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Digital Infrastructures: Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information TechnologyAn invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on …
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Reorganizing Primary Care at Mount Sinai HospitalManagers of a healthcare organization have numerous demands on their time, their skills, their knowledge, and their budgets. They are responsible for adapting to change, managing their office, making effective decisions, among countless other tasks. This …
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Following the Money: Using Expenditure Analysis as an Evaluation ToolThis article describes the nature and utility of fiscal analysis in evaluating complex community interventions. Using New York University's evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative as an example, the authors describe …
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What are Digital Infrastructures?Digital Infrastructures presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the technological systems that envelop these networks. The book balances analyses of specific civil and environmental infrastructures with broader policy and management issues, including …
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Network Systems Revisited: The Confounding Nature of Universal SystemsTaking sustainability in its triple economic, environmental and social dimensions, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, …
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Validation of Spanish and English Versions of the Asthma Portion of the Brief Pediatric Asthma Screen Plus (BPAS ) Among HispanicsBackground: The health and health care needs of non-English-speaking Hispanic families with children are poorly understood, in part because they are often excluded from research owing to language barriers. Instruments that are valid in English and Spanish …
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A Secure America in a Secure WorldThe Bush administration’s “war on terrorism” reflects a major failure of leadership and makes Americans more vulnerable rather than more secure. The administration has chosen a path to combat terrorism that has weakened multilateral institutions and …
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Integrating Rigor and Relevance in Public Administration Scholarship: The Contribution of Narrative InquiryA traditional view of scholarly quality defines rigor as the application of method and assumes an implicit connection with relevance. But as an applied field, public administration requires explicit attention to both rigor and relevance. Interpretive …
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It's About Time: Catching Method Up to Meaning-The Usefulness of Narrative Inquiry in Public Administration ResearchA traditional view of scholarly quality defines rigor as the application of method and assumes an implicit connection with relevance. But as an applied field, public administration requires explicit attention to both rigor and relevance. Interpretive …
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Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: A Comparative Interdisciplinary PerspectiveAlthough decentralization and reactions against it have become increasingly important policy trends in developing countries, the study of this nearly ubiquitous phenomenon has been largely fractured across academic disciplines, geographic regions, and the …
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Opening Doors and Building Capacity: Employing a Community-Based Approach to SurveyingAlthough many community-based initiatives employ community residents to undertake door-to-door surveys as a form of community mobilization or for purposes of needs assessment or evaluation, very little has been published on the strengths and weaknesses of …
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Equity and Efficiency in K-12 Education: Thirty Years of HistoryBerne, R., Moser, M. & Stiefel, L. …
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Financing Special Education: Proposed Reforms in New York CityBerne, R., Fruchter, N. & Parrish, T. …
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The Organization of Exposure to Violence Among Urban Adolescents: Clinical, Prevention, and Research ImplicationsProviding the latest research on effective prevention and intervention strategies for reducing youth violence, Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy is a comprehensive resource for dealing with both perpetrators and victims of …
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Development in Context: Implications for Studying Neighborhood EffectsAber, J.L., Gephart, M., Brooks-Gunn, J. & Connell, J. …
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Neighborhood and Family Factors Predicting Educational Risk and Attainment in African-American and European-American Children and AdolescentsHalpern-Felsher, B., Connell, J. Spencer, M., Aber, J.L., Duncan, G., Clifford, E., Crichlow, W., Usinger, P. & Cole, S. …
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Welfare Reform, Family Support, and Child Development: Perspectives from Policy Analysis and Developmental PsychopathologyThis article explores the implications of recent welfare-related policy change for the well-being of children in low income families, and for research investigating child development processes and outcomes. It provides an overview of current …
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Measuring and Monitoring Children’s Well BeingBen-Arieh, A., Kaufman, N.H., Andrews, A.B., George, R.M., Lee, B.J. & Aber, J.L. …
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Lives on the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends MeetAlmost half of the nation's children live in officially defined poverty or near-poverty. Putting a human face on this and other statistics, the authors present a disturbing and provocative composite portrait of 10 families struggling to make ends …
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Implementing Medicaid Managed Care: The New York City StoryKovner, A.R., Sparer, M. & Brown, L. …
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Transforming Health Management: An Evidence Based ApproachExplores the concept of evidence-based management, demonstrates how it can enhance health management practice, and introduces an organizational structure for promoting the evidence-based approach. Challenge of making better-informed strategic decisions; …