Equality: Putting the Theory into Action

Putting the Strategy into Action.

J C P H – Vol. 68, no 4 – juillet–août 2015 360 Board. I now look forward to joining the CSHP Executive Committee for my 3-year term as Vision Liaison, starting as President Elect for the coming year. Throughout my career, I have witnessed the growth of our profession and the impact of this change on patients’ health outcomes. Measures such as those published in the Hospital Pharmacy in Canada ...

Putting Theory into Practice

Putting ABox Updates into Action

When trying to apply recently developed approaches for updating Description Logic ABoxes in the context of an action programming language, one encounters two problems. First, updates generate so-called Boolean ABoxes, which cannot be handled by traditional Description Logic reasoners. Second, iterated update operations result in very large Boolean ABoxes, which, however, contain a huge amount o...

Issue 15 Putting Research Knowledge into Action

water is being left in rivers to sustain the valuable environmental services that they provide to society. This is jeopardizing species that depend on fresh water—as well as the livelihoods of farmers, fishers, and downstream communities and water users. Tools have now been developed to help planners establish the water needs of specific environments, even when little data is available. But pol...

Beyond Beijing: putting words into action.

The Fourth World Conference on Women acknowledged that environmental degradation 1) disproportionately affects poor women who are powerless to control it, 2) is linked to poverty, and 3) jeopardizes women's reproductive health. Thus, the Platform for Action addresses environmental inequalities among its 12 areas of critical concern, and the governments who signed the consensus agreed to take a...