Описание: Too often evaluation findings end up on the shelf! Why? Many interventions have several moving parts working together to achieve something each part cannot do independently. Unfortunately, many of the available evaluation approaches oversimplify this reality. A major reason for this is that evaluators do not have a blueprint to plan, and the associated methods to execute, an evaluation fit for this purpose. As such, they revert to using methods with which they are familiar, but are not suitable, for evaluating complex interventions. Consequently, the evaluation findings do not make sense to decisionmakers, so they are ignored. This book provides evaluators of all skill levels with a simple 3-step framework, System Evaluation Theory, that will lead to more actionable recommendations because the methods better capture the reality in which interventions operate; that is as a system.
The book first reviews the limitations of program evaluation approaches that pointed to a need for a different way of thinking, one grounded in systems. After defining a system, the book explains how SET is intentionally aligned to evaluate a system's two essential properties: interdependence and emergence. Individual chapters are dedicated to explaining how to execute each SET step. Throughout, the author draws on real-world examples and those from his own evaluations to help bridge the theory-practice divide. The reader is then shown how to use SET to develop actionable recommendations.
Get to grips with systems engineering life cycles, processes, and best practices and discover techniques to successfully develop complex systems
Key Features:
Discover how to manage increased complexity and understand systems better via effective communication
Adopt a proven model-based approach for systems engineering in your organization
Apply proven techniques for requirements, design, validation and verification, and systems engineering management
Book Description:
Systems engineering helps us to understand, specify, and develop complex systems, and is applied across a wide set of disciplines. As systems and their associated problems become increasingly complex in this evermore connected world, the need for more rigorous, demonstrable, and repeatable techniques also increases.
Written by Professor Jon Holt - an internationally recognized systems engineering expert - this book provides a blend of technical and business aspects you need to understand in order to develop successful systems. You'll start with systems engineering basics and understand the complexity, communication, and different stakeholders' views of the system. The book then covers essential aspects of model-based systems engineering, systems, life cycles, and processes, along with techniques to develop systems. Moving on, you'll explore system models and visualization techniques, focusing on the SysML, and discover how solutions can be defined by developing effective system design, verification, and validation techniques. The book concludes by taking you through key management processes and systems engineering best practices and guidelines.
By the end of this systems engineering book, you'll be able to confidently apply modern model-based systems engineering techniques to your own systems and projects.
What You Will Learn:
Understand the three evils of systems engineering - complexity, ambiguous communication, and lack of understanding
Realize successful systems using model-based systems engineering
Understand the concept of life cycles and how they control the evolution of a system
Explore processes and related concepts such as activities, stakeholders, and resources
Discover how needs fit into the systems life cycle and which processes are relevant and how to comply with them
Find out how design, verification, and validation fit into the life cycle and processes
Who this book is for:
This book is for aspiring systems engineers, engineering managers, or anyone looking to apply systems engineering practices to their systems and projects. While a well-structured, model-based approach to systems engineering is an essential skill for engineers of all disciplines, many companies are finding that new graduates have little understanding of systems engineering. This book helps you acquire this skill with the help of a simple and practical approach to developing successful systems. No prior knowledge of systems engineering or modeling is required to get started with this book.
Описание: Behavioral outbursts can become increasingly difficult to work with and be around as our loved ones dementia progresses.Every caregiver has found themselves in a situation where they were searching for something to help. This quick reference books provides several or find non-drug interventions to use to calm your loved one down based on decades of proven experience.With over 300 ideas and examples, the newest book from the 168 Hour Caregiving Work Week Series - Activity and Behavior Interventions for Low Functioning Individuals is designed as a quick reference guide of ideas to engage the one you care for.Throw away any pre-conceived notions you and others may have on how something should be done. There is no right or wrong way when it comes to caregiving. There is only what works for you and your loved one.This simple tool is a guide and can be used with for the following:1. Alzheimer's2. Lewy Body Dementia3. Frontal Lobe Dementia4. Vascular Dementia5. Parkinson's6. Traumatic Brain Injury7. Huntington's Disease8. Stroke9. many moreSome of the the activity and intervention topics covered in this book:1. Yelling and Screaming2. Time and Place Orientation3. Poor Judgement4. Inappropriate Sexual ExpressionThese bullet point ideas are designed to allow you to start with a simple, proven idea and then use your own skills to modify the non-drug activity to either engage or intervene in a behavior.
Описание: The volumes in this authoritative series present a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations. Volume 5 is devoted to cells, tissues, and organs of the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems with an emphasis on mechanotransduction-based regulation of flow. The blood vessel wall is a living tissue that quickly reacts to loads applied on it by the flowing blood. In any segment of a blood vessel, the endothelial and smooth muscle cells can sense unusual time variations in small-magnitude wall shear stress and large-amplitude wall stretch generated by abnormal hemodynamic stresses. These cells respond with a short-time scale (from seconds to hours) to adapt the vessel caliber. Since such adaptive cell activities can be described using mathematical models, a key objective of this volume is to identify the mesoscopic agents and nanoscopic mediators required to derive adequate mathematical models. The resulting biomathematical models and corresponding simulation software can be incorporated into platforms developed in virtual physiology for improved understanding and training.
Автор: Chang Yu-Ming Название: Unix-Based Operating Systems Robustness Evaluation ISBN: 1288910096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781288910090 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10658.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Most youth civic engagement evaluation studies fail to reach beyond specific audiences, thereby hindering the diffusion of evaluation practice wisdom around effective methods to evaluate complex social innovations. This book therefore provides multiple case studies of youth civic engagement evaluation designs and straightforward guidance for designing youth civic engagement evaluations.
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