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Long Range Economic Forecast To 2005, Maine State Planning Office

Maine Collection

Long Range Economic Forecast to 2005

Maine State Planning Office, December 1993 ("Printed under Appropriation Account Number 010 07B 13000 012").

Contents: Preface / Overview / Population Change / Economic Sector Analysis / Appendices

Developing The Quality Organization, James Belohlav

Publications – Dreihaus College of Business

No abstract provided.

Developing The Quality Organization, James A. Belohlav

James A. Belohlav

No abstract provided.

Ozgur 1993 Turkiye'nin Ozel Cevre Koruma Bolgeleri Politikasi (Specially Protected Areas Policy Of Turkey) Türkiye'nin Özel Çevre Koruma Bölgeleri Politikası: Foça Örneği, Huseyin Ozgur Prof.Dr.

Huseyin Ozgur Prof.Dr.

Specially protected areas (SPAs) in Turkey were initiated in 1990 with the special interest of Prime Minister Turgut Özal and pressure from international agreements signed by Turkish Government. As of 1992, there were 12 SPAs in 5 provinces, most of them were on shorelines of lakes or seas. The decision making of SPAs policy in Turkey fit to muddling through. It helped to protect special and sensitive areas to be protected. All these SPAs had several small settlements and controversial usages of the land and water areas. The policy helped to control dense and uncontrolled settlements however created issues on …

Database Quality: Its Cost, Focus, And Future, Karen S. Calhoun

Karen S Calhoun

Briefly considers three questions: Can we afford OCLC database quality? Where is the best place to focus database quality efforts? Will advances in information technology make data quality efforts obsolete?

How Oclc And Member Libraries Are Improving The Online Union Catalog, Karen S. Calhoun, Nancy Campbell, Donna Gehring

Karen S Calhoun

Describes programs for cooperatively managing and improving the quality of the OCLC database with respect to duplicate records, records containing insufficient information, incorrect or variant forms of headings, and coding errors. Includes a description of a large, innovative project using "intelligent software" to correct name and subject headings. OCLC expects at least 5 million heading corrections when the project completes late in 1993.

Quality, Strategy, And Competitiveness, James Belohlav

Publications – Dreihaus College of Business

No abstract provided.

Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, And Ethics Of Sustainability, Richard Barringer (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability

Richard Barringer, editor, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Maine

Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 1993.

The proceedings of a conference presented at Bowdoin College on March 19 and 20, 1993, by the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine, and by the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Ellen Baum, conference organizer.

Contents; Foreword by Richard Barringer / Welcome by Everett Carson / Global, Canadian, and Maine Perspectives / Sustaining Our Natural and …

Managing Russian Factory Workers: The Impact Of U.S.-Based Behavioral And Participative Techniques, Dianne H.B. Welsh, Fred Luthans, Steven M. Sommer

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

The new internationalization of the field of management has produced growing concern as to whether theories and techniques largely developed in the United States apply to other cultures. A within-subjects experimental design was used to analyze the impacts that three popular and successful techniques used in U.S. studies had on the performance of workers in the largest textile factory in the Russian republic of the former Soviet Union. Two techniques, providing extrinsic rewards and behavioral management, had significant,

Quality, Strategy, And Competitiveness, James A. Belohlav

James A. Belohlav

No abstract provided.

Activity Of Small Businesses In Nebraska, Todd A. Finkle, Raymond Marquardt, Allen Klose

Todd A Finkle