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by Torsten B. Neilands, Stanton A. Glantz, Bryan K. Slinker
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
A textbook on the use of advanced statistical methods in healthcare sciences
Primer of Applied Regression & Analysis of Variance is a textbook especially created for medical, public health, and social and environmental science students who need applied (not theoretical) training in the...
Economics of Higher Education
Background, Concepts, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This book examines the many ways in which economic concepts, theories and models can be used to examine issues in higher education. The topics explored in the book include how students make college-going decisions, the payoffs to students and society from going to college, markets for higher education...
Scheduling of Power Generation
A Large-Scale Mixed-Variable Model
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
The book contains description of a real life application of modern mathematical optimization tools in an important problem solution for power networks. The objective is the modelling and calculation of optimal daily scheduling of power generation, by thermal power plants, to satisfy all demands...
Functional Equations and Inequalities
Solutions and Stability Results
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This volume covers the topic in functional equations in a broad sense and is written by authors who are in this field for the past 50 years. It contains the basic notions of functional equations, the methods of solving functional equations, the growth of functional equations in the last four decades...
by Jörg B. Kühnapfel
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Vertriebsprognosen bzw. Forecasts sind ein zweischneidiges Schwert: Kaum ein Unternehmen kommt ohne sie aus, aber man traut ihnen nicht so recht. Häufig sind sie zu ungenau, und der Grund dafür ist oft mangelhafte Methodenkenntnis. Die Erstellung guter, also treffsicherer Forecasts ist ein laufender...
Die Macht der Vorhersage
Smarter leben durch bessere Prognosen
Language: German
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Jede Entscheidung erfordert eine Prognose! Mal erfolgt sie bewusst, mal unbewusst, mal selbstbestimmt und oft genug wird sie uns aufgedrängt. Gute Prognosen sind hilfreich, doch schlechte Prognosen führen zu schlechten Entscheidungen: Sie schätzen Risiken falsch ein, verzetteln sich auf Umwegen...
Vertriebskennzahlen
Kennzahlen und Kennzahlensysteme für das Vertriebsmanagement
Language: German
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Kennzahlen sind ein unwillkürliches, omnipräsentes Instrument, um komplexe Zusammenhänge auszudrücken. Werden solche Kennzahlen kombiniert, entsteht ein Kennzahlensystem und mit diesem ein Management-Werkzeug, das zur Steuerung und Kontrolle unternehmerischer Aktivitäten dient. Voraussetzung...
Strengthening Governance Globally
Forecasting the Next 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Strengthening Governance Globally is the fifth volume in the series 'Patterns of Potential Human Progress'. Each volume considers one key aspect of how development unfolds globally and how better to move it in desired directions. This volume identifies the provision of security, the building of government...
Fluorine
Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Fluorine is best known for its role in the prevention of cavities and in improving oral and bone health however equally there are millions of people around the world suffering from dental fluorosis due to chronic exposure to high levels of fluoride in drinking water. This volume, written by leading...
The Professional Student Affairs Administrator
Educator, Leader, and Manager
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Styled as a complete update to the 1991 book "Administration and Leadership in Student Affairs", this work addresses issues of importance to student affairs professionals. Grounded in human development, learning, leadership, group dynamics, management theories, and social science research...
Human Performance Improvement
Building Practitioner Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Organizations are under pressure to build and sustain competitive advantage with and through people. For that reason, managers continue to demand results from workers and look for as many ways as possible to increase productivity and decrease the costs of doing business. Human performance improvement...
by Irving B. Weiner, Randy K. Otto
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect...
Text Complexity
Stretching Readers With Texts and Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
There is a big difference between assigning complex texts and teaching complex texts
No matter what discipline you teach, learn how to use complexity as a dynamic, powerful tool for sliding the right text in front of your students’ at just the right time.
Updates to this new edition...
Reading and Writing in Science
Tools to Develop Disciplinary Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Engage your students in scientific thinking across disciplines!
Did you know that scientists spend more than half of their time reading and writing? Students who are science literate can analyze, present, and defend data – both orally and in writing. The updated edition of this...