TCP sockets are an important and ubiquitous construct. In order to better understand the behaviour of programs using TCP sockets, we have developed instrumentation that transparently collects information about each socket and graphically displays it as a single, unified view. This paper will describe the instrumentation which leverages an existing tool, POET (Partial-Order Event Tracer), to dis...

regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have usedpublic private partnership model to improve their health facilities. public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. moheb hospital is the first iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. the p...

Mark S. Indelicato 2012 TMA Chairman Hahn & Hessen LLP Gregory J. Fine, CAE TMA Chief Executive Officer Ronald R. Sussman 2012 TMA President Cooley LLP Certification Program Capping months of discussion, TMA amended its bylaws in April 2012 to fully integrate the Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) program into TMA. The amendments followed agreement between the leadership of the Certificati...

INTRODUCTION Interprofessional health and social service partnerships (IHSSP) are internationally acknowledged as integral for comprehensive chronic illness care. However, the evidence-base for partnership effectiveness is lacking. This paper aims to clarify partnership measurement issues, conceptualize IHSSP at the front-line staff level, and identify tools valid for group process measurement....

A long-standing debate questions whether the World Trade Organization’s (“WTO”) formal dispute settlement procedures level the playing field for lower income countries in international trade disputes, or instead, merely give opportunistic and sophisticated countries complex * Trade Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives; J.D., Harvard Law School, 2007; M.P.P., Georg...

This study investigates the audit firm’s decision to protect its partners’ personal assets by becoming a limited liability partnership (LLP). We find that the likelihood of an audit firm switching from unlimited to limited liability is increasing in its size and exposure to litigation risk. We find no evidence that audit firms supply lower audit quality, lose market share, or charge lower audit...

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i * Corresponding author, P. Bagheri is with Advanced Process Automation & Control (APAC) Research Group of K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (phone: +98-21-84062161; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]). ii A. Khaki-Sedigh is with Advanced Process Automation & Control (APAC) Research Group of K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, (e-mail: Se...

introduction: partnership working plays an important role in the health system, results in delivery of coordinated packages of services to patients, and reduces the impact of organizational fragmentation. method: the study aimed to determine the relationship between partnership working and productivity in the employees of a university of medical sciences in the south of iran. results: according...