Commentary: Better Ways to Compare Schools?

Better Ways to Study Regulatory Elephants

We are grateful to the editor and reviewers for this opportunity to respond to the five essays reviewing two recent books comparing regulation in the US and Europe: The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States, and The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe. We agree with reviewer Maria W...

Ways to Creating Better Value Models

Value models has several inherent benefits, compared to for example process models, when it comes to the description of high level exchanges of resources in a network of business actors. Compared to other approaches, value models enable the modeller to give an overview of a complex business domain, focusing only on those aspects that are essential for sustaining viable business relationships. H...

Better Ways to Cut a Cake - Revisited

Procedures to divide a cake among n people with n-1 cuts (the minimum number) are analyzed and compared. For 2 persons, cut-and-choose, while envy-free and efficient, limits the cutter to exactly 50% if he or she is ignorant of the chooser’s preferences, whereas the chooser can generally obtain more. By comparison, a new 2person surplus procedure (SP’), which induces the players to be truthful ...

Better management for better schools

Nursing schools to teach new ways to cope with death.

Schools of Nursing will test new ways to include more palliative care training in undergraduate nursing programs, after a survey of 91 nursing schools revealed many inadequately prepare graduates to deal with death and dying. Funded by Health Canada, the twoyear project will pilot models for integrating a spate of new palliative care competencies into existing curriculum and accreditation stand...