ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the members of the Study Advisory Committee (SAC) for their support and insightful feedback during the course of this project: The authors are also grateful of the following individuals for their help during the site visits and the data collection phases: The Joint Transportation Research Program serves as a vehicle for INDOT collaboration with hi...

The report, A Fair Globalization: Creating opportunities for all, by the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization (ILO), seek a process of globalization with a strong social dimension based on universally shared values, respect for human rights and individual dignity. A world that is fair, inclusive, democratically governed and gives opportunities and tangible benefits for all ...

Priority speciications ooer a convenient description technique to resolve connicts in favour of particular actions. Besides specifying the functional behaviour of a system, priorities have also become important in the eld of performance analysis using stochastic Petri nets, where priorities are implicitly given by separating transitions into immediate and timed. For performance analysis of such...

Recently, online vendors and providers manage review systems as a mechanism to advertise their services and goods over the Web. In making their choice, clients can rely on a set of feedback expressing the degree of satisfaction of past users with respect to such services and goods. These feedback, or reviews, may be filtered by categories of users, they may be affected by multiple factors, and ...

The purpose of research is to uncover truths, that is to describe reality validly. But all truths are not equally generalizable, and all research is not equally justifiable. For example, the value of a study that requires an N of 100,000 to reach statistical significance (a presumed truth) is likely to be far less than that of a study requiring only an N of 10. Furthermore, the value of researc...

U.S. defense strategies to counter bioterrorism have largely centered on smallpox. That concentration of effort has diverted attention and resources away from more basic general public health considerations that are even more vital to bioterror defense. Without the capacity to implement response plans and to treat cases that were unan-ticipated before the event—capacities that depend on a stron...

Recently, the Institute of Medicine (Eden, Wheatley, McNeil, & Sox, 2008; Sox & Greenfield, 2009) publicly called for increased effectiveness research to determine the most effective and cost-efficient health care methods. This mandate corresponds to the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Centennial Vision (AOTA, 2007), in which the profession is exhorted to demonstrate through researc...

The location of and threats to biodiversity are distributed unevenly, so prioritization is essential to minimize biodiversity loss. To address this need, biodiversity conservation organizations have proposed nine templates of global priorities over the past decade. Here, we review the concepts, methods, results, impacts, and challenges of these prioritizations of conservation practice within th...

This paper examines the need for standards to resolve ethical conflicts related to qualitative, on-line research. Practitioners working in the area of qualitative research gauged the breadth and depth of this need. Those practitioners identified several key ethical issues associated with qualitative on-line research, and felt that there should be a common ethics code to cover issues related to ...