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Estimating the Cost of an Adequate Education in Pennsylvania… in 2001, states are now required to develop a clear set of performance standards that will result in an “adequate” … team used Duncombe’s cost-function approach to develop an index to estimate the cost of providing Pennsylvania’s K-12 … appropriate education. The team estimated the effects of performance standards, district efficiency, resource prices, …
Capstone Projects
Estimating the Cost of an Adequate Education in Pennsylvania… in 2001, states are now required to develop a clear set of performance standards that will result in an “adequate” … team used Duncombe’s cost-function approach to develop an index to estimate the cost of providing Pennsylvania’s K-12 … appropriate education. The team estimated the effects of performance standards, district efficiency, resource prices, …
Publication
ProPSA and Diagnostic Biopsy Tissue DNA Content Combination Improves Accuracy to Predict Need for Prostate Cancer Treatment Among Men Enrolled in an Active Surveillance Program… : To assess a novel application of the Prostate Health Index (phi) and biopsy tissue DNA content in benign-adjacent … (rho = 0.927, P < .0001) and no difference in accuracy (c-index, 0.6247 vs 0.6158; P = .704) for unfavorable biopsy … content, showed improvement in the predictive accuracy (c-index, 0.6908 and 0.6884, respectively) for unfavorable …
Faculty Profile
Laurence Wadler… 3 , "The Impact of Lending Velocity on Revolving Fund Performance", The Municipal Finance Journal, Volume 16, Number 1, and "The Municipal Finance Opportunity Cost Index", The Municipal Finance Journal, Volume 14, Number 3 …
Publication
The Effect of Phase 2 of the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration on Incentive Payments to Hospitals Caring for Disadvantaged Patients… Incentive Demonstration (HQID), a hospital-based pay-for-performance program, changed its incentive design from one rewarding only high performance (Phase 1) to another rewarding high performance, … into quartiles based on their Disproportionate Share Index (DSH) , from lowest disadvantage (Quartile 1) to …
Publication
Race/Ethnicity-Specific Associations of Urinary Phthalates with Childhood Body Mass in a Nationally Representative Sample… Multivariable linear and logistic analyses of body mass index z-score, overweight, and obesity were performed against …
Faculty Profile
Rae Zimmerman… and past teaching areas include social and environmental performance measures for the resiliency of urban … http://depts.washington.edu/hursandy/index.html 2013-2015. Principal Investigator (NYU-Wagner) …
Webpage
Presentations… CO https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/abstract/index/research-highlight … H11A-08 “Green infrastructure implementation and performance: Lessons learned from nine US and Latin American … Session: Linking Green Infrastructure (GI) Finance and Performance. April 5, 2019. R. Zimmerman and R. Brenner, …
News
In Memoriam: Professor Dennis C. Smith… decisions on how it uses its resources, and showed that performance-based management could be transplanted to other …