Results Matter

Author : Paul D. Epstein,Paul M. Coates,Lyle D. Wray,David Swain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0787983179

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Results that Matter by Paul D. Epstein,Paul M. Coates,Lyle D. Wray,David Swain Pdf

Today's communities—whether they are currently strong, orstruggling to survive—face difficult challenges if they wantto be tomorrow's healthy, vibrant communities. The challenge forleaders and citizens of modern communities is not just to solvespecific problems today. Their real challenge is to keep learningfrom their experience so they can keep improving their communitiestomorrow. Results That Matter will provide a new governanceframework for using valuable tools of communityimprovement—especially performance measurement and citizenengagement—to empower communities to achieve the outcomestheir citizens most desire. Government and nonprofit managers willlearn how to combine these tools in new ways, not only to achieveone-time improvement of their organizations and communities, but tofoster continual community renewal and improvement. The benefitsand practicality of the framework and related practices will bereinforced by case examples from 25 communities across the country.The book will offer "how to" guidance to public and nonprofitmanagers, including promising practices for effective communities,and new roles for citizens, community leaders, and managers.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264799004

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OECD Skills Studies Skills Matter Additional Results from the Survey of Adult Skills by OECD Pdf

In the wake of the technological revolution that began in the last decades of the 20th century, labour-market demand for information-processing and other high-level cognitive and interpersonal skills have been growing substantially. Based on the results from the 39 countries and regions that participated in the 1st cycle of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), it places special emphasis on the results from the 3rd round of this cycle, with 6 new countries collecting data in 2018-19. This report describes adults’ proficiency in information-processing skills and examines how proficiency is related to education, labour-market and social outcomes.

Author : Walter Greiner,Mikhail G. Itkis,Joachim Reinhardt,Mehmet Cem Güçlü
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402027055

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Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Matter by Walter Greiner,Mikhail G. Itkis,Joachim Reinhardt,Mehmet Cem Güçlü Pdf

Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, welcome to Kemer to the NATO Advanced Study Institute Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Matter. We have chosen Kemer as the place of our NASI because it is located in a be- tiful and hospitable surrounding. This part of the Mediterranean at the Turkish Riviera is a historic region where many cultures meet (e.g., the Oriental and the Greek and Roman European cultures) and where you ?nd numerous places which played a role in ancient science and in early Christianity. Moreover, with the hotel Ceylan Inter-Continental we have found a most excellent me- ing place, directly located at the beach, equipped with wonderful swimming pools and restaurants – an absolutely ?rst-class location. Our NASIwill deal withthemost recent developmentsin high-energyheavy ionphysicsandinthesearchforsuperheavynuclei–tworatherdistinctareasof research. Indeed, we want to bring two very active communities of nuclear and high-energy physics into close contact. The meeting is both a school and has also the character of a conference: A school because there are many advanced students, many of which are themselves already top researchers and who are contributing with their own research in seminars and posters. It is also a c- ference because new results in the exciting and wonderful ?elds of low- and high-energy heavy ion physics will be presented. We are mainly focussing on the topics of superheavy elements and of hot and dense nuclear matter.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309091992

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Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter Pdf

In 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established regulatory standards to address health risks posed by inhaling tiny particles from smoke, vehicle exhaust, and other sources. At the same time, Congress and the EPA began a multimillion dollar research effort to better understand the sources of these airborne particles, the levels of exposure to people, and the ways that these particles cause disease. To provide independent guidance to the EPA, Congress asked the National Research Council to study the relevant issues. The result was a series of four reports on the particulate-matter research program. The first two books offered a conceptual framework for a national research program, identified the 10 most critical research needs, and described the recommended timing and estimated costs of such research. The third volume began the task of assessing initial progress made in implementing the research program. This, the fourth and final volume, gauged research progress made over a 5-year period on each of the 10 research topics. The National Research Council concludes that particulate matter research has led to a better understanding of the health effects caused by tiny airborne particles. However, the EPA, in concert with other agencies, should continue research to reduce further uncertainties and inform long-term decisions.

Author : Nonie K. Lesaux,Sky H. Marietta
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462502486

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Making Assessment Matter by Nonie K. Lesaux,Sky H. Marietta Pdf

" All too often, literacy assessments are given only for accountability purposes and fail to be seen as valuable resources for planning and differentiating instruction. This clear, concise book shows K-5 educators how to implement a comprehensive, balanced assessment battery that integrates accountability concerns with data-driven instruction. Teachers learn to use different types of test scores to understand and address students' specific learning needs. The book features an in-depth case example of a diverse elementary school that serves many struggling readers and English language learners. Reproducible planning and progress-monitoring forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. "--Provided by publisher.

Author : Andrea Albert
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681742700

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Searching for Dark Matter with Cosmic Gamma Rays by Andrea Albert Pdf

Searching for Dark Matter with Cosmic Gamma Rays summarizes the evidence for dark matter and what we can learn about its particle nature using cosmic gamma rays. It has almost been 100 years since Fritz Zwicky first detected hints that most of the matter in the Universe that doesn't directly emit or reflect light. Since then, the observational evidence for dark matter has continued to grow. Dark matter may be a new kind of particle that is governed by physics beyond our Standard Model of particle physics. In many models, dark matter annihilation or decay produces gamma rays. There are a variety of instruments observing the gamma-ray sky from tens of MeV to hundreds of TeV. Some make deep, focused observations of small regions, while others provide coverage of the entire sky. Each experiment offers complementary sensitivity to dark matter searches in a variety of target sizes, locations, and dark matter mass scales. We review results from recent gamma-ray experiments including anomalies some have attributed to dark matter. We also discuss how our gamma-ray observations complement other dark matter searches and the prospects for future experiments.

Author : David Cline
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400772410

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Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe by David Cline Pdf

These proceedings provide the latest results on dark matter and dark energy research. The UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted its tenth Dark Matter and Dark Energy conference in Marina del Rey and brought together all the leaders in the field. The symposium provided a scientific forum for the latest discussions in the field. Topics covered at the symposium: •Status of measurements of the equation of state of dark energy and new experiments •The search for missing energy events at the LHC and implications for dark matter search •Theoretical calculations on all forms of dark matter (SUSY, axions, sterile neutrinos, etc.) •Status of the indirect search for dark matter •Status of the direct search for dark matter in detectors around the world •The low-mass wimp search region •The next generation of very large dark matter detectors •New underground laboratories for dark matter search

Author : John Doerr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525536239

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Measure What Matters by John Doerr Pdf

#1 New York Times Bestseller Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress—to measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove ("the greatest manager of his or any era") drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Author : L Reatto,F Manghi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814499859

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Progress in Computational Physics of Matter by L Reatto,F Manghi Pdf

The aim of the book is to describe some of the recent advances, through computer simulation in a broad sense, in the understanding of the complex processes occurring in solids and liquids. The rapid growth of computer power, including the new parallel processors, has stimulated a ferment of new theoretical and computational ideas, which have been developed in particular by the authors in a pluriennal research project supported by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) for the development of novel software for large scale computations. The book will cover advances in ab initio (Car-Parrinello) molecular dynamics, quantum monte carlo simulations, self-consistent density functional computation of electronic states, classical molecular dynamics simulation of thermodynamic processes, chemical reactions and transport properties. Besides the description of the results of these techniques in leading edge applications, the book will address specific aspects of the algorithms and software which have been developed by the authors in order to implement in an efficient way the new theoretical advances in these computationally intensive problems. These aspects which are generally not discussed in any detail in the literature, can be of great help for newcomers in the field. Contents:Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Structural Phase Transitions (P Focher & G Chiarotti)Boson Many-Body Problem: Progress in Variational Monte Carlo Computations (L Reatto)Monte Carlo Variational Theory for Fermions (M H Kalos & L Reatto)Recent Developments of Device Simulation Tools for Parallel Processing (M Saraniti & P Lugli)Simulation of Classical and Quantum Activated Processes in the Condensed Phase (G Ciccotti et al.)‘Ab- Initio” Calculations of Electronic Properties of Metallic Solid Solutions (E Bruno et al.)Ab-Initio Calculation of the Electronic (Valence and Core) and Optical Properties of Interfaces (S Ossicini & O Bisi) Readership: Condensed matter physicists, materials science researchers and chemical physicists. keywords: “This is a very good book containing some important approaches to Computational Physics in Condensed Matter. It offers readers pointed explanations on Computational Methods and its application, at the most appropriate stages.” Bulletin of Japan Physical Society

Author : Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,Geraint F. Lewis
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812814340

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Dark Matter in Astroparticle and Particle Physics by Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,Geraint F. Lewis Pdf

Social networks have emerged as a major trend in computing and social paradigms in the past few years. The social network model helps to inform the study of community behavior, allowing qualitative and quantitative assessments of how people communicate and the rules that govern communication. Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures provides a clear and consolidated view of current social network models. This work explores new methods for modeling, characterizing, and constructing social networks. Chapters contained in this book study critical security issues confronting social networking, the emergence of new mobile social networking devices and applications, network robustness, and how social networks impact the business aspects of organizations.

Author : Pennsylvania State College. Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:B2955095

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Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station by Pennsylvania State College. Agricultural Experiment Station Pdf

Author : Rothamsted exper. station
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590856457

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Memoranda of the (origin) plan and results of the field (and other) experiments conducted on the farm (and in the laboratory) of John Bennet Lawes, esq., at Rothamsted, Herts by Rothamsted exper. station Pdf

Author : J.F. Ziegler
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483100968

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The Stopping and Ranges of Ions in Matter by J.F. Ziegler Pdf

Hydrogen: Stopping Powers and Ranges in All Elements, Volume 3 of The Stopping and Ranges of Ions in Matter, provides a nearly complete presentation of absolute experimental energy loss data for hydrogen over the energy range 10 keV The book is comprised of seven parts that present various topics about stopping power theory. Part I provides an introductory discourse about the book. Part II reviews the stopping power theory, and Part III presents the status of experimental data. Part IV talks about fitting the high-energy region, while Part V deals with fitting at low energies. Part VI covers interpolation using two-parameter fitting, and Part VII discusses pathlength and projected range. The text will be of great interest to researchers whose work concerns the stopping and ranges of ions in matter.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309391535

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Metrics That Matter for Population Health Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement Pdf

In times of rapid change and constrained resources, measures that are important, focused, and reliable are vital. However there is an overabundance of measures available for evaluating various aspects of population health and previous efforts to simplify existing sets to meet the needs of all decision makers have been unsuccessful. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to explore the status and uses of measures and measurement in the work of improving population health. Participants explored existing and emerging population health metric sets and characteristics of metrics necessary for stakeholder action across multiple sectors. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : Lionel Smith Beale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Cytoplasm
ISBN : BL:A0026217474

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Protoplasm by Lionel Smith Beale Pdf