The Human Contribution


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The Human Contribution is vital reading for all professionals in high-consequence environments and for managers of any complex system. The book draws its illustrative material from a wide variety of hazardous domains, with the emphasis on healthcare reflecting the author's focus on patient safety over the last decade. All students of human factors - however seasoned - will also find it an invaluable and thought-provoking read.




Economic Impact or Contribution


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Economic Impact or Contribution contributes to the applied regional economic literature by providing a framework for handling a diverse set of projects and providing detailed case studies of fieldwork regarding the health care industry, higher education institutions, the nonprofit sector, infrastructure investment, and a major musical entertainment event. Economic Impact or Contribution accomplishes three major tasks by answering the following questions: What are the differences between the economic concepts used in economic versus fiscal assessment studies? How can we structure an economic and business issue or challenge? How can we create a research product that helps the project’s sponsors solve their problem? This bookhas emerged as an answer to many research-related questions in dealing with regional business and economic issues and challenges.




THE POWER OF THE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES


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The book presents a comprehensive investigation of Political Contributors in the United States. It describes the crusade fund controls and how they decrease the impact of specifically granted parties while simultaneously expanding subject commitments. The experts have introduced us to the results of the strategy of a detailed predisposition in crusade commitments for occupants. The cases of these unexpected outcomes have been put into practical use while serving a resourceful purpose. The following paper, in drafted details, evaluates the deliberate and unimagined outcomes of battle back controls in different states of the USA. This detailed evaluation aims to clarity a theoretical framework of several impacts of authority on two very specific kinds of benefactors, one of which is the particularistic contributor, whose ideas contribute to the practical implications limited by the boundaries of commitment limits. Another is a universalistic contributor, driven by assisting their most desirable applicants, is going to be less focused on directions. Significantly, the unbranching of commitments is not expected to have an effect on the commitment limits. This book further highlights two very specific speculations reflecting the hypothetical scenarios, one of them being restrictive commitment that limits and decreases the figures and the volume of particularistic commitments while also increasing the diverging numbers and, additionally, the measures of commitments. Another speculation includes contribution limits that do not have a significant effect on the numbers, sum, or variations of universalistic commitments Additionally, this book focuses on the practical results that crusade back controls function without the inadvertent result of allotting a financially favorable position to officeholders at both the state level and the applicant level. Moreover, commitment limits lead to an increase in the number of aggregate supporters while decreasing the number and measure of particular commitments and, in turn, uplifting the number of universalistic patrons. In addition to this, the excessive evaluations and examinations portray a dynamic impact on commitment restrictions at the organizational level, on the guilds, on an individual level, in communities, and on the belief system PAC. Restrictive commitment limits significantly decrease the metrics of an organization's commitments, leading to a decrease in the employees commitments. With that said, it is mandatory




Living with Defined Contribution Pensions


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Contribute a Verse


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Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First Year Composition combines a composition rhetoric manual with grammar and documentation instruction and resources. The textbook also includes a glossary of pertinent terms and ancillary instructor resources.




The Economics of Innovation


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A collection of original research papers by a number of industrial organization economists active in the field of Research and Development theory and policy. It covers patent policy, the effects of market structure and the internal organization of the firm on R&D incentives and technical progress, and R&D cooperation and technological spillovers.




Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health


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It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer. But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover language ability after a stroke than men or why women are more apt to develop autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Sex differences in health throughout the lifespan have been documented. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health begins to snap the pieces of the puzzle into place so that this knowledge can be used to improve health for both sexes. From behavior and cognition to metabolism and response to chemicals and infectious organisms, this book explores the health impact of sex (being male or female, according to reproductive organs and chromosomes) and gender (one's sense of self as male or female in society). Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health discusses basic biochemical differences in the cells of males and females and health variability between the sexes from conception throughout life. The book identifies key research needs and opportunities and addresses barriers to research. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health will be important to health policy makers, basic, applied, and clinical researchers, educators, providers, and journalists-while being very accessible to interested lay readers.




Building Successful Online Communities


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How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities. Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never attracted enough members to be viable. This book offers lessons from theory and empirical research in the social sciences that can help improve the design of online communities. The authors draw on the literature in psychology, economics, and other social sciences, as well as their own research, translating general findings into useful design claims. They explain, for example, how to encourage information contributions based on the theory of public goods, and how to build members' commitment based on theories of interpersonal bond formation. For each design claim, they offer supporting evidence from theory, experiments, or observational studies.




A Contribution to the Pure Theory of Taxation


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This book investigates the way in which tax systems affect economic efficiency and the distribution of welfare. It examines within a unified framework questions that are usually treated in different areas of the literature: institutional economics, positive economics, normative economics, and political economics. It adheres to the rigorous standards of pure theory while paying careful attention to the policy relevance of the arguments. Tax systems are viewed as information extracting devices that generate sets of equilibria of complex geometry. A tax reform methodology is proposed that sheds light on optimal taxes. Social conflicts in the determination of taxes are shown to have effects on social cohesion.




Super PACs


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The passage of Citizens United by the Supreme Court in 2010 sparked a renewed debate about campaign spending by large political action committees, or Super PACs. Its ruling said that it is okay for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want in advertising and other methods to convince people to vote for or against a candidate. This book provides a wide range of opinions on the issue. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.