Racial Disparities in Education Finance: Going Beyond Equal Revenues

Examines the impact of court rulings mandating equal spending per student across districts with minority and white students, points out the lack of data measuring academic outcomes, and proposes policies to ensure an adequate education for all students

Paying for Quality: Understanding and Assessing Physician Pay-for-Performance Initiatives

Reviews the structure, prevalence, measurement issues, perception, and impact of current quality incentive programs, and discusses how much and under what circumstances they will improve quality of care. Includes descriptions of select programs

The FYN-TRAF3IP2 gene fusion drives oncogenic NF-κB signaling in peripheral T cell lymphoma

Angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma (AITL) and peripheral T cell lymphoma not-otherwise-specified (PTCL, NOS) have poor prognosis and lack actionable targets for directed therapies in most cases. Here we report the identification of FYN-TRAF3IP2 as a novel highly recurrent oncogenic gene fusion in AITL and PTCL, NOS tumors. Mechanistically, FYN-TRAF3IP2 triggers aberrant NF-κB activity by engaging TRAF6 downstream of T cell receptor signaling. Moreover, FYN-TRAF3IP2 expression in hematopoietic progenitors induces NF-κB-driven T cell transformation in mice and cooperates with loss of the Tet2 tumor suppressor in PTCL development. Therapeutically, abrogation of NF-κB signaling in FYN-TRAF3IP2-induced tumors via IκB kinase inhibitors delivers strong anti-lymphoma effects in vitro and in vivo. These results formally demonstrate an oncogenic role for FYN-TRAF3IP2 and NF-κB signaling in the pathogenesis of PTCL

Working with Employers: Skills and Strategies for Job Development Success - Facilitator Guide

Whatever their job titles -- job developer, employment specialist, business services representative -- staff who balance the competing demands of both job seeker and employer customers face a challenging task. "Working with Employers: Skills and Strategies for Job Development Success" offers ten skill development modules (each 2-1/2 to 3 hours in length) that can strengthen the effectiveness of front-line staffs job placement activities. Participants experience a peer learning community as they practice key concepts, apply those in their daily work, and gain insights from other experienced practitioners

Working with Employers: Skills and Strategies for Job Development Success - Participant Workbook

"Working with Employers: Skills and Strategies for Job Development Success" offers 10 skill development modules (each 2 1/2 to 3 hours in length) that can strengthen the effectiveness of frontline staffs job placement activities. Participants experience a peer learning community as they practice key concepts, apply those in their daily work and gain insights from other experienced practitioners

Why business academics remain in Australian universities despite deteriorating working conditions and reduced job satisfaction : an intellectual puzzle

In the last two decades, Australia\u27s 38 universities have been subjected to profound changes affecting the working lives of their academic staff. That the working conditions of staff have deteriorated cannot be denied, while many studies have shown that job satisfaction has been affected adversely. Paradoxically, there is little evidence that academics are seeking employment outside the university system. In this article, the authors report the findings from their survey of over 3000 academics employed in business disciplines in Australian universities, which aimed to find explanations for this phenomenon.<br /

The Blended Value Map: Tracking the Intersects and Opportunities of Economic, Social and Environmental Value Creation

While all organisations attempt to create value of one kind or another, the central premise of the blended value proposition is that value is itself a combination of economic, environmental and social factors, and that maximising value requires taking all three elements into account.The Blended Value Map is a beta version of what will hopefully become a suite of tools to help build the critical mass necessary to achieve and sustain real change. A bibliography as well as an executive summary are included

The Information Search Behavior of International Students when Travelling within the Countries of Study in Relation to the Effectiveness of DMO Websites

International student travel, within the countries of study, has increased over time. Through qualitative analysis, this study found that when these students travel, they generally search for information prior to travel. Regardless of prior knowledge about the location, information internet searches were the primary source. However, use of destination marketing organization (DMO) websites was not a primary source of information. The overwhelming purpose of travel, within the country of study, was for cultural experiences while budget was the main factor in decision making. The findings indicate that DMOs, whose information of destination is often cultural in nature, should work to improve the usability, accessibility and focus of websites to increase traffic

Priorities for advancing nursing knowledge

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/88192/1/ketefian-priorities_advancing_nursing.pd

Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services in the United States

The aim of this paper is to review pharmacy laws and regulations, pharmacist training, clinic considerations, and patient care outcomes regarding pharmacy-based travel health services in the United States. Pharmacists and pharmacies in the United States are highly visible and accessible to the public, and have long been regarded as a source for immunization services. As international travel continues to increase and grow in popularity in this country, there is a pressing need for expanded access to preventative health services, including routine and travel vaccinations, as well as medications for prophylaxis or self-treatment of conditions that may be acquired overseas. In the United States, the scope of pharmacy practice continues to expand and incorporate these preventable health services to varying degrees on a state-by-state level. A literature review was undertaken to identify published articles on pharmacist- or pharmacy-based travel health services or care in the United States. The results of this paper show that pharmacists can help to increase access to and awareness of the need for these services to ensure that patients remain healthy while traveling abroad, and that they do not acquire a travel-related disease while on their trip. For those pharmacists interested in starting a travel health service, considerations should be made to ensure that they have the necessary training, education, and skill set in order to provide this specialty level of care, and that their practice setting is optimally designed to facilitate the service. While there is little published work available on pharmacy or pharmacist-provided travel health services in the United States, outcomes from published studies are positive, which further supports the role of the pharmacist in this setting