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Environmental education work force pipeline strategic plan
Ortega, S.U.; Jackson, E.R. - 2009
This document describes an educational program designed to provide a pool of highly qualified administrative, technical, and managerial graduates that are familiar with the Hanford Site and business operations. The program is designed to provide work experience and mentoring to a culturally...
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Cumulative impacts study of The Geysers KGRA: public-service impacts of geothermal development
Matthews, K.M. - 2007
Geothermal development in The Geysers KGRA has affected local public services and fiscal resources in Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, and Napa counties. Each of these counties underwent rapid population growth between 1970 and 1980, some of which can be attributed to geothermal development. The number...
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Information requirements of self-managing teams
Van Aken, E.M. - 2009
In response to the significant challenges organizations face today, many managers have put in place continuous improvement efforts to help the organization on enhance its competitive position. A key element of continuous improvement efforts is employee involvement, and one of the most complex,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437397
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Workshop on Excellence Empowered by aDiverse Academic Workforce: AchievingRacial & Ethnic Equity in Chemistry
Hassan. B. Ali - 2011
through the undergraduate programs of an education that is enriched by the intellectual and cognitive diversity that is …
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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A generic dynamic control task for behavioral research and education
Gonzalez, Cleotilde; Dutt, Varun - 2011
Recent research in behavioral sciences presents strong evidence of poor human understanding for dynamic systems. Computer-based dynamic control tasks have an important potential for helping behavioral scientists advance research that investigates reasons for poor understanding and for helping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441094
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Strategic features of management accounting systems: an examination of the relationship between practice, research, and education
Moores, Ken - 1992
Management accounting has been the subject of criticism lately especially for its failure to deliver decision relevant information to managers.. Implicated in this failure are not only practicing accountants but also academic accountants who are seen as being isolated from practice. This aspect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441600
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Charging forward into the unscripted future: Following the script of interconnected action
Kenworthy, Amy L.; DiPadova-Stocks, Laurie N. - 2010
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a context for the compilation of papers and commentaries included in this International Journal of Organizational Analysis special issue on “Scripting the next wave of exigent issues for service-learning in our unscripted future: when...
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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia
Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009
There is a large and rapidly expanding academic literature arguing that there is an urgent requirement for businesses to become more sustainable. There is also a demonstrated need for managers to develop a better understanding of sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441710
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DETERMINANTES DA RENDA DO TRABALHO NO BRASIL NO PERÍODO DE 2002 A 2006.
Santos, Gilnei Costa; Bastos, Patricia Melo; Rocha, … - 2008
the income. The literature appears that among the determinant of this disparity, besides historical factors, the education … variable education and your impacts on the income of the work. The adopted model will be a hybrid of the considered square … minima proposed by Hoffmann and Scampini (1996) and Mincer function, trying to capture the effects of the variable education …
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