INTRODUCTION Evidence-based technical assistance may be needed to implement recent federal policy to prevent childhood obesity through the schools. The Healthy Schools Program is the largest school-based obesity prevention program in the United States. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the role of the program's training and technical assistance and to explore other contributing fact...

This paper examines the effects of taking more high school math and science classes on wages, the likelihood of entering a technical job or a job traditional for one's sex, and the likelihood of choosing a technical college major or a major traditional for one's sex. Results from two data sets show that taking more high school math increases wages and increases the likelihood of entering techni...

Georgios P. SPITHOURAKIS*, Fotios PETROPOULOS Forecasting & Strategy Unit, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Konstantinos NIKOLOPOULOS Bangor Business School, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2DG, UK & Vassilios ASSIMAKOPOULOS Forecasting & Strategy Unit, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical Universi...

Introduction: Efficiency evaluation of universities and facultiesis one of the tools that help managers to identify the departments’strengths and weakness. The main objective of the presentresearch was to measure and compare the technical efficiency ofShiraz school of medicine departments using Data EnvelopmentAnalysis (DEA) technique.Methods: This cross-sectional and retrospective study wasper...