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Computer simulations, serious digital games, and gamification add
fun and engagement to business courses, while also improving
students' learning outcomes. Computer Simulations and Gaming
provides business educators with the theoretical background,
selection foundations, and implementation advice they need to
successfully select and implement computer simulations, serious
digital games, and/or gamification elements. The book opens by
defining computer simulations, serious digital games, and
gamification, then highlights the learning theories that contribute
to their effectiveness at improving learning outcomes. From there
the authors provide information that helps educators select
computer simulations, serious digital games, and/or gamification
elements, by reviewing their benefits and drawbacks, identifying
contextual considerations, and providing a heuristic. The authors
then offer advice to prepare educators to implement computer
simulations, serious digital games, and/or gamification elements in
their classrooms. In addition, they have included a list of tools
and resources as well as an annotated bibliography that point
readers towards helpful additional information. In an ever-changing
world of tech, business educators at all levels will come to rely
on the helpful guidance in Computer Simulations and Gaming to
engage students.
Computer simulations, serious digital games, and gamification add
fun and engagement to business courses, while also improving
students' learning outcomes. Computer Simulations and Gaming
provides business educators with the theoretical background,
selection foundations, and implementation advice they need to
successfully select and implement computer simulations, serious
digital games, and/or gamification elements. The book opens by
defining computer simulations, serious digital games, and
gamification, then highlights the learning theories that contribute
to their effectiveness at improving learning outcomes. From there
the authors provide information that helps educators select
computer simulations, serious digital games, and/or gamification
elements, by reviewing their benefits and drawbacks, identifying
contextual considerations, and providing a heuristic. The authors
then offer advice to prepare educators to implement computer
simulations, serious digital games, and/or gamification elements in
their classrooms. In addition, they have included a list of tools
and resources as well as an annotated bibliography that point
readers towards helpful additional information. In an ever-changing
world of tech, business educators at all levels will come to rely
on the helpful guidance in Computer Simulations and Gaming to
engage students.
Panentheism has gained popularity among contemporary thinkers. This
belief system explains that "all is in God"; as a soul is related
to a body, so God is related to the world. In "Panentheism--The
Other God of the Philosophers," philosopher and theologian John
Cooper traces the growth and evolution of this intricate theology
from Plotinus to Alfred North Whitehead to the present.
This landmark book--the first complete history of panentheism
written in English--explores the subject through the lens of
various thinkers, such as Plato, Jurgen Moltmann, Paul Tillich,
Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Charles Hartshorne, and discusses how
panentheism has influenced liberation, feminist, and ecological
theologies. Cooper not only sketches the evolution of panentheism
but also critiques it; ultimately, he offers a defense of classical
theism. This book is for readers who care deeply about theology and
think seriously about their faith.
A comprehensive exposition of rational expectations models is
provided here, working up from simple univariate models to more
sophisticated multivariate and non-linear models.
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly
physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist
ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To
date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on
anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional soul / body
distinction is viable), with occasional articles treating
physicalist accounts of such doctrines as the Incarnation and
Resurrection of Jesus cropping up, as well. Interestingly, the
literature to date, both for and against this influence, is
dominated by philosophers. The present volume is a collection of
philosophers and theologians who advance several novel criticisms
of this growing trend toward physicalism in Christian theology. The
present collection definitively shows that Christian physicalism
has some significant philosophical and theological problems. No
doubt all philosophical anthropologies have their challenges, but
the present volume shows that Christian physicalism is most likely
not an adequate accounting for essential theological topics within
Christian theism. Christians, then, should consider alternative
anthropologies.
Medication costs and common drug-related problems, such as
misapplication of therapy, medication misuse, and adverse effects,
can often be avoided or reduced. Geriatric Drug Therapy
Interventions will help you get better outcomes with your patients
as it points out pitfalls to avoid and provides you with logical
principles for administering drug therapy. Offering guidelines,
advice, and gentle reminders, this book shows you the importance of
properly documenting patient problems and of considering the entire
medical history of your patients. It also helps you perform fall
and psychoactive drug risk assessments and address under-recognized
and undertreated problems such as malnutrition, depression, sensory
deficits, anemia, osteoporosis, and pressure ulcers.As Geriatric
Drug Therapy Interventions clarifies, increased consultant
pharmacist involvement in comprehensive pharmaceutical services
results in the reduction of drug-related problems and
medication-associated costs with long-term care patients. Using
this book's helpful and substantive interventions, you can improve
clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes in your practice. For
this purpose, Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions discusses: a
study designed to teach pharmacy students to identify, document,
solve, and prevent medication-related problems providing
patient-focused care and assuming responsibility for patient
outcomes reimbursing pharmacists for performing cognitive service
and cost-savings activities how the prevalence of drug-related
problems that influence the need for hospital and nursing home
admissions increases with age reasons for patient noncompliance
NSAID-associated gastritis, gastrointestinal bleeding, drug-induced
delirium, incontinence, and constipation why the advent of managed
care does not bode well for the overall health outcomes of the
elderlyPharmacists, physicians, and other health care providers
can't control all aspects of drug use, but there are many practical
steps you can take to help your patients use their prescriptions
appropriately. Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions will help you
monitor the efficacy of drug therapy, guide patients who are
exasperated with being poked, prodded, and barraged with
medications, and work together to develop therapy patterns and
schedules that are effective and comfortable.
This book provides a data-based approach to present and future
developments in the Muslim world. This is an unusual approach to
this topic that highlights important underlying forces in current
and projected future economic and social behaviour that range from
prices of gasoline to terrorism and related activities.
In the context of the rich histories of Muslim cultures, the
effects of rapid changes in economic and social trends are
examined, as well as the effect of Western policies which have
often exacerbated underlying tensions in these fast-growing
populations, extending to the trouble and hostilities that are
currently being manifested in proposed interpretations by al-Qaeda
and similar organizations. This volume also suggests an approach
that deals with the high illiteracy rates and inadequate education
facilities in many Muslim countries.
*New volume in the established ISETE series
*Focuses on the economics of the Muslim world, including hot topics
such as terrorism and oil-prices
This volume systematically details both the basic principles and
new developments in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), offering a
solid understanding of the methodology, its uses, and its
potential. New material in this edition includes coverage of recent
developments that have greatly extended the power and scope of DEA
and have lead to new directions for research and DEA uses. Each
chapter accompanies its developments with simple numerical examples
and discussions of actual applications. The first nine chapters
cover the basic principles of DEA, while the final seven chapters
provide a more advanced treatment.
This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and
solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and
elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend
the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of
DEA methodology and its uses. This handbook is intended to
represent a milestone in the progression of DEA. Written by
experts, who are generally major contributors to the topics to be
covered, it includes a comprehensive review and discussion of basic
DEA models, which, in the present issue extensions to the basic DEA
methods, and a collection of DEA applications in the areas of
banking, engineering, health care, and services. The handbook's
chapters are organized into two categories: (i) basic DEA models,
concepts, and their extensions, and (ii) DEA applications. First
edition contributors have returned to update their work.
The second edition includes updated versions of selected first
edition chapters. New chapters have been added on: different
approaches with no need for a priori choices of weights (called
multipliers) that reflect meaningful trade-offs, construction of
static and dynamic DEA technologies, slacks-based model and its
extensions, DEA models for DMUs that have internal structures
network DEA that can be used for measuring supply chain operations,
Selection of DEA applications in the service sector with a focus on
building a conceptual framework, research design and interpreting
results.
"
New Directions in Computational Economics brings together for the
first time a diverse selection of papers, sharing the underlying
theme of application of computing technology as a tool for
achieving solutions to realistic problems in computational
economics and related areas in the environmental, ecological and
energy fields. Part I of the volume addresses experimental and
computational issues in auction mechanisms, including a survey of
recent results for sealed bid auctions. The second contribution
uses neural networks as the basis for estimating bid functions for
first price sealed bid auctions. Also presented is the `smart
market' computational mechanism which better matches bids and
offers for natural gas. Part II consists of papers that formulate
and solve models of economics systems. Amman and Kendrick's paper
deals with control models and the computational difficulties that
result from nonconvexities. Using goal programming, Nagurney, Thore
and Pan formulate spatial resource allocation models to analyze
various policy issues. Thompson and Thrall next present a rigorous
mathematical analysis of the relationship between efficiency and
profitability. The problem of matching uncertain streams of assets
and liabilities is solved using stochastic optimization techniques
in the following paper in this section. Finally, Part III applies
economic concepts to issues in computer science in addition to
using computational techniques to solve economic models.
This volume systematically details both the basic principles and
new developments in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), offering a
solid understanding of the methodology, its uses, and its
potential. New material in this edition includes coverage of recent
developments that have greatly extended the power and scope of DEA
and have lead to new directions for research and DEA uses. Each
chapter accompanies its developments with simple numerical examples
and discussions of actual applications. The first nine chapters
cover the basic principles of DEA, while the final seven chapters
provide a more advanced treatment.
Recent years have seen a great variety of applications of DEA (Data
Envelopment Analysis) for use in evaluating the performances of
many different kinds of entities engaged in many different
activities in many different contexts in many different countries.
One reason is that DEA has opened up possibilities for use in cases
which have been resistant to other approaches because of the
complex (often unknown) nature of the relations between multiple
inputs and multiple outputs involved in many of these activities
(which are often reported in non-commeasurable units). Examples
include the maintenance activities of U.S. Air Force bases in
different geographic locations, or police forces in England and
Wales as well as performances of branch banks in Cyprus and Canada
and the efficiency of universities in performing their education
and research functions in the U.S., England, and France. These
kinds of applications extend to evaluating the performance of
cities, regions and countries with many different kinds of inputs
and outputs that include "social" and "safety-net" expenditures as
inputs and various "quality-of-life" dimensions as outputs which,
in turn, have led to dealing with important issues such as
identifying sites for new locations (away from Tokyo) for the
capital of Japan.
Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Uses: With
DEA-Solver Software and References has been carefully designed by
the authors to provide a systematic introduction to DEA and its
uses as a multifaceted tool for evaluating problems in a variety of
contexts. The authors have been involved in DEA's development from
the beginning. William Cooper (with Abraham Charnes and Edwardo
Rhodes) is afounder of DEA. Lawrence Seiford and Kaoru Tone have
been actively involved as researchers and practitioners from its
earliest beginnings. All have been deeply involved in uses of DEA
in practical applications as well as in the development of its
basic theory and methodologies. The result is a textbook grounded
in authority, experience and substance.
This book represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelop
ment Analysis (DEA). It is the first reference text which includes
a comprehensive review and comparative discussion of the basic DEA
models. The development is anchored in a unified mathematical and
graphical treatment and includes the most important modeling ex
tensions. In addition, this is the first book that addresses the
actual process of conducting DEA analyses including combining DEA
and 1 parametric techniques. The book has three other distinctive
features. It traces the applications driven evolution and diffusion
of DEA models and extensions across disciplinary boundaries. It
includes a comprehensive bibliography to serve as a source of
references as well as a platform for further develop ments. And,
finally, the power of DEA analysis is demonstrated through fifteen
novel applications which should serve as an inspiration for future
applications and extensions of the methodology. The origin of this
book was a Conference on New Uses of DEA in 2 Management and Public
Policy which was held at the IC Institute of the University of
Texas at Austin on September 27-29, 1989. The conference was made
possible through NSF Grant #SES-8722504 (A. Charnes and 2 W. W.
Cooper, co-PIs) and the support of the IC Institute."
This book represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelop
ment Analysis (DEA). It is the first reference text which includes
a comprehensive review and comparative discussion of the basic DEA
models. The development is anchored in a unified mathematical and
graphical treatment and includes the most important modeling ex
tensions. In addition, this is the first book that addresses the
actual process of conducting DEA analyses including combining DEA
and 1 parametric techniques. The book has three other distinctive
features. It traces the applications driven evolution and diffusion
of DEA models and extensions across disciplinary boundaries. It
includes a comprehensive bibliography to serve as a source of
references as well as a platform for further develop ments. And,
finally, the power of DEA analysis is demonstrated through fifteen
novel applications which should serve as an inspiration for future
applications and extensions of the methodology. The origin of this
book was a Conference on New Uses of DEA in 2 Management and Public
Policy which was held at the IC Institute of the University of
Texas at Austin on September 27-29, 1989. The conference was made
possible through NSF Grant #SES-8722504 (A. Charnes and 2 W. W.
Cooper, co-PIs) and the support of the IC Institute."
New Directions in Computational Economics brings together for the
first time a diverse selection of papers, sharing the underlying
theme of application of computing technology as a tool for
achieving solutions to realistic problems in computational
economics and related areas in the environmental, ecological and
energy fields. Part I of the volume addresses experimental and
computational issues in auction mechanisms, including a survey of
recent results for sealed bid auctions. The second contribution
uses neural networks as the basis for estimating bid functions for
first price sealed bid auctions. Also presented is the smart
market' computational mechanism which better matches bids and
offers for natural gas. Part II consists of papers that formulate
and solve models of economics systems. Amman and Kendrick's paper
deals with control models and the computational difficulties that
result from nonconvexities. Using goal programming, Nagurney, Thore
and Pan formulate spatial resource allocation models to analyze
various policy issues. Thompson and Thrall next present a rigorous
mathematical analysis of the relationship between efficiency and
profitability. The problem of matching uncertain streams of assets
and liabilities is solved using stochastic optimization techniques
in the following paper in this section. Finally, Part III applies
economic concepts to issues in computer science in addition to
using computational techniques to solve economic models.
In 1962 a mimeographed sheet of paper fell into my possession. It
had been prepared by Ernest Adams of the Philosophy Department at
Berkeley as a handout for a colloquim. Headed 'SOME FALLACIES OF
FORMAL LOGIC' it simply listed eleven little pieces of reasoning,
all in ordinary English, and all absurd. I still have the sheet,
and quote a couple of the arguments here to give the idea. * If you
throw switch S and switch T, the motor will start. There fore,
either if you throw switch S the motor will start, or, if you throw
switch T the motor will start . * It is not the case that if John
passes history he will graduate. Therefore, John will pass history.
The disconcerting thing about these inferences is, of course, that
under the customary truth-functional interpretation of and, or,
not, and if-then, they are supposed to be valid. What, if anything,
is wrong? At first I was not disturbed by the examples. Having at
that time consider able personal commitment to rationality in
general and formal logic in par ticular, I felt it my duty and
found myself easily able (or so I thought) to explain away most of
them. But on reflection I had to admit that my expla nations had an
ad hoc character, varying suspiciously from example to example.
This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and
solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and
elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend
the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of
DEA methodology and its uses. This handbook is intended to
represent a milestone in the progression of DEA. Written by
experts, who are generally major contributors to the topics to be
covered, it includes a comprehensive review and discussion of basic
DEA models, which, in the present issue extensions to the basic DEA
methods, and a collection of DEA applications in the areas of
banking, engineering, health care, and services. The handbook's
chapters are organized into two categories: (i) basic DEA models,
concepts, and their extensions, and (ii) DEA applications. First
edition contributors have returned to update their work.
The second edition includes updated versions of selected first
edition chapters. New chapters have been added on: different
approaches with no need for a priori choices of weights (called
multipliers) that reflect meaningful trade-offs, construction of
static and dynamic DEA technologies, slacks-based model and its
extensions, DEA models for DMUs that have internal structures
network DEA that can be used for measuring supply chain operations,
Selection of DEA applications in the service sector with a focus on
building a conceptual framework, research design and interpreting
results.
"
Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally
misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John
Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral
and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law
theory. Kody W. Cooper challenges this traditional interpretation
of Hobbes in Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Hobbes affirms two
essential theses of classical natural law theory: the capacity of
practical reason to grasp intelligible goods or reasons for action
and the legally binding character of the practical requirements
essential to the pursuit of human flourishing. Hobbes's novel
contribution lies principally in his formulation of a thin theory
of the good. This book seeks to prove that Hobbes has more in
common with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of natural law
philosophy than has been recognized. According to Cooper, Hobbes
affirms a realistic philosophy as well as biblical revelation as
the ground of his philosophical-theological anthropology and his
moral and civil science. In addition, Cooper contends that Hobbes's
thought, although transformative in important ways, also has
important structural continuities with the Aristotelian-Thomistic
tradition of practical reason, theology, social ontology, and law.
What emerges from this study is a nuanced assessment of Hobbes's
place in the natural law tradition as a formulator of natural law
liberalism. This book will appeal to political theorists and
philosophers and be of particular interest to Hobbes scholars and
natural law theorists.
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