The United States-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) include the U.S. Flag Territories of American Samoa and Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and three Freely Associated States: the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and the Republic of Palau. These six jurisdictions span four time zones and are separated by over 4,000 m...

 Contribute to establish best practice for site characterization, process optimization, monitoring and verification and risk assessment for geologic storage of CO2.  Increase public acceptance and awareness of CCS.  Expand economic/ infrastructure scenarios for the whole CCS value chain.  Advance the science and expand the potential scope of implementation of CCS technologies through intern...

The widely accepted belief that asset returns and insurance product line margins are not normally distributed has motivated the use of skewness (or higher than second order moments), in the context of optimal risk-reward portfolio allocation. Here, we propose an optimization-based methodology to substantially improve the skewness of portfolios in the mean-variance efficient frontier. Unlike oth...

Objectives To evaluate the merit of the Clinical Audit Project (CAP) in an assessment program for undergraduate medical education using a systematic assessment validation framework. Methods A cross-sectional assessment validation study at one medical school in Western Australia, with retrospective qualitative analysis of the design, development, implementation and outcomes of the CAP, and qua...

In this issue, Facey and colleagues have eloquently summarized the product of the February 2015 HTAi Policy Forum discussion-the need for health technology assessment (HTA) to shift from a historically reactive role in both evaluating current evidence and requesting additional evidence generation to a more proactive role engaging with stakeholders to ensure that evidence produced is appropriate...

conclusions it is suggested that for addiction rehabilitation and relapse prevention, health practitioners should not only provide an intervention program to their patients, but they should design a program for families to participate in the treatment as well so that patients can function at a higher level of wellness. therefore, the family participation program should be reinforced as part of ...

BACKGROUND In 2006, a qualitative, cost-free-to-patient eye care program took place in Owo, Nigeria. This study sought to identify factors that are of marketing importance in qualitative cost-free-to-patient eye care program. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of postoperative patients using interviewer-administered questionnaire to probe into patient socio-demographic factors, source of awaren...

Multivariate comparisons (MANOVAs) of the top ten species density dominants .. 12 Table 4. Multivariate comparisons (MANOVAs) of the top ten species biomass dominants. 13 Table 5. Summary of ANOSIM and SIMPER analysis results on log-transformed species Introduction The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) intends to unite elements of its National Coastal Assessment Program (NCA) w...

PURPOSE This study examined two overarching topics: to what extent do faculties acknowledge class readiness, execution of lessons, and evaluation of the session; and what core content should be strengthened in a medical school faculty development program? METHODS In November 2012, 37 faculties completed a detailed survey on the needs of medical school faculty development programs. The 14-item...