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  • The Japanese Approach to Product Quality

    Its Applicability to the West
    • 1st Edition
    • June 28, 2014
    • N. Sasaki + 1 more
    • English
    An examination of the impact of quality control circles as developed in Japan on Western business and industry. The thirteen papers in this collection are written by Japanese and Western business practitioners. The Western authors describe QC application in major concerns including Rolls-Royce, Hughes Aircraft and Wedgwood Pottery.

  • The IEA Study of Mathematics III

    Student Growth and Classroom Processes
    • 1st Edition
    • June 28, 2014
    • Rami Burstein
    • English
    The Second International Mathematics Study was conducted in the schools of 20 education systems under the sponsorship of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). This is the third of three international reports, each of which focus on a major component of the study. This volume describes the main findings from analyses of classroom processes and mathematic growth by posing such questions as: how successful have the national education systems been in providing the opportunity to learn mathematics by the end of the lower secondary school; what do students at the lower secondary level know across educational systems and what have they learned during their most recent schooling experiences; and what teaching practices are utilized in the mathematics classroom of the various systems and to what extent can these classroom processes explain differences in student achievements?

  • Quick Answers to Quantitative Problems

    A Pocket Primer
    • 1st Edition
    • June 28, 2014
    • G. William Page + 1 more
    • English
    No matter the field, professionals need to respond quickly to quantitative problems as they arise and to develop a quick understanding of what the data mean. Whether you are an aide to a city council member trying to decipher the true meaning of a citizen opinion poll, a private consultant to the health department estimating the number of pregnant teenagers in a neighborhood, or the executive director of a small agency striving to present your budget facts precisely and clearly, the techniques presented here are helpful to you and your work.

  • Language: Social Psychological Perspectives

    Selected Papers from the First International Conference on Social Psychology and Language held at the University of Bristol, England, July 1979
    • 1st Edition
    • June 28, 2014
    • H. Giles + 2 more
    • English
    Provides a comprehensive review of the relationships between language and social behaviour. The papers will be of interest not only to psychologists concerned with language and social behaviour, but also to linguists, sociologists and social workers, anthropologists and psychiatrists

  • Challenges for Macroeconomic Modelling

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 178
    • June 28, 2014
    • W. Driehuis + 2 more
    • English
    This book collects the revised and edited proceedings of the conference held in honour of the 50th anniversary of Professor Tinbergen's first macroeconomic policy model. Written by experts both in the field of model building and policy analysis, the contributions provide an invaluable overview of the state of the art and the use of macroeconomic models in our time.

  • New Technologies in Language Learning

    • 1st Edition
    • June 28, 2014
    • A. Zettersten
    • English
    This is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of the use of new technologies in language learning. In order to explain how new technologies open up possibilities for language learning, numerous practical experiments made with various electronic media are analysed. They include the use of microcomputers, videotex (viewdata), teletext, video and videodiscs. In addition, artificial intelligence, synthetic speech, robots, distance education, language testing as well communicative training and the problem of accuracy and fluency are dealt with.

  • Applied Iterative Methods

    • 1st Edition
    • June 28, 2014
    • Louis A. Hageman
    • English
    Applied Iterative Methods discusses the practical utilization of iterative methods for solving large, sparse systems of linear algebraic equations. The book explains different general methods to present computational procedures to automatically determine favorable estimates of any iteration parameters, as well as when to stop the iterative process. The text also describes the utilization of iterative methods to solve multidimensional boundary-value problems (such as discretization stencil, mesh structure, or matrix partitioning) which affect the cost-effectiveness of iterative solution procedures. The book cites case studies involving iterative methods applications, including those concerning only three particular boundary-value problems. The text explains polynomial acceleration procedures (for example, Chebyshev acceleration and conjugate gradient acceleration) which can be applied to certain basic iterative methods or to the successive overtaxation (SOR) method. The book presents other case studies using the iterative methods to solve monoenergetic transport and nonlinear network flow multidimensional boundary-value problems. The text also describes the procedures for accelerating basic iterative methods which are not symmetrizable. The book will prove beneficial for mathematicians, students, and professor of calculus, statistics, and advanced mathematics.

  • The Ultimate Financial Security Survey

    • 1st Edition
    • June 28, 2014
    • James L Schaub + 1 more
    • English
    The most in-depth and comprehensive financial security survey on the market, this book will help the reader reveal vulnerabilities and identify critical areas by aiding with the time-consuming job of the security survey. 'The Ultimate Financial Security Survey', with over 1000 questions, is a time saver for the security manager. This valuable tool will save hours of typing because the questions on disk can be used and re-used to design specific security surveys.Tailor a survey for one or one hundred facilities and protect against fraud, information theft and robbery. This book has everything necessary to achieve this goal.

  • Lifelong Education and Evaluation Practice

    A study on the Development of a Framework for Designing Evaluation Systems at the School Stage in the Perspective of Lifelong Education
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • June 28, 2014
    • R. Skager
    • English
    This report develops a comprehensive conceptual analysis of educational evaluation and then applies the analysis to identify particular kinds of evaluation that would be especially important under lifelong education. The treatment of evaluation is general enough to incorporate evaluation practice operating under virtually any educational philosophy. While the study does focus primarily on the learner and the school, the conceptual distinctions and practical conclusions are applicable to nonformal and informal educational settings

  • The Structure of Earnings and the Measurement of Income Inequality in the U.S

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 184
    • June 28, 2014
    • Daniel J. Slottje
    • English
    The various issues involved in measuring income inequality in the U.S. are analyzed in this book. In describing the level of inequality inherent in a particular graduation it is important which income recipient and which data set is used and also the measure of income inequality used as the appropriate summary statistic.Recent trends in labor markets are examined and the book attempts to trace the impact of these trends on the distribution of income for various age, race and occupational cohorts, and across states. Some new methods for analyzing inequality in a multidimensional framework are also discussed. This book provides one of the most comprehensive treatments of income inequality available to date.

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