Company Productivity: Measurement for Improvement

Reviews what productivity is and how it\u27s measured, along with examples of company productivity measurements.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1154/thumbnail.jp

Integrating technological and organizational perspectives : an approach to improve rail motive power management

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1983.Title as it appeared in Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate list February 1987: Integrating organizational and technological perspectives : an approach to improve rail motive power management. Vita.Bibliography: p. 411-425.by Chi-Kuo Mao.Ph.D

Professional English for the students of Electronic Education Institute in specialties of «Chemical Technology», «Bioengineering and Organic Synthesis», «Eneregy and Resourse Saving in Chemical Technology, Petrochemistry and Biotechnology» and «Technosphere Safety»

Пособие предназначено для студентов 3 курса ИнЭО, изучающих профессиональный курс английского языка по направлениям 18.03.01 «Химическая технология», 18.03.02 «Энерго- и ресурсосберегающие процессы в химической технологии, нефтехимии и биотехнологии», 20.03.01 «Техносферная безопасность»

Forensic genetics in the governance of crime

This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado and Granja offer a unique perspective on current trends in crime governance. They explore the place and role of genetics in criminal justice systems, and show how classical and contemporary social theory can help address challenges posed by social processes and interactions generated by the uses, meanings, and expectations attributed to genetics in the governance of crime. Cutting-edge methods and research techniques are also integrated to address crucial aspects of this social reality. Finally, the authors examine new challenges emerging from recent paradigm shifts within forensic genetics, moving away from the construction of evidence as presented in court to the production of intelligence guiding criminal investigations.This work has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 648608), within the project “EXCHANGE—Forensic geneticists and the transnational exchange of DNA data in the EU: Engaging science with social control, citizenship and democracy” led by Helena Machado and hosted at the Communication and Society Research Centre, Institute for Social Sciences of University of Minho, Portugal

Integrated adaptive skills program model (IASP)

Integrated Adaptive Skills Program Model (IASP) is designed to offer supportive services to disabled students seeking to integrate into a local after-school program. IASP Model focuses on teaching adaptive skills to disabled students that would prepare them to be fully included into an after-school program with their same age peers. The program offers support, training, and consultation to the students and staff involved in the program. A variety of research-methods and assessment screening tools are used to determine eligibility and program implementation. The IASP Model was piloted during the 2011-2012 school year, in California, United States, but due to limited local and state funds the program could not continue. Students with disabilities deserve to be involved in the community and should not be excluded based on funds. Teaching and educating others on how to integrate students with disabilities into programs will minimize and/or eliminate exclusion of participating in recreation programs within residing communities.https://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1179/thumbnail.jp

Present but not accounted for: a phenomenological study of gifted African American males.

The purpose of this research study was to explore the lived experiences of gifted African American males in grades 6-8. Specifically, the study examined how gifted African American males perceived and understood their participation in a gifted program and how their sense of self-efficacy shaped their disposition and approach toward academic persistence. Much of the literature published on the social, emotional, and academic success of gifted African American males has focused on college-aged students, therefore the current study is crucial in contributing to the body of knowledge on African American males, in particular, those identified as gifted during early adolescence (Ford, 2005). Additionally, voices of gifted African American males have been disregarded, yet are quintessential to understanding how they create meaning from their experiences. This study utilized interpretive phenomenological analysis as a means of synthesizing and making sense from the themes which emerged in the study. Analysis of the data indicated that gifted African American males found the issue of underrepresentation and relationships with teachers and peers to have the most influence in understanding their experiences in a gifted program. The findings also revealed that scholar identity and the shaping of self-efficacy, driven by a need to succeed, influenced their academic persistence. The findings discussed give insight into the challenges and triumphs of gifted African American males participating in a gifted program and provide implications for policy and practice

Continuity and discontinuity of the developmental state : a case study of Taiwan

EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Uncertain Grounds: Key Moves in the Making of Modernity, from Tudor England to the Globalized Present

Which historical lens and what scope can capture modernitys complex social, political, economic, and epistemic permutations? Using an historical interpretive lens to explore contingent moments in its making, this work seeks to describe a core dynamic within modernity. In modernity, the assertion of freedom from rooted systems of meaning ushers in radical uncertainty. In response, new certainties are constructed for guiding human action, but being grounded upon indeterminacy these are necessarily provisional and open ended. Uncertainty thus grows in proportion to the expansion of freedom and the abstraction of foundations, making the drives to know and to control insatiable. To narrate a history of this dynamic, I frame it as a series of strategies for grounding upon groundlessness: surveying and mapping, enclosing and improving; risking and insuring. This narrative is largely set in the particular soil of British history, where the discourses surrounding efforts to ground property and knowledge upon new certainties uncovers the contingent nature of truth and legitimacy in modernity. In the Tudor period customary knowledge of the land was delegitimized as estate surveyors began to measure and represent land from the distanced perspective of geometry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the discourse of improvement legitimized the practice of enclosure as the means of securing certainty of ownership in order to cultivate endless growth, while Baconian science pursued a parallel strategy. In the eighteenth century, risk was objectified in probability theory and traded in insurance and investment markets. Since the nineteenth century risk management has been applied to populations and has become the guarantor of security and the means of governing societies across the globe. But perpetual efforts to know and contain risks have only generated more insecurity. I conclude that while founded upon freedom, modernity is a compulsion that draws us ever further from the soil of particularity. Using an historical interpretive approach and drawing on the histories of science, capitalism and insurance, as well as theories of modernity, property and risk, this project is an interdisciplinary effort to understand the making of key dynamics within modernity