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Promoting Cultural Sensitivity in Supervision A Manual for Practitioners

Promoting Cultural Sensitivity in Supervision A Manual for Practitioners

Promoting Cultural Sensitivity in Supervision: A Manual for Practitioners provides a roadmap for practicing and experienced supervisors to promote and integrate cultural sensitivity into the core of their work. This book is organized into four seamless interrelated sections that are essential to developing a Multicultural Relational Perspective (MRP) in supervision: conceptual structural strategies and techniques and evaluation tools. The Conceptual section provides an overview of the theory that underpins a MRP and the Structural section provides the reader with two specific strategies for concretizing the conceptual framework. The Strategies and Techniques section includes a variety of chapters which provide supervisors and supervisees with hands-on tools for navigating difficult diversity-related conversations in supervision and beyond as well as an array of exercises that supervisors can employ to enhance cultural sensitivity. The Evaluation Tools section provides sample instruments that can be implemented to evaluate the objectives of the entire supervisory process. For the convenience of readers additional photocopiable supervisory resources have also been included at the end of the manual. This manual is intended for supervisors trainers clinicians and trainees. | Promoting Cultural Sensitivity in Supervision A Manual for Practitioners

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Maternal Sensitivity Mary Ainsworth's Enduring Influence on Attachment Theory Research and Clinical Applications

Maternal Sensitivity Mary Ainsworth's Enduring Influence on Attachment Theory Research and Clinical Applications

Mary Ainsworth’s work on the importance of maternal sensitivity for the development of infant attachment security is widely recognized as one of the most revolutionary and influential contributions to developmental psychology in the 20th century. Her longitudinal studies of naturalistic mother-infant interactions in Uganda and Baltimore played a pivotal role in the formulation and acceptance of attachment theory as a new paradigm with implications for developmental personality social and clinical psychology. The chapters in this volume collectively reveal not only the origins and depth of her conceptualizations and the originality of her assessment methods but also the many different ways in which her ideas about maternal sensitivity continue to inspire innovative research and clinical applications in Western and non-Western cultures. The contributors are leading attachment researchers including some of Mary Ainsworth’s most influential students and colleagues who have taken time to step back from their day to day research and reflect on the significance of the work she initiated and the challenges inherent in assessing parental sensitivity during naturalistic interactions in infancy and beyond. This volume makes Ainsworth’s pioneering conceptual and methodological breakthroughs and their continuing research and clinical impact accessible to theorists researchers and mental health specialists. This book was originally published as a special issue of Attachment & Human Development. | Maternal Sensitivity Mary Ainsworth's Enduring Influence on Attachment Theory Research and Clinical Applications

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Practical Psychometrics A Guide for Test Users

Practical Psychometrics A Guide for Test Users

This is the first practitioner-oriented guide to basic psychometrics-the science behind test construction and validation. It can be used as a course text or clinical reference for anyone who needs to select and administer diagnostic tests or review test score data obtained by others. Without assuming any mathematical background the author describes the fundamentals of diagnostic testing how to interpret score data and how specific tests are used in school psychology special education counseling and other contexts. Concepts such as reliability validity and fairness and test bias are explained in an accessible conversational way. Detailed case examples illustrate the dos and don'ts of presenting test score data to clients parents and teachers in oral feedback and written reports. Pedagogical Features: *End-of-chapter exercises that emphasize application and understanding with answers at the end of the book. *Key terms are bolded throughout and accessibly explained in the end-of-book glossary. *Resource appendix-annotated guide to articles and books on more advanced topics in psychometrics assessment and testing. | Practical Psychometrics A Guide for Test Users

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Estimands Estimators and Sensitivity Analysis in Clinical Trials

Estimands Estimators and Sensitivity Analysis in Clinical Trials

The concepts of estimands analyses (estimators) and sensitivity are interrelated. Therefore great need exists for an integrated approach to these topics. This book acts as a practical guide to developing and implementing statistical analysis plans by explaining fundamental concepts using accessible language providing technical details real-world examples and SAS and R code to implement analyses. The updated ICH guideline raises new analytic and cross-functional challenges for statisticians. Gaps between different communities have come to surface such as between causal inference and clinical trialists as well as among clinicians statisticians and regulators when it comes to communicating decision-making objectives assumptions and interpretations of evidence. This book lays out a path toward bridging some of these gaps. It offers¿ A common language and unifying framework along with the technical details and practical guidance to help statisticians meet the challenges¿ A thorough treatment of intercurrent events (ICEs) i. e. postrandomization events that confound interpretation of outcomes and five strategies for ICEs in ICH E9 (R1)¿ Details on how estimands integrated into a principled study development process lay a foundation for coherent specification of trial design conduct and analysis needed to overcome the issues caused by ICEs:¿ A perspective on the role of the intention-to-treat principle¿ Examples and case studies from various areas¿ Example code in SAS and R¿ A connection with causal inference¿ Implications and methods for analysis of longitudinal trials with missing dataTogether the authors have offered the readers their ample expertise in clinical trial design and analysis from an industrial and academic perspective. | Estimands Estimators and Sensitivity Analysis in Clinical Trials

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PMI-PBA Exam Practice Test and Study Guide

PMI-PBA Exam Practice Test and Study Guide

The PMI-PBA® Exam Practice Test and Study Guide attempts to address all your questions and concerns by providing two of the most sought-after study aids: memory maps and practice questions. The systematic use of memory maps helps aid in the efficient recall of information and can boost confidence during the exam. Well-crafted practice questions are fantastic study aids that can be used to track your progress as you learn new concepts introduce you to the complex sentence structure that is likely to appear on the exam and concentrate your studies by domain essentially preparing you to pass the very challenging PMI-PBA® Exam in the allotted four hours. In addition to study hints and exam topics this book provides references to tools and techniques that should be incorporated into your work immediately. For each of the five domains outlined in the PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® Examination Content Outline 2013 (the ECO) twenty practice questions test your knowledge. Also included is a challenging 200-question practice exam which is representative of the actual exam. To enhance your studies a timed online simulated exam is also provided. At the end of the simulated exam you can see your score per the number of questions you answered correctly. These exam questions are crafted to foster learning and reinforce content; they are not obscure or overly complicated but rather are representative of the actual exam. Knowing what to do must be translated into doing what you know. This book helps you prepare for the PMI-PBA® exam by instilling knowledge and encouraging critical thinking. As a result the skills attained can lead to improved project success and outcomes and you’ll have a much stronger understanding of the material along with the tools and techniques of business analysis. PMI-PBA® is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute.

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California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

California went through a political earthquake of sorts when the state recalled Governor Gray Davis in 2003. In 2021 the state faced another political turning point with the threatened recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. Less than two years after Newsom’s overwhelming election victory more than two million Californians signed on to the recall effort hoping to expel him from office in a special election. How could such a monumental turnabout be possible? Normally the political headwinds would be much too strong for a movement to oust a governor who had decisively vanquished his opponent. But-with the COVID-19 pandemic dominating every aspect of society including politics-these weren’t normal times. Organizing a recall election is a demanding enterprise: it takes abundant political energy tremendous amounts of anger with the status quo and mounds of money. Yet for the second time in less than two decades such wheels were set in motion. What is it that makes California so dynamic yet so fragile? This book explains that paradox and in the process enlightens readers about the recall process the challenges of federalism and the pitfalls of direct democracy. It examines the underlying conditions that expose a state with poorly linked institutions a bitterly divided society and a governor who had to act under nearly impossible conditions demonstrating his strengths and vulnerabilities along the way. It’s a story that could happen only in California a state with a history of only stories. Designed to be useful in a variety of college courses this book is the first to unveil the Newsom backstory and will appeal to pundits and politicos as well as interested general readers. | California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

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Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

This book reconstructs the history of conception pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece the impact of Christianity the establishment of the man-midwife in the 18th century the medicalisation of childbirth the emergence of a new representation of the foetus as unborn citizen and finally the revolution of reproductive technologies. The book explores a history that far from being linear progressive or homogeneous is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations. The ways in which a woman gives birth and lives her pregnancy and the postpartum period are the result of a complex series of factors. The book therefore places these events in their wider cultural social and religious contexts which influenced the forms taken by rituals and therapeutic practices religious and civil prescriptions and the regulation of the female body. The investigation of this complex experience represents a crucial contribution to cultural social and gender history as well as an indispensable tool for understanding today’s reality. It will be of great use to undergraduates studying the history of childbirth the history of medicine the history of the body as well as women's and gender history more broadly. | Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

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State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South the book includes chapters on the experiences of – Angola Zimbabwe South Africa Bolivia Argentina Brazil Jamaica and Indonesia as well as contributions from the Global North – on Sweden Canada Czech Republic and New Zealand. The collection demonstrates that the effects of the pandemic can only be properly revealed by looking at the regional and local contexts in which states and societies experienced it. Contributors examine themes such as the nature of contemporary democracy state capacity the legitimacy of state institutions and trust in government questions of social solidarity and forms and impacts of inequality. Focusing on national (or sub-national) cases each chapter analyses the underlying forces and structures revealed when the authority of the state is brought to bear on the agency of citizens under emergency conditions. In doing so contributors embed analysis of pandemic governance in the historical context of each country or region highlighting how political choices histories of the state’s treatment of citizens and the orientations of a region’s elites shaped the actions taken by the state. The book will be of interest to those looking to understand how the pandemic was interpreted accepted or contested at the local (national or sub-national) level and to those interested in state–society relations more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in questions of pandemic government from a social scientific point of view and especially to those interested in perspectives from the Global South. | State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

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Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation is an up-to-date survey of the growing research on automatic item generation (AIG) in today’s technology-enhanced educational measurement sector. As test administration procedures increasingly integrate digital media and Internet use assessment stakeholders—from graduate students to scholars to industry professionals—have numerous opportunities to study and create different types of tests and test items. This comprehensive analysis offers thorough coverage of the theoretical foundations and concepts that define AIG as well as the practical considerations required to produce and apply large numbers of useful test items.

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Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Getting into the nation's most competitive universities requires more than a good SAT score—it requires a perfect score. Perfect 800: SAT Math: Gives advanced students the tools needed to master the SAT math test. Includes 250+ problems two complete practice tests and 25 logic games. Covers arithmetic concepts algebra geometry trigonometry and more. Emphasizes critical thinking and analytic skills over memorization and trial and error. This updated 2021 edition offers exposure to a wide range of degrees of difficulty in a holistic approach that allows students to experience the real thing including the impact of time constraints on their performance. This book ensures optimal usage of time and maximizes the pace of progress as students prepare for the all-important test. The book contains one complete practice test and a second practice test is downloadable from www. routledge. com/9781646321049. Grades 9-12 | Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

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Drug Calculations for Nurses A Step-by-Step Approach

Drug Calculations for Nurses A Step-by-Step Approach

This new edition of Drug Calculations for Nurses teaches healthcare professionals how to perform drug calculations with confidence and competence. It provides step-by-step guidance to carry out accurate drug calculations with units and drug strengths clearly explained. This bestselling pocket-size book begins with the basic mathematical skills required to perform calculations including tips on estimating answers. It then covers drug strengths and concentrations dosage calculations IV infusion therapies and pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Separate chapters focus on children adults and the elderly addressing specific challenges encountered in these populations with new content on pregnancy and renal and liver function. Helpful worked examples key points and objectives are included in every chapter and this new edition includes more calculations for prescribing and patient-focused scenarios. The companion website www. drugcalcsnurses. co. uk provides a comprehensive test bank with a pre-test and revision test to identify strengths and weaknesses along with additional practice questions for readers to test themselves on. Designed for students and practitioners in nursing midwifery and allied health this textbook enables readers to improve their numeracy skills for clinical practice and develop their understanding of the broader context for these calculations. | Drug Calculations for Nurses A Step-by-Step Approach

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IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

This popular guide clarifies the requirements for inspection and testing explaining in clear language those parts of the IET Wiring Regulations that most need simplifying. In addition to the descriptive and diagrammatic test methods that are required explanations of the theory and reasoning behind test procedures are given together with useful tables for the comparison of test results. The book also provides essential information on the completion of electrical installation certificates with a step-by-step guide on the entries that need to be made and where to source data. With the content suitable for both City & Guilds and EAL Inspection and Testing courses and containing a sample MCQ paper and answers it is also an ideal revision guide. Fully up to date with the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. Simplifies the advice found in the Wiring Regulations explaining how they apply to working practice for inspection testing and certification. Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples and key data. | IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

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Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance and how that is related to brain function. It explores in detail the relationship between brain activity and culture and the influence of various cultural educational and linguistic factors on neuropsychological test performances across various cognitive domains. Written by leadings researchers in cross-cultural neuropsychology the book first introduces the basic concepts in the field. It goes on to focus on the influence of cultural variables on specific domains of cognition including perception attention memory language and executive functions. It also explores the implications of cross-cultural neuropsychology in practice including a focus on test adaptation the use of interpreters the influence of acculturation and the practice of neuropsychological rehabilitation in different cultural settings. This book is essential reading for neuropsychologists and related practitioners working with culturally diverse clients who need a good grasp of the cultural impacts on neuropsychological test performance when assessing clients from different cultural linguistic and educational backgrounds. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists in countries around the world who need a means of understanding the ways in which their culture impacts the performances of their clients on tests which have been mostly developed in the U. S. or other Western cultures. | Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

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RIBA Health and Safety Guide

RIBA Health and Safety Guide

To ensure chartered architects are reaching a high standard of health and safety knowledge and the life safety of building users the RIBA has introduced an online test based on a comprehensive curriculum to test for competency. This guide is designed to improve industry understanding of issues in accordance with CDM Regulations and prepare architects for the health and safety test. It provides practitioners with the required knowledge regarding site safety hazards and design risk management to discharge their professional services and legal duties competently and safely. The 2nd edition features an update to the content relating to design risk management and statue to reflect the changes proposed by the Act and the Regulations as well as a review of the relationship between these and the existing regime under the CDM Regulations. It includes a new chapter that sets out some of the detail of duties under the Act and the Regulations including practical examples of how designer/architects might discharge their duties as designers and lead designers considering how it compares to existing duties under the CDM Regulations. | RIBA Health and Safety Guide

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Master Lecture Series for the NCE CPCE CECE and State Counseling Exams The Updated and Expanded Vital Information and Review Questions Program

Master Lecture Series for the NCE CPCE CECE and State Counseling Exams The Updated and Expanded Vital Information and Review Questions Program

WHO ELSE WANTS TO SAY I PASSED? The Master Lecture Series Boosts Exam Scores While Reducing Test Anxiety and Study Time Say goodbye to boring study sessions. Dr. Rosenthal’s Master Lecture Series makes learning enjoyable. Revolutionize your exam prep and have fun doing it! This study guide will transform your comprehensive exam journey into an engaging adventure that you'll actually enjoy! The Master Lecture Series is a great standalone exam prep guide and the perfect companion to the Encyclopedia of Counseling and the Human Services Dictionary. The new edition includes updated and expanded lectures on every exam area and questions and answers on all major topics including those frequently asked by users of Dr. Rosenthal’s materials. The book includes a complete test anxiety prevention program with hundreds of never-before published tiny test hints for effective micro-study sessions exclusive memory devices and the most advanced Super Review Boot Camp he has ever created. This is the perfect study tool for every counselor wanting to take their career to the next level. | Master Lecture Series for the NCE CPCE CECE and State Counseling Exams The Updated and Expanded Vital Information and Review Questions Program

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The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume I: Development

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume I: Development

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing Volume I: Development introduces the many voices necessary to better understand the act of singing—a complex human behaviour that emerges without deliberate training. Presenting research from the social sciences and humanities alongside that of the natural sciences and medicine alike this companion explores the relationship between hearing sensitivity and vocal production in turn identifying how singing is integrated with sensory and cognitive systems while investigating the ways we test and measure singing ability and development. Contributors consider the development of singing within the context of the entire lifespan focusing on its cognitive social and emotional significance in four parts: Musical historical and scientific foundations Perception and production Multimodality Assessment In 2009 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a seven-year major collaborative research initiative known as Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). Together global researchers from a broad range of disciplines addressed three challenging questions: How does singing develop in every human being? How should singing be taught and used to teach? How does singing impact wellbeing? Across three volumes The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing consolidates the findings of each of these three questions defining the current state of theory and research in the field. Volume I: Development tackles the first of these three questions tracking development from infancy through childhood to adult years.

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Climate Change and World Agriculture

Climate Change and World Agriculture

Originally published in 1990 this book analysed the sensitivity of the world food system and looked at the variety of ways in which it would be affected by climate change. It describes the effects of climate change on agriculture estimates the impacts on plant and animal growth and looks at the geographical limits to different types of farming. It also considers the range of possible ways to adapt agriculture and so to mitigate the disastrous consequences of climate change. | Climate Change and World Agriculture

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Information Technology Control and Audit Fifth Edition

Information Technology Control and Audit Fifth Edition

The new fifth edition of Information Technology Control and Audit has been significantly revised to include a comprehensive overview of the IT environment including revolutionizing technologies legislation audit process governance strategy and outsourcing among others. This new edition also outlines common IT audit risks procedures and involvement associated with major IT audit areas. It further provides cases featuring practical IT audit scenarios as well as sample documentation to design and perform actual IT audit work. Filled with up-to-date audit concepts tools techniques and references for further reading this revised edition promotes the mastery of concepts as well as the effective implementation and assessment of IT controls by organizations and auditors. For instructors and lecturers there are an instructor’s manual sample syllabi and course schedules PowerPoint lecture slides and test questions. For students there are flashcards to test their knowledge of key terms and recommended further readings. Go to http://routledgetextbooks. com/textbooks/9781498752282/ for more information. | Information Technology Control and Audit Fifth Edition

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Clinical Oncology Basic Principles and Practice

Clinical Oncology Basic Principles and Practice

This popular textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of clinical oncology. Ideal for medical undergraduates clinicians and other health professionals who want to increase their understanding of the challenges of managing patients with cancer the book enables readers to learn and then test themselves on all aspects of cancer medicine from epidemiology aetiology pathogenesis and presentation through to diagnosis staging management and prognosis. | Clinical Oncology Basic Principles and Practice

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An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is the successor to Cooper’s prize-winning book Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen administered scored interpreted and developed. In providing students researchers test users test developers and practitioners in the social sciences education and health with an evaluative guide to choosing using interpreting and developing tests it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing together with the necessary methodological detail. This book has three distinctive features. First it stresses the basic logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave rather than reading equations. Readers will learn by doing. Second it covers both the theory behind psychological assessment and the practicalities of locating designing and using tests and interpreting their scores. Finally it is evaluative. Rather than just describing concepts such as test reliability or adaptive testing it stresses the underlying principles merits and drawbacks of each approach to assessment and methods of developing and evaluating questionnaires and tests. Unusually for an introductory text it includes coverage of several cutting-edge techniques and this new edition expands the discussion on measurement invariance methods of detecting/quantifying bias and hierarchical factor models and features added sections on: Best practices for translation of tests into other languages and problems of cultural bias Automatic item generation The advantages drawbacks and practicalities of internet-based testing Generalizability theory Network analysis Dangerous assumptions made when scoring tests The accuracy of tests used for assessing individuals The two-way relationship between psychometrics and psychological theory Aimed at non-mathematicians this friendly and engaging text will help you to understand the fundamental principles of psychometrics that underpin the measurement of any human characteristic using any psychological test. Written by a leading figure in the field and accompanied by additional resources including a set of spreadsheets which use simulated data and other techniques to illustrate important issues this is an essential introduction for all students of psychology and related disciplines. It assumes very little statistical background and is written for students studying psychological assessment or psychometrics and for researchers and practitioners who use questionnaires and tests to measure personality cognitive abilities educational attainment mood or motivation. | An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

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A Study of Innovative Behavior in High Technology Product Development Organizations

A Study of Innovative Behavior in High Technology Product Development Organizations

Originally published in 1999 this volume integrates several streams of research on the antecedents of innovation to test a model of individual innovative behavior in a high technology product development organization. The sample for this research was a group of Engineers Designers and Lab Technicians employed in an engineering department responsible for the development of high technology products. Structural equation modeling techniques and multiple linear regression were used to evaluate the research. | A Study of Innovative Behavior in High Technology Product Development Organizations

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Evidence: Law and Context

Evidence: Law and Context

Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts. The book focuses on the essential topics commonly found on Evidence courses covering both criminal evidence and civil evidence. It takes a contextual approach discussing how wider policy debates and societal trends have impacted upon the recent evolution of the law in order to provide students with an explanation as to how and why the law has developed. The fifth edition has been revised to include: coverage of R v Hunter 2015 and its impact on good character evidence; developments in procedures relating to young and vulnerable witnesses; and more in-depth coverage of key cases. Learning points summarise the major principles and rules covered and practical examples are used throughout the text to give better understanding as to how the technical rules are applied in practice. Self-test questions are included in the book helping students to test their understanding and prepare for assessment. Well written clear and with a logical structure throughout it contains all the information necessary for any undergraduate evidence law module.

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Culture and General Education A Survey

Culture and General Education A Survey

Originally published in 1963 this remarkable book discusses the results of the ‘tests of culture’ devised by the author two of which when published in The Times Educational Supplement evoked such wide interest that he was almost overwhelmed with unsolicited test scores and correspondence. The late Kenneth Richmond was well aware that any attempt to ‘measure culture’ was open to ridicule. He makes it clear that he is concerned to measure it in its restricted sense of ‘academic or minority culture’ and he holds that there is a body of received opinion on the content of such culture which in the contemporary world is represented by two areas those of the scientists and of the literary intellectuals and that it is possible to pose questions that will test a person’s acquaintance with each. So the tests are no mere quizzes; the results from Universities Colleges the Services and Sixth Forms are often surprising sometimes disquieting in the light they throw on standards of general education at the time and on the ‘great divide’ between the scientist and the arts man. | Culture and General Education A Survey

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