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Brammer, Markus, and Jens Olf. "Current developments in document delivery in Germany." Interlending & Document Supply 42, no. 2/3 (August 12, 2014): 75–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ilds-05-2014-0023.
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to give an overview about the framework of copyright law and licences as well as the development of German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) full-text supply services within that framework. The change of German copyright law in 2008 posed a challenge to TIB’s full-text supply services. While TIB can deliver on the basis of a statutory limitation any document to customers within Germany via mail and fax, there are restrictions for electronic delivery. Design/methodology/approach – The article describes the framework of German copyright law and licences for document delivery as well as activities of TIB to continue servicing customers in a best possible way within the existing framework. Findings – Licence agreements with publishers or intermediaries such as Rights Reproduction Organizations are now in place to allow delivery of electronic documents on a wide scale. Within this complicated framework of licence agreements, digital rights management (DRM) systems are a challenge for customers and the delivery service. However, it can be noted, that a simple watermark suffices nearly all publishers in agreements covering pay-per-view delivery of generic digital article files, and only 25 per cent require strict DRM for document delivery scanned from the print. At the same time, TIB looks for more customer-friendly DRM systems. Also, TIB is looking for ways to cooperate with partners to raise efficiency gains and to offer a more convenient service to its customers. Finally, TIB experiences that inadequate copyright law still poses a major hindrance for the international exchange of scientific information being part of its collection. Originality/value – The article describes the development of document supply services of the major TIB publications. It also shows the barriers which inadequate copyright law poses to the exchange of scientific information.
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Girard, Peter, Robert D. Mohr, Steven C. Deller, and John M. Halstead. "Public-Private Partnerships and Cooperative Agreements in Municipal Service Delivery." International Journal of Public Administration 32, no. 5 (April 16, 2009): 370–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900690902827267.
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Larson, Kent D. "The role of service level agreements in IT service delivery." Information Management & Computer Security 6, no. 3 (August 1998): 128–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09685229810225029.
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Goldkind, Lauri, and Lea Wolf. "Selling Your Soul on the Information Superhighway: Consenting to Services in Direct-to-Consumer Tele-Mental Health." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 101, no. 1 (November 3, 2019): 6–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1044389419872125.
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Direct-to-consumer tele-mental health services—therapy delivered by video conference, email, and text message—is a burgeoning model of service delivery. The practice of on-demand digital psychotherapy presents ethical questions, as new economic models, service delivery systems, and therapeutic models are introduced. Virtual therapy, now offered on a subscription basis by third-party providers, requires users to accept Terms of Service (ToS) agreements to access services. This article describes the results of a survey in which participants ( n = 579) were asked to compare the values of the Human Rights Framework with the language of one tele-mental health platform’s ToS user agreement. Findings suggest that those clients with prior experience with a mental health professional will find the ToS agreements to be the most ethically compromised. Similarly, employed and better educated individuals also found the ToS to be ethically suspect. The most vulnerable of the groups we surveyed, individuals who hold less education and those who are unemployed, may be at most risk for signing consent to a system they do not understand. The study provides one example of the ethical questions that emerge from the introduction of a new model of for-profit service provision in mental health. Recommendations for consumers and practitioners are suggested.
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Toptal, Ayşegül, and Sıla Çetinkaya. "Contractual agreements for coordination and vendor-managed delivery under explicit transportation considerations." Naval Research Logistics 53, no. 5 (2006): 397–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nav.20151.
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Vasilevskaya, Liudmila Yu, and Marina A. Rozhkova. "Provision of Escrow Services at the Absence of an Agreement: The Assessment for Compliance with the Russian Law." Cuestiones Políticas 37, no. 64 (May 14, 2020): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3764.09.
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Based on an analysis of the norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the authors studied the legal basis for the provision of a range of services by the online classified in the digital environment. Additionally, the authors studied the structure of relations arising between the buyer, seller, online classified, delivery service, and the bank. The article substantiates that there is a conditional escrow of property in the framework of the considered relations, but the fact of concluding an agreement creating an appropriate legal basis for such an escrow is not observed. The study results identify several civil law agreements, needed for the goods delivery services offered by online classifieds. The authors concluded that the relationship system built by the online classified with sellers, buyers, a delivery service, and a bank and providing for the reservation of the buyer’s money excludes the conclusion of an escrow agreement.
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Goyal, Tanu M. "Technology Uncertainty and Incompleteness in Trade Agreements: Reflections from the Design of India’s Bilateral Agreements Covering Services." Foreign Trade Review 56, no. 3 (January 21, 2021): 322–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0015732520981511.
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International trade agreements are incomplete contracts. The international environment is non-stationary, and technological progress affects both the nature of services and modes of service delivery. This creates uncertainty about future developments in technology-based services. In the presence of transactions costs and due to limited foresight, it is difficult to specify all contingencies within trade agreements ex ante, resulting in contractual incompleteness. This article investigates the design of India’s services agreements to assess the approach followed while listing the ex ante commitment and its implication on technology-based services. It also discusses the ex post mechanism under these agreements to address the gaps in the commitments with respect to new services, and the enforcement mechanism to facilitate the inclusion of these services. It is found that India’s bilateral agreements leave the inclusion of services that may not be technically feasible, ex ante, at the discretion of the trading partners, ex post. Some of India’s agreements also institute a governance mechanism for facilitating this inclusion. The article argues that there is a need for addressing the issue of technology uncertainty both at an international-trade-policy level and under bilateral agreements. Internationally, efforts are underway for a technology-neutral classification of services. Bilateral agreements must include a robust mechanism within the scope of the Agreement for filling gaps that may arise with technological advancements. For furthering the objective of trade agreements, these mechanisms must be backed by sound governance structure. JEL Codes: L80, L84, L86, F13, K33, F53, F55
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Dwyer, John M. "The next Australian Health Care Agreements: what clinicians want." Australian Health Review 25, no. 6 (2002): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah020017.
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For the first time experienced clinicians are to be involved in the development of the Australian Health Care Agreements (AHCAs)(2003-2008). As a result doctors, nurses and allied health professionals are hoping that current impediments to necessary change will be removed. Numerous suggestions to improve the Agreement will come forward from the "front line". All clinicians will argue that the next Agreement must result in a marked increase in the funding available to public hospitals. The new Agreement must remove barriers hindering our capacity to integrate all of our healthcare services. Safe, appropriate and cost effective healthcare delivery must embrace a continuum of care involving patients and their primary care physician, community health services and hospitals. The Agreement must embody arrangements for markedly enhancing our public health efforts in the area of prevention of disease. Australia's clinicians are worried about inequity in terms of access and outcome for their patients and are willing to be partners in health care governance to improve the situation.
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Bhardwaj, Akashdeep, and Sam Goundar. "Designing a Framework for Cloud Service Agreement for Cloud Environments." International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing 6, no. 4 (October 2016): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcac.2016100105.
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Cloud Computing has emerged as the prime IT computing model for an on-demand access using a pool of shared resources with least IT support. Cloud computing is starting to replace the legacy office IT infrastructure and helpdesk support system. Corporate and home users alike are turning into cloud service consumers in a huge way and moving their data and work to the cloud. Therefore, the CSA between the cloud service consumers and cloud service providers has critical significance that can guarantee the highest-level service quality and delivery. The current CSA fall short on the service delivery commitments with no common terminology or standard followed industry wide by the cloud service providers. Comparing agreements from multiple cloud service providers continues to be an issue. This paper provides a pragmatic approach for Cloud Service Agreements, comparing the current process with the proposed parameters and the new framework for CSA to determine the role of various elements and terms in the decision-making process for cloud service agreements for SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and STaaS.
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Dahlmann, Frederik, and Gareth Veal. "THE ROLE OF UMBRELLA AGREEMENTS IN ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY GOALS: ENERGY EFFICIENCY AT THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING." Journal of Green Building 11, no. 1 (March 2016): 71–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.11.1.71.1.
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In this paper we investigate whether innovative and flexible contractual arrangements can support the process of achieving ambitious sustainability goals. We explore this question through an analysis of the role of umbrella agreements in driving energy savings in the building sector. Drawing on a case study of the iconic Empire State building, we examine the typical challenges faced by clients and contractors in devising suitable agreements that facilitate managing contractual and performance risks, as well as the sharing of responsibilities and cooperation between multiple project stakeholders. We find that the project arrangements appear to exhibit the adoption of the key characteristics commonly found in umbrella agreements which incorporate sustainability measures that maximize income through efficient delivery of outcomes. Specifically, this means that they need to enable stakeholders to manage repeated review cycles, complex perceptions and expectations, and different tacit assumptions and codes of behaviour, as well as managing and communicating in networks and obtaining agreement also from non-contractual parties. Moreover, we demonstrate that umbrella agreements can facilitate a network perspective of business relationships by emphasizing value co-creation and the embeddedness of firms within a network of interactions.
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Haggstrom, David, Malaz Boustani, Jose Maroun Azar, Andrew Greenspan, Holly Goe, and Larry Dean Cripe. "Oncology comanagement agreements (CMA) and quality improvement." Journal of Clinical Oncology 32, no. 30_suppl (October 20, 2014): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2014.32.30_suppl.55.
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55 Background: At Indiana University Health, an integrated health care delivery system, an Oncology CMA was implemented in 2013 to provide a framework for engagement between administrators and physicians to improve the value of oncology care. Methods: A collaborative process was used to establish shared goals, measures for performance, and set target goals. For efficiency goals, a system redesign approach was taken. Project teams were organized to develop and implement strategies to achieve goals. Experts in implementation science consulted with individual project teams. Financial incentives were distributed across projects. Final performance measures were assessed across the oncology service line. Results: See Table. Conclusions: Overall, the Oncology CMA positively affected the value of care provided by medical oncologists. The level of physician engagement was variable, although clinical and financial benefits accrued to all members of the practice. Based upon the positive contribution of implementation scientists the CMA in 2014 was modified to create greater support for the design, implementation, and assessment of project goals and plans, It is anticipated that future years will include an institutionalized core of implementation scientists and a steering committee to oversee an ongoing discussion of goals and resource allocation. [Table: see text]
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Dulluri, Sandeep, and Ganesh Muthusamy. "Delivery Commitments in Stochastic Service Networks." International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management 6, no. 2 (April 2013): 50–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jisscm.2013040104.
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Service firms have become highly competitive in terms of providing the delivery. The delivery quality in terms of delivery commitments. Delivery commitments impact the customer in deciding for the service. Computing the delivery commitments in stochastic service systems is a real challenge. Delivery commitment forms a key parameter in formulating the service level agreements in B2B markets. In our current work we propose a queuing theoretic approach for computing the delivery commitments. The authors employ basic Probability theory to propose two bounds on delivery commitment time. Further, we investigate the effect of learning in service networks. They believe that their work can provide a simple and easy framework for quality analysis in stochastic service networks.
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Gupta, Aparna, and Chaipat Lawsirirat. "Developing Service Operations Strategy for Optimal Delivery of Long-Term Service Agreements Using an Integrated Risk Framework." International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector 5, no. 1 (January 2013): 33–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jisss.2013010103.
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Long-term service agreements (LTSAs) for the maintenance of capital-intensive products are gaining popularity. Without a thorough understanding of risk exposures and their impact on the service delivery, the providers can be exposed to the possibility of extensive losses and financial ruin, as well as endanger the products’ end-consumers. This article develops a rigorous risk assessment and management framework for developing an optimal service operations strategy for the delivery of LTSAs. The framework includes several important sources of risks, such as, engineering reliability, maintenance, service infrastructure, contract definitions, and the financial structure of the service. The goal of LTSA management is to fulfill the service requirements imposed by the contract while minimizing costs and risk exposures during service delivery. The framework utilizes simulation-based optimization to obtain the optimal service strategy and insights for risk management, which can be used to develop a detailed service delivery plan. The single LTSA based framework will also benefit the management of a portfolio of LTSAs.
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Ostry, Aleck S. "International Trade Regulation and Publicly Funded Health Care in Canada." International Journal of Health Services 31, no. 3 (July 2001): 475–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/mt8d-h4ec-jkme-3kd3.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) creates new challenges for the Canadian health care system, arguably one of the most “socialized” systems in the world today. In particular, the WTO's enhanced trade dispute resolution powers, enforceable with sanctions, may make Canadian health care vulnerable to corporate penetration, particularly in the pharmaceutical and private health services delivery sectors. The Free Trade Agreement and its extension, the North American Free Trade Agreement, gave multinational pharmaceutical companies greater freedom in Canada at the expense of the Canadian generic drug industry. Recent challenges by the WTO have continued this process, which will limit the health care system's ability to control drug costs. And pressure is growing, through WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services and moves by the Alberta provincial government to privatize health care delivery, to open up the Canadian system to corporate penetration. New WTO agreements will bring increasing pressure to privatize Canada's public health care system and limit government's ability to control pharmaceutical costs.
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Dehghanpisheh, Laleh, Golnar Sabetian, and Zeinabosadat Fatahi. "PAINLESS DELIVERY." Professional Medical Journal 23, no. 04 (April 10, 2016): 467–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2016.23.04.1508.
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One of the most severe pain that a woman experiences in her lifetime is laborpain which leads to increase their desire to perform caesarean section. In the present study weassessed the attitudes and awareness of obstetricians and midwives by raising their knowledgeand skills, to increase the rate of vaginal delivery and reduce the cesarean. Methods: StudyDesign: Qualitative study. Setting: Obstetricians and Midwives from throughout the ShirazCity, South of Iran, were participated by completing the questionnaire. Period: 6 months in2015. Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS software, version 20.0. The resultswere presented as frequency (percentage). Results: 118 individuals including 25 (21%)Obstetricians and 93 (79%) Midwives were participated in the current study. Both obstetriciansand midwives preferred normal vaginal delivery (NVD) (83.9%). 91% of subjects believed thatthe reason of preference of NVD is the safety of mother and child. 34.7% of individuals wasfully aware of painless labor. 21.2% had average information. Most of the subjects was agreedwith the painless labor method (92.4%) and 4.2% was disagreed. Lack of pain and calmnessduring labor (62.2%) and reduction of fear of natural childbirth (50.5%) were the main reasonsof agreements. 85.2% of obstetrics and midwives believed that the number of painless labor inIran in comparison to international standards is less than desired. Conclusions: Although themajority of obstetricians and midwives were agreed with the painless labor in hospitals, almosthalf of them were aware of the painless delivery. Raising the knowledge of health care providersabout painless delivery can influence on awareness and attitude of them and parturient towardnormal vaginal delivery.
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Janson B, El Bethree Jeremya, and I. Nyoman Nurcaya. "PENERAPAN JUST IN TIME UNTUK EFISENSI BIAYA PERSEDIAAN." E-Jurnal Manajemen Universitas Udayana 8, no. 3 (February 27, 2019): 1755. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/ejmunud.2019.v08.i03.p21.
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Just In Time is a system designed to get good quality, reduce costs, and achieve time and cost as efficiently as possible by eliminating the waste. This research was conducted at Pizza Hut Delivery Kerobokan, aimed at knowing and analyzing Just In Time implementation in improving inventory cost efficiency. Data collection method is done by observing the object under study. Data analysis techniques used are descriptive quantitative analysis techniques. The results of this study indicate that the traditional purchasing system that was implemented in 2016 is still not effective, because it still uses the traditional system which causes waste. Pizza Hut Delivery companies should implement the Just In Time purchase system, enter into agreements with suppliers regarding the quality, quantity and time of raw material delivery with an agreement with the supplier of the company to minimize storage and ordering costs.
Keywords: just in time, cost efficiency, inventory
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Badidi, Elarbi, and Mohamed El Koutbi. "Towards Automated SLA Management for Service Delivery in SOA-based Environments." International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems 7, no. 1 (January 2016): 26–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijaras.2016010102.
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The services landscape is changing with the growing adoption by businesses of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the migration of business solutions to the cloud, and the proliferation of smartphones and Internet-enabled handheld devices to consume services. To meet their business goals, organizations increasingly demand services, which can satisfy their functional and non-functional requirements. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are seen as the means to guarantee the continuity in service provisioning and required levels of service. In this paper, we propose a framework for service provisioning, which aims at providing support for automated SLA negotiation and management. The Service Broker component carries out SLA negotiation with selected service-providers on behalf of service-consumers. Multi-rounds of negotiations are very often required to reach an agreement. In each round, the negotiating parties bargain on multiple SLA parameters by trying to maximize their global utility functions. The monitoring infrastructure is in charge of observing SLA compliance monitoring using measurements obtained from independent third party monitoring services.
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Rosemann, Uwe, and Markus Brammer. "Development of document delivery by libraries in Germany since 2003." Interlending & Document Supply 38, no. 1 (February 23, 2010): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02641611011025334.
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PurposeThis paper aims to describe the development and current situation of electronic document delivery by public libraries in Germany, taking into account the impact of the changing regulatory framework of German copyright law and the consequences of law suits against libraries and Subito.Design/methodology/approachThe paper describes the current situation. Also, the new licensing strategy of the Subito delivery service and the national licensing strategy for electronic media of German libraries and the German Research foundation come into focusFindingsThe negative development of copyright law posed a new challenge for document delivery services in Germany since the statutory licence in German copyright law no longer covers electronic document delivery provided by Subito and other library document delivery services. Licence agreements with publishers or intermediaries such as copyright clearance centres are now necessary to allow delivery of electronic documents. These negotiations have proven to be very complex and controversial, but now a complicated framework of licence agreements has been concluded and will enable German libraries to generally provide electronic documents in the future. DRM‐systems, however, still are a challenge for customers and the delivery service.Practical implicationsDemand of delivery services has decreased and may decrease even more in the long run due to availability and direct accessibility of electronic documents, together with the national licensing program in Germany.Originality/valueThe paper provides a concise summary and gives an impression of the development of document delivery services of German libraries between 2003 and 2008 with special reference to the legal position and changes to German copyright law.
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Rust, T., W. Dangelmaier, D. Brüggemann, and J. P. Pater. "An approach for flexible customer-supplier relationships with fixed delivery contracts and quota agreements." IFAC Proceedings Volumes 42, no. 4 (2009): 1292–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3182/20090603-3-ru-2001.0434.
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Baporikar, Neeta. "Dynamics in Implementation of Public Private Partnerships." International Journal of Political Activism and Engagement 7, no. 1 (January 2020): 23–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpae.2020010102.
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Governments all over the world play a crucial role in the development of infrastructure and the provision of basic services to the citizens. With increasing population, urbanization, other developmental needs, the governments' ability to address public needs through traditional means is severely constrained. Due to this, new approaches and forms are being sought after and one such is through contractual agreements with the private sector commonly referred to as a public-private partnership (PPP). A PPP is a contractual agreement involving the private sector in the delivery of public services. PPP formations are effected by government support, economic uncertainties, market readiness, and organizational factors. Adopting a mixed methods approach, the primary data was collected through questionnaires, interviews, and secondary data from published reports and documents the objective was to explore the dynamics in the implementation of PPP agreements with focus on Namibia and enhance the knowledge to enable the government and private entities in dealing well with these factors.
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Bryk, Amy, Susannah Koontz, JoAl Mayor, Jeffrey Betcher, Rebecca Tombleson, Ryan Bookout, and Ila M. Saunders. "Characterization of collaborative practice agreements held by hematopoietic stem cell transplant pharmacists." Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice 25, no. 3 (December 5, 2017): 558–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078155217745145.
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Background Current workforce shortages within the hematopoietic stem cell transplant field necessitate capitalizing on the role of oncology-trained pharmacists. Working within an agreed-upon protocol, pharmacists are able to expand patient care delivery through optimal medication therapy management. Methods An electronic survey was developed by the Advocacy & Policy Working Committee of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Pharmacy Special Interest Group and distributed to pharmacists involved in the care of hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients. The primary objective was to assess the current state of collaborative practice agreements in the hematopoietic stem cell transplant setting. Results Forty-eight responses representing 41 institutions were returned. Respondents were mostly female (67%) and practiced in the adult setting (83%). Reponses represented a range of practice experience in hematopoietic stem cell transplant with the majority of the hematopoietic stem cell transplant positions (83%) funded by the department of pharmacy at an academic medical center. Of the 48 responses, 22 (46%) respondents reported having collaborative practice agreements in place; 10 (21%) respondents did not currently have collaborative practice agreements, but were planning to implement them; and 16 (33%) respondents did not have collaborative practice agreements at their institution. Clinical activities performed under a collaborative practice agreement included medication selection and dosing modifications, therapeutic drug monitoring, supportive care management, and management of comorbid conditions and chronic diseases. The most commonly cited barrier to establishing collaborative practice agreements was the inability to secure reimbursement for services provided. No respondents reported a negative impact on job satisfaction. Conclusions The results of this survey provide the pharmacy community with a robust understanding of the current landscape of hematopoietic stem cell transplant pharmacy collaborative practice agreements.
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Langley, Paul C., and Robert E. Martin. "Analytic and Informational Requirements in Disease Management Proposals: A Managed Care Perspective." Journal of Pharmacy Technology 13, no. 1 (January 1997): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/875512259701300108.
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Objective: To outline informational and analytic requirements that one healthcare management system has implemented to ensure that disease management submissions meet common standards for evaluation and review. Context: The need for guidelines to support the scope and quality of submissions for disease management negotiation and contracting. Design: A series of task definitions are proposed to support three stages in the submission, negotiation, and implementation process: A preliminary submission, establishment of a disease state management agreement, and implementation of the disease state management agreement. Discussion: These guidelines are designed to assist companies in meeting minimum standards in their disease state management submissions. The minimum standards relate to their appreciation of the analytic complexities involved, the need to access the appropriate data sources, and the need to meet minimum contracting requirements for program delivery. Not only does application of these guidelines place all potential partners on an equal basis and allow a systematic assessment of competing proposals, but also the degree of uncertainty associated with such agreements, notably in the process of negotiation, is reduced substantially. Conclusions: Unless guidelines are implemented by managed care organizations, the prospects for entering into successful disease state management agreements may be uncertain.
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Hansen, Katy, Megan Mullin, and Erin K. Riggs. "Collaboration Risk and the Choice to Consolidate Local Government Services." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance 3, no. 3 (November 18, 2019): 223–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvz017.
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Abstract Collaboration among local governments occurs through a range of mechanisms, which vary in degree of formality from contracts and ad hoc agreements to full consolidation. Prior work indicates that local decision makers favor formal mechanisms when expected gains from less formal collaboration may not be realized. This article explicates the concept of collaboration risk, treating it as a product of the likelihood that collaboration fails and the severity of consequences should failure occur. We examine how characteristics of a local service contribute to collaboration risk and thereby influence the choice to consolidate service delivery. Focusing on the case of drinking water provision, we identify physical and financial features of service delivery that contribute to the likelihood and severity of collaboration failure. Drawing on seven case studies of water system consolidation, we then analyze the importance of these service characteristics in the choice to enter into consolidation agreements.
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Fatin, Hadi Zare, Shahram Jamali, and Gholamreza Zare Fatin. "Data Replication in Large Scale Content Delivery Networks: A Genetic Algorithm Approach." Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers 27, no. 12 (June 22, 2018): 1850189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021812661850189x.
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Content delivery networks (CDN) bring the content close to the users employing the replicated servers. In this context, main issue is allocation of the content replicas to these geographically distributed replica servers. The allocation goal is to minimize the storage and the delivery costs and at the same time to satisfy service-level agreements. In this paper, a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation for the problem of the allocation has been proposed and then by utilization of the genetic algorithm (GA) its optimum solutions were extracted. Numerical evaluation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms others in terms of the storage cost, delivery cost and computation complexity.
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Meehan, Tom, Suzanne Drake, Helen Bergen, Penny Gillespie, and Suzanne Sondergeld. "Towards a Better Public Housing Service for People with Mental Illness: The Importance of Intersectoral Linkage." Australasian Psychiatry 10, no. 2 (June 2002): 130–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1665.2002.00445.x.
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Objective: To discuss issues relevant to the equitable delivery of public housing services to people with mental illness. Strategies adopted by Queensland Department of Housing to address these issues and to improve services are described, and matters of particular relevance to mental health professionals are highlighted. Conclusions: Formal interagency service agreements between the Departments of Health, Housing and Disability Services, appropriate training programs, and case conferencing strategies can enhance the delivery of appropriate housing services to people with mental illness. Promotion of active interagency collaboration by mental health professionals will facilitate these strategies.
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Mironge, Veronica, and Dennis M. Lupiana. "The Role of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in Leveraging ICT in Tanzania." International Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East 5, no. 2 (July 2016): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijictrame.2016070101.
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Information Communication Technology (ICT) plays a significant role on enhancing service delivery and provision. To fully benefit from ICT, however, access to a reliable Internet connection is required. In Tanzania, like in many other countries, Internet connections are provided by Telecom companies where customers and providers enter in some sort of an agreement. This agreement is called Service Level Agreement (SLA). SLA specifies obligations of service providers and customers and hence it is a tool to ensure customers get value-for-money and hence they receive quality and reliable services. Thus, poor written or poor implementation of SLAs can have a potential impact on the use of ICT and subsequently to socio-economic developments. This article presents findings from a study conducted to assess the effectiveness of SLAs in Telecom industry in Tanzania. The study discusses findings from the study focusing on determining the roles SLAs plays on nurturing effort to take advantage of ICT in Tanzania.
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Vaughan, Graeme, and Pam Cahir. "A National Framework for Children's Services: AECA's View." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 21, no. 2 (June 1996): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693919602100208.
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Council of Australian Governments (COAG) proposed, in its discussion paper released in November 1995, that it develop a national framework for children's services in Australia. This is part of its review of intergovernmental responsibilities for the delivery of children's services. The review consists of two steps, the first being intergovernmental agreement on a national framework, and the second, bilateral agreements between the Commonwealth and each State and Territory to implement the national framework. The Australian Early Childhood Association, Inc. (AECA) has prepared a submission which sets out its views on the objectives, outcomes, and features of a national framework for children's services. The Association strongly believes that the interests of children should be the paramount consideration in developing the national framework for a children's services system.
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MAVROIDIS, PETROS C. "Always look at the bright side of non-delivery: WTO and Preferential Trade Agreements, yesterday and today." World Trade Review 10, no. 3 (June 9, 2011): 375–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147474561100022x.
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AbstractThe disciplining of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) by the WTO has been ‘relaxed’ recently as a result of the new context (the Transparency Mechanism) within which notified PTAs are being multilaterally reviewed. This is probably a blessing for a number of reasons, including the success of the multilateral trading system in bringing tariffs down over the years (and the ensuing reduced trade diversion), the fact that modern PTAs deal with many non-trade issues as well (for which no WTO disciplines exist), and the recent empirical literature suggesting overall positive welfare implications for those participating in similar schemes. This paper discusses these and other reasons to support the view that the WTO should rather focus on the multilateral agenda instead of diverting its attention towards disciplining PTAs. In more concrete terms, this paper argues in support of the thesis that the Transparency Mechanism should not be simply a de facto substitute of the previous regime (where outlawing a PTA could not a priori be excluded), but the de jure new forum to discuss PTAs within the multilateral trading system, at least for the time being. A first do-no-harm-policy is one of the rationales for the thesis advocated here.
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Yunis, Muhammad. "Diplomasi Versi Minangkabau." Journal Polingua : Scientific Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education 3, no. 2 (March 28, 2018): 130–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.30630/polingua.v3i2.36.
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Pasambahan a Minangkabau society how to speak, the speech full of philosophy which delivery indirectly. This turned out to be complicated understood by some people who did not understand the pasambahan. In the present study, the authors sought to express the values of the philosophy contained in pasambahan as how to speak the traditional Minang community. As time goes, these traditions are disappearing from everyday society, for it needs a way to preserve it back. Pariaman is one area that has always practiced this tradition. In this study, the authors attempted to peel pasambahan text in a manner which according to the author deconstruction approach is one approach that is very controversial in the social sciences today. The process of data analysis by using some theories of social science (eclectic). Among the pragmatic theory and semiotics. The method used in the form of qualitative observation, the authors go directly spaciousness and interact with competent informants. From the discussion, the authors found ten diplomatic elementscontained in tradition and pasamabahan text. These elements in them, '' opener, apology, positioning/element of certainty, stringsattached, request (permission), receipt, delivery destination, contracts/agreements/agreements, offers, and resolver ''.
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Simmons, David. "Population Based Approaches to the Integration of Primary and Secondary Care." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00044.
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Health systems have become increasingly fragmented. Conditions such as diabetes, which require a multidisciplinary approach to care involving both the primary and secondary care sectors, have been particularly affected by the lack of coordination. In order to integrate care around the needs of the patient, a complex process is required to gain agreement on how care should be delivered. Using diabetes as a case study, and by applying the Delphi technique and access to the available evidence, we have shown that patients, doctors, nurses and allied health workers can agree upon the scope of care required for a given clinical scenario and with the criteria for referral between those with different skills. These agreements can form the basis of Care-maps, which in turn allow the definition of gaps in care, required educational materials, needed assessment pro forma, tools for enhancing communication between health workers, and training activities. Existing integrated care approaches in the United Kingdom and the United States, focusing on quality of care rather than resource, have been associated with improvements in health care delivery. Those working in primary care should consider this approach for stimulating enhancements in both clinical quality and efficiency.
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Phillips, Jane L., Patricia M. Davidson, Debra Jackson, Linda Kristjanson, Margaret L. Bennett, and John Daly. "Enhancing palliative care delivery in a regional community in Australia." Australian Health Review 30, no. 3 (2006): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah060370.
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Although access to palliative care is a fundamental right for people in Australia and is endorsed by government policy, there is often limited access to specialist palliative care services in regional, rural and remote areas. This article appraises the evidence pertaining to palliative care service delivery to inform a sustainable model of palliative care that meets the needs of a regional population on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Expert consultation and an eclectic literature review were undertaken to develop a model of palliative care service delivery appropriate to the needs of the target population and resources of the local community. On the basis of this review, a local palliative care system that is based on a population-based approach to service planning and delivery, with formalised integrated network agreements and role delineation between specialist and generalist providers, has the greatest potential to meet the palliative care needs of this regional coastal community.
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MACKINNON, JAMES L., LUCIANO ANDRIAMARO, ANDONIAINA RAMBELOSON, MIALY RAZAFINDRAZAKASOA, and CELIA A. HARVEY. "Costs of delivery approaches for providing livelihood projects to local communities as part of REDD+ programmes: An analysis from Madagascar." Environmental Conservation 45, no. 4 (December 19, 2017): 324–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892917000571.
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SUMMARYProviding benefits to local people from forest conservation programmes is an important issue for policy makers. Livelihood projects are a common way to provide benefits, but there is little information about their costs. We analysed 463 livelihood projects in the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) pilot project in Madagascar to understand how different approaches to delivering livelihood projects affect costs. We compared costs across four approaches: conservation agreements, small grants, direct implementation and application of social safeguards. The approach impacted overall costs and the proportion of funds reaching communities. Projects implemented as safeguards were most expensive and had the lowest proportion of expenditures reaching the community. Projects provided as part of conservation agreements directed the highest proportion of expenditures to communities. Our results highlight that how livelihood projects are delivered has implications for project costs and community benefits and should be an important consideration in the design and implementation of REDD+ and forest conservation policies.
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Grime, Mark, Dave Poddar, and Nadia Kalic. "The impact of competition law on destination restrictions in Asia-Pacific LNG contracts." APPEA Journal 57, no. 2 (2017): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj16242.
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The continual decline in prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Asia-Pacific is changing the commercial dynamics between LNG suppliers and buyers, particularly in the context of renegotiating LNG sale and purchase agreements (LNG SPAs) across the Asia-Pacific region. Although prevailing market dynamics across Asia-Pacific LNG markets has created opportunities for buyers to renegotiate supply agreements, many remain subject to long-term agreements with destination restrictions that limit buyers from reselling cargoes or taking delivery outside their home jurisdiction, and which impact arbitrage and trading opportunities in spot markets. The investigation by the Japan Fair Trade Commission into whether destination restrictions in LNG SPAs contravene Japanese competition laws, highlights the importance of competition law as a key issue and commercial consideration for both LNG suppliers and buyers in the Asia-Pacific. This paper will examine what role competition law may play in the future renegotiation of LNG SPAs, and the extent to which this may provide a basis to impact the efficacy of destination restrictions in LNG SPAs under the competition laws of several key Asian jurisdictions.
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Chumaida, Zahry Vandawati. "THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNLOADING AGREEMENTS IN THE PORT FROM TRANSPORTATION LAW PERSPECTIVES." Yuridika 34, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/ydk.v34i1.11802.
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Sea transportation is a commercial shipping business that is regulated in the provision of sea freight services where its business activities are very broad in its field and plays an important role in advancing trade both domestically or abroad including in its efforts to expedite the flow of goods from production areas to consumer areas. In the Port, there are tools to facilitate and facilitate the demolition and loading of goods from or to ships, or equipment to take fuel, water supplies and so on. In ports, of course, there are loading and unloading companies that are always connected with Indonesian ports (Pelindo). This is certainly related to the entry and exit of ships. The loading and unloading company is an Indonesian legal entity established to carry out and carry out business activities for loading and unloading goods from and to ships. In loading and unloading services, there are loading and unloading service providers, namely companies that carry out loading and unloading activities (stevedoring, receiving and receiving/delivery using loading and unloading labor) and loading and unloading equipment. obstacles or obstacles that might occur, these obstacles must be studied more deeply so that the impacts or losses that might be suffered by the parties in the vessel loading and unloading agreement can be minimized. The legal method used in answering the legal issues raised is through statute approach, conceptual approach, and case approach
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Riordan, Fiona, Sheena M. McHugh, Katie Murphy, Julie Barrett, and Patricia M. Kearney. "The role of nurse specialists in the delivery of integrated diabetes care: a cross-sectional survey of diabetes nurse specialist services." BMJ Open 7, no. 8 (August 2017): e015049. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015049.
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ObjectivesInternational evidence suggests the diabetes nurse specialist (DNS) has a key role in supporting integrated management of diabetes. We examine whether hospital and community DNS currently support the integration of care, examine regional variation in aspects of the service relevant to the delivery of integrated care and identify barriers to service delivery and areas for improvement.DesignA cross-sectional survey of hospital and community-based DNS in Ireland.MethodsBetween September 2015 and April 2016, a 67-item online survey, comprising closed and open questions on their clinical role, diabetes clinics, multidisciplinary working, and barriers and facilitators to service delivery, was administered to all eligible DNS (n=152) in Ireland. DNS were excluded if they were retired or on maternity leave or extended leave.ResultsThe response rate was 66.4% (n=101): 60.6% (n=74) and 89.3% (n=25) among hospital and community DNS, respectively. Most DNS had patients with stable (81.8%) and complicated type 2 diabetes mellitus (89.9%) attending their service. The majority were delivering nurse-led clinics (81.1%). Almost all DNS had a role liaising with (91%), and providing support and education to (95%), other professionals. However, only a third reported that there was local agreement on how their service should operate between the hospital and primary care. Barriers to service delivery that were experienced by DNS included deficits in the availability of specialist staff (allied health professionals, endocrinologists and DNS), insufficient space for clinics, structured education and issues with integration.ConclusionsDelivering integrated diabetes care through a nurse specialist-led approach requires that wider service issues, including regional disparities in access to specialist resources and formalising agreements and protocols on multidisciplinary working between settings, be explicitly addressed.
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Hohmann, Lindsey A., Tessa J. Hastings, Jingjing Qian, Geoffrey M. Curran, and Salisa C. Westrick. "Medicare Annual Wellness Visits: A Scoping Review of Current Practice Models and Opportunities for Pharmacists." Journal of Pharmacy Practice 33, no. 5 (June 23, 2019): 666–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0897190019847793.
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Objective: To explore the existing practice models and practice opportunities surrounding pharmacist-delivered Medicare Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs), with the goal of improving patient access through advanced pharmacy-based health services. Data Sources: English-language articles published in peer-reviewed journals from January 2011 to March 2018 were reviewed by searching PubMed and Google Scholar databases using permutations of terms such as “pharmacist/pharmacy,” “Medicare,” “Annual Wellness Visit,” “develop/development,” and “implement/implementation.” Study Selection and Data Extraction: Original articles reporting resources (inputs), processes, and programmatic outcomes (uptake and delivery, interventions made, financial models, satisfaction) of pharmacist-delivered AWV services were retained. Data Synthesis: Eight articles describing 6 unique studies representing current pharmacist-delivered AWV practices were included in the final review. All identified articles used observational study designs and were published in peer-reviewed journals from 2014 to 2017. Five studies utilized staff (in-house) pharmacists working in internal or family medicine clinics via collaborative practice agreements; one study described a model for outsourcing AWV services through a community pharmacy. Pharmacists completed 37 to 300 AWVs and performed both medication- and non-medication-related interventions, with a mean of 3.5 to 5.4 interventions/patient. Quarterly revenue ranged from $3750 to $22 340 (USD), with 40 pharmacist-hours required for initial program development. Implications for Patient Care and Clinical Practice: This scoping review will serve as a guide for pharmacists wishing to implement AWV services in their own practices. Conclusions: There is opportunity for ambulatory/community pharmacists to expand their practices to include AWV services in states that allow collaborative practice agreements. Interprofessional collaboration between physicians and pharmacists can optimize and aid adoption of pharmacist-delivered AWV services.
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Mendonça, Anny Key De Souza, and Antonio Cezar Bornia. "Analysis levelized cost of energy from the perspective of an power purchase agreements for airborne wind power technology." Revista Eletrônica em Gestão, Educação e Tecnologia Ambiental 24 (September 8, 2020): e53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2236117043709.
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With the need to diversify the national electric matrix to expand the generation capacity, the searches for new technologies capable of contributing to supply the national demand are fundamental. In this sense, the development of wind energy technology, but specifically high-altitude wind energy using wired airfoils, is an attractive possibility, given the high national wind potential. This research aimed to analyze the cost models used in the literature to assess the leveled cost of energy (LCOE) from the perspective of an power purchase agreements (PPAs) and to simulate the leveled cost of energy for a wind farm with the innovative technology of wired airfoils. For this, we chose two cities Fortaleza (CE) and Florianópolis (SC) to carry out the simulations. The wind farms are identical, with the same number of wind turbines, the parameters that have been modified are, the amount of energy supplied by each of the scenarios, to visualize the influence of the capacity factor of each scenario within the real and nominal LCOE and the PPA real and nominal after 20 years of analysis. As wind energy is not a constant source of supply, the simulation considered the limits of energy delivery that are above or below the minimum limit of energy delivery. The results demonstrated economic viability in almost all scenarios, with greater attractiveness for scenarios with an increase in the capacity factor. When financial parameters such as federal and state charges are varied downwards, all scenarios investigated are attractive to development with an IRR greater than the reference value.
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Aulia, Shifa. "Analysis of PT. Celebit Circuit Technology's business negotiation strategy with customers." Magisma: Jurnal Ilmiah Ekonomi dan Bisnis 9, no. 2 (July 28, 2021): 162–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.35829/magisma.v9i2.184.
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In business negotiations, there is often little way to know how the agreement will be executed properly through negotiations and agreements with both parties concerned. The existence of the company's problems with the customer, the company must be able to provide alternative solutions to problems that occur by negotiating with the customer to seek mutual agreement as decision making. Informants from the PPC (Pre Production Control) / PPIC (Plan Production Inventory Control) section made an alternative as an initial negotiation with the customer in taking the negotiation agreement that occurred. In this study the authors used qualitative methods, with data collection techniques through interviews and literature study and interview data analysis techniques were carried out such as observing, discussing and describing the problem in a certain way. Based on the results of interviews with PPC (Pre Production Control) / PPIC (Plan Production Inventory Control) officers, there are several alternative strategies such as delivery warnings, production deliveries, alternative rooms and partial deliveries. With the end of the "win-lose" negotiation, the company has to find a way out of the problem that actually all parties benefit and see long-term opportunities in the negotiations that occur.
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Schutzki, Robert E., Susan Gruber, and L. Andrew Norman. "Expanding Horticulture Programs through Off-campus Partnerships." HortScience 31, no. 4 (August 1996): 567c—567. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.31.4.567c.
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Michigan State Univ. (MSU) offers 10 certificate programs through the Institute of Agricultural Technology. These programs are campus based, approximately three semesters in length, and include a professional internship. Efforts were made in horticulture to expand programs into major population centers through joint programs with community colleges. Cooperative agreements were developed with Grand Rapids Community College and with Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City. Issues addressed in the agreements include recruiting, admissions, advising, financial aid, integration of curriculum from both institutions, distance-learning delivery through the CODEC system, instructional commitments from campus-based and adjunct faculty, procedures for transfer to bachelor's degree program at MSU, and graduation. The symbiotic relationship between the institutions has expanded curriculum opportunities in the local areas, increased accessibility to MSU Horticulture programs, and better serves the nontraditional student. Outreach efforts for academic programs complement the traditional outreach that has occurred through the Cooperative Extension Service.
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Cernasev, Alina, Meghana Aruru, Suzanne Clark, Komal Patel, Natalie DiPietro Mager, Vaiyapuri Subramaniam, and Hoai-An Truong. "Empowering Public Health Pharmacy Practice—Moving from Collaborative Practice Agreements to Provider Status in the U.S." Pharmacy 9, no. 1 (March 9, 2021): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9010057.
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This article describes the history and evolution of pharmacist-physician collaborative practice agreements (CPAs) in the United States with future directions to support pharmacists’ provider status as the profession continues to evolve from product-oriented to patient-centered care and population health. The pharmacy profession has a long history of dispensing and compounding, with the addition of clinical roles in the late 20th century. These clinical roles have continued to expand into diverse arenas such as communicable and non-communicable diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, emergency preparedness and response, public health education and health promotion, and critical and emergency care. Pharmacists continue to serve as integral members of interprofessional and interdisciplinary healthcare teams. In this context, CPAs allow pharmacists to expand their roles in patient care and may be considered as a step towards securing provider status. Moving beyond CPAs to a provider status would enable pharmacists to be reimbursed for cognitive services and promote integrated public health delivery models.
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Bojovic, Viktorija. "Public private partnership as a last resort for traditional public procurement." Panoeconomicus 53, no. 3 (2006): 299–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/pan0603299b.
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This paper discusses recent changes in the way public services are delivered A marked increase in the cooperation between the public and private sector in the realization of complex projects, mostly concerning development of infrastructure, is the main characteristic of present-day developing economies. The creation of new, innovative agreements is driven by the limitation of public funds and an ever-growing demand for an increase in the quality of public services. Looking upon the western economies experience alternatives to the traditional public sector procurement are identified in the public/private partnership. The public/private partnership can be seen as one component in the rearrangement of the public sector with a management culture that focuses on the citizen or customer. Also included in this are accountability for results, investigation of a wide variety of alternative service delivery mechanisms, and competition between public and private bodies for contracts to deliver services consistent with cost recovery and the achievement of value for money. The partnership can be realized through an array of models and in this paper priority is given to the DBFO (design-build-finance-operate) model, due to its importance in implementation. The DBFO model is considered to be a synonym for the public/private partnership, as it is the most suitable for complex projects and gains the most benefits.
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Drugan, Joanna. "Complex collaborations." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 32, no. 2 (June 8, 2020): 307–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.20086.dru.
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Abstract Interpreting and translation are increasingly provided in the public sector via large-scale outsourced framework contracts (Moorkens 2017). In the UK, one of the largest recent framework agreements for interpreting and translation was introduced between 2016 and 2017 in critical contexts for justice, including the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and the police. These agreements involve new types of collaboration between new partners and agents in the delivery of interpreting and translation, who each have different aims, expectations, standards and working methods. This contribution examines these emerging complex collaborations, and is the result of a rare type of complex collaboration between academic researchers, framework contract-holders and managers, interpreters and translators, language service providers, professional associations, and users of translation and interpreting services, within the Transnational Organised Crime and Translation (TOCAT) project. The article reports on original research conducted during the TOCAT project, and outlines and evaluates some novel, complex and ethically challenging ‘translaborations’ in police settings. The collaborations discussed are complex because of the range of parties and actors involved and because of the challenging content and settings in which the police rely on interpreting and translation. ‘Translaboration’ is used here to encompass multiple evolving collaborations between different providers and users of interpreting and translation, policy makers, trainers and researchers. Important questions of translation quality and ethics in the management of large-scale framework contexts for public service delivery are raised.
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Mangiaracina, Silvana, Ornella Russo, and Alessandro Tugnoli. "To each his own: how to provide a library user with an article respecting licence agreements." Interlending & Document Supply 43, no. 4 (November 16, 2015): 199–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ilds-07-2015-0022.
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Purpose – This paper aims to describe the state of the art of the Italian Archivio Licenze Periodici Elettronici (ALPE) project which aims to improve the understanding of the issues raised by licence agreements of electronic resources in the Inter-Library Loan Service and to support librarians in the implementation of the right policies. Design/methodology/approach – ALPE – (E-Journals Licenses Archive) is a national archive of interlibrary loan (ILL) clauses, extracted from standard and negotiated licences, to manage, to publicly share and to check the permitted uses of e-resources for ILL and document delivery. Findings – The ALPE archive facilitates public and free access to a remarkable amount of information and data about ILL conditions granted by the most important commercial and academic publishers, and responds to the practical problems of managing and understanding ILL clauses in e-licences. Originality/value – The solutions adopted by ALPE effectively solve many of the problems reported in the literature. These should help ILL librarians in dealing with the problems associated with ILL and licensing.
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Wolman, Harold (Hal). "Looking at Regional Governance Institutions in Other Countries as a Possible Model for U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of Multipurpose Regional Service Delivery Districts in British Columbia." Urban Affairs Review 55, no. 1 (February 5, 2017): 321–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087416689824.
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General purpose or multipurpose governments at the metropolitan level have proven extremely difficult to create and sustain in the United States. In their absence, a range of institutions have evolved to address problems of regional fragmentation and to promote interlocal cooperation and collaboration. These include single-purpose regional special districts, interlocal contracts and agreements, and voluntary regional organizations of local governments such as councils of government. However, several countries make use of another institutional form, multipurpose special districts, rather than or in addition to single-purpose special districts, as a mechanism for facilitating regional governance and intermunicipal collaboration. This essay examines one example of such an institution: regional districts in British Columbia. It analyzes what accounts for their successful creation and institutionalization and considers whether such an institutional model is potentially adoptable in the United States. It focuses particularly on the perceived reduction in transaction cost for achieving intermunicipal agreements.
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NURCO, DAVID N., THOMAS E. HANLON, RICHARD W. BATEMAN, EINAT TOLEDANO, and TIMOTHY W. KINLOCK. "Policy Implications Derived from an Experimental Intervention Involving Drug-Abusing Offenders." Prison Journal 73, no. 3 (September 1993): 332–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032855593073003007.
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This is a report on policy implications emanating from an ongoing drug abuse treatment evaluation project concerned with the adjustment of drug-abusing offenders assigned to different treatment/monitoring conditions during their first year on parole. These policy implications were largely derived from project experiences that highlighted administrative and service delivery linkages among corrections, parole, and treatment systems and demonstrated the importance of establishing cooperative agreements and close working relationships. The impact of characteristics of drug-abusing offenders on policy considerations is also discussed, along with preliminary outcome findings of the evaluation project.
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Che Ibrahim, Che Khairil Izam, Seosamh B. Costello, Suzanne Wilkinson, and Derek Walker. "Innovation in alliancing for improved delivery of road infrastructure projects." International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 10, no. 4 (September 5, 2017): 700–720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb-11-2016-0088.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore innovation in alliance contracting in the New Zealand construction industry in terms of features (i.e. development process, risk/reward framework and leadership structure) that could influence successful project outcomes. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a qualitative research methodology. Three alliancing projects have been identified as the cases. By using interviews with the project’s owner and non-owner participants and related project documentation, the relevant features in the three examined cases were identified and compared. Findings The findings revealed differences in the reasoning why a particular alliance approach was implemented, how the alliance selection process was conducted and what kind of leadership structure was adopted. Interestingly, a number of unique and innovative practices to alliancing were also highlighted, notably the innovative agreements, innovative governance structure and innovative functional teams that influence the synergistically creative solutions to suit the clients’ needs. Practical implications The innovative practices identified in this study have brought the alliancing concept to a new level of practice in the industry. The findings provide a basis and a platform for discussion, both nationally and internationally, to gain greater understanding in managing different alliance contracting towards breakthrough outcomes. Originality/value This study extends the alliancing procurement literature, in particular, but also provides significant insights into innovative advancements to the collaborative procurement approaches.
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Chia, Siow Yue. "ASEAN Economic Integration and Physical Connectivity." Asian Economic Papers 15, no. 2 (June 2016): 198–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00438.
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Although the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was established at the end of 2015, some of the objectives remain for it to be fully realized, and many of the actions and measures in the AEC Blueprint have not been fully implemented and have to be carried forward to future years. Among these “works in progress” is transport and other physical infrastructure, which is necessary for the physical flows of goods and people. Analysis of free trade and economic integration agreements do not usually place emphasis on the importance of the physical delivery of the goods and people flows made possible by trade and investment liberalizations, particularly in geographically dispersed and diverse regions such as ASEAN. This paper examines the importance of physical connectivity to implement the AEC. It explores the various dimensions of land, maritime, and aviation connectivity with the complex agreements, national policies and regulatory frameworks and challenges of implementation and infrastructure financing, including the Chinese initiative of the One Belt-One Road and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
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MacCarthaigh, Muiris, and Niamh Hardiman. "Exploiting conditionality: EU and international actors and post-NPM reform in Ireland." Public Policy and Administration 35, no. 2 (April 10, 2019): 179–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076718796548.
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Between 2008 and 2015, Ireland undertook unprecedented and systemic public sector reforms in a polity not traditionally considered a prominent reformer. While some of these reforms comprised part of the loan programme agreement with EU and international actors, many others did not. This article argues that the crisis in Ireland provided a window of opportunity to introduce reforms that political and administrative elites had previously found difficult to implement. The authority of the Troika was invoked to provide legitimacy for controversial initiatives, yet some of the reforms went further than the loan programme strictly required. A number of these concerning organisational rationalisation, the public service ‘bargain’ and transversal policy coordination are considered here. Agreements were negotiated with public sector unions that facilitated sharp cuts in pay and conditions, reducing the potential for opposition to change. The reform effort was further legitimated by the reformers’ post-New Public Management, whole-of-government discourse, which situated considerations of effectiveness and efficiency in a broader framework of public service quality and delivery.
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Siregar, Hamdan. "Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Hak Masyarakat Dalam Perjanjian Kerjasama Perkebunan Kelapa Sawit." Nagari Law Review 2, no. 2 (April 13, 2019): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/nalrev.v.2.i.2.p.175-182.2019.
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The State of the Republic of Indonesia is a legal state which is contained in Article 1 Paragraph (3) of the 1945 Constitution, in the rule of law, the power in running the Government based on the rule of law, in Indonesia there have been many cooperation agreements in the field of plantation, in the establishment of plantation based on the principle legal certainty to protect the parties in the cooperation agreement between BUMD and PT.MTL where in the plantation management agreement is not running smoothly, causing conflict between the community with PT.MTL party. Based on the above issues, what is the legal relationship between the parties in the oil palm plantation cooperation agreement, how is the legal effect on the community rights in the oil palm plantation cooperation agreement, how is the legal protection of the community within the palm oil plantation agreement. This research is juridical sociological with the nature of research is descriptive analytical. Processing is done by editing and then analyzed by using qualitative analysis methode. From the result of the research, it can be concluded that (1) the occurrence of civil relation between the parties based on the cooperation agreement between BUMD and PT.MTL and letter of land delivery between the community and BUMD (2) due to law on community land in this cooperation agreement the transition of rights, from public property rights to State land. (3) the absence of legal protection of community land that has been submitted to the BUMD to be granted the Right to Use Enterprises
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d'Oronzio, Joseph C. "Health Policy Watch: “Unexpected” Death and Other Report Cards on Access and Ethics." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 4, no. 4 (1995): 549–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180100006393.
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The era of managed care has arrived with portents of a new calculus to integrate cost and quality in health services. These devises such as “report cards” and “outcome measures” place performance against expectations and thus are expected to gauge the value of specific elements of healthcare delivery. From such measures and comparisons, the public will be able to better judge the appropriate, effective, and attractive place to seek their medical services. What is now widely used by utilization review, guiding reimbursement decisions and allowances for the length of hospital stays, will soon have a more prosperous future as general guidelines built into the very framework of managed care agreements.