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United States. General Accounting Office., ed. IRS modernization: IRS should enhance its performance management system : report to Congressional Requesters. Washington, D.C: U.S. General Accounting Office, 2001.

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A, Penney Bradford. Good HVAC practices for residential and commercial buildings: A guide for thermal, moisture and contaminant control to enhance system performance and customer satisfaction. Arlington, VA: ACCA, 2003.

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SC-213, RTCA (Firm). Minimum aviation system performance standards (MASPS) for enhanced vision systems, synthetic vision systems, combined vision systems, and enhanced flight vision systems. Washington, DC: RTCA, Inc., 2008.

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M, Rodríquez Héctor, and NASA Glenn Research Center, eds. Propulsion health monitoring for enhanced safety. [Cleveland, Ohio]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, 2003.

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Meehan, Bill. GIS for enhanced electric utility performance. Boston: Artech House, 2013.

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1968-, Chandler Jason R., ed. Building systems integration for enhanced environmental performance. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: J. Ross Pub., 2011.

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Auditor, Vermont Office of the State. Department of Motor Vehicles: Performance measurement system could be enhanced. [Montpelier, Vt: Office of the State Auditor], 2009.

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Fetterman, Roger L. The interactive corporation: Using interactive media and intranets to enhance business performance. New York: Random House, 1997.

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Breyfogle, Forrest W. The integrated enterprise excellence system: An enhanced, unified approach to balanced scorecards, strategic planning, and business improvement. Austin, TX: Bridgeway Books in cooperation with Citrus Pub., 2008.

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Breyfogle, Forrest W. The integrated enterprise excellence system: An enhanced, unified approach to balanced scorecards, strategic planning, and business improvement. Austin, TX: Bridgeway Books in cooperation with Citrus Pub., 2008.

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Breyfogle, Forrest W. The integrated enterprise excellence system: An enhanced, unified approach to balanced scorecards, strategic planning, and business improvement. Austin, TX: Bridgeway Books in cooperation with Citrus Pub., 2008.

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Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development. Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Panel., ed. Ionospheric modification and its potential to enhance or degrade the performance of military systems.. Neuilly sur Seine: Agard, 1990.

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K, Lee Jae, ed. State-of-the-art portfolio selection: Using knowledge-based systems to enhance investment performance. Chicago, Ill: Probus Pub. Co., 1992.

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Financial systems in troubled waters: Information, strategies, and governance to enhance performances in risky times. New York, NY: Routledge, 2012.

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Gao, Dian-Ce. Diagnosis and Robust Control of Complex Building Central Chilling Systems for Enhanced Energy Performance. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0698-7.

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Brand, Klaus-Peter. Substation automation handbook: Comprehensive description of substation automation and the coordination with network operation to obtain both performance and cost benefits by enabling enhanced power system management. Bremgarten: Utility Automation Consulting Lohmann, 2003.

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Bekunda, Mateete, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, and Jonathan Odhong, eds. Sustainable agricultural intensification: a handbook for practitioners in East and Southern Africa. Wallingford: CABI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781800621602.0000.

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Abstract This book presents some of the improved agricultural technologies that were validated by the Africa RISING Project in East and Southern Africa (ESA), focusing on smallholder farmers in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, and working in partnership with development (scaling) institutions. It consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 shows how gender concerns must be woven into all sustainable intensification (SI) interventions to produce equitable outcomes. It describes activities to enhance women's participation, measure the benefits, and transform gender relations. Chapter 2 describes the performance of new cereal and legume crop varieties introduced by Africa RISING into agroecosystems in which they had not been tested before. Chapter 3 presents technologies to diversify the common maize-dominated cropping systems and address human nutrition, improve soil organic matter, and maximize the benefits of applying fertilizer. Chapter 4 presents technologies for replacing the nutrients lost from cropped fields with external fertilizer sources in a manner that minimizes the consequences of too little or too much application. Chapter 5 is about soil conservation. Chapter 6 presents conservation agriculture, which can help smallholder farmers build better resilience to the consequences of climate change and variable weather. Improved technologies for drying, shelling, and hermetic storage of grain are presented in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 provides information to help farmers use outputs from crop production systems to formulate supplementary feed. Chapter 9 follows with technologies that allow well-planned nutrition-specific interventions (recipes) to utilize various livestock and crop products to enhance family nutrition, with specific attention paid to diets for children. Chapter 10 presents examples from the preceding chapters to illustrate the potential impacts of interconnected technologies. Lastly, Chapter 11 presents experiences and lessons learned from using these approaches to transfer and scale the technologies.

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Developing an economic performance system to enhance nuclear power plant competitiveness. Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 2002.

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Developing an Economic Performance System to Enhance Nuclear Power Plant Competitiveness (Technical Reports Series (International Atomic Energy Agency)). Intl Atomic Energy Agency, 2002.

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Erikson, Oliver. Magnificent Medicinal Mushrooms: The Top 10 Mushroom Superfoods You Need to Enhance Your Immune System, Boost Cognitive Performance, Sleep Better, and Defy Aging. Independently Published, 2022.

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Vassigh, Shahin. Building Systems Integration for Enhanced Environmental Performance. Ross Publishing, Incorporated, J., 2011.

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Khojasteh, Yacob. Production Control Systems: A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems. Springer, 2015.

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Khojasteh, Yacob. Production Control Systems: A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems. Springer London, Limited, 2015.

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Khojasteh, Yacob. Production Control Systems: A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems. Springer Japan, 2016.

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Lund, Jacalyn Lea, and Mary Fortman Kirk. Performance-Based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education. 3rd ed. Human Kinetics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718222731.

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Performance-Based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education is a cutting-edge book that teachers trust for assessing middle school and high school physical education students. Also a highly popular undergraduate text for courses that focus on performance-based assessment, this new third edition features significant additions, enhancements, and updates: • New chapters on effective management and instruction delivery, which make it appropriate for PETE instructors using the book for secondary methods courses • A new chapter on assessments with various instructional models, including Sport Education, Teaching Games for Understanding, Cooperative Learning, Personalized System of Instruction, and Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility • A new chapter on assessing dance (with sample dance units in the web resource) • A new sample unit on ultimate Frisbee in the chapter on invasion games • An expanded section on cognitive assessments, with suggestions for writing tests • Updated content on rubrics Performance-Based Assessment shows readers how to use portfolios to assess fitness, and it offers an example of a portfolio assessment for a high school fitness course. It also guides readers in using skill tests in physical education. Written by two authors with a combined 26 years of experience teaching physical education in public schools, the text discusses various assessment formats, helping PETE students and in-service teachers know both what to assess and how to assess it. Readers learn how to develop culminating and progressive assessments, as well as plan for continuous performance-based assessments and acquire effective teaching strategies for standards-based instruction. All content is aligned with current SHAPE America national standards and is supported by research from educational assessment giants such as Tom Guskey, Richard Stiggins, Dylan William, Robert Marzano, and James Popham. The book is organized into four parts, with part I introducing readers to performance-based assessment issues such as the need for change in the assessment process, how assessments can be used to enhance learning, the various assessment domains and methods, and the use of rubrics in assessments. Part II explores aspects of managing and implementing physical education lessons. In part III, readers learn about the components of performance-based assessment, and in part IV, they delve into issues affecting grading and implementing continuous performance-based assessment. This groundbreaking text explains the theory behind assessment and, through its numerous models, shows how to apply that theory in practice. The text is filled with practical examples, much more so than the typical assessment book. And it is supplemented by a web resource that houses forms, charts, and other material for instructors to use in their performance-based assessments. Class size, skill levels, and time factors can make assessments difficult―but far from impossible. The examples in the book are meant to be modified as needed, with the ideas in the book used as starting points. Teachers can use the material, examples, and tools in this book to create assessments that enhance student learning, providing them feedback to let them know what they have accomplished and how they can work toward goals of greater competence.

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The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System: An Enhanced, Unified Approach to Balanced Scorecards, Strategic Planning, and Business Improvement. Bridgeway Books, 2008.

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Wang, Zidong, Guoliang Wei, and Derui Ding. Performance Analysis and Synthesis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems with Network-Enhanced Complexities. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Wang, Zidong, Guoliang Wei, and Derui Ding. Performance Analysis and Synthesis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems with Network-Enhanced Complexities. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Wang, Zidong, Guoliang Wei, and Derui Ding. Performance Analysis and Synthesis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems with Network-Enhanced Complexities. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Wang, Zidong, Guoliang Wei, and Derui Ding. Performance Analysis and Synthesis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems with Network-enhanced Complexities. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Wang, Zidong, Guoliang Wei, and Derui Ding. Performance Analysis and Synthesis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems with Network-Enhanced Complexities. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Performance Analysis and Synthesis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems with Network-Enhanced Complexities. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Stark, David, ed. The Performance Complex. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861669.001.0001.

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What’s valuable? Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless process of pricings; on the other, competitions are discrete and bounded in time and location, with entry rules, judges, scores, and prizes. This book examines what happens when ever more activities in domains of everyday life are evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. Unlike organized competitions, such systems are ceaseless and without formal entry. Instead of producing resolutions, their scorings create addictions. To understand these developments, this book explores discrete contests (architectural competitions, international music competitions, and world press photo competitions); shows how the continuous updating of rankings is both a device for navigating the social world and an engine of anxiety; and examines the production of such anxiety in settings ranging from the pedagogy of performance in business schools to struggling musicians coping with new performance metrics in online platforms. In the performance society, networks of observation—in which all are performing and keeping score—are entangled with a system of emotionally charged preoccupations with one’s positioning within the rankings. From the bedroom to the boardroom, pharmaceutical companies and management consultants promise enhanced performance. This assemblage of metrics, networks, and their attendant emotional pathologies is herein regarded as the performance complex.

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Ketchen, David J., T. Russell Crook, Samuel Y. Todd, James G. Combs, and David J. Woehr. Managing Human Capital. Edited by Michael A. Hitt, Susan E. Jackson, Salvador Carmona, Leonard Bierman, Christina E. Shalley, and Douglas Michael Wright. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190650230.013.19.

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This article explores human resource (HR) management and its interrelationship with strategic human capital and performance. Drawing on data from 158 studies of human capital, the authors consider how synchronized systems of HR management practices affect human capital and how individual practices impact performance. The authors also look at the impact of synchronized systems of practices on performance in relation to human capital and existing resources. The authors describe resource-based theory that explains performance differences and how firms manage their strategic resources to enhance performance. Finally, the work compares the direct and indirect effects of HR practices and systems on performance.

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Mattarocci, Gianluca, and Alessandro Carretta. Financial Systems in Troubled Waters: Information, Strategies, and Governance to Enhance Performances in Risky Times. Routledge, 2013.

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Mattarocci, Gianluca, and Alessandro Carretta. Financial Systems in Troubled Waters: Information, Strategies, and Governance to Enhance Performances in Risky Times. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Mattarocci, Gianluca, and Alessandro Carretta. Financial Systems in Troubled Waters: Information, Strategies, and Governance to Enhance Performances in Risky Times. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Mattarocci, Gianluca, and Alessandro Carretta. Financial Systems in Troubled Waters: Information, Strategies, and Governance to Enhance Performances in Risky Times. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Gao, Dian-Ce. Diagnosis and Robust Control of Complex Building Central Chilling Systems for Enhanced Energy Performance. Springer, 2019.

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Gao, Dian-Ce. Diagnosis and Robust Control of Complex Building Central Chilling Systems for Enhanced Energy Performance. Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2020.

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Pulakos, Elaine D., and Mariangela Battista, eds. Performance Management Transformation. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190942878.001.0001.

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No other talent process has been the subject of such great debate and emotion as performance management (PM). For decades, different strategies have been tried to improve PM processes, yielding an endless cycle of reform to capture the next “flavor-of-the-day” PM trend. The past 5 years, however, have brought novel thinking that is different from past trends. Companies are reducing their formal processes, driving performance-based cultures, and embedding effective PM behavior into daily work rather than relying on annual reviews to drive these. Through case studies provided from leading organizations, this book illustrates the range of PM processes that companies are using today. These show a shift away from adopting someone else’s best practice; instead, companies are designing bespoke PM processes that fit their specific strategy, climate, and needs. Leading PM thought leaders offer their views about the state of PM today, what we have learned and where we need to focus future efforts, including provocative new research that shows what matters most in driving high performance. This book is a call to action for talent management professionals to go beyond traditional best practice and provide thought leadership in designing PM processes and systems that will enhance both individual and organizational performance.

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Wood, Gregory, Efraim Turban, and Carol Pollard. Information Technology for Management: On-Demand Strategies for Performance, Growth and Sustainability, 11th Edition Enhanced EPUB Reg Card. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2017.

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McBride, Julie, Kim Longfield, Dana Sievers, and Dominic Montagu. Social franchising: strengthening health systems through private sector approaches. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198717690.003.0013.

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This chapter explores the nature of franchising and how it can be applied in the health sector. The concept of social franchising is introduced and explained, together with an account of how it has developed and expanded over recent years. The chapter also explores how social franchising can contribute to the rapid spread of high-quality prevention, care, and treatment programmes. The issues of review and evaluation of social franchise performance are also explored. The chapter examines how social marketing can be used to enhance the impact of social franchising and multiply its impact in countries with less well developed health systems and facilities.

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A/L Bikar Singh, Soon Singh. GIS Integrated Teaching for Underachieving Geography Students. UMS Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.51200/gisintegratedumspress2019-978-967-2166-46-7.

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Recent studies show that the number of students who select to study Geography in Malaysian secondary schools, and their level of achievement in the subject, has decreased. The main factor is lack of motivation. Over multiple decades, a large and growing body of literature has indicated that ICT enhances students’ motivation to learn and their learning outcome. The studies demonstrate that the use of ICT in teaching activities provides more fun in an authentic learning environment, and increases learning autonomy, interaction, and collaboration. It is, therefore, a rich opportunity for motivating students to study. In addition, despite an increased interest among scholars to investigate the impact of ICT integrated Geography teaching on students’ motivation and achievement, none have investigated the effects of GIS as a new technological teaching tool on students’ Geography learning goals and their learning outcomes. The idea for this book originated from the author’s PhD study to examine the effects of GIS-based instruction on secondary school student Geography learning goals and their learning outcomes. This book is highly beneficial for Geography teachers to use multiple teaching methods and pedagogies in a GIS integrated teaching environment to cultivate underachieving students’ mastery goal, performance-approach goal and learning, and to decrease avoidance behaviour in learning the subject. Although GIS is widely used in Malaysia, it has not been embraced by the Malaysian education system and is absent from the Geography curriculums in the primary and secondary school contexts. Hence, writing of this book will also help the Curriculum Development Centre and Ministry of Education Malaysia develop a GIS-based teaching module to enhance the learning motivation of Geography and improve the student level of achievement.

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Jeffreys, Ian. The Warm-Up. Human Kinetics, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718214170.

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Athletes do not all train the same way, but it is rare to see any athlete—at any level—exercise or compete without warming up. Although the warm-up can take many forms, smart coaches and athletes know that the warm-up should be a part of any training session. Whether you work for a municipal pool or a commercial property, the tried-and-tested techniques in Aquatic Center Marketing can help your facility flourish: The Warm-Up is the first book to describe the science of the warm-up and provide guidelines to maximize its effectiveness through the process of constructing effective RAMP-based warm-ups. The RAMP system—Raise, Activate, Mobilize, and Potentiate—looks at the warm-up not only as preparation for the upcoming session, but also as tool for athletic development that can cultivate the skills and movement capacities needed to excel in sport. RAMP has become a standard warm-up system recommended by the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) and is included in professional resources developed by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). The Warm-Up provides a library of activities that can be used to maximize the effectiveness of warm-ups within the structure of the RAMP system. Coaches and athletes can incorporate activities to develop warm-ups that directly contribute to performance, or they can use one of five sample RAMP warm-up programs, which are appropriate for a variety of sports and athlete training levels. More than 160 diagrams and photos enhance the text and provide direction for the drills and exercises, and 17 video clips demonstrate movement patterns of the Raise phase. Plus, exercise and drill finders make it easy to find the exercises best suited for specific needs. It’s time to make the warm-up part of the long-term athlete development plan. The Warm-Up will help coaches and athletes use the RAMP system to make warm-ups a more effective part of training that contributes to better performance.

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Beck, Diane M., and Sabine Kastner. Neural Systems for Spatial Attention in the Human Brain. Edited by Anna C. (Kia) Nobre and Sabine Kastner. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675111.013.011.

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Spatial attention has been studied for over a half a century. Early behavioural work showed that attending to a location improves performance on a variety of tasks. Since then substantial progress has been made on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying these effects. This chapter reviews the neuroimaging literature, as well as related behavioural and single-cell physiology studies, on visual spatial attention. In particular, the chapter frames much of the work in the context of the biased competition theory of attention, which argues that a primary mechanism of attention is to bias competition among stimuli in the visual cortex in favour of an attended stimulus that, as a result, receives enhanced processing to guide behaviour. Accordingly, the authors have organized this chapter into two related sections. The first summarizes the effects of attention in the visual cortex and thalamus, the so-called ‘site’ of attention. The second explores the relationship between attention and fronto-parietal mechanisms which are thought to be the ‘source’ of the biasing signals exerted on the visual cortex.

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Mazer, Jeffrey, and Mitchell M. Levy. Policies, bundles, and protocols in critical care. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0017.

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Recently, the medicine community has been driven to think about patient safety in new ways, and with this new found interest in patient safety, large health care systems and individual institutions have been forced to develop mechanisms to track and measure performance. There is ample evidence that physicians and systems can do better. The tools of this new craft include checklists, protocols, guidelines, and bundles. These tools help to decrease variability in care and enhance the translation of evidence-based medicine to bedside care. Ongoing measurement of both performance and clinical outcomes is central to this movement. This allows for rapid detection of both successes and possible unintended consequences associated with the rapid translation of evidence into practice. As hospitals and intensive care units (ICU) worldwide have embraced the field of quality improvement (QI), many lessons have been learned about the process. QI includes four essential phases—development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance. Essential to the QI process and each of these QI phases is that the project must be tailored to each individual ICU and/or Institution. A one-size-fits-all project is less efficient, less effective, and at times unnecessary compare with a locally-driven process.

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Kenny, Paul D. Populism and Patronage. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807872.003.0009.

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This chapter tests the theory through a quantitative analysis of populist electoral success. It conducts a statistical analysis of the performance of populist candidates in all democracies across Asia, Europe, the, and Australasia. This analysis shows that as subnational units gain autonomy, the electoral performance of populist politicians is enhanced in patronage democracies but not in non-patronage democracies. This finding suggests that there exists a pathway to populist success that is distinctive to patronage democracies. To deal with the high number of cases in which populists receive no votes, the main analysis is a “double-hurdle” model. To control for the endogeneity of these decentralizing processes to party-system stability, the chapter employs an instrumental variables (IV) estimation strategy, in which autonomy is instrumented for by a number of structural features of a polity (area, population, and territorial contiguity). The model also holds up to this IV estimation.

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Hilgurt, S. Ya, and O. A. Chemerys. Reconfigurable signature-based information security tools of computer systems. PH “Akademperiodyka”, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/akademperiodyka.458.297.

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The book is devoted to the research and development of methods for combining computational structures for reconfigurable signature-based information protection tools for computer systems and networks in order to increase their efficiency. Network security tools based, among others, on such AI-based approaches as deep neural networking, despite the great progress shown in recent years, still suffer from nonzero recognition error probability. Even a low probability of such an error in a critical infrastructure can be disastrous. Therefore, signature-based recognition methods with their theoretically exact matching feature are still relevant when creating information security systems such as network intrusion detection systems, antivirus, anti-spam, and wormcontainment systems. The real time multi-pattern string matching task has been a major performance bottleneck in such systems. To speed up the recognition process, developers use a reconfigurable hardware platform based on FPGA devices. Such platform provides almost software flexibility and near-ASIC performance. The most important component of a signature-based information security system in terms of efficiency is the recognition module, in which the multipattern matching task is directly solved. It must not only check each byte of input data at speeds of tens and hundreds of gigabits/sec against hundreds of thousand or even millions patterns of signature database, but also change its structure every time a new signature appears or the operating conditions of the protected system change. As a result of the analysis of numerous examples of the development of reconfigurable information security systems, three most promising approaches to the construction of hardware circuits of recognition modules were identified, namely, content-addressable memory based on digital comparators, Bloom filter and Aho–Corasick finite automata. A method for fast quantification of components of recognition module and the entire system was proposed. The method makes it possible to exclude resource-intensive procedures for synthesizing digital circuits on FPGAs when building complex reconfigurable information security systems and their components. To improve the efficiency of the systems under study, structural-level combinational methods are proposed, which allow combining into single recognition device several matching schemes built on different approaches and their modifications, in such a way that their advantages are enhanced and disadvantages are eliminated. In order to achieve the maximum efficiency of combining methods, optimization methods are used. The methods of: parallel combining, sequential cascading and vertical junction have been formulated and investigated. The principle of multi-level combining of combining methods is also considered and researched. Algorithms for the implementation of the proposed combining methods have been developed. Software has been created that allows to conduct experiments with the developed methods and tools. Quantitative estimates are obtained for increasing the efficiency of constructing recognition modules as a result of using combination methods. The issue of optimization of reconfigurable devices presented in hardware description languages is considered. A modification of the method of affine transformations, which allows parallelizing such cycles that cannot be optimized by other methods, was presented. In order to facilitate the practical application of the developed methods and tools, a web service using high-performance computer technologies of grid and cloud computing was considered. The proposed methods to increase efficiency of matching procedure can also be used to solve important problems in other fields of science as data mining, analysis of DNA molecules, etc. Keywords: information security, signature, multi-pattern matching, FPGA, structural combining, efficiency, optimization, hardware description language.

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Krasnow, Donna H., and M. Virginia Wilmerding. Motor Learning and Control for Dance. Human Kinetics, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718212749.

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As dance training evolves and becomes more complex, knowledge of motor behavior is foundational in helping dancers learn and master new skills and become more efficient in integrating the skills. Motor Learning and Control for Dance is the first resource to address motor learning theory from a dance perspective. Educators and students preparing to teach will learn practical ways to connect the science behind dance to pedagogy in order to prepare dancers for performance. Dancers interested in performance from the recreational to professional levels will learn ways to enhance their technical and artistic progress. In language accessible even to those with no science background, Motor Learning and Control for Dance showcases principles and practices for students, artists, and teachers. The text offers a perspective on movement education not found in traditional dance training while adding to a palette of tools and strategies for improving dance instruction and performance. Aspiring dancers and instructors will explore how to develop motor skills, how to control movement on all levels, and—most important—how motor skills are best taught and learned. The authors, noted experts on motor learning and motor control in the dance world, explore these features that appeal to students and instructors alike: • Dance-specific photos, examples, and figures illustrate how to solve common problems various dance genres. • The 16 chapters prepare dance educators to teach dancers of all ages and abilities and support the development of dance artists and students in training and performance. • An extensive bibliography of sports and dance science literature allows teachers and performers to do their own research. • A list of key terms is at the beginning of each chapter with an accompanying glossary at the back of the book. Part I presents an overview of motor behavior, covering motor development from birth to early adulthood. It provides the essential information for teaching posture control and balance, the locomotor skills underlying a range of complex dance skills, and the ballistic skills that are difficult to teach and learn, such as grand battement and movements in street dance. Part II explores motor control and how movement is planned, initiated, and executed. Readers will learn how the nervous system organizes the coordination of movement, the effects of anxiety and states of arousal on dance performance, how to integrate the senses into movement, and how speed and accuracy interact. Part III investigates methods of motor learning for dancers of all ages. Readers will explore how to implement a variety of instructional strategies, determine the best approaches for learning dance skills, and motivate and inspire dancers. This section also discusses how various methods of practice can help or hinder dancers, strategies for improving the recall of dance skills and sequences, and how to embrace somatic practice and its contribution to understanding imagery and motor learning. Motor Learning and Control for Dance addresses many related topics that are important to the discipline, such as imagery and improvisation. This book will help performers and teachers blend science with pedagogy to meet the challenge of artistry and technique in preparing for dance performaance.

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