BACKGROUND The vital role of evaluation as integral to program planning and program development is well supported in the literature, yet we find little evidence of this in health promotion practice. Evaluation is often a requirement for organisations supported by public funds, and is duly undertaken, however the quality, comprehensiveness and use of evaluation findings are lacking. Practitioner...

The Canadian Cancer Society's Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation (CBRPE) is a national asset for building pan-Canadian capacity to support intervention studies that guide population-level policies and programs. This paper briefly describes CBRPE's experience in advancing this work in the field of prevention. The aim is to illuminate issues of central importance for advancing...

The DAC Working Party on Aid Evaluation, as part of its mandate, has the promotion of evaluation capacity in developing countries. One of the instruments has been regional seminars organized jointly with the regional development banks (Africa in 1990, Asia in 1992, Latin America in 1993, in Africa again in 1998, and in Beijing in 1999 – I have had the privilege to attend most of them) and throu...

Required capacity may be used in Connection Admission Control, Network Resource Management or for purposes of planning and dimensioning. From the well-known loss probability formula for the buuerless uid ow model, an implicit formula for the required capacity for a given QoS per connection may be derived which turns into a closed formula when it is evaluated in a special way. This formula, whos...

Although two-lane roundabouts theoretically exhibit excellent operating performance, in practice, safety problems arise because of inappropriate driving behavior. Turbo roundabouts, which are characterized by a much higher level of safety, are alternatives to classic two-lane roundabouts, but the capacity-related benefits derived from such roundabouts remain an open issue. Accordingly, this stu...

Background: Evaluation capacity building (ECB) has gained popularity among organizations due to the increased importance of accountability and organizational effectiveness. While ECB literature occasionally addressed notion motivation, it usually been in terms motivation do or use evaluation (Clinton, 2014; Taylor-Ritzler et al., 2013); this study sought ascertain whether general overall employ...

ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) together form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. International Standards are developed by technical committees, whose membership comes from national bodies who are members of ISO or from IEC participants. ISO and IEC committees collaborate in fields of mutual inter...

fragility curves represent the probabilities that structural damages, under various levels of seismic excitation, will exceed the specified damage states by means of earthquake intensity damage relations. conceptual aspects related to seismic vulnerability, damage and risk evaluation are discussed first, together with a short review of the most widely used possibilities for the seismic evaluati...

Copyright © 1969 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Dallas, TX 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, 1969;39;283-285 Circulation GEORGE A. HELLMUTH Whither Cardiac Work Evaluation Units? http://circ.ahajournals.org services, is located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with...

This book is a collection of thirteen edited chapters from different contributors, each presenting their perspective on the nature of evaluation and research and their application to practice. The editors aim to provide a ‘comprehensive treatment of the central issues confronting evaluation in social work’, however, their claims that it is likely to appeal to students, researchers and practitio...