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“…Nevertheless, many barriers to enhance their performance and further spread their application remain to be overcome. …”

“…They are relevant for many activities: helping patients and their clinicians make informed decisions about health care, monitoring the progress of care, setting policies for coverage and reimbursement of health services, improving the quality of health care services, and tracking or reporting on the performance of health care delivery organizations. We address the major methodological issues related to choosing, administering, and using PROs for these purposes, particularly in clinical practice settings. …”

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“…This book provides the state of the art on recent progress in the high-performance concrete applications written by researchers and experts of the field. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The origins of performance measurement -- The lexicon of performance -- The aims of performance measurement -- The ideal of performance measurement -- Defining performance -- Comparing approaches to performance measurement -- Choosing measures/indicators -- Linking performance measurement to planning -- Integrating budgeting and performance measurement -- Performance measurement and evaluation -- Telling the 'performance story' -- The utilisation problem -- Complications -- The disappointing record of Performance Measurement/Management (PMM) -- The obstacles to PMM -- Accountability versus performance? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS AND LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE Comparative views on the U.S. and German economies; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; 1 Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance; 2 Work Organization and Training in American Enterprises; 3 Works Councils, Unions, and Firm Performance; 4 Policy Transferability and Hysteresis; 5 Why Do Americans and Germans Work Different Hours?…”

Materias:

“…This book deals with the performance analysis of closed queueing networks with general processing times and finite buffer spaces. …”

“…The understanding of regional economic performance hence calls for an explicit consideration of both “hard” and “soft ” factors of development, especially in terms of geography, culture and institutions…”

“…High performance polymers - polyimides based…”