Both for appraising State programs of aid to the blind and for planning and evaluating the results of programs for preventing blindness, information is needed concerning the prevalence of blindness in diperentparts of the Nation. Although satisfactory State estimates cannot be made now because of lack of adequate data, suficient knowledge of differences in prevalence of blindness exists to perm...

This article assesses the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) after Supreme Court’s recent decision in Germany v. Philipp. Philipp’s rejection of a genocide exception for foreign state’s act property expropriation comports with absence such an FSIA’s text. The also suggests that as it had been developing was detrimental development FSIA interpretation, and harmful to international human rig...

Editorial Appraising clinical guidelines: towards a "Which" guide for purchasers All health care services are attempting to control escalating costs in the face of increasing patient needs, expectations, and healthcare interventions. In the United Kingdom the government has responded in two ways: by introducing a competitive health market to provide incentives for efficiency and an emphasis on ...

Recent international quality standards and European Community legislation have identified new software quality factors. These new factors include suitability, installability and adaptability. Other quality factors need to be reviewed in the light of these developments. This has impacted on established commercial usability evaluation methods to the extent that it is appropriate to ask if these e...

It has become axiomatic that assessment impacts powerfully on student learning, but there is a surprising dearth of research on how. This study explored the mechanism of impact of summative assessment on the process of learning of theory in higher education. Individual, in-depth interviews were conducted with medical students and analyzed qualitatively. The impact of assessment on learning was ...

The overall objective of project OC/EFSA/AMU/2018/01 was to support EFSA develop in-house capacity collect, appraise and synthesize evidence coming from literature sources in the context food feed scientific assessment. This had be reached by offering 3 different types training courses staff (including Trainees) Experts (of Panels, Working Groups Member States). report summarizes these training...