Partnership is a strategic decision to aim the common objectives. This article will review strategic decisions and the used tactics by the DAE University in cooperation with the other universities especially, partnership with a virtual university. This case study is focused on the campus that is the international branch of a big university, which has worked more than eight years in Dubai. The D...

This study reports the results from a research project designed to examine the role of the caddie in the golfer-caddie partnership. Interviews were conducted with eight golfers and eight caddies from the Australasian Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Tour. An interpretational analysis of the data revealed a four-component model that was able to both describe the role and provide guidance t...

Background: Metabolic control of diabetics Type 1 in each period of life, like adolescence is stressful and using partnership caring model is eesential. Aim: The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of using partnership caring model on Diabetic adolescence s’ Metabolic Control. Methods This research is a semi- empirical study performed in a Diabetes Center of Arbil city (2012-20...

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities in establishing and sustaining north-south research partnerships in Africa through a case study of the UK-Africa Academic Partnership on Chronic Disease. Established in 2006 with seed funding from the British Academy, the partnership aimed to bring together multidisciplinary chronic disease researchers based in the UK and Africa to collaborat...

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

The constituent components of soft computing have already been discussed [1]. These components are not competitive, but complementary, and much research is now being done into how this synergism can be exploited to reach soft computing's goal of achieving "tractability, robustness and low solution cost."[2]. It is recalled that each of the components has features to offer to a potential partner...

There is an enormous inequity in global health as well as research. Less than 10% of research funds are spent on the diseases that account for 90% of the global disease burden. This case study of north-south, south-south collaborations in Sri Lanka is a classic example of the issues faced by mental health researchers in low and middle income countries (LMICs). In this paper, work carried out by...

Partnership is one of those concepts that have gained popular currency in international cooperation over the last decade. Underlying the concept is a significant desire to re-balance power relationships between developing countries and external funding agencies, and to progressively transfer responsibility and ownership to the former. Terminology such as donor and recipient has accordingly been...

PURPOSE To investigate how a partnership between labor and management works to change the organization and focus of nursing home frontline work, supporting a transition toward person-centered care (PCC) in participating nursing homes. DESIGN AND METHODS Using a participatory research approach, we conducted case studies of 2 nursing homes participating in a partnership between a labor union an...

The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a partnership of six major U.S. institutions with a strong focus on archiving social science research. The partnership is supported by an award from the Library of Congress through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The goal of DataPASS is to acquire and preserve data at-risk of...