Recent years have seen a rise in information-based environmental policies. This report focuses on a type of voluntary, information-based environmental policy – air quality alerts – by summarizing the recent research and contributing new findings. This evaluation of an air quality policy also has implications generally for the use of information-based policies to achieve environmental goals. As ...

For eciency and ease of implementation, many compilers implicitly impose an ``inlining policy'' to restrict the conditions under which a procedure may be inlined. An inlining technique consists of an inlining policy and a strategy for choosing a sequence of inlining operations that is consistent with the policy. The e€ectiveness of an inlining technique is a€ected by the restrictiveness of the...

The association between procedure volume and post-procedure outcomes such as mortality or perioperative complications has been studied since the 1970s for a wide variety of procedures. A clear understanding of the implications of procedure volume for healthcare policy is critical because payers in both the private and public sectors have begun to develop policies that incorporate procedural vol...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the externalities associated with acute poisoning from pesticides. METHODS The probabilities of acute poisoning were estimated according to characteristics of rural properties and cities in the state of Paraná, Southern Brazil. Information about acute poisoning obtained from the 1998-1999 Harvest Forecast Survey was used. The expected costs with poisoning in these proper...

policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. it stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. by itself, however, policy...

Academic advising and tutoring policies play key roles in achieving students' satisfaction engagement, thereby improving retention career development. However, universities do not give enough attention to developing the Student Affairs entities or quality. This study aims conduct a systematic review of literature, order determine needs UAE federal universities, with special emphasis on academic...

the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying and evaluating the internal and external factors, affecting the sina trauma and surgery research center, affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences and propose some of related strategies to senior managers. we used a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology. our study population consisted of personnel (18 individuals)...

although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. the most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the us, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as public diplomacy and to follow local and international ...