Federal agencies are now beginning work on their fiscal year 1999 budget requests. Compounding the usual difficulties in budgeting is that all agencies must for the first time justify their requests in terms of outcomes to be achieved, using pre-approved measures. That requirement for results-oriented management is mandated by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). Pilot tes...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the national regulatory, health technology assessment (HTA), and reimbursement pathways for public health care in Australia, Canada, England, and Scotland, to compare initial Canadian national HTA recommendations with the initial decisions of the other HTA agencies, and to identify factors for differing national HTA recommendations between the four HTA agencies. METHODS...

The possibility of crowdsourced information, multi-geographical and multi-organisational information flows during emergencies and crises provided by web 2.0 tools are providing emergency management centres with new communication challenges and opportunities. Building on the existing emergency management and social media literature, this article explores how institutions are using and adopting s...

PURPOSE This paper reports the findings of the evaluation of the Supporting People Health Pilots programme, which was established to demonstrate the policy links between housing support services and health and social care services by encouraging the development of integrated services. The paper highlights the challenges of working across housing, health and social care boundaries. METHOD THE ...

introduction: this research investigated the factors affecting implementation of activity based costing (abc) in operational budgeting of government agencies in isfahan province. methods: being an applied, cross-sectional and descriptive research, this study made use of a questionnaire for gathering data. governmental agencies that used provincial budget in isfahan province in 1388 comprised th...

When their sense of personal control is threatened people try to restore perceived control through the social self. We propose that it is the perceived agency of ingroups that provides the self with a sense of control. In three experiments, we for the first time tested the hypothesis that threat to personal control increases the attractiveness of being part or joining those groups that are perc...

This paper discusses the use of social media for data interoperability and sharing between agencies during emergency situations, natural disasters, and disruptions of critical infrastructure. The work presented is ongoing in the context of the REDIRNET (Emergency Responders Data Interoperability Network) research project. The project’s purpose is to provide a decentralized framework for interop...

these days, promotion of farmers' technical-scientific abilities in agriculture is one of the main challenges in this sector. agricultural extension as a motivate power source in agricultural development can be more effective in solving these problems via acceptance of responsibility in the educational concepts. but it faces numerous obstacles because of absence of a proper informational s...