ANALYSIS: Glendale's Community Police PartnerShip (COPPS) team conducted a comprehensive survey. Residents and business owners complained of blocked sidewalks and the harassment of pedestrians by laborers waiting for work. Laborers used nearby buildings and parking lots as public bathrooms and left trash on the sidewalks, streets, and gutters. COPPS officers and concerned community members deve...

Since Essence of Care was introduced there have been a number of documents published on benchmarking in clinical areas. However, there is a lack of information on implementing the benchmarks in a research setting. This article describes how the Essence of Care framework has been translated for use at the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, detailing the implementation cycle, difficulties...

The Hall-Roeger methodology for the testing of market power is applied to Irish manufacturing industries for the period 1991-1999. The paper adapts their methodology to permit discrimination between input and output-price-based sources of market power. The empirical results do not indicate much evidence of significant imperfect competition in output markets but the results do point to evidence ...

OBJECTIVE To identify where in England there are likely to be most constraints on choice of hospital for patients waiting longer than six months for elective care. DESIGN Cross sectional study using routinely collected data. SETTING Population of England and NHS trusts and private sector hospitals in England. PARTICIPANTS All residents in England. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Availability of b...

A new business concept that offers products and services in a different way of traditional product-sales businesses is getting more attention especially in manufacturing industries. This paper investigates how this new business by means of integration of products and services is achieved in Germany and Italy. In addition, it analyzes the differences according to the company sizes. The results i...

The basic concepts of lighten 3D data is introduced; the problems of the traditional three-dimensional visualization technology and the current development status of three-dimensional visualization as well as the development trend of three-dimensional visualization are analyzed in this paper. A variety of solutions of the three-dimensional visualization are compared, the applications and direct...

Redefining shared sanitation Thilde Rheinländer, Flemming Konradsen, Bernard Keraita, Patrick Apoya & Margaret Gyapong a Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farigmagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark. b Africa Sanitation Think Tank, 03 BP 7112, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso. c Dodowa Health Research Center and School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Co...

OBJECTIVES To assess the use of the Voluntary Step Execution Test to identify fallers. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective. SETTING Two self-care, residential facilities. PARTICIPANTS a total of 100 healthy old volunteers (mean age = 78.4 +/- 5.7). MEASUREMENTS The study investigated the use of the Voluntary Step Execution Test to identify fallers under single and dual-task conditions....