The California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP)--established in 2003 in response to new state legislation aimed at enhancing the evaluation of potential changes in health benefit packages--represents a unique marriage of academic analysis and real-time legislative decision making. CHBRP is based within the University of California (UC) Office of the President and provides analyses to the ...

This paper presents a chronology of legislative mandates for vocational rehabilitation, discusses their impact on occupational therapy, and describes relationships between special educators and vocational agencies. The Career Training Workshop, a prevocational program developed and used successfully by a North Carolina school district, is described here as an example of one effort to prepare st...

Switzerland is a three-tier federal state in which the single states, the cantons, enjoy great fiscal and political independence of the federal government. Furthermore, they differ considerably in sociodemographic structure, economic performance and political institutions. This makes this country a perfect laboratory for analyzing the causal relationship between potential economic determinants ...

the high costs of experimental works on the nanocomposites can be reduced through implementation of analytical and numerical studies. to study the effect of impact energy on the nanocomposites, a nanocomposite composedof polyurethane and clay nanoparticles is selected as a case study. the finite element modeling is carried out using the ansys software, and the impact analysis is performed using...

Animal experimentation has been subject to legislative control in the United Kingdom since 1876. This paper reviews the impact of that legislation, which was replaced in 1986, on the teaching of practical physiology to undergraduate students. Highlights and case studies are also presented, drawing on Government reports and statistics, published books and papers, and unpublished archival data.

background & purpose: since 2005, a reform known as rural insurance and family medicine scheme has introduced to primary health care network in iran in rural areas and small towns. the content of the reform implies a substantial change in those aspects of health centers that mainly could be categorized as structural quality. although, this is the requirement of all health care providers, they a...

Not only in Iran, but throughout the world, banks and banking industry are considered as very important parts of the economy. This study seeks to investigate the impact of the internal characteristics of banks, the structure of the banking industry and the economic situation of Iran on the profitability of the banking system of Iran by exploring the theory of the Structuralism school concerning...