Interpretive U.S. Geological Survey Programs with municipalities in Iowa.

Mode of access: Internet.

Description and evaluation of the public information and education countermeasure of the New Hampshire Alcohol Safety Action Project. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

A comparison of alcohol involvement in exposed and injured drivers. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Area wage surveys.

"This booklist contains the lists and descriptions of occupations to be studied in the Bureau's Cross-Industry Service Contract Act and area wage survey programs."

Inventory and perspectives of chronic disease management programs in Switzerland: an exploratory survey.

OBJECTIVE: To describe chronic disease management programs active in Switzerland in 2007, using an exploratory survey. METHODS: We searched the internet (Swiss official websites and Swiss web-pages, using Google), a medical electronic database (Medline), reference lists of pertinent articles, and contacted key informants. Programs met our operational definition of chronic disease management if their interventions targeted a chronic disease, included a multidisciplinary team (>/=2 healthcare professionals), lasted at least six months, and had already been implemented and were active in December 2007. We developed an extraction grid and collected data pertaining to eight domains (patient population, intervention recipient, intervention content, delivery personnel, method of communication, intensity and complexity, environment, clinical outcomes). RESULTS: We identified seven programs fulfilling our operational definition of chronic disease management. Programs targeted patients with diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, obesity, psychosis and breast cancer. Interventions were multifaceted; all included education and half considered planned follow-ups. The recipients of the interventions were patients, and healthcare professionals involved were physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists and case managers of various backgrounds. CONCLUSIONS: In Switzerland, a country with universal healthcare insurance coverage and little incentive to develop new healthcare strategies, chronic disease management programs are scarce. For future developments, appropriate evaluations of existing programs, involvement of all healthcare stakeholders, strong leadership and political will are, at least, desirable.

Follow-up programs for childhood cancer survivors in Europe: a questionnaire survey

For many childhood cancer survivors follow-up care is important long after treatment completion. We aimed to describe the availability and characteristics of long-term follow-up programs (LTFU) across Europe, their content and aims, their problems, and to assess opinions on different models of LTFU.

State-Level Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs for the Elderly: A national survey.

In order to put Pennsylvania's Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE) Program in a national context, a nationwide mail survey and telephone follow-up to each of the 58 State Unit Directors on Aging in the United States and its territories identified 10 programs. The results reported in this article are specific to the seven state-level pharmaceutical assistance programs which were in operation during the fiscal year 1984-85. In general, the programs varied on select program characteristics and on their efforts to address major policy issues. Data from the non-program states indicated support, legislative efforts, and a high interest in fiscal concerns. The findings reflect a lack of program uniformity and have implications for program development and implementation. Suggestions on how to identify the "optimum" or best combination of program and policy options are discussed.

Parallel execution of Prolog programs: a survey

Since the early days of logic programming, researchers in the field realized the potential for exploitation of parallelism present in the execution of logic programs. Their high-level nature, the presence of nondeterminism, and their referential transparency, among other characteristics, make logic programs interesting candidates for obtaining speedups through parallel execution. At the same time, the fact that the typical applications of logic programming frequently involve irregular computations, make heavy use of dynamic data structures with logical variables, and involve search and speculation, makes the techniques used in the corresponding parallelizing compilers and run-time systems potentially interesting even outside the field. The objective of this article is to provide a comprehensive survey of the issues arising in parallel execution of logic programming languages along with the most relevant approaches explored to date in the field. Focus is mostly given to the challenges emerging from the parallel execution of Prolog programs. The article describes the major techniques used for shared memory implementation of Or-parallelism, And-parallelism, and combinations of the two. We also explore some related issues, such as memory management, compile-time analysis, and execution visualization.

Rehabilitation programs and facilities of western Europe : a report of a survey covering 12 countries /

Mode of access: Internet.

Homelessness : programs and the people they serve : findings of the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients : summary /

"December 1999."

Citizen volunteers in traffic safety programs: a preliminary survey. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Communications in employment and unemployment programs : recommendations and survey results : final report April 22, 1996.

"July 1996."

Diagnostic motor vehicle inspection demonstration projects, program engineering support. Volume 4 - appendix C: survey and evaluation of inspector training programs. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Availability and use of abandoned rights of way. Task 4: A. survey of federal programs. B. survey of state and local programs.

Transportation Department, Office of Environmental Affairs, Washington, D.C.

Formerly utilized MED/AEC sites remedial action programs : radiological survey of the Hooker Chemical Company, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Issued Jan. 1977.