This lesson sequence deals with the discussion on differenttypes of hotels and includes project work. Suggested activitiescombine reading, writing, speaking activities, ensure efficientmastering topic vocabulary develop students’ 21stcentury skills.

EBRI, ICI Maintain Largest 401(k) Participant Database Over the past two decades, 401(k) plans have grown to be the most common type of employer-sponsored retirement plan in the United States, and now serve as the most popular defi ned contribution (DC) plan, as measured by number of participants and assets. In 2005, 47 million American workers were active 401(k) plan participants.1 By year-end...

introduction: in order to fulfill the health and medical needs of rural people, iran's medical services insurance organization approved a plan to provide rural health insurance in 2005. the plan aimed to make an appropriate context for the activities of private health care service providers in the rural areas and to meet public expectations for access to specialized medical services. in this st...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess whether the introduction of "managed care" (capitated budget and utilisation control by general practitioners) in a Swiss health insurance plan caused a selective disenrolment of plan members, and whether it achieved its goal of reducing health care expenditures. DESIGN Controlled before-after analysis of health insurance claims. SETTING Health insurance plan of t...

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Panelists respond to the question, “What does industry need from simulation vendors in Y2k and after?” The panelists include software vendors, simulation modelers from industry, simulation consulting, and academia.

In my president’s message in Computer’s January 2012 issue (“Creating Our Future,” pp. 6-7), I provided an overview of the Computer Society’s Strategic Plan (SP7), the three-year plan that outlines strategies reflecting the Society’s values and core competencies and offers clearly defined measures and targets delineating the various ways volunteers can assist in achieving the Society’s strategi...

Let X be a definable C manifold, Y1, Y2 definably compact definable C r submanifolds of X such that dimY1 + dimY2 < dimX and Y1 has a trivial normal bundle. We prove that there exists a definable isotopy {hp}p∈J such that h0 = idX and h1(Y1) ∩ Y2 = ∅. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 14P10, 14P20, 58A05, 03C64.

Project-based learning is an essential part of a software engineer's education. The learning achieved through projects can be improved through structured interaction between more experienced students and those students encountering their rst software engineering project. In this paper, we report on our experience over three years with trials of several forms of interaction between undergraduate...

Future system development and management efforts must strive to institutionalize these gains and provide ongoing, incremental improvement in these areas. With the growth of e-commerce and further socioeconomic reliance on IT, the organizations that have achieved these gains will be well positioned to outdistance those who were less aggressive. Figure 1 depicts the silver linings and competitive...