Search Results - information systems

Marketing and management models : a guide to understanding and using business models / by Strong, Helen

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Higher Education in 2040 : A Global Approach / by Zwaan, Bert van der, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The key factors in the coming decades -- The key trends -- The economy determines the future -- Urbanization and global knowledge hubs in 2040 -- Information technology as a disruptive force -- Digital or campus teaching? …”
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Mapping workflows and managing knowledge capturing formal and tacit knowledge to improve performance / by Kmetz, John L.

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Educational Resource Management : An international perspective / by Glover, Derek, Levačić, Rosalind

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Nursing excellence for children and families

Table of Contents: “…Mays -- Enhancement of family support systems / Martha K. Swartz and Kathleen Knafl -- Genetic assessment and counseling / Janet K. …”
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A socio-cultural perspective on patient safety

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Paul Barach -- Introduction : a socio-cultural perspective on patient safety / Emma Rowley and Justin Waring -- All news is bad news : patient safety in the news media / Cecily Palmer and Toby Murcott -- Broadening the patient safety movement : listening, involving, and learning / Josephine Ocloo -- Narrowing the gap between safety policy and practice : the role of nurses' implicit theories and heuristics / Anat Drach-Zahavy and Anit Somech -- Resources of strength : an exnovation of hidden competences to preserve patient safety / Jessica Mesman -- Deviantly innovative : when risking patient safety is the right thing to do / Emma Rowley -- The precarious gap between information technology and patient safety : lessons from medication systems / Habibollah Pirnejad and Roland Bal -- The politics of learning : the dilemma for patient safety / Justin Waring and Graeme Currie -- Exploring the contributions of professional-practice networks to knowledge sharing, problem-solving, and patient safety / Simon Bishop and Justin Waring -- Challenges to learning from clinical adverse events : a study of root cause analysis in practice / Jeanne Mengis and Davide Nicolini -- Patient safety and clinical practice improvement : the importance of reflecting on real-time, in situ care processes / Rick Iedema.…”
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Marketing strategy for small- to medium-sized manufacturers a practical guide for generating growth, profit, and sales / by France, Charles E.

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Social security pension reform in Europe

Table of Contents: “…Recent Developments in Old Age Pension Systems: An International Overview 439 -- Klaus-Jiirgen Gem -- Appendix: OECD Statistical and Analytical -- Information on Aging 479.…”
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Child protection using research to improve policy and practice /

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Medicaid and mental health care for children in the child welfare system / Ramesh Raghavan and Arleen Leibowitz -- Systems integration and access to mental health care / John A. …”
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Rethinking Value Chains : Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism by Palpacuer, Florence

Table of Contents: “…The missing information on value chains…”
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Foundations of forensic vocational rehabilitation /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to vocational rehabilitation -- History of forensic vocational rehabilitation consulting -- Forensic rehabilitation and vocational earning capacity models -- Medical evidence and residual functional capacity -- Psychometric assessment in forensic vocational rehabilitation -- Transferability of skills : historical foundations and development -- Job analysis -- Labor market survey -- Occupational and labor market information -- Introduction to the American legal system and rules of civil procedure : a primer for vocational experts -- Case conceptualization : achieving opinion validity through the lens of clinical judgment -- Interpreting rehabilitation research -- Understanding rules of evidence and their application to expert testimony -- Consultation in social security disability law -- Consultation in civil injury litigation -- Consultation in marital dissolution and family law -- Consultation in employment law -- Consultation in workers' compensation law -- Introduction to life care planning -- Worklife expectancy models and concepts -- Issues in the handoff to a forensic economist -- Professional identity, standards, and ethical issues.…”
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Irreverent Persia : Invective, Satirical and Burlesque Poetry from the Origins to the Timurid Period (10th to 15th Century) / by Zipoli, Riccardo

Table of Contents: “…Notes on Transliteration System, Dates and Biographical Information; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Genre of Hajv ('Satire', 'Mockery', 'Verbal Aggression'); The Genre of Hazl ('Witticism', 'Facetiae', 'Bawdy Poetry'); Historical Background; Poetic Forms; Tradition of Studies; Authors and Texts; Chapter 1. …”
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Intergovernmental management for the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…Scheppach and Frank Shafroth -- Developing a national homeland security system : an urgent and complex task in intergovernmental relations / Charles R. …”
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Career opportunities in counseling and psychology / by Lucas, Audrey (Audrey A.)

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Civil society in Malerkotla, Punjab fostering resilience through religion / by Randhawa, Karenjot Bhangoo, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Identifying peacebuilding at work: notes on methodology -- The need for Sikh-Muslim analysis -- Methodological challenges -- Outline of the book -- Evolution of theories: conflict and peace -- Religion and conflict -- Peacebuilding at the state and community level -- Civil society -- The role of religion -- Group identity and space sharing -- Narratives in religious communities -- Rationale for case study in an ethnographic tradition -- Researchable questions -- Content analysis -- Ethnographic methods -- In-depth interviewing -- Sikhism and Islam: a historical look at religious constructions of peace and conflict -- Tensions in history: Sikhs and Muslims -- Islam and nonviolence in the Punjab -- Partition -- Partition's effect on Malerkotla -- Perspectives from Malerkotla -- Religion and history -- Religious historical narratives -- Understanding others religious teachings and practices -- Religious exchange -- Ideas of peace and conflict informed by sacred text/teachings/similarity in content -- Conflict incidences -- Engagement in peacebuilding activities -- Analysis of findings -- Civil society linkages -- Negotiating the collective memory: narratives of past and present -- Inclusive political processes -- Economic life and interreligious relations -- Society -- Education -- Social relations -- Conflict resolution systems -- Media -- Conclusion.…”
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Recent developments in mathematical finance International Conference on Mathematical Finance, Shanghai, China, 10-13 May 2001 /

Table of Contents: “…Yong -- Arbitrage Pricing Systems in a Market Driven by an Ito Process 263 -- S. …”
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Multicriteria decision aid and artificial intelligence links, theory and applications / by Doumpos, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors Preface Part One The Contributions of Intelligent Techniques in Multicriteria Decision Aiding 1 Computational Intelligence Techniques for Multicriteria Decision Aiding: An Overview 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The MCDA Paradigm 1.2.1 Modeling Process 1.2.2 Methodological Approaches 1.3 Computational Intelligence in MCDA 1.3.1 Statistical Learning and Data Mining 1.3.2 Fuzzy Modeling 1.3.3 Metaheuristics 1.4 Conclusions References 2 Intelligent Decision Support Systems 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Fundamentals of Human Decision Making 2.3 Decision Support System 2.4 Intelligent Decision Support Systems 2.4.1 Artificial Neural Networks for Intelligent Decision Support 2.4.2 Fuzzy Logic for Intelligent Decision Support 2.4.3 Expert Systems for Intelligent Decision Support 2.4.4 Evolutionary Computing for Intelligent Decision Support 2.4.5 Intelligent Agents for Intelligent Decision Support 2.5 Evaluating Intelligent Decision Support Systems 2.5.1 Determining Evaluation Criteria 2.5.2 Multi-Criteria Model for IDSS Assessment 2.6 Summary and Future Trends References Part Two Intelligent Technologies for Decision Support and Preference Modeling 3 Designing Distributed Multi-Criteria Decision Support Systems for Complex and Uncertain Situations 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Example Applications 3.3 Key Challenges 3.4 Making Trade-offs: Multi-criteria Decision Analysis 3.4.1 Multi-attribute Decision Support 3.4.2 Making Trade-offs Under Uncertainty 3.5 Exploring the Future: Scenario-based Reasoning 3.6 Making Robust Decisions: Combining MCDA and SBR 3.6.1 Decisions Under Uncertainty: The Concept of Robustness 3.6.2 Combining Scenarios and MCDA 3.6.3 Collecting, Sharing and Processing Information: A Distributed Approach 3.6.4 Keeping Track of Future Developments: Constructing Comparable Scenarios 3.6.5 Respecting Constraints and Requirements: Scenario Management 3.6.6 Assisting Evaluation: Assessing Large Numbers of Scenarios 3.7 Discussion 3.8 Conclusion References 4 Preference Representation with Ontologies 4.1 Introduction 4.1.1 Structure of the Chapter 4.2 Ontology-based Preference Models 4.3 Maintaining the User's Profile up to Date 4.4 Decision Making Methods Exploiting the Preference Information Stored in Ontologies 4.4.1 Recommendation Based on Aggregation 4.4.2 Recommendation Based on Similarities 4.4.3 Recommendation Based on Rules 4.5 Discussion and Open Questions References Part Three Decision Models 5 Neural Networks in Multicriteria Decision Support 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Basic Concepts of Neural Networks 5.2.1 Neural Networks for Intelligent Decision Support 5.3 Basics in Multicriteria Decision Aid 5.3.1 MCDM Problems 5.3.2 Solutions of MCDM Problems 5.4 Neural Networks and Multicriteria Decision Support 5.4.1 Review of Neural Network Applications to MCDM Problems 5.4.2 Discussion 5.5 Summary and Conclusions References 6 Rule-Based Approach to Multicriteria Ranking 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Problem Setting 6.3 Pairwise Comparison Table (PCT) 6.4 Rough Approximation of Outranking and Non-outranking Relations 6.5 Induction and Application of Decision Rules 6.6 Exploitation of Preference Graphs 6.7 Illustrative Example 6.8 Summary and Conclusions References 7 About the Application of Evidence Theory in MultiCriteria Decision Aid 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Evidence Theory: Some Concepts 7.2.1 Knowledge Model 7.2.2 Combination 7.2.3 Decision Making 7.3 New Concepts in Evidence Theory for MCDA 7.3.1 First Belief Dominance 7.3.2 RBBD Concept 7.4 Multicriteria Methods modeled by Evidence Theory 7.4.1 Evidential Reasoning Approach 7.4.2 DS/AHP 7.4.3 DISSET 7.4.4 A Choice Model Inspired by ELECTRE I 7.4.5 A Ranking Model Inspired by Xu et al.'…”
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Human factors in process plant operation / by Strobhar, David A.

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