A Song Of Fire And No Ice: We Just Had Our Fourth Record-Breaking Hottest Month In A Row This Year | ThinkProgress

BySustainMe

A Song Of Fire And No Ice: We Just Had Our Fourth Record-Breaking Hottest Month In A Row This Year | ThinkProgress: Oh poop, crap, scat!. Each month of 2016 has been a record hot month. (Even though 2015 was wicked record hot with 10 months matching or exceeding record highs!) April blew past the last record in 2015 by a mile or two (+0.28 C or +0.43 F). [See NASA summary data here. Note…

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A closer look at the PTAB’s new post-issuance review procedures – Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) – Maximising IP Value for Business

ByBizMan

A closer look at the PTAB’s new post-issuance review procedures – Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) – Maximising IP Value for Business: Once a patent has been issued, there are Big, BIG changes as to the review process. Here is the most comprehensive take on these changes you will find anywhere. It is rather readable. It is rather detailed. And it is a critical-to-know follow on to anyone involved in the patent pipeline. Now the question,…

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The Volusia County Water Summit – Stetson Today

BySustainMe

The Volusia County Water Summit – Stetson Today: The water summit discussed here, turned out to be a rather big event. Really good information & analysis. The right people thinking about the right issues. It seems that everyone agreed to do something about improving water management and water quality in the county. Although this is a non-binding agreement among the players, it is a really big step forward. Once everyone realizes those few areas where…

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The Conundrum of middle management, HR experts and Delphi research.

ByDel Phi

Here is the overview on the RefractiveThinker™ article by Lentz in 2009 that discussed some of her findings related to using HR experts in a single-round, quantitative, Delphi Study. See the prior blog discussion related to using a 1-round Quant Delphi method here. The overview of the 2009 chapter by Lentz, The modified ask-the-experts Delphi method: The conundrum of human resource experts on management participation, is this: “[The] Lentz Dissertation study … was … a quantitative correlational…

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A single round (1 round) Delphi study. Conundrum of HR – Scenario Plans

BySustainMe

A single round (1 round) Delphi study. How can that be? – Scenario Plans (: Give a look at the two blogs related to Scenario plans and Delphi studies related to the 2007 research by Dr. Cheryl Lentz. Notice how Delphi-type research can be used for all kinds of studies. These are two blog posts. One on the actual Delphi research doing two things that make it a modified Delphi: 1 round, and quantitative. The…