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This report by the Legislative Audit Council reviews the Department of Education. The Council found that the department had implemented more than half of its recommendations, achieving significant savings. The General Assembly implemented two recommendations to increase the efficiency of South Carolina's testing program and one to create administrative savings for all state agencies by enacting lodging limits for state employees.

Agencies frequently mail a follow-up questionnaire to clients who have received service. But some kinds of clients are more likely to respond than others. A study examining the factors that influence response reveals that the results of such follow-up are likely to be biased.

In this follow up episode, Nia and Aughie discuss two recent controversial SCOTUS shadow docket decisions. The Evictions Moratorium case and the Texas Abortion case decisions may have far reaching consequences in American law and may affect future SCOTUS decisions. ; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/civil_discourse/1096/thumbnail.jpg

The International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, held from 30 August to 1 September 1993 in Geneva, the "cradle" of humanitarian law, was an important event in international life. It gave an opportunity to diplomats of practically every nation not only to consider general issues of international humanitarian law, but also to discuss what to do in order to react adequately to the challenges of today, above all the escalation of armed conflicts and violations of international humanitarian law.

Auf Basis einer breit angelegten Literaturanalyse u. a. mit Sekundäranalysen aus Repräsentativdatensätzen wird ein aktueller Überblick über Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen in Österreich erarbeitet. Das abzudeckende Themenspektrum reicht von Beschäftigungsformen, Arbeitszeiten, Einkommen, Arbeitsorganisation, Gesundheit, Weiterbildung bis hin zu subjektiven Einschätzungen der Arbeitsqualität. Darüber hinaus erfolgt eine Einordnung Österreichs im europäischen Vergleich. Die Studie ist als Follow-up des 2010 publizierten Bandes 4 der Sozialpolitischen Studienreihe des BMASK angelegt. Im besonderen Fokus stehen die Entwicklung seit Ausbruch der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise und damit einhergehende Veränderungen bei Arbeitsbedingungen.

This study examined the effects of preliminary contact by mail and telephone on the rate of response to a follow-up survey offormer mental health patients. The subjects were the par ents or parenting figures of 145 children due for six- or eighteen-month follow-up as part of the evaluation of the services provided at an outpatient child psychiatric facility. The survey instruments were the Child Behavior Checklist and a thirty-one item descriptive adjective rating scale. A significant effect wasfoundfor the use of preliminary contact, but notfor the use of telephone contact rather than mailed precontact. Additionally, it wasfound that it was difficult to contact subjects over the telephone and that telephone precontact was more expensive than mailed precontact. This article also addresses the problem of maintaining patient confidentiality while identifying prospective subjects who had moved since their last visit to the facility for treatment. This balance between study power and former patients' rights to privacy is a difficult question for mental health service evaluations.