OBJECTIVES To document recent growth among school-based health centers across the United States and identify state policies that may be facilitating that growth, using a nationwide survey. This was the fourth in a series of surveys undertaken by the Making the Grade office, Washington, DC. DESIGN During the period from July to September 1998, a written survey instrument was sent to 50 state g...

Reducing data center power consumption is an important challenge with the increase in the demand for their services. We propose a Global Power Manger (GPM) for data centers. Global Power Manager migrates services around the data center with the goal of minimizing energy consumption in the data center. GPM has a holistic view of the data center and can considers any power-consuming element, such...

The paper presents the hypothesis that communal roosts, breeding colonies, and certain other bird assemblages have been evolved primarily for the efficient exploitation of unevenly distributed food sources by serving as information centers. Predation pressure is regarded as being the most important factor ‘shaping’ the assemblages. The shaping involves the choice of inaccessible or otherwise sa...

In this session, panelist members of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) share what has been successful in the implementation of integrative healthcare across different health systems and academic health centers. Some use what may be termed a “vertical” model, or one that is a stand-alone entity that operates outside of the health system or academic healt...

The social spatial geographies of telecommunications and their infrastructures have long interested scholars in the sciences, urban geography specifically. This paper focuses on data centers. Much effort has been placed preserving notion that centers are ‘clouds’, a terminology obfuscates real human cyberplaces. In this map-making exercise, we visualize sociopolitical centers, provoke reader to...

extended abstract 1. introduction the flow of tourism develops depending on the supply of tourism product. resorts and residential centers are one of the main factors attracting tourists in order to use the tourism product of a region. optimal locating of residential centers, especially in cities and areas which are in the way of passing tourists, has an important role in the visitors’ using of...

PURPOSE This study aimed to identify the decision-making process for consumers participating in sports centers based on an extended goal-directed behavior model (EMGB), and provide empirical data establishing effective operation strategies centers, including additional risk perception of during pandemic.METHODS A total 446 surveys were used as final sample. For analysis, SPSS 21.0 AMOS frequenc...