Outstanding gifted programs reflect the special qualities of the people and schools involved, but have many characteristics in common. or the past fie yecars we havc experimented with a rici program for gifted and talented students that has been used successfully in several school locations and under a variety of conditions (Renzulli, 1982. Reis and Rcnzulli. 1982, Dclisle and Renzulli, 1981; D...

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has been adopted as the de facto standard for IT Service Management (ITSM). This Paper discusses the value of ITIL-based maturity assessments for the IT service recipient in an outsourcing arrangement. We present the Client Outsourcing Maturity Model (COMM), a three-dimensional framework developed at HP Labs, and we provide an example of its assessment metho...

Effective health education requires an understanding of the factors which underlie a person's behavior. This paper describes "BASNEF," a simplified approach to understanding behavior, which is based on the PRECEDE model and on Value Expectancy Theory. Value Expectancy Theory holds that people will only perform a given behavior if they themselves see that it will provide benefits according to ...

key factor in the successful application of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) in tunneling is the ability to develop accurate penetration rate estimates for determining project schedule and costs. Thus establishing a relationship between rock properties and TBM penetration rate can be very helpful in estimation of this vital parameter. However, this parameter cannot be simply predicted since there ...

since last decades, there has been a growing interest in the human/social dimensions of natural resources governance especially the structure of social networks in achieving to successful co-management of natural resources. network analysis as a suitable tool in optimum planning of the “network management” of rangeland in regional scale, can improve inter-organizational decision-making and coor...

TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), which is part of the Lean Management philosophy, aims to increase company's productivity by reducing efficiency losses during manufacturing. allows organizations know real with they are working and production process, application this methodology improve equipment competitiveness company.

Since the introduction of the first National Arthroplasty Register in Sweden in 1975, many other countries have tried to adopt the successful Scandinavian system. However, not all have overcome the political and practical difficulties of establishing a working register. We have surveyed the current registries to establish the key factors required for an effective database. We have received deta...