background: hospitals have responsibility for responding to legitimate demands for release of health information while protecting the confidentiality of the patient health records. there have always been challenges concerning medical records confidentiality and their disclosure and release type in medical record departments. this study investigated and compared laws and policies of disclosure o...

this paper highlights the strategic role of regional and national policies for digital libraries and archives in promoting access to knowledge for development in africa.  it views regional/national information policies as general frameworks and contexts within which policies for digital libraries and archives are situated.  it, however, recognizes the need to highlight the latter as instrument ...

East Africa Community exchange rate volatility spiraled up when the countries adopted Structural Adjustment Policies in early 1980s. The question that remains unanswered is whether hinders or promotes trade. objective of this study was to determine effect and its on Intra-East community regional Unit root tests results indicated some variables were stationary at levels first difference, all I(1...

vernonia galamensis cass is a huge potential industrial crop with very high content of vernolic acid in the seed oil. the experiment was carried out to determine the effect of inter- and intra- row spacing on the yield and yield related traits of vernonia galamensis cas.the experiment was conducted for two years during 2014-2015 on experimental field of wondo genet agricultural research center,...

In this paper, we analyze the poverty and distributional impacts of different carbon pricing mechanisms consistent with reaching Paris Agreement targets. We link a global recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model ENVISAGE GIDD microsimulation explore three levels mitigation effort five options (trade coalitions). Results suggest that while there is higher incidence in all scenarios...

ivanova et al explored how vulnerable groups and principles of human rights are incorporated into national sexual and reproductive health (srh) policies in 4 countries. they adapted the equiframe of amin and colleagues of 2011, to srh vulnerable groups which we believe could now be used for analysis of national srh polices beyond those 4 countries. although we fully agree with the authors’ two ...

This white paper summarizes the background, the need, and proposed implementation strategy for a national multi-model ensemble (NMME) system for operational intra-seasonal to interannual (ISI) climate prediction. The proposed strategy includes implementation of an experimental NMME protocol and designing and testing a future protocol for operational NMME prediction system. The protocols will le...

Researchers have shown that the Internet exhibits path inflation – end-to-end paths can be significantly longer than necessary. We present a trace-driven study of 65 ISPs that characterizes the root causes of path inflation, namely topology and routing policy choices within an ISP, between pairs of ISPs, and across the global Internet. To do so, we develop and validate novel techniques to infer...