Best S Key Ratings Guide 2011

Author : Indranarain Ramlall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137524010

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Central Bank Ratings by Indranarain Ramlall Pdf

When the global financial crisis broke, central banks in both the US and the UK undertook massive asset purchase programmes which resulted in considerable increase in assets. Cross-border spillover effects were noted across global economies. Balance sheet adjustments may eventually gnaw at the profit-earning capacities of central banks, and in extreme cases, negative equity can manifest. This study investigates a benchmark for comparing central banks. The author employs a unique and large set of metrics to gauge the quality of central banks and presents an argument to reflect upon international best practices. The study uses different criteria including the accounting body, research, presence of stress-testing exercises, inflation-targeting frameworks, staff efficiency, and languages of communication with the public, amongst others. The book begins by providing an overview of central banking, before exploring some stylized facts about central banks in unique detail. It then presents a ratings methodology for worldwide central banks to analyse the results. A backtesting exercise is included to validate the quality of the ratings obtained. The book concludes by offering insights into the comparison of central banks.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health insurance
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087478545

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Best's Key Rating Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas L. Davis,Martin Landrø,Malcolm Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107137493

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Geophysics and Geosequestration by Thomas L. Davis,Martin Landrø,Malcolm Wilson Pdf

An overview of the geophysical techniques and analysis methods for monitoring subsurface carbon dioxide storage for researchers and industry practitioners.

Author : David Stark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192606112

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The Performance Complex by David Stark Pdf

What's valuable? Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless process of pricings; on the other, competitions are discrete and bounded in time and location, with entry rules, judges, scores, and prizes. This book examines what happens when ever more activities in domains of everyday life are evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. Unlike organized competitions, such systems are ceaseless and without formal entry. Instead of producing resolutions, their scorings create addictions. To understand these developments, this book explores discrete contests (architectural competitions, international music competitions, and world press photo competitions); shows how the continuous updating of rankings is both a device for navigating the social world and an engine of anxiety; and examines the production of such anxiety in settings ranging from the pedagogy of performance in business schools to struggling musicians coping with new performance metrics in online platforms. In the performance society, networks of observation - in which all are performing and keeping score - are entangled with a system of emotionally charged preoccupations with one's positioning within the rankings. From the bedroom to the boardroom, pharmaceutical companies and management consultants promise enhanced performance. This assemblage of metrics, networks, and their attendant emotional pathologies is herein regarded as the performance complex.

Author : Duncan Hindmarch,Fiona Hall,Lynn Machin,Sandra Murray
Publisher : Critical Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781911106821

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A Concise Guide to Education Studies by Duncan Hindmarch,Fiona Hall,Lynn Machin,Sandra Murray Pdf

This book explores key contemporary issues in education, featuring the latest theoretical perspectives and policies, aimed at supporting the professional development and understanding of those working or intending to work in the education sector. Both school- and college-based education have faced rapid change over the last few years. A strong research base around the impact of these changes is emerging, enabling a critically informed debate on policy and practice developments. The book provides an up to date evidence-based overview of key changes, their underlying rationale and an examination of alternative viewpoints. The content is concise and focused while still developing readers’ critical thinking skills through tasks embedded within each chapter as well as a distinct section on critical reflective thinking. Other key topics include inclusion, leadership, community education, comparative education, research and education futures.

Author : Orlando López
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000223033

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Ensuring the Integrity of Electronic Health Records by Orlando López Pdf

Data integrity is a critical aspect to the design, implementation, and usage of any system which stores, processes, or retrieves data. The overall intent of any data integrity technique is the same: ensure data is recorded exactly as intended and, upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as it was when originally recorded. Any alternation to the data is then traced to the person who made the modification. The integrity of data in a patient’s electronic health record is critical to ensuring the safety of the patient. This book is relevant to production systems and quality control systems associated with the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and medical device products and updates the practical information to enable better understanding of the controls applicable to e-records. The book highlights the e-records suitability implementation and associated risk-assessed controls, and e-records handling. The book also provides updated regulatory standards from global regulatory organizations such as MHRA, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (UK); FDA, Food and Drug Administration (US); National Medical Products Association (China); TGA, Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia); SIMGP, Russia State Institute of Medicines and Good Practices; and the World Health Organization, to name a few.

Author : Orlando Lopez
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315349978

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Data Integrity in Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Regulation Operations by Orlando Lopez Pdf

Data integrity is fundamental in a pharmaceutical and medical devices quality system. This book provides practical information to enable compliance with data integrity, while highlighting and efficiently integrating worldwide regulation into the subject. The ideas presented in this book are based on many years’ experience in regulated industries in various computer systems development, maintenance, and quality functions. In addition to case studies, a practical approach will be presented to increase efficiency and to ensure that the design and testing of the data integrity controls are correctly achieved.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Learning Health Care System in America
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309260732

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Best Care at Lower Cost by Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Learning Health Care System in America Pdf

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. According to this report, the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost. The costs of the system's current inefficiency underscore the urgent need for a systemwide transformation. About 30 percent of health spending in 2009-roughly $750 billion-was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. Moreover, inefficiencies cause needless suffering. By one estimate, roughly 75,000 deaths might have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care at the quality level of the best performing state. This report states that the way health care providers currently train, practice, and learn new information cannot keep pace with the flood of research discoveries and technological advances. About 75 million Americans have more than one chronic condition, requiring coordination among multiple specialists and therapies, which can increase the potential for miscommunication, misdiagnosis, potentially conflicting interventions, and dangerous drug interactions. Best Care at Lower Cost emphasizes that a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system, such as mobile technologies and electronic health records that offer significant potential to capture and share health data better. In order for this to occur, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, IT developers, and standard-setting organizations should ensure that these systems are robust and interoperable. Clinicians and care organizations should fully adopt these technologies, and patients should be encouraged to use tools, such as personal health information portals, to actively engage in their care. This book is a call to action that will guide health care providers; administrators; caregivers; policy makers; health professionals; federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and educational institutions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Insurance
ISBN : UCAL:B3139496

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Best's Insurance Guide with Key Ratings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fox, Darrell,Arnull, Elaine
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335245697

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Social Work In The Youth Justice System: A Multidisciplinary Perspective by Fox, Darrell,Arnull, Elaine Pdf

All Youth Offending Teams are required to employ a social worker, yet it is often a challenge to find space within youth justice practice to uphold social work values. This practical book demonstrates how practitioners can work in creative, ethical and reflective ways within Youth Offending Teams.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264386587

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OECD Public Governance Reviews Towards Agile ICT Procurement in the Slovak Republic Good Practices and Recommendations by OECD Pdf

Procurement of information and communication technologies (ICT) plays a decisive role not only in public-service delivery but in public-sector modernisation. This report takes stock of current ICT procurement practices in the Slovak Republic and provides evidence-based strategic policy advice for the Slovak Government on how to adopt more innovative and agile approaches in ICT procurement.

Author : Brent D. Ruben
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000980486

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Implementing Sustainable Change in Higher Education by Brent D. Ruben Pdf

This book offers formal and informal leaders at all levels of their institution theory-informed and practical guidance on implementing and sustaining change through collaborative leadership. The framework and concepts presented are applicable at the department, program, campus, or system level to guide minor, incremental, or transformative change.Achieving a shared organizational vision can be a daunting challenge, given the multiple missions of higher education, varied and often conflicting stakeholder viewpoints, siloed organizational structures, traditions of shared governance, and a highly educated workforce bringing together colleagues with diverse disciplinary perspectives. Achieving these aims requires taking into account the organization’s systems and values and the needs and aspirations of corresponding stakeholders across the enterprise. Ruben provides a guide for achieving and sustaining these goals in an engaged and collaborative manner.Employing the author’s widely used Excellence in Higher Education (EHE) framework, this book offers principles and practices relative to change, collaboration, and organizational vision that can greatly enhance the prospects for effective outcomes, highlighting three key themes:·Understanding and leveraging the dynamics of change. ·Leading collaboratively, and meaningfully engaging one’s colleagues. ·Adopting and pursuing a shared vision of organizational purpose and aspirations.The book is intended for faculty and staff who want to advance the effectiveness and impact of their program, department, and institution, and to do so in a way that creates a shared vision to sustain these benefits into the future. It serves as a text for the growing number of leadership development programs, and for courses with a focus on higher education leadership.

Author : Adam Eltorai,Jeffrey A. Bakal,Steve DeFroda,Brett D. Owens
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323913348

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Translational Sports Medicine by Adam Eltorai,Jeffrey A. Bakal,Steve DeFroda,Brett D. Owens Pdf

Translational Sports Medicine covers the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies these principles to the design of translational investigations. This title is an indispensable tool in grant writing and funding efforts with its practical, straightforward approach that will help aspiring investigators navigate challenging considerations in study design and implementation. It provides valuable discussions of the critical appraisal of published studies in translational sports medicine, allowing the reader to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes and to make effective use of all types of evidence in patient care. In short, this practical guidebook will be of interest to every medical researcher or sports medicine clinician who has ever had a good clinical idea but not the knowledge of how to test it. Readers will come to fully understand important concepts, including case-control study, prospective cohort study, randomized trial and reliability study. Medical researchers will benefit from greater confidence in their ability to initiate and execute their own investigations, avoid common pitfalls in translational sports medicine, and know what is needed in collaboration. Focuses on the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies these principles to translational investigations within sports medicine Details discussions of the critical appraisal of published studies in translational sports medicine, supporting evaluation with respect to measuring outcomes and making effective use of all types of evidence in patient care Written by experts in the sports medicine field

Author : Denise M. Quinlan,Lucy C. Hone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000032857

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The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing by Denise M. Quinlan,Lucy C. Hone Pdf

The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing addresses challenges faced by schools wanting to improve wellbeing. While many schools globally now understand the need to promote and protect student wellbeing, they often find themselves stuck – not knowing where to start, what to prioritise, or how to implement whole-school change. This book fills that gap. This book provides companionship through rich stories from schools around the world that have created wellbeing practices that work for their schools. It guides educators through processes that help create individualised, contextualised school wellbeing plans. With chapters addressing ‘why wellbeing?’, ‘what is "whole school?"’, change dynamics, measurement, staff wellbeing, coaching, cultural responsiveness, and how to build buy-in, it is the first of its kind. Balancing research and practice for each topic with expert practitioner and researcher insights, this book gives schools access to best-practice guidance from around the world in a user-friendly format, designed for busy educators. What sets the authors apart from the many school wellbeing practitioners globally is their substantial experience working alongside diverse school groups. While many have experience in one school, few work across a multitude of very different schools and clusters, giving these practising academics a unique appreciation for effective, cross-context processes.

Author : Russell Grigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000590371

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Becoming an Outstanding Primary School Teacher by Russell Grigg Pdf

This fully updated third edition of Becoming an Outstanding Primary School Teacher includes new material on blended learning, pedagogical leadership and teaching entrepreneurial skills. It offers comprehensive coverage of all the key topics that engage primary teachers, including planning, meeting curriculum demands, promoting positive behaviour, assessment, engaging with parents, research, and professional development. Throughout, Russell Grigg draws on theory, research, and case studies of classroom practice to discuss what it takes to become an outstanding primary teacher, making this essential reading for raising pupils’ standards of achievement through high quality teaching. How do primary teachers who excel in their work approach topics such as planning and assessment? What strategies do they use to inspire pupils when teaching English, Mathematics, Science, and other subjects? How do they keep on top of everything in managing workload and still get the best from pupils? These are the kinds of questions that this revised third edition addresses. It includes: • more than sixty ground-breaking infographics to convey key points in a highly accessible way • discussion of recent curriculum changes in the UK and the implications for high quality teaching • tried-and-tested classroom strategies, points for reflection and further research to bridge theory and practice • key concepts and international views on topics such as creativity, teachers’ well-being, and assessment • reflections on the lessons from the recent pandemic such as the need for a robust digital pedagogy • extensive references for further research. Becoming an Outstanding Primary School Teacher has been updated to reflect significant changes in the context within which primary teachers operate both in the educational system and broader society. Providing a complete guide to the notion and practices of outstanding teaching, this a vital reference for trainee teachers, NQTs, and more experienced practitioners who aspire to excellence in their teaching.