Methods and approaches to improving the emotional health and well being of children: A briefing paper concerning interventions to prevent internalising disorders

This paper presents a summary of the prevalence of somatic, anxiety and depressive disorders in children and of the known risk and protective factors associated with these problems. It then reviews the evidence for successful treatments and prevention programmes, focusing on psychological therapies rather than pharmacological interventions, with particular emphasis on interventions for children of primary school age

Auditor Type and Audit Quality Differences in Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations – U.S. Evidence

The purpose of this paper is to explore audit quality in nonprofit healthcare organizations by investigating differences in audit report outcomes. Specifically, we examine the relationship between auditor type and auditor-disclosed internal control exceptions in Circular A-133 audits of U.S. nonprofit healthcare organizations. Our findings indicate audits of nonprofit healthcare organizations conducted by the Big Four CPA firms carry a lower likelihood of disclosing internal control exceptions (i.e., reportable conditions and material weaknesses) than are audits conducted by smaller CPA firms. This challenges the general contention from prior studies that the Big Four firms are better audit quality providers and indicates that the alleged superiority of Big Four firms in terms of audit quality may not be generalizable to all industry sectors.Audit quality, Auditor type, Circular A-133, Nonprofit healthcare, Single Audit Act

Developing and Implementing Self-Direction Programs and Policies: A Handbook

Provides a guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating service delivery models that allow public program participants to manage their own care services and supports. Outlines elements of employer and budget authorities, enrollment, and counseling

Aging, Auditory Distraction and Grammaticality Judgment

This study examined the effects of auditory distraction and short term memory on reaction times for normal individuals (ages 20-25 and 50-70) in a reading grammaticality judgment task. Subjects read whole sentences presented on computer screen and decided as quickly as possible whether each sentence was "good" (permissible in English) or "bad" (not permissible). Sentences were varied by grammaticality, reversibility, and location of extraneous words in relation to the grammatical constraint. The task was presented in quiet and in two levels of distraction. Results suggest age-related patterns of response to the stimulus variables in the face of auditory distraction

Towards the Spiritual — The Electroacoustic Music of Jonathan Harvey

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Offering Preceptor Incentives In Nurse Practitioner Education

Recruitment and retention of clinical preceptors for Nurse Practitioner (NP) students is a challenge for coordinators of NP academic programs. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore what incentives and benefits are offered to clinical preceptors of NP students in accredited NP academic programs across the United States. An online questionnaire was emailed one time to a convenience sample of program coordinators of 333 universities and colleges in the U.S. that offer NP programs. Fifty-four individuals responded (16% response rate) to the survey, and the data were reported quantitatively. Text from additional comments was analyzed and interpreted using a quasi-qualitative method. This study on incentives was framed in the context of theories and literature about motivation. Analysis and interpretation reveal that the many challenges identified included compensation, relationships, and intrinsic factors such as the joy of teaching, and /or the desire and obligation to give back to the profession. Implications for educators include establishing positive relationships with preceptors and leaders in health care organizations, structuring preceptor site visits that support quality teaching/learning environments, and selecting preceptors and students who are a good match. Transformational leaders must meet challenges with innovative actions such as advocating for preceptors’ requests for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and in some cases, legislative support for tax credits. Individuals and organizations who are impacted by the struggle that coordinators of NP programs face in securing and maintaining qualified preceptors and placements should be made aware of these challenges. The findings from this study contribute to the understanding of what creates incentives for preceptors in NP education and have significance for NP academic programs, and ultimately, for preparing future primary care providers in the U.S

Why will rat's go where rats will not

Experimental evidence indicates that regular plurals are nearly always omitted from English compounds (e.g., rats-eater) while irregular plurals may be included within these structures (e.g., mice-chaser). This phenomenon is considered to be good evidence to support the dual mechanism model of morphological processing (Pinker & Prince, 1992). However, evidence from neural net modelling has shown that a single route associative memory based account might provide an equally, if not more, valid explanation of the compounding phenomenon

Plural morphology in compounding is not good evidence to support the dual mechanism model

The compounding phenomena is considered to be good evidence to support the dual mechanism model of morphological processing (Pinker & Prince, 1992). However evidence from initial neural net modeling has shown that a single route associative memory based account might provide an equally, if not more valid explanation of the treatment of plurals in compounds. Further neural net modeling and empirical work is proposed to test this single route accoun

Beekeeping adoption : A case study of three smallholder farming communities in Baringo County, Kenya

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