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Legal Aspects (legal + aspect)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Medical Sciences	33%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	33%
Humanities and Social Sciences	22%

Selected Abstracts

El Paso, A Sight for Sore Eyes: Medical and Legal Aspects of Syrian Immigration, 1906,1907

THE HISTORIAN, Issue 1 2002
Ann R. Gabbert
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Legal aspects of employment change and their implications for management

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 1 2001
Paul Lewis
This paper reports research which aims to identify and classify the legal issues raised on appeal in litigation arising from the management of employment change. It then considers the implications for management policy and practice. The most frequent legal issues were unilateral attempts at contractual change and unfair dismissal for redundancy. [source]

Legal aspects of consent

BJU INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2000
B. Jones
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Civil Disobedience and Test Cases

RATIO JURIS, Issue 3 2004
María José Falcón y Tella
The novelty of our focus resides in the priority given to the legal aspect of civil disobedience, especially to the possible legal justification of civil disobedience, a perspective that is generally overlooked in analysing the phenomenon. This is where the Achilles heel is to be found, though it may provide unexploited insights into the issue from which significant conclusions can be drawn. [source]

The U.S. Federal Executive in an Era of Change

GOVERNANCE, Issue 3 2003
Joel D. Aberbach
This article examines changes in the background characteristics, attitudes, and behavior patterns of high-level U.S. federal executives. It also considers the impact of the New Public Management (NPM) movement. The data indicate that despite intense struggles about the role of the public sector, top civil servants remain a well-educated, experienced, and highly motivated group, the members of which compare favorably to top executives in the private sector. The data also suggest that the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) of 1978 has been effective in producing a more politically responsive corps of career civil servants, and that administrators (both career and noncareer) are increasingly attuned to the more technical and legal aspects of their roles and less oriented to protecting particular interests or clientele groups. NPM-style changes are still in progress and remain controversial, but it appears that political leaders continue to have an excellent (and increasingly diverse) group of career people to work with and a system that,at least in part due to the CSRA reforms,is more responsive to them than before. The top part of the U.S. bureaucracy may have been bent and reshaped in many ways over the last thirty years, but, despite widely publicized fears, it has not broken. [source]

Supervisory support as a major condition to enhance transfer

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2001
Marcel Van Der Klink
Supervisory support is perceived as a major condition for enhancing the transfer of training. This article presents two studies that investigated the impact of supervisory behaviour on trainees' transfer. Both studies were carried out in banking organisations. One study consisted of the investigation of a training programme that provided bank tellers with the knowledge and skills for handling customers' complaints. The other study focused on the transfer of the training programme ,legal aspects of bank tellers' jobs'. In neither study was there any convincing evidence for the impact of supervisory behaviour on the transfer of training. The implications for future research and current practice are discussed here. [source]

Evaluation of Needle Exchange Programs

PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING, Issue 2 2004
Cheryl Delgado M.S.N.
Abstract Needle exchange programs exist in every major population area in the United States and in many other countries. Some operate legally under emergency health decrees issued by local departments of health, with the stated intention of risk reduction through the removal of used injection equipment from use by injection drug users. It is theorized that this results in a reduced transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis, and, possibly, other blood-borne diseases. Needle exchange programs also offer access to drug treatment programs for the participants. It is a difficult but necessary task to evaluate these programs. This article examines examples of evaluations attempted in the past and discusses the challenges of such evaluations. Experimental evaluations, economic program analysis, legal aspects, and risk,benefit assessment along with ethical aspects are considered. An outline of program evaluation is proposed. Needle exchange programs offer an opportunity to encourage risk reduction and to offer counseling and access to health care for individuals at high risk. It is essential that such programs demonstrate their effectiveness. Assumptions of efficacy are insufficient for health care in the twenty-first century. [source]

Organization, Management and Delegation in the French Water Industry

ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2001
Jihad C. Elnaboulsi
The water industry is largely a natural monopoly. Water distribution and sewerage services are characterized by networks and its natural monopoly derives from the established local networks of drinking water and sewers: they are capital intensive with sunk costs and increasing returns to scale. In France, local communities have a local requirement of providing public services under optimum conditions in terms of techniques and cost-effectiveness, and subject to respect different kind of standards in terms of water quality and level of services. They are responsible for producing and distributing drinking water, and collecting and treating wastewater. Furthermore, the French water utilities are required to be financially self-sufficient. Rate-setting varies across regions and local territories due to a variety of organizational features of services and availability of water resources. The management of these local public services can be public or private: local governments have the right, by the constitution, to delegate water service management to private companies which operate under the oversight of local municipal authorities. Today, nearly 80 per cent of the French population receive private distributed water. Different reasons are responsible for the poor performance and low productivity of most French public water utilities: technical and operational, commercial and financial, human and institutional, and environmental. Thus, many water public utilities have looked for alternative ways to provide water and sanitation services more efficiently, to improve both operational and investment efficiency, and to attract private finance. The purpose of this paper is to present the French organizational system of providing drinking water services, and collecting and treating wastewater services: legal aspects, contracts of delegation, and competition. [source]

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by Canadian occupational therapists

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1 2009
Heidi M. Knupp
Abstract The purpose of this study was to describe the proportion of occupational therapists currently using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), or providing referrals to CAM practitioners, as well as the purposes of use/referral in one Canadian region. A questionnaire survey on CAM was sent through e-mail and post to 1123 Canadian occupational therapists. Content, construct and face validity, as well as response, desirability/social, and instrument bias were considered and controlled through study design. A response rate of 17.1% was achieved. Overall, 31.2% of respondents have used at least one form of CAM, with 5.5% using >1 form of CAM. Purposes for use focused on the treatment of symptoms. Reasons preventing CAM's use included lack of training (82.4%), interest (23%) and/or supporting evidence (22.3%). Considerations of incorporating CAM into occupational therapy focused on a client-centred and holistic approach to treatment (43,63.3%), ranking above legal/employer-related aspects (43,43.6%). Elaborations of negative responses indicated that further supporting evidence on forms of CAM and related research may result in changes of opinion. Therefore, further research on the use of CAM is needed, allowing for evidence-based decisions to be made. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. [source]