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A Project for the Independence of Egypt, 1801

Abstract: In the Public Record Office in London are two documents (Foreign Office Records 78 Turkey vol. 33) that contain notes on a project of Egyptian independence from the Ottoman Empire presented by an Egyptian delegation that left Egypt on August 10, 1801 along with the French forces that were withdrawn from Egypt after the failure of their expedition. The same delegation under General Yaqub, Commander of the Coptic Legion during the French occupation, addressed two letters to Napoleon and his foreign affairs minister, Talleyrand (Archives du Ministre des Affaires Etrang~res, Turquie, vol. 203) requesting their support for the independence of Egypt. This article describes and comments, in its first part, on the nature of the delegation, and the maneuvers and arguments contained in the appeals to the British and the French. It also describes the significance of the project in spite of its eventual failure. The second part of the article contains the related documents translated from the French original and published together for the first time, along with one original document in English which has never been published except in a French translation.

The Training of Physician Assistants: Status and Issues

Abstract: The idea of having assistants for the physician is not new. The concept of the division of responsibilities and the stratification of functions among the various types of health professionals has been endorsed for many decades— in some instances, for centuries. Today heightened interest and concern about health and medical care in the nation are forcing a reexamination of interpretations of this concept by the medical community and the public. It is too early to seek a consensus about the descriptions and roles of such personnel in the United States. However, there is an identifiable interest in both the medical and the nonmedical sectors of US society. The goal is to develop means to make adequate health care available to more people. One consideration is the rational delegation of the physician's traditional functions to nonphysicians in the delivery of health care. If some of the physician's responsibilities and duties are

Physician productivity in the delivery of ambulatory care: some findings from a survey of pediatricians.

Abstract: The delegation of ambulatory patient care tasks by pediatricians is directly related to the types and numbers of health workers per doctor employed in solo and two-man practice settings. Physician productivity rate is directly related to patient care task delegation in settings of all sizes. Larger size settings, especially multispecialty groups, compare unfavorably with those solo and small specialty group settings which employ two or more health workers per physician both in patient care task delegation frequencies and in physician productivity. Physician productivity in smaller practice settings may be a reflection of the community demand for care in areas where medical manpower is in short supply and where the physician, motivated to respond to their demand, employs more ancillary help as a method of discharging his responsibilities. Whether similar factors influence the productivity of physicians in multispe

Foodgrains output in the People's Republic of China, 1958-1965.

Abstract: This article has two purposes. Firstly, to indicate that the currently available statistics on foodgrains output for the years 1958–65 appear to have little internal consistency and even less plausibility. Second, to place before the reader alternative estimates for this period. The new series, unlike the estimates it seeks to replace, is not derived from secondary data; it, in fact, incorporates a set of figures provided by Chinese officials to Mr. Burki, a member of a Pakistani delegation that went to China in July 1965, to study the communes. The series presented in this paper was given in response to a questionnaire submitted to the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Bureau of Commune Management.* By then the delegation had visited seven communes in north and north-east China, and all the communes visited had provided output data along with statistics of major inputs. It was with the purpose of checking the performance of these communes and those to be visited later, that the members of the delegation sought to obtain output and input data for all Chinese agriculture.

Assistant Principal: Educational Leader?.

Abstract: his rule-of-thumb assignment, one full-time assistant, working with the principal, should be assigned for each 500 students. He also stresses the importance of the principal's equitable and explicit delegation of administrative duties to each assistant, reinforced by written school policy statements.1 Thurman goes further, he suggests that the principal be replaced by the establishment of two new positions-a Coordinator of Learning and a Coordinator of Administrative Services. The former devotes his energies to the critical tasks of instruction and learn-

Behind the Scenes at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

Abstract: In January 1919 thousands of delegates, diplomats, and academic experts poured into Paris to redraw the map of the world and to settle its problems, supposedly forevermore. While the confusion attendant upon the negotiations was evident to contemporary observers, who also complained of the delay before the conference began, few considered the magnitude of the job of organizing so vast an assembly and of providing the larger delegations with the facilities for the many tasks facing them. In retrospect, it is indeed remarkable that Paris, after four and a half years of war, so well absorbed so many people and that anonymous officials laboring unobserved behind the scenes were able to provide the essential services necessary to the reasonably efficient functioning of the luminaries in the limelight.The burden of arrangements for the conference itself fell upon the French, but so far as their own delegation was concerned, they had the inestimable advantage of operating upon home ground and of requiring few special arrangements. For the Americans, who sent the largest delegation, the problem of distance was so great that while an entire boatload of delegates and documents was shipped across the Atlantic, the personnel of the delegation remained stable and facilities for them were obtained largely from the French and from the American army because the oceanic barrier eliminated other alternatives. The Japanese, faced with the difficulty of even greater distance and the added complication of a language barrier, rested upon the French for their facilities and sent a small delegation composed of a few dignitaries from Tokyo and a number of senior officials from their European embassies.

The Group Life of a State Delegation in the House of Representatives

Abstract: THE INFORMAL structuring of interactions and influence within formal organizations is generally recognized as having profound consequences for institutional integration and functioning. Manifestly or latently, informal structures serve as supplements to and sometimes substitutes for formally prescribed role interactions, sometimes facilitating, sometimes impeding the realization of organizational goals. Students of legislatures have seriously begun to incorporate systematically the relevant concepts and data into their attempts at explanation. David Truman, probably more than anyone else, stimulated conceptualization and research on legislatures using this orientation. In 1951, he articulated the general perspective as follows:

Guidelines for Development of New Health Occupations

Abstract: One approach to increasing the supply of health services is rational delegation of some of the physician's traditional functions in delivery of health care. Such an approach involves reallocating duties between the physician and other health personnel to achieve the best use of skills at each level, and often results in reducing the time input in education required to perform a given health service. This reallocation of duties can take place in two ways: by expanding the medical service role of existing health occupations, or by creating and recruiting for new career roles to assist the physician. Neither of these methods is in itself new. Physicians have been delegating tasks to allied workers and training their own "assistants" for many years. Many physicians, within their office settings, have been highly successful in training persons to perform specific functions previously associated solely with the physician's role. The duties of these assistants

Change Management in the New Zealand Meat Industry: Implications for Labour Relations

Abstract: The increasing volume of research and writing on the management of change and the many prescriptions for change promulgated by various writers and practitioners is not matched by a corresponding increase in the effectiveness of change initiatives. High failure rates for new technology implementations and for other change initiatives, such as TQM, appear to point to the failure of previous research to identify the fundamental drivers of successful change management. A multi-plant case study into the elements of successful change management examined four meat plants which were introducing new technology into the chain process. The study found that the most critical factor in the relative success of change was the quality of the employment relationship prior to the change. A 'positive' prior context characterised by such factors as high trust relationships, mutual respect and high delegation was more likely to lead to a successful outcome than a 'negative' prior context characterised by such factors as autocratic management, low trust and low mutual respect. These results affirm some earlier research carried out in the 1970's and 1980's on labour relations in the New Zealand meat industry.