Authorities throughout the developing world are turning to downsizing in an effort to reduce budget deficits and address the inefficiencies engendered by state-led development strategies. Because large-scale involuntary dismissals are often politically difficult, a voluntary approach to reductions in public sector employment is increasingly popular among developing-country governments, multilat...

The CLASS Act (Community Living Assistance Senrvices and Support Act) represented a vision --a vision of a system of services that was owned and invested in by the citizens of the United States. CLASS is intended to be an infrastructure under which the government would design a voluntary, federally administered, consumer-financed insurance plan. It became law when President Barack Obama signed ...

This paper documents an investigation evaluating if adult offenders can benefit from a facilitated seriousgames design project as part of their probation program. Research has observed a participatory design group of adult offenders working with their probation managers and a PhD researcher to create a new serious-game for use by the probation service. A voluntary participant group of six male ...

Craniocervical junction abnormalities with atlantoaxial subluxation caused by ventral subluxation of C2 were diagnosed in a 6-month-old female Pomeranian with tetraplegia as a clinical sign. Lateral survey radiography of the neck with flexion revealed atlantoaxial subluxation with ventral subluxation of C2. Computed tomography revealed absence of dens and atlanto-occipital overlapping. Magnetic...

Historians of orthopaedics, artificial limbs and disability have devoted a great deal of attention to children and soldiers but have neglected to give sufficient space in their studies to industrial workers, the other patient group that has been identified as crucial to the development of these areas. Furthermore, this attention has led to an imbalanced focus on charitable and philanthropic act...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stiff-knee gait is defined as reduced knee flexion during the swing phase. It is accompanied by frontal plane compensatory movements (eg, circumduction and hip hiking) typically thought to result from reduced toe clearance. As such, we examined if knee flexion assistance before foot-off would reduce exaggerated frontal plane movements in people with stiff-knee gait after ...

and clubs are in short supply for special school-leavers to provide stability and order during the difficult years of adolescence and to prevent much wastage of young lives?and of potential workers. Besides the valuable contribution made by the National Association for Mental Health in establishing two such hostels, local authorities are tackling this problem; and the provision of purpose-built...

This report describes how Nigeria, a country that at one time had the highest number of cases of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) in the world, reduced the number of cases from more than 653,000 in 1988 to zero in 2009, despite numerous challenges. Village-based volunteers formed the foundation of the program, which used health education, cloth filters, vector control, advocacy for safe wat...

Students employ marginal analysis in investigating various problems regarding resource allocation.The majority of first-year students, however, seem to struggle in applying it to a firm’s profit maximisation problem.Their confusion appears to stem from textbooks for introductory microeconomics courses oversimplifying some subtle points regarding the profit maximisation problem.This paper (1) po...