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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Additional Figures -- Notes -- 2 Governing and funding the education system -- Context and main features -- Governance of the education system and the school networks -- Funding of school education -- Overall level of expenditure on school education -- Education expenditure in international comparison -- The governance of school funding and its major components -- Distribution and use of staff hours -- Funding for school infrastructure and material resources -- Governing the opening and closure of publicly-funded schools -- Digitalisation and ICT infrastructure -- System-level monitoring of educational quality and resource use in schools -- Transitions across levels of education, between pathways and into the labour market -- Transitions across years and levels of education -- Tracking and transitions between educational pathways -- Transitions into the labour market, vocational education and career guidance -- Strengths -- The development of an overall vision has the potential to set clear goals for the education system and strengthen the coherence of future reforms and school improvement efforts -- The investment in education supports favourable learning conditions -- The school funding system supports parental choice -- School autonomy has the potential to facilitate innovation and foster a variety of pedagogical approaches…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating Cohesive Organization Systems -- Labeling Systems -- Why You Should Care About Labeling -- Varieties of Labels -- Labels As Contextual Links -- Labels As Headings -- Labels Within Navigation Systems -- Labels As Index Terms -- Iconic Labels -- Designing Labels -- General Guidelines -- Narrow scope whenever possible -- Develop consistent labeling systems, not labels -- Sources of Labeling Systems -- Your site -- Comparable and competitive sites -- Controlled vocabularies and thesauri -- Creating New Labeling Systems -- Content analysis -- Content authors -- User advocates and subject matter experts -- Directly from users -- Indirectly from users -- Tuning and Tweaking -- Navigation Systems -- Types of Navigation Systems -- Gray Matters -- Browser Navigation Features -- Building Context -- Improving Flexibility -- Embedded Navigation Systems -- Global (Site-Wide) Navigation Systems -- Local Navigation Systems -- Contextual Navigation -- Implementing Embedded Navigation -- Supplemental Navigation Systems -- Sitemaps -- Site Indexes -- Guides -- Wizards and Configurators -- Search -- Advanced Navigation Approaches -- Personalization and Customization -- Visualization -- Social Navigation -- Search Systems -- Does Your Site Need Search? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…by Dr Eleri Rosier, Cardiff University -- 5 Consumer markets and buyer behaviour -- Chapter preview -- Learning outcomes -- Model of consumer behaviour -- Characteristics affecting consumer behaviour -- Cultural factors -- Social factors -- Personal factors -- Psychological factors -- Types of buying decision behaviour -- Complex buying behaviour -- Dissonance-reducing buying behaviour -- Habitual buying behaviour -- Variety-seeking buying behaviour -- The buyer decision process -- Need recognition -- Information search -- Evaluation of alternatives -- Purchase decision -- Post-purchase behaviour -- The buyer decision process for new products -- Stages in the adoption process -- Individual differences in innovativeness -- Influence of product characteristics on rate of adoption -- Learning outcomes review -- Navigating the key terms -- Discussion and critical thinking -- Discussion the concepts -- Critical-thinking exercises -- Mini-cases and applications -- Online, mobile and social media marketing: digital influencer credibility -- Marketing ethics: ultimate water -- Marketing by numbers: evaluating alternatives -- Video case: IMG Worldwide -- References -- Company case: Porsche: guarding the old while bringing in the new -- 6 Business markets and business buyer behaviour -- Chapter preview -- Learning outcomes -- Business markets -- Market structure and demand -- Nature of the buying unit -- Types of decisions and the decision process -- Business buyer behaviour -- Major types of buying situations -- Participants in the business buying process -- Major influences on business buyers -- The business buying process -- Engaging business buyers with digital and social marketing -- E-procurement and online purchasing -- Business-to-business digital and social media marketing -- Institutional and government markets -- Institutional markets -- Government markets -- Learning outcomes review -- Navigating the key terms -- Discussion and critical thinking -- Discussing the concepts -- Critical-thinking exercises -- Mini-cases and applications -- Online, mobile and social media marketing: e-procurement and mobile procurement -- Marketing ethics: commercial bribery -- Marketing by numbers: salespeople -- Video case: Eaton -- References -- Company case: Procter &amp -- Gamble: treating business customers as strategic partners -- Part 3 Designing a customer value-driven strategy and mix -- 7 Customer-driven marketing strategy: creating value for target customers -- Chapter preview -- Learning outcomes -- Customer-driven marketing strategy -- Market segmentation -- Segmenting consumer markets -- Segmenting business markets -- Segmenting international markets -- Requirements for effective segmentation -- Market targeting -- Evaluating market segments -- Selecting target market segments -- Differentiation and positioning -- Positioning maps -- Choosing a differentiation and positioning strategy -- Communicating and delivering the chosen position -- Learning outcomes review -- Navigating the key terms -- Discussion and critical thinking -- Discussing the concepts -- Critical-thinking exercises -- Mini-cases and applications -- Online, mobile and social media marketing: get your Groupon -- Marketing ethics: unrealistic bodies -- Marketing by numbers: USAA -- References -- Company case: Volvo cars -- 8 Products, services and brands: building customer value -- Chapter preview -- Learning outcomes -- What is a product? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…OECD countries continue to apply a wide variety of reduced rates mainly as a means to promote equity and/or to stimulate certain sectors -- 2.2.3. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Definitions -- 3.2.1 Sources -- 3.2.2 Attributes -- 3.2.2.1 Volume -- 3.2.2.2 Variety -- 3.2.2.3 Velocity -- 3.2.2.4 Veracity -- 3.2.2.5 Variability -- 3.2.2.6 Value -- 3.2.2.7 Visualization -- 3.2.3 The Making of Big Data -- 3.3 The Analytic Challenge: From Database Marketing to Big Data and Data Science -- 3.4 Assessing Data Quality -- 3.4.1 Validity -- 3.4.2 Missingness -- 3.4.3 Representation -- 3.5 Applications in Market, Opinion, and Social Research -- 3.5.1 Adding Value through Linkage -- 3.5.2 Combining Big Data and Surveys in Market Research -- 3.6 The Ethics of Research Using Big Data -- 3.7 The Future of Surveys in a Data-Rich Environment -- References -- Chapter 4 The Role of Statistical Disclosure Limitation in Total Survey Error -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Primer on SDL -- 4.3 TSE-Aware SDL -- 4.3.1 Additive Noise -- 4.3.2 Data Swapping -- 4.4 Edit-Respecting SDL -- 4.4.1 Simulation Experiment -- 4.4.2 A Deeper Issue -- 4.5 SDL-Aware TSE -- 4.6 Full Unification of Edit, Imputation, and SDL -- 4.7 ``Big Data ́ ́ Issues -- 4.8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section 2 Implications for Survey Design -- Chapter 5 The Undercoverage-Nonresponse Tradeoff -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Examples of the Tradeoff -- 5.3 Simple Demonstration of the Tradeoff -- 5.4 Coverage and Response Propensities and Bias -- 5.5 Simulation Study of Rates and Bias -- 5.5.1 Simulation Setup -- 5.5.2 Results for Coverage and Response Rates -- 5.5.3 Results for Undercoverage and Nonresponse Bias -- 5.5.3.1 Scenario 1 -- 5.5.3.2 Scenario 2 -- 5.5.3.3 Scenario 3 -- 5.5.3.4 Scenario 4 -- 5.5.3.5 Scenario 7 -- 5.5.4 Summary of Simulation Results -- 5.6 Costs -- 5.7 Lessons for Survey Practice -- References -- Chapter 6 Mixing Modes: Tradeoffs Among Coverage, Nonresponse, and Measurement Error Roger Tourangeau -- 6.1 Introduction…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.7 Hierarchical Linear Models -- 3.8 Data Augmentation and a Probit Example -- 3.9 Mixtures of Normals -- 3.9.1 Identification in Normal Mixtures -- 3.9.2 Performance of the Unconstrained Gibbs Sampler -- 3.10 Metropolis Algorithms -- 3.10.1 Independence Metropolis Chains -- 3.10.2 Random Walk Metropolis Chains -- 3.10.3 Scaling of the Random Walk Metropolis -- 3.11 Metropolis Algorithms Illustrated with the Multinomial Logit Model -- 3.12 Hybrid MCMC Methods -- 3.13 Diagnostics -- Chapter 4 Unit‐Level Models and Discrete Demand -- 4.1 Latent Variable Models -- 4.2 Multinomial Probit Model -- 4.2.1 Understanding the Autocorrelation Properties of the MNP Gibbs Sampler -- 4.2.2 The Likelihood for the MNP Model -- 4.3 Multivariate Probit Model -- 4.4 Demand Theory and Models Involving Discrete Choice -- 4.4.1 A Nonhomothetic Choice Model -- 4.4.2 Demand for Discrete Quantities -- 4.4.3 Demand for Variety -- Chapter 5 Hierarchical Models for Heterogeneous Units -- 5.1 Heterogeneity and Priors -- 5.2 Hierarchical Models -- 5.3 Inference for Hierarchical Models -- 5.4 A Hierarchical Multinomial Logit Example -- 5.5 Using Mixtures of Normals -- 5.5.1 A Hybrid Sampler -- 5.5.2 Identification of the Number of Mixture Components -- 5.5.3 Application to Hierarchical Models -- 5.6 Further Elaborations of the Normal Model of Heterogeneity -- 5.7 Diagnostic Checks of the First Stage Prior -- 5.8 Findings and Influence on Marketing Practice -- Chapter 6 Model Choice and Decision Theory -- 6.1 Model Selection -- 6.2 Bayes Factors in the Conjugate Setting -- 6.3 Asymptotic Methods for Computing Bayes Factors -- 6.4 Computing Bayes Factors Using Importance Sampling -- 6.5 Bayes Factors Using MCMC Draws from the Posterior -- 6.6 Bridge Sampling Methods -- 6.7 Posterior Model Probabilities with Unidentified Parameters -- 6.8 Chib's Method…”