Tabla de Contenidos: “…STUDENTS SERVED BY CHARTER SCHOOLSINTRODUCTION; ACCESS TO CHARTER SCHOOLS; Student Admissions Processes; Focus of School Services; CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS IN CHARTER SCHOOLS; SCHOOL-BY-SCHOOL ANALYSIS; SUMMARY; Chapter Three; ACADEMIC OUTCOMES; INTRODUCTION; SCHOOL-LEVEL PERFORMANCE; STATEWIDE NONLONGITUDINALLY LINKED STUDENTLEVEL DATA; LONGITUDINALLY LINKED STUDENT-LEVEL DATA; COMPETITIVE EFFECT OF CHARTER SCHOOLS; SUMMARY; School-Level Analysis of API Scores; Statewide Nonlongitudinal Student Data; Longitudinally Linked Student Data; Competitive Effects of Charter Schools; Chapter Four…”

“…In the age of television, "old films" continue to live as history and memory. In Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions, Anu Koivunen analyzes the historicity as well as the intertextuality and intermediality of film reception by focusing on a cycle of Finnish family melodrama and its key role in thinking about gender, sexuality, nation, and history. …”

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“…Pay for performance in health care…”

“…Over the last few decades, in an attempt to understand and improve joint replacement technology, the tribological performance of several material combinations have been studied experimentally and assessed clinically. …”

“…This edited book aims to present the state of the art in research and development of the convergence of high-performance computing and parallel programming for various engineering and scientific applications. …”

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“…(Margaret Blair, Vanderbilt Law) The scope of Democratic Governance and Economic Performance is truly commendable. While legal scholars, economists, and political scientists have raised parts of these issues before, by addressing the topic from both theoretical and empirical levels, this book provides useful perspective to anyone interested in the relationship between governance institutions and firm performance. …”

“…Motivational Design for Learning and Performance introduces readers to the core concepts of motivation and motivational design and applies this knowledge to the design process in a systematic step-by-step format. …”

“…The theoretical and empirical literature to date has fallen short of reaching a consensus as to whether granting more managerial discretion to managers tends to enhance, not alter or diminish organisational performance (the discretion puzzle). This book aims to build a bridge between these contradictory results by synthesising principal-agent theory, stewardship theory, and managerial discretion theory into a new empirically-validated model. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Energy Demand; Opportunities for Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings; Options for Improving Buildings Sector Efficiency; Barriers to Demand Reduction; Policy Options for Overcoming Barriers; CHAPTER TWO - European Approaches; Early Approaches; Energy Performance of Buildings Directive; EPBD Recast; CHAPTER THREE - Australian Approaches; Market-Based Energy Efficient Buildings Policy; Building Codes and Performance Ratings; Disclosure and Energy Audits; Grant and Rebate Programs…”

Materias: “…Performance Measurement…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter Four - Empirical Analysis of Performance MeasuresChapter Five - Choosing Performance Windows andOrganizational Units for Evaluation; Using the Performance Window to Control for RandomOutcomes; The Use of Station Versus Individual PerformanceEvaluation; Chapter Six - Conclusions; Summary of Results; Implications for Policy; Appendix A - Allocation of Recruiter Effort: Implications of aMicroeconomic Model; Appendix B - Recruiter Behavior in the Face of Risk; References…”

“…Tammy Everts walks you through a brief history of UX and web performance research, highlighting key studies that connect the dots between performance and user experience and sharing some educated guesses about new metrics that are just around the corner. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Writing a report -- Updating your default configurations -- Reviewing the conclusions -- Enriching your project backlog -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Continuous Performance Evaluation -- Writing performance tests - the pitfalls -- Writing performance tests -- JMH - the OpenJDK tool -- Writing a benchmark with JMH -- The state -- Creating your first JMH benchmark -- BlackHole to be a star -- Running the benchmarks -- Integrating JMH with JUnit -- ContiPerf -- Arquillian and ContiPerf - the diabolic pair -- JMeter and build integration -- Gatling and continuous integration -- Deploying your (benchmark) application -- Continuous integration platform and performance -- Summary -- Another Book You May Enjoy -- Index…”