Among the many reasons that may limit the adoption of promising reform ideas, policy capacity is the least recognized. The concept itself is not widely understood. Although policy capacity is concerned with the gathering of information and the formulation of options for public action in the initial phases of policy consultation and development, it also touches on all stages of the policy proces...

abstract background: in most countries, one of the main reasons for developing more advanced roles for nurses is to improve access to care in the context of limited number of doctors. it is considered that the introduction of major policy initiatives, such as nurse prescribing, requires high-level discussion and policy development to ensure successful implementation. this study aimed to identif...

HINDRIK MULDER,1,2 SAMUEL GEBRE-MEDHIN,3,4 CHRISTER BETSHOLTZ,4 FRANK SUNDLER,2 AND BO AHRÉN5 1Section for Molecular Signaling, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund; 2Section for Neuroendocrine Cell Biology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Lund University, SE-221 85 Lund; 3Section for Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Department of Physiological Scien...

Though IT usage has been identified as a significant construct, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how IT is used by different organizational members. In this paper, we examine the key organizational, external environmental, and IT-related factors that influence IT usage in organizations across management and non-management levels. Based on data from over 500 functional managers, w...

to be considered trademark, symbols and emblems must be missing some situations (negative substantive conditions) and have some conditions (positive substantive conditions). non-traditional marks, especially those which are visible such as colors and three-dimensional marks face challenges in order to comply with these conditions.some declare that such mark are not registrable they strictly bel...