The successful leader must first make the commitment to practice evidence-based leadership by examining best practices and modeling her/his leadership practice after these models. We know from a plethora of evidence that the relationship-based leader who is also grounded in good operational abilities and can paint the picture of a compelling future is much more effective than the leader who is ...

ABSTRACT This paper illustrates how locally appropriate methods can be used to collect quantitative data from illiterate respondents. This method uses local beads to represent quantities, which is a novel yet potentially valuable methodological improvement over standard Western survey methods.

The 53.1 acre Stone Road Retail property, located on the northeast corner of Edinburgh & Stone Road in Guelph, is comprised of the following: 9.9 acres Edinburgh Market Place constructed in 1996; 6.4 acres zoned service/commercial, 9 acres high density residential and 27.7 acres institutional/research park. The 9 acre property, leased to Richmond Properties Ltd is comprised of private sector re...

While the aged as a group have better access to health care since the inception of Medicare, there are subsets of the population that are still vulnerable to large out-of-pocket expenses. The focus of this analysis is on those segments of the Medicare population which are particularly vulnerable to access problems due to their personal characteristics. In particular, using data from the Nationa...

BACKGROUND This article reports on the use of the 'neighborhood method' to measure the prevalence and basic characteristics of children who became separated from their parents or usual caregivers subsequent to an attack by the M23 militia group in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. METHODS A two-stage household cluster survey was conducted in 522 households in North Kivu in August ...

Purpose. The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS; Gudjonsson, 1984, 1997) is a well-established forensic tool for measuring interrogative suggestibility. However, one restriction of this tool is that it requires an extensive testing procedure. The present study examined whether shorter versions of the GSS yield similar results as the original GSS procedure. Methods. One group (N 1⁄4 20) was gi...

Based on recent field survey data collected in three African countries, this study examines interfirm and inter-organizational collaboration in African industry. Three sets of interactions were analyzed namely: firm-firm linkages, including user-supplier and subcontracting relationships; firm-university linkages; and firm-industrial association linkages. Employing univariate and multivariate an...

The Ifo Investment Survey (IS) asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of technical factors, sales, finance, profit expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. Using the survey responses to these questions, we construct measures of aggregate technology and non-technology shocks to quantify their contributions to aggregate inve...

How do polls influence strategic voting under proportional representation? This paper derives a strategic calculus of voting for coalitions that generates testable predictions about the effects of polls on strategic voting in elections involving four or more parties. Incentives of leftist voters to vote for a centrist over a noncentrist party are shown to increase with the difference in expecte...