 The need for comprehensive and coordinated responses by the EU to address sustainable development, peace and security, especially in complex fragile situations, is widely accepted. However, despite progress in a number of areas, EU’s track record in seeking agreement and implementing comprehensive approaches is a long history of unfinished business, postponed priorities and failed attempts. ...

With 4.4 million people in need of health assistance, funding is urgently needed to respond to the rising needs. The South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan launched earlier this year requests US$ 110 million, of which US$ 31.3 million has been received (71% funding gap). Of this amount, WHO requires US$ 17.5 million for 2016, of which only US$ 4.3 million has been received. More funding will be...

We review some of the methodology applied to the various NIST language technology evaluations. We discuss the elements included in each evaluation plan, and suggest what we believe are key practices for successful evaluations, and what pitfalls should be avoided. A couple of lessons learned are noted.

The iStar 2.0 modeling language is the result of a two-year long community effort intended at providing a solid, unified basis for teaching and conducting research with i*. The language was released with important qualities in mind, such as keeping a core set of primitives, providing a clear meaning for those primitives, and flattening the learning curve for new users. In this paper, we propose...

Despite a strong interest in entrepreneurship, economists have devoted little attention to the role of health insurance availability. I investigate the impact of a unique policy experiment—New Jersey’s Individual Health Coverage Plan—on self-employment. Implemented in August 1993, the IHCP included an extensive set of reforms that loosened the historical connection between traditional employmen...

Efficient heavy haul operations require accurate predictions of terminal arrival times and equipment cycle times. Most analytical and parametric approaches for railway capacity evaluation and operations planning focus on predicting average train delay and not the performance of individual trains and their delay distribution. In practice, train delay varies about this average according to some d...

Schedule disruptions require airlines to intervene through the process of recovery; this involves modifications to the planned schedule, aircraft routings, crew pairings and passenger itineraries. Passenger recovery is generally considered as the final stage in this process, and hence passengers experience unnecessarily large impacts resulting from flight delays and cancellations. Most recovery...

introduction: one of the important aspects in high quality health care system is delivering health services in an appropriate way which can lead to development of the systems. patient satisfaction is a quality indicator that has the potential to provide valuable information about the care delivered by an emergency medical services system (ems). this indicator is considered as an important marke...

In the global economy, knowledge has become a key asset in organizations; thus, Knowledge Management (KM) has emerged as a major issue that managers must deal with. However, implementing KM is becoming more complicated. Practitioners must assess complex and confusing situations, initiate KM, identify the causal relationships between problems, make appropriate decisions, and guarantee that the r...

A knowledge acquisition process that has been implemented by a virtual team for the development of a knowledge based early warning system in Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) operations will be presented. During the process, hazard and risk analysis techniques have been used extensively. In this paper emphasis will be given on the: a) activities and workflow, b) communication methods and tool...