This study provides a comprehensive review of California’s system of school facility finance. Along with describing that system, it examines the state’s investment over time and provides an analysis of the relationship between the revenues available to school districts and various district characteristics. The study attempts to answer five broad questions related to the way California finances ...

Health facility surveys come in various guises. One dimension in which they vary is their motivation. Some seek to understand better linkages between households and providers. Other seek to understand better provider behavior and performance. Others still seek to understand the interrelationships between providers, while yet others seek to shed light on the linkages between government and provi...

this paper presents a strategy for using harmony search algorithm in facility layout optimization problems. in this paper an adapted harmony search algorithm is developed for solving facility layout optimization problems. this method finds an optimal facility arrangement in an existing layout. two real-world case studies are employed to demonstrate the efficiency of this model. a comparison is ...

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BACKGROUND In India there is a thrust towards promoting institutional delivery, resulting in problems of overcrowding and compromise to quality of care. Review of near-miss obstetric events has been suggested to be useful to investigate health system functioning, complementing maternal death reviews. The aim of this project was to identify the key elements required for a near-miss review progra...

LLE Review, Volume 72 161 The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) with its OMEGA facility is part of the national laser-fusion effort within the U.S. Department of Energy and has as its main mission direct-drive laser-fusion research in support of the upcoming National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The upgraded OMEGA laser system has been in ope...

We conduct a comprehensive review on multi-level facility location problems which extend several classical facility location problems and can be regarded as a subclass within the well-established field of hierarchical facility location. We first present the main characteristics of these problems and discuss some similarities and differences with related areas. Based on the types of decisions in...

In 2011, the zebrafish research facility at the University of Oregon experienced an outbreak of Mycobacterium marinum that affected both research fish and facility staff. A thorough review of risks to personnel, the zebrafish veterinary care program, and zebrafish husbandry procedures at the research facility followed. In the years since 2011, changes have been implemented throughout the resear...

LLE Review, Volume 152 209 Under the facility governance plan implemented in FY08 to formalize the scheduling of the Omega Laser Facility as a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) User Facility, Omega Facility shots are allocated by campaign. The majority (68.1%) of the FY17 target shots were allocated to the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Campaign conducted by integrated teams fr...

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify key risks that are posed to the security of a site and building perimeters in the first and second lines of defense against terrorism, and are relevant to facility managers. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative approach to the literature review was applied. This involved an extensive literature search of existing peer-reviewed r...