Final Report Of Committee Research Articles

Challenges of Providing Interdisciplinary Mental Health Education

SUMMARY Recommendations and implications of the Pew Health Professions Commission's fourth and final report emphasized the importance of developing interdisciplinary competencies for health professionals (Bellack & O'Neil, 2000). Headrick and Moore (1999) reported to the Association of Academic Health Centers that interprofessional collaboration has not been easy, in part, because most health professional faculty are products of individual, discipline specific models for education. This article provides a conceptual foundation for interdisciplinary health care education at the graduate level based on findings from an interdisciplinary course in child/family mental health at East Carolina University. Classroom challenges affecting interdisciplinary offerings and specific problems that preclude integration of medical students are addressed. The article offers strategies to create a positive interdisciplinary learning climate for pre-professional education. Evidenced-based medicine is discussed as a mechanism to remove discipline specific barriers.

Truth and Reconciliation

Truth and Reconciliation

It's Later Than You Think: The Productivity Commission's Broadcasting Inquiry and beyond

The central argument of the Productivity Commission's final report on broadcasting is that Australian media policy requires substantial renovation if it is to deal effectively with new communications technologies. This article discusses the application of this argument to several important aspects of the inquiry: spectrum allocation and pricing, digital television policy, ownership and control, and local content regulation. Finally, it provides a brief comment on media coverage of the inquiry and notes factors which may work in favour of policy reform.

Discrimination among the tenured at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken and is taking steps to reverse decades of gender discrimination, says Robert J. Birgeneau, dean of the School of Science, in the March 1999 issue of the MIT Faculty Newsletter (http: //web.mitedu/faculty/reports/). Gender discrimination, primarily as it affected tenured women faculty members, has been the subject of a four-year study undertaken by the Committee on Women Faculty in the School of Science. Five of the school's six departments— biology; brain and cognitive sciences; chemistry; earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences; and physics each contributed one tenured woman to the committee. (Mathematics was not represented because it had no tenured woman.) Three senior male faculty, who were or had been department chairmen, also served. The committee's final report is printed in the newsletter. The study grew out of conversations among three tenured women faculty members of the School of Science in the summer of 1994. The women found they shared a ...

ACTU View of the Industry Commission Report on Competitive Tendering and Contracting

This report presents a critique of the Industry Commission's final report entitled Competitive Tendering and Contracting by Public Sector Agencies (1996). From a trade union perspective, the authors raise many concerns about the methodology, ideology and findings of the Industry Commission report.

Using caribou knowledge in expanding the Wabakimi protected area

When Wabakimi Wilderness Park was created in 1983, conservation of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) was one of the primary considerations. Twelve years later, in April 1995, the Government of Ontario announced that the Park, measuring some 155 000 ha, was to be expanded into a ca. 890 000 ha protected area. This was done following 2.5 yr of deliberations of the Wabakimi Park Boundary Committee. The Committee tried to reach consensus on an expanded protected area by examining a variety of options in terms of criteria related to a range of key values, one of which was woodland caribou. The analysis procedure involved dividing the 1.25-million-ha study area into more than sixty "assessment units". These were defined primarily on the basis of approximate sub-watershed boundaries. Each assessment unit was ranked on a five-level scale with respect to goodness for each value, including seasonal caribou habitat. High-value habitats for wintering, calving, and migration dominated the assessment of habitat importance for caribou.The initial assessment phase included six park expansion concepts ranging in size from just over 200 000 ha to about 1 million ha. One of the concepts (about 750 000 ha), was based specifically on the caribou value. In the second phase, four refined options were examined, ranging from just under 600 000 to roughly a million ha. Two additional options were added to the four and submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for consideration. The Committee was, in the end, unable to reach full consensus on which of the final options to recommend. However, upon consideration of the Committee's final report and other input, the Ontario Government announced in April 1995 the more than five-fold expansion. The new protected area contains about 475 000 ha of high-value caribou habitat. Caribou were a key value in determining both the ultimate size and configuration of the expansion.

Federal facilities environmental restoration dialogue committee—Final report

Federal facilities environmental restoration dialogue committee—Final report

Remedies for human subjects of cold war research: recommendations of the Advisory Committee.

At a White House ceremony in October 1995, the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments presented its Final Report to President Bill Clinton. The 925-page report and the over 2,000 pages of supplemental volumes summarized eighteen months of investigative research, debate, and deliberation on historical and contemporary issues in human subjects research. The Advisory Committee's efforts were aided by unprecedented support from the highest levels of the executive branch, including the heads of eight cabinet-level agencies and their departments' resources. The presidentially appointed committee and its staff delved into long-forgotten Cold Warera government archives, listened to hours of public testimony, interviewed key players in the development of medical therapies and nuclear weapons, and studied ethical issues arising in today's research.In this article we focus on a critical, but narrowly defined, part of the Advisory Committee's Final Report: remedying harms or wrongs to subjects of human radiation experiments conducted or sponsored by the U.S. government between 1944 and 1974.

Does the Fiduciary Bell Toll?

The Law Commission has recently examined fiduciary relations and securities regulation. The purpose of this paper is a re‐examination of some of the questions posed in the Consultation Paper (No. 124) published in April 1992, in the light of recent case law, pending the imminent publication of the Commission's final report on the matter.

Final Committee Report of Nato's Special Program for Advanced Educational Technology

This report of NATO's Advanced Educational Technology (AET) advisory committee is written to provide a summary as well as a vision of the role of technology in education. Over fifty ARW's (Advanced Research Workshops) and ASI's (Advanced Study Institutes) have provided a forum for hundreds of AET professionals to interact and collaborate. The published books and reports have had an impact on thousands of educational designers and planners. The summary of position and thematic papers that were presented at the final capstone workshop provide a framework for future research, development, and effective implementation of AET systems.

Overview of National Research Council study on the comparative costs of using rock salt and CMA for highway deicing

This paper stems from a study of the comparative costs of using rock salt and CMA for highway deicing, which is currently underway by a special committee of the National Research Council, upon request of Congress and the Federal Highway Administration. The committee consists of experts in chemistry, materials science, environmental science, economics, and highway operations and maintenance. A main objective of the study is to characterize and quantify, to the extent possible, all of the indirect costs of highway salting, including damage to motor vehicles, infrastracture, and the natural environment. Many of these costs are very difficult to quantify, especially in dollar terms, because of limited data, the very site-specific nature of some costs, and the many subtleties involved in valuing environmental damage. Specifically, this paper discusses many of the cost issues that the committee is considering during its deliberations. The objective of the study is to provide policy-makers with better information for evaluating the total cost of salt and the cost-effectiveness of salt alternatives like CMA. A final committee report is scheduled for release in the Fall of 1991.

Commission on Preservation and Access Review and Assessment Committee Final Report, September 26, 1991

Article Commission on Preservation and Access Review and Assessment Committee Final Report, September 26, 1991 was published on January 1, 1992 in the journal Microform & Digitization Review (volume 21, issue 3).

Industries Assistance Commission Final Report on Coastal Shipping

AbstractThe Final Report of the IAC on Coastal Shipping was released in early September 1988. The Findings of the Report are reproduced below. They can be compared with the Draft Findings set out in Maritime Studies for July/August 1988 (No. 41).

The Labour Legislation Review Committee's Final Report 1987

This article examines the recommendations in the Labour Legislation Review Committee's Final Report 1987and the corresponding proposed changes contained in Bills 60 and 53, as well as their impact and potential. Key new directions include mandated communications' committees for nearly all workers and greater third-party intervention into collective bargaining, particularly in construction. Should the assumptions upon which the legislative changes are based not be realized, their intent clearly need not be achieved.

Academic geriatrics for the year 2000. An Institute of Medicine report.

Estimates of the number of older Americans who will need specialized care by the year 2000 and the number of physicians who will be trained to provide that care foretell a serious disparity. In response to the projected gap, the Institute of Medicine created an ad hoc committee to identify the types of physicians likely to be needed to care for the older population, the training these physicians should receive, and ways to develop academic leaders to shape and deliver that training. This article summarizes the committee's final report, including the findings of a conference that brought together representatives of . . .

Mixed reaction to science department proposal

The recommendation last month by a presidential commission that a federal Department of Science and Technology be created to encompass “major civilian research and development (R&D) agencies” has elicited a mixed reaction from members of the geophysical sciences community.The Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, created by President Ronald Reagan in June 1983 to study ways to strengthen the ability of the United States to compete in a global marketplace, recommended establishment of a Cabinet‐level science department “to promote national interest in and policies for research and technological innovation.” The commission, chaired by John A. Young, president of the Hewlett‐Packard Company, was composed primarily of presidents and chief executive officers of major technology corporations but also included members of academia and government. Creation of a federal science and technology 'department is one of many suggestions contained in the commission's final report, Global Competition: The New Reality.

Final Report of Committee for History of Japanese Earth Sciences, Tokyo Geographical Society

Final Report of Committee for History of Japanese Earth Sciences, Tokyo Geographical Society

Introduction to AWWA Economics Research Committee report

The AWWA Economics Research Committee met in January 1980 and identified five categories of concern in water utility planning and operation: capacity planning; demand forecasting; water supply pricing; estimating water costs; and, benefits and costs of improving water quality. Existing knowledge about these topics decreases from the first to the last; i.e., the profession knows most about capacity planning and least about the benefits and costs of higher treatment standards. A subcommittee chairman for each category was assigned to produce a report on existing knowledge and research needs. Each of the subcommittees consists of two to four members who are self‐selected. A preliminary report on the work of the Economics Research Committee was given at the AWWA Annual Conference in 1980, and a fuller report was presented in a two‐hour program at the 1982 conference. The five subcommittee reports published in this issue of the JOURNAL constitute the final committee report.

Foreign Language Recommendations of the President's Commission

dent's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies was active, I served as a member of its staff with responsibility for the coordination of its foreign language components and activities. My comments below are based on observations made during that year. The recommendations I list stem directly from draft versions of the Commission's final report. It must be understood that they do not pretend to be the report itself. Moreover, as a staff member, I most assuredly cannot speak for the Commission. As a foreign language professional, however, I know that my colleagues across the nation must become acquainted with the Commission's foreign language recommendations at the earliest possible date so as to be fully prepared for the work which lies ahead. The Commission's draft foreign language recommendations focus on a) improvement of the quality of foreign language teaching; b) development of language competency for both teachers and students; c) establishment of incentives for schools to introduce and/or maintain articulated foreign language sequences; d) development of national standards for language assessment; e) promotion of greater teacher interaction in order to develop an increased sensitivity to international perspectives; and f) development of greater public awareness of the need for foreign language study. Recommendation 1: The Commission recom-

Law and the Life Sciences: Psychosurgery: Procedural Safeguards

the Commission's initial report on psychosurgery in August 1976, was anticipated. Headlines in Science noted, National Commission Issues Surprisingly Favorable Report (October 15, 1976), and in the Nation, Congress [sic] Endorses Psychosurgery (October 23, 1976). Since an endorsement of psychosurgical procedures was not what the Commissioners had in mind, the report was reconsidered at subsequent meetings, and has undergone significant revisions during the past six months. The Commission's final report on the subject was issued on March 14, 1977. Certain provisions are unlikely to please either avid promoters of psychosurgery or those favoring a complete ban; nonetheless, it is a reasonable response to a highly complex problem, and its basic approach is likely to gain general acceptance. Briefly, the Commission found that psychosurgery is an experimental procedure, that in certain cases it could have a therapeutic effect, that a potential subject's status should not de facto prohibit him from undergoing psychosurgery, and that procedural safeguards could and should be set