... to analyse the consequences of these changes and assess their costs and benefits The organisation of the book This book has been structured in such a way as to reflect the goals and themes described ... Across the UK public services, the demand for change has been ‘continual, often intense, and sometimes harsh’ (Pollitt and Boukaert, 2000: 274) In much of the literature the assumption is that these ... From the late 1970s these institutions and their underlying assumptions became the target of sustained and relentless attack Increasingly governments saw public services as inefficient and the...
... each measure (the SCL-90-R and TSC-40) the best predictors of CSA were the Anxiety 10 Sexual Abuse – BreakingtheSilence subscale andthe PSAT, respectively They point out that the PSAT subscale, ... the assault, and a lack of enquiry into the subjective 38 Sexual Abuse – BreakingtheSilence distress of the individual at the time of the experience These factors are expanded on in the following ... assigned to appropriate subscales, and therefore purifying the subscales and improving the validity of the instrument Other criticisms of the TSC-40 have focused on the standardization sample which consists...
... to these other events where members of thepublic gather for sporting or other recreational purposes To address the safety of events outside of stadiums or sports grounds and other regular public ... clearly that the safety of sporting and other events, no matter the size of the event, is primarily the responsibility of the organiser, with a secondary duty of care on the land owner The Guide ... dependent on the nature and size of the event, police may be involved in the scrutiny of the planning as part of the Safety Advisory Group process Notwithstanding the above, the assessment of the need...
... Night andthe following day, they were ‘‘everyone’’ and ‘‘London’’ and even ‘‘England.’’ They were created as a group by the newspapers, and this chapter examines the mechanism of their creation and ... ‘ publicopinion ’ from the early eighteenth-century origin of the term seems to have meant theopinion of that part of thepublic that constituted the electorate, publicopinion by the time of the ... between the government andthe ‘ public ’ in Britain Historians of public opinion, such as J.A.W Gunn and Dror Wahrman, recognize the significance of newspapers in public opinion, even if they rarely...
... management than public companies in any other sample country.16 On the other end of the spectrum, public firms from the U.K and Finland exhibit low levels of earnings management For the sample as ... growth, ROA, and industry controls The final column presents a combined model simultaneously including the capital market andthe legal variable together with the controls The coefficients on the variables ... composition between thepublic versus private observations and between countries To the 20 However, the inferences are the same andthe legal variable remains significant at the 1% level in all...
... appropriate, on the advantages and challenges of new information and communication technologies, including the Internet and mobile technologies, for the exercise of the right to freedom of opinionand expression, ... Tunisia (requested in 2009), andthe Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (requested in 2003 and 2009) III General principles on the right to freedom of opinionand expression andthe Internet 19 Very few ... role in facilitating the exercise of the right to freedom of opinionand expression At the same time, given the pressure exerted upon them by States, coupled with the fact that their primary motive...
... grandmothers as the appropriate source for the intervention The grandmothers who participated in formative research developed the chitterlings cleaning method for their peers Having the grandmothers ... who enjoyed their work were featured in various media, focusing on what they liked about the work andthe conditions, andthe importance of their role Although paid advertisements andpublic service ... Carolina, and Virginia) and two national organizations: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) andthe Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) The mission of the...
... camps or otherwise had links with the core organization The core movement tried to publicize the struggle in Iraq and facilitate the flow of fighters there As the insurgency spread, so did the Salafi-jihadist ... jihadists spent time together in Pakistan or Sudan, or fought alongside each other in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Chechnya andthe Balkans in the 1990s, and Iraq and other theaters after 9/11 has ... enemies, and otherwise leave a group more isolated and farther from its original goals There is a price for the al-Qa’ida core as well—affiliated groups can damage the al-Qa’ida brand through the...
... of the 50 percent subsidy; the household must complete a certain part of the construction before one half of the subsidy is disbursed and finish the sanitary works andthe roof before the other ... that thepublic water providers of both Can Tho andthe Andhra towns faced capacity problems in reaching the poor, albeit in different ways In Andhra Pradesh, the irregular supply times andthe ... reach the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals supported with government funding from Denmark, Australia andthe Netherlands The predicted full cost of the various latrine options (and the...
... minimum” (Narveson 2002, p 143) There is the benefit, the bestower of the benefit, andthe person who deserves the benefit The crucial factor is the person who bestows the benefit because she identifies ... eliminate these distinctions There is another way to deal with them The basic structure can be arranged so that these contingencies work for the good of the least fortunate Thus we are led to the difference ... 53) There is obviously a difference between effort andthe other bases of desert “People deserve to get good grades or win prizes if they have worked hard in the past; they deserve the grades and...
... scientific and techno:iogicai advmces to public ad mini strati or.^ The dyr~amics the Cold War competition between the United States of allies andthe USSR and its allies, andthe manifestation of and ... hdividualistic, and on the other hand to the disciplined study of such matters In this simplest meaning, public admkistration has to with managing the realm of governmental and other public activities ... of outcome, the makiclg of a choice between these alachieving the cfesi~d krnatives, the implementation of the preferred option, andthe solution of the problm or the attainment of the objective...
... 71% of the respondent agreeing to it, 17% disagree andthe remainder are neither here nor there The sample mean was 3.91 standard deviation was 1.06 On whether respondent believe that the servicing ... 1.101 and Z-score equal 2.15 and greater than 1.96, the table value for Z For that we reject out null hypothesis three that the services of the experts are needed more in thepublic sector, and ... understanding of the issues - Develop an action plan that take into account the knowledge gained by meeting with the client and carrying out the initial investigation and which will set out the...
... dissonance between the principles that govern their external activities and their internal management However, the contrast between the private andthepublic sectors in these and other respects has ... over time, the burden has shifted from one group to another In the late Middle Ages and early modern period in England the church had the resources andthe highly developed organisation, the central ... 41 The content of that right gives the content of the related duty: not to block us Andthe content of the right also identifies the duty-ower: all other agents The duty-ower can be read off the...
... sprout from small holes in the ground and bend in the wind Almost by rote, he stops along the way to the tee and holds out his hand to receive the Sharpies and accommodate the hundreds of people ... to the ground right there at the rest stop, on my knees with my wife I was dizzy from the emotion of it.” It was a consuming tragedy for the sport and beyond, and Azinger was at the middle of the ... In the summer of 1964, the man who would become known as the Golden Bear, because of his husky physique and bearlike power, wasn’t hitting the ball the way he wanted But then the night before the...
... from the measuring subject the measured andthe measurer, the verified andthe verifier, at this (quantum) level, are one andthe same The texture of reality is one in which the observer andthe ... everything They know what's in the ground and what's on the land Soon they'll be on Venus and Mars And they're inside human cells Where is there left for the mind to flee? They've even invaded the subjective ... we might take to be "the semantic space, the field of signs and practices, in which human beings construct and represent themselves and others, and hence their societies and histories" (Comaroff...
... ways, there has been a steadily increasing role for the “reflected” publicopinion of the mirror rather than the “reflective” publicopinion of the filter The same dilemma faced by the Federalists and ... for public consultation Then we will turn to further clarification of the values and democratic theories at issue in these different practices Consulting thepublic Who speaks for the people? There ... debilitated or inattentive The conflicting images suggest a hard choice between the reflective opinion of the filter andthe reflected opinion of the mirror The filter andthe mirror American democracy...
... patients, taxpayers, and Medicare and other insurers The content developed for and derived from the symposium can be found in the November 2007 issue of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ... including Congress, the CMS and private insurers, providers of rehabilitation services, patients and their advocates, and health service researchers The planning committee invited research and policy ... Whyte) summarized the recommendations which appear as the final report in the series [12] The remainder of this summary encapsulates key points from the plenary and state-of -the- science presentations...
... determined the candidates’ eligibility, properly calculated the grant amounts, paid the grants from the correct account, and determined whether the candidates had to return any of the grant funds ... further explained in the report Our audit scope focused on the disbursement of State Elections Campaign Fund monies to candidates and political parties, and payroll and per diem expenditures The ... standards and Government Auditing Standards, as issued by the Comptroller General of the United States Those standards require that we design the audit to provide reasonable assurance that the...