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Applied Policy Research

Concepts and Cases

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Strategic Management

Concepts and Cases

Moving to VB .NET

Strategies, Concepts, and Code

Visual Basic guru Dan Appleman not only updates the book to include coverage of changes to VB.NET in Visual Studio 2003, but extends those areas that have proven important to VB.NET programmers since its release. Topics such as .NET remoting, versioning and object oriented programming are further illuminated using his own personable and highly effective style.

Even the design time behaviors of components, controls, and windows derive
from behavior specified by classes you create, which derive from classes in the .
NET Framework and from attributes you define that also derive from classes in
the .

Civic Engagement in Higher Education

Concepts and Practices

Numerous studies have chronicled students lack of trust in large social institutions, declining interest in politics, and decreasing civic skills. This book is a comprehensive guide to developing high-quality civic engagement experiences for college students. The book defines civic engagement and explains why it is central to a college education. It describes the state of the art of education for civic engagement and provides guidelines for designing programs that encourage desired learning outcomes. In addition, the book guides leaders in organizing their institutions to create a campus-wide culture of civic engagement.

These experts cover topics including: Civic engagement in the first college year Engaging general education Interdisciplinary learning for civic engagement Capstone experiences and undergraduate research Enhancing intercultural competence ...

An Integrated Framework for Financial Positions and Flowson a From-Whom-To-Whom Basis

Concepts, Status, and Prospects

The global crisis of 2008 highlighted the need to understand financial interconnectedness among the various sectors of an economy and between them and their counterparties in the rest of the world. However, application of this kind of analysis has been hampered by the lack of adequate data. This paper sets the background for promoting internationally coordinated efforts for compiling and disseminating data on sectoral financial positions and flows on a from-whom-to-whom basis within the framework of the System of National Accounts. It draws on actual experiences in compiling these kinds of data and provides guidelines for their development in the future.

As of 201 l, 32 countries report data for the monetary authorities, depository
corporations (DCs) and other financial corporations (OFCs). Reports covering
only the monetary authorities and the DCs are received from 126 countries (
including ...

Marketing and Consumer Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

As marketing professionals look for ever more effective ways to promote their goods and services to customers, a thorough understanding of customer needs and the ability to predict a target audience’s reaction to advertising campaigns is essential. Marketing and Consumer Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores cutting-edge advancements in marketing strategies as well as the development and design considerations integral to the successful analysis of consumer trends. Including both in-depth case studies and theoretical discussions, this comprehensive four-volume reference is a necessary resource for business leaders and marketing managers, students and educators, and advertisers looking to expand the reach of their target market.

The constantly changing landscape of Marketing and Consumer Behavior makes
it challenging for experts and practitioners to stay informed of the field's most up-
to-date research. That is why Business Science Reference is pleased to offer ...

Acting Locally

Concepts and Models for Service-learning in Environmental Studies

This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. The essays in this volume focus on service-learning in a wide range of environmental studies. The Introduction, "Why is Service-Learning So Pervasive in Environmental Studies Programs?" was written by Harold Ward. The chapters in Part 1 share a focus on service-learning as a "consulting company"; they include: "An Undergraduate Course as a Consulting Company" (James F. Hornig); "The Challenges of Integrating Service-Learning in the Biology: Environmental Science Curriculum at Colby College" (David H. Firmage and F. Russell Cole); "Evolution of the Consultant Model of Service-Learning, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine" (Lois K. Ongley, Curtis Bohlen, and Alison S. Lathrop); "The Ethics of Community/Undergraduate Collaborative Research in Chemistry" (Alanah Fitch, Aron Reppmann, and John Schmidt); "Evolving a Service-Learning Curriculum at Brown University, or What We Learned from Our Community Partners" (Harold Ward); and "A View from the Bottom of the Heap: A Junior Faculty Member Confronts the Risks of Service-Learning" (Katrina Smith Korfmacher). The first six chapters in Part 2 focus on the particulars of the projects, courses, and programs; titles include: "Raising Fish and Tomatoes To Save the Rustbelt" (Eric Pallant); "Fulfilling and Expanding the Mission of a Community College" (Janice Alexander); "Connecting with Human and Natural Communities at Middlebury College" (John Elder, Christopher McGrory Klyza, Jim Northup, and Stephen Trombulak); "An Educational Strategy To Reduce Exposure of Urban Children to Environmental Lead: ENVS 404 at the University of Pennsylvania" (Robert Giegengack, Walter Cressler, Peter Bloch, and Joanne Piesieski); "Connecting the Classroom and the Community: A Southern California Experience" (Nan Jenks-Jay); "An Experiment in Environmental Service-Learning" (Calvin F. Exoo); and "Service-Learning in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont through a Senior Capstone Course on Environmental Problem Solving and Consulting" (Thomas R. Hudspeth). The final three chapters in this part present models in which internship and cocurricular experiences play an especially important role; titles are: "Industrial Areas and Natural Areas: Service-Learning in Southeast Michigan" (Orin G. Gelderloos); "ALLARM: A Case Study on the Power and the Challenge of Service in Undergraduate Science Education" (Candie C. Wilderman); and "Environmental Service and Learning at John Carroll University: Lessons from the Mather Project" (Mark Diffenderfer). An Afterword by Peter Blaze Corcoran is included. Appended is 17-item annotated bibliography. (All papers contain references.) (SM)

This could be as minimal as a lab on quality control or could include some
planned segment on ethics, as described above. One challenge in encouraging
reflection is the fact that each "community" experience is quite different, on
account of ...

Handbook of Swarm Intelligence

Concepts, Principles and Applications

From nature, we observe swarming behavior in the form of ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, honey bees, swarming of bacteria, and many more. It is only in recent years that researchers have taken notice of such natural swarming systems as culmination of some form of innate collective intelligence, albeit swarm intelligence (SI) - a metaphor that inspires a myriad of computational problem-solving techniques. In computational intelligence, swarm-like algorithms have been successfully applied to solve many real-world problems in engineering and sciences. This handbook volume serves as a useful foundational as well as consolidatory state-of-art collection of articles in the field from various researchers around the globe. It has a rich collection of contributions pertaining to the theoretical and empirical study of single and multi-objective variants of swarm intelligence based algorithms like particle swarm optimization (PSO), ant colony optimization (ACO), bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA), honey bee social foraging algorithms, and harmony search (HS). With chapters describing various applications of SI techniques in real-world engineering problems, this handbook can be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners, giving an in-depth flavor of what SI is capable of achieving.

The third category is on algorithms' applications. Swarm intelligence algorithms
have been successfully applied to solve all kinds of problems covering a wide
range of real-world applications. Due to algorithms' characteristics such as that
they ...

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials

Concepts and Methodologies

In this chapter, we will describe several basic statistical concepts and issues that
have a great impact on the success of a clinical trial during its planning, design,
execution, analysis, and reporting phases. These basic statistical concepts ...

System Analysis, Design, and Development

Concepts, Principles, and Practices

Written in a practical, easy to understand style, this text provides a step-by-step guide to System Analysis and Engineering by introducing concepts, principles, and practices via a progression of topical, lesson oriented chapters. Each chapter focuses on specific aspects of system analysis, design, and development, and includes definitions of key terms, examples, author's notes, key principles, and challenging exercises that teach readers to apply their knowledge to real world systems. Concepts and methodologies presented can be applied by organizations in business sectors such as transportation, construction, medical, financial, education, aerospace and defense, utilities, government, and others, regardless of size. An excellent undergraduate or graduate-level textbook in systems analysis and engineering, this book is written for both new and experienced professionals who acquire, design, develop, deploy, operate, or support systems, products, or services.

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