terms of grades ...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What makes the health system tick?

Between Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft the difference literally is only four characters, but conceptually they are a world apart, as students of sociology (and the Germans) know. For the health care sector, it is a distinction worth appreciating if we want to deliver better quality, safer care. Gesellschaft denotes that official, impersonal web of organizational structures, hierarchies, departme...