INTRODUCTION This paper raises questions about equality in partnerships, since imbalance in partnerships may effect collaboration outcomes in integrated care. We address aspects of equality in mandatory, public-public partnerships, from the perspective of municipal care. We have developed a questionnaire wherein the Norwegian Coordination Reform is an illustrative example. The following researc...

Dimensionality reduction has important applications in exploratory data analysis. A method based on Local Linear Projection (LLP) is proposed. The advantage of this method is that it is robust against uncertainty. Statistical analysis is applied to estimate parameters. Simulational results on synthetic data are promising. Some preliminary experiment of applying this method to microarray data is...

Traditional TCP traffic modeling has focused on “micro-scale” modeling of TCP, i.e., detailed modeling of a single TCP flow. While micro-scale models of TCP are suitable for understanding the precise behavior of individual flows, they are not well suited to the situation when a large number of TCP flows interact with each other as is the case in realistic networks. In this survey, we present se...

Antimicrobial resistance, mainly driven by inappropriate antibiotic use, is a global threat to health, requiring strategies optimize antimicrobial usage. stewardship (AMS) programs in hospitals promote the appropriate use of antibiotics treat infections effectively, protect patients from harmful side effects associated with unnecessary exposure, and reduce risks resistance emergence. Educating ...

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial stewardship has not always prevailed in a wide variety of medical institutions in Japan. METHODS The infection control team was involved in the review of individual use of antibiotics in all inpatients (6348 and 6507 patients/year during the first and second annual interventions, respectively) receiving intravenous antibiotics, according to the published guidelines, c...

Indigenous communities have experienced a loss of access and ability to contribute the management natural resources due removal from lands, marginalization, conflicting knowledge systems. Currently, there is increasing momentum toward re-engaging tribes as stewards their ancestral lands. This article outlines tribal views on co-management identifies forest objectives partner help better inform ...

We explored the extent to which (1) individual transferable quotas (ITQs) may lead to changes in environmental stewardship and (2) environmental stewardship may in turn contribute to explain the success or otherwise of ITQs in meeting sustainability objectives. ITQs are an example of incentive-based fisheries management in which fishing rights can be privately owned and traded. ITQs are aimed a...

Agency theory argues that shareholder interests require protection by separation of incumbency of rôles of board chair and CEO. Stewardship theory argues shareholder interests are maximised by shared incumbency of these rôles. Results of an empirical test fail to support agency theory and provide some support for stewardship theory.