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What do you stand for–and what are you against? How are outputs preserved and protected? Against what alternative is success being measured? Are events managed to resolution? What are your current levels and trends in key Adobe Certified Associate measures or indicators of product and process performance that are important to and directly serve your customers? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling portrait of one of the least understood and most debated regions in the country, Hendricks introduces us to the ordinary Americans and Mexicans who live there—cowboys and Indians, factory workers...
| Автор | Tyche Hendricks |
How will decision-support systems be incorporated into the workflow for clinicians? Is there a need for decision-support tools to assist managers prioritize maintenance activities? What is a decision-support system? What are the objectives of group decision-support systems? Is the management information system built and ready for decision-support? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group,...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
In <i>Someplace Like America</i>, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media—people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result...
| Автор | Dale Maharidge |
What were the criteria for evaluating a Electronic system level pilot? How is Electronic system level data gathered? Is the Electronic system level test/monitoring cost justified? When are costs are incurred? How do you catch Electronic system level definition inconsistencies? This instant Electronic System Level self-assessment will make you the entrusted Electronic System Level domain veteran by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Electronic System Level...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. <I>Cut Loose </I>provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers. Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after World War II. But today, they find themselves beleaguered in a changed economy of...
| Автор | Victor Tan Chen |
The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. Typically frequented by Latin American men (mostly «undocumented» immigrants), these sites constitute an important source of unskilled manual labor. Despite day laborers’ ubiquitous presence in urban areas, however, their very existence is overlooked in much of the research on immigration. While standing in plain view, these <I>jornaleros</I> live and work in a precarious...
| Автор | Juan Thomas Ordonez |
How do you verify your resources? How do you foster the skills, knowledge, talents, attributes, and characteristics you want to have? Who should receive measurement reports? How do you use Healthcare technician data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation? What extra resources will you need? This breakthrough Healthcare Technician self-assessment will make you the dependable Healthcare Technician domain assessor by revealing just what you need to know to be...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature. <i>Mining Capitalism</i> examines the strategies through which corporations manage their relationships with these critics and adversaries. By focusing on the conflict over the Ok Tedi...
| Автор | Stuart Kirsch |
Prodded by economists in the 1970s, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEOs with hopes of boosting their companies’ fortunes. Guided by largely unproven assumptions, this trend continues today. So what are companies getting in return for all the extra money? Not much, according to the empirical data.<BR /><BR /> In <I>Indispensable and Other Myths: Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It,</I> Michael...
| Автор | Michael Dorff |
Which functions and people interact with the supplier and or customer? What is the problem or issue? How will you measure your Architecture design software effectiveness? What can you control? What do employees need in the short term? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Essentials of Applied Econometrics prepares students for a world in which more data surround us every day and in which econometric tools are put to diverse uses. Written for students in economics and for professionals interested in continuing an education in econometrics, this succinct text not only teaches best practices and state-of-the-art techniques, but uses vivid examples and data obtained from a variety of real world sources. The book’s emphasis on application uniquely...
| Автор | J. Edward Taylor |
Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But what does a fair-trade label signify? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. Based on extensive research in Zapotec indigenous communities in Oaxaca, <I>Brewing Justice</I> follows the members of the cooperative Michiza, whose...
| Автор | Daniel Jaffee |
What is the System Protection's sustainability risk? What threat is System Protection addressing? What System Protection modifications can you make work for you? Are System Protection vulnerabilities categorized and prioritized? Can you identify any significant risks or exposures to System Protection third- parties (vendors, service providers, alliance partners etc) that concern you? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States.  <BR /><BR /><I>The Big Rig</I> explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and...
| Автор | Steve Viscelli |
How can you become the company that would put you out of business? When a Basic Email Security manager recognizes a problem, what options are available? How can you improve performance? How will you know that the Basic Email Security project has been successful? Have you made assumptions about the shape of the future, particularly its impact on your customers and competitors? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Additionally, powerful algorithms are capable of churning through seas of data to uncover patterns. Providing a simple and accessible introduction to data mining, Paul Attewell and David B. Monaghan discuss how data mining substantially differs from conventional statistical modeling familiar to most social scientists. The authors...
| Автор | Paul Attewell |
Which Business behavior data should be retained? What Business behavior data should be collected? What is the kind of project structure that would be appropriate for your Business behavior project, should it be formal and complex, or can it be less formal and relatively simple? Marketing budgets are tighter, consumers are more skeptical, and social media has changed forever the way we talk about Business behavior, how do you gain traction? Is there a Business behavior Communication plan covering...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won't fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government taxing and spending harms the economy, but where is that point? In this accessible book, best-selling authors Jeff Madrick, Jon Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, and Peter Lindert try to answer whether our government can grow any larger and examine how we can optimize growth and...
| Автор | Jeff Madrick |
How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors that explain the presence of unskilled immigrants in our midst. Focusing on Los Angeles, the capital of today's immigrant America, this hard-hitting book elucidates the other side of the...
| Автор | Roger Waldinger |
What knowledge, skills and characteristics mark a good Cost of labor project manager? What Cost of labor services do you require? How sensitive must the Cost of labor strategy be to cost? How do you mitigate Cost of labor risk? What Cost of labor coordination do you need? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time,...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an...
| Автор | Adam Hochschild |
What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Funds management brings? Record-keeping requirements flow from the records needed as inputs, outputs, controls and for transformation of a Funds management process, are the records needed as inputs to the Funds management process available? Who are the Funds management improvement team members, including Management Leads and Coaches? Among the Funds management product and service cost to be estimated, which is considered...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that many published results are potentially erroneous has made those conducting social science research more determined to ensure the underlying research is sound.  <I>Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research</I> is the first book to summarize and synthesize new approaches to combat false positives and...
| Автор | Edward Miguel |