Governance and funding best practices for embedded research programs

Embedded Linux best practices

Best Practices for Robotic Surgery Programs

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Robotic surgical programs are increasing in number. Efficient methods by which to monitor and evaluate robotic surgery teams are needed. METHODS Best practices for an academic university medical center were created and instituted in 2009 and continue to the present. These practices have led to programmatic development that has resulted in a process that effectively m...

Best Practices in Transition Programs

Although the Individuals Education Act (IDEA, 1990; 1997) has provided a national mandate to help high school students with disabilities grow into independent adults, youth with emotional and behavioral difficulties continue to experience considerable problems transitioning into adulthood. Their adjustment into socially acceptable adult roles has been examined in a number of follow-up and follo...

Best practices research.

"Best practices research," described in this paper, refers to a systematic process used to identify, describe, combine, and disseminate effective and efficient clinical and/or management strategies developed and refined by practicing clinicians. It involves five steps: development of a conceptual model or series of steps, definition of "best" based on values and standards, identification and ev...

Funding, Sustainability, and Governance

Discussions about funding, sustainability, and governance of any e-infrastructure service tend to be culmination points of the tensions between bottom-up and top-down, static and dynamic, and prescriptive and descriptive approaches. Data management brings in additional challenges due to the time aspect. While a computing centre or network technology might be considered obsolete after a few year...