Abstract This paper looks at whether the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) or Average Daily Membership (ADM) provides a better way of allocating funding for schools. The paper also looks at provisions for funding of the No Child Left Behind Act, and how best to equalize funding resources.
From the Paper "The Ohio House budget called for a shift in the way students are counted because it believed that Average Daily Membership (ADM) counts phantom students and it preferred to count Average Daily Attendance( ADA). President of the Ohio Federation of Teachers testified before the Ohio Senate Education Committee that because a student is absent on a given day, the cost of the educating that student is not reduced at all. Students who have erratic attendance records actually cost more to educate he said..."
Abstract This paper presents a case study regarding the Program Management Division of the Ministry of Community and Social Services. The paper introduces the problems and challenges involved in the study and examines theories of public administration and how they are directly applicable to understanding the nature of the challenges in this case. In particular, the paper discusses the organization theory known as scientific management and how it is relevant to the given case study, with respect to the work environment at the Adoption Services Section.
From the Paper "This being said, it may be that not all of the employees in these informal groups who are resisting the "new public management" approach of the ADM and government would be willing to take early retirement (Inwood 69). As a result, the ADM might consider contracting out some services instead of necessarily hiring more staff and rendering the crowded office space - in the case of the Adoption Services section - even more crowded. Given the staff's dependency upon a single manual filing cabinet, the ADM might be advised - as scientific management would suggest, together with the interests of new public management - to transfer these physical files to a digital database that could be readily accessed, and data corrected, by staff both on-site as well as any contract staff or staff working from branches or remote sites."
Abstract The paper focuses on levofloxacin, an antibiotic that has been used to treat pneumonia, sinusitis, urinary tract infections, bronchitis and exposure to anthrax. The paper describes the drug and how it is effective in the cure for pneumonia. The paper provides a description of its discovery, an evaluation to assess its efficacy and a discussion of the artificial route used in its dynamics. The paper also looks at clinical trials, post-launch market information and at comparisons to other drugs used for pneumonia in terms of suitable treatment.
Outline:
Introduction
Explanation of the Disease that the Drug is involved
and its Effects
Description of Discovery
Evaluation Used to Assess Efficiency
Artificial Route Used in its Dynamics
Information from ADME and Toxicology
Clinical Trials Date and Data
Post-launch Market Information
Comparisons to Other Drugs
Conclusions
From the Paper "In the previous years, the development of consecutive generations of antibiotics have been elevated and dissected to deter specific diseases. For example, fluoroquinolones with lesser generations such as "levofloxacin, grepafloxacin, sitafloxacin, sparfloxacin," (Ball, 2003, p. 647) has been formulated to deter various infections. Specifically, levofloxacin, an antibiotic has been used to treat an array of bacterial infections such as pneumonia, sinusitis, urinary tract infections, bronchitis and exposure to anthrax. It has also been used as an antidepressant and heartburn. This drug sternly damages the cell walls of the infecting bacteria avoiding any multiplication."
