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College Student Retention
Formula for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.
In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue...
Chemometrics: A Textbook
A Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1988
Most chemists, whether they are biochemists, organic, analytical, pharmaceutical or clinical chemists and many pharmacists and biologists need to perform chemical analysis. Consequently, they are not only confronted with carrying out the actual analysis, but also with problems such as method selection,...
How Mediation Works
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
From the leading authors in mediation and dispute resolution comes this new psychology-based work on the nuts and bolts of mediation. Using the behavioral theories of interests, rights, and power, Goldberg, Brett, and Brenneur explain what mediators do, what makes for a successful mediator, and how...
Value by Design
Developing Clinical Microsystems to Achieve Organizational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Value by Design is a practical guide for real-world improvement in clinical microsystems. Clinical microsystem theory, as implemented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and health care organizations nationally and internationally, is the foundation of high-performing front line health care...
The Power of Perception
Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and the Gender Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The Power of Perception: Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and the Gender Divide serves as a practical guide to educate women, men and organizations on the barriers that keep women from fully contributing in the workplace. These include differences in leadership style and emotional intelligence,...
by M. Luz Gámiz, K. B. Kulasekera, Nikolaos Limnios
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Nonparametric statistics has probably become the leading methodology for researchers performing data analysis. It is nevertheless true that, whereas these methods have already proved highly effective in other applied areas of knowledge such as biostatistics or social sciences, nonparametric analyses...
by Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ivory is big business, and in some parts of Africa elephants have been hunted almost to extinction in the quest for it. The losses to African economies have been catastrophic. Now there is an international ban on the trade and conservation is. the principal goal. This should be a matter for rejoicing,...
Breaking the Logjam
Environmental Protection That Will Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. Schoenbrod, Stewart, and Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field...
by Luis M. B. Cabral
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2000
This book provides an issue-driven introduction to industrial organization.
Over the past twenty years, the study of industrial organization—the analysis of imperfectly competitive markets—has grown from a niche area of microeconomics to a key component of economics and of related disciplines...
Starting out in Statistics
An Introduction for Students of Human Health, Disease, and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
To form a strong grounding in human-related sciences it is essential for students to grasp the fundamental concepts of statistical analysis, rather than simply learning to use statistical software. Although the software is useful, it does not arm a student with the skills necessary to formulate the...
Regulating Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in the United States
The Limits of Unlimited Selection
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Reproductive technology allows us to test embryos' genes before deciding whether to transfer them to a woman's uterus. Embryo selection raises many ethical questions but is virtually unregulated in the United States. This comprehensive study considers the ethical, medical, political, and economic aspects of developing appropriate regulation.
Speech Coding
with Code-Excited Linear Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book provides scientific understanding of the most central techniques used in speech coding both for advanced students as well as professionals with a background in speech audio and or digital signal processing. It provides a clear connection between the Why’s?, How’s?, and What’s, such...
by Nancy Fichtman Dana, Jamey B. Burns, Rachel M. Wolkenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Common Core implementation begins with asking the right questions!
While the Common Core couldn’t be clearer about what to teach, they never quite tackle how to teach. That’s what makes Inquiring into the Common Core such an essential resource. It offers teachers an inquiry-based professional...
by Devra B. Adelstein, Ann Alaoglu, E. James Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that...