In April 2000, the UK National Asylum Support Service started a policy of dispersing asylum seekers from London and southeast England to alternative locations around the United Kingdom in an attempt to spread the cost of care. Although the number of people with HIV who are affected by this policy is unknown, more than 100 000 asylum seekers have so far been dispersed, many of whom are from regi...

Asylum practice can be daunting because the plight of asylum seekers is so extreme. Being “among the world’s most desperate people,”1 they have fled their homes, looking for protection elsewhere. Yet that protection is often not easily achieved. They must not only establish that persecutory country conditions exist in their home countries, but that they are likely targets of that persecution. A...

OBJECTIVE We sought to characterize the experiences and preferences of applicants to emergency medicine (EM) residency programs about being contacted by programs after their interview day but before the rank list submission deadline. METHODS This cross-sectional study surveyed all applicants to an academic EM residency during the 2006-2007 interview cycle. Participation was anonymous and volu...

BACKGROUND From the fall of 1990 through January 1995 Transamerica Occidental Life screened applicants for life insurance for cancer with Tumor Associated Antigen (TAA). RESULTS 110,299 applicants were tested and in 13,829 positive levels of TAA were found. Of this latter number, 255 applicants were declined following various levels of evaluation. CONCLUSIONS We concluded that TAA screening...

the purpose of this research was to analyze efl writing tasks in the most popular esol (english for speakers of other languages) exam preparation courses in iran: ielts, toefl, fce and cae. having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, 114 learner participants were asked to rate efl writing tasks based on a checkl...

This mixed-methods design study investigated Iranian TOEFL iBT and IELTS teachers’ views on thestructure of the TOEFL iBT and IELTS receptive and productive sections from the yardsticks of dynamic and static assessment. It also examined the conformity level of the receptive and productive sections of TOEFL iBT and IELTS to dynamic assessment and static assessment standards. To achieve the objec...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine the attitudes of otolaryngology residency program directors and chairpersons toward unmatched residency applicants, including whether a surgical internship or research year is preferred in considering repeat applicants. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. METHODS Approval was obtained from the Colorado Multiple Institution Review Board. A 12-question Web-...

In a security screening system, a tighter screening policy not only increases the security level, but also causes congestion for normal people, which may deter their use and decrease the approver’s payoff. Adapting to the screening policies, adversary and normal applicants choose whether to enter the screening system. Security managers could use screening policies to deter adversary applicants,...

Recruitment of occupational therapy students requires both expansion and broadening of ethnic, cultural, age, sex, and geographic distribution. Information used to guide recruitment activities can be limited, quickly outdated, and regionally nonspecific. Applicants to all entry-level programs in the Northwest were surveyed to assess trends that could influence recruitment practices. One hundred...