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Looking beneath and in-between the hidden surfaces: a critical review of defining, measuring and contextualizing mental health service disparities in the child welfare system

Garcia, Antonio R.; Palinkas, Lawrence A.; Snowden, Lonnie - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 10, pp. 1727-1733

Efforts to understand and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in referrals to and use of mental health services among children involved in the child welfare system are constrained by the lack of consistency in defining and measuring disparities and the lack of clarity as to what causal...

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DETERMINANTS OF SERVICE QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Jelena, Legcevic - In: Interdisciplinary Management Research 6 (2010), pp. 631-647

The purpose of the study is to report on an in-depth exploration of service quality in a higher education and to evaluate the relative efficacy of two measuring instruments of service quality (namely Higher Education PERF-ormance (HEd-PERF) and SERVPERF within a higher education setting. After a...

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Flourishing Across Europe: Application of a New Conceptual Framework for Defining Well-Being

Huppert, Felicia; So, Timothy - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 3, pp. 837-861

.e. hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of well-being: competence, emotional stability, engagement, meaning, optimism, positive emotion …

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Issues in Evaluating Importance Weighting in Quality of Life Measures

Hsieh, Chang-ming - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 2, pp. 681-693

For most empirical research investigating the topic of importance weighting in quality of life (QoL) measures, the prevailing approach has been to use (1) a limited choice of global QoL measures as criterion variables (often a single one) to determine the performance of importance weighting, (2)...

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Incorporating residential AC load control into ancillary service markets: Measurement and settlement

Bode, Josh L.; Sullivan, Michael J.; Berghman, Dries; … - In: Energy Policy 56 (2013) C, pp. 175-185

Many pre-existing air conditioner load control programs can provide valuable operational flexibility but have not been incorporated into electricity ancillary service markets or grid operations. Multiple demonstrations have shown that residential air conditioner (AC) response can deliver...

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Linear regression model as a tool for measuring organizational capital

Fiala, Roman; Borůvková, Jana - In: Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionales 14 (2011) 1, pp. 7-13

results of the project no. 402/09/2057 „Measurement and management of the intangible assets impact on enterprise performance …

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Labour market monitoring and employment policy : a study of Indonesia.

Godfrey, M - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993

Criticizes the standard international definition of unemployment as being too restrictive to measure accurately unemployment in labour- surplus economies. Using Indonesia as a basis, proposes a definition which is based on trends in real wages which aims to reflect the real extent of labour...

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Estimating employment elasticity for the Indonesian economy : technical note on the Indonesian labour market

Islam, Iyanatul; Nazara, Suahasil - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2000

Introduces the notion of employment elasticity and describes statistical methods for its estimation. Based on annual labour force surveys and censuses, estimates the employment elasticity of major sectors in Indonesia between 1977 and 1996. Makes recommendations based on a comparison of the...

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How to measure time preferences: An experimental comparison of three methods

Hardisty, David J.; Thompson, Katherine F.; Krantz, David H. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 8 (2013) 3, pp. 236-249

In two studies, time preferences for financial gains and losses at delays of up to 50 years were elicited using three different methods: matching, fixed-sequence choice titration, and a dynamic ``staircase'' choice method. Matching was found to create fewer demand characteristics and to produce...

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Measuring organisational learning capability among the workforce

Chiva, Ricardo; Alegre, Joaquin; Lapiedra, Rafael - In: International Journal of Manpower 28 (2007) April, pp. 224-224

Purpose – The present study sets out to propose and validate a measurement scale that aims to capture the … obtained, representing a response rate of 61 per cent. Using confirmatory factor analysis, the construct measurement model was … theory testing. Practical implications – The proposed measurement scale for organisational learning capability could be …

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