SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is adopting general requirements pertaining to: (1) The use of health claims that characterize the relationship of a substance to a disease or health related condition on the labels and in labeling of foods in conventional food form (conventional foods), and (2) the content of petitions regarding the use of such health, claims pertaining to specif...

This paper derives optimal policies for when to hire, train and layoff employees in service organization when worker productivity appreciates deterministically or stochastically under constant, monotonic, and cyclic service demand. The model, an extension of the machine replacement problem from the engineering economy literature, uses infinite horizon linear programming to produce optimal perso...

Nearly all Social Services Departments in the UK (SSDs) use computers for recording details of their clients (Barnes, 1996). It has been proposed that the direct use of these computer systems by professional staff "must surely be an objective if the systems are to support the direct delivery of services" (SOCITM, 1992). However, some practitioners resist using computerised records as they are n...

Leadership is commonly seen as an important variable affecting organizational performance. While the concept has been extensively studied, there is still much to be discovered regarding how leadership affects variables such as organizational culture, climate, and performance. Most of the research on leadership has been in for-profit organizations. While research on leadership in human services ...

On August 26, 1993, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement section 1926 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act regarding the sale and distribution of tobacco products to individuals under the age of 18. The Secretary requested comments on the NPRM and gave 60 days for individuals to submit their written comments to the Dep...

This paper investigates the significance of the concept of efficiency in human service organisations. Our aim is to discuss how efficiency can be assessed in this kind of organisation. Many typical human service organisations chiefly exist within the public sector’s area of responsibility. Efforts aimed at, for instance, children who are faring badly, young people who are going astray, people w...

This paper describes an approach to address the DERI Stanford SWS 2006 challenge that explicitly considers human agents in the loop of both the data and process mediation, while aiming to minimize the involvements of such agents in subsequent usages. Our approach is based on the thesis that reaching full automation of data and process mediation is best achieved by evolving an approach that main...

Currently, the HCI research is facing larger and larger challenges, with advanced mobile services and intelligent environments moving from research laboratories towards everyday use. The problems with WAP acceptance are a good example of the dangers of designing without a user-centred approach: despite the success in realising the technology, the commercial success remains elusive because, for ...

in fact, health strategists and policymakers contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of planning, providing and evaluating health care, and the use of various capabilities of itc. the evidence for this claim includes: e-government, e-development, e-commerce, e-assurance and the same issues which are pursued in high levels of govemment’s legislative and executive bodies. e-health is consi...