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Gartrell, Charles M. "Enhancing Recommender Systems Using Social Indicators." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3635830.
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Recommender systems are increasingly driving user experiences on the Internet. In recent years, online social networks have quickly become the fastest growing part of the Web. The rapid growth in social networks presents a substantial opportunity for recommender systems to leverage social data to improve recommendation quality, both for recommendations intended for individuals and for groups of users who consume content together. This thesis shows that incorporating social indicators improves the predictive performance of group-based and individual-based recommender systems. We analyze the impact of social indicators through small-scale and large-scale studies, implement and evaluate new recommendation models that incorporate our insights, and demonstrate the feasibility of using these social indicators and other contextual data in a deployed mobile application that provides restaurant recommendations to small groups of users.
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Chan, Wai, and 陳衛. "Social indicators for health in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975689.
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Richard, Florian. "Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting and Indicators." Thesis, KTH, Mark- och vattenteknik (flyttat 20130630), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-171851.
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Over the past few years, the expectations of stakeholders regarding Sustainable Development have strengthened the importance of CSR or Sustainable Development practices in companies. In France, NRE laws and more recently the Grenelle Environment Forum required from companies to disclose and publish information on environmental, social and societal issues. On the international level, the Global Reporting Initiative gives a framework for CSR reporting. Companies tend to improve their CSR policies by setting action plans, objectives, and publishing dedicated reports. Subsequently, to assess their performance, companies need to design specific indicators in order to measure environmental, social and societal information. It is all the more challenging that intangible information, such as biodiversity or human capital, are very difficult to evaluate. Still, when comparing the performance of companies, even in the same sector of activity, it appears that indicators are actually very hetero-geneous and do not allow to perform a proper comparison. This thesis will explore current practices of CSR or Sustainable Development reporting and more specifically the use of indicators in the private sector as well as their limitations and areas for improvement. A mutli-method approach, including a literature review, a case-study and an interview, has been used to perform the research.
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Monteiro, Pedro Miguel Pedrosa dos Santos. "Deprivation indicators on poverty and social exclusion." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/2925.
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Mestrado em Economia e Políticas PúblicasThe purpose of this dissertation is to study the material deprivation indicators applied to the most recent conceptions of poverty and social exclusion, namely in the context of the European Union enlargement towards Eastern Europe. Social indicators are useful instruments for monitoring and evaluating a country’s level of development, providing means to assess the results and impacts of the politics pursued. In the framework of Poverty there has been an effort to introduce a wider and more complete concept of poverty in the construction of the indicators, pointing out the multidimensional nature of poverty, in opposition to the single use of monetary indicators, based on inputs, such as the measures of income. In recent years, with the generalization of the use of deprivation indicators, there has been a complementary approach to poverty measurement, focused on non-monetary measures that are concerned with the capacity of individuals to reach certain patterns of life and well-being. Deprivation indicators currently used allow us to measure the lack of material goods, but also to evaluate restrictions on the access to social life. Consistent Poverty is defined as the situation in which the incomes of an individual are inferior to a predetermined threshold, and simultaneously, there is a marginalization towards another dimension of daily life, such as having financial difficulties (to solve debt) or housing degradation. Through an empirical analysis, we will observe the way in which income indicators combine with deprivation indicators, in order to identify and suggest the adequate indicators and methodology for the measurement of poverty and social exclusion, in Portugal and in the European Union.
O objectivo desta dissertação é estudar os indicadores de privação aplicados às concepções de pobreza e exclusão social mais recentes, nomeadamente no contexto do alargamento da União Europeia a leste. Os indicadores sociais são instrumentos indispensáveis na avaliação e monitorização do nível de desenvolvimento de um país, permitindo estimar os resultados e impactos das políticas prosseguidas. No âmbito da Pobreza, tem sido desenvolvido um trabalho no sentido de introduzir conceitos mais amplos e completos de pobreza na construção dos indicadores, salientando a sua natureza multidimensional, em contraste com o simples uso dos indicadores monetários baseados em “inputs”, como são, por exemplo, as medidas de rendimento. Nos últimos anos, a generalização do uso dos indicadores de privação tem levado à implementação de uma abordagem complementar na medição da pobreza baseada em medidas não monetárias relacionadas com a capacidade dos indivíduos em atingir determinados padrões de vida e bem-estar. Os indicadores de privação usados actualmente permitem, de uma forma geral, medir a capacidade de aquisição de bens e serviços, mas também, apreciar restrições no acesso à vida em sociedade. A Pobreza Consistente é definida como a situação em que os rendimentos de um indivíduo são inferiores a um determinado patamar e, simultaneamente, se verifica uma marginalização em relação a outras dimensões da vida quotidiana, como sejam as dificuldades financeiras (em pagar empréstimos) ou a degradação habitacional. Por meio de uma análise empírica, iremos observar de que forma se ajustam e combinam os indicadores de rendimentos e os indicadores de privação, no intuito de identificar as metodologias e os indicadores mais adequados na medição da pobreza e exclusão social, em Portugal e na União Europeia.
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Yan, Xiaojuan. "Stock market valuation of corporate social responsibility indicators." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3594.
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Renneboog et al (2008) argue that it remains to be seen whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be priced. In light of this, this thesis tests the performance and market valuation of CSR indicators by using a comprehensive set of KLD indicators. Chapter Three of this thesis examines the effect of CSR on financial performance by incorporating CSR into the investment process. As no clear break point is found for the normalised KLD score, the net KLD score is used as an alternative portfolio metric. In addition, most KLD indicators are found to have insignificant alphas for the high-scoring, low-scoring, and long-short portfolios—meaning that investors do not earn abnormal returns through a long-short strategy. Moreover, insignificant alphas are recorded for most of the indicators under the best-in-class approach—meaning that the application of industry classification does not affect results. Finally, both the conditional Ferson and Schadt (1996) model and conditional three-factor model are used as robustness checks, with most indicators having insignificant alphas for these conditional models. As such, the results imply that there is neither outperformance nor underperformance when using portfolios formed with CSR scores; however, there are significant differences in factor loadings between high-scoring and low-scoring CSR portfolios. Chapter Four uses a framework consistent with the Peasnell (1982) and Ohlson (1995) model to examine whether CSR is reflected in share prices. The CSR indicator is treated as the “other information” variable, and the association between CSR and market price is estimated by controlling for book value of equity, net income and dividends. Although the market is found to value different KLD indicators differently, most of the indicators are found to have positive impact on market value (except for corporate governance and human rights). R&D and advertising expenditure are both added to the valuation model for robustness checking purposes. Some of the CSR indicators—and especially for the case of environment—are not valued during the earlier stages, but become increasingly valued over time. The ten industries are also found to have varying effects on market valuation. In summary, high-scoring CSR firms display higher valuations than low-scoring CSR firms, and thus it can be concluded that a socially responsible agenda does not conflict with maximising shareholder value. Since most of the CSR indicators in Chapter Four lead to positive market price valuations, Chapter Five aims to disaggregate the value effect into the separate components of ROE ratio, the implied cost of capital (ICC) and growth rate. Three different methodologies are used to test the relationship between CSR, ICC and the long-run growth rate. The relationship between CSR and growth rate is positive with all of the methodologies. However, the different methodologies return differing results for the relationship between CSR and ICC, which may be due to the different assumptions made by each approach. Furthermore, it suggests that long-run growth rate differences in general may be more important than ICC differences. Finally, most KLD indicators are found to have significantly higher P/V and ROE1 ratios for the high-scoring CSR portfolios than for the low-scoring CSR portfolios.
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De, Jongh Derick. "Indicators of corporate social performance in South Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27494.
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Moller, Valerie, Cecil Wele Manona, Hees C. Van, E. Pillay, and A. Tobi. "Living in Grahamstown East/Rini: a social indicators report." Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010769.
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[From the preface]: The ‘Living in Grahamstown East/Rini’ project takes its title from a series of reports on social indicators initiated by Statistics South Africa. The popular series aims to communicate to ordinary people the statistics on living conditions in various parts of the country. The first two booklets in the series, Living in South Africa and Living in Gauteng, were based on survey data for South Africa and Gauteng Province (CSS: 1996; 1997). In similar vein, this booklet presents statistics on living conditions in Grahamstown East/Rini for ready reference by community organisations, local planning and policy-makers, scholars, and the general public. [From the introduction]: This report is intended to serve the needs of information users. The source of information is a representative sample survey of 862 Grahamstown East/Rini households conducted in May 1999. The report serves as a reference work for municipal planners and policymakers, community organisations, and interested citizens. It is hoped that the reported social indicators will be useful for drawing up business plans for community development projects. The information in this report is mainly factual. It is based on self-reports collected from households in Grahamstown East/Rini. In time, the facts contained in this report will date. They will then gain historical value for scholars with an interest in learning "how things were" to compare the situation in Grahamstown East/Rini in 1999 with later developments and changes in living conditions and lifestylesThis was edited by Valerie Møller, with contributions by Cecil W. Manona, Charlotte van Hees, Edmund Pillay and Andile Tobi
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Potts, Tavis William. "Sustainability indicators in marine capture fisheries." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://eprints.utas.edu.au/234/.
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Mann, Monica Constance. "Verbal and nonverbal expressions as indicators of social and emotional functioning among social anhedonics." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3594.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Duarte, Bruno Miguel Gonçalves. "Impact of social economic indicators on RSI incidence and success." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9473.
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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsIn this project we study the influence of socio-economic characteristics on the percentage of beneficiaries of “Rendimento Social de Inserção” (RSI) and on the percentage of exits from the RSI program that occur due to a change in income. The results indicate that the % of beneficiaries tend to increase with unemployment, younger people and reduced families, whereas it tends to reduce with high education levels and GDP. As for the % of exists from the RSI, the results we obtained show evidence that, on the one hand, they tend to increase with higher education, and on the other hand, they tend to reduce with unemployment, reduced income of the beneficiaries before entering the program, nuclear families and Local Purchasing Power.
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Swarts, Erica Diehlmann. "Kaimyo (Japanese Buddhist Posthumous Names) as indicators of social status /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486474078049095.
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McBain, Darian. "Social indicators for use with multi-regional input-output analysis." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12891.
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Accounting for social impacts in supply chain analysis is of increasing importance. Global trade has increased significantly since 1970, as has inequality. As global supply chains have become more prevalent, the need to understand and analyse these supply chains has also grown. Excellent work on quantitative analysis of environmental impacts in supply chains has taken place in the past two decades. However, relatively few methodologies have been applied to quantitative analysis of social impacts in supply chains. This thesis considers how social indicators for supply chain analysis can be developed through the use of socially extended multi-regional input-output analysis. Chapter 1 provides an introduction and context. Chapter 2 considers the history of social accounting. Chapter 3 looks at quantitative accounting for social-economic indicators and the development of national accounts, particularly in reference to standardised collection of data for social-economic indicators and socially-extended input- output analysis. Chapter 4 presents a case study of coltan mining and methodological analysis using deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a social indicator for the electronics supply chain. Chapter 5 analyses the results of the same case study and considers how enumerating social impacts in upstream supply chains can influence environmental and social justice actions in downstream supply chains. Chapter 6 provides a review of input-output analysis used as a tool for analysing consumption since 2010. Chapter 7 proposes the use of a suite of quantitative social indicators for analysis in the form of a social footprint. Chapter 8 provides a conclusion. This thesis tracks the author’s interest in understanding social impacts in global supply chains and proposes a social footprint for supply chain analysis using the multi-regional input output methodology.
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Poppleton, Lawrence. "Qualitative social inquiry and state of the environment reporting : can qualitative social inquiry make a contribution to the state of the environment reporting? /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envp831.pdf.
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Kwong, Kwan-ying. "Social indicator for public order and safety in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31975896.
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Gahin, Randa F. "Indicators as a tool to help create sustainable communities : a study of the outcomes of five community indicators projects /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p1405195.
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Thesis (M.C.R.P.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-178). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Kettner, Claudia, Angela Köppl, and Sigrid Stagl. "List of well-being indicators." European Commission, bmwfw, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/4714/1/WWWforEurope_WPS_no002_MS30.pdf.
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This milestone presents a pool of available indicators and indicator systems which go beyond the narrow concepts of national economic accounts as well as a structuring of the indicators and indices according to central areas of well-being. The milestone builds the basis for Task 202.2,
where a subset of indicators will be selected based on different theoretical frameworks, e.g. services / functionings, needs. Some of the indicators will be included in the macro-economic models in order to account for key dimensions of sustainability.Series: WWWforEurope
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Uglow, David. "Corporate social responsibility in the minerals, metals and mining industry : developing site-level social performance indicators." Thesis, University of Bath, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760761.
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Cheng, Rosangela Fung Ping. "An exploratory study on developing a framework for adopting community-oriented approach in constructing 3D social-based sustainable development indicators /." View abstract or full-text, 2005. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202005%20CHENG.
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Fallis, Don, and Martin Fricke. "Indicators of Accuracy of Consumer Health Information on the Internet." American Medical Informatics Association, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105437.
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Objectives: To identify indicators of accuracy for consumer health information on the Internet. The results will help lay people distinguish accurate from inaccurate health information on the Internet.
Design: Several popular search engines (Yahoo, AltaVista, and Google) were used to find Web pages on the treatment of
fever in children. The accuracy and completeness of these Web pages was determined by comparing their content with that of an instrument developed from authoritative sources on treating fever in children. The presence on these Web pages of a number of proposed indicators of accuracy, taken from published guidelines for evaluating the quality of health information on the Internet, was noted.
Main Outcome Measures: Correlation between the accuracy of Web pages on treating fever in children and the presence of proposed indicators of accuracy on these pages. Likelihood ratios for the presence (and absence) of these proposed indicators.
Results: One hundred Web pages were identified and characterized as "more accurate" or "less accurate." Three indicators correlated with accuracy: displaying the HONcode logo, having an organization domain, and displaying a copyright. Many proposed indicators taken from published guidelines did not correlate with accuracy (e.g., the author being identified and the author having medical credentials) or inaccuracy (e.g., lack of currency and advertising).
Conclusions: This method provides a systematic way of identifying indicators that are correlated with the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of health information on the Internet. Three such indicators have been identified in this study. Identifying such indicators and informing the providers and consumers of health information about them would be valuable for public health care.
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Delrieu, V. A. "GIS-based indicators for the social impacts of mega urban transport projects." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1343926/.
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This research explores the short to long-term impacts that Mega Urban Transport Projects (MUTPs) have on the communities they serve. In particular, intentional and unintentional social impacts that occur in the communities for the non-user of the MUTP. By their very nature of being ‘mega’, these MUTPs act as catalysts for change at the physical, economical and socio-demographic level. Current appraisal methods for planning and implementing MUTPs are relatively short on a standardised framework for assessing and monitoring the social impacts that communities under-go. This PhD research proposes that GIS can provide a fast and powerful overview of social patterns that can assist planners and decision-makers at local, regional and national levels to consider the ‘knock-on’ effects of the MUTP. This contributes towards understanding how to shape change in those communities to improve the socio-economic status for the whole population, beyond the users of the MUTP. The research also proposes the use of the Cynefin decision-making model with which to assess, act and respond to these impacts and to manage the outcomes so as to amplify the positive effects and dampen the negative. The case-studies are the two non-London hubs of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; Ebbsfleet and Ashford, Kent. Building from the 1991 census to the most recent digital datasets the toolkit creates ‘planning-to-implementation’ stage profiles of the communities. Variables that are mapped include demographic diversity, socio-economic deprivation, accessibility, journey to work modes, and a pilot study to explore the impact of the MUTP upon changes in social exclusion and community cohesion. The findings of this study conclude that whilst useful lessons can be learnt and future guidelines created for planners and decision-makers for other MUTPs, this hypothetical toolkit has weaknesses related to the lack of spatial and temporal resolution in the datasets utilised.
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Moller, Valerie. "Living in Rhini : a 2007 update on the 1999 Social Indicators Report." Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010770.
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[From the preface]: This report is a sequel to ‘Living in Grahamstown East/Rini – A Social Indicators report’ published by the Institute of Social and Economic Research in 2001 as Number 6 in its Research Report series. The No. 6 monograph was based on results of a sample survey of householders conducted in May 1999 in the area of Makana generally known as Grahamstown East or Rini at that time. This report is based on information collected in November 2007 in the same area. The ‘Living in Rhini’ project takes its title from a series of reports on social indicators initiated by Statistics South Africa (then Central Statistical Services). The popular series aimed to communicate to ordinary people the statistics on living conditions in various parts of the country. The 1999 sample survey conducted among 862 households from all neighbourhoods of Grahamstown East/Rini was a large survey by most standards. The 2007 sample similarly comprises over 1000 households spread over all neighbourhoods of Rhini including the ones developed since 1999.
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Mulà, Pons de Vall Ingrid. "Living and learning sustainability in higher education : constructing indicators of social learning." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2011. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/1251/.
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This doctoral study explores the learning that occurs in higher education institutions within differing social and informal contexts, and how this learning can contribute to shifting thinking and actions (within the institution) towards sustainability. The research refers to this learning as ‘social learning’ and acknowledges its potential to influence the sustainability performance of a higher education institution. The study proposes indicators as a key research outcome to assist institutions in improving their contribution to social learning for sustainability. The study is unique in that social learning for sustainability in the higher education sector has been subject to little scrutiny. The originality of the research is underpinned by its focus on staff learning in higher education, but also by the research methodology used which has not been employed in this context or with this focus before. The empirical study was undertaken between 2008 and 2011 at three higher education institutions in the United Kingdom (UK) which were chosen for their explicit commitment to improving the university’s sustainability performance. The pilot study was conducted at the University of Gloucestershire and the main findings were derived at the Universities of Bradford and Bristol. Located within a critical social theory paradigm, the study used innovative research methods such as collective memory-work to capture staff experiences of social learning for sustainability. In each university, the research involved a group of members of staff in (i) writing and critically reflecting on their stories of social learning for sustainability within their institutions; and (ii) identifying contextual factors influencing this learning process. The data generated was triangulated with information captured through institutional documentary reviews, semi-structured interviews with members of staff and a research journal. The research demonstrates that social learning for sustainability in higher education tends to occur as both a facilitated and unfacilitated process. The first includes staff participating in extra-curricular activities, partnerships and networks, multi-stakeholder dialogues, mentoring, or action and participatory research. The latter tends to occur as a spontaneous face-to-face process or through online social networks. There is evidence that social learning processes which are non-hierarchical, involving learning from each other and occurring within comfort zones, are more effective in shifting the thinking and actions of staff in the area of sustainability. The study identifies physical space and academic cultures as key determinants of the frequency and quality of these processes. It also suggests that opportunities in this area need to be provided to all the different sub-cultures which exist in a higher education institution. Finally, whereas the research identifies how institutional culture influences social learning for sustainability, it concludes that a longitudinal study is needed to establish whether this learning process can shape the culture of a higher education institution.
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Caperna, Giulio. "Partial Order Theory for Synthetic Indicators." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3427242.
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Given a big set of data with several variables, the aim is the evaluation of each unit with a method that produces a synthetic measure describing a complex and non-observable concept; this goal is achieved respecting the characteristics of the variables, specially the measurement scale.
The information gathered with partially ordered sets (poset) reflects this aim, because posets depends only on the order relations among the observations, and allows to handle ordinal and dichotomous variables fairly.
In this setting, the vector of variables observed on a unit is handled as a unique entity called profile and not as a group of different variables that need to be aggregated.
Starting from recent developments in poset theory, this thesis is organized in three parts. The first proposes to obtain a unique indicator combining the values given by the severity measures for evaluation, derived from the fuzzy identification method. The second contribution is the HOGS (Height Of Groups by Sampling) procedure, which is aimed to estimate the average rank of groups of units of a big population. HOGS is a step forward the statistical estimation of the average rank of a profile; furthermore it allows the estimation of the effect of external variables on the synthetic measure.
The last results are two new R functions: the first computes the approximated average rank for large data sets overcoming the usual sample sizes considered by the software usually used until now, the second implements the information given by the frequency of profiles in the computation of approximated average rank, making its use more profitable for social sciences.Data una grande popolazione osservata su diverse variabili, ci si pone l'obiettivo di valutare le singole unità con un metodo che sia in grado di produrre una informazione sintetica per la descrizione di un concetto complesso e non osservabile; in questa tesi si vuole raggiungere questo scopo rispettando le caratteristiche dei dati, specialmente la scala di misura di questi. Gli insiemi parzialmente ordinati (poset) si adattano a questo scopo; questo tipo di insiemi sono costruiti unicamente sulle relazioni d'ordine tra le osservazioni e quindi consentoto di trattare le variabili ordinali e dicotomiche in modo adeguato alle loro caratteristiche. Nella letteratura dei poset, il vettore di variabili osservate su una unità è chiamato profilo e trattato come un oggetto unico senza procedure di aggregazione. Questa tesi si connette ai più recenti sviluppi nella teoria dei poset ed è organizzata in tre parti principali. La prima propone una sintesi dell'informazione fornita dalle misure di severity, derivate dal metodo di fuzzy identification. Il secondo e principale contributo è la procedura HOGS (Height OF Groups by Sampling), che ha lo scopo di stimare l'average rank di gruppi di unità da grandi popolazioni. HOGS permette di avvicinarsi alla stima statistica dell'average rrank dei singoli profili ed inoltre fornisce un metodo per studiare l'effetto di variabili esterne sulla misura sintetica. L'ultima parte contiene le funzioni che sono state sviluppate in R: la prima calcola l'average rank approssimato per grandi moli di dati, la seconda implementa l'informazione data dalle frequenze dei signoli profili nella popolazione osservata, rendendo questo metodo più spendibile nelle scienze sociali.
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Ray, Michael S. "Human capital and the wealth of nations a new methodology for evaluating measurements of social and economic change in Latin America and other world regions /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1564316611&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Kucukaltan, Berk. "A decision model to prioritise logistics performance indicators." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13993.
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Performance measurement is an important concern that has recently attracted much attention in the logistics area from both practitioners and academics. The performance measurement of logistics companies is based upon diverse performance indicators. However, to date, limited attention has been paid to the performance measurement of logistics companies and, also, performance measurement processes have become more complex for logistics companies due to the existence of numerous performance indicators. In this regard, the way in which decision makers in logistics companies deal with some vaguenesses, such as deciding on the most important indicators holistically and determining interrelationships between performance indicators, has remained an issue that needs to be resolved. This study, therefore, aims to offer a comprehensive decision model for identifying the key logistics performance indicators and determining the interrelationships among these indicators from logisticians’ perspective. In line with this purpose, the research first presents a stakeholder-based Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model which provides a balanced view by including financial and non-financial performance indicators and a comprehensive approach as a response to the major shortcoming of the generic BSC regarding the negligence of various stakeholders. Then, a large number of performance indicators used in logistics are systematically examined under the proposed model, and the key indicators are selected through an online survey conducted in the Turkish logistics industry. Subsequently, since the performance measurement indicators are not independent of each other, it is critical to understand the causal relationships among different indicators. In such cases, group decision making techniques are capable of modelling such complexities. After a systematic comparison of these techniques, a realistic and easy-to-follow multi-criteria decision making technique, the Analytic Network Process (ANP), is revealed as a suitably powerful method to determine the interrelationships among the indicators. Additionally, a case study approach based on the data obtained from three logistics companies is used to illustrate both the applicability of the model and the practicality of the ANP application. Furthermore, the sensitivity of the results about the case companies is also analysed with several relevant ‘what-if’ scenarios. Thus, real-life practices of three case companies are investigated with the proposed approach. Consequently, this research proposes the BSC-ANP integration which provides a novel way and in-depth understanding to evaluate logistics performance indicators for the competitiveness of logistics companies. Thus, in order to address the aforementioned vaguenesses, the proposed model in this study identifies key performance indicators with the consideration of various stakeholders in the logistics industry to decide on the most important indicators, and evaluates the interrelationships among the indicators by using the ANP. The results of the study show that the educated employee (15.61%) is the most important indicator for the competitiveness of logistics companies and four prominent indicators (educated employee, managerial skills, cost, and profitability) need to be primarily considered by logistics companies. In this way, with this integration, not only the performance indicators in logistics, but also different stakeholders of logistics companies are assessed by the ANP method. This means that the results of this research are not only useful for helping logistics companies to decide which indicators should be focused on to become more competitive, but also can be used as a reference model by different stakeholders in their decision-making processes in order to select the best logistics provider.
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Chabane, Brahim. "Optimisation de plans d’actions multi-objectifs dans le secteur social et médico-social." Thesis, Angers, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ANGE0035/document.
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Depuis le début des années 2000, le secteur social et médico-social connait des évolutions et des mutations importantes. D’un côté, le nombre de personnes prises en charge est en perpétuelle augmentation. D’un autre côté, les finances et les budgets mis à disposition des établissements ne cessent de se réduire, ce qui oblige les décideurs à s’adapter et à trouver de nouvelles solutions pour faire plus avec moins de moyens. Dans cette thèse, nous étudions un problème pratique auquel sont souvent confrontés les directeurs des établissements qui est l’élaboration de plans d’actions optimaux. Un plan d’actions est un ensemble d’actions qui sont mises en place afin d’améliorer à la fois les performances de l’établissement et la qualité de prise en charge de ses résidents.Élaborer un plan d’actions optimal consiste à identifier et choisir les meilleures actions qui améliorent tous les objectifs du plan tout en respectant quelques contraintes. Après la présentation du contexte pratique et théorique, nous fournissons une modélisation formelle du problème sous forme d’un problème de sac-à-dos multi-objectif.Puis nous présentons quelques méthodes de résolution à base d’indicateurs de qualité et de la dominance de Lorenz. Nous montrons que la méthode IBMOLS combinée avec l’indicateur de qualité R2 permet d’obtenir des solutions efficaces et d’intégrer facilement les préférences du décideur. Nous montrons également que dans un contexte où les préférences du décideur sont inconnues ou les objectifs ont tous la même importance, la dominance de Lorenz est un outil très efficace qui permet, d’un côté, d’intégrer l’équité dans le processus de recherche et, d’un autre côté, de réduire le nombre de solutions non dominées ainsi que le temps d’exécutionSince the early 2000s, the social and medico-social sector is experiencing significant evolutions and mutations. On the one hand, the number of persons taken over is constantly increasing. On the other hand, the finances and budgets available to the structures are constantly decreasing. This forces decision-makers to adapt and find new solutions to do more with fewer resources. In this thesis, we study a practical problem that is often faced by the decision-makers, which is the elaboration of optimal action plans. An action plan is a set of actions that are realized to improve both the performance of the structure and the quality of service offred to its residents. Elaborating an optimal action plan consists of identifying and selecting the best actions that improve all the objectives of the plan while respecting some constraints. After presenting the practical and theoretical context, we provide a formal modeling of the problem as a multi-objective knapsack problem. Then, we present a number of solution methods based on quality indicators and Lorenz dominance. We show that combining IBMOLS method with R2 indicator allows obtaining efficient solutions and easily integrating the decision-maker preferences. We also show that in a context where decision-maker preferences are not known or all the objectives are considered equals, Lorenz dominance is a very efficient tool to incorporate equity into the search process and reduce the number of non-dominated solutions as well as the algorithm runtime
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Lai, Yuk-lin. "Analysis of incomplete survey data with application to the construction of social indicators of Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19929523.
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Hayston, Glynn Ernest. "Towards a better understanding of factors influencing social, environmental and economic disclosures." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29763.
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Corporate social and environmental disclosure, later redefined as sustainability disclosure in order to include the third pillar of sustainability (economic), has been the subject or significant research over the past four decades. A major branch of empirical research has specifically focussed on the determinants of disclosure; those factors which correspond with greater breadth and depth of disclosure. Research has traditionally been focussed on the developed world, specifically North America and Western Europe and either addressed social or environmental disclosure in isolation or various hybrids of the two.This research has two aims. Firstly it is an attempt to provide a view of disclosure in Africa, and specifically South Africa, where only minor empirical research has been undertaken. Secondly and crucially, this research attempts to address shortcomings in the existing body of research in that factors have traditionally been analysed for significance with regards to individual sustainability pillars alone, or at the aggregate level. A content analysis technique was employed to score sustainability reports for social, environmental and economic disclosures. An analytical model was then developed and a number of internal and external factors analysed to establish which were significant determinants of the level or extend of disclosure at both the individual pillar level and then compared to the aggregate or overall disclosure.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Ratcliffe, Kim G. "Early indicators of middle school violence : a predictive model /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901305.
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Kirby, Helen. "Stress Indicators of Kentucky Elementary Principals." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1774.
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Stress has become a problem to which people of all walks of life may relate, affecting the actions of the individual on both professional and personal levels. In the field of education, administrators often report a high level of stress, sometimes referred to as burnout. Much has been written about teacher stress, but very little research has been done on stress encountered by elementary principals. Research was conducted on stress as perceived by elementary principals in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for this study.
The questionnaire used was compiled by the researcher using Koff, Laffey, Olson and Cichon’s table of Stress Ratings on Administrative Events as a source for the situations included. Demographic information that might influence stress was also incorporated in the questionnaire. The Kentucky Elementary Principal’s Questionnaire on Stress Indicators was administered to a random sample of 200 elementary principals. Of 200 questionnaires mailed, 115 were returned for a 57.5 percent response.
The mean age of the respondents was 47 years of age, with 67.8 percent of the respondents being male and the majority married (84.3 percent). Respondents indicated that 64.3 percent plan to retire in the next 5 years.
Of the 24 stressful situations, forcing the resignation or dismissal of a teacher had the highest rating – 4.26 – on a scale from 1 to 5. Dealing with unsatisfactory performance of professional staff was second with the rating of 3.96. The third highest stressful situation was legal action against the principal or the school with a rating of 3.90. Fourth, rated at 3.74, was involuntary transfer to another principalship. The lowest stress rating – 1.83 – was working with school district central administration.
The data indicated that the significant correlations between demographic data and stressful situations were limited. Only two situations, namely forcing the resignation or dismissal of a teacher and dealing with unsatisfactory performance of professional staff, significantly correlated with the variables of male gender, age, and number of years as a principal.
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Huang, Lihua Livia, and 黄莉华. "Gauging social values: proposing assessment indicators and testing the indicators through a case study of the Peeland Graham Street Market in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47092348.
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Heritage values are multivalent. To make informed decisions in conservation, a comprehensive understanding of all types of values that a heritage place holds is essential. Among these heritage values, social values have come to the foreground of heritage conservation recently. It is recognized that there is a lack of methods to assess social values. Social values have not been successfully integrated into the study of a heritage place. Neglecting the social values poses risks to the comprehensive and successful conservation.
To understand and gauge social values, several questions should be answered first: What are social values? What define them? How would they be measured? By exploring answers to these questions, this paper aims to develop some key assessment indicators for social values.
Then, these proposed assessment indicators will be tested out on a case study: the Peel and Graham Street Market in the Central District in Hong Kong. The process and the findings will also be discussed and presented in the paper. To go through the process of measuring social values is another aim of this paper.
In the concluding chapter of this paper, the importance of a comprehensive understanding of heritage values, including social values will be reiterated. Lessons learned from the assessment of social values will be presented and discussed.published_or_final_version
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Lucas, Robyn Marjorie. "Socioeconomic status and health : exploring biological pathways /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20060426.095241/index.html.
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Witham, Kevin J. "The Relationship Between Hostility and Social Support with Chronic Pain and Health Indicators." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278882/.
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The purposes of the study were to examine the psychosocial variables of hostility and social support, and their independent relationships with resting physiological levels and chronic pain symptoms, and to examine the independent relationships of chronic pain chronicity and social support with hostility.
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Doyle, Joleen Marie. "Formative assessment of social competence : indicators of success in authentic elementary school tasks /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3055685.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-153). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Merrett, Colin Robert. "The effects of age, gender and tenure on perceived health status and behaviour : a study of adults in a semi-rural community of wide social mix." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318162.
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Kwong, Kwan-ying, and 鄺群英. "Social indicator for public order and safety in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975896.
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Prickett, Megan M. "Success Indicators of College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder." TopSCHOLAR®, 2015. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1524.
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This study examined the executive functioning skills as students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) entered college. The participants consisted of 95 college students with ASD who attended the Kelly Autism Program (KAP) on Western Kentucky University’s campus in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The individuals in the sample were categorized three groups: individuals who graduated from college, individuals who were still attending college, and individuals who dropped out of college. The results indicated that the executive functioning skills of inhibiting and initiation were statistically significantly different between the three groups and additional skills were significantly different when comparing only the group that graduated from college with the group that dropped out of college.
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Mugabe, Mbulawa. "Child health and social change : an analysis of household and policy dynamics in Botswana." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343893.
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Young, James Mark. "Identification of social indicators and standards for acceptable conditions in the Cohutta Wilderness using a normative social judgment approach." Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08182009-040226/.
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Moller, Valerie. "Whatever happened to social indicators in Africa? Whatever happened indeed! A developing world perspective on the Kenneth C. Land and Alex C. Michalos report on 'Fifty years after the Social Indicators Movement'." Springer, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/36238.
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Africa is a latecomer to the Social Indicators Movement. The first social indicators for Third World countries were developed by outsiders and covered almost exclusively topics related to basic needs and development. In response to Kenneth Land's and Alex Michalos' historical assessment and their agenda for future 'social indicators/quality of life/well-being' research, the commentary traces how South Africa and sub-Saharan countries-with a little help from many friends who are pioneers in the movement-have succeeded in developing their own home-grown social indicators movement. Addressing some of the themes outlined in the agenda that Land and Michalos set for future research, the commentary discusses the importance of monitoring social change occurring in African society in a 'post-industrialized and much more globalized, and digitized-computerizedroboticized' era: How will new values and nom1s impact on the quality of life of future generations of African people?
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Seely, Natalee. "Social Indicators in Online News Environments: The Influence of Bandwagon Cues on News Perceptions." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397729796.
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Nottell, April N. "Childhood indicators of developing anti-social personality disorder, a meta-analysis of published research." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ64832.pdf.
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Eisele, Joanna. "Female genital circumcision social indicators that influence attitudes on abandonment of FGC in Nigeria." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4888.
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More than "100 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and more than three million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone" (Population Reference Bureau 2009). The practice is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. Research has shown that reasons given for continuing the practice of FGC vary widely across cultural and social contexts. Little research has been conducted towards understanding and predicting attitudes toward FGC, which in turn can help inform program policy in the hopes of better understanding the socio-cultural complexities inherent in the practice of FGC. This study suggests that with increased levels of education support for FGC decreases. Additionally, access to media was shown to have a significant impact on support for the practice. This study found that men and women experience and are influenced by media in different ways. Media based abandonment programs must acknowledge the gender gap in media access and direct their programs towards the most appropriate outlet for the target group. This study's most significant finding is that the strongest predictor of a woman's attitude towards FGC is whether she herself has undergone the procedure. Women who have undergone FGC will likely support the continuation of the practice. Encouraging these women to forgo the practice and let their daughters experience their bodies differently from their mothers is the greatest challenge abandonment programs face.ID: 029810488; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-59).
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Johnson, Sarah Oz. "Making urban progress legible : the role of territorial social indicators in the new economy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118070.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198).
In the 1960s, a social indicator movement flourished in the United States: agencies ranging from the USDA to NASA advocated for a national social accounting body, cities regularly published data-driven reports on urban wellbeing, and academics assembled comprehensive social progress indices for cities, counties, and states. Unfortunately, the social indicator movement stalled amidst the economic turbulence of the 1970s, and has never regained its strength. This thesis argues that there is an urgent need for the resurrection of the urban social indicator movement, particularly as technological and macroeconomic changes have driven a wedge between economic development and human wellbeing, with the gains generated by economic growth increasingly accruing to capital rather than labor. If gross product is a misleading and incomplete proxy for urban progress, other measures are needed to make urban progress legible. To demonstrate the utility of such a measure, I present an Urban Progress Index of 486 urbanized areas in the United States for 2012 and 2016, consolidating indicators of health, education, prosperity, income equality, gender equality, racial equality, and safety. I evaluate the index rankings with respect to population size, mean income, and change over time, and compare two cluster analyses of cities based on their social indicator scores and their industrial compositions, revealing how patterns of wellbeing correlate with the presence of particular industries.
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Lyle, Kelsey Ann. "Mothers' social coaching about relational aggression and its relation to indicators of peer competence." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/K_Lyle_042309.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in human development)--Washington State University, May 2009.Title from PDF title screen (viewed on Apr. 5, 2010). "Department of Human Development." Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-84).
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Cobby, Graham. "A framework for indicators of rehabilitation success based on ecological principles and social values." Thesis, Cobby, Graham (1996) A framework for indicators of rehabilitation success based on ecological principles and social values. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 1996. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/40881/.
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To understand the meaning of rehabilitation success we need to address two fundamental questions: (1) what does rehabilitation success mean; and (2) how can rehabilitation success be measured? The research objectives of this dissertation are defined by these two questions...
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Irwin, Travis Shane. "SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CULTURE: APPLYING CROSS-NATIONAL INDICATORS OF CRIMINAL VIOLENCE TO DOMESTIC TERRORISM." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/333.
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Despite the increase in terrorism research post September 11, 2001, little is known about domestic terrorism though it occurs at overwhelmingly higher rates as compared to transnational terrorism. Although the use of criminological theory and methods to study terrorism has increased recently, there are relatively few terrorism studies within the criminological literature. Drawing upon extant criminological theories of violence among countries, this study uses the recently created Global Terrorism Database to examine the distribution and correlates of domestic terrorism among 72 developed nations between 1970 and 1997. This study examined the following questions. First, do prior established predictors of criminal violence (i.e., economy, inequality, social welfare, political orientation, ethnic fractionalization, population, and pre-existing violence) also predict domestic terrorism at the country level? Second, is the relationship between these macro-structural and cultural variables in the same direction as found in the previously published literature? Using a series of contemporaneous cross-sectional analyses and lagged cross-sectional analysis, the results from this study indicate that there is considerable similarity between the correlates of cross-national homicide and correlates of domestic terrorism. There was considerable evidence for the relationship between population size and overall levels of domestic terrorism. This relationship was robust across short time intervals (1970s), the full time span (1970-1997), as well as in the long and short term lagged analyses (1970-1990 predictors of domestic terrorism in 1991-1997 and 1991-1994 predictors on 1995-1997 domestic terrorism). On the contrary I did not find evidence that large youth populations are significantly related to higher levels of domestic terrorism. Income inequality (GINI) also emerged as a significant correlate of domestic terrorism in the long and short term contemporaneous analyses. Those countries that had higher overall levels of income inequality for the entire time span also had higher levels of domestic terrorism, compared to those countries with low levels of income inequality. Contrary to theoretical expectations yet supportive of prior criminological research, this study found that stronger democracies actually have more domestic terrorism. In particular, those countries with more restrictions placed on executive decision-making power, tend to have more domestic terrorism events, compared to those countries with less restrictive executive decision-making processes. This study concludes with a discussion of the results within the larger criminological literature as well as future avenues of research.
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Rocha, Paloma de Sousa. "Fiscal and economic performance of the municipality cearà second selected indicators." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2012. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=9949.
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nÃo hÃItÂs the aim of this work to shed light on the mayors administration in Ceara concentrating on what they do e.g for social areas and/or building environments but also it analyzes the financial autonomy of the city and the town hall accounts concerning the period from 2006 to 2010. Four signs are sketched in order to combine statics exercises trough panel data to make sure the following: tax increasing contributes to improve the financial autonomy of the cities especially afterwards but also to reduce their dependence to the Federal Union and the States; the search for the tax increasing badly affects the future investments mainly in social areas (education and health), on the other hand it becomes the futures investments more realizable.
O trabalho avalia a gestÃo dos prefeitos cearenses a partir de seus investimentos em Ãreas sociais e de infraestrutura bem como no processo de autonomia financeira municipal considerando os balanÃos das prefeituras entre 2006 e 2010. Quatro indicadores sÃo elaborados e exercÃcios de estatÃstica descritiva combinados a estimaÃÃes em painel permitem constatar que: i) o superÃvit fiscal contribui com o aumento da autonomia financeira municipal nos perÃodos subseqÃentes e ainda com a reduÃÃo da dependÃncia municipal em relaÃÃo à transferÃncia de recursos da UniÃo e dos estados; ii) a busca pelo superÃvit fiscal afeta negativamente os investimentos futuros em Ãreas sociais como educaÃÃo e saÃde mas, por outro lado; iii) o superÃvit fiscal viabiliza os investimentos futuros em infraestrutura das prefeituras.
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Silva, Rosemara Melchior Valdevino. "Análise da utilização de indicadores sociais na operacionalização do modelo de vigilância da saúde: um estudo de caso." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/7/7137/tde-20062007-092233/.
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Introdução- A vigilância da saúde, prática sanitária referenciada pelo paradigma da produção social da saúde, prevê o reconhecimento do território, a identificação dos problemas nele contido e a ação intersetorial. Na proposta da vigilância da saúde, o uso de indicadores sociais pode permitir que se obtenha um quadro das condições de vida dos diferentes grupos sociais e servir como ponto de partida para a intervenção na situação de saúde desses grupos. Objetivos- Caracterizar a área de abrangência da subprefeitura do Butantã a partir de indicadores socioeconômicos, demográficos e de saúde, buscando com isso compreender o perfil epidemiológico do território; e discutir a utilização das categorias autonomia, qualidade de vida, desenvolvimento humano e eqüidade na operacionalização da vigilância da saúde nesse território. Metodologia- O presente estudo configura-se como uma pesquisa qualitativa, tipo estudo de caso, de caráter exploratório e descritivo. O estudo seguiu as seguintes etapas: 1) descrição e análise dos pressupostos da vigilância da saúde e da teoria da produção social da saúde. 2) identificação de bancos de dados de domínio público, com informações relativas a indicadores sociais e de saúde, bem como os índices de exclusão/inclusão social utilizados para a construção das categorias autonomia, qualidade de vida, desenvolvimento humano e eqüidade; 3) seleção, organização e distribuição dos indicadores e categorias de análise, segundo uma unidade territorial específica, no caso os distritos administrativos do Butantã e 4) análise dos indicadores selecionados, segundo sua pertinência como tecnologia para vigilância da saúde. Resultados- Os indicadores e as categorias utilizadas permitiram enfocar as diversas situações sociais e de saúde presentes no território, favorecendo conhecer o lugar dos dados. Os distritos de Raposo Tavares e Rio Pequeno apresentaram os piores índices de exclusão/inclusão social na subprefeitura do Butantã. Os índices que representam a autonomia, qualidade de vida, o desenvolvimento humano e a eqüidade são potentes para monitoramento e diagnóstico dos determinantes de saúde de macroespaços. Considerações finais- As diferenças sociais e econômicas que permeiam os distritos da região do Butantã, apontam e reforçam a necessidade de desenvolvimento e implementação de políticas públicas locais que podem ter um efeito muito grande na melhoria das condições de vida da população que se encontra em situação de exclusão social, possibilitando a acumulação de saúde. O trabalhador de saúde precisa identificar as redes sociais de apoio presentes na região, além de desenvolver estratégias de empoderamento dos grupos sociais para o enfrentamento de seus problemas e necessidades sociais e de saúde, por meio de ações intersetoriais e de construção da cidadaniaIntroduction- To achieve health surveillance, which is a sanitation practice, alluding to the ideal of social health production, the following is required: recognition of the territory, identification of its problems, and an intersectorial action. According to the health surveillance proposal, with the utilization of social indicators, it is possible to obtain a situation of life condition of several social groups, which can represent a starting point for interference in the health of these groups. Objectives Our objectives are to characterize the comprehensive area of the Butantã regional district in the city of São Paulo according to socioeconomic, demographic, and health indicators, so as to obtain elements to conceive an epidemiological profile of the territory and to discuss the utilization of categories of autonomy, quality of life, human development, and equitableness to operate health surveillance in this territory. Methodology The hereby study is a qualitative research; it is a case study of exploratory and descriptive characteristics. This study had the following stages: 1) description and analysis of prior conjectures of Health Surveillance in Brazil and of the theory of social production of health; 2) identification of database of public domain, with information related to social exclusion/inclusion used for constituting the categories of autonomy, quality of life, human development, and equitableness; 3) selection, organization and distribution of indicators and categories of analysis, according to a specific territorial unity, in the case of the administrative districts of Butantã regional district; and 4) analysis of the chosen indicators, in accordance with its relevance as technology for health surveillance. Results The compound indicators enabled us to focus on several contextual aspects of the territory, propitiating to identify the place of data. The districts of Raposo Tavares and Rio Pequeno presented the worst indexes of social exclusion/inclusion within the regional district of Butantã. The indexes that represent autonomy, quality of life, human development and equitableness are significant for the supervision and diagnosis of health determining factors of macro spaces. Final Considerations The social and economical differences that permeate the Butantã region districts point to and reinforce the necessity of developing and implementing local public policies for the purpose of achieving the desired result of improving life conditions of the population who is in a condition of social exclusion, furthering health accumulation. The health professional must identify the social network of support in the region, aside from developing strategies of empowerment social groups to face their social and health problems and necessities through intersectorial actions and the construction of citizenship
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Zharova, L. V., and N. V. Eremeeva. "Indicators of sustainable development: contemporary trends and challenges." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/48806.
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Indicators that characterize social processes are based on statistical data,
and used in assessment the efficiency of activity, identification of causal
relationships in the decision- making process. The beginning of sustainability
measuring practice was marked by the appeal of the United Nations Conference on
the Human Environment, 1971, to prepare periodic international, regional, and subregional
reports on ―the state of, and outlook for, the environment‖ (UNEP, 1972).