An increasingly globalised graduate workforce is putting increasing pressure on universities to create unified, portable qualifications. Europe responded in 1999 with a plan to create a European higher education area and increase the mobility of students, researchers and university staff by 2010. The Bologna process, as it is called after the city where the plan was first agreed, is a voluntary...

P Di Vincenzo, S Rusconi, F Adorni, P Vitiello, F Maggiolo, D Francisci, A Di Biagio, L Monno, A Antinori, E Boeri, G Punzi, C-F Perno, A Callegaro, B Bruzzone and M Zazzi on behalf of the Antiretroviral Resistance Cohort Analysis (ARCA) Collaborative Group Sezione Malattie Infettive e Immunopatologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche ‘Luigi Sacco’, Universita’ degli Studi, Milan, Italy, ITB-CN...

In previous papers we proposed the ITB mechanism to improve the performance of up*/down* routing in irregular networks with source routing. With this mechanism, both minimal routing and a better use of network links are guaranteed, resulting on an overall network performance improvement. In this paper, we show that the ITB mechanism can be used with any source routing scheme in the COW environm...

The Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution makes federal voting rights dependent upon participation in state elections. This Article argues that the right to vote in federal elections, as defined by Article I, incorporates both i) state constitutional law governing the right to vote and ii) the democratic norms that existed within the states at the founding...

OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of pharmacists' opinions on their dispensing medicines with a "medical prescription only" label without requiring a doctor's prescription. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study of 166 community pharmacies in northwest Spain. The opinions of pharmacists on the following were collected as independent variables through personal interview: a) physicians' p...

A decision maker must divide a prize between multiple agents. The prize may be divisible (e.g., a budget, pork-barrel spending) in which case he prefers to award larger shares of the prize to relatively more-qualified agents, or it may be non-divisible (e.g., jobs, college admissions) in which case he prefers to award the limited number of prizes to the most-qualified agents. He is, however, ex...

In recent years Manukau Institute of Technology has offered a range of DipICT Level 5 modules in local high schools to fill a gap caused by the lack of bursary and 6th form certificate qualifications and to raise the profile of computing and IT within schools. Other NACCQ providers have done similarly. DipICT L5 modules, taught by teachers accredited with our CIT department, have also provided ...

Objective: To assess the influence of pharmacists’ opinions on their dispensing medicines with a «medical prescription only» label without requiring a doctor’s prescription. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of 166 community pharmacies in northwest Spain. The opinions of pharmacists on the following were collected as independent variables through personal interview: a) physicians’ p...

Sociological research consistently demonstrates that in modern industrial societies significant inequalities remain in opportunity chances for members of different social classes. The Merit Selection (MS) hypothesis predicts that the allocation of occupational positions in modern post-industrial societies should be based increasingly on meritocratic principles: ‘merit’ is defined as IQ plus eff...

I would like to start off with a question. It is a question that John’s paper hints at, but one that never quite gets asked directly. The question is motivated by John’s observation that while the distribution of wages has widened in Australia, it is still more compressed than in some other countries with lower unemployment rates. My question is the following: to what extent is the persistently...