Unlike the other papers in this series, this one does not attempt to provide a consensus view of the experts on international best practices. Electronic voting is still a relatively young technology, and no consensus has yet emerged. Instead, this paper offers suggestions to international donors about how they should evaluate and respond to requests for help implementing electronic voting syste...

Public health as an organized discipline began more than 100 years ago to improve the health, primarily, of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health is forever facing dilemmas concerning the appropriate extent of its reach and when the work of public health professionals is infringing on individual liberties in ethically troublesome ways. ...

In an increasingly competitive market, companies have the need to seek and implement best practices to continuously improve their processes. Recently, several quality management tools and quality improvement methodologies have emerged in literature. However, there is a gap between theory and practice. This study aims to assess to what extent the methodologies and tools cited in literature are u...

Knowledge on evaluation metrics and best practices of using them have improved fast in the recent years Fort et al. (2012). However, the advances concern mostly evaluation of classification related tasks. Segmentation tasks have received less attention. Nevertheless, there are crucial in a large number of linguistic studies. A range of metrics is available (F-score on boundaries, F-score on uni...

The paper reports from a study of knowledge sharing in a large and complex organisation. The objective of the study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the implementation and use of a web-based knowledge sharing system designed to facilitate the circulating of best practices among middle managers. We followed the system from its introduction in early 1997 until it was abandoned in the begi...

as described in the first part of this article, evidence based medicine (ebm) is a growing part of medical practice which emphasizes on the best evidence. finding this evidence by formulating an answerable question and searching strategies were described in the first part of this review. in this part, appraising the retrieved article (with the main focus on the diagnostic studies) and applying ...