Contemporary narratives of excellence embody the competitive striving and achievement themes underlying the idea of American exceptionalism. The author examines excellence through Aristotle's (trans. 2002) "Nicomachean Ethics". An overemphasis on winning or excelling can undermine general human ...

The Department of Educations mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. Strategic Goal 1: Improve student achievement, with a focus on bringing all st...

Jun 26, 1997 ... If past competitions are a good guide, then the competitive range for selection for this competition will include Excellent but not ...

skills, personal development goals and time commitment. Through our perseverance and success on and off and coaches to achieve optimal performance athletically and academically and to facilitate the development; high quality coaching; excellent/safe/clean facilities and equipment for training and competition

... OPERATIONAL ART AND LOGISTICS: ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN THE DESIGN AND CONDUCT OF MILITARY CAMPAIGNS ... operational art. ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of the importance of service excellence in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The research upon which this paper is based employed a phenomenological approach. This method was selected for its focus on respondent perceptions and experiences. Both structured and semi-structured interviews were ...

Jun 26, 1997 ... If past competitions are a good guide, then the competitive range for selection for this competition will include Excellent but not ...

... Accession Number : ADA283556. Title : Operational Art and Logistics: Achieving Excellence in the Design and Conduct of Military Campaigns. ...

... Title : Achieving Environmental Excellence Through The South Carolina/Department of Defense Pollution Prevention Alliance. ...

This is a second annual report since the University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education was established at Georgia Tech. The major focus of the center is crystalline silicon, and the mission of the Center is to improve the fundamental understanding of the science and technology of advanced photovoltaic devices and materials, to fabricate ...

... Title : The Human Terrain System: Achieving a Competitive Advantage Through Enhanced "Population-Centric" Knowledge Flows. ...

This article reviews the effects of deregulation on other utilities and services and examines how the electric utilities can avoid the worst of these effects and capitalize of the best aspects of competition in achieving marketing excellence. The article presents deregulation as a customer service and underscores the need for utilities ...

Established by the United States Department of Energy, UCEP's mission is to improve the understanding of advanced PV devices, to fabricate record high efficiency solar cells, and to give the U.S. a competitive edge by providing guidelines to industry and DOE for achieving cost-effective and high-efficiency PV devices.

Describes how high school and college tennis coaches can prepare their athletes for competitive success, noting factors involved in performance excellence and presenting the BADGE instructional framework, which teaches players that their efforts are the greatest single influence upon future results. The paper explains the importance of positive attitudes ...

Describes periodization in strength training (the cycling of specificity, intensity, and volume of training to achieve peak levels of performance for the most important conditions), suggesting that well-designed periodized programs will allow superior performance at the appropriate time, reduction in overtraining potential, systematic control over training variables, and ...

In order to achieve competitive system costs in mass-production, it is essential that CPV concentrators incorporate sufficient manufacturing tolerances. This paper presents an advanced concentrator optic comprising a Fresnel lens and a refractive secondary element that produce simultaneously the light concentration with high tolerance (high acceptance ...

as a Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Multinational and Longitudinal Examination." Faculty Excellence AT UH

ExceL through Innovation (ExceL) is a local funding initiative of the Austin Independent School District (AISD), Texas, created to enhance elementary student achievement through innovative programs designed at the campus level for the specific students served. By 1998, 68 campuses were receiving ExceL funds. In ...

This article reviews the historical development of female participation in sports, then identifies the unique issues associated with women's struggles for athletic acceptance and competitive excellence. Topics discussed include talent recognition and development, sex roles and socialization, physiology and maturation, coaching the female athlete, and ...

Achievements during the first six months of funding to prepare for a Center of Excellence in biomedical laser development include limited specific research projects within the Center`s three broad interest areas, and program development to establish the Center and its activities. Progress in the three interest areas -- new medical laser systems ...

Achievements during the first six months of funding to prepare for a Center of Excellence in biomedical laser development include limited specific research projects within the Center's three broad interest areas, and program development to establish the Center and its activities. Progress in the three interest areas -- new medical laser systems ...

Previous research has demonstrated that achievement-motivated people perform better under working conditions of challenge, autonomy, and rapid feedback. These achievement-congenial conditions characterize entrepreneurial business and, among those occupations traditionally filled by women, teaching. Achievement motivation was measured ...

MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. NASA's strategy is to achieve management and institutional excellence comparable to the Agency's technical excellence. ...

solutions that provide a return on investment. CELDi partnerships achieve logistics and distribution excellence by: Solving real problems that achieve bottom-line impact;...

... Title : Americans on Target: US Army Tank Gunnery Excellence Canadian Army Trophy Competition 1987. Descriptive Note : Final rept. ...

... Overall job opportunities should be excellent; however, keen competition is expected for jobs in zoos and aquariums. ... relatively few number of graduates each year, keen competition is expected for veterinary technician jobs in zoos ...

... 4 5 LTC John C. Heldstab, "International Military Competitions-An Examination of the Canadian Army Trophy Competition", US Army War College ...

... strategic importance of computer networks in terms of achieving, defending and ultimately sustaining competitive advantage, understanding how to ...

Gliadin is a constituent of the cereal protein gluten, responsible for the intolerance generated in celiac disease. Its detection is of high interest for food safety of celiac patients, since the only treatment known until now is a lifelong avoidance of this protein in the diet. Therefore, it is essential to have an easy and reliable method of analysis to control the contents in gluten-free foods. ...

Nuclear energy will have an expanding role in meeting the twenty-first-century challenges of population and economic growth, energy demand, and global warming. These great challenges are non-linearly coupled and incompletely understood. In the complex global system, achieving competitive excellence for nuclear energy is a ...

In order to achieve competitive system costs in mass-production, it is essential that CPV concentrators incorporate sufficient manufacturing tolerances. This paper presents an advanced concentrator optic comprising a Fresnel lens and a refractive secondary element, both with broken rotational symmetry, an optic producing both the desired light ...

In order to achieve competitive system costs in mass-production, it is essential that CPV concentrators incorporate sufficient manufacturing tolerances. This paper presents an advanced concentrator optic comprising a Fresnel lens and a refractive secondary element, both with broken rotational symmetry, an optic producing both the desired light ...

The George M. Low Trophy is awarded to current NASA contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in the aerospace industry who have demonstrated sustained excellence and outstanding achievements in quality and productivity for three or more years. The objectives of the award are to increase public awareness of the importance of quality and productivity to ...

This article presents recent reform processes in Japanese higher education, concerning the tensions emerging within the system regarding "excellence" and "diversity". The article particularly focuses on how Japanese universities have reacted to the recent "competition" and "differentiation" policy promoted by the government, drawing on recent survey ...

... shift to competitive outsourcing. ... �Excellence goes unrewarded; mediocre performance carries few consequences; and it takes months to ...

... DTIC's PDF and Excel spreadsheet versions of Congressional Budget reports are available shortly after postings on Thomas (Library of Congress ...

Oct 19, 2010... in software solutions for science applications. SAIC is an Affirmative Action Employer with competitive salaries and excellent benefits. ...

... DTIC's PDF and Excel spreadsheet versions of Congressional Budget reports are available shortly after postings on Thomas (Library of Congress ...

... They are risk takers who rely on initiative, entrepreneurship, dedication and professionalism of their subordinates to achieve results. ...

Quality assurance methods at the Diablo Canyon plant were transformed from the then typical industry practices that often alienated professional and technical people, as well as craftsmen and their foremen, to a cooperative method that allowed plant personnel to work together as a team. It has created an attitude to do it right the first time. The roles of quality professionals were expanded to ...

. Achieving strategic information systems alignment to create sustainable competitive advantage. Concepts

strategy is a company's overall plan to achieve sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace

In Australia, a distinct political-educational imagination drives contemporary policy and praxis. This imagination finds root in the social governance models of British Third Way policy and can be considered "social capitalist". Central to such politics is a view that social governance is capable of pursuing and achieving the social democratic ideals of equity and social ...

Institutions of higher education (HE), public and private, are moving through a crisis period of tapped-out states, funding cuts, tuition increases and layoffs. It makes good sense to rise to meet these new realities with new ways of doing things, and the places that succeed will be the ones that do. A holistic approach is necessary whereby excellence in teaching and learning ...

Game theory is central to the understanding of competitive interactions arising in many fields, from the social and physical sciences to economics. Recently, as the definition of information is generalized to include entangled quantum systems, quantum game theory has emerged as a framework for understanding the competitive flow of quantum information. Up ...

Competition between two microbial populations for a single pollutant (phenol) was studied in a sequencing fed-batch reactor (SFBR). A mathematical model describing this system was developed and tested experimentally. It is based on specific growth rate expressions revealed from pure culture batch experiments. The species employed were Pseudomonas putida (ATCC 17514) and ...

This book provides scholarship information for college bound students on how they can turn their talents and accomplishments into money for college via contests and competition. It notes that these scholarships, usually sponsored by associations and corporations, recognize student excellence in leadership, citizenship, science and engineering, public ...

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Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CELDi) A National Science Foundation sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) #12;CELDi is an applied research and education/UCRC) CELDi has the mission of enabling member organizations to achieve logistics and distribution excellence

javaFoodWeb is a portable application that will take data from an Excel spreadsheet showing Predators (consumers) and the Prey (resources) which they depend upon and allow students to visualize the competition spaces (niches) that they define.

EMPFasis is a publication of the American Competitiveness Institute and the EMPF. The EMPF is the U.S. Navy��'s National Center of Excellence dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in electronics and increasing domestic productivity in electronics manufacturing.

Apr 10, 2008... Technology Program Excellence Award; the Popular Mechanics' Breakthrough Award; and the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement. ...