Strategic Supply Chain Management

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Strategic Supply Chain Management

Agile, strategic supply chain management is a key competitive necessity in todayâ??s no-room-for-error business arena. And few organizations have acquired more knowledgeâ??and demonstrated better resultsâ??than the team at global management consultancy Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd, and McGrath (PRTM). In the breakthrough reference Strategic Supply Chain Management, two of PRTMâ??s leading consultants in this practice explain everything that corporate decision-makers need to know to create value and competitive advantage from their supply chains.

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The polls: the coalitional president from a public opinion perspective.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

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This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 4813 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Most public opinion research on the president utilizes a national leader perspective, in which the public holds the president accountable for the state of the nation. But the president may also be viewed as a coalition builder in which the executive makes specific appeals to groups or subsets of the population to induce them to join his coalition. Do specific groups hold the president accountable for presidential actions that target these groups? Do specific groups hold the president accountable for presidential policies and their consequences that affect these groups? In this article I test the coalitional hypothesis, which focuses on group-specific responses to the president, using a new data set on state-level presidential approval Results indicate that, when it comes to the economy, the president is held accountable for both the nation’s health and the state’s economic performance. However, a presidential visit to a state, an action designed to target mass public support from a state, does not result in increases in presidential approval in the visited state.

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Title: The polls: the coalitional president from a public opinion perspective.
Author: Jeffrey E. Cohen
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36 Issue: 3 Page: 541(10)

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Counterfeiting and the economics of kingship in Milton’s Eikonoklastes.(Report): An article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

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This digital document is an article from Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, published by Rice University on January 1, 2010. The length of the article is 12706 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Counterfeiting and the economics of kingship in Milton’s Eikonoklastes.(Report)
Author: Scott Cohen
Publication: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: Rice University
Volume: 50 Issue: 1 Page: 147(30)

Article Type: Report

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The dynamics and interactions between the president’s and the public’s civil rights agendas: a study in presidential leadership and representation. (Symposium … An article from: Policy Studies Journal

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This digital document is an article from Policy Studies Journal, published by Policy Studies Organization on September 22, 1993. The length of the article is 3456 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Most policy studies depict presidents as reactionary figures in civil rights policymaking. A content analysis of the agenda-setting phase in the policy process, however, reveals that presidents play an active role in civil rights policy development because it is a discretionary policy area. Thus, presidents impact public opinion of civil rights but are not so influenced by the public.

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Title: The dynamics and interactions between the president’s and the public’s civil rights agendas: a study in presidential leadership and representation. (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)
Author: Jeffrey E. Cohen
Publication: Policy Studies Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1993
Publisher: Policy Studies Organization
Volume: v21 Issue: n3 Page: p514(8)

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Forward to the steam age? Geothermal plants could have a seismic impact on energy demand–literally.(Energy): An article from: The Futurist

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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on January 1, 2011. The length of the article is 611 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Forward to the steam age? Geothermal plants could have a seismic impact on energy demand–literally.(Energy)
Author: Aaron M. Cohen
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2011
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: 45 Issue: 1 Page: 8(2)

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Montaigne: Essays

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Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as “On Solitude,” “To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die,” and “On Experience.”
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Alternative futures: comment on Terry Moe’s “The Revolution in Presidential Studies”.(SYMPOSIUM: The Future of Presidential Studies)(Critical essay): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

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This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on December 1, 2009. The length of the article is 5829 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: In “The Revolution in Presidential Studies,” Terry Moe suggests that bounded rationality and computational and agent-based modeling should become the core for future research on the presidency. I suggest other, perhaps complementary, directions for future research: (1) a greater integration of theories on the institutional presidency with those on the public presidency; (2) a broader and more comparative approach to studying political executives instead of the current parochial focus on the American presidency; and (3) a large-scale, cooperative data collection effort that parallels such efforts in other subfields, which has reinvigorated those subfields, attracted students, and allowed for more ambitious research questions and designs.

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Title: Alternative futures: comment on Terry Moe’s “The Revolution in Presidential Studies”.(SYMPOSIUM: The Future of Presidential Studies)(Critical essay)
Author: Jeffrey E. Cohen
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2009
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency
Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Page: 725(11)

Article Type: Critical essay

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The Polls: The Dynamics of Presidential Favorability, 1991-1998.(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

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This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2329 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: A presidential favorability time series is the construct for the period 1991 to 1998. Although the favorabilty series is related to presidential job approval, the two series are not identical. Periods can be identified when favorability is greater than approval, as well as periods when approval is higher than favorability. Other possible sources of the dynamics of presidential favorability are discussed, and the article argues for a multidimensional understanding of public assessments of the president.

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Title: The Polls: The Dynamics of Presidential Favorability, 1991-1998.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Jeffrey E. Cohen
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1999
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency
Volume: 29 Issue: 4 Page: 896

Article Type: Statistical Data Included

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Power and Precision, Version 2: A Computer Program for Statistical Power Analysis and Confidence Intervals

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Power and Precision is a stand-alone program that is used to find the sample size for a planned study.

This program features an unusually clear interface and many tools to assist the user in developing an understanding of power analysis. Incorporating the ability to create tables, graphs, and reports with a single click, it includes a number of features that are helpful for teaching power analysis, as well as others that allow the researcher to explain and justify the selection of a sample size for grant applications.

Easy to use, the program includes an interactive guide that walks the user through every step required for the analysis, and it creates detailed reports of the results.

The program allows the user to select from a variety of computational options, including exact computations for virtually all procedures. It features the ability to take account of precision (the confidence interval width), as well as statistical power. Tables and graphs provide an immediate picture that can be used to explore all available options for increasing power. The program includes modules for means, proportions, correlations, analysis of variance/covariance, and multiple regression. Version 2 adds modules for survival analysis, logistic regression, and equivalence testing.

The program comes with a 220-page manual that includes a comprehensive introduction to power analysis, as well as worked examples and algorithms for all procedures.

Key Features:
*Work interactively–modify any element of the effect size, the sample size, or alpha, and immediately see the impact on power.
*Create reports–create a detailed report with a single click; copy and paste this report into the study proposal or grant application.
*Create tables and graphs–create tables and graphs to study the impact of each factor and include them in the proposal or grant application to justify the sample size.

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Applied Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

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This practical guide on conducting power analyses using IBM SPSS was written for students and researchers with limited quantitative backgrounds. Readers will appreciate the coverage of topics that are not well described in competing books such as estimating effect sizes, power analyses for complex designs, detailed coverage of popular multiple regression and multi-factor ANOVA approaches, and power for multiple comparisons and simple effects. Practical issues such as how to increase power without increasing sample size, how to report findings, how to derive effect size expectations, and how to support null hypotheses, are also addressed. Unlike other texts, this book focuses on the statistical and methodological aspects of the analyses.

Performing analyses using software applications rather than via complex hand calculations is demonstrated throughout. Ready-to-use IBM SPSS syntax for conducting analyses are included to perform calculations and power analyses at http://www.psypress.com/applied-power-analysis . Detailed annotations for each syntax protocol review the minor modifications necessary for researchers to adapt the syntax to their own analyses. As such, the text reviews both power analysis techniques and provides tools for conducting analyses. Numerous examples enhance accessibility by demonstrating specific issues that must be addressed at all stages of the power analysis and providing detailed interpretations of IBM SPSS output. Several examples address techniques for estimation of power and hand calculations as well. Chapter summaries and key statistics sections also aid in understanding the material.

Chapter 1 reviews significance testing and introduces power. Chapters 2 through 9 cover power analysis strategies for a variety of common designs. Precision analysis for confidence intervals around mean difference, correlations, and effect sizes is the focus of chapter 10. The book concludes with a review of how to report power analyses, a review of freeware and commercial software for power analyses, and how to increase power without increasing sample size. Chapters focusing on simpler analyses such as t-tests present detailed formulae and calculation examples. Chapters focusing on more complex topics such as mixed model ANOVA/MANOVA present primarily computer-based analyses.

Intended as a supplementary text for graduate-level research methods, experimental design, quasi-experimental methods, psychometrics, statistics, and/or advanced/multivariate statistics taught in the behavioral, social, biological, and medical sciences, researchers in these fields also appreciate this bookâ??s practical emphasis. A prerequisite of introductory statistics is recommended.


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