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Migrant Integration Policy Index II

open access: yes, 2007
Niessen, Jan   +2 more
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The balance point: Indexing policies

Serials Review, 1992
In this column, indexing and abstracting company representatives discuss several aspects of indexing policy and database selection. Authors were asked to describe the selection of titles and the content of the database and how the database is revised and updated. They also discuss how the subject is defined, how balance, quality, and appropriateness of
Mary Elizabeth Clack   +5 more
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School Tobacco Policy Index

2005
This rating form illustrates policies assessed within The School District Tobacco Policy Rating System, which is a standardized method to assess the comprehensiveness of public district-wide tobacco policies.
Center for Public Health Systems Science   +1 more
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Policy Communication Index

2019
Organizational life is subject to both public policies, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act and private policies. The enactment of various policies in organizational settings can often be challenging for organizational members to understand because of the complex nature of such policies.
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The Multicultural Policy Index (MPI)

2021
Multiculturalism and multicultural policies are used by many western democracies to meet the needs of diverse populations resultant from modern trends of globalization and migration. The 1970s saw the rapid movement of peoples, cultures, ideas, and businesses changing the demographic composition of western democracies from a single national culture to ...
Lam, Andrew, Ng, Eddy
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Index Policies for Demand Response

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2014
Demand response programs incentivize loads to actively moderate their energy consumption to aid the power system. Uncertainty is an intrinsic aspect of demand response because a load's capability is often unknown until the load has been deployed. Algorithms must therefore balance utilizing well-characterized, good loads and learning about poorly ...
Joshua A. Taylor, Johanna L. Mathieu
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Policy Evaluation via Composite Indexes: Qualitative Lessons from International Transparency Policy Indexes

World Development, 2015
Summary International transparency policy indexes (ITPIs) help determine billions in investment and aid, influence “authoritative” scholarship, and shape policy choices. Are ITPIs valid yardsticks of transparency, or do they encourage dissimulation?
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Optimal myopic policies and index policies for stochastic scheduling problems

ZOR - Methods and Models of Operations Research, 1993
Summary: Stochastic scheduling problems are considered by using discounted dynamic programming. Both, maximizing pure rewards and minimizing linear holding costs are treated in one common Markov decision problem. A sufficient condition for the optimality of the myopic policy for finite and infinite horizon is given.
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The Policy Modeling Research Consistency Index (PMC-Index)

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This paper will present a new definition and classification about policy modeling. Additionally, this paper proposes a new index is entitled “The Policy Modeling Research Consistency Index (PMC) Index.” There are four basic phases in the implementation of PMC-Index. The first phase is the using of multi-input-output table.
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Investment Policy and Index Numbers

Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 1954
We have chosen Investment Policy and Index Numbers as the title of this paper, because the origin of the Actuaries' Investment Index is to be found in a paper, The Statistical Groundwork of Investment Policy, by the late C.M. Douglas (T.F.A. 12, 173).The main policy consideration discussed by Douglas was the extent to which offices should invest in ...
H. W. Haycocks, J. Plymen
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