Background Performance evaluation is essential to quality improvement in healthcare. The current study has identified the potential pros and cons of external healthcare evaluation programs, utilizing them subsequently to look into the merits of a similar case in a developing country.   Methods A mixed method study employing both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniqu...

The problem FT h d (k) consists in computing the value in [k] = {1, . . . , k} taken by the root of a balanced d-ary tree of height h whose internal nodes are labelled with d-ary functions on [k] and whose leaves are labelled with elements of [k]. We propose FT h d (k) as a good candidate for witnessing L ( LogDCFL. We observe that the latter would follow from a proof that k-way branching progr...

A few months ago a colleague–who's been in the "crime business" for about as long as I have–asked me to provide a citation from this monograph, which I wrote while a staff member of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (the predecessor to the National Institute of Justice). I found the citation he was looking for, but also began to read the monograph for the first time...

Although women who experience domestic violence seek healthcare services frequently, screening and counseling rates remain low, and healthcare professionals report feeling inadequately trained to care for abused women. The English language literature from 1989 to 1999 was searched to identify and evaluate published assessments of the education of healthcare providers in domestic violence toward...

Enhancing citizens' and communities' resilience is critical to adapt successfully to ongoing challenges faced by communities, as well as acute shocks resulting from disasters. While significant progress has been made in this area, several research and practice gaps remain. A crucial next step to advance resilience is the development of a resilience-oriented workforce. This narrative review exam...

In this assignment you will examine the performance of a parallel sorting algorithm. Let’s start with the sequential case. The program that you are going to investigate is based on the Quicksort algorithm. For a given size, a vector is created and filled with random numbers. Then qsort() from the standard C library is called to sort the array. In the parallel case, we also create an array of a ...