Baylor Health Care System: High-Performance Integrated Health Care

Describes the organization's implementation of a quality infrastructure and its strategies, interventions to improve clinical preventive services, training, and adoption of electronic health records and other quality innovations. Outlines lessons learned

Hill Physicians Medical Group: Independent Physicians Working to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs

Describes how a group of independent physicians improved clinical outcomes through an innovative incentive system -- combining pay-for-performance and fee-for-service -- implemented with quality improvement processes. Discusses lessons learned

The Casemate Wall System of Khirbat Safra

Problem A casemate wall system was found at Khirbat Safra in 2018 and 2019, which has been dated to early Iron Age I. However, no comprehensive study of Iron Age I casemate wall systems in Transjordan has been conducted. Therefore, this thesis will present and compare the findings from Kh. Safra and four other sites in Transjordan which have casemate wall systems dating to Iron Age I. Method A short study on the history of fortifications, casemate wall systems, and siege warfare was conducted for this thesis. The ruins from Fields A, B, C, and D at Kh. Safra were then examined along with the ruins of four other Iron Age I casemate wall systems in Transjordan. Lastly, the features of these five casemate wall systems were compared. Results Parallels to the casemate wall system of Kh. Safra were found at four sites throughout Transjordan. A comparison of the parallels helps to understand the form and function of the Iron Age I casemate wall systems found in Transjordan so far. Conclusions It was possible to conclude that the casemate wall system of Kh. Safra is unique in terms of its location (being the only Iron Age I casemate wall system in its region) but not in terms of its form and function. Rather, Kh. Safra and the four other Iron Age I casemate wall systems in Transjordan share many similarities both architecturally and potentially through the purpose these defensive walls served

Applications of resource mobilization theory (RMT) as a framework for distributive justice in the archives field

This poster explores whether the resource mobilization theory (RMT) of social movements can serve as a tool for pursuing distributive justice in archives; distributive justice referring to the equitable access to resources necessary for sustainability, agency, and autonomy. Findings of this theoretical literature review indicate that social movement theories such as RMT can provide a valuable lens through which archivists may critically re-examine uneven resource distributions across organizational contexts, facilitating solidaric, accountable, and mutually beneficial relationships necessary to achieve transformative social change

"Conditions of possibility" : towards an archival praxis informed by Black feminist anarchism and a critical trans politics

Grassroots and radical archives have increasingly been presented as more socially just alternatives to dominant institutions. This increased recognition is weighted with a set of risks that minoritized memory-workers must navigate. Under the auspices of the gendered, racial-capitalist settler state, dominant institutions will ultimately work to diffuse the potentials of radical memory work and organizing that threatens their hegemony while continuing to profit from this work. In this thesis, I ask, what are we to do—as trans, queers, crips, criminals, whores, dykes, fags and anarchists—who hope to do liberatory memory work while existing in spaces that at best are extracting from us, and at worst, killing us? Can memory work existing under the auspices of the white supremacist settler-state, within these institutions, be truly revolutionary? How can we document our social movement histories, working class resistance, and lawless subversion without replicating the administrative violence, surveillance, and carceral logics of the nation-state? To address these questions, I draw upon my experiential knowledge organizing with the books to prisons collective, Inside Books Project (IBP) over a span of nine years. As a queer-crip, non-binary anarchist and prison abolitionist, my political praxes formed the basis of an archival methodology that enabled me to navigate some of these questions in my capacity as the project archivist for IBP. I argue that frameworks of Black feminist anarchism and critical trans politics can inform an archival praxis that emerges in the interstices of impossible being and becoming embodied by the enslaved, incarcerated, detained, maimed, undocumented, disabled, and disposable. Drawing on the work of Black archivists and anarchists, I will discuss how I have applied these praxes in my work documenting the narratives of incarcerated people in Texas. In doing this, I hope to promote a more sustained engagement with Black feminist anarchism and a critical trans politics in the field of memory work and archives. I also hope to encourage anarchists and others organizing towards collective liberation to more actively engage in memory work as a praxis of disruption, subversion, and radical futurityWomen's and Gender StudiesInformatio

The Ongoing Journey : Women and The Bible

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Patterns of apparent oxygen utilization and circulation in Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island B.C.

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 444In this study, dissolved oxygen was measured in Barkley Sound and Effingham Inlet with the use of a CTD and Winkler titrations. Oxygen minimum zones or "dead zones" in the world's oceans can be strongly influenced by circulation patterns. Oxygen is a useful tracer of circulation and long and short term processes that can have serious consequences for macrofauna. Areas of old and newer water in Barkley Sound were identified.University of Washington, School of Oceanograph

An experimental investigation of the impact of conflicting project goals on staff resource allocation

The Department of Defense Information Technology budget stands at nine billion dollars and is under severe scrutiny while the backlog of required software continues to grow. It is thereby necessary to improve the efficiency of managing the software process. This thesis uses the Systems Dynamic Model of Software Project Management to investigate the effects of stated goals on project manager behavior. Specifically, the experiment focuses on how software project managers allocate resources in both relaxed and constrained resource environments. The effect of goals on manager performance are measured in terms of staffing level decisions, percent of staff allocated to quality assurance activities, estimated schedule, and estimated cost. The results show that manager performance is highly sensitive to stated goals.http://archive.org/details/anexperimentalin1094531495NANAU.S. Marine Corps (U.S.M.C.) author