"Neben Arbeitslosen- und alternativ-ökonomischen Initiativen haben sich in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den letzten Jahren verstärkt auch sogenannte soziale Initiativen und Beratungsinitiativen entwickelt. Im November 1986 errechnen sich 2.400 bis 3.200 soziale Initiativen mit einem...

"Neben Arbeitslosen- und alternativ-ökonomischen Initiativen haben sich in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den letzten Jahren verstärkt auch sogenannte soziale Initiativen und Beratungsinitiativen entwickelt. Im November 1986 errechnen sich 2.400 bis 3.200 soziale Initiativen mit einem...

Home visiting programs are a promising early prevention model for improving parenting and reducing children's risk for child maltreatment. However, randomized studies of widely implemented (scalable) home visiting models targeting infants and toddlers remain relatively scarce. Moreover, few...

This paper summarizes a randomized experiment to study the effects of an Internet-based intervention on type 2 diabetes patients in Montevideo, Uruguay. A specially designed website and electronic social network allowed participants to navigate freely, download materials, and interact with other...

This paper reports the results of a three-month randomized controlled trial to estimate the impact of an Internet and mobile telephone short message service (SMS) intervention on adolescents' information about substances and rates of consumption. A low percentage of participants logged on to the...

Regular case-control sampling is an extremely common design used to generate data to estimate effects of exposures or treatments on a binary outcome of interest when the proportion of cases (i.e., binary outcome equal to 1) in the population of interest is low. Case-control sampling represents a...

This paper uses data from a randomized controlled trial to study the impacts of food supplementation and medical treatment on the receipt of human recognition by malnourished, HIV-infected adults in Kenya. Questions specially designed to measure human recognition were included in the trial,...

Supervision is a dynamic process which includes changes, acquisitions which may have as a result the improving of work conditions, quality of services, the rise of efficiency, the satisfactions of the employees and the avoiding of professional exhaustion. In Romania, the rapid development of...