As president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, I have been asked to speak to councils of scientific societies, government officials, voluntary health organizations, lay audiences, and the press about matters of public policy, especially as they affect federal support for research in medicine and the related life sciences. One question I am asked frequently is whe...

Based on an extensive study of 237 cities within five states, Collaborative Public Management provides an in-depth look at how city officials work with other governments and organizations to develop their city economies and what makes these collaborations work. Exploring the more complex nature of collaboration across jurisdictions, governments, and sectors, Agranoff and McGuire illustrate how ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether cooperative learning can maximize the effectiveness of webQuest used as a medium in teaching and learning in Islamic education. The present study also examined the perception of students towards WebQuest and cooperative learning method. Muslim students were selected from a rural school in Penang, Malaysia. Quantitative and qualitative approach...

1Paediatric Digestive Disease Research Centre, Mofid Children’s Hospital, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to A.A. Sayyari: [email protected]). 2Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Department of Gastroenterology, Henri Mondor Hospital, Paris University XII, Creteil, France. Received: 06/05/03; accepted: 15/...

The article presents the results of a questionnaire survey schoolchildren (N = 1180) living in cities with different populations and rural areas. purpose study was to relationship between membership children's public organisation social activity children, their ability participate solving various issues, including issues affecting interests. resources limitations respondents included not organi...

State Islamic Religious Council (SIRCs) in Malaysia were established for the social welfare under purview of state enactments an setting. Despite absence a profit motive, accountability must be upheld as it is set up to guardian resources so that trust stakeholders could obtained. SIRCs are expected uphold their ethics and values overall operations. However, number negative cases reported local...

Commission’s report, based in part on our findings and in part on parallel local inquiries, is an example of how this problem can be solved. Like our report, it makes no claims to truth other than its congruity with the reader’s experience. That experience can be powerful. What is the ‘poignant quote’ other than a statement about an identity undermined by practitioner clumsiness? What is discha...

INTRODUCTION This article documents a number of rural medical education initiatives in Australia, Canada and the United States. A typology is created reflecting the centrality the rural mandate and characterizing different features of each school's program. Interviews with school officials are drawn on to reflect the challenges these schools face. METHOD Seven schools noted for their rural pr...