...resources could make agencies more efficient, regardless of the availability of resources. As these new budgetary restraints and limitations arise, the question to ask with more urgency is: “Why just count crime when you can anticipate, prevent, and respond more effectively?” Predictive policing allows command staff and police managers to leverage advanced analytics in support of meaningful, information-based tactics, strategy, and policy decisions in the applied public safety environment. As the law enforcement community increasingly is asked to do more with less, predictive policing represents an opportunity to prevent crime and respond more effectively, while optimizing increasingly scarce or limited resources, including personnel. (Beck & McCue, 2013). About seven years ago, researchers from the University of Memphis came up with the idea that detects crime patterns in local geographic hot spots throughout the city. If one is to gain access to the department’s crime data; the police departments have access to large volumes of useful materials from which data, including, arrest warrants, crime-scene reports, traffic citations, mug shots, dispatch transcripts and incident times. But this data is traditionally too painstaking...
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...Nikki Jones CRSJ 405- Unit 1 DB July 24, 2013 The ways the data is collected through surveillance in the observation of what is happening this can also eliminate those who are afraid to speak out on the abuse or wrong doing of their actions. (Draper, & Swift, 2011) For those who do come forward, there is a process to go through of interviewing as a way to recreate the situation and the even as it happened. There is a story that has to unfold allowing the law enforcement to place them self in the scene and solve the problem as the best of their abilities. In the start of the interview, there are questions asked to make the person more comfortable this lets the official learn how the person will react to the information and look into the person’s ways. Having the victim to open up and build a relationship with the law enforcement member doing the interview, A brief history of the person such as marriage, family, and location of extended family, additionally this allows the In the event of suspect or danger to the partner, mom, dad, sisters, brothers, and children. The place of employment to not the route and routine the victim goes through each day. Items out of the ordinary for the day are pieced as a probable cause of the action being more likely to occur than a typical day. Once the basics are outlined the story or capturing of the ordeal this can be compared with a painting, to writing a story as there need to be information on who was involved. What was around and...
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...This study has adopted the qualitative research method in order to investigate the socio-economic survival experiences of unemployment among young women in Mahalapye. The qualitative research method gives a detailed and accurate description or rather a detailed picture of the situation under study (Barbie, 2007). According to Kreuger and Neuman (2006) qualitative studies are aimed at seeking an in depth understanding of the situation, events and problems as they occur in a natural setting thus helps the researcher to explore the situation further, as it allows for probing. 3.4 DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES Qualitative research method uses a variety of techniques in gathering information namely; observation, face to face interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FDGs) (Engel & Schutt, 2010). This study will adopt the Focus Group Discussions. The study has adopted this technique so that accurate and insightful information can be gained from the respondents on the research topic. A focus group discussion (FGD) is a good way to gather together people from similar backgrounds or experiences to discuss a specific topic of interest. 3.5...
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...Elantas Beck India Ltd. Heading/Subheadings | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | * Director’s Report | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Financial Highlights | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Performance | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Dividend | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Directors | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Corporate Governance | 4 | 5 | 5 | * Change in address of registered office of company | - | 5 | 5 | * Listing on Bombay Stock Exchange | 4 | 5 | 5 | * Directors’ Responsibility Statement | 5 | 5 | 5 | * Cost Audit | 5 | 5 | 5 | * Auditors | 5 | 5 | 5 | * Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange earnings and outgo | 5 | 5 | 5 | * Green initiative | | | 5 | * Sexual harassement of women at workplace | | | 5 | * Compliance on minimum public shareholding | | | 5 | * Particulars of Employees | 5 | 5 | 5 | * Corporate Social Responsibility | 5 | 5 | | * Industrial Relations | 5 | 5 | 5 | * Acknowledgements | | | 5 | | | | | * Annexure A to Directors’’ Report | 6 | 6 | 6 | * Conservation of Energy | 6 | 6 | 6 | * Technology Absorption | 7 | 7 | 7 | * Foreign Exchange earnings and outgo | 8 | 8 | 8 | | | | | Annexure B to Directors’ Report | 8 | 8 | | | | | | * Management Discussion and Analysis report | 9 | 9 | 9 | * Segment wise performance | 9 | 9 | 9 | * Electrical Insulation Systems | 9 | 9 | 9 | * Electronics & Engineering Materials | 9 | 9 | 10 | * Current Future...
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...Vanessa Leite Forensic Critique #1 Box 100 July 13, 2012 EVALUATION A 1. Was there a mental disease or defect at the time of the crime? If yes, what type? I believe Ms. Y exhibited a deficit during the crime and would attribute that deficit to some kind of developmental and intellectual impairment. The evaluation mentioned review of previous assessments in which Ms. Y was given a diagnosis of Mild Mental Retardation (Code 317). This type of diagnosis includes criteria of an IQ level of 50-55 to 70, an ability to achieve social and vocational skills for minimum self-support, but also may need supervision and guidance. Individuals diagnosed with MMR also tend to show impairment in communication, self-care, social and interpersonal skills, home living, use of community resources, self-direction, academic skills, work, health, leisure, and safety. Ms. Y has a history of being able to obtain work that requires minimal skills but demonstrated an inability in performing simple addition and subtraction as well as being unable to iron a shirt. Also, supplemental information indicates a lack of mental capacity consistent with what is indicated by the current assessment. The need for assistance is more critical for individuals diagnosed with MMR when they experience unusual social or economic stress. These individuals are able to live independently or in supervised settings with proper support. Ms. Y has also shown a lack of understanding of the event in which she wrote a “hot...
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...Reflections of two pragmatists: A critique of Honey and Mumford's learning styles Caple, Jim, Martin, Paul. Industrial and Commercial Training. Guilsborough: 1994. Vol. 26, Iss. 1; pg. 16, 5 pgs Abstract (Summary) It is argued that Honey and Mumford's (1982) contribution in analyzing learning styles has been productive in focusing educators' and trainers' attention on individual differences in learning situations. Beyond this, though, it is felt that their theoretical approach is not altogether helpful and is at times confused and confusing. It is also observed that their means of identifying individual styles may be flawed. If measurements of personality are required, there are more valid and reliable instruments available. If it is required to find out more about trainees' preferred ways of learning, why not simply ask the trainees' themselves to consider some key questions, such as: 1. What is learning? 2. What learning experiences have been beneficial to you? 3. Do you tend to avoid certain ways or opportunities for learning? 4. How can others best be of help to you in enabling you to enhance your learning and self-development? By exploring these, and related, themes with facilitators it is likely that trainees will develop clarity in terms of what works for them. This approach may be seen to be sufficient and perhaps preferable to Honey and Mumford's approach, which is quasi-scientific and unnecessarily complex. » Jump to indexing (document details) Full Text (2730...
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...EnBW Area of Activity EnBW has over 6 mln. customers. The core activities of EnBW are divided into three business areas: Electricity, Gas, and Energy and Environmental Services. The Electricity area is divided into Electricity generation and trading, and Electricity grid and sales divisions. It generates electricity from nuclear power, hydropower, solar power, geothermal energy and wind power, among others. In the area of electricity generation EnBW is one of the ten largest companies in Europe. In terms of the installed generation capacity as of the end of the fiscal year 2010, it was in eighth place. EDF has by far the largest generation capacities in France. With regard to Germany, EnBW is number three in electricity generation, after E.ON and RWE. Since 2009, EnBW has been involved in a joint venture to expand generation capacities in Turkey, primarily in the area of renewable energies. EnBW is one of the four transmission system operators in Germany and operates various grids in Baden-Württemberg. EnBW’s electricity distribution network has a total length of 162,101 km; the combined length of all of EnBW’s high, medium and low pressure gas grids comes to 17,984 km. In terms of the number of customers and unit sales, the EnBW group is the third largest electricity supplier in Germany. In its home market of Baden-Württemberg, EnBW is the market leader in the B2B and B2C customer groups. The national sales brand Yello supplies electricity to retail and business customers...
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...UNDERSTANDING EVIDENCE - BASED NURSING | Evidence-based Literature Search and Review on Interruptions during Drug Rounds | Cohort: March 2010 | | Student ID: | | Word count: 3292 Additional Module 1 | It is generally accepted that evidence-based practice (EBP) is the way forward in contemporary nursing. It provides the rationale behind nursing practice and allows for the delivery of optimal nursing care. Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) involves the process of researching and implementing proven evidence in providing better patient care and is crucial as the role of the nurse is ever expanding (Banning, 2005). This essay will demonstrate that as a student nurse, the author has gained the necessary skills to conduct an evidence-based literature search and review and implement that knowledge into practice. Starting with a brief discussion on EBN it will go on to identify a suitable research question. During a placement on a medical ward the author noticed that nurses experienced many interruptions whilst conducting medication rounds and this review will consider ways to minimise interruptions and thus improve patient safety. Using the PICO acronym a suitable research question was formulated, ‘do interruptions during medication rounds increase the drugs administration errors made by nurses?’ A short description of the literature search is given and a summary of findings is presented in tabular form. Five original articles were selected and one chosen to critically...
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...hkgfkfljhfghjkffhhhkhgfhgfjdsytfgiug egvdbgfbfgdfssdvbdsfsdvxm,;lcmmncxlxnc,sdnclxz ,x .dmclkdsjflksdjfg b fhthethregTHE EFFECTS OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT AND CANADIAN EQUIVALENT, BILL 198/CSA RULES, ON CANADIAN CROSS-LISTED STOCKS Ben Amoako-Adu * Financial Services Research Centre School of Business and Economics Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Telephone: (519)-884-0710 x 2327 Email: bamoako@wlu.ca Vishaal Baulkaran Financial Services Research Centre School of Business and Economics Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Telephone: (519)-884-0710 x 2846 Email: baul2810@wlu.ca ________________________________________________________________________ * Direct correspondence to the contact author, Ben Amoako-Adu. This research was presented at the 2008 Eastern Finance Conference in Florida and the 2008 Midwest Finance Conference in San Antonio, Texas. We would like to thank the discussants of the paper at the above conferences. An earlier version of this paper was discussed at Wilfrid Laurier Finance Workshop in 2007. THE EFFECTS OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT AND CANADIAN EQUIVALENT, BILL 198/CSA RULES, ON CANADAIN CROSS-LISTED STOCKS Abstract Following the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), Canada subsequently implemented similar SOX-type rules on Canadian firms by enacting Ontario Bill 198 and the enforcing several of the Canadian Securities Administrators’ (CSA) rules. This paper tests the impact of the...
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...Pearson, P. D., & Cervetti, G. N. (2013). The psychology and pedagogy of reading processes. In W. Reynolds, & G. Miller, (Eds.), Educational Psychology, V.VII, of Handbook of Psychology (2nd Ed) (pp. 507-554). New York: John Wiley & Sons. Chapter 12 The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading Processes P. David Pearson and Gina Cervetti As we approach the monumental task of living up to the standard imposed by our predecessor, the late Michael Pressley, in writing the reading chapter for this, the seventh volume in the series of Handbooks of Psychology, we are both privileged and humbled by the opportunity of continuing the legacy of providing a comprehensive account of new theoretical and empirical contributions to reading research. Respectful of the cross-age approach that Pressley took in the last volume (account for progress of beginning readers, adolescent and adult readers— and along the way highlight some pedagogical processes that are salient at all levels, such as word recognition, vocabulary, and comprehension), we took a different approach. We decided to focus on reading as a fundamentally cognitive process that can be influenced by contextual forces at many levels, most notably for education, schools, and policy environments. Thus we deal with the fundamental psychological aspects of reading—word level processes (including subword processes such as phonological awareness and decoding, word reading, and vocabulary, with all of its entailments), and...
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...10, pp 461-466 Copyright B 2012 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins THE JOURNAL OF NURSING ADMINISTRATION Nurturing Charge Nurses for Future Leadership Roles Patricia A. Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN Douglas Oliver, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, NE-BC Rebecca S. Miltner, PhD, RNC-OB, NEA-BC Charge nurses are untapped leadership resources that can be groomed for future advanced leadership positions in healthcare organizations. The purpose of this study was to understand the development needs for the charge nurse role. This study demonstrates they receive little or no training for assuming positions of leadership and offers suggestions for enhancement of preparation. There is growing evidence of an impending crisis in chief nursing officer (CNO) retention.1 Seventy percent of CNOs report they will change jobs or retire in the future.2 The critical need for succession planning in nursing leadership has been demonstrated, yet two-thirds of CNOs reported that they do not have succession plans in place.3 Proactive planning is clearly needed to prepare the next generation of nursing leaders.4 The 1st step in succession planning is to identify nurses to mentor and develop. Commonly, nurses in management roles are likely candidates for development; however, many organizations do not consider charge nurses candidates for advancement based on the perception of the role as more of a task master than leader.5 Martha Dawson, DNP, RN, FACHE Kathleen A. Ladner, PhD, RN, FACHE and play...
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...The Socially Responsible Oil Company: An Examination of Corporate Ethics by Peter Fischer A Paper Submitted in Fulfillment of the USD School of Law Writing Requirement Energy Law Professor Burleson Spring, 2009 Table of Contents Introduction 2 Background 3 The Need for CSR at Home and Abroad 7 Case Study Analyses: Four Critical Events in the Oil Industry and their Effect on CSR Case Study #1: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 9 Case Study #2: Occidental and the Piper Alpha Disaster 12 Case Study #3: A Two-Part Analysis of Shell in the Mid-1990s a) Shell’s Human Rights Violations in Nigeria 16 b) Shell’s Response—Outsource CSR 21 Case Study #4: BP’s Major Advances in CSR 24 Ethics and the Problem of the Public Relations Quick Fix 27 Analyzing the Current Corporate Culture: Failure to Meet the Triple Bottom Line 32 Conclusion 38 Works Cited…………………………………………………………………...…………41 Introduction Over the past twenty years an irrefutable shift in the oil industry has occurred—the shift to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).[1] The purpose of this paper is to analyze the motivation behind this shift and determine if these CSR practices are genuine. In other words, does the adoption of CSR denote a tangible change in the way oil companies operate, or is it merely an elaborate public relations exercise? To answer...
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...Introduction United States legislative changes, such as those described by federal laws such as Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) reauthorized in 2004 (Pub. L. No. 108-466) and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 (Pub. L. No. 107–110), require that students with increasingly diverse learning characteristics have access to and achieve high academic performance in the general education curriculum. The changing demographics of the United States have also played a role in diverse learning characteristics of the American learners in classrooms today. With an educational system that serves approximately 76,355,000 students, 30,982,000 or 40.58% are of an ethnically diverse background and 5% of school age children have a disability (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008). These changing legal requirements and student demographics in United States educational systems combine pointing to the need for increased collaborative planning and teaching among school personnel attempting to comply with these legal mandates to serve all students fairly and equitably in general education classrooms. Co-teaching is an approach that helps educators meet both IDEIA and NCLB mandates, and is defined as “two or more people sharing responsibility for teaching some or all of the students assigned to a classroom” (Villa, Thousand, & Nevin, 2008, p. 5). In schools within the United States, co-teaching often involves general education and special education teachers working...
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...International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM) Web Site: www.ijaiem.org Email: editor@ijaiem.org, editorijaiem@gmail.com Volume 1, Issue 2, October 2012 ISSN 2319 - 4847 AN ANALYSIS OF THE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: A CASE STUDY OF BANK SERVICE Haeryip Sihombing1, Parahsakthi Chidambaram2 and Kannan Rassiah3 1 Fakulti Kejuruteraan Pembuatan (FKP), Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Main Campus – Durian Tunggal, 17609 – Melaka, MALAYSIA 2 Politeknik Ibrahim Sultan (PIS)81700 Pasir Gudang, Johor Bahru, MALAYSIA 3 Politeknik Merlimau Melaka (PMM) Merlimau 77300, MALAYSIA ABSTRACT This study focuses on how to measure the customer satisfaction in the service industry towards the satisfaction aspects considered of the ServQual criteria. The questionnaires developed were using Kano criteria that manipulate the qualitative data of quality attributes into quantitative value and Likert scale based on the quantitative values. By comparing the results data of Likert scale and Kano criteria related to the service delivered, the measurement carried out in this study is towards the service of bank industry. The correlation among them, based on what the functional and dysfunctional of Kano domain compared to the Likert scale, are to validate what the main criteria required for the improvement priorities against customer satisfaction. This is due to the method of CAT ranking and graphical between CS versus DS are ambiguity for...
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...´ NOELLE J. MOLE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Living it on the skin: Italian states, working illness A B S T R A C T In this article, I examine the codification of an Italian work-related illness caused by mobbing, a type of psychological harassment that emerged at the moment neoliberal policies transformed Italy’s historically protectionist labor market. I trace how the medicalization of mobbing has expanded workers’ access to compensation, resources, and discursive tools for criticizing neoliberal labor conditions, even as it has produced new structures of surveillance. I unravel the neoliberal politics of a state that protects workers’ health yet governs worker–citizens through an apparatus of medical experts. I find that workers’ labor problems are experienced and managed as bodily problems in ways important to remaking Italian citizenship. [neoliberalism, state, labor, biopolitics, citizenship, bodies, Italy] An institution, even an economy, is complete and fully viable only if it is durably objectified . . . in bodies. —Pierre Bourdieu1 It was the spirit of capitalism made flesh. —Upton Sinclair2 n 2003, a new psychophysical disturbance, organizational coercion pathology (disturbi psichici e fisici da costrittivit` organizzativa sul a lavoro), or OCP, became a work-related illness that was insurable by an Italian state public-health institution (Istituto Nazionale per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro [INAIL] 2003).3 Telltale symptoms, often likened to those...
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