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Maintaining Performance

Evidence-based Educational Facility Management Through a Decision-support Tool Leveraging Prior Empirical Research

Public institution facility operations and maintenance is a significant factor enabling an institution to achieve its stated objectives in the delivery of public service. To meet the societal need, Facility Directors must make increasingly complex decisions managing the demands of building infrastructure performance expectations with limited resources. The ability to effectively measure a return-on-investment, specific to facility maintenance indirect expenditures, has, therefore, become progressively more critical given the scale of public institutions, the collective age of existing facilities, and the role these institutions play in society. This research centers on understanding the method of prioritizing routine work in support of indirect institutional facility maintenance expense through the lens of K-12 public education in the state of Arizona. The methodology documented herein utilizes a mixed method approach to understand current facility maintenance practices and assess the influence of human behavior when prioritizing routine work. An evidence-based decision support tool, leveraging prior academic research, was developed to coalesce previously disparate academic studies. The resulting process provides a decision framework for prioritizing decision factors most frequently correlated with academic outcomes. A purposeful sample of K-12 unified districts, representing approximately one-third of the state's student population and spend, resulted in a moderate to a strong negative correlation between facility operations and student outcomes. Correlation results highlight an opportunity to improve decision making, specific to the academic needs of the student. This research documents a methodology for constructing, validation, and testing of a decision support tool for prioritizing routine work orders. Findings from a repeated measures crossover study suggest the decision support tool significantly influenced decision making specific to certain work orders as well as the Plumbing and Mechanical functional areas. However, the decision support tool was less effective when prioritizing Electrical and General Maintenance work orders. Moreover, as decision making transitioned away from subjective experience-based judgment, the prioritization of work orders became increasingly more consistent. The resulting prioritization, therefore, effectively leveraged prior empirical, evidence-based decision factors when utilizing the tool. The results provide a system for balancing the practical experience of the Facility Director with the objective guidance of the decision support tool.

Moreover, as decision making transitioned away from subjective experience-based judgment, the prioritization of work orders became increasingly more consistent.

The Conversational Circle

Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775

The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society are, quite simply, ahistorical. Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in sustained tension with the social environment. Such fictions privilege a strongly linear structure. Recent reexaminations of the canon, however, have revealed a number of early novels that do not fit this mold. Betty Schellenberg identifies another kind of plot, one that focuses on the social group—the "conversational circle"—as a model that can affirm traditional values but just as often promotes an alternative sense of community. Schellenberg selects a group of mid-eighteenth-century novels that experiment with this alternative plot structure, embodied by the social circle. Both satirical and sentimental, canonical and non-canonical, these novels demonstrate a concern that individualistic desire threatened to destabilize society. Writing that reflects a circular structure emphasizes conversation and consensus over individualism and conquest. As a discourse that highlights negotiation and harmony, conversation privileges the social group over the individual. These fictions of the conversation circle include lesser-known works by canonical authors (Henry Fielding's Amelia and Richards's Sir Charles Grandison as well as his sequel to Pamela), long-neglected novels by women (Sarah Fielding's David Simple and its sequel Volume the Last, and Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall), and Tobias Smollet's last novel, Humphrey Clinker. Because they do not fit the linear model, such works have long been dismissed as ideologically flawed and irrelevant.

Both satirical and sentimental, canonical and non-canonical, these novels demonstrate a concern that individualistic desire threatened to destabilize society.

Differentiating Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners

A Guide for K-12 Teachers

"Explains why and shows how to differentiate assessments, assignments, and instruction for English language learners according to English language proficiency level and other background factors"--

"Explains why and shows how to differentiate assessments, assignments, and instruction for English language learners according to English language proficiency level and other background factors"--

French Classics in French and English

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (Dual-Language Book)

This is a dual-language book with the French text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. Translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff. See more details about this and other books on French Classics in French and English page on Facebook.

This is a dual-language book with the French text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. Translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff.

Aplikasi Komputer untuk Akuntansi

Program Studi S-1 Akuntansi

Buku ini membahas penggunaan komputer untuk mengolah transaksi akuntasi menggunakan aplikasi paket aplikasi software Accurate serta Microsoft Excel. Buku ini ditekankan pada pemberian dasar untuk perancangan sistem akuntansi.

Buku ini membahas penggunaan komputer untuk mengolah transaksi akuntasi menggunakan aplikasi paket aplikasi software Accurate serta Microsoft Excel. Buku ini ditekankan pada pemberian dasar untuk perancangan sistem akuntansi.

Tauhid

Hadis-Hadis Tematis Tentang Akidah (1)

Kebesaran dan keagungan Syekh Shaduq, menjadikan pemimpin kota Rey, yakni Rukn al-Dawlah al-Dailami meminta Syekh Shaduq untuk menetap di Rey dan menjadi pemimpin para pengikut Syi’ah. Akhirnya ia pun tinggal di Rey hingga wafatnya pada tahun 381 H. Syekh Shaduq hidup ketika masyarakat Syi’ah secara umum memiliki kebebasan yang relatif luas sehingga ia dapat mengadakan kunjungan ke berbagai daerah dengan leluasa dalam rangka menyebarkan ajaran-ajaran Ahlulbait as dan meluruskan segala isu miring tentang Syi’ah yang berkembang di tengah-tengah masyarakat saat itu. Untuk itu, Syekh Shaduq menulis sebuah sebuah buku yang diberi judul Al-I’tiqadat. Kitab ini memerikan dengan jernih tentang keyakinan-keyakinan Syi’ah. Misalnya tuduhan tentang tahrif al-Quran, Syekh Shaduq dalam kitabnya Al- I’tiqadat halaman 83-84 membantah dengan tegas hal ini dan menjelaskan: “Keyakinan kami tentang al-Quran, adalah Kalam Allah, wahyu-Nya, frman dan kitab suci-Nya. Ia tidak didatangi kebatilan dari depan maupun belakang. Ia diturunkan dari Zat Yang Mahabijak dan Maha Mengetahui. Ia mengandung kisah-kisah yang benar, ucapan pemutus, dan bukan senda gurau… Sungguh, keyakinan kami bahwa al-Quran yang diturunkan Allah kepada Nabi-Nya, Muhammad saw adalah apa yang termuat di antara dua sampul (mushaf ) yang sekarang beredar di tengah-tengah manusia. Tidak lebih dari itu. Jumlah surahnya adalah 114 surah… Dan barang siapa menisbahkan kepada kami bahwa kami meyakini al-Quran lebih dari itu, maka ia adalah pendusta.” Pendapat Syekh Shaduq ini merupakan pedapat muktabar Syi’ah hingga saat ini. Hal itu diterangkan lebih jauh oleh murid-murid beliau kelak. Sebagai orang yang memiliki kualitas keilmuan dan akhlak yang mulia, maka banyaklah orang yang menimba ilmu darinya. Di antara murid-murid Syekh Shaduq kemudian menjadi ulama-ulama papan atas dalam mazhab Ahlulbait adalah Syekh Mufd, Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Nu’man, Husain bin Abdillah, Harun bin Musa al-Tal’akburi, Husain bin Ali bin Babawaih al-Qommi, Hasan bin Husain bin Babawaih al-Qommi, Hasan bin Muhammad al-Qommi (pengarang kitab Tarikh-e Qom, sejarah kota Qom), Ali bin Ahmad bin Abbas al-Najasyi yang merupakan ayah penulis kitab Rijal al-Najasyi, dan Sayid Murtadha Alamul Huda yang merupakan penulis banyak buku dan ulama besar Syi’ah di zamannya

Kebesaran dan keagungan Syekh Shaduq, menjadikan pemimpin kota Rey, yakni Rukn al-Dawlah al-Dailami meminta Syekh Shaduq untuk menetap di Rey dan menjadi pemimpin para pengikut Syi’ah.

Legal Philosophy

General Aspects : Theoretical Examinations and Practical Application, Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), New York, June 24-30, 1999

Many recent political and economic transformations pose difficult questions of legal and social theory. Yet, although these questions are now raised with new urgency, the basic questions are not new. They have long been central features of legal and social philosophy in its most general form. What principles explain or justify legal institutions or decisions, thereby transforming coercion to authority? Are there or could there be any such universal principles? Can any philosophical theory account for such principles? How, if at all, do philosophical theories of law and politics apply to particular issues? And finally, what, if any, do such practical applications tell us about general theories and principles? The essays in this volume represent the efforts of an international group of scholars to understand these general aspects of legal philosophy.

The essays in this volume represent the efforts of an international group of scholars to understand these general aspects of legal philosophy.

Sejarah perjuangan Sunan Ampel

taktik dan strategi dakwah Islam di Jawa abad 14-15

History of Sunan Ampel's role in da'wah activities on Java during the 14th and 15th centuries.

History of Sunan Ampel's role in da'wah activities on Java during the 14th and 15th centuries.

Internasionalisasi Muhammadiyah

Sejarah dan Dinamika Pimpinan Cabang Istimewa Muhammadiyah Luar Negeri 2002-2022

Muhammadiyah setelah era tahun 2000 merintis dan memperluas kehadirannya di ranah global atau dunia internasional. Dimulai pendirian Pimpinan Cabang Istimewa Muhammadiyah (PCIM) dan Pimpinan Cabang Istimewa Aisyiyah (PCIA) di Cairo Mesir sebagai tonggak awal berdirinya perwakilan organisasi Muhammadiyah di luar negeri. Setelah itu PCIM-PCIA terus berkembang ke berbagai negara sehingga sampai tahun 2022 telah terbentuk 27 Cabang Istimewa. Pola kedua kehadiran Muhammadiyah di tingkat dunia ialah mengembangkan berbagai kerjasama yang dilakukan dengan pihak luar negeri baik dengan pemerintah maupun lembaga-lembaga non-pemerintah atau lembagai internasional lainnya. Termasuk di dalamnya melanjutkan program yang sudah berjalan dari periode ke periode yaitu penyelenggaraan berbagai forum, seminar, dialog, dan muhibah yang menegaskan Muhammadiyah merambah ke ranah global. Model ketiga, sejak periode 2015-2020 lahir tonggak baru yang penting (mailestone, ma’alimu fi at-thariq) dalam pergerakan Muhammadiyah di dunia internasional. Yaitu perintisan pusat keunggulan berupa amal usaha dan pusat dakwah sebagai bagian dari perluasan kehadiran Muhammadiyah di dunia internasional. Pimpinan Pusat Muhammadiyah sejak tahun 2018 membangun Markaz Dakwah Muhammadiyah di Cairo Mesir setelah Aisyiyah memiliki TK ABA yang sudah lama berdiri. Setelah itu tahun 2021 PP Muhammadiyah memperoleh idzin berdirinyan Universiti Muhammadiyah Malaysia (UMAM) serta di akhir tahun yang sama mendapatkan idzin berdirinya Muhammadiyah Australia College (MAC) di Melbourne Australia. Tiga tonggak penting program Muhammadiyah di ranah global atau internasional tersebut dicapai setelah perjuangan berat yang dilakukan PP Muhammadiyah bersama PCIM Mesir, PCIM Malaysia, dan PCIM Australia dengan segala dinamika suka-duka yang disertai keikhlasan, kesabaran, kesungguhan, kebersamaan, dan kerjasama di dalam dan dengan berbagai pihak di luar secara maraton berkelanjutan. Program-program unggulan tersebut merupakan pengejewantahan konkret dan strategis dari “Internasionalisasi Muhammadiyah” yang menjadi amanat Muktamar ke-47 tahun 2015 di Makassar, sekaligus pilihan strategis Pimpinan Pusat Muhammdiyah dalam mewujudkan Islam Berkemajuan di ranah global. Selain itu PP Muhamamdiyah melalui Lazismu juga mendirikan Madrasah atau Sekolah Muhammdiyah di Beirut Libanon untuk anak-anak Palestina, serta Sekolah Indonesia di Rohingnya Myanmar sebagai wujud program kemanusaan melalui pendidikan. Diharapkan ke depan program-program unggulan lainnya terus dibangun dan dikembangkan ke sejumlah kawasan negara lainnya di Asia, Afrika, Eropa, dan Amerika Serikat yang tentu saja memerlukan perjuangan tahap demi tahap secara berkelanjutan dari satu periode ke periode gerakan Muhammadiyah. Program amal usaha unggulan di kancah global akan lebih kokoh dan berjangka panjang dalam mewujudkan dan menyebarluaskan Islam Berkemjauan yang berwajah Rahmatan Lil-‘alamin secara nyata dan strategis sebagaimana pepatah “lisan al-hal afsahu min lisan al-maqal”, tindakan nyata jauh lebih dirasakan manfaatnya ketimbang serangkaian teori dan kata-kata!

Program amal usaha unggulan di kancah global akan lebih kokoh dan berjangka panjang dalam mewujudkan dan menyebarluaskan Islam Berkemjauan yang berwajah Rahmatan Lil-‘alamin secara nyata dan strategis sebagaimana pepatah “lisan al-hal ...