Managers’ views of skilled support

Portraits of individuals with dementia: views of care managers

Dementia is a growing concern worldwide. In Scotland alone 1.32% of the population have dementia and about 40% of these people live in a care home or hospital (Care Commission and Mental Welfare Commission, 2009). Dementia is an umbrella term for a persistent impairment in multiple areas of intellectual function including attention, orientation, memory, judgment, language, motor and spatial ski...

Nurse empowerment from a middle-management perspective: nurse managers' and assistant nurse managers' workplace empowerment views.

BACKGROUND Researchers have explored empowerment as an important condition for nursing staff but little current research focuses on empowerment from a middle-management perspective. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the empowerment of a middle-management group made up of only nurse managers (NMs) and assistant nurse managers (ANMs) in an acute-care hospital setting. ...

Several Views of Support Vector

2.1 Designing an appropriate loss function V (yi, f(xi)) In the case where the classification function, f(x), and the training point, yi, have the same sign, we have classified correctly, yif(xi) ≥ 0, and want the loss function V to be small or zero. When there is an incorrect classification, yif(xi) < 0, we want the loss function V to be larger. When first considering this problem, a natural i...

HMO managers' views on financial incentives and quality.

Identifying Skilled Mutual Fund Managers by their Ability to Forecast Earnings

We propose a new measure, the Ability to Forecast Earnings (AFE), to identify skilled fund managers. AFE focuses on stock performance during a short window around earnings announcements, in which price movements are predominantly due to firmspecific information revealing fundamental values. It is thus less affected by noise and other shocks in the market. Over the period 1984–2008, we find stro...