Abstract This article argues that policy development and evaluations should not only incorporate whether to what extent the policies achieve intended goals, but also take unintended consequences of into account. Based on classic work sociologist Robert Merton, this addresses side-effects attempts have been made by Lithuanian national government improve governance basic high-schools. The goals c...

With conventional object technology, systematic engineering of object-oriented systems for evolution is difficult. At best, one can build applications that are evolvable with respect to a few anticipated variation points. However, unanticipated evolution, which accounts for most changes of long-lived software, is not adequately supported. Therefore, infrastructures that support unanticipated so...

Mark Montijo, PhD Kathleen Nelson, RN, MPA Mark Scafidi, JD Dave St Pierre, MHROD Dorothy Tarrant, LCSW, MPA Jocelyne Vistan, MA Maureen Whitmore, MA “Human error and systems conditions periodically align and combine to contribute to unanticipated adverse outcomes for patients. What is most important is the manner in which we handle these adverse outcomes. Patient safety and clinician welfare w...

This paper investigates the endogenous money supply hypothesis in Iran. To this end, we attempt to find causality directions between bank credits and money aggregates. Utilizing Diks and Panchenko’s (2006) nonparametric Granger causality test for the time series data over the period 2006:04-2018:12 confirms the existence of a significant causality running from bank credits to money aggregates. ...