A7 Religion Initiative Weakened The leading Congressional sponsor of President Bush's religion-based initiative has agreed to strip the measure of a provision that would have helped religious groups compete for government grants.
To facilitate the development of a comparable national measure of POS provision, the measures were replicated using a national-level dataset on POS and compared using intra-class correlations.
The agricultural model in the IAP does not take food trade between cells into consideration, hence, a grid-cell measure of food provision is used as the best available indicator of food security.
The composite index is calculated as a hierarchical mean of rescaled measures of service provision, weighted by importance factors derived from a survey of beneficiaries, and serves as an indicator of the relative value of the entire portfolio of ecosystem services.
It also identifies the need for improved measures of service provision, enhanced research, and funding.
The intervention is a part of package of measures including provision of access to clean water and sanitation services, promotion of good hygiene practices, active malnutrition screening and improved access to healthcare for the most vulnerable, particularly children.
[ 12, 18- 22] This has lead to a paradigm shift from the use of only traditional assessment of oral health with a focus on disease to a more comprehensive community measure of health service provision.
But there is considerable philosophical disagreement on what is ultimately meant by quality, though there is agreement on some common measures for assessing quality of provision.
Through a field experiment, we measure how provision of retirement income projections along with enrollment information affects individuals' contributions to employer-sponsored retirement accounts.
