Medical Equipment: Leasing vs. Buying Victoria J. Sharp and Karl J. Kreder Medical equipment acquisition can be a complicated process. Deciding whether to buy or lease equipment is not as easy as deciding to buy or rent a house. Your gut instinct may not be the best way to decide either. Many of us prefer to own things— house, car, land, clothes, etc. so taking the time to carefully consider the right decision in purchasing versus renting equipment for medical practice causes one to pause. It is important to consider how quickly the technology might change and how long you plan to keep the piece of equipment. The availability of credit may be one of the biggest drivers in this decision but there are other downstream effects that also play a role. You need to make sure there is customer demand for the piece of equipment you intend to buy or lease and that there will be sufficient patient volume to profitably justify the acquisition. How to write a good business plan, includ

COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects and Prospects in the Construction Industry Abstract COVID-19, social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine, furlough, palliatives, and many more emerged as the new vocabularies of the entire world, construction industry not excluded. It is precisely a decade from the last pandemic experienced by the human race. However, the most popular disease outbreak called Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was announced, which hit all the nations of the world within four months and was declared a pandemic in March 2020. This outbreak disrupted businesses around the globe, including built asset procurement and facility management. The United Kingdom, through the Construction Leadership Council, for instance, in responding to this unprecedented situation, published a new Site Operating Procedure (SOP). The effect of this Pandemic in these extraordinary times posed both positive and negative impacts in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Owner

Transformational Leadership Moderates the Relationship Between Emotional Exhaustion and Turnover Intention Among Community Mental Health Providers Abstract Public sector mental health care providers are at high risk for burnout and emotional exhaustion which negatively affect job performance and client satisfaction with services. Few studies have examined ways to reduce these associations, but transformational leadership may have a positive effect. We examine the relationships between transformational leadership, emotional exhaustion, and turnover intention in a sample of 388 community mental health providers. Emotional exhaustion was positively related to turnover intention, and transformational leadership was negatively related to both emotional exhaustion and turnover intention. Transformational leadership moderated the relationship between emotional exhaustion and turnover intention, indicating that having a transformational leader may buffer the effects of providersrsqu

See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41220077 ' I#39;d rather play than look at statues ': The Experiences of Children with Art Works and Interactive Devices at an .... Article · January 2009 Source: OAI CITATIONS 5 READS 30 3 authors, including: Anne Krebs Museacute;e du Louvre 15 PUBLICATIONS 17 CITATIONS Stephane Debenedetti Paris Dauphine University 39 PUBLICATIONS 157 CITATIONS All content following this page was uploaded by Anne Krebs on 09 November 2017. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Arts and Restructuring View project ” Irsquo;d rather play than look at statues ”: The Experiences of Children with Art Works and Interactive Devices at an Art Exhibition Steacute;ph

Environmental Regulation and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act W. Reed Walker December 8, 2010 Preliminary and incomplete. Abstract This paper uses newly available data on plant level regulatory status linked to the Census Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) to measure the impact of changes in county level environmental regulations on plant and sector employment levels. Estimates from a variety of specifications suggest a strong connection between changes in environmental regulatory stringency and both employment growth and levels in the affected sectors. The preferred estimates suggest that changes in county level regulatory status due to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 reduced the size of the regulated sector by as much as 15 percent in the 10 years following the changes. Walker: Columbia University, Department of Economics, 420 West 118th Street New York, NY 10027, rw2157@columbia.edu. I thank Janet Currie, Lucas Davis, Wolfram Schl

Assisting the Poor in China through Tourism Development: a Review of Research Benxiang Zenga,Chris Ryanb 1. Introduction Since the 1990s, tourism as an instrument to reduce poverty has been an important research topic, particularly in developing countries. In 1999, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) introduced the term “pro-poor tourism (PPT)” to define a specific form of “tourist seeking” that contributes to poverty reduction (Ashley, Boyd, amp; Goodwin, 2000; DFID, 1999). In 2002, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (WTO) launched its report “Tourism and Poverty Alleviation” at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and announced the development of a programme of work on “Sustainable TourismEliminating Poverty (ST-EP)” (Sofield, Bauer, De Lacy, Lipman, amp; Daugherty, 2004; WTO, 2002). The purpose of this paper is to examine tourism and poverty alleviation in China by

Gathering Information for Policy Analysis Very few policy problems are truly unique. Invariably there is some information available somewhere that will assist you in some aspect of your policy analysis. Sometimes it is difficult finding relevant information; other times, especially when gathering information from searches on the World Wide Web, it is difficult to extract relevant and reliable information from among a great abundance of facts, data, theories/ claims, and policy advocacy. Often you must tap data originally collected for some purpose very different from your own. In dealing with some policy analysis problems, however, you will have a mandate, time, and resources to conduct field research to gather directly relevant data. Your field research may involve taking a firsthand look at some policy problem, or it may be limited to gaining expert advice about relevant theories and data sources. In this chapter we provide advice about how to begin gathering information in th

Analysis of Examination-Oriented Education in China Abstract: Since the 21st century, the economic globalization trend has been increased very obviously and the intellectual economy era is coming. Human society existence and development depend more and more on the innovation talent. The defects of examination-oriented education in cultivating talents becoming more and more obvious. Faced with the challenge of intellectual economy, we should change the traditional education mode. This paper summarizes the conditions of the examination-oriented education in China nowadays. Analyzed the default and effect of examination-oriented education. Some suggestions were proposed which relative to educational reform and development in China education. Keywords: examination-oriented education, quality-oriented education, student evaluation system comprehensive ability 1. A description of disadvantage of traditional student evaluation system in China Examination-Oriented Education

红色旅游——中国特有的一项旅游活动的发展策略 Bin Wang School of Management, Dalian University of Technology Chunyou Wu School of Management, Dalian University of Technology Haiyao Peng School of International Tourism and Hospitality Management 摘要：“红色旅游”是我国一项独特的新兴旅游活动，它受到了旅游者的极大欢迎，同时也引起了旅游从业者和研究者的高度重视。但是，它的定义狭隘，在区域层面深入发展的政策没有得到充分的讨论。本文首先对红色旅游在更广泛的背景下进行了解释和重新定义。然后，以中国著名旅游城市大连为例，分析了红色旅游资源的现状和基础，提出了促进红色旅游的营销策略，最后阐述了在大连发展红色旅游的策略。 关键词:红色旅游；营销；战略；大连 介绍 就旅游业而言，中国的“红色”一直与中国共产党以前的革命

市民参与的阶梯 在很大程度上加剧了的修辞和误导性的委婉语方面发动了“公民参与”、“公民控制”和“穷人的最大可行参与”的激烈的争论。为了鼓励更开明的对话，从三个联邦社会保障方案的例子为公民参与提供了类型： 市区重建、 反贫困和示范城市。这一类型的设计是为了挑衅梯子模式中设有相应的公民力量在确定计划和/或方案范围内的每个横档。 公民参与的想法是有点胡说八道：原则上没有人会反对它因为它是对你有好处的。在理论上，公民参与政府的统治是民主的基石，一个受人尊敬的主意被几乎所有人大力称赞。然而，当这所倡导的原则包括贫穷的黑人时，墨西哥裔美国人、波多黎各人、印第安人、爱斯基摩人、白人的掌声减少到礼貌的鼓掌。当穷人参与定义为再分配权力，美国共识基本原则分成许多深浅的彻