BACKGROUND Process evaluation of community-academic partnership function and fidelity to principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is essential to achievement of intermediate and long term partnership goals. OBJECTIVES This article describes the evaluation of B Free CEED, a community-academic partnership created to address hepatitis health disparities in Asian American and P...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Many uncertainties remain regarding optimal therapies and strategies for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Setting research priorities addressing therapies requires a partnership between health care professionals, patients and organisations supporting patients. We aimed to use the structure of the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership, which has been us...

  E-Science is a tool that helps scientists to store, interpret, analyze and make a network of their data, and it can play a critical role in different aspects of the scientific goals and research. This commentary, under the topic of Cross Border E-Science and Research Partnership: Bridging the Gap between Science and Media,[1] attempts to shed light on E-Science with emphasis on three importa...

This study aimed at investigating the Iranian undergraduate EFL students’ and teachers’ attitude towards Partnership Approach as a new way of engaging learners in the learning process. A descriptive, ethnographic research method, using a questionnaire along with focus group semi-structured interview, was employed. Seventy-two undergraduate EFL learners and 40 EFL teachers with more than ten yea...

When an inner city Latino immigrant faith community in Los Angeles identified mental health care as an area of need, a community-research partnership was formed that resulted in the adaptation of an intervention for children who have trauma-related symptoms from violence exposure. This participatory research partnership includes St. Thomas the Apostle School and Church community; QueensCare Hea...

In the present study, criteria and factors affecting the success of public-private partnership in urban construction projects was examined relying on the combined method (analytical and correlation). In the method, based on the literature and document review and subsequent utilizes a field study (case study, interviews with experts and distributed questionnaires) was an attempt to explore the r...

P A M E L A R . D . W I L L I A M S , * , † D A N I E L I N M A N , ‡ A N D Y A D E N , ‡ A N D G A R V I N A . H E A T H § E Risk Sciences, LLP, 4647 Carter Trail, Boulder, Colorado 80301, National BioEnergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado, and Strategic Energy Analysis Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden...

It was in December 2002, and Peter Sullivan, partner in charge of the audit engagement at Softnet Systems was becoming uneasy with their client’s accounting practices. Peter was a partner at John Sanders LLP, a global public accounting firm that had been appointed as the new auditors of Softnet. Although the firm was a new client to John Sanders LLP, Peter’s firm regarded Softnet as a very impo...