This paper examines the role of the public private partnerships in the health care systems of three European countries - The United Kingdom, Poland and the Czech Republic. Public private partnerships were developed in the 19th century in the UK. It was a way to finance the rapid growth of the infrastructure, …

A model for programmatic assessment in action is proposed that optimizes assessment for learning as well as decision making on learner progress. It is based on a set of assessment principles that are interpreted from empirical research. The model specifies cycles of training, assessment and learner support …

This final paper focuses on municipal international cooperation (MIC) with developing nations. MIC can be defined as international decentralised cooperation or the term "town twinning" (Boven, 2007, "what is town twinning" section). It is an agreement between two or more municipalities from different …

Seismic risk assessment of two real RC multi-story buildings, located on similar soil profile in Kocaeli, is conducted in respect to code-based linear and nonlinear approaches, as well as to P25-v2 Method, a recently suggested method for risk evaluation and preliminary assessment of existing buildings …

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a nurse-led, home-based, case-management intervention (NHI) after hospital discharge in addition to usual care. METHODS: Economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial after being discharged home with 24 weeks …

The contents of the thesis are summarised in the bullet points below: o Problem statement: Low attendance of the Cultural activities. o Hypothesis of the situation: Changes in Management (centralization) and failure to promote the cultural activities efficiently. o An in-depth analysis of the Cervantes …