C ollaborative institutions, which involve the collective decision-making by multiple political agencies, communities, and stakeholders, are becoming increasingly important for addressing policy dilemmas that are not bound within a single jurisdiction. This is especially true in the environmental arena ~Wondolleck and Yaffee 2000; Karkkainen 2002; Koontz et al. 2004; Lubell 2004; McKinney and H...

We sought to determine whether competition for community-based training sites exists among health professions schools, and to examine faculty and senior administrators' perspectives on institutional collaboration for community-based education. Eight academic health centers (AHCs) in the USA were selected by objective criteria for their significant community involvement. Chief executive officers...

The practice of assessment is governed by an interesting paradox. On the one hand good assessment requires substantial resources which may exceed the capacity of a single institution and we have reason to doubt the quality of our in-house examinations. On the other hand, our parsimonity with regard to our resources makes us reluctant to pool efforts and share our test material. This paper repor...

BACKGROUND Treatment protocols (including those for thoracic surgery) tend to be customized for individual hospitals. Procedural standardization is required to improve surgical tasks and patient outcomes. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of an initiative to standardize surgical tasks for efficient and safe performance. METHODS Hospitals associated with the Division of Chest Surgery of...

There have been an increasing number of international collaboration agreements among universities, college, etc., to promote educative exchange programs, internationalization of teaching, research, and curricula, among other things. This paper has the aim to analyze and to reflect on the experiential exercise from the point of views of instructor and students attending University Center of Econ...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the multiple collaboration types, quantitatively evaluate the publication trends and review the performance of institutions or countries (regions) across the world in COPD research. MATERIALS AND METHODS Scientometric methods and social network analysis were used to survey the development of publication trends and understand current collaboration in the...

Th is paper is concerned with management processes in inter-institutional alliances in higher education, using an action research case study of a strategic alliance for research, teaching and the provision of services between two British universities. Findings are broadly supportive of the conclusions from the general literature on the management of strategic alliances and the literature on aca...

Estonian institutional calls are analyzed with the further aim to develop a dialogue system. The analysis is based on the Estonian Dialogue Corpus. Four types of dialogues are considered: calls to travel agencies and outpatients’ offices, ordering a taxi, and directory inquiries. A customer’s goal is either to get information or to trigger an action by the operator. This goal is achieved in col...