It is important and timely to facilitate evidence-based decision making that results in better patient outcomes, enhanced research planning, better products, and improved policy development. This article discusses the current status of evidence-based dentistry. It describes the central role of systematic reviews in the process of clinical decision making in evidence-based dental practice. Parti...

Actions in Canada are being designed to transform the way research evidence is generated and used to improve population health. Capacity is being built in population health intervention research. The primary target is more understanding and examination of policies and programs that could redress inequities in health. The Population Health Intervention Research Initiative for Canada is a loosely...

in this article wee seek to suggest an analytical model for explaining the israeli foreign policy. to do this, we must, on the one hand, survey briefly the main theories of foreign polcy and, on the other, to review the literature about the israeli foreign policy. the major question this paper would ask is: what are the main factors shaping the israeli foreign policy and which one might be said...

The number of science editors' associations is growing to resolve a variety of professional problems. The main objective of the associations is to educate their members by facilitating dissemination of information, publishing scholarly journals, books, networking of experts, and regular meetings. There are many science editing associations - general and specialized, traditional, and new. The ar...

After a long period of neglect, the issue of human resources for health (HRH) has recently emerged as a core component on the international health agenda, with policy makers increasingly eager to learn from experience elsewhere. This article investigates systematically the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of cross-national comparisons of HRH policies and practices. It review...

Due to the escalating population and the resulting increase in energy use, the world is faced with the challenge of energy crisis. To mitigate the rise in energy crisis, innovation, adoption, and diffusion of energy efficient technologies is imperative. Review of available literatures indicates that expected improvement in energy consumption has not been achieved in spite of the innovation and ...

This paper establishes the link between an adaptation of the policy iteration method for Markov decision processes with continuous state and action spaces and the policy gradient method when the differentiation of the mean value is directly done over the policy without parameterization. This approach allows deriving sound and practical batch Reinforcement Learning algorithms for continuous stat...

Service Component Architecture (SCA) provides a programming model to support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SCA based application has long product development life-cycle. Slight change in one service component may affect functionality of other component. This leads to requirement of continuous checking for stability of integrated systems. If defects are identified in earlier stage and tot...