threatening the independence of older persons. Fall and fall related injuries are major public health challenges that call for global attention with the rapidly increase in number of the elderly (1). In Egypt‚ the number of elderly persons reached 5.8 million reached 5.8 million in 2011 and was estimated 7.3% of total population‚ and it is expected to increase to 11.6% in 2030(2). Fall is a serious public health problem‚ with substantial impact on health and healthcare costs (1). . Depending
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Few reforms promise to do more to fundamentally alter the structure of public education in America than school choice. Yet proponents and opponents alike are at a loss to describe just how those changes will manifest themselves. Low student performance and graduation rates at one Los Angeles Unified School District school provide an opportunity to examine important issues surrounding school choice and alternatives for reform. Although the school provides an educational makeup according to district
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public enterprise‚ a business organization wholly or partly owned by the state and controlled through a public authority. Some public enterprises are placed under public ownership because‚ for social reasons‚ it is thought the service or product should be provided by a state monopoly. Utilities (gas‚ electricity‚ etc.)‚ broadcasting‚ telecommunications‚ and certain forms of transport are examples of this kind of public enterprisepublic enterprise‚ a business organization wholly or partly owned by
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Throughout history‚ religion and science have been in constant clashes‚ and one of the most recent clashes is whether if creationism and/or intelligent design should be taught in public schools. According to The Oxford Dictionary‚ creationism is defined as the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation‚ as in the biblical account‚ rather than by natural processes such as evolution. The Oxford Dictionary also defines intelligent design as the theory
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FERPA is extremely important in public education. During my observation hours at Byng High School I witnessed this privacy law first hand. A teacher from another class came into the teachers class I was observing to discuss away to help a student that was struggling. The teacher didn’t use the child’s name‚ and in no way allowed the teacher or anyone to know the child’s identity. Another
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Imagine being lost or don’t know where to go. You go each night and day in the cold and nasty weather on a ground called your bed. When you wake up every morning to all different noises trying to decide what public place will let you clean off. When you get hungry‚ you beg people for change to get a cheap meal or go through the trash for meals. For the rest of the day you will sit and wait until somebody notice you and help you out. Sleeping under bridges until you find a shelter to sleep in. Going
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country’s administrative system. As a result‚ Riggs abandoned models that differentiated between agrarianism and industrialism. Rather‚ Riggs opted to create a more diverse‚ yet simplified model‚ namely‚ the “fused-prismatic-diffracted” model or what I have chosen to call a “prismatic” model. The formulation of the prismatic model was primarily based upon the extent to which a social administrative system undergoes functional differentiation. The model is appropriate for studying three societal
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Distinction of administration and management Management (BS201) Simplex @2012 2012 UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE STUDENT As an opening point in an attempt to distinguish administration and management‚ administration has been defined by Theo Haimann as the overall determination of policies‚ setting of major objectives‚ the identification of general purposes and laying down of broad programmes and projects. Management has been defined as the process of planning organising directing and controlling
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Henry S. Truman was born on May eighth‚ 1884 in the farm town of Lamar‚ Missouri. As a young man he aspired to go to West Point‚ but his poor eyesight Page 1 prevented him from that. Instead after college he helped on his family farm and eventually served in the Missouri National Guard. His governmental life began with being elected district judge. He then became a Senator and in 1945 became the Vice President to democratic President Franklin Roosevelt. Less than a year into Roosevelt’s fourth term
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Published in Institutionenbildung in Regierung und Verwaltung: Festschrift fur Klaus Konig‚ A. Benz‚ H. Siedentopf‚ and K.P. Sommermann‚ eds. (Berlin‚Germany: Duncker & Humbolt‚ 2004)‚ pp. 443-454. Traditional Public Administration versus The New Public Management: Accountability versus Efficiency James P. Pfiffner George Mason University The development of the classical model of administrative owes much to the administrative tradition of Germany and the articulation of the principles of bureaucracy
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