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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Policy and administration"”.
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Evaluating the integration and use of automated housing supply mointoring systems for municipal housing policy and administration
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Recruitment and capacity building in the public service of Namibia
… for obtaining of Degree of Master of Public Policy and Administration
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Bringing politics and administration together: for an agonistic policy model
… an old question. Since the inception of public policy and administrative studies, the field has grappled with the problem of how to define the relationship between politics and administration. An examination of the policy literature suggests the existence of two major views: disjunctive and …
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A Descriptive Study of the Organizational Attributes of Exemplar Tennessee Hospitals.
… nurse vacancy rate is the highest in five years and the nursing shortage has dramatically impacted all portions of the state. The purpose of this study was to describe organizational attributes of exemplar Tennessee hospitals, as perceived by Chief Nurse Executives, which may influence the …
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Mothers' Mental Health Evaluations in Foster Care Practice: A Social Constructionist, Qualitative Data-Mining Study
… study utilizes social constructionist theory and the client career perspective as a framework for developing a grounded theory that explains how mothers' mental health evaluations function in the context of foster care practice. Using clinical data-mining methodology, the foster care records …
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The Language of the Rebuffed: A Critical Appraisal of how Policy Advisers Communicate
After official policy advice to governments is publicly released, governments are often accused of ignoring or rejecting their experts. Commonly represented as politicisation, this depiction is superficial. Digging deeper, is there something about the official advice itself that makes it easy to …
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The Language of the Rebuffed: A Critical Appraisal of how Policy Advisers Communicate
After official policy advice to governments is publicly released, governments are often accused of ignoring or rejecting their experts. Commonly represented as politicisation, this depiction is superficial. Digging deeper, is there something about the official advice itself that makes it easy to …
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A Study of Teacher Motivation in Five Selected Seventh-day Adventist Colleges in the United States
… of this study was to determine what positive and negative motivating factors affect teachers at Seventh-day Adventist colleges, to determine if these factors are different for public university teachers as identified in a similar study by Morgan, and to determine what factors influenced …
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Job Satisfaction and its Relationship to Organizational Commitment and Religious Commitment for Andrews University Employees
… few studies have examined job satisfaction and its intrinsic and extrinsic facets for religious private universities. Andrews University seems to benefit from an identification of factors contributing to job satisfaction, and a measurement of its employees’ organizational and religious …
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“Tuba buddies,” triumphs, and teamwork: meaningful learning and accomplishment in school band and orchestra.
… (Bowman, 1994) appears to be a distinct and ongoing educational battle in the United States. A continuing debate among administrators, parents, music teachers, and educational policy makers about the benefits of music education in school versus the costs, time, and resources it requires …
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A Review of Critical Factors Impacting the Implementation of E-government in Developing Countries
… delivery, transform government's internal and external processes and make the public sector more effective and efficient. However, the majority of e-government initiatives have failed to meet their objectives, particularly in developing countries. Therefore, this research considers the …
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Public finance management reform and expenditure control in Ghana: the role of the ministry of finance in implementing the MTEF
… ensuring effective government strategic planning and policy priorities. In many countries, public expenditure control has been inadequately implemented because of weak accounting systems, a weak cash management system and a weak flow of information, among others, despite public finance management …
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Facilitating educational access for children with learning disabilities: The implementation of inclusive education in South Africa
… to reform their segregated education systems and promote the inclusion of children with disabilities in formal and mainstream schools. Following the demise of apartheid in 1994, the newly elected democratic government declared education a fundamental human right of all South Africans. The …
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“To be or not to be?”: The decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa
… at the launch of the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Femicide Declaration in 2019, made the commitment to working towards decriminalising sex work in South Africa as a means to also fight GBV. This in-line with what organisations that advocate for sex work such as the Sex Workers Education and …
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Why is transparency not enough to address the institutions curse? A case study of Nigeria’s implementation of the EITI
… rents are managed. Where institutions are weak and resource rents are not productively managed, this is referred to as the institutions curse to emphasize the intermediate relationship between natural resources and underdevelopment via institutional quality. The international community brought …
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Port security in a developing country – pre and post 9/11 terrorist attacks: a case study on Port Klang in Malaysia
… on 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon in the United States widely known as 9/11 undeniably produced a profound impact on a multitude sectors across the globe. The events became a turning point in the treatment of maritime security establishing a “before” and after” dividing …
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Does process quality of inpatient care matter in potentially preventable readmission rates?
… between process quality of inpatient care and risk-adjusted, thirty-day potentially preventable hospital readmission (PPR) rates. Data Sources/Study Setting: This was an observational cross-sectional study of nonfederal acute-care hospitals located in two states California and Florida, …
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How schools can effectively plan to meet the goal of improving student learning.
… (TQM) principles aligned to strategic planning and the culture of the school. Data collection and analysis: The study combined qualitative and quantitative methods and was conducted in two phases. Three elementary schools within a suburban school district were the units of analysis in this case …
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Five year rehospitalization outcomes in a cohort of acute ischemic stroke patients: medicare linkage study.
Background To track mortality and rehospitalizations over 5 years post-stroke in a stroke cohort and compare long-term risks of major complications to a matched non-stroke cohort. Methods A cohort design with a matched non-stroke comparison cohort was used. The stroke cohort (SC) was a validated …
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A Sustainable livelihood approach in a world heritage area: Ayutthaya, Thailand
… Approach’. It is a way to enhance understanding of the livelihoods of poor people. Tourism is often seen as a form of development that might yield sustainable livelihood. Cultural and heritage tourism can provide significant revenue to local people but it can also have a negative impact on …
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