Research Methods-NJOI
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Very well organized easy to understand use of statistics for the stated purpose.  I am able to go back to any topic and get a good start on how to perform a certain study or refresh my memory on other avenues of inquiry.
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I read Kinicki and Fugates book on organizational behavior from cover-to-cover. There are few texts that I rely on to concisely define, structure and explain key theories within the subject of organizational behavior to a level of fidelity useful to my research. Books like this are imperative to underpinning my research on organizational and leadership behaviors. Im sure Kinicki and Fugate intended that their book serve students and researchers of traditional organizations; however, as a researcher of violent organizations, this book served as a valuable authoritative source for my book on&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Organizational-Behavior-Concepts-Skills-Practices/dp/0071315683/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">B00G7FCS7U Terrorist Leader Profiles and Comparative Behavioral Analysis</a>&nbsp;(ISBN-13: 978-1493540228).
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Gerry Kendall provides a detailed analysis of the application of TOC methodologies to project management in pactical, usable terms.  This book can serve as a reference resource for redesigning a team's approach to project managment, resulting in improved effeciency and more consistant results.  This is a must read for project and program managers.
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Social Justice and deep participation: Theory and practice for the 21st century is based on an analysis of community participation and how this generates social change in various countries in Africa, as well as North America.

This is a powerful book. Its theme, which explores the basis of social integrative power, social legitimacy has far reaching implications. It uncovers the grass roots social mechanisms required for good governance. As such it is prescient and timely.

At present we are witnessing the fragility of governments; the implosion of states, giving rise to a growing wave of nationless refugees. They are not only victims of poor governance within their communities of origin; but also of poor global governance  perpetuated by policies imposed by the countries in which they are obliged to seek refuge.

As an Africanist I believe that her work in Africa has shed light on secrets of community participation that few scholars have had the opportunity to observe.  Despite their recent post-colonial political history, African societies have a long historical record of non-coercive, community based systems of governance. These societies have yielded prosperity, safety and stability for centuries prior to colonization.

 ...Donnelly Roarks book is based on the analysis of the internalized participation dynamics of these communities and their contributions to governance methods. These governance mechanisms, because of their deep participation-have social legitimacy. Consequently they have survived despite the myriad macro-political and macro-economic changes that the countries witnessed in the past 150 years.

Her book is not only a philosophical discussion on the significance of participation, but it a significant contribution to our understanding of the factors underpinning sustainable governance. It explores the mechanism by which small communities harness political power  in their favor.

 Her insights on the transformational effects  of collective altruism as well as the combined importance of critical thought and ritual as universal methods of legitimizing values are profound. They provide timeless methods for documenting the manner in which communities establish methods of universal inclusion and therefore of sustainable governance.
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A good book on the issues surrounding the estimation of cause and effect in an observational science -- as opposed to an experimental context -- such as economics and sociology.  Does not pose a final answer, but explores a technique of essential value.  Is it the only approach?  No. But it is an excellent explication of the method, and takes us one step closer to a truly scientific methodology in what are unfortunately termed the "social" sciences.
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The attached review contained in the 2009 of Journal of the American Statistical Association (Volume 104, Issue 488, Page 1726) of he book Permutation Methods-A Distance Function Approach, 2nd Ed..
Permutation Methods: A Distance Function Approach (2nd ed.).
Paul W. MIELKE JR. and Kenneth J. BERRY. New York, NY: Springer,
2007. ISBN 978-0-387-69811-3. xvii + 439 pp. $99.00 (H).
This is a very well-written text that extensively covers permutation-based
tests in a general framework. It has been revised and extended by nearly
100 pages since the 2001 edition. There is increased emphasis on the geometrical
perspective of the distance functions which lie at the heart of permutation
methods. The authors illustrate the robustness of the regular Euclidean metric
over the (nonmetric) squared Euclidean distance that is commonly used.
Multiresponse permutation procedures (MRPP) are introduced as a generalization
of ANOVA that accommodates both univariate and multivariate data.
Numerous examples are given showing the wide applicability of MRPP: autoregressive
pattern detection; agreement measures for ordinal, nominal, and
mixed data; analysis of circular and spherical data; and generalized run tests.
Multivariate randomized block permutation procedures (MRBP) are described
and many examples are given of the types of problem that MRBP can solve.
Regression analysis and prediction are given a thorough treatment, and primary
focus is on MRPP analyses of least absolute deviations for multiple regression
under various experimental designs. Other chapters cover goodness-of-fit tests,
contingency tables, multisample homogeneity tests, and methods for combining
p-values.
This book is packed with real-data examples and dozens of simulation studies
exploring the properties of permutation-based tests and contrasting them
with their typical parametric "competitors." The authors do not shy away from
presenting the mathematical underpinnings of the methods, and do so in a very
transparent and easy-to-follow manner so there is sufficient detail to implement
the methods in your favorite software (although making such computationally
intensive procedures run optimally is by no means trivial). That is not
a concern if you are familiar with FORTRAN-77, as the authors have provided
over 100 FORTRAN programs and associated datasets for download in Unixcompatible
andWindows-compatible format. These well-commented programs
are briefly described in Appendix A with subsections organized by chapter.
A minor annoyance is that the organization of the downloaded file appears arbitrary
rather than grouped by chapter--at least for the Windows version I inspected.
Nonetheless, Permutation Methods is a superb book that is highly recommended.
J. Wade DAVIS
University of Missouri
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This book is a must for teachers, parents, and administrators who want to understand research-diven methods for teaching writing. Nagin explains the myths and reality involved with creating good writers.  This book sponsored by the National Writing Project explores current research on teaching writing and discusses how that translates into sound classroom practices.
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Essential research  presented in a clear, understandable style
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A really good book. I have used the methods outlined in this book to do deep market research and then followed up with the results to improve our current product offerings and create new products.

The book is easy to read and understand with case studies throughout each section outlining how the techniques were used in various businesses.

I highly recommend
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This book is excellent for health economists to initiate modern research design that use intermediate measurement to infer to longitudinal outcome. Anyway, it does not neglect the traditional methodology of health economics. Because of complicated methodology that is difficult to understand, there are not so enough the varied example to assist.
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A like content, the method described in the book sounds good. A structure of book is very clear, so when I want to find a particular information in the book, I am able to find it really fast.
What I does not like was too many typefaces, too many styles, too many icons in text. It prevents in fluent reading. And I am less marketing oriented, so I do not need phrase "our method works" to repeat very often.
I think, that this book is very good and it is worth to buy it.
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This is a great book that outlines an instructional tool designed for teachers. It is research-based as well as field tested in its approach. I recommend it.
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It is said that the writing of a textbook is an easy job, that is, you simply copy the sentences from various textbooks, and change "What is this" to "This is what".

If so, this would not be the case for this book, because there is no similar text to copy. Besides this book is not a simple one, which one can read after dinner, but it requires time to understand.

In preface, the authors discussed their scientific philosophy in Research Economics, which reveals the secret of how a researcher can produce a huge amount of research papers after compared the research activity with manufacture from raw materials, factory and market. This is a very interesting insight on this activity.

The computational mutation developed by the authors is very serious. In this book, the idea goes along such a way. At first they proposed a new method to measure a protein sequence. Unlikely many researchers who immediately claim their great approaches before test their measures against the real-life cases. The authors then tested their approaches in various circumstances, finally they applied their approach to different real-life problems.

Thereafter, the authors began to use their approaches to various practical problems, for example, mutation pattern, SARS virus protein, searching of drug target in SARS, and prediction of mutation in proteins from influenza A virus. Moreover, the authors also applied several complex mathematical tools to their studies, such as fast Fourier transform, cross-impact analysis, Bayesian equation, logistic regression and neural network.

Personally I feel that the authors very clearly distinguish the dynamic and kinetic models in this book, which are completely confusing in many cases.

In general, this book suggests the new approaches to measure the living protein. This should be the base for protein study because the geometry comes from measurement of lands and the relativity comes from the measurement of speed of light. However we have yet to see such parallel in biomedical fields, perhaps, this book can serve a beginning.
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This book provides the latest innovative resources with a brief description of benefits concisely applicable to research professionals.  Making research projects more simplified using technology.  Thank you!
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This book is well-written, easy to use, with a table of contents and index that facilitates locating  specific subjects.  The information in this book explains the importance of research and the conection to nursing research and practice. It is a welcome text as an addition to my research resource library.
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This is an important and well cited document in academia.  The text is not dense, well written, and a fairly easy read.  Because of its unique experimental design in the investigation, I am sure to show it to my graduate students as a case study in research metrics. There are several perspectives concerning environmental perception and evaluation.  Much of the world employs the use of experts to determine the contents and structure of the built environment, from Vitruvius, to Palladio, to Frank Lloyd Wright.  When reading this document, there are three caveats.  First this work is based upon the beliefs about space by experts (some of the most noted world experts).  However, some studies have shown that planning and design experts may not comprehend or assess space in a manner similar to the public.  The reader should not assume that the preferences of experts are the preferences of the public.  Second, the results in this document are primarily a validation concerning the consistency of experts to judge space based upon their own criteria.  In other words, the the study reveals that experts in this study were reliable in predicting the their own values to evaluate space.  The study is similar to a team creating an index and then using the variables in the index to corroborate the index-- a self-fulfilling prophecy. In most regression studies, the independent variables are not normally used to construct the dependent variable, and then after construction of the dependent variable, regressed to show that the independent variables do indeed predict the dependent variable.  However this approach is an excellent way to get large r-squared values and significant predictors.  Third, the range of spaces examined (streetscapes) in the study is relatively narrow (view the range of images in the document).  When employing scales and equations to measure the universal appeal of environments from highly desirous to very undesirable, most of the images presented in the book might rate on the less desirable side. So the reader should not confuse preferred streetscapes with preferred environments. Across the full dimension of environmental preference, the more preferred streetscapes might possibly be only somewhat more preferred than the least preferred streetscapes.  Still this book is worth reading and studying.  Landscape metrics are in their formative early stages.  Many more studies refuting and corroborating the ideas presented in the book will follow.  Reid Ewing is a productive investigator and may have more to offer on the subject of environmetnal metrics.
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Richard Walton's COLD CASE HOMICIDES: Practical Investigative Techniques provides the law enforcement and forensic communities with the most important and comprehensive work to date on the subject of cold case homicide investigation.  Walton has combined his thirty years of law enforcement experience and his impressive graduate work to merge theory and practice into impressive textbook.  The case history format, which I find to me an excellent methodology, combined with the checklists, photographs and illustrations makes this book easy to read and comprehend.

Walton has provided the definitive roadmap for those who wish to successfully investigate cold case homicides.  His innovative and time proven methods offer the reader a realistic overview of the cold case homicide and details various investigative methods to be used in this inquiry.  Walton also provides practical and current information technology and advanced investigative tools, which have allowed law enforcement to re-examine cold cases with new forensic tools.

This publication is an invaluable asset to law enforcement and I am proud to have this book in my Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigation Series.

Lt. Cmdr. Vernon J. Geberth, M.S., M.P.S

Author Practical Homicide Investigation

Series Editor, Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigation

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