CEJVM is a cluster enabled Java Virtual Machine, which executes in a distributed fashion among collaborating nodes of a dedicated cluster. It extends Java‘s multithreading mechanism to parallel computing paradigm by transparent migration of independent application threads modeled in master worker paradigm. The goal is to obtain improved performance for computationally-intensive multi-threaded J...

Many studies find a notable return to college quality. Dale and Krueger (2002, 2011) only do until they address selection bias concerns by proxying for ambition and by matching students with similar admission outcomes but different matriculation decisions. Although we employ similar methodologies to Dale and Krueger, we find substantial returns to MBA program selectivity. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. A...

Women's underperformance in MBA programs has been the subject of recent debate and policy interventions, despite a lack of rigorous evidence documenting when and why it occurs. The current studies document a performance gap, specifying its contours and contributing factors. Two behaviors by female students that may factor into the gap are public conformity and private internalization. We predic...

BACKGROUND The role of health systems research (HSR) in informing and guiding national programs and policies has been increasingly recognized. Yet, many universities in sub-Saharan African countries have relatively limited capacity to teach HSR. Seven schools of public health (SPHs) in East and Central Africa undertook an HSR institutional capacity assessment, which included a review of current...

Impact of System and Physician Factors on the Detection of Obstructive Coronary Disease With Diagnostic Angiography in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease Harindra C. Wijeysundera, MD, PhD; Feng Qiu, MSc; Maria C. Bennell, MSc, MPH; Madhu K. Natarajan, MD MSc; Warren J. Cantor, MD; Stuart Smith, MD; Kori J. Kingsbury, MSN, MPA; Dennis T. Ko, MD, MSc · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·...

Dramatic changes in the health system due to national health reform are raising important questions regarding the educational preparation of social workers for the new health arena. While dual-degree programs in public health and social work can be an important response to what is needed educationally, little is known about them. The National MSW/MPH Programs Study surveyed MSW/MPH program admi...

The College of Medicine at the University of Malawi was open in 1991 as the only medical school in the country (1). Currently, the Medical College trains only medical doctors, although there are plans to train medical laboratory scientists, pharmacists, dentists, and physiotherapists. The College offers postgraduate programs in a number of clinical specializations and a two-year Master of Publi...

The authors designed survey research to assess accredited master of public health (MPH) programs with health education concentrations. A Web-based survey was distributed to program directors and was used to collect characteristics of program faculty, students, graduates, internships, employment, and competency development. Results indicate that students and graduates are diverse; 72% of student...

We derive an important property for solving large-scale integer programs by examining the master problem in Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition. In particular, we prove that if a linear program can be divided into subproblems with affinely independent corner points, then there is a direct mapping between basic feasible solutions in the master and original problems. This has implications for integer pro...

Iran's health system is expanding the disaster and emergency higher education programs over the country to enhance the capacity of human resources for effective and efficient disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. In this article we present an overview about the initiatives and progress of disaster and emergency health higher education in Iran. Following the Bam earthquake, i...