Non-clinical institutional factors included ownership (public, private non-profit, or proprietary), teaching status (teaching or non-teaching institution), accreditation status (medical center, regional hospital, district hospital, or ob/gyn clinics), and hospital bed size [29].
Institutional factors included hospital ownership (public, private non-profit, or proprietary), teaching status (teaching versus non-teaching institution), accreditation status (medical center, regional hospital, district hospital, or obstetric/gynecological clinic), and number of beds.
Kumon, which provides proprietary maths and English teaching to 50,000 pupils at 560 centres in Britain, charges £45 ($82) per subject per month for a twice-weekly lesson and homework.
Ritz-Carlton codifies its expectations regarding service in "The 12 Service Values," "The Credo," "The Three Steps of Service," "The 6th Diamond" and other proprietary statements that are taught to all 38,000 employees throughout 73 properties in 24 countries.
Data on patient demographics (age, gender, race/ethnicity, admission acuity, diagnosis codes and primary payer) and hospital characteristics (teaching, profit, and proprietary status, urban/rural location, geographic census region, and hospital bed capacity) were also abstracted from the NIS.
While the Faculty of Medicine opened in 1843, medical teaching was conducted by proprietary schools from 1853 until 1887, when the faculty absorbed the Toronto School of Medicine.
Plus, she added, they have proprietary flavors that they do not teach in the classes.
Some got diplomas from proprietary schools owned by doctors who taught as they saw fit.
The company has: grown revenue 20% month over month consecutively since launching in 2014; trained 180 coaches to teach language using a proprietary, task-based curriculum; and attained a student satisfaction rate just over 98% across the board.
In his blog, open-source advocate Richard Stallman chimed in with a more extreme anti-Microsoft view, in a post titled "Can We Save the XO From Windows?" "Teaching children to use a proprietary (non-free) system such as Windows does not make the world a better place, because it puts them under the power of the system's developer perhaps permanently," Stallman wrote.
We evaluated the efficacy of a vocational training program including behavioral skills training, and a "performance cue system" (i.e., a proprietary iPhone application adapted for the study) to teach targeted social-vocational skills to six young adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
