Perspectives of Executives and Students on Leadership Characteristics for Healthcare Managers: Does a Gap Exist?

Preparing healthcare managers for the complexity of the healthcare industry poses a heavy challenge on healthcare organizations, CEOs, managers, and educational institutions. In order to ensure that future healthcare managers are prepared to enter the workforce, it is important that the characteristics and skills deemed important by current CEOs in the field are similar to those of undergraduate healthcare management students that will be entering the workforce

On feasible and infeasible search for equitable graph coloring

An equitable legal k-coloring of an undirected graph G = (V, E) is a partition of the vertex set V into k disjoint independent sets, such that the cardinalities of any two independent sets differ by at most one (this is called the equity constraint). As a variant of the popular graph coloring problem (GCP), the equitable coloring problem (ECP) involves finding a minimum k for which an equitable legal k-coloring exists. In this paper, we present a study of searching both feasible and infeasible solutions with respect to the equity constraint. The resulting algorithm relies on a mixed search strategy exploring both equitable and inequitable colorings unlike existing algorithms where the search is limited to equitable colorings only. We present experimental results on 73 DIMACS and COLOR benchmark graphs and demonstrate the competitiveness of this search strategy by showing 9 improved best-known results (new upper bounds)

A rating scale to be used as a guide in grade determination for clinical practice of freshman students in the nursing course of a specific school of nursing

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Gravity for FDI

Gravity equations explaining foreign affiliates’ sales are ad hoc and hence, estimated coefficients are hard to interpret. We therefore provide the theoretical underpinnings of the gravity equation applied to the analysis of sales of foreign affiliates of multinational firms. We argue that the success of the gravity equation results from the fact that it can be derived from various theoretical models. We illustrate this point by deriving a gravity equation from three different models of multinational firms. Using data on real affiliate sales, we show how this derived gravity equation can nevertheless be used to discriminate between the different theoretical models

An overreaction implementation of the coherent market hypothesis and option pricing

Inspired by the theory of social imitation (Weidlich 1970) and its adaptation to financial markets by the Coherent Market Hypothesis (Vaga 1990), we present a behavioral model of stock prices that supports the overreaction hypothesis. Using our dynamic stock price model, we develop a two factor general equilibrium model for pricing derivative securities. The two factors of our model are the stock price and a market polarization variable which determines the level of overreaction. We consider three kinds of market scenarios: Risk-neutral investors, representative Bernoulli investors and myopic Bernoulli investors. In case of the latter two, risk premia provide that herding as well as contrarian investor behaviour may be rationally explained and justified in equilibrium. Applying Monte Carlo methods, we examine the pricing of European call options. We show that option prices depend significantly on the level of overreaction, regardless of prevailing risk preferences: Downward overreaction leads to high option prices and upward overreaction results in low option prices

130. Chōnin 2

Iwao Seiichi, Sakamato Tarō, Hōgetsu Keigo, Yoshikawa Itsuji, Kobayashi Tadashi, Kanazawa Shizue. 130. Chōnin 2. In: Dictionnaire historique du Japon, volume 3, 1975. Lettre C. pp. 92-94

106. Chō 3

Iwao Seiichi, Sakamato Tarō, Hōgetsu Keigo, Yoshikawa Itsuji, Kobayashi Tadashi, Kanazawa Shizue. 106. Chō 3. In: Dictionnaire historique du Japon, volume 3, 1975. Lettre C. pp. 77-78

72. Chin Wakei ou Chin Nakei (chin. Tch'en Ho-k'ing) ( ?- ?)

Iwao Seiichi, Sakamato Tarō, Hōgetsu Keigo, Yoshikawa Itsuji, Kobayashi Tadashi, Kanazawa Shizue. 72. Chin Wakei ou Chin Nakei (chin. Tch'en Ho-k'ing) ( ?- ?). In: Dictionnaire historique du Japon, volume 3, 1975. Lettre C. p. 56

75. Chinzei-dangisho

Iwao Seiichi, Sakamato Tarō, Hōgetsu Keigo, Yoshikawa Itsuji, Kobayashi Tadashi, Kanazawa Shizue. 75. Chinzei-dangisho. In: Dictionnaire historique du Japon, volume 3, 1975. Lettre C. p. 58

76. Chinzei-kanrei → Kyūshū-tandai

Iwao Seiichi, Sakamato Tarō, Hōgetsu Keigo, Yoshikawa Itsuji, Kobayashi Tadashi, Kanazawa Shizue. 76. Chinzei-kanrei → Kyūshū-tandai. In: Dictionnaire historique du Japon, volume 3, 1975. Lettre C. p. 58