Scientists and public administration practitioners still find it hard to answer how develop new institutions with limited resources. What principles must be prioritized by managers when developing such institutions? This study aimed a question. Our case involving villages in remote areas of Kalimantan, Indonesia, confirmed four implementing development programs villages: (1) focusing on poverty...

Placement in prestigious research institutions for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) PhD recipients is generally considered to be optimal. Yet some doctoral recipients are not interested in intensive research careers and instead seek alternative careers, outside but also within academe (for example teaching positions in Liberal Arts Schools). Recent attention to non-acade...

Service-oriented workflows in the scientific domain are commonly composed as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), formed from a collection of vertices and directed edges. When orchestrating service-oriented DAGs, intermediate data are typically routed through a single centralised engine, which results in unnecessary data transfer, increasing the execution time of a workflow and causing the engine to...

With Simula 67 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard invented object-oriented programming. This has had an enormous impact on program development tools and methods in the world, well accounted in conferences and books, on programming languages and object-oriented programming, and on software pioneers. Early influenced were computer scientists in the Nordic countries who from about 1970 had Simula ...

The number of older prisoners is increasing and, with reforms in the prison health service, there is a requirement to provide equity of access to standard healthcare services. The health of older prisoners is often poor, with high levels of psychiatric and physical illnesses, compounded by poor access to appropriate rehabilitation and resettlement services. A recent case presenting to our depar...

It appears that fourteen years ago the Legislative Act establishing this Board enjoined upon its members the following charge : " They shall investigate and supervise the whole system of the public charitable and correctional institutions of the Commonwealth, and shall recommend such changes and additional provisions as they may deem necessary for their economical and efficient administration."...

Service-oriented workflows in the scientific domain are commonly composed as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), formed from a collection of vertices and directed edges. When orchestrating service-oriented DAGs, intermediate data are typically routed through a single centralised engine, which results in unnecessary data transfer, increasing the execution time of a workflow and causing the engine to...

We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations of nonprofits in 100 American cities: elite-oriented cultural and educational institutions, and socialwelfare oriented organiza...