Background In 2004, the health system in Iran initiated an organizational reform aiming to increase the autonomy of teaching hospitals and make them more decentralized. The policy led to the formation of a board of trustees in each hospital and significant modifications in hospitals’ financing. Since the reform aimed to improve its predecessor policy (implementation of hospital autonomy began i...

BACKGROUND Reforming the structure and improving care and service system, particularly at hospitals, are the main priorities of the health system. The board of trustees of the hospitals is the main proposed strategy in this field. Hospitals with board of trustees were created with the aim of improving accountability to the community and guaranteeing efficient management and attracting public su...

Today, women are considered as one of the main pillars of corporate decision making, which can contribute to the development and promotion of corporate initiatives and projects within the framework of the development of trust and confidence of shareholders and society. The purpose of this research is to investigate the association between the presence of women on boards of directors and tax avo...

Compared to automated entities, human trustees have two distinct characteristics: 1) they are resource constrained (with limited time and effort to serve requests), and 2) their utility is not linearly related to income. Existing research in reputation-aware task delegation did not consider these two issues together. This limits their effectiveness in humanagent collectives such as crowdsourcin...

The Board of Trustees of the oldage and survivors insurance trust fund recently submitted to Congress its sixteenth annual report. The report shows trust fund operations for the fiscal year 1954-55 and, as required by statute, estimates of projected operations during the next 5 years, as well as an analysis of the fund’s long-range actuarial status. The Board is composed of the Secretary of the...

Abstract The purpose of this article is to evaluate the new “climate duties” that are created for pension trustees under Pension Schemes Act 2021. An evaluation provided Act’s section on change risk.” suggests while more could have been done enforce climate risk amongst trustees, regulatory regime should nevertheless be seen as a positive development. Indeed, statutory requirements increased ma...

We present a novel efficient variant of Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) where the dealing of shares is dynamically refreshed (without changing or corrupting the secret) against the threat of the recently considered mobile adversary that may control all the trustees, but only a bounded number thereof at any time period. VSS enables a dealer to distribute its secret to a set of trustees, so that ...

Last night’s Student Life Council meeting resulted in a direct confrontation between students and the faculty-administration members o f the council over the issue of the Board of Trustees’ response to the SLC report on Hall Life. The split began with a motion by Student Body President Dave Krashna to reject the Trustees report, and by the meeting’s close had come close to being reduced to a ch...

gypsum-bonded particleboard panels were made from various mixture of bagasse (saccharum ossicinarum l.) and wheat (oryza sativa l.) straw particles bonded with different ratio level of particles/gypsum. this study examined possible feasibility of bagasse and wheat straw particles in the production of gypsum-bonded particleboard (gbpb). one-layer experimental gbpb with density of 1.05 and 1.20 g...