The early care and education field continues its decades-long expansion, experiencing a new phase of educationally oriented growth. Most states now fund preschool programs and enrollment continues to rise. Yet the field remains fragmented and insufficiently resourced. It lacks the institutional frameworks necessary to address basic challenges to continued growth and development. The design, dev...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the levels of emergency obstetrics care (EOC) signal functions in health facilities in a developing setting with high maternal morbidity and mortality indices and to determine if there are differences between public and private health facilities in terms of availability of these signal functions. A survey of health facilities was carried out in six of ...

Open computer-integrated facilities management systems hold the promise to improve facilities management practice, but they require extensive underlying technical foundations: particularly standardized data models to enable information sharing among computer applications. The International Alliance for Interoperability is developing Industry Foundation Classes to provide this type of support fo...

one of the strong points of islamic banking, compared to conventional banking system, is the bank's sharing of both profits and losses of  funded activities in the framework of collaborative agreements. the proper implementation of partnership facilities requires respecting religious as well as financial and economic codes. as shown by the evidence, the objections made against the activiti...

Digital libraries o er much promise for patrons and many challenges for system designers and implementers. One important issue that faces digital library system designers is the type of support provided to patrons for intellectual work. Although many researchers have noted the desirability of robust hypermedia structuring facilities in digital library systems, this research has tended to focus ...

To improve feedback on how concurrent CSP-based programs run, the graphical CSP design tool (gCSP [3,2]) has been extended with animation facilities. The state of processes, constructs, and channel ends are indicated with colours both in the gCSP diagrams and in the composition tree (hierarchical tree showing the structure of the total program). Furthermore, the contents of the channels are als...

Misuse and overuse of antibiotic therapy is a frequent cause of resident harm in nursing facilities. As a result, newly released policy and regulatory initiatives will require antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) in nursing facilities. Although implementing ASPs can be challenging, improving the quality of antibiotic prescribing is achievable in this setting. The authors review the determinan...

Consulting engineers who design school facilities are challenged with controlling space humidity while also providing continuous ventilation as required by ASHRAE Standard 62-1999, now part of most major building codes. What would appear to be a simple design process is complicated by various logistical and operational factors. Schools, by nature, have a high occupant density which results in l...