OBJECTIVE The authors estimated the number of violations of a university policy that prohibited smoking within 25 ft of all campus buildings. PARTICIPANTS The project was conducted by 13 student researchers from the university and a member of the local public health department. METHODS Students quantified cigarette butts that were littered in a 30-day period inside the prohibited smoking ar...

Changes in government that were previously centralized to become decentralized certainly have an impact on the concept of public service delivery. Problems District Integrated Administration Service located sub-district under auspices district are different from handling problems city. One often lands services implemented by Linggang Bigung office, West Kutai Regency, lies internet network prob...

We study interest groups’ decisions about the policy-making institution in which to press for policy change. Most research about lobbying activities focuses within a single institution (the legislature, the bureaucracy), but groups and lobbyists generally can choose from among multiple venues. Further, some important questions about organized interests and the policy process require studying lo...

The repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy raises several questions and this article examines two of these: (1) Do gay/lesbian service members elicit personal discomfort in coworkers? and (2) Do gay/lesbian service members receive equitable administrative actions? Active duty Air Force office personnel (N = 181) reported their attitudes toward open service and responded to hypothetical scen...

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Gates has contributed over an extended period of time to efforts to advance the use of administrative records for statistical purposes, especially at the U.S. Census Bureau, and thus it is a pleasure to be able to comment on this paper which reflects his experiences and his thinking on the topic. He focuses largely on the policy aspects of expanding the use of administrative records using ideas...

Administrative role-based access control (ARBAC) is the first comprehensive administrative model proposed for role-based access control (RBAC). ARBAC has several features for designing highly expressive policies, but current work has not highlighted the utility of these expressive policies. In this report, we present a case study of designing an ARBAC policy for a bank comprising 18 branches. U...