HR metrics and organizational people-related data are an invaluable source of information from which to identify trends and patterns in order to make effective business decisions. But HR practitioners often lack the statistical and analytical know-how to fully harness the potential of this data.
Predictive HR Analytics provides a clear, accessible framework for understanding and working with people analytics and advanced statistical techniques. Using the statistical package SPSS (with R syntax included), it takes readers step by step through worked examples, showing them how to carry out and interpret analyses of HR data in areas such as employee engagement, performance and turnover. Readers are shown how to use the results to enable them to develop effective evidence-based HR strategies.
This second edition has been updated to include the latest material on machine learning, biased algorithms, data protection and GDPR considerations, a new example using survival analyses, and up-to-the-minute screenshots and examples with SPSS version 25. It is supported by a new appendix showing main R coding, and online resources consisting of SPSS and Excel data sets and R syntax with worked case study examples.
"Mountain Biking The Manual" is an essential reference book for anyone wanting to learn more and improve their skills in this exciting sport. With over 5 million mountain bikers in the UK, this comprehensive book starts with a run through the various MTB disciplines, gives guidance on equipment & bike set-up, fitness & nutrition, how to handle berms, switchbacks and even covers survival techniques, coming back from injury and competitive strategies. Each chapter features step-by-step guidance and is supported by unique insights from today's best riders. Combining their tips with the author's inspirational coaching makes this a truly exceptional mountain biking skills book. Supported by quality photography and some awesome action shots, this is the first time so many top professional riders have come together in one book, sure to become a best seller. It includes top technical tips and insights from legends and icons of the mountain biking world.
**2021 REVISED & EXPANDED Version** Completely revised and revamped with new chapters and content to put you on the cutting edge of whats working now in Ecommerce.
As a whole, the ecommerce industry is ANTIQUATED. It's out of date! And it's way way way behind in terms of what's actually working in the world of online business.
Most ecommerce business owners are still doing things in the same way they were done back in 2016 when I released the first version of this book. And that, my friend, is a recipe for disaster.
There is so much more to ecommerce than building a store, filling it with products and driving some traffic.
If that describes you and your business, then let this be your wake-up call!
There is a transformative shift happening in the ecommerce industry right now.
What worked before is either no longer an option or is rapidly losing its effectiveness.
It's time for you as an ecommerce entrepreneur to evolve your brand, your business and your brain.
THIS BOOK, is the playbook for capitalizing on this evolution.
Ecommerce Evolved contains a simple, repeatable, and proven formula to help you build, grow and scale a wildly profitable ecommerce business in today's competitive market.
You will find zero theory inside this book. Tanner Larsson has distilled years of research and practical in-the-trenches ecommerce experience into a hard hitting ecommerce blueprint.
The book is broken up into four distinct parts, each of which contains a focused set of chapters:
The book kicks off with the 12 Principles of Ecommerce that we've developed after working with over 10,000 different businesses. These 12 principles are what differentiate the thriving ecommerce businesses from the mediocre ones. (and we can almost guarantee you're violating more than half of them!). Part 1 on Evolved Strategy is where we pull back the curtain, take you behind the scenes, and show you how 7-, 8- and 9-figure ecommerce businesses really work. Part 2 on Evolved Intelligence deals with the most underutilized aspect of most ecommerce businesses...your data. Part 3 on Evolved Marketing is where you'll learn how to leverage your business's structure and your data to build systematic and highly automated marketing campaigns for both the front end and back end of your business. These efforts produce massive returns on investment.
Ecommerce Evolved takes you through the exact same processes my high level clients and I go through as we restructure their businesses for maximum growth, profitability and most importantly, longevity.
As an added benefit... Ecommerce Evolved is also the key that unlocks access to my private ecommerce community.
Until now, this has been a secret group of ecommerce professionals where we talk shop, strategize and grow our businesses through the collective genius of the group.
This book is literally the step-by-step blueprint to building a successful and highly profitable ecommerce business and the private community is the support group that can help you along the way.
There's nothing worse than a rotten redheaded older brother who can do everything you can do better! Patricia's brother Richard could run the fastest, climb the highest, and spit the farthest and still smile his extra-rotten, greeny-toothed, weasel-eyed grin. But when little Patricia wishes on a shooting star that she could do something-anything-to show him up, she finds out just what wishes-and rotten redheaded older brothers-can really do. Patricia Polacco's boldly and exuberantly painted pictures tell a lively and warmhearted tale of comic one-upsmanship and brotherly love.
Dieser progressiv aufgebaute Assimil-Selbstlernkurs bietet Ihnen einen leichten Einstieg in die ungarische Sprache und ermöglicht Ihnen, in 85 Lektionen umfassend die Grundlagen des Ungarischen und einen Wortschatz von ca. 2.000 Vokabeln zu erlernen, und das ganz ohne Auswendiglernen und Grammatikpauken.
Der Sprachkurs richtet sich an Einsteiger, die die ungarische Sprache gerade erst für sich entdeckt haben sowie an Fortgeschrittene, die ihre Kenntnisse auffrischen und vertiefen möchten.
Kurze Lektionen in übersichtlicher Gestaltung fördern Ihren Lernerfolg:
- Fremdsprachige Dialoge mit sinngemäßer und größtenteils auch wörtlicher deutscher Übersetzung werden durch kurze, präzise Anmerkungen zu Grammatik, Vokabular und bestimmte sprachliche Phänomene ergänzt.
- Verständnis- und Lückentextübungen helfen Ihnen, Ihren Lernfortschritt zu überprüfen.
- In regelmäßigen Wiederholungslektionen wird der Stoff vertieft und anhand von Beispielen systematisch verdeutlicht, so dass Sie das Gelernte aufarbeiten und festigen können.
Am Ende erreichen Sie das sprachliche Niveau der Stufe B2 des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen; dies entspricht ungefähr 4-5 Semestern VHS. Die in den Lektionen vermittelten Strukturen und der erlernte Wortschatz machen Sie fit für die mühelose Kommunikation mit Ungarischsprechenden in allen Alltagssituationen. In weniger als einem Jahr werden Sie sich auf Ungarisch unterhalten können.
Wolfgang Beltracchi is a phenomenon of the international art world. His name is inextricably entwined with one of the greatest upheavals in the global art market. Emulating numerous world-famous artists, he developed and painted new paintings, continued their narrations and biography, and concluded them with a forged signature. His wife Helene Beltracchi then smuggled them onto the art market. Many experts were deceived by Beltracchi's stupendous skill and auctioneers cast many doubts aside in the interests of insatiable market demand, selling the paintings as authentic works by the purported artists.
Reading the artistic handwriting of a painting requires an exceptional willingness and ability to be able to empathise and identify with the artist, until you "can feel what the other feels" (Wolfgang Beltracchi). Through extensive discussions with the painter and his wife, the psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer explored this capability that is so pronounced for Beltracchi. In her new book, she places this in relation to the disappearance of Beltracchi's own signature. As with her previous highly successful book about the performance artist Marina Abramovic, Jeannette Fischer has created an exceptionally insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality.
'A must-read especially if you still think vaccines are provably safe and effective!' - Stephanie Seneff, PhD, senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Jabbed demonstrates that the medical procedure hailed as the greatest medical advancement in history - vaccines - is a racket run by criminals and gullible believers who have replaced vaccine science with the religion of vaccinology. Vaccine marketers teach believers to fear, shame, and scapegoat anyone foolish enough to question the sanctity of vaccines. Such an environment is not the domain of science, rather it's the breeding ground of tyranny.
Jabbed exposes this tyranny. From polio and smallpox to medical journals, medical curricula, congressional hearings, regulatory policies, White House statements, and executive orders, Jabbed shines light on the dark underbelly of Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Big Government. A vaccine informed public is the only thing that will have the power to stop vaccine industry sociopaths and to hold them accountable for their crimes.
Jabbed informs and immunises against three of the most dangerous epidemics in history: tyranny, greed, and corruption. Once immunised, the growing vaccine-informed community will have the power to stand up and dismantle the vaccine paradigm and program and to punish the perpetrators of what may well be the greatest medical fraud ever perpetrated on the human race: vaccines.
A 2018 Caldecott Honor Book that Kirkus Reviews calls "a must-read for our times," A Different Pond is an unforgettable story about a simple event - a long-ago fishing trip. Graphic novelist Thi Bui and acclaimed poet Bao Phi deliver a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and son - and between cultures, old and new. As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long work day began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in a Western city. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam. Thi Bui's striking, evocative art paired with Phi's expertly crafted prose has earned this powerful picture books six starred reviews and numerous awards.
Vor deutschen Gerichten werden täglich die Hosen heruntergelassen. Zur Belustigung des neugierigen Publikums werden pikante Details aus dem Intimleben der Prozessbeteiligten ausgebreitet. Und wenn Juristen dann versuchen, die lustvollen Tatbestände in ihren staubtrockenen Jargon zu übersetzen, wird`s schnell unfreiwillig komisch.
The only definitive resource on enzyme therapy by the nation's leading expert, a pioneering medical doctor who has used enzymes to treat allergies, asthma, fatigue, chronic pain, and many other ailments-with astonishing success!
The scientific evidence continues to mount, pointing to enzyme deficiencies as the cause of a vast majority of health problems. In this important, groundbreaking book, Dr. Ellen Cutler-who has been prescribing enzymes to her patients, and taking them herself for more than 20 years-shows readers how to assess their bodies' unique enzyme needs and create totally personalized enzyme regimens.
MicroMiracles also explains how enzyme supplements: - Reduce food cravings and promote significant weight loss --Sharpen memory and mental alertness --Strengthen the immune system to prevent and fight illness, from colds and flu to heart disease and cancer - Offset the effects of stress and replenish energy stores --Heal the cellular damage that fuels the aging process
MicroMiracles promises to be the most complete, authoritative resource on enzyme therapy, which a growing number of health professionals identify as the next frontier in medicine and self-care.
We all know that we age - but do you know exactly how, and why? And do you wonder what you can do-whatever your age - to slow the process so you can live well, for longer?
This book comprehensively answers these questions. Medical doctor and polymath scientist Kris Verburgh illuminates the biological mechanisms that make our bodies susceptible to heart attacks, strokes, dementia, diabetes, and other aging-related diseases. We learn about the crucial role of poorly functioning mitochondria, shortened telomeres, proteins and
carbohydrates, and more.
Having explained the aging process at work, Dr. Verburgh then provides the tools we need to slow them down: his scientifcally backed Longevity Staircase. is simple yet innovative step-by-step method oers better health and a longer life span through nutrition - currently our best defense in the ght against aging and disease.
And with each passing day, advances in biotechnology - once the stu of science ction - are emerging as part of the "longevity code." Dr. Verburgh discusses how new types of vaccines, mitochondrial DNA, CRISPR proteins, and stem cells may help us slow and even reverse aging - now and in the future.
Global Health 101, Fourth Edition is a clear, concise, and user-friendly introduction to the most critical issues in global health. Drawing from his 40 years of experience working in international development and global health as well as teaching, the author illustrates key themes through an extensive set of case studies, examples, and the latest evidence. The fourth edition offers a significant amount of new and updated information, while maintaining the clarity, simplicity, and ease of use that has made this text so popular. Global Health 101, Fourth Edition builds in unique ways on evidence from fundamental sources, including the Global Burden of Disease Studies, Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition, (DCP3), and Millions Saved. This edition includes an enhanced emphasis on Universal Health Coverage, ethical priority setting, health disparities, and the quality of care. In addition, this thorough update now presents substantial data by World Bank region and World Bank country income group.
Other noteworthy updates to the Fourth Edition include: * UPDATED COVERAGE of the global burden of disease and risk factors and of recommended interventions, at different parts of the health system, to address key health burdens. * ENHANCED COVERAGE of the determinants of health; the health of women; the health of children, adolescents and young adults; immunization; undernutrition and obesity; and, the growing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases. * A FULLY INTEGRATED CHAPTER on intersectoral approaches to improving health. * EXPANDED DISCUSSION of KEY THREATS such as climate change, antimicrobial resistance, and emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. * MORE THAN 70 CASE STUDIES - 15 of which are brand new to this edition - help illustrate critical issues. * NEW ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTOS, most from an award-winning photographer, bring global health concepts and themes to life. * TWO CHAPTERS ON CAREERS, included on the Navigate 2 platform, help guide readers on career opportunities in Global Health and offer 24 profiles of key global health actors. * THE NAVIGATE 2 ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM, including the comprehensive and interactive e-Book, student practice activities and assessments, learning analytics reporting tools, bonus chapters on careers, additional case studies, and more. * ADDITIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES FOR FACULTY AND STUDENTS, including model syllabi, lists of key global health resources, global health videos, global health websites, and global health massive open online courses, and additional cases for classroom discussion.
Los efectos de lo que fue la revolución del urbanismo no son suficientes para dirigir las ciudades ante los nuevos desafíos del Tercer Milenio. La gestión de las ciudades se enfrenta al hecho de que las dinámicas urbanas pueden desplazarlas del interés que suscita para las personas, las empresas o los inversores.Así, Marketing de ciudades presenta los conceptos y las herramientas de marketing con un enfoque similar al de las empresas que trabajan con una orientación al cliente, que implica un cambio en la forma de pensar y de considerar a los ciudadanos, a los inversores y a los visitantes de la ciudad, y del mismo modo, la transformación del paradigma de gestión de la ciudad tradicional que hará emerger a la ciudad innovadora.La primera parte del libro contempla las transformaciones y los futuros escenarios de las ciudades en el nuevo milenio, y muestra la aplicación y adaptación de las herramientas de marketing al mercado urbano, como un proceso que identifica las necesidades para satisfacer a los que necesiten sus servicios, y que culminará en la realización del plan de marketing para que la ciudad afronte con éxito el futuro.La segunda parte plantea las estrategias de marketing para lograr el desarrollo de ciudades atractivas y competitivas en un mundo global basadas en la creación y comunicación del valor, como la oferta de calidad de vida, la generación de nuevos atractivos comerciales y de ocio, o el impacto de la organización de eventos y de las de inversiones, que harán de la ciudad un lugar atractivo para vivir, trabajar, invertir o visitar.
What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The author's innovative and thoughtful book draws on examples from the physical, life, and social sciences alike, and focuses on all the products of science - not just experiments or theories - and how they work together. She reveals just what it is that makes science ultimately reliable, and how this reliability is nevertheless still compatible with a view of nature as more responsive to human change than we might think. Her book is a call for greater intellectual humility by and within scientific institutions. It will have strong appeal to anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in society.
VEDIC ASTROLOGY IN BRIEF FOR 12 ZODIAC/RASI SIGNS: A SIMPLE VEDIC ASTROLOGY HANDBOOK OF ZODIAC/MOON SIGNS ANALYSIS & PREDICTIONS! INCLUDING STAR, THIDI, WEEKDAY, NITYA YOGAM, KARANAM PREDICTIONS!Gives brief zodiac/ moon sign predictions in common for ascendant, moon sign or zodiac sun sign. Over all 27 stars spread across the zodiac in 360 degrees. Astrology is basically the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies (considering stars & planets) interpreted as having an influence on human affairs/ life and the natural world together to predict anything. Every sun or moon sign has 9 quarters of atleast 3 stars takes 30 degrees for a sign. This book simply gives high level predictions for all the 12 signs with graphical representation of many qualities and planets strength factors. Also lucky numbers, days, colours and gems are given. Vedic and western astrology mainly predicts entire life, sometimes extended to past and future life too; from the planets like Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Uranus (Similar to Ragu), Mercury, Venus, Neptune (Similar to Ketu), Saturn and Mars (also Pluto) and their positions in the 12 zodiac/ lunar houses of natal chart. 12 houses are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. As per vedic system there are 27 stars which are distributed across 12 sun/ moon signs as follows. Aswini, Abarani(Barani), Krithigai, Rohini, Mirgasira, Arudra, punarvasu, Pushyam, Aslesha, Magam, Porva-phalguni, Uttar-palghuni, Hastham, Chitra, Swathi, Visagam, Anuradha (Anusham), Jeshta (Kettai), Moolam, Purvashada, Uthrashada, Sravanam, Dhanishta, Sathabisha, Purvabadra-pada, Utrabadra-pada, Revathi.We need to prepare a chart of horoscope in vedic, western or chinese for predictions. The other areas of astrology streams which are very popular are numerology & names, gemology, auspicious days, marriage or love compatibility, vastu & feng-shui, prasnam, havan (yagnam), remedies etc. Similar to astrology, numerology is also one of the alternative belief systems, which is closely related to planets and the astrologer can predict readings for personal life, career, life partner, business, travel, vastu etc. Also this will be extended to the monthly, yearly or life time predictions for anyone or anything.The prediction of the future with the help of numbers which are from date of birth & name & signature. Numerology deals with the practical application of the laws of mathematics & astrology in to the material existence.Numerology deals with the nine major planets and their characteristic features. Each one of these nine planets is assigned numbers ranging from 1 to 9, depending on which planet vibrates to a particular number. These nine planets influence the human life in a substantial way.After birth, the individual starts radiating the vibrations of that number or planet by which he is governed. All the characteristics of this individual, ranging from his/her thinking, reasoning, emotions, philosophy, desires, aversions, health, career, etc. are all dominated by these numbers or their corresponding planets.Next branch of astrology is related to gems or gem stones. The science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones & materials. It is considered to be geosciences. Many jewellers and astrologers are academically trained gemologists and are qualified to identify and evaluate gems and suggest for various sun and moon signs. The nine precious gem stones called navaratnas consist of: Diamonds, Ruby, Emerald, Blue Sapphire, Yellow Sapphire, Cats Eye, Hessonite, Pearl, and Coral.Know more details for each zodiac or moon sign in brief! Good Luck!
