with the advent of digitalization, information and communications technology facilities have become an indispensable part of education especially at the universities. this study has been undertaken with dual purposes - to find the existing scenario of information and communications technology facilities and to gauge the perception of the students onthe quality of those facilities - at the unive...

While legislatively sanctioned discrimination against the mentally ill in general society has largely disappeared, it persists in correctional systems where inmates are denied earn-time reductions in sentences, parole opportunities, placement in less restrictive facilities, and opportunities to participate in sentence-reducing programs because of their status as psychiatric patients or their ne...

All material is copyrighted and can only be used for purposes of this training. © 2008 The JG Press, Inc. MOST attention given to health aspects at composting facilities in the past has concerned public health, particularly bioaerosols, odor emissions and heavy metals in the finished product. Federal and state regulations have not dealt with worker health. For example, the federal 40 CFR Part 5...

The World Wide Web is now providing hundreds of powerful search facilities, often for free, enabling people to access an enormous amount of information. The most successful search facilities to date are the global flat databases that attempt to put everything in one place. We believe that this approach will not scale. This paper describes techniques and software that we developed to connect tog...

During recent earthquakes, seaports have demonstrated that they can be highly vulnerable to seismic motion and associated ground failures. Poor seismic performance of seaports has resulted in billions of dollars of losses. Seaports are critical nodes in regional transportation networks and have an important impact on the economy of the area. Thus, the need for risk analysis of port facilities i...

This paper discusses and projects the tau research which may be carried out at CESR, at BEPC, at the SLC, in the next few years at LEP I, at the asymmetric B-factories under construction in Japan and the United States and, if built, a tau-charm factory. As the size of tau data sets increases, there is an increasing need to reduce the effects of systematic errors on the precision and search rang...

Adherence to the policy guidelines and standards is necessary for family planning services. We compared public and private facilities in terms of provision of family planning services. We analyzed data from health facility questionnaire of the 2006 Tanzania Service Provision Assessment survey, based on 529 health facilities. Majority of public facilities (95.4%) offered family planning services...

I analysed school facilities maintenance, a school governance function in South Africa. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 13 principals and three deputy principals as coordinators of this function at their schools. The interviews were purposively and conveniently selected to gather data regarding school facilities maintenance and gain insight into the challenges this function presents ...

vented the issues around scientific integrity that arose during the oil spill. Some advocates agree that the document is a disappointment. “It was a very long wait for four pages,” says Jeff Ruch of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), based in Washington DC, which has represented several scientist whistleblowers. “We feel frustrated that this process is horribly off schedu...

PURPOSE To identify and describe the relevant issues and difficulties associated with provision of antiretroviral therapy in correctional facilities. METHOD We performed a review and analysis of currently available literature and experiences on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the prison setting. RESULTS Antiretroviral therapy is administered to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected ...