Public health nurses (PHNs) in the Republic of Ireland work as part of a multidisciplinary team in the delivery of community care services. Good interdisciplinary communication is therefore vital to enable them to offer the best possible care to their clients. This article reports on one section of a national survey of PHNs who work with families with infants. The findings suggest that although...

The Joint Kill Chain Event (JKCE), designed by the Air Force’s Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC), provides an interesting case study for evaluation of simulated military training. JKCE places Army Air Defense Artillery Fire Control Officers (ADAFCOs) into an Air Force Control and Reporting Center (CRC) simulator. From the CRC, the ADAFCO leads an air missile defense scenario, protect...

In rich countries, lenders often rely on credit scoring—formulae to predict risk based on the performance of past loans with characteristics similar to current loans—to inform decisions and to control costs. Can credit scoring do the same for microfinance lenders in poor countries? This paper argues that scoring does have a place in microfinance. Although scoring is less powerful in poor countr...

Introduction: A Tale of Two Counties Many years ago, in my first job in county government, I staffed a taskforce charged to transform a small urban county from a set of independently elected row officers to a modern organization with a professional manager reporting to a policy board. Trained as a socio-cultural anthropologist, I approached the county as a small community, using the methods and...

How do the smallest firms in Mexico finance their operations? We examine this question using data from surveys of microenterprises undertaken in 1994 and 1998. The survey identifies sources of startup capital, and also provides information on current bank loans and access to trade credit from suppliers. There is evidence that the credit crunch experienced by Mexico in the second half of the 199...

The Master of Computing (MComp) programme at Unitec involves a 60 credit dissertation or 120 credit thesis (out of a total of 240 credits). Examiners are asked to provide “an overall evaluation of the substance and quality” of the dissertation or thesis (including “design, methodology, literature review, theoretical rigour, argument, interpretation and practical application”) and comment on “pa...

This case study evaluated the effects of implementing the Transcendental Meditation Programme among the police forces of three states of Brazil. After positive results among the police were reported by leaders in Goias state, police forces in other states began the programme. Results among police trainees in Piauf state who learned the Transcendental Meditation Programme included a high percent...

Integration of leprosy control into the general health system is an essential element of a leprosy elimination strategy. In India, the process has been undertaken with the assistance of World Bank in a phased manner. In the first phase (2001-2002), 24 low/moderately endemic provinces for leprosy were targeted. Operational research was undertaken in these low/moderate endemic provinces to assess...