Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- Minorities in flight : internal displacement -- Iraq's minority refugees in neighbouring countries -- Asylum outside the region -- Prospects for return -- Legal protection for Iraq's minority refugees -- Conclusions -- Recommendations

Introduction --Troubling the standard account of social work --White supremacy and the erasure of racialized social workers --Social work as displacement, denigration, cisheteropatriarchalization --Knowing better : liberalism, instrumental violence, and making new humans --Rehabilitation/eugenics --Assimilation/genocide --What if it isn't getting better? : what do we do then? --Conclusion:The varied paths that brought us here.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the power of R for marketing research professionals. The text describes statistical models from a conceptual point of view with a minimal amount of mathematics, assuming only an introductory knowledge of statistics. Hands-on chapters accelerate the learning curve by asking readers to interact with R from the beginning. Core topics include the R language, basic statistics, linear modeling and data visualization, which is presented as an integral part of the analysis. Later chapters cover more advanced topics but are intended to be accessible to all analysts. These sections examine logistic regression, customer segmentation, hierarchical linear modeling, market basket analysis, structural equation modeling, and conjoint analysis in R. The text uniquely presents Bayesian models with a minimally complex, demonstrating and explaining Bayesian methods along with traditional analyzes for analysis of variance, linear models, and conjoint analysis based on metrics and choices. With its emphasis on data visualization, model evaluation, and developing statistical intuition, this book provides guidance for any analyst looking to develop or improve skills in R for marketing applications.

Abstract

This study is based on a £240m post‐merger and acquisition integration project within an FTSE100 pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chain network which was successfully implemented over a four‐year period.


By adopting a grounded theory methodology, the research identifies phenomena that occurred within the integration teams to give insights into 'what is going on here?'


Through constant comparison analytical techniques, the research develops a substantive theory of 'risk bartering,' which explains how key individuals engaged and negotiated with each other, resulting in mutually acceptable integration scenarios, with risk being used as an underlying trading 'currency.' This provides novel insights into the role of risk in M&A integration change programs.

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Community service is widely advocated as a method for advancing civic awareness and citizen responsibility in both secondary schools and colleges. Use of service learning in higher education has been promoted nationwide by academic, political, professional, and business leaders through such organizations as Campus Compact, American Association for Higher Education, Commission on Civic Renewal, and Corporation for National and Community Service (Bringle, Games, and Malloy 1999). In some cases, service has been institutionalized in colleges. Tufts University, for example, has added a College of Citizenship and Public Service through which students from various departments can complete a certificate program that integrates active service and citizenship studies into their major course of study (Zernike 2000). A recent report estimates that nearly two million students participate in service learning at four-year public and private institutions of higher education, and almost half of all community colleges offer service learning courses (Shumer and Cook 1999). Service learning has been applied in college courses as diverse as freshman composition, education, sociology, anthropology, business, and public policy.But does service learning—and community service more generally—help students learn about politics and government? And, what research is needed to determine whether service, in fact, contributes to students' civic education? Having recently completed an analysis of national survey data on secondary school students' participation in community service and its relationship to civic education (see Niemi, Hepburn, and Chapman 2000), we now turn to examining the implications of service learning for college political science teaching and research.