comparative research in public administration a historical institutionalist perspective

... to a starting point Man-made scales such as IQ and some temperature scales (Fahrenheit, etc.) are examples of interval data D Ratio Data Ratio data has a true zero point, as well as the characteristics ... data, as well as some principles of set mathematics that apply to nominal data C Interval Data Interval data or measurement adds the concept of distance to that of direction that ordinal data ... Expanded, edited by Ali Farazmand 95 Financial Planning and Management in Public Organizations, Alan Walter Steiss and ‘Emeka O Cyprian Nwagwu 96 Handbook of International Health Care Systems, edited...

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... Name: BMani xiii Chapter 20 Constructing Data Sets and Manipulating Data 303 Carmine Scavo Chapter 21 Managing Large-Scale Electronic Data for Public Administration Research: An Information ... Administration and Law and authored ‘‘Five Great Issues in Public Law and Public Administration ’ in the Handbook of Public Administration Lamar Vernon Bennett is a doctoral candidate in public ... University Akhlaque Haque is an associate professor of government and director of graduate studies in public administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham His area of research is in administrative...

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... moral agents in formulating laws, judges act as moral agents in applying and interpreting laws, and public administrators act as moral agents in performing public services Public administration ... Therefore, public administration is, by definition, inherently moral, and public administrators are, again by definition, moral agents We maintain that its inherently moral nature makes public administration ... Ali Farazmand 95 Financial Planning and Management in Public Organizations, Alan Walter Steiss and Emeka O Cyprian Nwagwu 96 Handbook of International Health Care Systems, edited by Khi V Thai,...

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... their overhead costs by maintaining an army of ghost employees, they are creating and maintaining an increasingly vulnerable, isolated, and unrepresented segment of the workforce that can limit ... knowledge, especially in a particular area such as engineering A capability given by the practical application of knowledge A manner of accomplishing a task, especially using technical processes, methods, ... important? Virtual testing, modeling, and simulation are essential to clandestinely maintain or advance nuclear weapons technology As the planet shows no sign of nearing the point where nuclear weapons...

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... Technology in International Comparative Research in Education Board on International Comparative Studies in Education Monica Ulewicz and Alexandra Beatty, Editors Board on Testing and Assessment ... need in order to reach a conclusion about a particular point about a particular teacher or about the teaching of algebra in a country as a whole? How does cross-national variation in teaching practices ... potential that video technology appears to offer as a tool to enhance and expand international comparative research, the role of international video in informing educational research and professional...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... Dental Hygiene Research and Education CAE holds a CIHR Canada Research Chair in knowledge translation Author details Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada ... Estabrooks CA, Kenny DJ, Adewale AJ, Cummings GG, Mallidou AA: A comparison of research utilization among nurses working in Canadian civilian and United States Army healthcare settings Research ... research training, research needs and of their use of research in clinical areas Journal of Advanced Nursing 1999, 29(1):237-245 79 Parahoo K: Research utilization and attitudes towards research...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... organizational integrity Evaluating Public Administration Research Articles in Public Administration Review provided the data for our research We sought to compare and contrast research published in ... including the American Review of Public Administration, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Review of Public Administration Our review of the broader public ... Practices by Year Strategic planning Financial analysis Budgeting Human resources management Creativity and innovation Technological literacy Initiative and risk taking Vision Operational planning...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 19:31

... Happel B, Martin T, Pinikahana J: Burnout and Job satisfaction: a comparative study of psychiatric nurses from forensic and mainstream mental health service International Journal of Mental Health ... Hardy MA: Job satisfaction among nursing staff in a military health care facility Military medicine 2000, 165(10):757-761 Nolan M, Nolan J, Grant G: Maintaining nurses' job satisfaction and morale ... Pillay R: Effect of organisational structure and managerial practices on the clinical behavior and job satisfaction of primary healthcare doctors as knowledge workers, in the managed healthcare industry...

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... especially designed to compare face analysis methods for HRI This database contains 30 individuals and includes images with natural variations in illumination (indoor and outdoor), scale, pose, and ... FERET database Aspects such as variable illumination, alignment’s accuracy, occlusions, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and dependence on the database’s size are measured, and the ... The faces aligned using the funneling algorithm [29] are also available The images of the LFW database have a very large degree of variability in the face’s expression, age, race, background, and...

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... audiences and the settings in which research findings are to be received and, where appropriate, communicating and interacting with wider policy and health service audiences in ways that will facilitate ... on the part of grant holders to disseminate the findings of their research In addition, most researchers are aware that the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is seeking to maximise ... can be measured It appears many researchers recognise the importance of, and appear committed to, research dissemination Perhaps unsurprisingly, for a population undertaking applied health research, ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... very similar to writing an essay An essay is often an opinion piece that analyzes a particular topic or book, while a research paper involves analyzing raw data and different facts and statistics ... pagination and footnotes A research paper is different from an essay because a an essay contains fewer facts than a research paper b an essay is more opinion dominated c a research paper is an extended ... extended analysis based on data and evidence d a research paper is always shorter than an essay A bibliography is an essential component of any research paper because it a demonstrates to the reader...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 09:15

... translating Business Administration terms is more important Besides, it also helps me get the basic knowledge of Business Administration in particular as well as 11 economics in general and makes ... essential to research and learn Business Administration Many people encounter troubles in researching documents related to Business Administration because all the useful documents are written in foreign ... knowledge and understanding about English for Business and Economic translation in general and translation of Business Administration in particular Scope of the study: BA terms lie in a system...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:51

... mortality in Bangladesh in mind, BRAC has initiated a large communitybased programme to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality in 2005 in Nilphamari and has taken a decision to scale up in ... Improving knowledge of antenatal care (ANC) among pregnant women: a field trial in central Java, Indonesia Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 2005, 17(1):3–8 32 AbouZahr CL, Wardlaw TM: Maternal ... Autonomy in Decision Making for Health Care in South Asia Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 2009, 21(2):137–143 17 Cham M, Sundby J, Vangen S: Maternal mortality in the rural Gambia, a qualitative...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... 114 Data Management 115 Management of Name, Name2 and Name3 Information Management of Incident-Level Data 115 Individual versus Incident Level Data 116 Aggregating Incident-Level Data for Each ... had been physically abused by an intimate partner, man or woman, in the past year The lethal sample became any intimate partner death in 1995 or 1996, in which at least one of the partners was ... confidentiality Set standards for research Identify sites and get institutional approval Hire and train staff Hire and train interviewers Develop and carry out interviewer training Develop and refine...

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... Byarugabe- Kinondoni; and Dr Louisa Masanyika-Temeke Many thanks go to the AYA/Pathfinder Tanzania team, led by Naomy Achimpota and including Paul Luchemba, Oswald Malunda and Michael Machaku, ... coordinators in facilitating integration of AYA activities in their district development plans Shyam Thapa (Family Health International), Palena Neale (Pathfinder International headquarters), and Emmanuel ... International Tanzania Office i About the African Youth Alliance Project The African Youth Alliance (AYA) was an initiative implemented in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda The five year project...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... acknowledge that (in a house that has been in continual need of repair and renovation since she moved in) without the help of a diverse building, painting, cleaning, baby-minding and ‘Maura-minding’ crew ... British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Public administration and public policy in Ireland: theory and methods/edited by Maura Adshead and Michelle Millar p.cm Includes ... information to assist in the formation and application of Public administration and public policy in Ireland public policy The practice of drafting in a non-political actor with expertise in a specific...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 20:20

... implicated as a cause of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (100), although this is not a consistent finding (101) A case-control study in Brazil found that oral cancer was associated with tobacco, alcohol and ... a las establecidas como referencia por la ´ Agencia para la Proteccion del Medio Ambiente de los ´ Estados Unidos La exposicion a esa contaminacion ´ ´ afecta principalmente a las mujeres y a ... et al Epidemiology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Malaysia and Hong Kong National Cancer Institute Monographs, 1985, 69: 203–207 102 Franco EL et al Risk factors for oral cancer in Brazil: a case-control...

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