Most of the literature concerning Silicon Valley consider the entrepreneurship and the presence of Stanford as driving force in technology advancement. However, few emphasis the function of education in Stanford and on the role of government in this process. Thus this paper focuses on the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford (DEE) and shows that: • There exists a network of relation...

The history of air pollution control in the Los Angeles area shows a gradual transfer of authority from city and county to state and federal government. The relative role of the various levels of government is discussed. Regional control will become increasingly important with standards set or approved by state and federal authorities. Progress is noted in the control of both stationary and mov...

In this paper we examine the reconstitution of the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) after its destruction in the World Trade Center attack, using that event to highlight several features of resilience. The paper summarises basic EOC functions, and then presents conceptions of resilience as understood from several disciplinary perspectives, noting that work in these fields has sought to underst...

This paper presents an examination of the possible correlation between rising income inequalities at the regional level and widespread devolutionary initiatives worldwide. When the responsibilityand resource-based facets of decentralization are taken together, a marked congruency is evident between the two trends. While various spatial economic forces promote the emergence of core and periphera...

Statistical Insight is a database that offers the ability to search across multiple sources of data, including the federal government, private organizations, research centers, and international intergovernmental organizations in one search. Two sample searches on the same topic, a basic and an advanced, were conducted to evaluate the database.

On the face of it, the 5 June ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, affirming the earlier dismissal of the youths’ case, is a setback. However, the Court’s ruling positions the case to proceed to the Supreme Court on the question of whether the federal government has a public trust obligation to its citizens. The Court of Appeals focused on a recent U.S. Supr...

Beginning in the late 1980s, states and the federal government restricted the ability of physicians to "balance bill" Medicare beneficiaries for charges in excess of the copayment and reimbursement amounts approved by Medicare. In this paper, I provide empirical evidence that this policy change resulted in a 9% reduction in out-of-pocket medical expenditures by elderly households. In spite of t...

This article proposes a conceptual framework to examine the development of the teacher education system in contemporary China. Within the framework, three development periods, including the era of shifan, and the era of post-shifan, the era of professional teacher education, are investigated in terms of governance, institutional structures, and resource allocation. With the central government d...

The federal government can make federally held health data available to every American through a single, secure, recurring instance based portal on the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). The Federal Health Record Gateway (FHR Gateway) supports the President's initiatives for patient-centered health by enhancing transparency of government-held clinical and health claims data.

No one any longer doubts that this is the most serious crisis that the world economy has faced since at least the 1930s. Nor is there any remaining doubt that this crisis affects virtually all areas, developed and developing, with large reserves or small. (The only exceptions are a handful of countries, like Nigeria, that are not integrated into the world financial market, export overwhelmingly...