... life as a writer, and also what this chapter is about: a series of ideas, attitudes, and habits that will help you become that person Once the right attitudes are in place, the Doing gets easier, ... serve as practice The way you speak, listen, watch, and read will have much to with how well you write A Matter ofAttitude Ideas into Words 10 Speak precisely Make it a habit to say what you mean, ... a library, both of stuff that is just good reading and of background material, such that you can go from total ignorance to basic grasp overnight The Britannica on-line is a great resource, as...
... general scope of program evaluation as follows: 23 Figure 1: The general scope of educational evaluation (Athanasou, 2000, as cited in Athanasou 2007, p.4) Anathasou also suggests a model as a holistic ... they are able to picture a comprehensive path to their undergraduate majors or career choices The alternative is to access the database of undergraduate majors, graduate program, and occupational ... possible career path As such, this study is just to evaluate students‟ changes in attitudes and knowledge while the evaluation of skills attainment and/ or enhancement is excluded As regards attitudes,...
... homosexuality and relationships have no place in an academic institution Issues such as avoiding sexual abuse and awareness of The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Vol 11 (1) Spring 2002 Table ... in support of SHE in rural Ontario (McKay et al., 1998) and 95% in rural Nova Scotia (Langille et al., 1996), and suggests that the fears teachers and administrators have of parental and community ... Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Vol 11 (1) Spring 2002 ATTITUDES TOWARD SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION Although a vocal minority can create the impression that parental objections to school-based...
... human behavior, and the psychodynamic aspects of organizational and managerial life and the lack of practical guidance for how consultants and coaches can and should work with executives and managers ... analyses of both qualitative and quantitative data Qualitative data indicated that both coaches and coachees had favorable reactions to the coaching process Two themes emerged from these data: ... PREPARE FOR A PRACTICE AS A PROFESSIONAL EXECUTIVE COACH Professional executive coaches are not born As described above, it is a specialty of organizational consultation that requires a complicated...
... models that incorporate a gradual change in parameters and also include a large set of explanatory variables particularly well as far as the inflation forecast is concerned recording gains (over ... Time-varying parameters, stochastic volatility, VAR, FAVAR, forecasting, Bayesian estimation JEL classification: C32, E37, E47 (1) External MPC Unit Bank of England Email: alina.barnett@bankofengland.co.uk ... methodology Data Our main data set consists of quarterly annualised real GDP growth, quarterly annualised inflation and the three-month Treasury bill rate Quarterly data on these variables is available...
... V is the applied bias voltage, L is the length and A is the cross-sectional area of the material For a nonmaterial, A and L are difficult to define precisely, and a more well-defined quantity is ... semiconductor Applying a gate voltage leads to an increase/decrease in conductance The binding of molecules to a nanowire is analogous to applying a voltage using a gate electrode Fig 3b shows differential ... J.V Ortiz, A. G Baboul, B.B Stefanov, G Liu, A Liashenko, P Piskorz, I Komaromi, R Gomperts, R.L Martin, D.J Fox, T Keith, M .A AlLaham, C.Y Peng, A Nanayakkara, C Gonzalez, M Challacombe, P.M.W...
... option available to the analyst may often be to match administrative data on key objective characteristics to survey data containing a richer array of respondent characteristics, intentions, and attitudes ... estimates of earnings changes attributable to activation derived from administrative data by year activated, activation duration, pay grade, and military occupation There are numerous examples ... survey and administrative estimates changes when we exclude the tax advantage from our computation of total earnings in the administrative data The advantage of this approach is that it cleanly...
... organizational change but rather the consequences of organizational change However, it can also be reasoned that the consequences of organizational change are part ofchange efforts and thus cannot ... probable that resistance to change may at times have a positive effect on the outcome of organizational change, and that it may be strategically valuable to an organization For example, it is imaginable ... Boal and Hunt, 1998); (3) technological change (Haveman, 1992); and (4) management team change (Castrogiovanni, Baliga and Kidwell, 1992) 13 As mentioned earlier, research on organizational change...
... a major draught The people of Ethiopia are facing starvation in their millions because of the year-by-year failure of the rains Insurance companies are good barometers ofchange One of the largest, ... on to illustrate the kind of architecture that will have to happen as part ofa broader campaign to avert the apocalyptic prospect of catastrophic climate change The carbon cycle Carbon is the ... renewable systems that draw on solar and lunar energy and are therefore not reliant on a continual input of an extracted fuel This is clearly an abuse of the 27 ARCHITECTURE IN A CLIMATE OF CHANGE...
... times > a 244 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are one of America’s national treasures a are b of c national d treasures > a 245 In his early days as a direct, Charlie Chaplin produced ... thousand fans at the OSU football games a Despite of b are c thousand c at > a 390 The prices of homes are as high in urban areas that most young people cannot afford to buy them a are b as c that ... car apart a knows b carburetor c talking d apart > c 328 A five thousands dollars reward was offered for the capture of the escaped criminals a five thousands dollars b was offered c the d of...
... tau b and Kappa statistics were used to examine the associations between conventional and retrospective values Spearman’s rank correlation and Kendall’s tau b are non-parametric measures of association ... symptoms lists (hernia repair and laparoscopic cholecystectomy) and for the global assessment items Statistical Analysis Magnitude and direction ofchange were calculated for each item of the checklist ... items had a limited range of values, we also computed Kendall’s tau- b because it uses a correction for ties [20] The last measure of association we used was the unweighted Kappa A Kappa > 0.4...
... credit card balances, rather than taking the time to apply for a loan with a lower interest rate As a result, credit cards account for a substantial and growing share of consumers' debt (Canner and ... credit card 51 Journal of Comparative International Management 12:1 Table I: Sample characteristics Part A: Individuals who not cany credit card No of respondents 47 Male Fetnale Total 21 68 Age: ... Noring and Anderson (1995) devised a 38-item scale to 49 Journal of Comparative International Management ¡2:1 measure affectiveness, cognitive and behavioral attitudes towards credit cards Affective...
... processes of the spruce natural forest in Nefcerka NNR 546 in Tatra National Park on the basis of 27 research plots of ares in size that were established in various stages of the natural forest ... stocks of humus and with the lack of easily accessible nutrients The average annual temperature reaches about 2–2.5°C and the average annual precipitation is 1,200–1,300 mm In the Nefcerka Valley, ... 545–553 Table Average values of Clark & Evans, Füldner and Jaehne & Dohrenbusch indices per altitudinal category and developmental stages Altitudinal category Developmental stage Füldner index Clark...
... to the American College of Rheumatology criteria [20]), who were 45–75 years old and who had a manually measured JSW on plain AP pelvic radiograph of 1–4 mm at baseline All patients gave written ... number of sets of radiographs required in each stratum was 25 Radiographic techniques All radiographs were obtained at a standard size of 1/1 with the patient in a weight-bearing position The X-ray ... statistical analysis IK performed the follow-up of the trial and the radiographic study, and data management BM, TS and EV significantly contributed to devising the protocol, analysis of data and...
... conception and design of the experiment and participated in the data analyses and interpretation MSR conceived the study, helped to collect the data, participated in the data analyses and interpretation, ... subjects For each of the six images captured, three measurements of the pupil diameter and three measurements of the iris diameter were taken It was assumed that a circle could mathematically represent ... the last two measurements before light onset and melatonin concentrations from the last two measurements before light offset (Figure 4) A repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed a...
... for Quality in Health Care [20], Accreditation Canada is a national, non-profit, independent organization that was created in 1958 to help guarantee that healthcare organizations across Canada furnish ... Tosh A: CCHSA Accreditation: An instigator for change and a motivator for heath human resources A case study ofa health region in Alberta In MSc thesis University of Ottawa, Health Administration ... JW: Research Design: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications; 1994:888 xix, 228 Champagne F: The ability to Manage Change in Health Care Organizations,...
... cross-situational relationships with organizational readiness for change In fact, it might not be necessary that all organizational members value an organizational change for the same reasons Change valence ... vision ofa future state of affairs increase organizational readiness for change by increasing change valence that is, by increasing the degree to which organizational members perceive the change as ... measurement, and relationships with other variables differ across levels of analysis [17,20] Below, I focus on organizational readiness for change as a supra-individual state of affairs and theorize about...