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Collaborative Initiatives (collaborative + initiative)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Medical Sciences33%
Humanities and Social Sciences33%

Selected Abstracts

ACTFL and Regional Conferences Launch Collaborative Initiative

FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, Issue 4 2000
Article first published online: 31 DEC 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Special Review , fruits for the future: a collaborative initiative

JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2006
Lindsay Banin
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: An American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative,

ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATISM, Issue 9 2010
Daniel Aletaha
Objective The 1987 American College of Rheumatology (ACR; formerly, the American Rheumatism Association) classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been criticized for their lack of sensitivity in early disease. This work was undertaken to develop new classification criteria for RA. Methods A joint working group from the ACR and the European League Against Rheumatism developed, in 3 phases, a new approach to classifying RA. The work focused on identifying, among patients newly presenting with undifferentiated inflammatory synovitis, factors that best discriminated between those who were and those who were not at high risk for persistent and/or erosive disease,this being the appropriate current paradigm underlying the disease construct "rheumatoid arthritis." Results In the new criteria set, classification as "definite RA" is based on the confirmed presence of synovitis in at least 1 joint, absence of an alternative diagnosis that better explains the synovitis, and achievement of a total score of 6 or greater (of a possible 10) from the individual scores in 4 domains: number and site of involved joints (score range 0,5), serologic abnormality (score range 0,3), elevated acute-phase response (score range 0,1), and symptom duration (2 levels; range 0,1). Conclusion This new classification system redefines the current paradigm of RA by focusing on features at earlier stages of disease that are associated with persistent and/or erosive disease, rather than defining the disease by its late-stage features. This will refocus attention on the important need for earlier diagnosis and institution of effective disease-suppressing therapy to prevent or minimize the occurrence of the undesirable sequelae that currently comprise the paradigm underlying the disease construct "rheumatoid arthritis." [source]

Scottish visitor attractions: a collaborative future?

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH, Issue 3 2001
Alan Fyall
Abstract Although interorganisational collaboration is increasingly being accepted as a necessary, even desirable strategy for the tourism industry as a whole, there would appear to be a number of impediments to the implementation of collaborative initiatives among operators of visitor attractions. This paper focuses on the visitor attractions sector in Scotland, where such impediments are considered to be particularly serious. For a number of reasons, however, collaboration may represent a crucial strategy for visitor attractions in Scotland as they enter the new millennium. This paper sets out to assess the potential for intrasectoral, interorganisational collaborative strategies in enhancing the long-term viability of the Scottish visitor attractions sector. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Globalization of tertiary nursing education in post-Mao China: A preliminary qualitative assessment

NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES, Issue 4 2001
Zhaomin Xu RN
Abstract This article examines China's collaborative initiatives with Western countries to assess the impact of globalization on Chinese nursing education, especially at the post-secondary level, in the post-Mao era. Through the theoretical framework of mutuality, it evaluates the outcomes of globalization in two broad domains: pedagogy and system-institution-program building. In addition, case studies on two collaborative projects between Chinese nursing programs and Western institutions were conducted to further illustrate the principles of mutuality. This qualitative assessment is primarily based on a systematic review of published studies on the multifaceted dimensions of globalization in Chinese post-secondary nursing education in both English and Chinese nursing literature since 1990. It is supplemented by unpublished documents and data obtained from a research trip to China in 2000. The study concludes that globalization has been, and will remain, one of the major forces underpinning Chinese nursing education (and the nursing profession in general), which is moving towards integration into the global nursing community. However, there is a significant imbalance in the knowledge transfer equation both in the national and international context. Great efforts need to be made to synthesize nursing knowledge in the East and West to achieve an integrative nursing science. [source]

The Powder Diffraction File: present and future

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B, Issue 3-1 2002
John Faber
The International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) produces the Powder Diffraction File (PDF). This paper discusses some of the seminal events in the history of producing this primary reference for powder diffraction. Recent key events that center on collaborative initiatives have led to an enormous jump in entry population for the PDF. Collective efforts to editorialize the PDF are ongoing and provide enormous added value to the file. Recently, the ICDD has created a new series of the PDF, designated PDF-4. These relational database structures are being used to house the PDF of the future. The design and benefits of the PDF-4 are described. [source]