OBJECTIVE To explore variation among the 50 US states in the administrative prevalence of autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) and factors associated with that variation. DESIGN This survey study used secondary data from all 50 states obtained from the US Department of Education, Washington, DC, and the American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, NC. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The outcome of interes...

Modern cloud computing infrastructures use virtual machine monitors (VMMs) that often include a large and complex administrative domain with privileges to inspect client VM state. Attacks against or misuse of the administrative domain can compromise client security and privacy. Moreover, these VMMs provide clients inflexible control over their own VMs, as a result of which clients have to rely ...

هدف: اهتمام به خط‌مشی‌گذاری سالم و نافذ، کاری بسیار دشوار است، همین دلیل لزوم ایجاد آزمایشگاه برای تدوین، اجرا ارزیابی خط‌مشی‌های طراحی‌شده در جامعه، اهمیت می‌یابد. بنابراین، هدف از پژوهش حاضر تبیین الگوی طراحی خط‌مشی است. روش‌شناسی: این پژوهش، با رویکرد کیفی فراترکیب طی گام‌های هفت‌گانه‌، تحلیل یافته‌های پیشین پرداخته شده پژوهش: قالب 8 مقوله اصلی شامل تشخیص مشکل خط‌مشی، کارکنان ذی‌نفعان نقش حک...

The traditional manual way of thesis management is increasingly satisfying the demand of thesis guidance and administrative management in the information age. To improve the traditional manual undergraduate thesis writing, guidance and administrative management process in Southwest University of China, a Role-based access control (RBAC) Workflow model for thesis management is developed. In the ...

Knowledge-based knowledge management (KBKM) focuses on applications of knowledge-based systems (KBS) tailored to knowledge management (KM) problems. Although KM is primarily concerned with how people and organizations utilize their knowledge assets, one key to doing so efficiently is to employ technology to facilitate the KM process. One particular kind of technology has shown itself to be extr...

In the last two decades, economists have become more and more aware of the importance of modelling economies as complex dynamic systems (Rosser 2004). The recent tremendous improvement in computing capabilities has increasingly made it easier to implement computational simulation models in the study of markets, industries or organizations as evolving systems composed of many heterogeneous agent...

This Comment argues that the APL will help transform Japan’s informal regulatory style into a market-based regulatory structure that will foster improved efficiency and other benefits associated with market-based regulations. Part I discusses the development of informal administrative decision-making methods within Japan, analyzes the lack of judicial review of administrative guidance, and exam...