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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Funding Levels"”.
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Healthcare Strategic Management: The Impact of State and Federal Funding Levels on the Implementation of Strategic Plans at Tennessee Hospitals.
… In particular, how did Federal and State funding restrictions (Medicare and TennCare) impact the strategic planning and implementation process of their hospitals? The study was also designed to gain insight regarding specific changes to strategic management systems that may have resulted …
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Optimal funding of state public employee pension systems
… on developing an appropriate target for the funding level of public pension plans. Initially, a two-period model is developed that incorporates the relevant factors in a simple model, examines the comparative statics, and compares the results with actual funding levels. The results indicate …
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Trends in Beginning Instrumental Music Instruction in Selected Missouri Schools
… and high school; (c) what are the trends in funding levels for music education, and where an increase in funding is reported, how are the funds being utilized; (d) what is the range of percentage of the total student population who are enrolled in high school instrumental music programs; and, …
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The Relationship Between The Mississippi Adequate Education Program And Student Achievement In Mississippi Schools
… research examined the effects of school funding upon student achievement in Mississippi public schools from 2011-2012, 2012-2013, and 2013-2014. The detailed description of the MAEP and its relationship to revenues derived from ad valorem taxes and how they explain the primary basis for …
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Alternative methods for pavement network rehabilitation management
… needs and pavement conditions for different funding levels and rehabilitation strategies. The Illinois pavement net work rehabilitation management program (ILLINET) was developed to provide this capability to aid IDOT administrators and planners. The program generates useful results on a …
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Perceptions of Chief Information Officers Who Have Managed Information Technology both Outside and Inside Higher Education
… technology; academic culture; accountability; funding levels and methods; information security; the lack of a bottom line; the decision-making process; and human resources management. Most of these challenges were perceived to be unique to the higher education environment. They affected the IT …
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Optimization of Long Range Major Rehabilitation of Airfield Pavements
… with pre-established constraints (network funding limit, etc.). The network level analysis is run for several funding levels, and a series of management information reports are generated for each. With these reports, the consequences of selected network funding levels can quantitatively be …
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A goal Programming R&D project funding model of the US Army Strategic Defense Command using the analytic hierarchy process
… from key management personnel to make project funding decisions. In this thesis the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to convert subjective pairwise comparisons of thirty-five major USASDC projects, based on eleven key factors, into ratio-scaled numerical weights. THe AHP coefficients …
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Essays on the Economics of Student Achievement
… parents of school age children believe increased levels of education funding or resources result in higher student achievement. Chapters 2 and 3 delve into this topic by exploring student achievement at different grade levels in West Virginia. The first public education funding or resource change …
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The Effectiveness Of Market Development Programs For U.S. Dairy Products
… in-sample scenarios involving alternative funding levels for export promotion to calculate average and marginal benefit-cost ratios for the programs. The results of this study indicate that the market development programs have increased the demand for U.S. dairy products in the foreign …
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Paying for transit operations : challenges and solutions for the Chicago Transit Authority
… system. It analyzes the organizational and funding structure of the Regional Transportation Authority and its three service providers, including the Chicago Transit Authority. This investigation revealed that the greatest regional challenges are declining ridership (especially on bus) and …
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Building on lessons learned : too high hopes without HOPE VI?
… it each year, albeit at lower and lower funding levels, but the future of HOPE VI is uncertain at best. As the only funding program specifically designed to meet the needs of distressed public housing and its very low-income residents, HOPE VI is not easily replaced.
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Contested power, identity and status : an historical case study of library paraprofessionals in Australia
… the inequalities of library provision and funding, publicised by the Munn-Pitt Report of 1935 and reiterated by a series of later international consultants; conflict and contestation between librarians from different areas of the library and information sector; a lack of occupational status …
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ARE GRADUATE STUDENTS RATIONAL? MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF GRADUATE ENROLLMENT AND COMPLETIONS IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
… likely responses and thus also future employment levels. However, prior research on student enrollment and degree completion in science and engineering fields suggests that market conditions at the time of enrollment are taken as proxies for future conditions. Previous studies also suggest that …
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An Investigation of the Impact of Technology Expenditures on Student Achievement in Texas Districts
… 1998), there are strong positive links between levels of expenditure and student achievement on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills and the American College Test that indicate that establishing guidelines for levels of expenditure, schedules of acquisition of materials and equipment, …
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Can the economic impacts of infrastructure projects be predicted? : economic development projects in the Appalachin Mountain Region
… of such projects. Such information would help funding agencies decide how best to allocate their funding from the point of view of maximizing the economic impacts of the projects they fund. I compared 52 projects in terms of project type, economic impacts and efficiency of public funding, …
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Risk based decision making for the deferment of U.S. Navy submarine maintenance
… from today. The addition of fluctuating annual funding levels, a younger workforce, and the pressures to meet national defense requirements add complexity and compound the pressure to mortgage tomorrow for today by deferring work without regards to its later impact. Recently, the maintenance …
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On the Same Page: The Strong Teacher Professional Community at the Heart of a Good New York City Public Middle School
… union contract, and NYCDOE regulations and funding levels. </p>
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Innovative strategies for managing the increasing costs of paratransit operations under the Americans with Disabilities Act
… the current state of paratransit and its funding levels; identifies and evaluates paratransit's costs throughout the US and their implications; and proposes a three pronged approach of institutional, financial and internal strategies that transit agencies can invoke to manage the delivery …
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Ten years at the Sherman Theatre 1990-2000: Creating and developing a young people's and emerging artists' strategy at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff 1990-2000
… of the Sherman, recognised that the current funding levels of the theatre were far too low to sustain its artistic programme and the capital infrastructure of the building. We employed Peter Boyden, an independent arts consultant to work with us and advise the team in preparing a document for …
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