Shared service programs need to meet increasing demands for service without increasing costs. Benefits would be achieved through eliminating overlap of services and duplication of services and equipment. Although hospitals come first to mind when shared s...

Being fair to future generations requires that Social Security be reformed in a manner that prefunds a significant share of future Social Security benefit payments. All serious reform plans have this property. Prefunding is done exclusively in the Social ...

Success in achieving merger-enabled savings has the potential to be a win-win situation for utility shareholders and customers alike. But ratemaking policies that penalize the combined utility by failing to provide a fair opportunity to share in the benefits of a merger will create perverse disincentives. (author)

The elderly are hit hard by high out-of-pocket expenses for medicines, but a stand-alone pharmaceutical benefit could cost the country billions and still not improve older Americans' quality of care. Such a benefit should be coordinated with patients' overall medical benefits. A systems-based pharmaceutical benefit ...

A goal of NASA is therefore to share the experience, the excitement of discovery , and the benefits of human space flight with all. ...

... Title : Operational Information Sharing: Working to Bring the Benefits of the Net-Centric Data Strategy to the Warfighter. Descriptive ...

Purpose: Information sharing is a relatively unexplored part of the information behaviour. The aim of this paper is to examine the research on the concept, as it appears in other bodies of literature and to draw out the key variables that appear to influence information sharing in different contexts. Methods: A literature review was carried out using the ...

Knowledge Discovery (KD) processes can create new information within a Knowledge Management (KM) system. In many domains, including government, this new information must be secured against unauthorized disclosure. Applying an appropriate confidentiality policy achieves this. However, it is not evident which confidentiality policy to apply, especially when the goals of ...

... Sharing in the National Parks Environmental Impact Statement Site Map What is Benefits-Sharing? April 2000, Judge Upheld ... ...

The institutions must form synergistic partnerships that will result in mutual benefits and demonstrate that the specific objectives they wish to achieve within the first three general objectives above either are, dependent upon the partnership for their eventual success or will be achieved faster because of the partnership. Partners ...

The institutions must form synergistic partnerships that will result in mutual benefits and demonstrate that the specific objectives they wish to achieve within the first three general objectives above either are, dependent upon the partnership for their eventual success or will be achieved faster because of the partnership. Partners ...

Aug 31, 2009... in shared interpretation, not just the sharing of informationand shared interpretation is essential in achieving informed consent. ...

Shared-memory multiprocessors offer many advantages - including ease of programming and high performance - that result from the tight coupling along the critical path between processors and memories. However, as the number of processors scales up, the trade-off for these benefits is contention, a natural consequence of sharing, and as ...

In 2006, the Indonesian government decided to withhold avian flu samples from the World Health Organization. They argued that even though Indonesian samples were crucial to the development of vaccines, the results of vaccine research would be unaffordable for its citizens. Commentaries on the case varied from alleging blackmail to welcoming this strong stance against alleged exploitation. What is ...

In the context of evolving intellectual property law, defining ownership of traditional knowledge can be challenging when claims of origin are conflicting and requires accepting parameters of how uniqueness is defined and patent law is applied to protect this information. For purposes of this paper, the complexities of evolving benefit sharing for ...

Contents: Introduction; Why Create an HR Shared Service; What are HR Shared Services and How Were They Introduced; Issues in How Shared Services are Delivered; The Benefits and Disbenefits of HR Shared Services; The Future of Shared Services; Issues in Cr...

In the study the concept of sharing the benefits of construction, operation, renovation, or reuse of fixed-transit facilities with land development is explored. Also explored is whether strategies geared to benefit-sharing can become a basis for transit f...

The concept of sharing the benefits of construction, operation, renovation, or reuse of fixed-transit facilities with land development is explored. Also explored is whether strategies geared to benefit-sharing can become a basis for transit finance. The researchers have sought to identify the types of transit facilities that may offer ...

Recent increases in the efficiencies of phosphide, nitride, and organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) inspire a vision of a revolution in lighting. If high efficiencies, long lifetimes, and low cost can be achieved, solid-state lighting could save our country many quads of electricity in the coming years. The solid-state lighting (SSL) and photovoltaic (PV) industries ...

... Title : Electronic Health Records: DOD's and VA's Sharing of Information Could Benefit from Improved Management. Descriptive ...

... to) - Title and Subtitle INFORMATION SHARING: Practices That Can Benefit Critical Infrastructure Contract Number ... Critical Infrastructure Protection ...

Page 1. Benefits of Sharing Detections for Networked Track Initiation in Anti-Submarine Warfare MP Fewell, JM Thredgold and DJ Kershaw ...

... Environmental Impact Statement What sort of Research Might Lead to Benefits-Sharing An example of an enzyme ... Another example of park-based research that might lead t...

An Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is a voluntary grouping of health care providers that is envisioned to be able to offer high quality care with lower cost than is typically provided in this country. The cost savings achieved by the ACO would be shared between the ACO and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). There are a variety of ...

Investigates whether parent participation could improve student achievement in one of the author's ninth-grade sheltered English classes. Describes how parents wrote essays with their children, participated in a goal-setting conference, and took part in a literary correspondence discussing "Romeo and Juliet." Discusses the benefits for the teacher, ...

In this article we develop the concept of transformational partnership and illustrate how such an understanding has enriched the relationship between a particular university and a school system. Transformational partnerships are different in purpose, nature, and strategies from transactional partnerships. They are based upon genuine engagement and a focus on common goals and mutual ...

Friend Relay: A Resource Sharing Framework for Mobile Wireless Devices Hillary Caituiro that are sharing resources. In this paper, we present Friend Relay, a resource-sharing framework for mobile of shared resources. To evaluate Friend Relay, we quantify the benefits of monitoring and ...

Benefit sharing aims to achieve an equitable exchange between the granting of access to a genetic resource and the provision of compensation. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, is the only international legal instrument setting out obligations for ...

In this paper, two cooperative and non-cooperative methodologies are developed for a large-scale water allocation problem in Southern Iran. The water shares of the water users and their net benefits are determined using optimization models having economic objectives with respect to the physical and environmental constraints of the system. The results of ...

Group 3: Employee Benefits and Services. 23. Benefits Processing ..... Employee Benefits System (NEBS), etc. The NSSC will ultimately administer the ...

The person from whom body materials were collected, first becomes their owner in analogy to section 953 German Civil Code. This applies also if the body materials were taken within the framework of a treatment contract and remain there after the treatment/diagnosis have ended. Only if an explicit consent of the patient was given to the effect that the body materials are to be owned by the ...

Sustainability, meaning meeting human needs and values while also preserving Earth's life-support systems, can only be achieved if a just and equitable distribution of access to natural resources exists. The same environment is shared by all peoples; all must have an interest in preserving it; therefore all must receive a fair share ...

... possible the application is denied. Research and Biodiversity Prospecting Bioprospecting can sometimes be a consequence of an ... ...

Instructional coaching is gaining popularity as a school-based effort to increase teacher effectiveness and student achievement. A coach can be broadly defined as a person who works collaboratively with a teacher to improve that teacher's practice and content knowledge, with the ultimate goal of affecting student achievement. By its very nature, coaching ...

... Fishing Quotas (IFQs). NOAA�s Draft Catch Share Policy � To achieve long-term ecological and economic sustainability ... of catch share programs...