To cope with formal verification issues within the ModelDriven Engineering (MDE) paradigm, a separation of duties between software developers is usually proposed: MDE experts define models and transformations, while formal verification experts conduct the verification process. This is often aided by (semi)automatic translations form the MDE elements to their formal representation in the semanti...

This paper presents a patient safety applicator tool for implementing and assessing patient safety systems in health care institutions. The applicator tool consists of critical processes and performance measures identified in the context of the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence. The Delphi technique was used for gaining consensu...

BACKGROUND Universities are significant contributors to research and technologies in health; however, the health needs of the world's poor are historically neglected in research. Medical discoveries are frequently licensed exclusively to one producer, allowing a monopoly and inequitable pricing. Similarly, research is often published in ways that make it inaccessible. Universities can adopt pol...

Compensation in exchange for medical services is characterized as a unity of economic relations between medical institutions and funding side in exchange for the expenses of compensation during the provision of medical services. Compensation refers to compensation for expenses of the organization, not the individual departments and nor the medical worker [1-3]. In 1999 in the primary healthcare...

This study was motivated by the premise that no nation grows further than the quality of its education. The paper presents an investigation on the relationships between funding, ICT, selection processes, administration and planning and the standard of science teacher education in Nigeria. The data for the study was gathered through a two page questionnaire administered to 180 respondents who we...

The purpose of this article is to help federally funded research institutions answer the question of how recipients of federal research funding can conduct research involving human embryonic stem cells without running afoul of the Bush administration's broad prohibition of the use of federal funds in such research.

This document is an output from research funding by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) as part of the iiG, a research programme to study how to improve institutions for pro-poor growth in Africa and South-Asia. The views expressed are not necessarily those of DFID.

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Cost issues and questions related to graduate nurse anesthesia education are raised from the perspective of a dean of a college of nursing. Suggestions relative to these issues are made, and various funding mechanisms that exist in institutions of higher learning are briefly discussed in relation to their cost and benefits.

In 1972, legislation known as Title IX of the Educational Amendments was passed. Title IX prohibits institutions that receive federal funding from practicing gender discriminations in educational programs or activities, including athletics. Since that time, women’s sports have advanced tremendously. Currently, more than 2.36 million girls participate in high school sports, compared with 300,000...