This study examines the use of, and results from, the National Public Health Performance Standards Program Local Governance Instrument. It includes a compilation and analysis of 173 local governance instruments completed by local boards of health from 2003 to 2006. Only 24 of the 173 scored instruments are used because of exclusion of data from New Jersey. The study compares results from the in...

Objective The influence of cancer boards with respect to the treatment decisions regarding chemotherapy remains to be elucidated. In the present study, we investigated the cases that presented at our institutional cancer boards, to assess the effect of cancer boards on the treatment decisions regarding chemotherapy. Methods Data from the cancer boards at Yamagata University Hospital, Yamagata, ...

Introduction WestEd has been contracted by the National Assessment Governing Board to study the extent to which the grade 12 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is aligned in content and complexity to SAT and ACCUPLACER in reading and in mathematics. This project is part of the Governing Board's 12th grade preparedness initiative and will yield information on using the grade 12 N...

It is not often that one reads of suggestions to reset the default presumption. Most moral theorists appear to ignore governing presumptions altogether, to assume that all actions take place within an ideal space of reasons, unsullied by presumption. But I think this is precisely the area that needs adjustment, and I have argued as much in other articles (Hale 2006a, 2006b, 2007, 2008). As Fies...

1. Introduction Many applications require the use of multiple, loosely-coupled adaptive computing boards as part of a larger computing system. Two such application classes are embedded systems in which multiple boards are required to physically interface to different sensors/actuators and applications whose computational demands require multiple boards. In addition to the adaptive computing boa...

Academic quality assurance, historically a national concern, has been evolving rapidly over the last several decades in reaction to the forces of globalization. The first response was the development in many countries of new national models for assuring academic quality in the context of adoption of mass systems of higher education (Brennan and Shah 2000; Dill and Beerkens 2010), which itself w...

BACKGROUND The effective coordination of mental health service provision is a requirement for successfully reforming mental health care from a hospital-focused system towards a more decentralized, community-oriented one. Implementing such coordination is particularly challenging in a decentralized, multi-layered health and social care system such as exists in Germany. AIM OF THE STUDY (i) To ...