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Admission Policies (admission + policy)
Selected AbstractsCurrent admission policies of long-term care facilities in JapanGERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2003Yoshihisa Hirakawa Background: The rapidly aging society in Japan is putting demands on long-term care facilities for the elderly who require care. In Europe and the USA, there is ongoing reform of elderly care services, but the establishment of system based on social insurance is still being explored in Japan. Methods: Two studies were conducted, the first in 2000 and the second in 2001, involving 91 long-term care facilities located in or around the city of Nagoya. Questionnaires were sent to facility directors, chief administrators or head nurses to inquire about their admission policies for six major patient categories. Two educational lectures on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and urinary incontinence were given between the distribution of the questionnaires. Results: For all six categories featured on the questionnaire, the acceptance rate in both studies was the highest in geriatric hospitals, and an improvement in acceptance rates was seen in the second study in all three types of care facilities. When the effect the lectures had on changes in admission policies at these facilities was examined, no correlation was found. Conclusions: Lectures should be given to facility management and personnel to raise their awareness of key issues and improve their efficiency. [source] Informing Theory from Practice and Applied ResearchJOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 3 2006Patricia Gurin Editors' introduction: Patricia Gurin grew up in southern Indiana where citizens split in support of the South and the North during the Civil War, and where the Ku Klux Klan was founded. After graduating from Northwestern University, she worked with the American Friends Service Committee (the social action voice of the Quakers). Later, after earning her PhD in social psychology at the University of Michigan, she (with Edgar Epps) conducted a study of students attending historically Black colleges, focusing on how the vast majority integrated collective and individual achievements, worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and stayed in college at the same time. That work initiated her life-long interest in personal and group identity. Most recently, Gurin presented expert testimony in the 2003 Supreme Court cases on affirmative action and the use of race in college admissions decisions. This social science evidence, providing strong support for the compelling interest for diversity in higher education, was widely cited in the majority opinion favoring race-conscious admission policies. Gurin brings this rich activist scholarship to her commentary and discusses the promise of practice and applied research for informing theory. She traces her own professional biography, one that evolved from being a researcher (using primarily national surveys) and teacher (primarily large lecture courses) to becoming intimately involved in teaching through interactive, small group learning communities. Gurin brings to light contributions from the articles that converge on theorizing about the social context such that the theorizing can take into account differences rather than be applied universally. [source] A dynamic admission control scheme to manage contention on shared computing resourcesCONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION: PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, Issue 2 2009Percival Xavier Abstract A virtual organization is established when physical organizations collaborate to share their computing resources with the aim of serving each other when there is a likelihood of insufficient local resources during peak resource usage periods at any organization. Contention becomes a potential problem when a large number of requests, which can overwhelm the aggregate capacity of shared resources, are submitted from the participating organizations coincidentally at the same period. In particular, when a small number of requests that require large amounts of computing resources are admitted in place of a large number of requests that require less computing resources, the overall system performance, in terms of admission ratio, can deteriorate significantly. Hence, admission control is necessary to reduce resource oversubscription. Because domain-shared computing resources are likely to be combined to form a large-scale system, it is not possible to define a fixed admission policy solely based on the request's CPU and execution time requirements. In this paper, we introduce an admission control framework, based on a pricing model, for a multi-domain-shared computing infrastructure. The performance of the admission control framework is evaluated under different scenarios that contribute to the overall degree of competition for shared resources. The results are presented and analyzed in this paper. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Migration Policy and Industrial Structure: The Case of SwitzerlandINTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, Issue 2 2008Leonhard Becker ABSTRACT Structural change in OECD countries, emphasizing knowledge-based sectors, has led to an increasing demand for highly skilled labour. One means of meeting this demand has been to implement a selective immigration policy. Such policies, however, have been criticized for channelling labour into low-producing sectors and occupations, hampering structural change. Proponents of such criticism point to Switzerland's former policy of channelling immigrants into so-called seasonal sectors, a practice abandoned in the early 1990s, as having contributed to Switzerland's low growth rates. To assess this, we here analyse the amended migration policy's effects on skill structure and sectoral distribution of immigration flows using data from the Swiss Census of 1990 and 2000 to determine whether the new policy has led to an immigrant inflow more adapted to the processes of structural change. We find that the share of highly skilled immigrants has increased notably under the new migration policy. Our analysis also shows an important change in the sectoral focus of the new arrival inflow. Not only have fewer immigrants been entering declining sectors, but the majority of migrants arriving under the new policy regime have been absorbed into growing and knowledge-based sectors, meaning they are employed primarily in service and knowledge-intensive sectors. Overall, the analysis provides ample evidence that the current admission policy as ositively contributed to tructural change in Switzerland. [source] Affirmative action, duality of error, and the consequences of mispredicting the academic performance of african american college applicantsJOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2002Jeryl L. Mumpower The implications of different potential affirmative action policies depend on three factors: selection rate from the applicant pool, base rate of qualified applicants, and accuracy of performance predictions. A series of analyses was conducted under various assumptions concerning affirmative action plans, causes of racial differences in average college admissions test scores, and racial differences in accuracy of performance predictions. Evidence suggesting a lower level of predictive accuracy for African Americans implies that, under a program of affirmative action, both proportionately more false positives (matriculated students who do not succeed) and proportionately more false negatives (rejected applicants who could have succeeded) will be found among African American applicants. Unless equivalent levels of predictive accuracy are achieved for both groups, no admission policy can be fair simultaneously to majority group applicants and African American applicants. © 2002 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. [source] Dropping out of medical school in the UK: explaining the changes over ten yearsMEDICAL EDUCATION, Issue 4 2007Wiji Arulampalam Context, In the context of changing admissions criteria and an expanding medical school intake in the UK, we analysed the determinants of the medical school dropout probability. Objectives, We aimed to analyse the determinants of the probability that a student will drop out of medical school during Year 1 and to compare the results of this analysis over time. Methods, We carried out logistic regression analysis for the 6 intake cohorts of 1990,92 and 1998,2000. Results, Between 1990,92 and 1998,2000, there were substantial increases in both the size of the entry cohort and the proportion of students dropping out of medical school. A logit model for the 1990,92 and 1998,2000 cohorts reveals that the probability of dropping out depended on both the medical school attended and the personal characteristics of the student, including academic preparedness. Almost none of the increase in the dropout rate between the 2 cohort groups can be explained by changes in observable characteristics of the students over this period. Instead, most of the increase in the dropout rate is associated with changes at the level of the institution and in unobserved student characteristics. Conclusions, University effects, rather than changes in observed student characteristics, explain most of the increased dropout rate over the time period considered. Candidate explanations behind these effects include: less effective admissions policies; changing curricula; greater costs of attending medical school, and a growing mismatch between student and school characteristics. Testing between these competing hypotheses is left for future work. [source] Ethical dimensions of the open-door admissions policyNEW DIRECTIONS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES, Issue 148 2009William G. Ingram Ethical dilemmas at the community college often pose a choice between options equally grounded in the core values of the institution. These dilemmas often emerge from disputes that are complex, dynamic, and politically volatile. We review the development of one such dispute to show how our understanding of institutional core values is often only clarified through reflection and consultation with appropriate advisors, authorities, and constituencies. [source] Preparedness for rural community leadership and its impact on practice location of family medicine graduatesAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 1 2005Wayne Woloschuk Abstract Objective:,To identify non-clinical dimensions of preparedness for rural practice and to determine whether preparedness for rural practice is predictive of rural practice location. Design:,Cross-sectional postal survey mailed in 2001. Setting:,Communities across Canada where graduates were practising. Subjects:,,Graduates (n = 369) of the family medicine residency program at the universities of Alberta (U of A) and Calgary (U of C) between 1996 and 2000, inclusive. Interventions:,Using a 4-point scale, graduates rated the extent to which the residency program prepared them for eight dimensions of rural practice: clinical demands of rural practice, understanding rural culture, small community living, balancing work and personal life, establishing personal/professional boundaries, becoming a community leader, handling a ,fish bowl' lifestyle, and choosing a suitable community. Main outcome measure:,Identification of non-clinical dimensions of preparedness for rural practice and whether scores on preparedness scales are predictive of rural practice location. Results:,The overall response rate was 76.4%. Factor analysis of the eight preparedness items produced two factors, ,rural culture' and ,rural community leader' which explained 72% of the variance. The alpha coefficient for each factor was 0.87. Odds ratios revealed that family medicine graduates prepared for rural community leadership roles were 1.92 (CI = 1.03,3.61) times more likely to be in rural practice. Rural physicians were also 2.14 (CI = 1.13,4.03) times as likely to have a rural background. Conclusions:,Preparedness to be a rural community leader and having a rural background were predictive of rural practice. Educators should consider this in both family medicine residency admissions policy and practice and when designing and implementing family medicine residency curricula. [source] | ||||||||||