Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

Drawing on the strengths of both the medical and legal professions can reduce health inequities and preventable illnesses in children from vulnerable families. In response to frequent reports on high-risk injuries and illnesses in children from disadvantaged and isolated communities, the possibility of a multidisciplinary partnership, currently used throughout the United States of America, is e...

Today, ‘partnership’ is one of the most popular words in the ‘development dictionary’. The original meaning, carved out of the ideology of alternative development – partnership as an act of solidarity – has been hijacked by a new rationale: revisionist neo-liberalism. Here, ‘partnership’ acts as a means for efficiency. With the two models operating side-by-side in reality, the line between them...

PURPOSE To investigate how a partnership between labor and management works to change the organization and focus of nursing home frontline work, supporting a transition toward person-centered care (PCC) in participating nursing homes. DESIGN AND METHODS Using a participatory research approach, we conducted case studies of 2 nursing homes participating in a partnership between a labor union an...

Objective There is a growing interest in the customers’ innovation in the realm of tourism studies. In the new global business ecosystem where individuals, organizations, governments and economy work together as an integrated network, we need a new innovation model. The model should be set at a level in which internal, external, cooperative and co-creative ideas can converge to create organiza...

(54) POLYAMIDES FOR NUCLEICACID CI2N IS/II (2006.01) DELIVERY A 6LX 3L/705 (2006.01) C7H 2L/04 (2006.01) (76) Inventor: Theresa M. Reineke, Blacksburg, C08G 69/48 (2006.01) VA (US) C08G 63/9. (2006.01) C7H 2L/02 (2006.01) Correspondence Address: A63L/7II (2006.01) DINSMORE & SHOHL, LLP CI2N IS/00 (2006.01) 1900 CHEMED CENTER, 255 EAST FIFTH A63L/7088 (2006.01) STREET CINCINNATI, OH 45202 (US) (...