SERVICES: PARASITIC OR DYNAMIC?

Traditional economic theorists have argued that services in general, and public services in particular, are unproductive and parasitic. Data is presented from seven representative countries at varying levels of economic development to show that, in fact, services are productive and play a critical role both in enabling the production of goods and In ensuring quality of life. Copyright 1985 by The Policy Studies Organization.

Quality Career Counselling Services: A Developmental Tool for Organizational Accountability

There is growing attention to issues concerning quality services in career counselling. At the same time, very few practical working tools are available to help organizations build quality of service principles, practices and policies into all levels of their organizations. Even fewer do so with attention to the importance of staff development as well as quality control as central to quality service. A workbook supporting both objectives has been developed and tested. Its several components are described and a more detailed discussion of an accountability framework is included. The development of additional practical resources to support increased evaluation in career counselling is suggested.Une attention de plus en plus grande porte sur les problèmes concernant la qualité des services en counseling de carrière. Par contre, il y a très peu d'outils de travail disponibles pour aider les organismes à développer des principes de service de qualité, des pratiques et des politiques à tous les niveaux de leurs organisations. De plus, plusieurs mettent très peu d'emphase sur l'importance du développement professionnel de leurs employés aussi bien que le contrôle de la qualité comme étant un élément central de la qualité de service. Un manuel a été développé et testé pour appuyer ces deux objectifs. Ces différentes composantes sont décrites et une discussion détaillée sur la pertinence du cadre de référence est incluse. Le développement de ressources additionnelles pratiques pour appuyer l'importance de l'évaluation en counseling de carrière est suggéré

Common variation near CDKN1A, POLD3 and SHROOM2 influences colorectal cancer risk

We performed a meta-analysis of five genome-wide association studies to identify common variants influencing colorectal cancer (CRC) risk comprising 8,682 cases and 9,649 controls. Replication analysis was performed in case-control sets totaling 21,096 cases and 19,555 controls. We identified three new CRC risk loci at 6p21 (rs1321311, near CDKN1A; P = 1.14 × 10 -10), 11q13.4 (rs3824999, intronic to POLD3; P = 3.65 × 10 -10) and Xp22.2 (rs5934683, near SHROOM2; P = 7.30 × 10 -10) This brings the number of independent loci associated with CRC risk to 20 and provides further insight into the genetic architecture of inherited susceptibility to CRC.</p