BACKGROUND In the United Kingdom, the drive to encourage reflective practice through clinical supervision, as a means of ensuring quality of provision in nursing and other health care professions, is now well-embedded, not only in policy but also in practice. However, debate and critique of these concepts is limited. AIM The aim of this paper is to draw on research, conducted with undergradua...

This paper describes two complementary mechanisms for the supervision of large scale and highly distr ibuted systems structured as a cloud of autonomic computing components. The fi rst one is based on the creation of supervision pervasions, for the supervision of clusters of components (i.e., aggregates structurally organized through one or several contracts) implementing specific services in a...

Catheter-related blood stream infections (CRBSI) cause significant morbidity and mortality. A retrospective study of a performance improvement project in our teaching hospital's surgical intensive care unit (SICU) showed that intensivist supervision was important in reinforcing maximal sterile barriers (MSB) use during the placement of a central venous catheter (CVC) in the prevention of CRBSI....

The integration of mechanical systems and microeteetronics opens new possibilities for mechanical design and automatic functions. After a discussion of the mechanical and electronic design the organization of information processing in different levels is described. Within this frame 'low-degree intelligent' mechatronie systems can be developed which comprise adaptive control, supervision with f...

This paper addresses the newly named phenomenon of ‘rescue supervision’. The phenomenon itself is unfortunately not new. Not every candidate is blessed with adequate doctoral supervision. This paper looks at some of the reasons why supervision may not be adequate, only one of which is that the supervisor is incompetent. Whatever the reasons for the inadequacy of the supervision, it is desirable...

the emergence and unprecedented growth of joint stock companies is undoubtedly one of the most significant economic developments.one of the outcomes of this development is the separation of ownership and control of the companies. such separation make it possible for the managers of the companies to make dicisions to serve their interes at the expense of the companies shareholders .this conflict...

OBJECTIVE In developing countries, supervision is a widely recognized strategy for improving health worker performance; and anecdotally, maintaining regular, high-quality supervision is difficult. However, remarkably little research has explored in depth why supervision is so challenging. METHODS In the context of a trial to improve health worker adherence to Integrated Management of Childhoo...

We develop an efficiency wages model, to study the effects of the imposition of a higher minimum wage on employment of heterogeneous workers, when employers use the wage and monitoring intensity to induce motivation. It is shown that when effort is adjusted to exogenous shocks then the wage and supervision, and employment and supervision can be either strategic complements or strategic substitu...