This paper presents a framework to explore the relationship between health equity and community empowerment. It traces the progression of the concept of participation to the present term of empowerment and the links among empowerment, equity, and health outcomes. It argues that the relationship can best be described by using the acronym CHOICE (Capacity-building, Human rights, Organizational su...

THE EFFECT OF THE INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENT ON EXIT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRMS M. B. SARKAR, RAJ ECHAMBADI, RAJSHREE AGARWAL* and BISAKHA SEN 1 College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. 2 College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. 3 School of Public Health, University of Al...

The present study aims to how external assessments are used by teachers, transforming summative test results into a formative approach for teaching, with special focus on students SEN. data material consists of documents and interviews teachers. were the schools’ compilations assessment results, including proposals measures action programs individual students. students’ constitute analysis thei...

This meta-analysis was performed to determine the accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) in predicting mortality in pneumonia patients with different pathogenic features and disease severities. A systematic search of English-language articles was performed using PubMed, Embase, Web of Knowledge and the Cochrane Library to identify studies. The diagnostic value of PCT in predicting prognosis was determ...

Chi-Hui Chien*, Yung-Chang Chen, Chi-Chang Hsieh, Yii-Der Wu, Yii-Tay Chiou a Professor, Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan b Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan c Instructor, Department of Vehicle Engineering, National Pingtung University of Scien...

the Suppes-Sen dominance relation is a weak and widely accepted criterion of distributive justice. We propose its application to Nash bargaining theory. The Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) is characterised by replacing the controversial Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives axiom with an axiom embodying the SuppesSen principle. More precisely, maximality in the Suppes-Sen relation is shown to ...