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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"composite indicators"”.
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The design of composite indicators of healthcare quality: a multi-method analysis
High profile composite indicators seeking to summarise aspects of the quality of healthcare organisations often have important impacts: they may be reputationally consequential for healthcare organisations, may affect prioritisation for inspection or action by regulators, and may be responsible for …
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Development of a methodology for spatial composite indicators: a case study on landscape.
… a methodology for the construction of spatial composite indicators (SCI). The study starts from the premise that Composite Indicators (CIs) are regarded as very reliable tools to support decision processes. They are usually developed to describe complex phenomena of the reality in various …
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Composite indicators for educational quality management for a masters degree program in educational administration in private higher education institutions in Thailand
… requirements are concerned with the essential indicators of educational quality management for an effective program. The quality indicators recognise current best practice for educational effectiveness and quality management. The population sample consists of academics holding executive or …
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Computational intelligence for measuring macro-knowledge competitiveness
… Intelligence methods for constructing Synthetic Composite Indicators (SCI). In particular for delivering a Unified Macro-Knowledge Competitiveness Indicator (UKCI) to enable consistent and transparent assessments and forecasting of the progress and competitiveness of Knowledge Based Economy …
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How should indicators be found for scenario monitoring ?
… This thesis proposes to use a set of nested indicators to monitor environment. The approach consists of a seven-step process to build composite indicators and link them with scenarios. Individual indicators are selected based on intuitive theoretical frameworks. Different weights are assigned …
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Use of composite environmental indicators in residential construction
… and drawbacks of applying various standard indicators to New Orleans construction methods. This includes, but is not limited to, Gross Domestic Product per capita and Species Diversity. Next, my work with this project will focus on assessing existing composite indicators based on their …
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Opportunity costs of trade-related capacity development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… and empirical literature to come up with composite indicators for trade-related institutions, infrastructure and human capital. The analysis is also informed by interviews with trade experts in Geneva as well as a review of relevant background documents. In the empirical analysis we use …
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Punishment in the slammer: penal spectatorship among college students.
… perceptions. Furthermore, I work to develop composite indicators of key theoretical concepts developed among cultural criminologists. The results provide empirical evidence consistent with theorized overall growth in penal spectatorship.
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The use of infrared thermography and behavioural and physiological responses as early disease indicators in calves
… is a need to develop and integrate early disease indicators into automated systems for remote monitoring of animal health and welfare. The aims of this thesis were to firstly, investigate the behavioural (milk feeding, lying and water drinking) and physiological (infrared temperatures and …
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Evaluation of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Investor Readiness in FinTech Sector in England in the United Kingdom
… perception of risk even when individual indicators are perceived to be rated positively. Of the individual indicators examined, the quality of the management team and market opportunity show the greatest effect in regressions run (betas of .59 and .41, both p<.01), yet aligned signals …
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Defining, measuring and regulating energy security
… this concept. We find most of the wide-spread indicators, such as import shares, concentration measures and composite indicators based on expert elicitation are very rough heuristics that can easily be shown to produce inaccurate results. Simple modelling approaches such as analysis based on …
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Viabilidad de las explotaciones lecheras en un escenario de desconexión del apoyo y condicionalidad: Un estudio de caso en el noroeste de Portugal
… an option for the construction of synthetic or composite indicators that allow, at least, for an integrated assessment of some of the most important aspects of sustainability. The chosen graphical representation of the obtained Sustainability Composite Indicators - Economic, Social, …
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INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: NITROGEN MANAGEMENT AND SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN LOMBARDY REGION
… measurements, simulation models, simple and composite indicators) have been developed and applied by traditional agronomic research, however there is still a need of up-scaling experimental results from the farm to the landscape scale. Moreover, it has to be taken into account that the impact …
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Análisis de la sostenibilidad agraria mediante indicadores sintéticos : aplicación empírica para sistemas agrarios de Castilla y León
… the sustainability of farms by means of composite indicators, and to apply it to two agricultural systems: the rain-fed agriculture of the Castilla y León countryside and the irrigated systems of the valley of the River Duero (Spain). Within this framework, we hope thus to operationalise …
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The process by which combat-exposed student veterans achieve a meaningful and purposeful life
… whether protective factors, including indicators of activity engagement, promoted student Veterans' sense of meaning and purpose in life despite combat exposure and health-related symptoms (combat-related risk). Protective factors were considered to operate in two models of resilience: …
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Razvoj metodologije za formiranje i evaluaciju kompozitnih indikatora
Predmet istraživanja doktorske disertacije je dalji razvoj metodologije za formiranje i evaluaciju kompozitnih indikatora kreirane od strane eksperata iz Organizacije za ekonomsku saradnju i razvoj (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – OECD) i Objedinjenog istraživačkog centra …