International Economics in a Globalization or Achieving Excellence in the Fire Service

International Economics in a Globalization

Author: Wilson B Brown

Provides approaches to: what produces and affects color; the description of color in words and numbers; arrangement of color in ordered systems; measurement of color with instruments; calculation of color differences and setting of color tolerances; colorants (dyes and pigments); color mixing and matching (visually and by computer); and recent advances and problem areas. Includes equations, tabulated data, and references updated through mid 1980.

Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven...These people are witty and they are grand, they do terrible things and make awful remarks. Ombine is an East Village prima donna, a hoarder of gossip. He is filthy, but he is funny....The characters of "a" represent the bizarre new class, untermenschen's prefigurations of the technological millenium. -- The New York Review of Books

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Achieving Excellence in the Fire Service

Author: Judy Janing

To remain a viable public organization, fire departments must maintain a constant focus on quality. Chief Fire Officers must continually strive to improve their department's service and cost effectiveness, while maintaining a level of excellence. Unique to this market, Achieving Excellence in the Fire Service is the only quality improvement resource developed specifically for fire service professionals. Integrating quality improvement principles into overall s management and administrative strategies, it provides comprehensive coverage from a history of system evaluation in the fire service, to quality management to strategic quality planning and much more.

Features Include:

• Chapter-beginning introduction and objectives highlight key concepts
• Reinforcing chapter-end activities that allow theories to be applied to actual situations
• Self-assessment tools that outline objective assessment of department achievements

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction.
2. Overview of Quality Management.
3. The Chief Fire Officer's Role in Quality Management.
4. Strategic Quality Planning.
5. Human Resource Development and Management.
6. Data versus Information.
7. Basic Methods of Data Analysis.
8. Process Management and System Results.
Appendix A. Self-Assessment of Progress.
Appendix B. Data Elements.
Appendix C. Accreditation Programs Related to the Fire Service.