Introduction The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has a Veterinary and Capture Services Department at its headquarters in Nairobi, and four satellite clinics strategically located in key conservation areas to ensure quick response and effective monitoring of diseases in wildlife. The department was established in 1990 and has grown from a rudimentary unit to a fully fledged department that is regul...

* The Worm Health Organization International Influenza Center for the Americas and the Respiratory Virology Unit, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Atlanta, Georgia 3o333. t Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Geo...

This study examines the relationship between actors’ social position and the likelihood that they will initiate two different types of divergent organizational change in a field of activity, namely changes that diverge from the institutionalized model of organizations’ role division and changes that diverge from the institutionalized model of social groups’ role division. I explore this relatio...

The net heat flux into the northern Indian Ocean is between 75 and 100 W m22 during the boreal spring and early summer but only 10–20 W m22 in the western Pacific during the entire year. The differences in the net surface heat fluxes arise from the radiation shielding by deep convective clouds over the western Pacific and the near absence of clouds over the northern Indian Ocean during spring. ...

To determine the extent to which knowledge of evidence-based reading instruction and mathematics is assessed on licensure tests for prospective special education teachers, this study drew on information provided by Educational Testing Service (ETS), the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence, and National Evaluation Systems (now Evaluation Systems group of Pearson). It estimated...

Web services today are among the most widely used groups for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Service selection is one of the most significant current discussions in SOA, which evaluates discovered services and chooses the best candidate from them. Although a majority of service selection techniques apply Quality of Service (QoS), the behaviour of QoS-based service selection leads to servic...

This paper considers the new financial infrastructure of the National Health Service and provides a resource for orthopaedic surgeons. We describe the importance of accurate documentation and data collection for National Health Service hospital Trust finances and league tables, and support our discussion with examples drawn from our local audit work.

The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) fundamentally altered the U.S. Postal Service by introducing enhanced pricing flexibility, profit incentives, and potential antitrust liability. PAEA also mandated a change from breakeven, cost-of-service regulation where revenues must equal costs over time to price cap regulation. The Postal Service can now introduce new or modify ex...

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION. The facility of the United States Postal Service, located at 9308 South Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60617, is designated as the ‘‘John J. Buchanan Post Office Building’’. SEC. 2. REFERENCES. Any reference in a law, regulation, map, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in section 1 shall be considered to be a reference t...