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International procurement issues during 2009 - reform of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) model procurement law - new government procurement framework in Ontario, Canada - new public procurement rules for the health sector in Germany - public procurement procedures and domestic preferences in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Canada.

Developments during 2008 - recognition of the impact of climate change on human rights - activities in Europe, the US and other jurisdictions aimed at addressing human trafficking - activities of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the African Court of Justice and Human Rights - use of the death penalty - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - activities of the International Criminal Court, UN Human Rights Council and the European Court of Human Rights - Indigenous peoples' rights.

Dans ce manuel, la recherche qualitative est présentée comme un processus itératif plutôt que linéaire. Il s'agit du compagnon de voyage idéal pour tout chercheur en sciences sociales afin de le guider du début du processus de recherche qualitative jusqu'à sa toute fin, soit à l'étape de rédaction du mémoire, de la thèse ou du rapport de recherche. Les auteures proposent une réflexion sur les étapes conceptuelles, méthodologiques et éthiques du processus de création du savoir pour ensuite se pencher sur l'analyse du matériel empirique. L'ouvrage a d'ailleurs recours à des applications concrètes pour démontrer la manière dont les décisions méthodologiques se traduisent dans la pratique. Malgré l'ouverture et la flexibilité de leur approche, les auteures ne favorisent pas une posture relativiste, mais traitent de l'importance de répondre à des critères de validité explicites et à des écueils à éviter en analyse qualitative. Style engageant, conseils pratiques, illustrations claires, exemples variés et synthèses composent ce manuel qui vise à concrétiser le processus de recherche qualitative, souvent abstrait pour le chercheur novice. A Journey Through Qualitative Research takes students from start-to-finish through the research process while showcasing the complexities and interrelationships of different methods, schools of thought, and associated analytical strategies.Encouraging students to think of qualitative research as a flexible, cyclical process rather than a linear one, this book offers a panoramic strategy and dynamic approach to qualitative research that accommodates the fluid nature of research and accounts for lessons learned through lived experience. With an emphasis on the analysis stage-within case, across case, and the dialogue between these insights and existing literature-it uses concrete applications to show how methodological decisions translate into practice.

To the Editor: The gold standard for assessing therapeutic effectiveness is the blinded clinical trial in which a presumably active agent is compared with a placebo. Blinded study designs serve to prevent the subjective opinions of patients or investigators from influencing the clinical findings. Methysergide, an antiserotonin agent used in the prophylaxis of migraine, was evaluated and declared effective in blinded trials published in the 1960s. 1 2 3 4 5 This drug is known to cause frequent, sometimes severe, side effects. 1 Although agents that produce obvious side effects can impair the blindness of a clinical trial, 6 none of the published methysergide trials seem to . . .

According to Eric Jönssson, executive director of the Swedish Fulbright Commission, his committee generally looks for an \"outstanding academic record; preparation in the chosen field; any other personal qualifications which make them an outstanding candidate for study in Sweden; demonstration of exceptional promise and commitment to graduate study; adaptability to a foreign situation; [and ability to] represent the Fulbright program during and after their time in Sweden.\" In today's global environment of cross-border transactions, international clients, and multinational law firms, spending a year studying another country's laws will do more than recharge your batteries.

\"18 Mozambique, like other African countries, is both \"a source and a destination country\" for human trafficking19 and the new law was a promising step forward in a region that had previously done litde to combat either internal or cross-border trafficking.20 C. SOUTHEAST ASIA Leaders of China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam signed the Joint Declaration of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Human Trafficking (COMMIT Declaration) on December 14, 2007.21 The region is widely known as a hotbed of human trafficking,22 and the Declaration was \"aimed at identifying and protecting trafficked persons at every point in the trafficking cycle, and to ensure that all official actions with respect to trafficked persons protect their safety, dignity and rights.

Assessing student achievement in more authentic ways is a major element of school improvement efforts all across the nation. Massachusetts is implementing a comprehensive student assessment program that will provide information about individual and district progress in mastering new curricula and academic standards. On the local level, school systems are instituting broader assessments to gauge progress. With the rich new data that these efforts will provide comes an opportunity to deepen our understanding of what contributes to educational success. We know that student achievement is dependent upon many elements both inside and outside of the classroom including background community factors. This project is designed to explore the relationship between community demographics and outcomes on an education achievement test, the 1996 Massachusetts statewide assessments. By using census data and statistical techniques including cluster analysis, multiple regression, and factor analysis, it is possible to develop a model of education achievement communities that groups municipalities by their affinity for educational achievement. The resultant regression formula and the listing of communities provide researchers with a mechanism to account for the impact of background community characteristics on aggregate achievement results. This analytical study utilized 1990 census data and the results of the 1996 Massachusetts Education Assessment Program to explore the relationship between community characteristics and educational achievement. The project produced two products: a comprehensive community data base; and a kind of community model based on a Community Achievement Factor (CAF), developed in the study, that is the basis for organizing the Commonwealth's 351 cities and towns into 14 education affinity groupings.