The purpose of this guide is to provide user-friendly information on what is known about: ◗ The prevalence of drug use among Hispanics ◗ The effects of drugs of use on the brain, especially on adolescent brain development ◗ Drug use prevention for Hispanic adolescents ◗ Treatment of Hispanics with drug abuse problems These topics were selected after providers serving Hispanic clients were consu...

This executive summary of Senator Durenberger's remarks was prepared by Julie Snyder of the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs. The remarks were given in the context of a panel presentation moderated by Senator Durenberger, entitled "Provider and Insurer Perspective."

abstract. today, there is no specific method or criterion for selecting contractors in the researches’ field. usually this selection is regarded as a matter of taste and as a result, there is no coordinated approach in the mentioned domain. sometimes, after signing the contract, the inappropriate selection became clear. the managers are in direct need of a pattern for selecting the contractors....

The data sponsored scheme allows the content provider to cover parts of the cellular data costs for mobile users. Thus the content service becomes appealing to more users and potentially generates more profit gain to the content provider. In this paper, we consider a sponsored data market with a monopoly network service provider, a single content provider, and multiple users. In particular, we ...

We propose a strategy language for designing single constraint solvers as well as their collaborations. Based on the notions of constraint lter, separator, and sorter, we deene basic strategy operators that allow us to specify single solvers and their collaboration in a uniform way. We exemplify the use of this language by specifying some techniques for solving non-linear constraints over real ...

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) defines distance learning (DL) as "a way of providing higher education that involves the transfer to the student's location of the materials that form the main basis of study, rather than the student moving to the location of the resource provider".

In a world, where more and more businesses seem to trade in an online market, the supply of online services to supply the ever-growing demand could quickly reach its capacity limits. Online service providers may find themselves maxed out at peak operation levels during high-traffic timeslots but too little demand during low-traffic timeslots, although the latter is becoming less frequent. At th...

The increasing use of online channels for service delivery raises new challenges in service failure prevention. This work-in-progress paper reports on the first phase of an action-design research project to develop a service failure prevention methodology. In this paper we review the literature on online services, failure prevention and failure recovery and develop a theoretical framework for o...

To wrap up the three big items--attracting talent, the professional nurse role, and our structural disadvantages--I would offer the following take-away thoughts: We ought to do what we can to get our disproportionate share of RNs out of the health care system to work in dialysis. If we work together, we have a shot at making that happen. As an industry, we must exploit our strengths. We have to...

BACKGROUND Patients who are facing life-threatening and life-limiting cancer almost invariably experience psychological distress. Responding effectively requires therapeutic sensitivity and skill. In this study, we examined therapeutic effectiveness within the setting of cancer-related distress with the objective of understanding its constituent parts. METHODS Seventy-eight experienced psycho...