Best Practice Application: Identifying High and Low Behavior and Performance Using

How can we identify best-practice providers? Under the combined influence of GPRA 1, the NPR, the state and community benchmarking efforts, and GASB SEA reporting requirements, most federal, state, and local government agencies, private for-profit and nonprofit organizations delivering government programs under grants and contracts, will become involved in performance measurement. Once governments begin routinely collecting and reporting performance measurement data, policymakers and policy evaluators will be faced with the task of identifying best-practice providers. How can governments go about making comparisons among service providers using performance measurement data? Can best-practice providers actually be identified? Based on previous analysis using a Quantile Regression and SWLS model for estimation and inference, this article introduces a new approach to estimating models of extreme behavior. Quantile Regression and SWLS are investigated to lay a foundation for putting forward the new analysis technique: Segmentation Strategy. Then, some preparatory work for Monte Carlo Simulation, including determining the structure of simulated data sets, is described. Thirdly, the computational results are displayed and analyzed. Finally, some conclusions and future research directions are provided

Does Public Servants’ Low Trust in Citizen Raters Really Matter? Evidence from Mainland China

This article examines the trust that public servants have in Chinese citizens using a typical public service rating and ranking system: the Assessment and Discussion of Professional Ethos (ADPE). We pose questions on whether public servants expressed concerns about trusting citizens as raters, whether the seemingly low interest of citizens in rating means that their ratings are reliable, what the relationship was between low trust and the citizens, whether the ADPE was an incentive, and public service responsiveness after the ADPE had been completed. These questions are assessed by (1) a content analysis of official and scholastic ADPE articles, (2) a survey of municipal officials in Yuncheng City where an ADPE operated for several years and (3) the opinions of interviewees. The content analysis reveals that public servants seemed to trust citizens, but the survey data reveals that the opposite might be true. Nevertheless, low trust in citizens did not affect either public service responsiveness or incentivization. Using a gaming perspective, we argue that the ADPE might be an ineffective institutional arrangement. We suggest methods for eliminating public servants lack of trust that include enhancing the value of trust shown in citizens, making trust matter, developing techniques to select citizens experienced in using public services for rankings, and enhancing the transparency of the rating information

CGPE: A user-friendly gene and pathway explore webserver for public cancer transcriptional data

Digitized for IUPUI ScholarWorks inclusion in 2021.High throughput technology has been widely used by researchers to understand diseases at the molecular level. Database and servers for downloading and analyzing these publicly data is available as well. But there is still lacking tools for facilitating researchers to study the function of genes in pathways views by integrated public omics data