Consortia vs. Reform: Creating Congruence

Creating Constituencies for Reform

Dynamic congruence vs. progressing bisimulation for CCS

Weak Observational Congruence (woc) defined on CCS agents is not a bisimulation since it does not require two states reached by bisimilar computations of woc agents to be still woc, e.g. α.τ.β.nil and α.β.nil are woc but τ.β.nil and β.nil are not. This fact prevent us from characterizing CCS semantics (when τ is considered invisible) as a final algebra, since the semantic function would induce ...

Creating Websites: Adobe Go Live vs. LiveText

This article reports student comments regarding their experiences in developing a website as part of a federally funded educational technology grant. The primary goal of the grant was to create a program where pre-service teachers developed competency in the use of technology for the academic success of their students. The students during the three year grant constructed websites for two years ...

The new American hospital: creating an internal reform strategy.

"The future never just happens; it is created. Even though change and information are exploding, they aren't going to explode in your organization unless you have an effervescent culture, and managers driving it who are skilled at assimilating and mastering change. There will be no twenty-first century health care in our hospitals unless we learn how to birth it." —Dr. Clay Sherman, Creating th...

Healthcare Payment Reform: Creating Conditions for More Efficient Health Delivery

ost experts who examine America’s persistent healthcare cost and quality problems identify fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement as an key contributor to the system’s chronic ills. Under FFS, doctors and hospitals are paid more for doing more, not for delivering better outcomes. The economic incentives under FFS actually discourage quality improvement because care that “gets it right the first ti...