A precise determination of direct and indirect costs of implementing the Freedom of Information Act is not possible because agencies generally lack detailed supporting records. Costs of over $61 million were identified mainly from agencies’ 1981 annual reports. The reports vary widely in the ways costs are categorized and measured but provide an indicator of total cost. Inquiries at four agenci...

objective: to investigate on relationship among family environment, pornography and sexual behavior of adolescents. pornography may start from early youth along with starting of sexual behavior. therefore it is important that the role of family factors in pornography be studied. materials and methods: the sample includes 362 students who were chosen by proportional cluster method from the first...

An existential interpretation of student angst in Chinese universities raises issues of autonomy and freedom. The governance arrangements in China create a conflict for Chinese students who in their coursework are urged to become critical-minded and open-minded. In this essay, Kant’s moral theory provides access to this phenomenon. His theory of duty–rationality– autonomy–freedom relates the li...

background: organizational climate is one of the effective factors in organizational commitment. organizational climate affects organizational staff behaviors. the aim of current study was to assess the relation between organizational climate components with organizational commitment components among nurses in selected hospitals of tums in 2011.   methods: this study was cross - sectional surve...

Because of the importance of including ethical considerations in planning efforts for pandemic influenza, in February 2005 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested that the Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director develop guidance that would serve as a foundation for decision making in preparing for and responding to pandemic influenza. Specifically, the eth...

introduction: commitment of staff is intangible asset that can highly provide better services. since providing healthcare services is only possible through efficient human resources, this study evaluated the association between person-organization fit and organizational commitment of staff in university hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences, iran. methods: this was a descriptive an...

In this paper we describe a heterogeneous knowledge base management system which is being designed and developed at North Dakota State University with support from IBM Rochester, MN. The system is called KB-HYDRO. It will connect a variety of autonomous local database systems as well as one or more knowledge base systems into one unified system. We show how global serializability and atomic com...

In reaction to the epistemic crisis, efforts restrict free expression and access information have not only failed preserve truth, but sometimes also suppressed it. Libraries’ commitment intellectual freedom creates unique opportunities deliver alternative solutions. By renewing emphasis on in core library functions like collections, education, programming, libraries can provide resources that p...

The Common Fisheries Policy was introduced as a 20-year program in 1982 to promote conservation and management of the European Community fishery resources. Since its inception, however, there has been increasing concern over the lack of integration of environmental issues into the policies underpinning the CFP, despite several treaty obligations, and several inadequacies highlighted in the mid-...