Before considering bids submitted by competing contractors for a public procurement project, the owner should determine a project ceiling price or cost estimate to use as a reference point for evaluating the bids. A high ceiling price conflicts with the owner's interests in minimizing costs. This paper proposes a model...
Demand far exceeded supply in the nation's first auction for carbon dioxide emissions allowances, officials said Monday, debunking critics' theories that utilities would have little interest in the sale. Maryland pulled in $16.3 million from Thursday's auction as the state revealed that the pollution allowances sold just...
In helping people find work we should aim to provide services that address their needs. What sorts of difficulties do people report? What steps do people take in order to find work? Have there been any changes over time? Answers to some of these questions are provided...
Energy and Momentum in Accident Reconstruction: A Code 3 Case Study By Peter H. Rast In his manual, Peter Rast quotes Henry C. Lee who likens accident reconstruction to "predicting the past." This perspective explains Rast's healthy distrust of drawing early conclusions when reconstructing a collision...
ABSTRACT Under Sampling Theory, unequal probability sampling without replacement is the vital scheme to find the population parameters. Already various procedures are provided to find population parameters which are not providing complete satisfactory solution. Further, a large degree of emphasis has been laid in the literature on the...
Difficulties characterizing developmental college students are reviewed within the context of motivational theories of learning. The author highlights problems of low self-efficacy and inadequate self-regulated learning for developmental college students. The author argues that the use of Facebook, a widely-used social networking technology, may be helpful in improving low self-efficacy...
ABSTRACT Background: Diffusion of Innovations theory has been used to predict rates of adoption for a variety of programs. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess indicators that influence adoption of abstinence-only-until-marriage education as an innovation by middle school principals in Texas (N=433) as well as...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America today announced a collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management's Laboratory for Financial Engineering LFE that will utilize cutting-edge financial analysis to drive innovation in financial services. This collaboration is part of the Center for Future Banking created at...
Commerce and government; considered in their mutual relationship. (reprint, 1997) Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de. Trans. by Shelagh Eltis. Ed. by Shelagh Eltis and Walter Eltis. Liberty Fund, Inc. 2008 347 pages $24.00 Hardcover HB153 ...
Matsushita Electric Works Ltd MEW of Japan and the Graduate School of Engineering at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have developed a light emitting device that generates visible light by discharging electrons from a silicon device measuring 5 nm or smaller into xenon gas, and which, unlike fluorescent...
Optical Sensors for Research and Long-Term Monitoring of the Underwater Environment The utility of ocean optics for environmental applications is based on decades of theoretical research and the development of technologies for underwater measurements of fundamental optical properties. The coupling between optical theory and technological advancements...
BOSTON -- CRA International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAI), a worldwide leader in providing management, economics, and financial consulting services, today announced the expansion of its Insurance Economics Practice. Mark Meyer has joined the practice as a vice president and co-practice leader. Dr. Meyer has more than...
Eduardo Duhalde, Comunidad sudamericana: logros y desafíos de la integración. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2006. Photographs, tables, maps, figures, documents, 314 pp.; paperback. For 180 years, efforts to unify Latin America unionism were the concern of diplomats and idealists. Political leaders shied away from the theme because of the...
A squeal of delight erupts from the edge of the classroom. "It's working! It's working!" a girl exclaims. Classmates eagerly make their way over to see the source of the child's glee. They are rewarded with the sight of a marble traveling over a ramp system, resembling hills and...
A statewide study was conducted to examine the healthcare workforce from the perspectives of the individual healthcare worker and employer as a basis for evidence-based workforce planning. The workforce minimum data set recommended by Colleagues in Caring was used to analyze job satisfaction, intention to leave current position, intention...
Abstract Dental hygiene, as an emerging profession, needs to increase the number of intervention studies that identify improvements in oral health outcomes for clients. Historically, dental hygiene studies have typically been atheoretical, but the use of theoretical frameworks to guide these studies will increase their meaningfulness. Rogers' theory...
I. INTRODUCTION Since deregulation of the trucking industry, competition in the "for hire" segment of that industry has become increasingly competitive. Many motor carriers continue to utilize the traditional approach of directly soliciting freight from shippers for all, or at least most, of their work. There has, however,...
Introduction While earlier research reported an inconsistent or weak relationship between unemployment and crime (see Box 1987; Chiricos 1987), recent work has generally revealed that unemployment, or changes to the unemployment rate, are positively related to some types of criminal behaviour (see Bellair and Roscigno 2000; Britt 1997,...
Leadership utilizing the concepts of Peggy Chinn's Peace and Power helped create an environment that fosters respect, and nurtured growth and empowerment that revitalized a caring workplace. Bringing the art of human science nursing to life in the dialysis unit was the impetus of this project. In a...
In their response to our article, Sarasvathy and Dew (S&D) agree with us that effectuation supposes over-trust and yet claim that trust is irrelevant to an effectual entrepreneur. They further claim that our approach to entrepreneurship is trait based. We respond to these comments by pointing out the more subtle...
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