Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

Abstract What are the methodologies that we should employ for designing and evaluating governmental policy, in light of the profound effects that policies have on the level and distribution of individuals' well-being? The Oxford Handbook of...

Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy

Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytical a...

Public policy and construction innovation

The particular roles played by governments through their policies and programmes are considered within a comparative context in order to gain an understanding of construction innovation systems and processes. The analysis of this question i...

Organizational Theory and Public Policy

Introduction Question - Richard H Hall and Robert E Quinn What is the Connection Between Organizational Theory and Public Policy? PART ONE: ORGANIZATION THEORY AND PUBLIC POLICY: PURPOSE, PROCESS, AND REASON Public Policy and Organizational...

The Europeanization of Public Policy

Abstract This chapter deals with the Europeanization of public policy, with emphasis on the problems that researchers encounter when they try to get to grips with the concept of Europeanization, the issue of explanation, the measurement of ...

The Effect of the Expressive Art therapy Package with a Unity-Oriented Approach on Subjective Well-being of Middle-Aged Women

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of expressive art therapy package (based on visualizing memories with a unity-oriented approach) on the subjective well-being of middle-aged women. It was a quantitative, ...

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community perinatal mental health services on access, experience, recovery/relapse and obstetric and neonate outcomes: the ESMI-II mixed-methods study

Background Perinatal mental health disorders affect one in five mothers during pregnancy or within 2 years post childbirth. These disorders can lead to poor pregnancy and childbirth outcomes and maternal deaths. Additionally, they negativel...

Microwave Photonic Techniques in Phase-Noise Measurements of Microwave Sources: A Review of Fiber-Optic Delay-Line Methods

Microwave photonics has recently come to the forefront as a valuable approach to generating, processing, and measuring signals in high-performance domains such as communication, radar, and timing systems. Recent studies have introduced a ra...

Advanced Combination Localization Algorithm Based on Trilateration for Dynamic Cluster Network

Dynamic cluster network localization requires taking the following factors into consideration: 1) the localization time of network nodes; 2) the communication load among all cluster nodes, and; 3) the presence of the abnormal distance measu...

Work-related musculoskeletal pain and characteristics of brewery workers in southwest Nigeria - a pilot study

BACKGROUND: Work-related musculoskeletal pain (WMSP) is a common symptom associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders. It is aggravated by poor lifting techniques, inappropriate ergonomics, repetitive movements and awkward posture...

Measurement scales and statistics: A clash of paradigms.

The "permissible statistics " controversy stems from a clash of different theories or paradigms of measurement. Three theories are identified: the representational, the operational, and the classical. In each case the relation between measu...

Measurement and Statistics.

Reading Statistics and Research (5th ed.)

The users of this book can be teachers of measurement, research, and statistics courses. Also, this book can be valuable to researchers and consumers of research as a reference. The book is written......

Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics

THE USE OF RASCH MEASUREMENT MODEL IN ENGLISH TESTING

This study aimed at determining the quality of the English Paper 1 (EP1) items of UPSR trial examination for six graders in terms of its reliability, validity and items characteristics. It also sought to determine the difficulty levels of 4...

The Architecture of an Automatic eHealth Platform With Mobile Client for Cerebrovascular Disease Detection

BackgroundIn recent years, cerebrovascular disease has been the leading cause of death and adult disability in the world. This study describes an efficient approach to detect cerebrovascular disease. ObjectiveIn order to improve...

Statistics In Kinesiology

Measurement, statistics and research organizing and displaying data percentiles measures of central tendency measures of variability the normal curve and sampling error correlation, bivariate, and multiple regression the T test - comparing ...

Uncertainty in Geographical Information

Preface. Geographical Information and Uncertainty. Geographical Perspectives. Geographical Measurement and Data. Exploring Geographical Uncertainty. Uncertainty in Continuous Variables. Uncertainty in Categorical Variables. Uncertainty in O...

Designing an accurate system for temperature measurements

The method of compensation of changes in temperature field along the legs of inhomogeneous thermocouple, which measures a temperature of an object, is considered in this paper. This compensation is achieved by stabilization of the temperatu...

A study of the decontamination procedures used for chemical analysis of polar deep ice cores

We investigated the decontamination procedures used on polar deep ice cores before chemical analyses such as measurements of the concentrations of iron species and dust (microparticles). We optimized cutting and melting protocols for decont...