The Harcourt-Elsevier merger would have "severe repercussions for libraries, researchers, and the public," predicts Duane Webster, executive director of the Association of Research Libraries in Washington, D.C., which represents 120 of the largest research collections in North America.
The planned union of Reed Elsevier and Harcourt "will have severe repercussions for libraries, researchers, and the public," predicts Duane Webster, executive director of the Association of Research Libraries in Washington, D.C. "This transaction should be prevented," he wrote to U.S. Department of Justice regulators.
Michael Weinstein, the head of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (A.H.F ., the world's largest AIDS organization and the primary-care provider for more than two hundred thousand patients around the world, predicted a public-health catastrophe.
Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, predicted, "They're not going to find it easy to get serious public support".
Strikingly, just after Google went public, she predicted that it would generate revenues of $7 per user in 2005, up from $2 in 2002.
The prime minister argues that a "black hole" in the public finances – predicted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies by 2020 in the event of Brexit – would threaten the very services that people cherish and rely on most.
An Australian study of public hospitals predicted a median of 398,432 bed days lost, resulting in a median opportunity cost of AU$285 M as a result of pressure injuries [ 9].
Pearson or deviance residuals [ 29] for different models were calculated to evaluate discrepancies between the observed and expected number of hours worked in private and/or public sectors predicted by each model.
Despite the increasing awareness of the global nature of public health, predicting the job outlook in the field is difficult, says Bentley, whose public health school is integrating global issues throughout the curriculum and will soon be known as the Dennis and Joan Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Compared with pushing through cultural change in large public bureaucracies, predicting the weather is easy.
