OBJECTIVE: Part C early intervention is a nationwide program that serves infants and toddlers who have developmental delays. Previous research has revealed that large numbers of candidates for Part C services do not receive early intervention. Current eligibility criteria for Part C services vary from state to state. This article compares estimates of the percentage of children who are likely t...


 This article focuses on the universal and time-honored Golden Rule, collo- quially known as “win-win”– a technical cooperation strategy, pursued in crime prevention other fields. In particular, ventures into John Rawls’s difference principle for United Nations-inspired Rule- of-Law to meet sustainable development goal 10 of 2030 Nations Agenda (“Reduce inequality within among countries”)...

BACKGROUND: The Rehabilitation Act references self-employment in its definition of competitive integrated employment (CIE) and description vocational outcomes. also within scope services stipulates that rehabilitation include “technical assistance other consultation to conduct market analyses, develop business plans, otherwise provide resources, the extent those resources are authorized be prov...

Often, community coalitions are facilitators of community-level changes when addressing underage drinking. Although studies have shown that enhancing coalition capacity is related to improved internal functioning, the relationship between enhanced capacity and community readiness for change is not well established. The present study used a pretest-posttest design to examine whether enhancing co...

The goal of this article is to better understand the diffusion of environmentally preferable manufacturing technology (as distinct from pollution control technology) in smalland medium-sized firms (SMEs) and the influence of technical assistance programs on the diffusion of these technologies. The authors draw their insights from the printing industry, a sector where small firms predominate. Th...

Named entity disambiguation is the task of linking an entity mention in a text to the correct real-world referent predefined in a knowledge base, and is a crucial subtask in many areas like information retrieval or topic detection and tracking. Named entity disambiguation is challenging because entity mentions can be ambiguous and an entity can be referenced by different surface forms. We prese...