a) Implications for the future of nongovernmental organization. International nongovernmental organizations are mentioned in none of the reports considered, with the exception of the SATCOM Report — a non-UN national body. Nongovernmental organizations are mentioned in passing in the Capacity Study but the references are so vague that it is not clear what sort of NGOs are meant or whether they ...

There will be many people who write to say how they have admired Christine Hancock's work as general secretary of the RCN.

RCN GENERAL secretary Christine Hancock this week issued five challenges to the government, managers and nurses during her opening address at RCN Congress.

Prominent figures from the world of nursing and politics have paid tribute to RCN general secretary Christine Hancock following her announcement that will step down next summer.

The Tropical Bookshelf " Padon pa geri maleng " (" Sorry doesn't heal the scars ") Disasters, discord, poverty. What hardened heart doesn't ache for Haiti? Fifty years after Columbus's arrival, Hispaniola's natives were decimated by disease; by the mid-1700s, French overlords were exploiting Haiti's African slaves. Then came revolution, independence, and more upheaval. Finally, in 2004, after i...

A leading statistician has written to health secretary Matt Hancock urging him investigate the effects of extending gap between first and second dose Pfizer BioNTech covid-19 vaccine.1 Sheila Bird, former programme leader at Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit University Cambridge a member Royal Statistical Society’s taskforce, said that while deviating from recommended dosing interval...

The J-choice K-best secretary problem, also known as the (J, K)-secretary problem, is a generalization of the classical secretary problem. An algorithm for the (J, K)-secretary problem is allowed to make J choices and the payoff to be maximized is the expected number of items chosen among the K best items. Previous works analyzed the case when the total number n of items is finite, and consider...

Resumen. Este artículo describe el Modelo de Realización de Metamorfosis. El propósito principal de este marco es proporcionar la base conceptual necesaria para el establecimiento de vínculos persistentes y controlables entre la especificación de los requisitos funcionales del sistema (expresado como un Modelo de Casos de Uso) y el producto de su análisis (representado a través de un Modelo de ...