Recommendations Of Report Research Articles

Viewpoints: when the Islamisation model doesn't work

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to encourage debate around the issues of the bank and Islamisation.Design/methodology/approach – The work is an ideological examination of approaches to Islamisation and includes references to thinkers from Muslim history.Findings – The Islamisation model is not wholly appropriate in the banking sector.Practical implications – The paper highlights the limitations of the Islamisation approach and puts forward the case for another methodology, Namely the model of Islamication.Social implications – The impact of the author's recommendations, if followed would revolutionise the way banking is carried out.Originality/value – The conceptualization of Islamication with regard to banking has not yet been academically formulated. This paper provides a platform to do this. Although Muslim societies and Muslims living in the West will be interested in the paper, non Muslim scholars Europe too, faced with a banking crisis may welcome some of the report's recommendations.

Neoliberalising Adaptation to Environmental Change: Foresight or Foreclosure?

The UK's Government Office for Science has recently released an important report, produced by its internal think tank Foresight. Over seventy peer-reviewed studies have been commissioned and some 350 experts and `stakeholders' have been involved in creating Migration and Global Environmental Change (Foresight, 2011). Its lead authors have recently published a summary of the main conclusions in the leading scientific journal Nature (Black et al, 2011), and the report has already received extensive media coverage. By virtue of its scope and authorship, the report can be considered a milestone in the scientific and practitioner fields related to environment and migration. It is targeted at a wide readership, both in academia and in policy-making circles.(1) An attached `action plan' suggests that the report's findings and recommendations are already being disseminated widely within international organisations and governance networks worldwide.

Leading Change: How Nurses Can Attract Political Support for the IOM Report on the Future of Nursing

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” offers a historic opportunity to transform nursing to improve patient care for all Americans. 1 The Institute of Medicine The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC2010http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/The-Future-of-Nursing-Leading-Change-Advancing-Health.aspx Google Scholar If policymakers heed the report's recommendations, the United States could create a future healthcare system that fosters interprofessional collaboration, makes quality care more accessible to diverse populations, promotes wellness and disease prevention, reliably improves health outcomes, and provides compassionate care across the lifespan. Nurses at all levels must take ownership of these recommendations and seek allies from a wide variety of fields, both within and outside of healthcare, to attract the political capital necessary to implement these recommendations. It will take active political involvement of nurses in every community throughout the United States to move these recommendations forward. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” offers a historic opportunity to transform nursing to improve patient care for all Americans. 1 The Institute of Medicine The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC2010http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/The-Future-of-Nursing-Leading-Change-Advancing-Health.aspx Google Scholar If policymakers heed the report's recommendations, the United States could create a future healthcare system that fosters interprofessional collaboration, makes quality care more accessible to diverse populations, promotes wellness and disease prevention, reliably improves health outcomes, and provides compassionate care across the lifespan. Nurses at all levels must take ownership of these recommendations and seek allies from a wide variety of fields, both within and outside of healthcare, to attract the political capital necessary to implement these recommendations. It will take active political involvement of nurses in every community throughout the United States to move these recommendations forward.

Students' perspective on rooting out causes of health injustice

This year, the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), which represents 1·2 million medical students worldwide, made health inequities and action on social determinants of health a key policy focus. 1 International Federation of Medical Students' AssociationsPolicy statement on health inequity and the social determinants of health. Jakarta, Indonesia, 60th March General Assembly of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations. http://www.ifmsa.orgDate: March, 2011 Google Scholar A global campaign, Root Out, Reach Out, 2 Root OutReach OutInternational Federation of Medical Students' Association's week of global action on social determinants of health. http://root-out.org Google Scholar has been organised to coincide with the 2011 World Conference on Social Determinants of Health. We believe that the final report 3 Commission on Social Determinants of HealthClosing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health. World Health Organization, Geneva2008 Google Scholar of WHO's Commission on Social Determinants of Health should have provided a watershed moment in the worldwide movement towards achieving global health justice. Although some governments have heeded the report's recommendations, the voice of the Commission has gone largely unheard because of a lack of both political commitment and effective policy making capacity. Unless addressed, these challenges have the potential to undermine any outcomes of the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health.

From Defence Reform to Defence Transformation

The October 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review did not consider the important topic of Ministry of Defence reform; this was instead left to the recently published Levene Report. While plenty has been made about the problems the Report identifies, much remains to be said about its methods for resolving them. As the process of implementation begins, this article considers how effective the Report's recommendations are likely to be – and whether a new set of problems is being created.

Pancreatic Cancer Prevention and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Pancreatic Cancer Prevention and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

D1. Human Rights Watch, “Separate and Unequal: Israel-s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” Summary Section, New York, 19 December 2010 (excerpts).

This major human rights report examines the two-tier system of laws, rules, and services that Israel operates for the two populations-Israeli settler and Palestinian-in the areas of the West Bank under its exclusive control, notably Area C and East Jerusalem. Praised by UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur Richard Falk as “exhaustively document[ing] the forms of discrimination against Palestinians” in these areas, the 166-page report uses regional case studies to show how zoning, construction permits, demolitions, land confiscations, restrictions on freedom of movement, access to natural resources, jurisprudence, and inconsistent enforcement of the law expand and deepen Israel's (permanent) hold on these areas. Much remarked upon was the report's recommendation that the U.S. government consider suspending aid to Israel in an amount equivalent to Israel's spending on settlements and examine the legality of tax exemptions to U.S. organizations that funnel support to them. The report's summary section is largely reproduced below, with the subsection on freedom of movement omitted on the grounds that the regime of permits, barriers, settler-only roads, and seam zones are more familiar to JPS readers. Also omitted, for space considerations, are the endnotes. The full text is available online at www.hrw.org.

Transforming American Education: Revolution or Counter-Revolution?

This article critiques the report of President Obama's taskforce on educational technology, ‘Transforming American Education’. It calls into question the claims of the authors that the proposed policy is ‘revolutionary’, and then offers a point-by-point comparison between the report's recommendations and those derived from a perspective taking full account of the genuinely revolutionary implications for learning of the new web 2.0 technologies. It concludes that the taskforce proposals constrain rather than facilitate the digital revolution in education.

Rose and primary English: are the shackles really off?

This article offers a critical appraisal of some of the Rose Report's recommendations for the primary English curriculum. It is divided into two parts. The first discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the recommendations whilst raising questions about their potential to bring about urgently needed curriculum renewal. The second is a reflective study of a short, intensive teaching programme recently conducted with a Year 6 class which used a children's story to improve writing performance. Dramatic activities and a progressive model for questioning texts made use of pedagogical strategies which were designed to engage children's enjoyment and motivation whilst also ensuring that developmental gains were made in spoken language, thinking and writing. The head teacher who initiated the project had already embarked on a series of new approaches to the curriculum which happened to coincide with Rose's recommendations to make greater use of spoken language and drama in reading and writing development. It is suggested that such approaches can make a strong impact upon children's learning across several areas. However, what is left unresolved is the question of whether high stakes testing and literacy prescriptions will continue to inhibit the real potential which exists for curriculum change.

The Group of Thirty Report: Misconceptions About Money Market Funds

The Group of Thirty in 2009 issued a report entitled “Financial Reform: A Framework for Financial Stability.” The Report highlights concerns about vulnerabilities in the financial system that became evident in the 2008-2009 financial crisis and includes wide-ranging recommendations for financial regulatory reform. The main theme of the Report is the importance of containing systemic risk and maintaining close oversight of “systemically important” financial institutions. The Report's recommendations concerning money market funds are based on the misconceptions that money funds are bank-like, pose systemic risk, are not adequately regulated, and enjoy unfair competitive advantages over banks. The Report would apply inappropriate bank-like regulation to money fund operations without any analysis of the consequences. If the Report’s recommendations were adopted, money market funds would cease to exist and the U.S. financial markets would lose a vital source of liquidity and efficiency.This paper examines the Report’s recommendations, analyzes their potential consequences, and attempts to correct the misconceptions upon which they are based.

Graduate Education: The Future Is Now

As chair and vice chair of the Commission on the Future of Graduate Education, we appreciated J. Mervis's detailed News of the Week story on the Commission's report, The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States (“Report seeks expansion in a time of belt-tightening,” 7 May, p. [678][1]). We would like to address the issue it raised about the timing of the report's recommendations. It is clear that the United States faces serious fiscal challenges. The Obama Administration has begun to address reducing the federal deficit, which will help ensure our long-term prosperity. Every effort must be made to spend public dollars wisely, focusing on those investments that will yield enhanced productivity in the future. The Commission's recommendations are designed to be an integral part of a national innovation strategy to ensure that the United States will have the intellectual leadership, along with the innovative technology, necessary to be successful in the 21st century global economy. A central theme of the Commission's report is how graduate education plays an essential role in strengthening our national competitiveness and innovation capacity, especially given the projected 17 to 18% increases over the next decade in the number of jobs requiring a doctoral or master's degree ([ 1 ][2]). Our proposed investment of $10 billion over the next 5 years for a graduate education training initiative will yield substantial benefits to our country in the future. We must be—and we are—ready with a plan that charts a path forward. 1. [↵][3] U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment projections: 2008–2018 summary” (2009); [www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nr0.htm][4]. [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.328.5979.678 [2]: #ref-1 [3]: #xref-ref-1-1 View reference 1 in text [4]: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nr0.htm

Redressing Users' Disadvantage: Proposals for Tribunal Reform in Northern Ireland

This Report provides a package of reform proposals for tribunals in Northern Ireland. There are two elements to the project. The first is a small, qualitative study of users of three different tribunals to understand the users' experience of tribunals in Northern Ireland. The second element is a scoping study which explored, in interviews, the parameters, operational issues, possibilities and difficulties of tribunal reform, as well as the current gap in the arrangements for the oversight and accountability of tribunals. The Report's recommendations are presented around the themes of users, processes, judicial leadership, structures, system review and a roadmap indicating tasks and a schedule for their implementation.

The State of Diversity in the Health Professions a Century After Flexner

Although the 1910 Flexner Report recommended the closure of a large number of operating medical schools, its impact was disproportionately felt on minority schools. The report's recommendations resulted in the closure of five out of seven predominantly black medical schools. Also noteworthy about the report was Flexner's utilitarian argument that black physicians should serve as sanitarians and hygienists for black communities in villages and plantations. A century later, despite decades of targeted programs and advocacy, minorities are still vastly underrepresented among medical students, physicians, and medical school faculty of all ranks. Today's arguments about the need for diversity in medicine in many ways echo Flexner's words. They continue to focus on benefits to minority populations, service in underserved areas, and minorities' role in the primary care workforce. These are valid, in fact laudable aspirations, but when made in isolation, they circumscribe the value of minority medical professionals. Minorities in the medical sciences provide immeasurable services to the entire nation, enhancing educational outcomes, expanding and improving the quality of health care provided, and contributing to the breadth and depth of medical research. This article presents how the Flexner Report shaped medical education and created a culture of medical research leading to narrow performance standards that fail to properly reward teaching activities, patient care, and health promotion. Efforts to achieve diversity in medical education should not end at graduation but should be extended to provide minorities opportunities to excel and to lead.

Verification of air-kerma strength of 125I seed for permanent prostate implants in Japan

To assure the physical quality of brachytherapy, we investigated the difference between measured and manufacturer's stated source strengths in a single model SourceTech Medical (STM)1251 (125)I seed. A well-type ionization chamber with a single-seed holder was used to measure the source strength of 2412 (125)I seeds before implant in 34 patients. The air-kerma strength was 0.450 U for all cases. The mean source strength for each patient was measured and compared with the manufacturer's stated value. The deviation from the measured value was compared with the tolerance range of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) TG-56 report's recommendation. The measured source strength was higher than the manufacturer's stated value, with a median difference of 1% (range, 2% to 5%). Sixteen of the total of 2412 seeds (0.7%) were more than 5% different from the manufacturer's stated value. The median SD from the mean value was 2.2% (range, 1.1% to 2.5%) for all patients. This is the first report of a single-seed assay performed for the model STM1251 (125)I seed. In this study the manufacturer's stated strength agreed well with the measured value. Nevertheless, the advisability of performing a single-seed assay at every institution should be considered, by referring to the appropriate regulations; for example, those used in the United States.

Financial Deregulation and Household Debt: The Australian Experience

Financial Deregulation and Household Debt: The Australian Experience

Do the right thing: the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report 10 years on

The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report was published in 1999. This article reviews the impact of the Report on agency responses to racially motivated crime and hate crime over the last ten years. While there have been improvements arising from implementation of the Report's recommendations, there have equally been unintended outcomes, including: compliance with the Report as a superficial measure of performance; media ridicule of its underlying principles; and unanticipated inversions of the common pattern of white perpetrators and black and minority ethnic (BME) victims. In order to do justice to the tenets of the Report, agencies need to fully understand its intent and locate the tackling of racially motivated crime and hate crime within a broader social justice agenda.

Reforming New South Wales public hospitals: an assessment of the Garling inquiry

The final report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals was published on 27 November 2008. The report acknowledges the challenges facing the New South Wales health system, including increasing numbers of patients, rising treatment costs, workforce pressures, and the breakdown of working relations between clinicians and management. Many of Commissioner Garling's 139 recommendations formalise aspects of clinical care that should and could be happening now if the system were better managed, including better supervision and training of junior staff. Commissioner Garling recommends that change should be driven by clinicians "from the bottom up", but does not adequately describe how this should happen. Implementation of the report's recommendations that will require strong leadership and continuing consultation with clinicians and the community.

The Pharmacogenomics Horizon

The Pharmacogenomics Horizon

Prospects for a National Clearinghouse on International Medical Schools

ABSTRACTIn 2006, a special committee appointed by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) issued its report on the “Evaluation of Undergraduate Medical Education” in the United States and abroad. Satisfied with accreditation systems already providing reasonable and adequate assurance for the quality of medical education in this country, the committee turned its focus toward international medical schools. Because international medical graduates (IMGs) comprise 25 percent of the physician workforce, U.S. medical licensing boards continue to seek meaningful information on the medical schools of their licensees.The report's recommendations included a call for close monitoring of efforts to provide international accreditation systems. One of the current initiatives being closely watched is that of the Caribbean Authority for Accreditation in Medicine and Other Health Professions (CAAM). Under the auspices of the Caribbean Community, CAAM has established an accreditation system for medical schools in the region, carried out site visits and rendered decisions for a number of Caribbean schools. A complementary initiative currently underway by FSMB and ECFMG staff involves the development of a primer on IMGs and international medical education. This web-based resource is scheduled for completion in late fall 2008.The major recommendation of the special committee report called for the FSMB to work with state medical boards and the ECFMG to establish an information and data clearinghouse on international medical schools. A clearinghouse workgroup has already begun meeting and considering various quality indicators suggested by the special committee report such as admission requirements, policies relative to advanced standing and aggregate performance data on USMLE. The challenges facing the clearinghouse are significant. One approach being considered is to focus data collection efforts primarily on the eight to 10 schools currently supplying the largest number of IMGs seeking medical licensure in the United States.

“Supporting excellence in the arts: from measurement to judgement”

The DCMS paper “Supporting excellence in the arts”, also known as the McMaster Review, raised more questions than it answered in terms of how UK cultural policy is likely to develop in the future. Although many of its intentions are laudable, the report fails to resolve the inherent problems associated with defining, measuring and judging cultural “excellence”, even though this forms the core of McMaster's argument about how policy should develop. This may have significant implications for cultural institutions in the future. In addition, many of the report's recommendations may either be contradictory or impractical in the current policy climate – such as the desire for institutions to take more risks whilst simultaneously increasing visitor numbers and meeting other targets. As such, without a wider change in the Government's approach and a re-acknowledgement of culture's intrinsic value, “excellence” may just become the latest buzzword for practitioners, rather than the key principle upon which future decisions will be based.