1 were brought to the attention of senior editorial staff of the journal. The allegations are: 1. That, contrary to a statement in the Lancet paper, ethics approval for the investigations conducted on the children reported in the study, some of them highly invasive (eg, lumbar puncture), had not been given. 2. That the study reported in The Lancet was completed under the cover of ethics approva...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a community engaged vertically integrated teaching and learning pilot project. METHOD Thematic analysis of focus group interviews was used to examine 27 general practitioners' (GPs'), registrars' and medical students' perceptions of a vertically integrated workshop in adolescent health and subsequent small group health education sessions at two secondary schools. Pre- an...

This paper presents an investigation of a pilot project that implemented a mobile payment platform in a poor community in Brazil. This project involved the creation of a network of organizations that includes a local microfinance institution, a large retail bank, a mobile phone operator, an international credit card company, and an acquirer, as well as small local merchants. The objective of th...

We present a catalog of 246 radio sources found in the central 1 degree of the COSMOS field at 1.4GHz. The VLA pilot project data have a resolution of 1.9×1.6 and an rms noise limit of ∼ 25-100μJy/beam covering 0.837 deg. About 20 radio sources are clearly extended and most of them appear to be double-lobed radio galaxies. We find evidence for a cluster of 7 radio sources with an extent of ∼10 ...

PURPOSE A feasible palliative care model for advance cancer patients is needed in Korea with its rapidly aging population and corresponding increase in cancer prevalence. This study describes the process involved in the development of a community-based palliative care (CBPC) model implemented originally in a Busan pilot project. MATERIALS AND METHODS The model development included steps I and...

Case studies are among the most common evaluation methods, often used for program promotional efforts rather than as a systematic method for evaluating program processes and outcomes. A pilot project to produce case studies which more systematically adhere to a defined methodology was directed by Robert Yin, President of COSMOS Corporation, and funded by the Manufacturing Extension Partnership ...

The levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in human milk provide an index of exposure of the mother to these compounds and enable the intake by the breast-fed child to be estimated. For valid comparisons between different studies, concentrations should be expressed on a milk fat basis. In a recently completed UNEP/WHO pilot project on monitoring of organochlorine compounds in human milk in ...

In September 2000 the Commonwealth released, as part of its National Palliative Care Strategy under the Australian Health Care Agreements, a National Framework for Palliative Care Service Development. The new National Framework stressed an important set of values to guide models of palliative care delivery. It notes that the challenge is to secure the place of palliative care as an integral par...

Due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. Recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. Fortunately, in recent years, ma...

organizations in private and public sector assign many projects in information technology (particularly software) field to contractors for implementation every year. previous experiences shows that most of these projects are stopped before finishing or cannot meet the expected results. based on studies related to this issue, many of failures depend on implementation contractor, directly or indi...