The Economic Impact of Ict: Measurement, Evidence and Implications

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TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT HEALTH takes a case study approach and is written especially for the elementary classroom teacher. The goal of this text is to help teachers become more knowledgeable about and comfortable with health topics, to be more reflective in their practice of teaching about health, and better equipped with activities for incorporating health subjects into their curriculum. Each chapter considers health from a physical, social, and emotional perspective, acknowledging the mind-body connection. The authors include topics that are relevant in children's lives using a wellness/preventive health model. In addition, each chapter provides activities that can be integrated into several disciplines found in most elementary-school curricula. This text is meant to provide elementary school classroom teachers with the incentive and knowledge base they will need to include interdisciplinary lessons about the various health content areas in their daily teaching. It recognizes that since most elementary-school programs do not have separate health education experiences for students, and since these are the primary learning years, it is the responsibility of the classroom teacher to initiate learning about health.

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Teaching Children about Health.......2007-05-30

This book was bought for a class but I did not use it often.

CSET Health and Science Study Guide.......2005-10-19

This book has enabled me to study better for the CSET Health portion of the exam. I have found the book to be very informative in providing me information in the 9 areas of the exam. Very easy to understand!!

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Uses primarily service examples instead of manufacturing.
* Contains realistic problems that real managers would encounter.

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Excellent.......2006-02-25

The delivery was timely and the book was in an excellent shrink wrapped, brand new condition.

Speedy Delivery.......2005-09-03

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An excellent, easy to read book.......2000-05-16

We used this book as one of our texts while working on my MBA. It is very good, especially for someone who has a technical, non-manufacturing background. I highly recommend it.

EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO A TECHNICALLY CHALLENGING SUBJECT........1999-04-09

This is an excellent introduction to understanding the process and management of transforming inputs into useful outputs. While the subject is technical, the presentation makes it highly accessible. Major topics covered are: the nature of operations; business strategy and global competitiveness; quality management; product/service design; transformation system design; capacity and location planning; schedule management; materials management; supply chain management and just-in-time systems; and project management. Each chapter concludes with cases and questions that are open-ended, an approach to learning that is applied and appropriate for higher levels of learning. Definitions of key terms are embedded in the text. Reviewed by Yvette Borcia, Managing Partner, Stern & Associates, co-author of Stern's Sourcefinder: The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and Stern's Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.

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Quick Notes Statistics is for people who want to learning the material covered in a traditional college statistics course or for people who need to learn statistics to enhance their career. Each learning unit of Quick Notes Statistics begins with a concise topic outline (usually 2- pages). Keeping descriptive material to a few pages makes learning difficult concepts easier. Each topic outline is followed a one or two page practice set and a one or two pages of Quick Questions. The order of practice problems follow the topic outline so students need look back only 2 pages to about the same page location of the topic

outline to get help when doing a problem. This similar format is followed with Quick Questions. Learning units are divided into four parts. Each part ends with a formula review and a test. The Professor's Answer Book provides complete solutions to all practices set problems, Quick Questions, and test questions. These complete solutions help a student understand difficult concepts.

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Study Guide for Statistics for Business & Financial Economics

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Study Guide for Statistics for Business & Financial Economics
Ronald L. Moy
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An update to the popular best seller, Insights to Performance Excellence 2004 thoroughly explains the Baldrige Award Criteria for 2004. Author Mark Blazey has simplified the criteria through the use of linkage diagrams and flow charts for each of the items that comprise the criteria. The categories are aligned to reflect a new way of looking at the components of a high performance management system. Blazey also clearly details the differences between the 2003 and 2004 criteria. What separates this book from others on the market is the author's simplification of the 2004 Baldrige Criteria and the application process. Through the use of flowcharts, relationship matrixes, and examples of effective practices to help assess and document continuous improvement efforts, Insights to Performance Excellence 2004 will strengthen your understanding of the Baldrige Criteria and provide valuable insights when analyzing your organization, achieving higher levels of performance, and applying for the Baldrige Award.

Also includes a bonus CD-ROM with additional Baldrige Criteria information for educational and healthcare organizations, and templates to assist in applying for the award.

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Here is a tightly written, concise survey of the history of technology and science over four centuries. In constructing this engaging account, Professor Brose weaves a fabric from three histories which, until now, have been thought of as mutually exclusive. The history of technology, the history of science, and the history of economic development leading to the Industrial Revolution have been developed to a large degree separately. Few historians have attempted a synthesis such as this which demonstrates the relationship between them and general political developments in a way which produces a rounded account, with each strand playing its part in supporting and interacting with the others.

The narrative starts with the opening of the modern historical epoch around 1500 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and covers events in both Europe and the United States. Brose constructs his account from the standpoint of technological systems--the idea that each epoch evolves a system to meet the material demands of society--and the rise and fall of each system within the period.

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 746 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914. (Reviews: general and international). (book review)
Author: Janis Langins
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 36 Issue: 3 Page: 636(2)

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Reading Book for Human Relations Training, Eighth Edition
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Contains nearly 70 articles covering nine topics in human relations written by highly regarded behavioral science scholars and practitioners. The book is divided into the major skill-building areas necessary to improving personal and professional effectiveness: communications, diversity, conflict, re-entry(after the training experience), history and background of laboratory education, self-awareness, support systems, experiential learning and others.

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This is an essential book for all those concerned with the field of assessment. The authors of this book form an international group of distinguished experts in the field of assessment. They address relevant and timely conceptual and practical issues from a research perspective. It is a book which reaches forward and which, based on research results, clearly provides solutions to practical applications at the cutting edge of the emerging area of new modes of assessment. In a clear and rigorous manner, the authors explore new methods and study the various quality aspects of innovative approaches. Various research studies presented in this book focus on the impact of new modes of assessment and in doing so, they strengthen the links between instruction, learning, and assessment.

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Business leaders, investors, analysts, and others who need to get a handle on the state of the art in terrestrial wireless data technology will be well served by Frank Coyle's Wireless Web: A Manager's Guide. The title is accurate--this is no manual for turbo-nerds or standards committee members--and Coyle serves his target market well. He's perhaps a little bit guilty of not reporting the shortcomings of technologies and their implementations, but he more than makes up for his slight boosterism (at one point, he mentions, apparently straight-facedly, washing machines that communicate with chips in clothes to determine if the clothes are light or dark) with lucid, reasoned prose. With that prose, he explains how technologies differ, how they stack up in the marketplace, and how they might be put to use to provide services that customers will pay for.

Coyle has embraced full management-book style, with lots of skimmable margin notes, bulleted lists, conceptual diagrams, and flow charts. That said, he's included plenty of technical information, particularly the kind that has to do with transmission speeds, range, reliability, and subscriber capacity. He's also done a great job of providing his readers with enough knowledge of key terms to make sense of industry news articles, and of explaining how related technologies--such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and WML--fit together to form working applications. The history lessons he provides, which are stories of the factors that led to the acceptance or rejection of wireless technologies in various markets, are invaluable to businesspeople eager to learn from the experiences of others. --David Wall

Topics covered: Technologies, products, and services related to the delivery of digital data to users without the use of transmission wires, with emphasis on end-user devices like pagers, mobile phones, and wireless LAN equipment. Bluetooth, the IEEE wireless LAN standards, third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies (including GSM, TDMA, and CDMA), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and its related specifications, and Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Java as used in wireless applications are all covered, as are (to a limited extent) the security questions wireless poses.

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Finally - An Intelligent Book on Wireless and the Web!.......2001-11-15

About two years ago I had the pleasure of hearing Frank Coyle speak at an industry conference. Frank's talk at the conference was primarily on XML (Extensible Markup Language). During the talk I was very impressed with the breadth and depth of Frank's knowledge. He traced the development of XML from its origins in GML (Generalized Markup Language) from the 1970s to SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) to HTML and XHTML, touching on a variety of important issues along the way.

In parallel with the development of XML Frank outlined the development of programming languages, describing them as code- or data-centric and traced their influences and progress from procedural-oriented to their eventual support for objects and components. Frank then showed the relationship of markup languages to the world of components and how they all fit together.

Frank's talk wasn't a history lesson, but an in-depth examination of XML technology along with the how, what, where, and why it is important. It was a tour-de-force presentation that finally allowed me to see and appreciate the context and proper application of XML.

I am happy to report that most of Frank's XML presentation is included in his book, "Wireless Web - A Manager's Guide." Frank's ability to distill and explain is extended, in the book, to all things wireless and the convergence of wireless with the Web. Frank covers the majority of wireless technologies from the perspective of three evolving forms: the cell phone, the personal digital assistant (PDA), and the portable computer, within a larger context of the wireless advantages, including localization, personalization, and immediacy.

Separate chapters are devoted to wireless devices, Bluetooth, WLAN (wireless LAN), 1G, 2G, and 3G networks, WAP (wireless application protocol), XML, Java, and security issues.

Managers, programmers, and consultants who are looking to understand and implement wireless applications will find this book essential. It is the only book I have found that provides the in-depth coverage combined with the necessary touchstones to guide your journey. It is a smart book written by a sharp author who understands technology is best considered in context and converging influences. After reading this book you will not only understand the current wireless landscape, but also be in a position to make intelligent judgments on its future directions.

Finally - An Intelligent Book on Wireless and the Web!.......2001-11-15

Separate chapters are devoted to wireless devices, Bluetooth, WLAN (wireless LAN), 1G, 2G, and 3G networks, WAP (wireless application protocol), XML, Java, and security issues.

A great way to jumpstart your knowledge of the wireless web!.......2001-10-01

Wireless Web is an effective technology primer for managers. It provides a well-illustrated introduction to the applications, devices, networks, and standards that drive the wireless Web. The greatest strength of this book is Dr. Coyle's impressive use of analogies and executive summaries. For example, he uses the analogy of all the conversations that are carried on in a busy restaurant as a way to explain how multiple `conversations' can take place simultaneously over a CDMA cellular network. The analogies and side bars makes this one of the most readable technology books I have come across.

The author covers the important current wireless Web standards - WAP, Bluetooth, I-Mode, etc. with enough depth to show you where they fit into the puzzle. He also devotes chapters to XML and security. While you might question whether these topics belong in a wireless book, they are pervasive standards that are integral to other wireless standards. I would like to have seen more coverage of the Java 2 Micro Edition, but given the length of the book this would have been difficult. The chapter on wireless networks is excellent because it provides a realistic analysis of where we have been and where we are going is this highly dynamic area.

All in all, this is a well rounded book written for an international audience. I found it a great starting point for learning about the wireless Web.

Readable general overview of wireless technologies.......2001-06-26

Despite the continuing problems with everything from content to the protocols, there is still no question that the wireless transfer of data has a dynamic future. Incorporating wireless equipment into your operations is a significant decision and it is incumbent on all managers to learn the rudiments of what wireless technolog\y is and what it can do for you. If that is your goal then this is the place to start.
Designed for the non-technical person, the approach used in this book is right on that target. All of the general principles of what wireless is and what it is supposed to do are explained. The problem is of course that the gap between what it is supposed to do and what it can do has not been closed. These problems are mentioned, but not to as great an extent as they could have been. I subscribe to several trade magazines and it has been some time since there has been an issue that did not contain an article describing some problem with wireless.
Another concern is in the citing of statistics. While the source is cited when a data point is given, there is no mention of the range of estimates. As a new technology, the range of estimates for the monetary value of wireless is quite wide. Simply citing one of the more optimistic estimates does no justice to the extensive debate regarding the actual value of wireless in the future. As befits an overview, the authors include a large number of print and online references. While no such list can ever be complete, they are certainly the first step to a complete one.
Overall, I found the book to be satisfactorily simplistic in tone, neither too simple or too hard. As long as you read it with the knowledge that no one statistic concerning an emerging technology can be trusted, you will find it of value.

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Wireless Web: A Manager's Guide
Frank Coyle Frank P. Coyle
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