Sentences with phrase «of author satisfaction»

Author Solutions firms (AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford, and Xlibris) were at the bottom of Author Satisfaction, ranking as the worst 4 in two categories and 3 of the worst 4 in one category.

While most of the iUniverse staff were courteous and usually responded promptly, the worst and least responsive manager was Eugene Hopkins, Global Director of Author Satisfaction, who never answered my later emails and refused to provide contact info for the company president.

To clarify, unit / total revenue is not a linear relationship in terms of author satisfaction.

Not exact matches

Lately, the Toronto - based author has turned his attention to how we achieve happiness, and his upcoming book, The Happiness Equation, dedicates a fair amount of ink to career satisfaction.

Jackson is the lead author of a new study to be published in Psychological Science that tracked nearly 5,000 married Australians for five years and measured how a spouse's personality impacted whether their partner received a promotion, earned a higher salary or experienced higher levels of job satisfaction.

According to Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of the book The Conservative Heart, adopting a service mindset can reduce stress and raises job satisfaction because it displaces the object of attention from oneself.

While it is not directly related to replacement rates per se, the authors use pairs of cross sectional data from the GSS and from Statistics Canada's 1992 Family Expenditure Surveys and the 1998 Survey of Household Spending to illustrate that both real family income and real family consumption adjusted for household size tend to be hump - shaped with respect to age and peak in the 50s, while general satisfaction with life tends to stay relatively constant through different ages.

«Bosses micromanage for many different reasons, but no matter how good their intentions, taking a heavy - handed approach typically hurts employee output, job satisfaction and, as a result, retention efforts,» said Max Messmer, chairman of Accountemps and author of Motivating Employees For Dummies ® (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

Lately, the Toronto - based author has turned his attention to how we achieve happiness, and his book, The Happiness Equation, dedicates a fair amount of ink to career satisfaction.

Now do these authors, after having succeeded in establishing to their own satisfaction that the works of genius are fruits of disease, consistently proceed thereupon to impugn the value of the fruits?

As the author Christopher Derrick put it in his book This Strange Divine Sea: «Here, we are still alienated and in exile but are on our way home; we can not yet see the satisfaction of our deepest longings, but we do know where to look; we are still sinners, but we can get our innocence back; we are still going to suffer, but not pointlessly or absurdly; we are still going to «die», but not in the old sense, not permanently.

Alfie Kohn, researcher and author of Punished by Rewards, says that kids can come to depend on praise and external validation instead of finding satisfaction in doing the right thing simply because it's the right thing to do.

While the authors postulate that this marital satisfaction stems from dads being forced to pitch in more frequently, there are likely other factors at play here, says Dave Greenfield, psychologist and founder of the Healing Center, LLC in West Hartford, Conn..

Samantha Ettus, a work / life expert based in Los Angeles and author of The Pie Life: A Guilt - Free Recipe for Success and Satisfaction, recommends doing a self - worth check if you're questioning whether you're being taken for granted.

The study authors provided data from multiples for infant morbidity (jaundice, infant feeding difficulty, weight loss, dehydration, illness not related to jaundice / feeding, ER visit, and hospitalisation) at two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge, and measures ofmaternal satisfaction (amount of information on feeding your baby, clarity of information on feeding your baby, amount of help with feeding your baby, and total satisfaction with care), assessed in hospital, two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge.

«Our analysis found that the lowest satisfaction scores were obtained from population - dense regions of Washington, DC; New York State, California, Maryland and New Jersey, and the best scores were from Louisiana, South Dakota, Iowa, Maine and Vermont,» said senior author Randall Holcombe, MD, Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Chief Medical Officer for Cancer for The Mount Sinai Health System.

Seeking to quantify and validate the concerns of their colleagues, the study's authors looked at the link between opioids administered in the emergency room and patient satisfaction scores more rigorously.

Authors Marisa Allison, Randy Lynn, and Victoria Hoverman — all of whom have experience as adjuncts — conducted an online survey of GMU contingent faculty, asking more than 300 questions about working conditions, course preparation, career aspirations, personal finances, motivations for teaching, job satisfaction, future plans, and more.

«The use of a ceramide - infused barrier significantly decreased cost and increased satisfaction with patient - reported outcomes compared to conventional skin barriers,» said Janice C. Colwell, MS, RN, CWOCN, FAAN, of University of Chicago Medicine, a principal author of the study report.

The authors said that the difficulty of retaining students may be a factor more complicated than SAI allows for, noting that improving retention rates requires significant campus resources to address a broad range of factors, including student engagement levels, academic support services, campus climate, student satisfaction, and financial aid.

All types of leisure activity have the potential to provide these elements and provide satisfaction within families, the authors wrote.

For example,» [early] health problems may lead to lower levels of job satisfaction rather than the reverse,» the authors said.

A study out of University of Toronto that came out in November found that the key to sexual satisfaction in committed relationships had less to do with expecting it to just happen and more to do with admitting it takes time and effort — like a garden that needs to be «watered and nurtured,» as study author Jessica Maxwell explains it.

As a clinical psychologist and author of three books, including When Good Enough is Never Enough: Escaping the Perfection Trap, Dr Hendlin defines a perfectionist as «someone who thinks anything short of perfection in performance is unacceptable, whereas the person who strives for excellence is able to derive personal satisfaction and pride from a good - enough performance.»

The authors reference a study in the Netherlands where the transport rate from home to hospital is over twice that in the U.S. (and where Chervenak et al. took greatliberties in interpreting the results on patient satisfaction) and a U.K. study where the costs of home and hospital birth are virtually equivalent.

The authors then go on to discount the evidence of higher satisfaction among women choosing to deliver at home, as well as the cost - effectiveness of doing so, while presenting absolutely no evidence to the contrary.

More Satisfaction, Less Divorce for People Who Meet Spouses Online ««Meeting online is no longer an anomaly, and the prospects are good,» says lead author John Cacioppo, a professor of social psychology at the University of Chicago.

However, this difference diminished over the course of the study, leading the authors to suggest that satisfaction with schools in the two sectors is unlikely to differ in the long run.

According to Brian Gill, P. Michael Timpane, Karen Ross, and Dominic Brewer, the book's authors, all of the empirical evidence supports the contention that vouchers improve parental satisfaction.

From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking bestseller, A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm - changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.

«The apparently dramatic drop in «job satisfaction» since 2009 could be an artifact of the change in wording, yet the authors of the report make no allowance for that possibility» says Blumenthal.

Mary Anne is the author of «Using The Knowledge Loom: Tools and Ideas for Collaborative Professional Development — A Guidebook for Professional Development Facilitators and Participants» and co-author of «Improving Online Collaborative Professional Learning: How Changes to Design Features of the Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory Influenced Participant Retention, Overall Satisfaction, and Engagement».

Enterprise users put iSpring Suite and Articulate Storyline — the only two authoring tools in the list — in 3rd place with a satisfaction rating of 9.39 out of ten.

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

Self - publishing, when done right by informed authors can produce excellent results and lucrative opportunities — and if you're not a traditional publisher, success can arguably be defined in terms of artistic satisfaction.

When it comes to being an independent author, there are numerous benefits these days: control, rights retention, time - to - market, global distribution channels, a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction etc..

«If the Author refuses to amend or delete passages in the Work to Dymocks reasonable satisfaction then the Author must, at the request of Dymocks, repay all monies paid by Dymocks.

That feeling of satisfaction is what drives a lot of authors, especially self - published authors, many of whom are in it for the creative effort more than the likelihood of fame and fortune.

not going anywhere — author blog — again no book sales but, without your advice, posts diverse and varied outside of the book turned into a great amount of fun and self satisfaction.

Not only is there a great deal of satisfaction in the find, it also enables both the author and the publisher to prosper by the act.

Blogging about the sale of the company to Pearson / Penguin, she writes, «Despite ASI's claims about customer satisfaction, the comments threads of my posts about ASI's acquisition of Xlibris, Trafford, etc.... are replete with complaints from unhappy authors, and I receive many more via email.»

The book industry has certainly been overwhelmed since the beginning of 2014 with information gleaned from author surveys on their satisfaction with publishing, in all of its forms.

For most authors the satisfaction of being done with their word count for the day is sufficient, but you might like to reward yourself with a little treat.

And personally, I believe that being an indie author is like getting a dollar AND a piece of gum from the tooth fairy, because I get the artistic satisfaction of controlling my creation NOW, and the money as my reader platform grows and I create and sell more books.

These tangents, according to Clark, naturally evolves into the author's route to publication and ultimately career satisfaction, which is ultimately a better measure of success than any other factor.

Indie authors with enough computer skills are finding a lot of satisfaction in developing their own enhanced e-books and self - publishing them.

I prefer reading short stories on my Kindle and epics in paper (the Kindle just doesn't give me that same satisfaction of cracking the spine every 30 pages or so...), and I feel like Kindle readers especially are very interested in trying out indie authors and short stories.

When I help a fellow author or entrepreneur meet their goals I get that refreshing sense of satisfaction of achievement.

I've seen opinions in recent months that Big 6 publishing is the new vanity publishing, because those authors still pursuing it are only doing it for the satisfaction of having a major press pick them up and to see that publisher's logo on the spines of their books.

On a scale of one to 10, authors who publish their own books rated their satisfaction at 6.7 — a point higher than traditionally published authors (5.7), but down on last year's rating of 7.1.