dicdef date January 2012 Wiktionary Effectiveness is the capability of producing a desired result. When something is deemed effective, it means it has an intended or expected outcome, or produces a deep, vivid impression. ref Dictionary.com, LLC. Effectiveness Define Effectiveness at Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com. 2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. http dictionary.reference.com browse effectiveness . ref Etymology The origin of the word effective stems from the Latin word effect vus, which means creative, productive or effective. It surfaced in Middle English between 1300 1400 A.D. ref Harper, Douglas. Etymology Online. Online Etymology Dictionary ... unobserved processes. In heat transfer , effectiveness is a measure of the performance of a heat exchanger when using the NTU method . In medicine , effectiveness relates to how well a treatment works ... studies. In management , effectiveness relates to getting the right things done . Peter Drucker reminds us that effectiveness can and must be learned. . ref Peter F. Drucker 2006 . The Effective ... interaction , effectiveness is defined as the accuracy and completeness of users tasks while ... effectiveness, nor effectively, inform about the direction positive or negative and the comparison .... 2011. Web. 04 Oct. 2011. http www.ldoceonline.com dictionary effective . ref Other synonyms for effectiveness include clout, capability, success, weight, performance. ref STANDS4 LLC. Effectiveness Synonym. Synonyms.net. 2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. http www.synonyms.net synonym effectiveness . ref Antonyms for effectiveness include uselessness, ineffectiveness. ref STANDS4 LLC. Effectiveness Synonym. Synonyms.net. 2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. http www.synonyms.net synonym effectiveness . ref Another source of confusion regarding the term effectiveness is its relationship with the term affectiveness ... of thought Category Heat transfer bg cs Efektivita de Effectiveness fa lt Veiksmingumas ... more details
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refimprove date May 2008 Organizational effectiveness is the concept of how effectiveness effective an organization .... 1964 . Modern Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall. ref The idea of organizational effectiveness ... in accomplishing its goals. However, scholars of nonprofit organizational effectiveness acknowledge ... Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness Research and Theory Nine Theses. Nonprofit Management & Leadership ... of Organizational Effectiveness Perspectives from Leaders of International Nonprofits in the United ... ref For example, while most nonprofit leaders define organizational effectiveness ... toward its own goals, a minority of nonprofit leaders define effectiveness as overhead minimization ... organizational effectiveness captures organizational performance plus the myriad internal performance ... of Management. ref An organization s effectiveness is also dependent on its communicative competence ... within organizational effectiveness. An organization must exemplify respect, honesty, integrity and equity ... in organizational effectiveness of those people who seek funds from the foundations. Foundations .... Organizational effectiveness is an abstract concept and is difficult for many organizations to directly measure. Instead of measuring organizational effectiveness directly, the organization selects proxy measures to represent effectiveness. Proxy measures may include such things as number of people ... its organizational effectiveness by trying to determine what actual activities the people in the organization ... effectiveness is typically evaluated within nonprofit organizations using logic models. Logic models ... are important inputs into organizational effectiveness because although they do not directly result ... Review October , 111 118. ref ref Mitchell, George E. 2012 . The Construct of Organizational Effectiveness ... effectiveness. ref Wing, Kennard, & Hager, Mark A. 2004 . Getting What We Pay For Low Overhead Limits Nonprofit Effectiveness Nonprofit Overhead Cost Project Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits ... more details
Personal effectiveness is a branch of the self help movement dealing with success, goals, and related concepts. Personal effectiveness integrates some ideas from the power of positive thinking and Positive Psychology but in general it is distinct from the New Thought Movement . A primary differentiating factor is that Personal Effectiveness proponents generally take a more systematic approach including a number of factors beside simple positive thinking. Some proponents take an approach with similarities to business process management techniques. Others may take a holistic spiritual and physical wellness approach. Beginnings Many of the ideas behind the personal effectiveness movement derive from the field of business and management. Such luminaries as Peter Drucker , W. Edwards Deming , and Genichi Taguchi revolutionized business and industry in the mid 20th century by focusing on such concepts as quality, efficiency, and optimization. In particular, Drucker s ideas of Management by Objectives as explained in his 1954 book The Practice of Management emphasized the importance of clarity of roles, responsibilities, and expectations. They also outlined the framework of SMART project management SMART goal setting . In the management field, these advancements branched into the Leadership movement for examples see Ken Blanchard , Jim Collins and the more technical advancements including lean manufacturing lean thinking , and six sigma . Overview Early self help classics such as Dale ... comprehensive approach to personal effectiveness began to emerge. A watershed benchmark of the genre ... centric and broadly applicable approach to effectiveness in business and in personal life and has ... personal effectiveness gurus typically revolve around traditional publishing, but may also include ... which embraces the open source paradigm of free content. Noteworthy open source personal effectiveness ... Personal Effectiveness Category Personal development ... more details
Sales effectiveness refers to the ability of a company s sales professionals to win at each stage of the customer s buying process, and ultimately earn the business on the right terms and in the right timeframe. Improving sales effectiveness is not just a sales function issue it s a company issue, as it requires deep collaboration between sales and marketing to understand what s working and not working, and continuous improvement of the knowledge, messages, skills, and strategies that sales people apply as they work sales opportunities. Sales effectiveness has historically been used to describe a category of technologies and consulting services aimed at helping companies improve their sales results. Many companies are creating sales effectiveness functions and have even given people titles such as VP of Sales Effectiveness. By analyzing sales force performance, managers can make changes to optimize sales going forward. Toward that end, there are many ways to gauge the performance of individual salespeople and of the sales force as a whole, in addition to total annual sales. In a survey of nearly 200 senior marketing managers, 54 percent responded that they found the sales force effectiveness metric very useful. ref name Marketing Metrics Farris, Paul W. Neil T. Bendle Phillip E. Pfeifer David J. Reibstein 2010 . Marketing Metrics The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 0137058292. The Marketing Accountability ... Language Marketing Activities and Metrics Project . ref Purpose The purpose of sales force effectiveness ... effectiveness of sales personnel. ref name Zoltners et al Zoltners, Andris A., Prabhakant Sinha, and Greggor ... s effectiveness in maximizing the value of existing customers. Although it is important to make the most ... is a methodology used to evaluate the sales effectiveness of an organization. A comprehensive ... and Capgemini Note No sales force effectiveness methodologies have been independently audited by the Marketing ... more details
Aid effectiveness is the effectiveness of development aid in achieving economic development economic ... looking for new ways to improve aid effectiveness, including conditionality , capacity building ... kaufmann.aspx Aid Effectiveness and Governance The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Daniel Kaufmann, Brookings ... effectiveness movement began taking shape in the late 1990s. Donor governments and aid agencies began ... countries, to harmonize their work in order to improve its impact. The aid effectiveness movement ..., countries from around the world endorsed the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness , a more comprehensive ... aim of aid effectiveness efforts today is to help developing countries build well functioning ... on aid. Why effectiveness matters As recognized by the OECD s Working Party on Aid Effectiveness ... Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, Transforming Global Partnership for Development, March 2010. Available at www.oecd.org dac effectiveness . ref Aid flows have significantly increased over the last ... community addressed the effectiveness issue through the Paris Declaration and the subsequent ..., S., Improving the Effectiveness of Aid , Finance and Development, Vol. 25, n. 3, The International ..., ref name Killen, B. 2011 Killen, B., How Much Does Aid Effectiveness Improve Development Outcomes .... The publication on September 21, 2011 of the OECD Development Assistance Committee s Aid Effectiveness ... Effectiveness held in Busan , Korea, from November 29 to December 1, 2011, arrives at a crossroads in the context of international development cooperation. ref OECD, Aid Effectiveness 2005 10 Progress .... ref name Killen, B. 2011 Related research on aid effectiveness Refimprove date April 2010 Micro ... the micro macro paradox. One challenge for assessing the effectiveness of aid is that not all ... year 2007 volume 21 issue 2 pages 255 277 ref Studies and Literature on Aid Effectiveness One problem ... constraints. Also, geographically challenged countries would display lower effectiveness with respect ... more details
Cleanup date December 2008 Marketing Marketing effectiveness is the quality of how marketers go to market with the goal of optimizing their spending to achieve good results for both the short term and long term. It is also related to Marketing ROI and Return on Marketing Investment ROMI . Marketing expert Tony Lennon believes marketing effectiveness is quintessential to marketing, going so far as to say It s not marketing if it s not measured. ref cite web url http blog.modelsheetsoft.com 2011 its not marketing if its not measured title It s Not Marketing If It s Not Measured ref The concept of marketing effectiveness first came to prominence in the 1990s with the publication of Improving Marketing Effectiveness Robert Shaw Marketing Shaw,R ref Shaw, R. Improving Marketing Effectiveness the methods and tools that work best , Economist Books, 1998 ISBN 1861970544 ref which won the 1998 Business Management Book of the Year Award. Introduction p Marketing effectiveness has four dimensions Corporate Each company operates within different bounds. These are determined by their size, their budget and their ability to make organizational change. Within these bounds marketers operate ... of how customers make purchasing decisions can help marketers improve their marketing effectiveness ... of our immediate control that can impact the effectiveness of our marketing activities. These can include ... campaigns. p p There are five factors driving the level of marketing effectiveness that marketers can achieve Marketing Strategy Improving marketing effectiveness can be achieved by employing a superior ... making changes to the strategic position or the creative execution marketers can improve their effectiveness and deliver increased revenue. At the program level marketers can improve their effectiveness ... effectiveness for each type of program. A growing area of interest within Marketing Strategy and Execution ... effectiveness. p See also Demand chain Marketing Marketing management Marketing operations ... more details
merge to Stopping power date October 2010 Handgun effectiveness is a measure of the stopping power of a handgun its ability to incapacitate a hostile target as quickly and efficiently as possible. Overview Most handgun projectiles have significantly lower energy than centerfire rifle s. What they lack in power, they make up for it in light weight, small size, concealability and practicality. The lack of power they possess, and caliber bullet effectiveness, are widely debated topics with growing experimental research among civilians, law enforcement, ammunition companies, and the military. Factors that can influence handgun effectiveness include handgun design, bullet types and bullet capabilities e.g. wound mechanisms, penetration, velocity . ref cite paper title Gunshot Wounds 1. Bullets, Ballistics, and Mechanisms of Injury author Jeremy J. Hollerman, Martin L. Fackler, Douglas M. Coldwell, and Yoram Ben Menachem year October 1990 publisher American Journal of Roentgenology vol.155 no. 4 url http www.ajronline.org content 155 4 685.full.pdf html pages 685 690 ref Factors Cavitation Most handgun projectiles wound primarily through the size of the hole they produce. This hole is known as a permanent cavity . For comparison, rifles wound through temporary cavitation as well as permanent cavitation. A temporary cavity is also known as a stretch cavity . This is because it acts to stretch the permanent cavity, increasing the wounding potential. The potential for wounding via temporary cavity depends on the elasticity of the tissue, bullet fragmentation, and the rate of energy transfer ... to measure a handgun s effectiveness. One of them is Penetration weapons penetration . The FBI s requirement ... wave can contribute to handgun bullet effectiveness. Recent work published by scientists M Courtney ... length and bullet velocity. See also Pistol whipping References references DEFAULTSORT Handgun Effectiveness Category Handguns Effectiveness Category Ballistics ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced March 2007 wikify October 2009 orphan February 2009 Marketing and Sales Effectiveness is a category of technologies and services that refers to improving business results through optimizing the efforts of Marketing and Sales, which, if properly aligned, make each business group more effective. Marketing and Sales Effectiveness is frequently seen in Technology, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Insurance, and Financial markets. Scope Marketing and Sales Effectiveness encompasses all activities taking place for demand creation, such as lead generation and marketing communications. It also includes sales readiness and productivity. Marketing and Sales Effectiveness also requires strategic business and sales channel alignment for optimum success. Elements Elements of Marketing and Sales Effectiveness Customer Segmentation Differentiation Product differentiation Implementation Technologies This would manifest itself as a set of technologies, business processes, and services which enable companies to integrate processes and systems to achieve business goals. Technologies and resources for Marketing and Sales Effectiveness include DEFAULTSORT Marketing And Sales Effectiveness Category Business terms ... more details
The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness CRE is a lobby group in the United States which focuses on federal agency compliance with good government laws which regulate the regulators. These good government laws include the Data Quality Act , the Paperwork Reduction Act , Executive Orders on regulatory review, the Unfunded Mandates Act, the Regulatory Flexibility Act and the Congressional Review Act. CRE was formed by former career officials of the White House Office of Management and Budget. The head of the firm is Jim Tozzi . It has been criticised as a front organisation for industries which seek to undermine the regulatory process, notably by Chris Mooney journalist Chris C. Mooney in his book The Republican War on Science http www.waronscience.com home.php . One of CRE s projects to promote public participation in the regulatory process is the establishment of the Interactive Public Docket . External links http www.thecre.com index.html Center for Regulatory Effectiveness Firm Homepage http www.sourcewatch.org index.php?title Center for Regulatory Effectiveness SourceWatch Center for Regulatory Effectiveness Category Advocacy groups Category Lobbying organizations in the United States Category Agencies of the United States government ... more details
refimprove date April 2012 The Drug Effectiveness Review Project DERP is an Oregon based collaboration of public and private organizations, including fifteen states, that have joined together to provide systematic evidence based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of Medication drugs in many widely used drug classes and to apply the findings to inform public policy and related activities. The purpose of the DERP reports is to make available information regarding the comparative effectiveness and safety profiles of different drugs within pharmaceutical classes. DERP reports are not usage guidelines, nor should they be read as an endorsement of or recommendation for any particular drug, use or approach. Oregon Health & Science University does not recommend or endorse any guideline or recommendation developed by users of these reports. External links http www.ohsu.edu drugeffectiveness The Drug Effectiveness Review Project at Oregon Health & Science University Category Medical researchers Category Systematic review ... more details
Network Effectiveness Ratio NER In telecommunications , the Network Effectiveness Ratio NER measures the ability of a telecommunications network network to deliver a call to the called terminal. Busy signals and other call failure due to user behaviour are counted as successful call delivery for NER calculation purposes. Unlike Answer Seizure ratio ASR , NER excludes the effects of customer and terminal behaviour. The NER is a measure of network quality defined in ITU T Recommendation E.425 . See also Answer Seizure ratio ASR Answer to Seizure Ratio Category Telephony telecomm stub de Network Effectiveness Ratio it NER ... more details
Definition br The incremental cost effectiveness ratio ICER is an equation used commonly in health economics to provide a practical approach to decision making regarding health interventions. It is typically used in cost effectiveness analysis . ICER is the ratio of the change in costs to incremental benefits of a therapeutic intervention or treatment. ref Folland S, Goodman AC, Stano M. Chapter 4 Economic Effiencey and Cost Benefit Analysis. In The Economics of Health and Health Care. 6th Edition. 2010. Prentice Hall Boston, MA. ref The equation for ICER is br br ICER C1 C2 E1 E2 br br where C1 ... and effect in the control care group. ref What is the incremental cost effectiveness ratio ICER ? GaBI Online. http www.gabionline.net Generics General What is the incremental cost effectiveness ... Primer on Cost Effectiveness Analysis. Effective Clinical Practice, September October 2000. http ... research practices Good Research Practices Cost Effectiveness Analysis with Clinical Trials.pdf Good research practices for cost effectiveness analysis alongside clinical trials The ISPOR RCT CEA task ... feel that basing health care interventions on cost effectiveness is a type of health care rationing ... NICE of England s National Health Service NHS uses cost effectiveness studies to determine if new .... With the number of cost effectiveness studies rising, it is expected for a cost effectiveness ratio ... full Use of cost effectiveness analysis in health care resource allocation decision making How are cost effectiveness thresholds expected to emerge ? Value in Health, 2004 7 5 518 528. ref without ... effectiveness analysis studies. The Senate Finance Committee in writing PPACA forbade PCORI from ... pcori head vows not to do cost effectiveness studies but notes gray areas menu id 869.html PCORI head vows not to do cost effectiveness studies, but notes gray areas . http InsideHealthPolicy.com ... DEFAULTSORT Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio Category Costs Category Health economics Category ... more details
Context date May 2009 Power usage effectiveness PUE is a measure of how efficiently a computer data center uses its power specifically, how much of the power is actually used by the computing equipment in contrast to cooling and other overhead . PUE is the ratio of total amount of power used by a computer data center facility ref http searchdatacenter.techtarget.com sDefinition 0,,sid80 gci1307933,00.html SearchDataCenter.com power usage effectiveness PUE ref ref Digital Realty Trust http www.digitalrealtytrust.com pue efficiency.aspx PUE Data Center Efficiency Metric ref ref http www.esmagazine.com Articles Feature Article BNP GUID 9 5 2006 A 10000000000000160061 Engineered Systems Optimizing Power Usage Effectiveness In Data Centers ref ref http www.thegreengrid.org sitecore content Global Content white papers The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics PUE and DCiE.aspx The Green Grid The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics PUE and DCiE ref ref Google Efficient Computing http www.google.com corporate green datacenters measuring.html Data Center Efficiency Measurements ref ref Dell http www.dell.com downloads global power ps1q08 20080185 Rad.pdf Best Practices for Increasing Data Center Energy Efficiency ref ref Cisco Systems http www.cisco.com en US prod switches ps5718 ps10195 white paper c11 514539.html Cisco Energywise ref to the Electric power power delivered to computing equipment. PUE was developed by a consortium called The Green Grid . PUE is the inverse of data center infrastructure efficiency DCiE . An ideal PUE is 1.0. Anything that isn t considered a computing device in a data center i.e. lighting, cooling, etc. falls into the category of facility power usage. math mathrm PUE mbox Total facility power over mbox IT equipment power math See also Data center infrastructure efficiency Performance per watt Gpue Green power usage effectiveness ... Power usage effectiveness fr Indicateur d efficience nerg tique it Power usage effectiveness fi PUE ... more details
Cost effectiveness analysis CEA is a form of economic financial analysis analysis that compares the relative costs and outcomes effects of two or more courses of action. Cost effectiveness analysis is distinct from cost benefit analysis , which assigns a monetary value to the measure of effect. ref name CEAvCBA cite journal author Bleichrodt H, Quiggin J title Life cycle preferences over consumption and health when is cost effectiveness analysis equivalent to cost benefit analysis? journal J Health Econ volume 18 issue 6 pages 681 708 year 1999 month December pmid 10847930 doi 10.1016 S0167 6296 99 00014 4 url ref Cost effectiveness analysis is often used in the field of health services, where it may be inappropriate to monetize health effect. Typically the CEA is expressed in terms of a ratio where the denominator is a gain in health from a measure years of life, premature births averted, sight years gained and the numerator is the cost associated with the health gain. ref cite book author Gold MR et al. title Cost effectiveness in health and medicine page xviii ref The most commonly used outcome measure is quality adjusted life year s QALY . ref name CEAvCBA Cost utility analysis is similar to cost effectiveness analysis. General application The concept of cost effectiveness is applied ... cost effectiveness principle. Cost effectiveness analysis is also applied to many other areas ... of pharmacoeconomics , the cost effectiveness of a therapeutic or preventive intervention is the ratio ... effectiveness is typically expressed as an incremental cost effectiveness ratio ICER , the ratio ... reviewed medical literature is available from the Cost Effectiveness Analysis Registry website. A 1995 study of the cost effectiveness of over 500 life saving medical interventions found that the median ... ME, Pliskin JS, et al title Five hundred life saving interventions and their cost effectiveness ... CM, Urbach DR, Ray JG, et al title Bias in published cost effectiveness studies systematic review ... more details
Comparative effectiveness research CER is the direct comparison of existing health care interventions ... question of comparative effectiveness research is which treatment works best, for whom, and under ...?record id 12648&page 29 Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research ref An important ... 316 7127 285 ref . These clinical research trials measure effectiveness the benefit the treatment produces ... for CER. Several groups have emerged to provide leadership in the area of Comparative Effectiveness ... on practical models for comparative effectiveness research. http www.ecri.org comparativeeffectiveness ... to informed patient choice for preference sensitive care, improving quality, safety, and effectiveness ... quality while reducing rising costs. ref Science Magazine Comparative Effectiveness Research ... http www.nap.edu catalog.php?record id 12648 ref Incremental cost effectiveness ratio ICER The ICER ... tool of CEA is the incremental cost effectiveness ratio ICER given by the difference in costs between ... group. As a metric for cost effectiveness studies, the ICER provides the results in Quality Adjusted ... a cost effectiveness analysis of any treatment.2 Incremental cost effectiveness ratio ICER use in Business or Interventions An incremental cost effectiveness ratio ICER is an economic measurement used ... unit of difference in the eventual outcome. Most commonly, an incremental cost effectiveness ratio ... Cost effectiveness analysis helps identify ways to redirect resources to achieve more. It demonstrates ... the utility of allocating resources from less to more cost effective interventions. Cost effectiveness Plane or Matrix Thresholds The cost effectiveness plane or matrix graphically depicts ICER based ..., circumstances in which cost and effectiveness are equally lowered or increased yielding identical ICER values are mapped according to cost and effectiveness coordinates, providing the basis ... to the value 1 0 where 1 is the experimental effectiveness and 0 is the control effectiveness ... more details
The Battle Effectiveness Award formerly the Battle Efficiency Award , commonly known as the Battle E , is awarded annually to the small number of United States Navy ships, submarines, aviation, and other units that win their battle effectiveness competition. File USSRankinGoldE.jpg thumb 200px left Crewmembers paint a gold E on the stack of the USS Rankin AKA 103 6 The criterion for the Battle Effectiveness Award is the overall readiness of the command to carry out its assigned wartime tasks, and is based on a year long evaluation. The competition for the award is, and has always been, extremely keen. To win, a ship or unit must demonstrate the highest state of battle readiness. The Battle Effectiveness Award recognizes sustained superior performance in an operational environment within a command. ref cite book url http www.fas.org man dod 101 navy docs sftm Ch5sec1.html title Surface Force Training Manual chapter Unit Competitions Battle Efficiency and Command Excellence Awards publisher US Navy edition Revision D date 1998 06 18 ref To qualify for Battle E consideration, a ship must win a minimum of three out of four Command Excellence awards Maritime Warfare, Engineering Survivability, Command and Control, Logistics Management , and be nominated by their immediate superior in command. Eligibility for the award demands day to day demonstrated excellence in addition to superior achievement during the certifications and qualifications conducted throughout the year. A ship s performance during training exercises, weapons inspections, and tactical readiness examinations are among the 16 different areas that are considered in the competition. File US Navy 040712 N 0000X 001 Gold ... E . Ships that win a battle effectiveness competition are authorized to paint a white E with black ... Effectiveness Award for COMNAVSURFOR ships. ref cite web publisher USS Vicksburg CG 69 url http www.vicksburg.navy.mil ... Cup References commonscat Battle E Award Battle Effectiveness Award Reflist Category Awards and decorations ... more details
Cleanup date November 2008 The Cost Effectiveness Analysis Registry was developed by the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center , Boston, MA. The Registry contains detailed information on over 2,800 cost utility analyses published through 2010. Health related CEAs estimate the resources used costs and the health benefits achieved effects for an intervention compared to an alternative treatment strategy. The Registry focuses on a subset of CEAs, called Cost utility analysis cost utility analyses CUAs that quantify health benefits in terms of quality adjusted life year s QALYs , a metric that accounts ..., or methodological articles, as well as cost effectiveness analyses that do not use QALYs to quantify ... in decision analysis and cost effectiveness analysis independently review each article and record ... for identifying acceptably favorable cost effectiveness ratios a subjective assessment regarding ... MJ title Does Medicare Have an Implicit Cost Effectiveness Threshold? journal Medical Decision Making ... LM, Greenberg D, Cohen JT, Neumann PJ title The adoption of cost effectiveness acceptability curves ... JA, Neumann PJ title A bibliometric review of cost effectiveness analysis in the economic and medical ... A, Greenberg D, Palmer JA, Neumann PJ title Patient adherence A blind spot in cost effectiveness analysis ... journal author Neumann PJ title Costing and perspective in published cost effectiveness analyses ... effectiveness analysis in medical imaging Are we improving? journal Radiology year 2008 month Dec ... Trends in cost effectiveness analyses in orthopaedic surgery journal Clin. Orthop. Relat. Res. volume ... 7 661 cite journal author Bell CM, Urbach DR, Ray JG, et al. title Bias in published cost effectiveness ...? A systematic review of the cost effectiveness literature journal Crit Care Med. volume 34 issue 11 ..., Rosen AB, Weinstein MC title Medicare and cost effectiveness analysis journal The New England Journal ... more details
Use dmy dates date October 2011 Overall equipment effectiveness OEE is a hierarchy of metrics developed by Seiichi Nakajima in 1960 s based on Harrington Emerson way of thinking regarding to labor efficiency which evaluates and indicates how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized. The results are stated in a generic form which allows comparison between manufacturing units in differing industries. It is not however an absolute measure and is best used to identify scope for process performance improvement, and how to get the improvement. If for example the cycle time is reduced, the OEE can also reduce, even though more product is produced for less resource. Another example is if one enterprise serves a high volume, low variety market, and another enterprise serves a low volume, high variety market. More changeovers set ups will lower the OEE in comparison, but if the product is sold at a premium, there could be more margin with a lower OEE. OEE measurement is also commonly used as a key performance indicator KPI in conjunction with lean manufacturing efforts to provide an indicator ... top level metrics Overall equipment effectiveness OEE and total effective equipment performance TEEP ... and ideal performance. Overall equipment effectiveness quantifies how well a manufacturing unit performs ... up to aggregate levels. Overall equipment effectiveness OEE breaks the performance of a manufacturing ... x 95.0 Quality 76.6 Total effective equipment performance Where OEE measures effectiveness based on scheduled hours, TEEP measures effectiveness against calendar hours, i.e. 24 hours per day ... Time that is available. The Loading Metric is a pure measurement of Schedule Effectiveness and is designed ... Press Development Team 1999 , OEE for Operators Overall Equipment Effectiveness , Productivity Press, ISBN 978 1 56327 221 9 Hansen, Robert C 2005 , Overall Equipment Effectiveness OEE , Industrial ... evaluation of effectiveness than performance or availability. OEE also to some extent assumes ... more details
Overall Labor Effectiveness OLE is a key performance indicator KPI that measures the utilization, performance, and quality of the workforce and its impact on productivity. Similar to Overall Equipment Effectiveness OEE , OLE measures availability, performance, and quality. Availability the percentage of time employees spend making effective contributions Performance the amount of product delivered Quality the percentage of perfect or saleable product produced OLE allows manufacturers to make operational decisions by giving them the ability to analyze the cumulative effect of these three workforce factors on productive output, while considering the impact of both direct and indirect labor. br OLE supports Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and applies them to workforce processes, allowing manufacturers to make labor related activities more efficient, repeatable and impactful. ref cite web last RP news wires first Noria Corporation title New KPI measures plants overall labor effectiveness url http www.reliableplant.com Read 6388 new kpi measures plants overall labor effectiveness accessdate 11 30 2011 ref Measuring availability There are many factors that influence workforce availability and therefore the potential output of equipment and the manufacturing plant. OLE can help manufacturers be sure that they have the person with the right skills available at the right time by enabling manufacturers to locate areas where providing and scheduling the right mix of employees can increase the number of productive hours. OLE also accounts for labor utilization. Understanding where downtime losses are coming from and the impact they have on production can reveal root causes which can include machine downtime, material delays, or absenteeism that delay a line startup. br br Calculation ... by Overall Labor Effectiveness organized by its major categories. Using this labor information, manufacturers ... Productive Maintenance Overall Equipment Effectiveness Lean Six Sigma External links http www.oeetoolkit.nl ... more details
Loss of Tail rotor Effectiveness ref Rotorcraft Flying Handbook Section 11 12, Federal Aviation Administration, Skyhorse Publishing July 2007 ISBN 978 1602390607 ref LTE occurs when the tail rotor of a helicopter is exposed to wind forces that prevent it from carrying out its function that of cancelling the torque of the engine and transmission. Any low airspeed high power environment provides an opportunity for it to occur. Three wind directions conducive to LTE Main rotor vortexes pushed into the tail rotor by wind. This can occur with wind coming from 10 O clock on North American counter clockwise rotors and from 2 O clock on clockwise rotors. The wind pushes the dirty air and vortexes generated from the main rotor into the tail rotor preventing the tail rotor from having clean air to propel. Wind from the tail 6 O clock can cause the helicopter to attempt to weathervane into the wind. The winds passing on both sides of the tail rotor make it teeter between being effective providing thrust and ineffective not providing thrust . This creates a lot of pedal work for the pilot to eliminate unintended Yaw angle yaw . Wind moving in the same direction as the tail rotor moves air. With pusher tail rotors, that s wind from the opposite side of the tail rotor. With puller tail rotors, that s wind from the same side as the tail rotor. For main rotors with clockwise rotation European , that s wind from 3 O clock. For main rotors with counter clockwise rotation, that s wind from 9 O clock. The wind going through the tail rotor causes an actual Stall flight stall condition as it decreases the effective airspeed of the air through the tail rotor. This condition will cause an unintended yaw that may develop into a spin. Recovery from this condition may be difficult if no airspeed is available, and will require entry into an autorotation thus removing the torque of the engine and transmission ... Loss Of Tail Rotor Effectiveness Category Helicopter aerodynamics ... more details
infobox Organization name Institute for State Effectiveness image InstituteStateEffectiveness.gif size 270px caption abbreviation ISE motto Building states that work. formation 2005 type Non governmental organization headquarters 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW location Washington, D.C. leader title Chairman leader name Ashraf Ghani leader title2 CEO leader name2 Clare Lockhart website http www.effectivestates.org effectivestates.org The Institute for State Effectiveness ISE is a non governmental organization based in Washington, D.C. which seeks to develop integrated approaches to state building and provide independent, authoritative and practical policy advice to the international community and national leaders who are tasked with creating effective states in a globalized world. ref http www.effectivestates.org about.htm ref Leadership and history The institute was founded in 2005 by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart. As of June, 2010 Mr. Ghani serves as chairman. ref http www.npr.org templates story story.php?storyId 128188421 Watching D.C. From Kabul National Public Radio. June 29, 2010. Retrieved December 6, 2011. ref As of March 2010, Ms. Lockhart serves as CEO of the Institute. ref http www.abc.net.au radionational programs futuretense 21st century state building 3116832 21st century state building Australian Broadcasting Company. March 18, 2010. Retrieved December 6, 2011 ref The Institute s work has focused largely on Afghanistan . ref http www.npr.org templates story story.php?storyId 121051019 Former Afghan Prime Minister Weighs U.S. Troop Surge National Public Radio. December 3, 2009. Retrieved December 6, 2011. ref Organizational goals The Institute uses a citizen centered perspective to rethink the fundamentals of the relationship between citizens, the state and the market in the context of globalization. The organization feels that stability and prosperity in our interdependent world demand a new global compact to ensure that the billions of people currently ... more details
Relative effectiveness factor or R.E. factor is a measurement of an explosive s power for military demolition s purposes. It is used to compare an explosive s effectiveness relative to TNT by weight only. This enables engineers to substitute one explosive for another when they are calculating blasting equations that are designed for TNT. For example, if a timber cutting charge requires 1 kg of TNT to work, it would take 0.6 kg of PETN, 1.25 kg of ANFO, or 0.37 kg of ONC to have the same effect. R.E. factor examples The bigger the R.E. number, the more powerful the explosive. style font size 100 text align right class wikitable sortable border 1 Some R.E. factor examples Explosive, Grade Density br g cm sup 3 sup Table of explosive detonation velocities Detonation br Vel. m s R.E. br align left Ammonium nitrate AN 1.12 5270 0.42 align left Gunpowder Black powder 75 KNO sub 3 sub 15 C 10 S 1.70 400 0.55 align left ANFO 94.3 AN 5.7 fuel oil 0.84 5270 0.80 align left Acetone Peroxide TATP 1.18 5300 0.83 align left Trinitrotoluene TNT 1.65 6900 1.00 align left Amatol 80 TNT 20 AN 1.55 6570 1.17 align left Tetrytol 70 Tetryl 30 TNT 1.71 7370 1.20 align left Tetryl 1.73 7570 1.25 align left C 4 explosive C 4 91 RDX 1.74 8040 1.34 align left C 3 explosive C 3 old RDX based 7924 1.35 align left Composition B 63 RDX 36 TNT 1.75 7800 1.35 align left Nitroglycerin 1.60 7700 1.50 align left Erythritol tetranitrate 1.60 8100 1.60 align left RDX 1.82 8750 1.60 align left Semtex 94.3 PETN 5.7 RDX 1.78 8420 1.66 align left PETN 1.77 8400 1.66 align left HMX 1.91 9100 1.70 align left HNIW CL 20 9380 align left DDF 4,4 Dinitro 3,3 diazenofuroxan 2.02 10,000 align left Heptanitrocubane HNC align left Octanitrocubane ONC 1.98 10,100 2.70 align left Nuclear weapon yield variable see note 19.10 100,000 5,200,000.00 class sortbottom Explosive, Grade Density br g cm sup 3 sup Table of explosive detonation ... more details
Parent Effectiveness Training P.E.T. is a parent education program based on the Gordon Model by Thomas Gordon psychologist Thomas Gordon . Dr. Gordon taught the first P.E.T. course in 1962 and the courses proved to be so popular with parent s that he began training instructors throughout the United States to teach it in their communities. Over the next several years, the course spread to all 50 states. In 1970, Dr. Gordon wrote the Parent Effectiveness Training P.E.T. book which gave many more parents access to this new parenting philosophy. As a result, people in many parts of the world became interested in making the course available in their countries. The book became a best seller and was updated in 2000 http www.amazon.com dp 0609806939 revised book . P.E.T. is neither authoritarian or permissive Citation needed date March 2011 , both of which are win lose methods of child rearing. Central to the P.E.T. philosophy is the idea that parents can raise children without the use of punitive discipline which is damaging Citation needed date March 2011 both to the parent and the child and their relationship. Permissiveness doesn t work either. Instead, Dr. Gordon advocated a no lose method, a method of resolving conflicts in which both the parent and the child get their needs met. The Gordon Model upon which the P.E.T. course is based is a set of concepts and skills for having democratic, collaborative relationships. The core skills are Active Listening, I Messages, Shifting Gears and No Lose Conflict Resolution. The key to knowing which of these skills to use when is through the use of the Behavior Window. This visual diagram is used to identify who owns the problem when one occurs in a relationship so that it can be resolved successfully. Gordon Training International, the organization that Dr. Gordon founded, has a network of P.E.T. Representatives and Instructors in 43 countries who make the course available to the parents of all cultural, racial and religious backgrounds ... more details
Citation style date June 2010 naked URLs are obscene true dat The effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous , the success of the Alcoholics Anonymous AA twelve step program in treating alcoholism , is a subject of ongoing interdisciplinary research and debate in a multitude of academic and non academic contexts. Analytical definitions of effectiveness, efficacy and success vary according to the particular field of reference investigating the practices, methods and prognoses of treating alcoholics, and in what terms these concepts are framed in individual studies. Experimental studies into the effectiveness of AA have been based either on results obtained from individuals attending meetings run under the umbrella of the AA organisation itself, or from similar twelve step recovery programmes based on the twelve step approach run externally from the AA organisation generically termed, in this latter case, as twelve step facilitation TSF . Studies of both implementations of the Treatment of mental disorders therapeutic model have in general not yielded definitive evidence of efficacy when assessed in terms of long term prevention of problem drinking as compared to other treatments, ref name cochrane.org Cite journal doi 10.1002 14651858.CD005032.pub2 chapter Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 step programmes for alcohol dependence title Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews year 2006 last1 Ferri first1 Marica last2 Amato first2 Laura last3 Davoli first3 Marina editor1 last Ferri editor1 first Marica ref ref Emrick, C. 1989 . Alcoholics Anonymous Membership characteristics and effectiveness ..., concluded that no experimental studies unequivocally demonstrated the effectiveness of AA in treating ... Abuse and Alcoholism. ref Results from Triennial Surveys To help answer questions about AA s effectiveness ... step and cognitive behavioral treatment for substance abuse A comparison of treatment effectiveness ..., K. C., Stinchfield, R. D., Opland, E., Weller, C., & Latimer, W. W. year 2000 title The effectiveness ... more details
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