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This resource book provides all the materials required to follow structured programs of learning support for dyslexic pupils. Created by Sally Raymond, an experienced teacher of dyslexic pupils, it contains a wide variety of adaptable worksheets with lots of teaching advice and supportive guidance.

The clear advice offered will guide inexperienced teachers and support others delivering differentiated inputs throughout the school. Every school can use the worksheets again and again, adapting them to suit different needs, building up a library of dragonfly worksheets that match the learning style of dyslexic pupils.

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The basics behind the Six Sigma quality control technique
Six Sigma is designed to achieve excellence in customer service and measure deviation from the ideal. It provides a process for placing value on the intangible nature of quality control. The underlying theories of Six Sigma are highly technical and complex. This book is a basic guide to those who are new to the concept, and though this is a complex subject, the concepts involved are not too complex for readers to grasp. Getting Started in Six Sigma demonstrates how an employee or supervisor can implement Six Sigma successfully without having to become technically familiar with process-oriented models or statistical modeling.
Michael C. Thomsett (Pt. Townsend, WA) is a financial writer who has written more than 50 books on investing, real estate, business, and management topics. He is the author of several Wiley books including the successful Getting Started in Options (0-471-44493-6). Prior to his writing career, Thomsett was a professional accountant and systems consultant.

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Everything you always wanted to know about starting in Six Sigma.......2006-02-17

Books on Six Sigma often read like ancient testaments from which you must blow the dust before you crack them open. Full of half-explained jargon and abstruse terms, they tend to shed more confusion than illumination. Eventually, you throw up your hands and decide you'll just have to hire a consultant if you are ever to understand this stuff, even though most of those books are - surprise! - written by consultants. This offering by Michael C. Thomsett is a welcome exception. A champion financial writer, Thomsett ventures into heady consultant territory and emerges with an unnervingly comprehensible book about launching a straightforward Six Sigma quality control program. We advise you not to let this book's brevity fool you. It will tell you everything you always wanted to know about starting in Six Sigma, but were afraid to ask a consultant. Comprehensive as well as comprehensible, it lives up to the description on its cover: "A Practical Working Guide."

Best Introduction.......2005-05-04

This is by the far the best introduction to six sigma for the executive interested in implementing the philosophies or for a potential green-belt candidate. If you are serious about six-sigma and/or lean education check out moresteam.com

Excellent!.......2004-12-18

This book takes a simple, logical idea and present it simply and logically ... a refreshingly clear summary, practical and useful. Best book on the topic that I have found.

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Consumer Evolution explores the effects of the Internet on the minds of customers and of employees and how it effectively changed the rules of business. It provides business executives with an understanding of the changing social psychology of customers, prospects, employees and markets brought about by the pervasiveness of the Internet. Consumer Evolution examines the new psychology that must be factored into the development of successful business strategies. Using specific examples and case studies, Consumer Evolution offers nine effective business strategies that take these psychological changes into account. It presents vital insight into the constantly changing buying patterns of consumers and lays the foundation for a competitive strategy in an environment in which customer relationship management has become a driving business force. Managers will find expert advice for developing branding and advertising programs that connect them more closely to their customers while also discovering fresh business strategies for maintaining market position, exploiting the business cycle, competing globally, and defining customer need.

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Now that "e" is dead, what next?.......2002-10-08

After 2 years of economic doldrums the "revolution" of the internet is all but dead and buried. But the reality is more than $10billion is being spent on retail online every quarter and it's growing faster than off-line retail.
Therefore understanding the broader implications of change in consumer mentality is crucial to success. This book does a very good job of laying out how consumer thinking has changed and how we in the business of selling things to consumers have to change as well.
The book could be better written and better organized and at times gets a bit repetitive but overall its worth the read.

By the way, see Michael Hammer's The Agenda for other critical issues that business needs to address in the next 10 years.

Terrific take on the net as it relates to business........2002-09-20

In terms of information distribution, the "net" is the greatest leap forward since the advent of the printing press. Every aspect of business is affected by this new technology. The authors help you to wade through these myriad influences to get a good understanding of the big picture, as well as the details.

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Two-sided matching provides a model of search processes such as those between firms and workers in labor markets or between buyers and sellers in auctions. This book gives a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching. The focus of the book is on the stability of outcomes, on the incentives that different rules of organization give to agents, and on the constraints that these incentives impose on the ways such markets can be organized. The results for this wide range of related models and matching situations help clarify which conclusions depend on particular modeling assumptions and market conditions, and which are robust over a wide range of conditions.

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practical and clear and covers material you don't see very o.......2005-02-11

This book is totally dedicated to matching theory. The book in itself is rather general, it doesn't focus on any particular application, and discusses matching as a general abstract theory. Therefore the book can be used by both micro- and macro people equally. It basically covers the problem of one-to-one and one-to-many matchings and tries to explain when equilibriums exist and if matches are unique or non-unique and comes with algorithms or constructive methods to actually do the matching. The structure of the book is mostly like math books and at each step presents an algorithm or a theorem or lemma that states a result. In most cases the proof comes afterwards. However this doesn't undermine the practicality of the book as you can easily locate the algorithm or theorem that embodies your required result and just use it. In my opinion this is one of those books you want to keep on your shelf and refer to every now and then when need be.

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A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism (Studies in Institutional Economics)

Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace and Capitalism.
Rick (ed) Tilman
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
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ASIN: B000UYFS2Q

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Promises Much - Doesn't Deliver.......2004-02-26

One of the editorial reviews of this book should serve as a warning. "...an antidote to the theoretical 'faddims' that makes marketing disciplines abstract and irrelevant'.

Unfortunately, the book has steered so much away from a theoretical approach that it comes across more as a collection of aphorisms. For example (opening the book at a random page): '...it is the positioning of the company brand in conjunction with its core processes that creates and delivers customer value throughout the organisation'.

The most disappointing aspect is that there is so little new in this book. Reading The Loyalty Effect or The Service Profit Chain would be time better spent.

Cranfield has a great reputation in the UK as a business school, so I really had high expectations for a book written by four of its academics. The dearth of references in this book (even if the excuse is that it is written for time poor CEOs) is embarrassing, and revealing.

The central thesis is that everyone in an organisation needs to be involved in marketing; or that marketing is broader than the functional role of marketing. Again this is far from new, and a subject which is treated much better in Peter Doyle's Value Based Marketing.

I read this book in a few days of bedtime reading; buy Doyle's book instead for a more detailed and considered treatment of this topic.

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Traditional management systems were designed to manage routine operations, not to manage innovation. The kinds of management systems we typically have in large companies throw up many roadblocks to innovation. This book compares the management systems of highly innovative companies with those of more typical companies to see how they are different. These are compared across different aspects of management including organization structure, communications systems, incentives, project funding systems, and others. The book contains detailed guidance on how to change management practices to be more innovative.

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Following "E-Moderating", which looked at the role of the online teacher, this book addresses readers in both higher education and corporate training who are seeking to develop interactive and online programmes that truly engage learners.;In education and training, the focus of those teaching with online technology is now on the actual content of programmes. Written by Gilly Salmon, an e-learning expert, this book shows the central role of activities in online learning and the importance of engaging learners. The book shows how to: develop low-cost and worthwhile e-activities; create fuller participation in online learning; and retain and satisfy learners.;Based on Gilly Salmon's own research and worldwide experience working with students and in commercial training, this book is intended for professionals involved in online learning.

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Essential reading for online learning.......2002-10-29

This book is a must for anyone hoping to facilitate online learners.It is very "user friendly" and enables the reader to realise the benefits, but also the pitfalls of learning through this compelling medium.

E-tivities. The key to active online learning [A book review from: Computers & Education]

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E-tivities. The key to active online learning [A book review from: Computers & Education]
G. Kirkup
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Computers & Education, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Are You Ready for the ASVAB?

Kaplan ASVAB 2004 Edition comes complete with a targeted review of all the material on the exam, three full-length practice tests, plus exclusive test-taking strategies. This powerful combination makes Kaplan ASVAB the best way for you to score higher on this critical exam.

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Test Prep, Admissions and Guidance. For life.

Kaplan has helped more than 3 million students achieve their educational and career goals. With 185 centers and more than 1,200 classroom locations throughout the U.S. and abroad, Kaplan provides a full range of services, including test prep courses, admissions consulting, programs for international students, professional licensing preparation, and more.

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This inspirational full color 48 page workbook helps you turn your dreams into reality. A great motivational tool for personal growth as well as for large groups (in team building, goal setting sessions) for sales groups, corporations and associations. As you work through the book, the inspirational message will guide you through the necessary steps you need to take to achieve even your wildest dreams.

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These essays analyse the benefits and losses of privatization, in a variety of countries, from economic, legal and consumer perspectives. The book explores questions such as whether private ownership necessarily leads to better management and productivity incentives.

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“At long last, here’s a book that will inspire beginners....[This] carefully constructed guidebook leads the novice...through the basic straight and bias basket weaving techniques needed.” —Decorating Ideas. “Highly recommended.”—NAEA News. “From the complex to the simple, the author seeks ways to make twill basketry interesting and possible.”—Arts & Activities.

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Intelligent decision support relies on techniques from a variety of disciplines, including artificial intelligence and database management systems. Most of the existing literature neglects the relationship between these disciplines. By integrating AI and DBMS, Computational Intelligence for Decision Support produces what other texts don't: an explanation of how to use AI and DBMS together to achieve high-level decision making. Threading relevant disciplines from both science and industry, the author approaches computational intelligence as the science developed for decision support. The use of computational intelligence for reasoning and DBMS for retrieval brings about a more active role for computational intelligence in decision support, and merges computational intelligence and DBMS. The introductory chapter on technical aspects makes the material accessible, with or without a decision support background. The examples illustrate the large number of applications and an annotated bibliography allows you to easily delve into subjects of greater interest. The integrated perspective creates a book that is, all at once, technical, comprehensible, and usable. Now, more than ever, it is important for science and business workers to creatively combine their knowledge to generate effective, fruitful decision support. Computational Intelligence for Decision Support makes this task manageable.

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A good book.......2000-05-31

As claimed by the author of Computational Intelligence for Decision Support, the objective of this book was to provide an integrated approach for decision making. This is not an easy task, and the author did a commendable job. With less than 400 pages, the book contains rich contents, ranging from data management to knowledge management, all presented in a concise manner. More importantly, the author has put emphasis on the thinking process in problem solving. Numerous small examples can be found throughout the book. The book not only presents "mainstream" AI, but "sidetrack" AI as well. Many interesting topics, including discussion related to computational support for creativity, cannot be found in any existing AI books with the similar scope. By integrating problem solving paradigms dealing with data as well as knowledge, readers are given a unique opportunity to explore both disciplines in a single volume. In addition, this book also serves as a useful reference book for recent development several related areas, such as data warehousing and data mining, as well as information retrieval on semi-structured data (as is found in today's Internet).

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This book presents new concepts and implementations of Computational Intelligence (CI) systems (based on neuro-fuzzy and fuzzy neural synergisms) and a broad comparative analysis with the best-known existing neuro-fuzzy systems as well as with systems representing other knowledge-discovery techniques such as rough sets, decision trees, regression trees, probabilistic rule induction etc. This presentation is preceded by a discussion of the main directions of synthesizing fuzzy sets, artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms in the framework of designing CI systems. In order to keep the book self-contained, introductions to the basic concepts of fuzzy systems, artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms are given. This book is intended for researchers and practitioners in AI/CI fields and for students of computer science or neighbouring areas.

Agent-based simulation for computational experimentation: Developing an artificial labor market [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]

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Agent-based simulation for computational experimentation: Developing an artificial labor market [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]
A. Chaturvedi , S. Mehta , D. Dolk , and R. Ayer
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper discusses the creation of an artificial labor market (ALM) as an agent-based simulation model. We trace the development of the ALM by adapting the traditional simulation life cycle into two main parts: the model phase and the simulation phase. In the modeling phase of the life cycle, we focus upon agent representation and specification within the virtual world. In the simulation phase, we discuss the use of scenario planning as the experimentation vehicle. Throughout, we use military recruit market as an example to illustrate the methodology. The benefits of the ALM are (1) it provides a virtual world for continuous computational experimentation, (2) it supports market segmentation by allowing ''drilldowns'' to finer and finer levels of granularity, and (3) when connected via a common OLAP interface to a ''real world'' counterpart, it facilitates a tightly integrated, persistent, ''sense and respond'' decision support functionality.

Computational intelligence techniques for risk assessment and decision support [An article from: Children and Youth Services Review]

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Computational intelligence techniques for risk assessment and decision support [An article from: Children and Youth Services Review]
D.R. Schwartz , A.B. Kaufman , and I.M. Schwartz
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Children and Youth Services Review, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study explores the use of artificial neural networks as a tool to assist child welfare and child protective service organizations in making more precise and more accurate risk assessment decisions on behalf of children and their families. An artificial neural network, a popular computational intelligence technique, was trained and tested with a backpropagation algorithm utilizing 1767 cases from the United States' Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. The network was challenged to predict those children meeting the Harm Standard for abuse-the most severe classification of demonstrable harm from the case file data. Overall, the trained network was approximately 90% accurate in predicting children meeting, and not meeting the Harm Standard with relatively few false positives and false negatives. Neural networks along with other complimentary computing methodologies (e.g., fuzzy logic and evolutionary algorithms) are tools that could help to increase accuracy, reduce errors, and facilitate more effective decisions in child welfare and child protective service organizations.

Hybrid approaches for classification under information acquisition cost constraint [An article from: Decision Support Systems]

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Hybrid approaches for classification under information acquisition cost constraint [An article from: Decision Support Systems]
P.C. Pendharkar
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is a journal article from Decision Support Systems, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We address a problem of classification with information acquisition cost constraint (CIACC). The objective of the CIACC problem is to develop a classification function that maximizes correct classifications under the user defined information acquisition cost constraint. We propose hybrid simulated annealing and neural network (SA-ANN), and tabu search and neural network (TS-ANN) procedures to solve the CIACC problem. Using simulated and a real-world data set from medical domain, we show that the proposed hybrid procedures solve the CIACC problem. The results of our experiments indicate that the performance of hybrid approaches is sensitive to the data distribution, and memory-based hybrid tabu search approaches may perform as good as or better than probabilistic hybrid simulated annealing approach.

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