This paper describes how a large, academic health sciences library built capacity for supporting global health at its university and discusses related outcomes. Lean budgets require prioritization and organizational strategy. A committee, with leadership responsibilities assigned to one librarian, guided strategic planning and the pursuit of collaborative, global health outreach activities. A w...

College of Anaesthesiologists and Intensivists Sri Lanka formed a committee to manage the impact economic crisis which made patient care extremely challenging due various shortages. Several steps were taken identify critical shortages by liaising with authorities, finding donors, updating supporting membership face problems faced.

The widely recognised transparency and openness since 1997 of the monetary policymaking process at the Bank of England has provided very detailed information on both the decisions of individual members of the Monetary Policy Committee and the information on which they are based. In this paper we conisder this decision making process in the context of a model in which inflation forecast targetin...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Frank Durso, for his guidance, teaching, and encouragement throughout my graduate career. I would also like to thank my committee members, knowledge and advice through this dissertation. Lastly, I would like to thank my parents, my brother, my girlfriend, and my dog for supporting me and bearing with me through this dissertation.

This paper presents a methodology for object identification and refinement from the software requirements, which is based on object-based formal specification (OBFS). This methodology provides the mean of understanding the object-oriented paradigm easily, and supports us with identifying and refining the objects. As a case study, we have implemented a system for supporting the program committee...

We consider approval-based committee voting, i.e. the setting where each voter approves a subset of candidates, and these votes are then used to select a fixedsize set of winners (committee). We propose a natural axiom for this setting, which we call justified representation (JR). This axiom requires that if a large enough group of voters exhibits agreement by supporting the same candidate, the...

We present ontologydesignpatterns.org (ODP), a semantic web portal about ontology design patterns based on wiki technology, which aims at supporting a community around best practices for ontology design. ODP offers services for evaluation and training about ontology patterns, and a repository of OWL ontologies. ODP fosters several kinds of participation, from anonymous, read-only access to open...