BACKGROUND Most services provided by health and social care organisations for older people living at home rely on interprofessional working (IPW). Although there is research investigating what supports and inhibits how professionals work together, less is known about how different service models deliver care to older people and how effectiveness is measured. The aim of this study was to describ...

Purpose: The objectives of this study are: (a) to examine the association between political budget and incumbents' regional head votes, (b) moderating effect competition in with votes. Theoretical framework: This article examines whether social assistance is associated votes Indonesia’s local elections. Design/methodology/approach: samples are 212 regencies cities Indonesia that conducted elect...

16 Sarah K. Correll is a 2016 graduate of the Purdue University College of Agriculture with a major in agricultural economics. Her interest in the topics of high school graduation and college-going rates developed during her term as a member of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. When not studying or working on her research, Correll keeps busy with student activities and organizations ...

I study the optimal communication problem in a dynamic principal-agent model. The agent observes the evolution of an imperfectly persistent state, and makes unverifiable reports of the state over time. The principal takes actions based solely on the agent’s reports, with commitment to a dynamic contract in the absence of transfers. Interests are misaligned: while the agent always prefers higher...

INTRODUCTION There is growing evidence that children with disabilities face an increased risk of violence globally. While child protection mechanisms to prevent and respond to violence-including formal government systems and more informal programmes and activities run by local communities or NGOs-are slowly becoming operationalised in low- and- middle-income countries, little is known about whe...

In this article, the author presents facts and analysis of how to ensure budget transparency based on same reforms, as well discusses investigates topical issues generating revenues at all levels. The sources formation main directions increasing stability budgets levels are studied. order openness process, an information portal “Open Budget” has been developed launched, which contains detailed ...

How should an organization’s center allocate resources units under its control which are better informed? Even with conscientious productivity reviews, important information will remain asymmetrically held. If units value their own expenditures more than those of their peers, they will seek excess budgets and expenditures. Fortunately, budget authorities can infer productivities from units’ exp...

This paper proposes a simulation-based optimization (SO) method that enables the efficient use of complex stochastic urban traffic simulators to address various transportation problems. It presents a metamodel that integrates information from a simulator with an analytical queueing network model. The proposed metamodel combines a general-purpose component (a quadratic polynomial), which provide...

The environmental impact of chemically reactive air pollutants on both local air quality (smog) and the regional ecosystem (acid rain) is well established. The chemical and meteorological models used to study these problems are well known to most at this conference. On a larger scale are the potential impacts of air pollution on the global environment, both direct (air quality, sulfur and nitro...

Coral reefs face multiple anthropogenic threats, from pollution and overfishing to the dual effects of greenhouse gas emissions: rising sea temperature and ocean acidification. While the abundance of coral has declined in recent decades, the implications for humanity are difficult to quantify because they depend on ecosystem function rather than the corals themselves. Most reef functions and ec...