http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/4300 Digital archive of acquired or internally-generated digital objects managed by the Gelman Library System. Sat, 18 May 2013 12:11:55 GMT 2013-05-18T12:11:55Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/bitstream/id/14464/gw_horz_4c.jpg http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/4300 http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/14296 Comparative performance measurement : FY 2011 data report / ICMA Center for Performance Measurement International City/County Management Association, Center for Performance Measurement 1. Introduction -- 2. Comparative data analysis -- 3. Code enforcement -- 4. Facilities management -- 5. Fire and EMS -- 6. Fleet management -- 7. Highway and road maintenance -- 8. Housing -- 9. Human resources -- 10. Information technology -- 11. Library services -- 12. Obesity prevention -- 13. Parks and recreation -- 14. Permits, land use, and plan review -- 15. Police services -- 16. Procurement -- 17. Risk management -- 18. Solid waste -- 19. Sustainability -- 20. Youth services Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/14296 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/8717 Managing successful projects with PRINCE2 Murray, Andy; TSO This publication provides a universally applicable project management method - the principles, processes and techniques that enable individuals and organisations to successfully deliver their projects within time, cost and quality constraints. "Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2[trademark]" forms part of a pair of publications that are the result of the PRINCE2: 2009 Project to update the PRINCE2 guidance. Its companion is "Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2[trademark]". The title has been designed to be a role specific handbook for Project Managers, Team Managers and Project Support. The new 2009 edition: explains the principles that underpin PRINCE2; describes the PRINCE2 processes in their entirety and ’Key Themes’ of project management, specific to PRINCE2, that are required for the processes to be effective; cross-references techniques that may be applied; also explains how to tailor the method; and, provides context of when and how to use PRINCE2 for different project environments (e.g. standalone or as part of a programme). Like the 2005 guidance, the book contains chapters on Starting Up a Project, Directing a Project, Initiating a Project, Controlling a Stage, Managing Product Delivery, Managing Stage Boundary and Closing a Project. In addition, the guidance also looks at the wider role of the Project Manager, including: soft skills of the project manager; leading and managing; stakeholder engagement and communication planning; organisational change management; PRINCE2 in different types of organisation and cultures; and, training needs for project teams. This title includes real world examples and illustrations in each chapter. It contains extensive appendices on the following topics: Product Descriptions; Governance; Role Definitions - Responsibilities and typical competencies by role; Product Based Planning example; and, Health Check. It also contains a list of further information and glossary - definition of acronyms and terms used. XII, 327 p . : ill. ; 28 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/8717 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/8685 Mars, Venus or Planet Earth [videorecording] : women & men in a new millennium / Michael Kimmel ; produced by Sut Jhally. Kimmel, Michael S.; Jhally, Sut; Media Education Foundation "We’ve heard again and again that men and women are engaged in a ’battle of the sexes,’ that we’re so differently wired and so foreign to each other that we might as well come from different planets. In this powerful new lecture, renowned speaker and best selling author Michael Kimmel ... turnes this conventional wisdom on its head. With clarity and humor, Kimmel moves beyond the popular inter-planetary notion that ’men are from Mars and women are from Venus’ to advance a decidedly more earth-bound and interconnected view of the things men and women have in common. This is an accessible and entertaining introduction to gender politics and gender theory - as intellectually informative as it is inspiring, and suited for use across a range of disciplines and courses."--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/8685 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5069 Foundations of civil and political rights in Israel and the occupied territories Schmidt, Dr. Yvonne This work intends to show how civil and political rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories are regulated, which normative standards and spiritual sources nourish them, and how written and unwritten principles are applied and interpreted by the Supreme Court of Israel in pursuance of its self-imposed duty to safeguard the individual's rights and freedoms. The legal system of Israel reflects unresolved conflicts, ambiguities of the state and difficulties connected with the process of nation-building as well as dilemmas concerning the ethnic and cultural identity of the population. From 1517 until 1917 Palestine was ruled by the Turks as part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1917 British troops conquered the territory and in 1922 the League of Nations granted to Great Britain the Mandate over Palestine. Following the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine on 14 May 1948 a large number of British mandatory legislation was absorbed into Israel's legal system. This had and still has far-reaching, restrictive implications for the areas of administrative law and the field of human rights and freedoms. The British mandatory legislation includes security legislation - such as the Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945 - which empowers military commanders as well as the entirely executive branch of the government to impose severe restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms. Despite the enactment of two basic laws on human rights in 1992 many areas, such as personal freedom, freedom of speech and the right of association and assembly are still regulated mainly by British colonial legislation that was never revoked after the establishment of the state of Israel. Since 1948 a permanent state of emergency is in force in Israel. This entitles the government to apply the inherited British mandatory security legislation as well as the own, by the Israeli parliament enacted emergency regulations. Israel's legal system has been built upon the duality of secular and religious law - a concept that was inherited from the Ottoman Millet tradition, first by the British mandatory government and then by the state of Israel. This study also includes important laws and Supreme Court judgments concerning civil and political rights that relate directly or indirectly to the territories occupied by Israel in the course of the war in June 1967. Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5069 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/4328 APA Style Guide to Electronic References American Psychological Association Expanded and updated from the Electronic Resources section of the Fifth Edition of the Publication Manual, this comprehensive yet succinct style guide in PDF format offers up-to-date information on formatting electronic references in APA style. With more than 40 example references, the APA Style Guide to Electronic References outlines for students and writers the key elements to include in references to electronic sources, with numerous examples. "This guide is a revised and updated version of section 4.16 of the fifth edition of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, pp. 268-281)" Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/4328 2007-06-01T00:00:00Z