Paper Title How Does Performance Evaluation Affect Teacher Motivation? Lessons From YES Prep Public Schools Claire Robertson-Kraft, University of Pennsylvania Author(s) Policy Issues Related to Teacher Evaluation Session Title Paper Session Type 4/16/2012 Presentation Date Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Presentation Location Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Quality Descriptors Qualitative Meth...

Background With an increasingly aged, frail population that holds a disproportionate amount of wealth, clinicians (especially those with expertise in older adults) may be asked with more frequency to offer a clinical opinion on testamentary capacity (TC), the mental capacity to make a will. Method This paper reviews the legal criteria as well as the empirical research on assessment tools for ...

Micro and Macro Determinants of Health: Older Immigrants in Europe We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using Multilevel Analysis we can best captu...

Systematic evaluation of cumulative health risks from the combined effects of multiple environmental stressors is becoming a vital component of risk-based decisions aimed at protecting human populations and communities. This article briefly examines the historical development of cumulative risk assessment as an analytical tool, and discusses current approaches for evaluating cumulative health e...

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In any country, infrastructure development will increase the growth of countries economy and generates the large amount of job opportunities. Hence those projects involve a large amount of investment to carry out. In view of that, if any sort of wastage (either time, resources etc) occurs that would lead to the huge monetary losses. These losses occur due to various risks associated with such m...

the need to establish power plants to supply the required electricity of the country has been rising due to increasing demand levels as well as the lack of governmental resources. furthermore, the available traditional attitude in performing and conducting power plant projects has made government seek a modern attitude. this paper tries to use the topics that have been employed in automotive in...

fragility curves represent the probabilities that structural damages, under various levels of seismic excitation, will exceed the specified damage states by means of earthquake intensity damage relations. conceptual aspects related to seismic vulnerability, damage and risk evaluation are discussed first, together with a short review of the most widely used possibilities for the seismic evaluati...