Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

BACKGROUND The lack of access to good quality palliative care for people with intellectual disabilities is highlighted in the international literature. In response, more partnership practice in end-of-life care is proposed. AIM This study aimed to develop a best practice model to guide and promote partnership practice between specialist palliative care and intellectual disability services. ...

Issue addressed: Mobile applications are increasingly being used in health promotion initiatives. Although there is evidence that developing these mobile health applications in multidisciplinary teams is good practice, there is a gap in the literature with respect to evaluation of the process of this partnership model and how best to disseminate the application into the community. The aim of th...

(54) POLYAMIDES FOR NUCLEICACID CI2N IS/II (2006.01) DELIVERY A 6LX 3L/705 (2006.01) C7H 2L/04 (2006.01) (76) Inventor: Theresa M. Reineke, Blacksburg, C08G 69/48 (2006.01) VA (US) C08G 63/9. (2006.01) C7H 2L/02 (2006.01) Correspondence Address: A63L/7II (2006.01) DINSMORE & SHOHL, LLP CI2N IS/00 (2006.01) 1900 CHEMED CENTER, 255 EAST FIFTH A63L/7088 (2006.01) STREET CINCINNATI, OH 45202 (US) (...

TCP sockets are an important and ubiquitous construct. In order to better understand the behaviour of programs using TCP sockets, we have developed instrumentation that transparently collects information about each socket and graphically displays it as a single, unified view. This paper will describe the instrumentation which leverages an existing tool, POET (Partial-Order Event Tracer), to dis...

Mark S. Indelicato 2012 TMA Chairman Hahn & Hessen LLP Gregory J. Fine, CAE TMA Chief Executive Officer Ronald R. Sussman 2012 TMA President Cooley LLP Certification Program Capping months of discussion, TMA amended its bylaws in April 2012 to fully integrate the Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) program into TMA. The amendments followed agreement between the leadership of the Certificati...

INTRODUCTION Interprofessional health and social service partnerships (IHSSP) are internationally acknowledged as integral for comprehensive chronic illness care. However, the evidence-base for partnership effectiveness is lacking. This paper aims to clarify partnership measurement issues, conceptualize IHSSP at the front-line staff level, and identify tools valid for group process measurement....

BACKGROUND Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Queensland, Australia, do not access health services, contributing to poor health outcomes. To improve health in CALD communities, a partnership was formed between the state government, two nongovernment CALD-specific organizations (NGOs), and a university to develop a service that could facilitate health service use. This q...

A long-standing debate questions whether the World Trade Organization’s (“WTO”) formal dispute settlement procedures level the playing field for lower income countries in international trade disputes, or instead, merely give opportunistic and sophisticated countries complex * Trade Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives; J.D., Harvard Law School, 2007; M.P.P., Georg...