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Advanced Statistics for Health Research provides a rigorous
geometric understanding of models used in the analysis of health
data, including linear and non-linear regression models, and
supervised machine learning models. Models drawn from the health
literature include: ordinary least squares, two-stage least
squares, probits, logits, Cox regressions, duration modeling,
quantile regression and random forest regression. Causal inference
techniques from the health literature are presented including
randomization, matching and propensity score matching,
differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, regression
discontinuity, and fixed effects analysis. Codes for the respective
statistical techniques presented are given for STATA, SAS and R.
This title was first published in 2001. This volume brings together
the 25-year output of the longest running programme of research
into the making of decisions by top management. It describes and
explains the processes of arriving at major decisions and how they
are affected by the issue under decision, the form of organization
and national differences and then, finally, success and failure in
implementation. The programme continues with research on routes in
successfully managing implementation.
This title was first published in 2001. This volume brings together
the 25-year output of the longest running programme of research
into the making of decisions by top management. It describes and
explains the processes of arriving at major decisions and how they
are affected by the issue under decision, the form of organization
and national differences and then, finally, success and failure in
implementation. The programme continues with research on routes in
successfully managing implementation.
Psychological preparation is now recognised as being of key
importance in improving sports performance. This book describes
performance profiling methods used by coaches and psychologists and
exercises and assessments are presented in an accessiblestyle.
Although based on practical experience, the text is firmly rooted
in research. It is therefore an innovative and authoritative book
that can be used at both professional and amateur level.Sports
performers continually endeavour to excel at what they do and to
break records. Their search for new and innovative techniques which
might enable them to achieve these aims is unceasing. This book
offers accessible and practical guidance on anincreasingly
important and proven approach - the use of mental processes to
enhance physical performance. It is now recognised that psychology
has a key role in sports, not only in improving performance, but
also in helping sportsmen and women attain asense of mastery of
their discipline. The book explores the important characteristics
in top sporting performance and illustrates techniques and
exercises designed to assist athletes reach their potential. It
should be an essential part of any serioussports performance
preparation. * Very practical, easy to use, clearly presented *
Based on a model of psychology which emphasises the importance of
understanding the performer's view * All techniques rigorously
tested at an elite level 'This isa book for everyone interesteed in
individual sports performance. I wholeheartedly recommend this
book.' - Brit. Assoc. of Sports Sciences News, April 1996
This book is intended for junior and senior undergraduate students,
and master level students in human resources, risk management and
insurance, industrial relations or public policy. The subject of
the book is non-wage benefits paid to workers. Hence, it excludes
discussion of needs-based programs such as welfare, food stamps,
Supplementary Security Income, and Medicaid. It includes benefits
mandated by the government including the major social insurance
programs: workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and Social
Security benefits. It also includes those benefits voluntarily
provided by firms including: group medical care, disability
benefits, paid sick time, pension benefits, life insurance, and
assorted other fringe benefits. The book is divided into three
parts. Part I (chapters 1 through 6) briefly introduces these
programs and discusses some of the insurance and economic concepts
that are useful in both evaluating the current programs, and in
understanding what changes might mean for future costs and
benefits. The next two parts of the book deal respectively with
social insurance programs (Part II, chapters 7-10), and other
employer provided benefits (Part III, chapters 11-16). Throughout,
private sector human resource practice and public sector human
resource policy is linked to various "ben fit" models: the human
capital model, the passive participant model, the insurance' model,
the managed care model, and the integrated health benefits model.
The Economics of Social Insurance and Employee Benefits focuses on
non-wage benefits paid to workers in the United States, covering
both government-mandated and voluntarily provided benefits. The
author argues that benefits affect workplace productivity, and
concentrates on the economic thinking behind how to design non-wage
benefits in order to achieve competitive advantage. Part I briefly
introduces these programs and discusses some of the insurance and
economic concepts that are useful both for evaluating current
programs and in analyzing what changes might mean for future costs
and benefits. Part II deals with mandated social insurance
programs, while Part III discusses benefits voluntarily provided by
employers. Throughout the book, private sector human resource
practices and public sector human resource policies are linked to
various benefit models: the human capital model; the passive
participant model; the insurance model; the managed care model; and
the integrated health benefits model. Butler argues that the
current program-centered approach to human resource and risk
management is often ineffectual because it (1) ignores overlapping
benefits that mitigate useful cost-sharing mechanisms; (2) often
results in the concentration of benefits among relatively few
workers; and (3) sometimes has the unintended consequences of
negatively affecting workers' human capital. In advocating a
worker-specific' approach to employee benefits, the book offers a
unique perspective on how human resource managers, risk managers,
and public policy makers can promote those institutions and
programs that best increase workers' productivity.
This paper examines two issues that are of vital importance to
short and long term operations in space and the combat engagement
of space borne assets. The first issue analyzed is the question of
the establishment of sovereignty and protective zones for free
passage in space. This paper will compare international law
treaties and other historical analyses to current United States
(US) war fighting doctrine on space and propose a United States Air
Force (USAF) position on this issue. It will define and discuss the
definition for two space protective zones. First and foremost, the
immediate safety zone by the space object and secondly, the actual
identification area around the object and its orbital track. The
second issue will be intricately more complex on determining the
engagement of space assets in both peacetime and wartime. The
possible issue of criminal and civil liability will be discussed.
The command and control of space assets will be briefly addressed
with the second issue as it continues to be an ongoing controversy.
Three differing views will be addressed. The concept that will be
centered on will be that of integrating space into the air
operations cells along with making some form of either a combined
control cell at the Joint Forces Commander level or a stand-alone
cell.
This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the
future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century
thought about their future, in many different ways and contexts. It
spans the long nineteenth century from c. 1800 to c. 1914 and
includes both people living on the island of Ireland and the Irish
abroad, women and men, the religious and the secular, the governing
and the governed. It explores - both individually and collectively
- the various hopes, dreams, fears and visions of the future that
permeated through nineteenth-century Ireland and Irish life. The
collection also analyses how the Irish future was conceptualized
and understood in different cultural contexts, how visions of the
future shifted in relation to the present and the past, and how the
future was instrumentalized for political, religious or other
social agendas. It attempts to go beyond the usual political or
religious discourses on what the future might hold for Irish people
and consider a broader spectrum of witnesses from a mixture of
historical and literary sources. CONTRIBUTORS: Patrick Bethel,
Richard J. Butler, Pauline Collombier-Lakeman, Sophie Cooper,
Catherine Healy, Peter Hession, Raphael Ingelbien, Jim Kelly, Fiona
Lyons, Aoife O'Leary McNeice, Patrick Maume, Christopher P. Morash,
Loughlin J. Sweeney.
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