Large state-by-state variations exist in location of dying and level of aggressive treatment during the final phase of life. This paper describes Oregon's incremental gains toward improving advance planning for end-of-life care in a state with the lowest rate of in-hospital deaths. Action strategies have required data gathering and reporting, and coalition building with a focus on systems chang...

In most parliamentary democracies, governments must maintain the confidence of a single legislative chamber only. But in bicameral parliaments, upper chambers can affect the fortunes of government policy proposals. Recent work shows that parliamentary governments that lack control over the upper house also tend to collapse sooner than those with upper-house majorities. In this article, we show ...

Abstract Consensus is a key feature of the European Union. In Parliament, most legislation adopted by grand coalition between left and right. While this trans-partisan cooperation has always been informal, epp s&d groups agreed on formal political in 2014. For first time ep ’s history, was based policy programme negotiated two groups’ leadership. Based roll-call vote data, paper aims to und...

The authors describe the development of the Dorothy M. Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute, an innovative partnership of the Nursing Effectiveness, Outcomes and Utilization Research Unit at the University of Toronto site and nurse consultants with expertise in organizational and human resource development. The context for the initiative, needs and rationale, supporting literature and the coaliti...

Computational reflection is a useful technique for avoiding the overhead inherent in constructing large proof objects. However, to date it is significantly more time consuming to write reflective procedures than the equivalent tactics. Can we build a lightweight tactic language for building reflective procedures easily? To this end, we present Rtac, a lightweight, work-in-progress, tactic langu...

The application of game theory—and an alternative strategic theory called “theory of moves”—and social-choice theory to a wide variety of strategic situations, principally but not exclusively in politics, will be studied. Uses of strategy in voting in committees and elections, in political campaigns, in the defense and deterrence policies of nations, and in bargaining and coalition-building sit...

Chapter Four focuses on the specific strategies and tactics organizations might use to build participation based on their participation goals and target populations. But arts organizations also need to consider how building participation fits with their overall purpose and mission, their available resources, and the community environment in which they operate. Given their resource constraints a...

Building on work by Wainer and Wallen, formalised by James Margetson, we present soundness and completeness proofs for a system of first order logic. The completeness proofs naturally suggest an algorithm to derive proofs. This algorithm can be implemented in a tail recursive manner. We provide the formalisation in Isabelle/HOL. The algorithm can be executed via the rewriting tactics of Isabell...