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Huang Qin-ping - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the New Task to Increase Efficiency by Downsizing Staff in Highway Management in the New Situation
Enterprise Science and Technology & Development, 2010Co-Authors: Huang Qin-pingAbstract:Recently,the Party Central Committee and State Council held a working conference on large-scale development of the western region in Beijing,which restates that infrastructure is the important guarantee in it.In this case,the Party Central Committee will continue to give priority to the development of infrastructure construction,for example the development of transportation,in a new-round of large-scale development of the western region,and expedite the building of the modern infrastructure system with affiliated functions and featured by safety and high-efficiency.In order to set up and improve this system,we must downsize Staffs and improve efficiency in our future highway management work.How to solve the imbalance between the heavy workload completed by few Staff and the needs for benefits is the new task for all-level highway management departments.
Catherine T. Milne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Wound Care in the Age of PPS: Tools for Survival
Home Health Care Management & Practice, 2001Co-Authors: Lisa Q. Corbett, Catherine T. MilneAbstract:Successfully providing wound care to patients under the prospective payment reimbursement system can be considered a challenge or an opportunity. Home care organizations are seeking methods to provide cost-effective wound care with optimal clinical outcomes. This article will discuss specific strategies for surviving the upcoming changes while simultaneously meeting the goals of providing wound care in a costconscious environment. W ith the departure of cost-based reimbursement for home health, concerns have arisen regarding how patients with wound care issues will fare under the new prospective payment reimbursement system (PPS). Episodic rate payments are based on data from the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), which are risk adjusted for acuity. Now that the proverbial dust has settled, home care agencies are faced with the challenge of meeting needs of wound care patients without losing their ability to care for the community in the future. Although some agencies are Downsizing Staff or using screening admissions to avoid high-cost wound care patients, this practice is not only illegal but may be unneeded. Remember the Y2K fears that never materialized? Planning, education, examination of processes and systems, and upgrading technology were keys to the uneventful entrance of the new millennium. The same approach can be used to provide cost-effective and outcome-oriented wound care in the home health setting. To survive and thrive, we are faced with what looks like a dilemma but is actually an opportunity: matching research-based knowledge with practice to provide optimal results that are cost-conscious and individualized to the client and the wound. This article provides several strategies to help home health care agencies achieve these goals (see Table 1).
Megan Durisin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Coverage of governor races balanced while senate races reflect some bias
Newspaper Research Journal, 2011Co-Authors: Frederick Fico, Eric Freedman, Megan DurisinAbstract:The normative role of the press is to provide fair, balanced and accurate coverage of the political and public policy process. But many newspapers in the United States today face unprecedented financial challenges that impair their performance of this role because they are Downsizing Staff. But Staff size and reporting quality necessarily affect story qualities such as source selection, in-depth treatment, and, in the case of controversy, fairness and balance.Equally troubling is the growing perception that U.S. media, including newspapers, are politically biased. The Pew Center for Research on People and the Press found that American newspapers suffered major credibility declines from already-low levels during the last decade.1 Moreover, recent research using systematic content analysis techniques illuminated actual imbalance in coverage of candidates based on political ideology.2Complete, accurate and balanced coverage of controversial issues facilitates democratic decision-making and enhances media credibility. Such coverage, however, depends on the time and attention of the news Staff. In particular, fewer newsroom Staff may result in imbalances in conflict coverage that relate more to such resource limitations than to any political bias perceived by the public.This study, therefore, has three goals. First, it examines whether coverage of elections in states with simultaneous statewide races for governor and U.S. senator will result in Staff priority for one election and more imbalanced coverage about the race reported by fewer Staff. Second, this study attempts to distinguish imbalances arising from Staff allocation from imbalances introduced by political biases. Finally, this study looks at story imbalance in the context of factors that influence it, such as the relative competitiveness of the elections being covered.Theoretical FrameworkThis study focuses on the newsroom level in the Shoemaker-Reese hierarchical model of influences on news content.3 Specifically, it assesses Staff resources that news organizations may deploy for election coverage. One resource is the news organization's commitment of reporters to cover an election. Another is the individual reporter's commitment-by choice or assignment-to produce stories about an election. This study assumes that such commitments during a two-month election cycle reflect a strategic decision rather than improvisation.Structural and Partisan Imbalance in CoverageThe core notion of this research is that a newspaper able to assign more Staff to an election ought to be able to provide more balanced coverage. In the context of election reporting, balanced coverage should include allotting rival candidates approximately equal coverage over the course of the campaign season. Such coverage implies that opponents get nearly equal prominence and attention in individual stories. Further, this research assumes that the more individual reporters focus on an election, the more likely they will develop expertise, knowledge, sources and access that help them provide balanced coverage.Research on election coverage imbalance by Fico and Freedman4 and by Fico, Freedman and Love5 assumes that observable imbalance in stories reflects the operation of unobservable (by content analysis) structural or partisan biases operating within newsrooms. Structural bias in a newsroom results from scarce resources deployable to news coverage. The resulting structural imbalance in stories, therefore, reflects deficiencies in news organization wealth that inhibit Staff hiring or degrade routines and processes governing how comprehensively news events are reported. Fewer Staff devoted to coverage may result in more hurried stories that are less well researched and more imbalanced. However, story imbalances occurring for these reasons will only randomly favor candidates in an election or competing sides in a controversy.By contrast, partisan bias in a newsroom emerges from the political orientations of the journalists themselves. …
Clp Meng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Analysis on Employment Conditions of Mining City
China Population Resources and Environment, 2011Co-Authors: Wang Zhi-hong, Clp MengAbstract:The paper compares the employment structure, the industry structure, the ownership structure of mining cities. It draws a conclusion that there is small increase of town-and-village employment in mining cities. The tertiary industry can accept people with a bigger increase than that of the first industry. Yet the secondary industry can offer fewer positions than before and there appears severe unemployment. The employment weight of the state-owned enterprises and manufacture industry is decreasing fast, while that of the none-state-owned enterprises and the service industry is increasing rapidly. During the early economic transformation, many state-owned firms go bankrupt and there happen many asset reorganizations so as to increase efficiency by Downsizing Staff. Furthermore, there is too much structural unemployment. Meanwhile, some economic units in countryside have only limited ability to accept unemployed Staff, whereas more unemployment is caused. Keywords Mining City; Labor; Employment Structure
Lisa Q. Corbett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Wound Care in the Age of PPS: Tools for Survival
Home Health Care Management & Practice, 2001Co-Authors: Lisa Q. Corbett, Catherine T. MilneAbstract:Successfully providing wound care to patients under the prospective payment reimbursement system can be considered a challenge or an opportunity. Home care organizations are seeking methods to provide cost-effective wound care with optimal clinical outcomes. This article will discuss specific strategies for surviving the upcoming changes while simultaneously meeting the goals of providing wound care in a costconscious environment. W ith the departure of cost-based reimbursement for home health, concerns have arisen regarding how patients with wound care issues will fare under the new prospective payment reimbursement system (PPS). Episodic rate payments are based on data from the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), which are risk adjusted for acuity. Now that the proverbial dust has settled, home care agencies are faced with the challenge of meeting needs of wound care patients without losing their ability to care for the community in the future. Although some agencies are Downsizing Staff or using screening admissions to avoid high-cost wound care patients, this practice is not only illegal but may be unneeded. Remember the Y2K fears that never materialized? Planning, education, examination of processes and systems, and upgrading technology were keys to the uneventful entrance of the new millennium. The same approach can be used to provide cost-effective and outcome-oriented wound care in the home health setting. To survive and thrive, we are faced with what looks like a dilemma but is actually an opportunity: matching research-based knowledge with practice to provide optimal results that are cost-conscious and individualized to the client and the wound. This article provides several strategies to help home health care agencies achieve these goals (see Table 1).