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DeVault, Carol Aline. "Working for the environment: Pathways to environmental careers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1909.
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Fifteen professionals in a variety of environmental occupations in the United States were interviewed in a structured, open-ended format. Job profiles were developed from the interviews. The philosophy of these environmental professionals is expressed in their own words and offers insights into influences upon career choice, professional training and personal fulfillment. In addition, environmental related career activity guides were developed to help students and their parents and teachers gain an awareness of the occupations available in this field.
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Schelling, Martin, and Lars Pierling. "Dynamic Capabilities within the Project Management Environment." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-100083.
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Dynamic Capabilities is a contemporary popular notion, incorporating the ability to adjust a company’s resources adequately to exploit opportunities, prevent threats and consequently retain competitive advantage. Teece et al. (1997) coined Dynamic Capabilities and triggered a wave of research on the topic. However the notion is still in its infancy through academic disputes, different viewpoints and multiple definitions. Consequently tool, measure and procedures of Dynamic Capabilities are absent. Likewise the research on a project management level is scanty and just recently caught attention amongst scholars. To further tap into this research area, this study aims to analyse how project managers in Bayer AG can, and do, reinforce Dynamic Capabilities within their strategic projects. Nevertheless this is a difficult undertaking and other theories linked to the idea of Dynamic Capabilities were utilized to substitute and support this study. The research is based on the definition of Zollo and Winter (2002) who divides Dynamic Capabilities into three main levels. Learning (level 2) is at the core of the notion and comprises of Knowledge Management activities. Dynamic Capability (level 1) denotes the possibility and flexibility to translate knowledge into practice through the adjustment and re-location of available resources. The final outcome is the adjustment of the operations (level 0) and the modification of on-going processes. However numerous scholars, including this study, exclude level 0 as Dynamic Capabilities and merely see it as the final outcome. To substitute the gaps in theory, support available concepts and extend the view on the levels, other theories such as Knowledge Management and Risk Management are enclosed. Analysis of theory as well as the practical investigation of project managers from Bayer AG, revealed that knowledge exchange is the predominant driver of Dynamic Capabilities. While theory stipulates that IT software should be adequate enough to provide fast and easy access to information, project managers highlight that their main focus is on a culture encouraging personal, honest and open communication. Contradicting the idea of Dynamic Capabilities, a majority of project managers highlight that projects are locked after planning, neglecting change during execution. However, budgets are spaciously calculated providing flexibility to attain further resources when required. Additionally, Bayer provides a large pool of available resources, a culture encouraging communication and freedom of choice to their project managers. Merely detailed feasibility studies, monitoring processes and control mechanism are enforced to ensure successful project completion. The ultimate source of project success is implied to be practical experience. The theory of Dynamic Capabilities has aroused curiosity encouraging for further, deeper research on the topic.
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Lilliesköld, Joakim. "Global project management : developing system solutions in a multi-organizational environment." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Electrical Systems, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1487.
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<p>The traditional view of project management is beingchallenged by the globalization of markets, mergers ofinternational companies, and the integration of managerial andbusi-ness processes in global corporations. The development ofInformation Technology and the rapid growth of the Internet hascreated an opportunity to utilize global resources, resultingin new and unique problems within project management researchthat need to be addressed.</p><p>This thesis focuses on problems in project managementexperienced by global system suppliers trying to adapt theirbusinesses to the rapid changes of customers needs. Itespe-cially focuses on geographically dispersed organizationsconsisting of several organizations in different countries,with disparate history and corporate culture, developing anddeliver-ing complex systems under the company's name.</p><p>In order to identify potential problems faced by globalmulti-organizational companies, especially system supplierswith large research and development (R&D) budgets, aframe-work is suggested. This framework divides the problemsinto three categories: geographi-cal, organizational andcultural. The problems identified in the case studies are thenclassi-fied to these categories. Finally, a description of howthe identified problems can be man-aged is provided when themost important success factors identified in the studies arepresented.</p><p> </p><br>QC 20100512
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Eberhardt, Henrik, and David Lindblom. "A PERSPECTIVE ON PRIORITIZATION IN PROJECT PORTFOLIO ENVIRONMENT." Thesis, KTH, Industriella informations- och styrsystem, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-81345.
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The overbridging aspect of this interpretative master thesis is the implementation of a project prioritizing strategy. The concept is subdivided into three processes and entities, which could be seen as tools; project management office(PMO), project evaluation and project selection, which in turn are discussed separately. The thesis investigates how the tools impact the prioritizing strategy and why a company must follow a certain prioritizing strategy. The primary focus has been an IS/IT department at a large Swedish industrial company. Results from interviews at the industrial company have been compared to current theory. In order to map best practice methods a benchmarking study has been conducted at an auto manufacturer, medical company and a telecom company. When implementing a prioritizing strategy it is vital to have a project methodology in order to streamline the project management itself. Also, a PMO with a controlling objective should focus on the task of verifying project information quality and thus minimizing the information overflow to the decision makers. To continuously improve the project mythology and minimize the secondary failures, project should be evaluated. Prioritizing process should not only be made in the project selection phase but continuously during portfolio life cycle by comparing project relevance to risk. A prioritizing strategy would not only highlight the most important projects in the organization, but also make sure that they also receive highest support. A vision for a well defined prioritizing strategy is having project that consume more resources for a shortened time frame instead of having projects consuming less resources but for a longer time frame.
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Shearer, Megan Marie. "Tibetan Buddhism and the environment: A case study of environmental sensitivity among Tibetan environmental professionals in Dharamsala, India." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2904.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate environmental sensitivity among environmental professionals in a culture that is assumed to hold an ecocentric perspective. Nine Tibetan Buddhist environmental professionals were surveyed in this study. Based on an Environmental Sensitivity Profile Insytrument, an environmental sensitivity profile for a Tibetan Buddhist environmental professional was created from the participants demographic and interview data. The most frequently defined vaqriables were environmental destruction/development, education and role models.
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Naidu, Preneshen. "The relationship between leader-member exchange and project success in a projects environment." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64894.
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The world economy has become increasingly reliant on project revenues as a contributor to growth, South Africa has followed this global trend due to limited opportunities and stumbling GDP growth. With the success of projects becoming increasing reliant on the performance of project personnel, there is a need to investigate the relationships that may impact this performance. Therefore, this study explored the relationship that project personnel-project manager interactions and project personnel-project organisation interactions have on project success in a South African projects environment. These relationships were explained by the constructs leader-member exchange, perceived organisational support, affective commitment and discretionary effort.
A quantitative study was performed using an internet survey, where project personnel and project managers currently working in a projects environment were considered as valid responses. A total of 181 useable responses were statistically analysed using multiple linear regression to determine if the constructs had a significant predictive relationship with project success.
The key findings of the study observed that leader-member exchange, perceived organisational support and affective had a significant predictive relationship with project success. A further outcome was that perceived organisational support had a moderating effect on the relationship between leader-member exchange and project success. These findings confirmed the importance of leader-follower-organisation relationships in a projects environment.<br>Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.<br>pa2018<br>Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)<br>MBA<br>Unrestricted
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Mitchell, Gregg Walter. "Environmental education at its best: helping at-risk Latino youth help themselves and our environment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2799.
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The purpose of this project is to help at-risk Latino youth through environmental education programs. An integral aspect of this project included hands-on and interactive experiences at several education sites throughout the State of California. These site visits included the following institutions: Yosemite Institute, Chapman Ranch, Orange County Outdoor Science School, University of Southern California, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Catalina Island Camps, Camp Oaks, Wildlands Conservancy (Oak Glen), St. James Reserve, and Alvarado-Jensen Ranch.
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Sperlich, Juntana Ginda. "Designing a brain-based learning environment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3216.
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The purpose of this project was to develop a teacher friendly guide that would help teachers not only apply brain-based strategies in the classroom, but also to see results from transforming their classrooms into brain-based learning environments.
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De, Klerk Schalk Willem. "Validating the core problem of project portfolio management in a multi-project environment." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01022006-233633.
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KRAUSE, WALTHER GALVAO. "PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT: A STRATEGIC FOCUS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=7508@1.
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O setor de telecomunicações no Brasil encontra-se em
estágio avançado de
desenvolvimento e competição, se considerarmos a transição
desencadeada com a
privatização das empresas do setor em 1998. Essa transição
resultou em uma
alteração no modelo institucional devido à introdução da
concorrência na
exploração dos serviços e à obrigação da universalização
do acesso aos serviços
básicos. Neste ambiente dinâmico, as empresas buscam
competitividade e
rentabilidade. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar
como a metodologia de
gerenciamento de projetos pode contribuir para a
implementação efetiva da
estratégia empresarial, de modo a assegurar e sustentar
vantagem competitiva em
cenários de grandes mudanças. A investigação foi
desenvolvida usando a
metodologia de estudo de caso e escolhendo como objeto de
pesquisa a empresa
EMBRATEL. Coletados por meio de investigação telematizada
e levantamento de
percepções com auxílio de questionários estruturados e
entrevistas, os dados
foram tratados com métodos quantitativos e qualitativos. A
interpretação e a
análise dos dados foram realizadas com base no referencial
teórico e com auxílio
do modelo genérico integrativo de Macedo - Soares (2001b).
Dentre os resultados
mais significativos, cabe destacar o fato de não estar
institucionalizada na empresa
a metodologia de gerenciamento de projetos e que precisam
melhorar a estrutura
organizacional, os sistemas de gestão e de medição e a
capacitação das equipes.
Recomenda-se, em particular, que a EMBRATEL desenvolva uma
metodologia
corporativa em gerenciamento de projetos integrada ao
sistema de medição para
implementação, acompanhamento e controle das ações
estratégicas.<br>The telecommunication industry in Brazil has evolved to an
advanced state
and growing competitiveness since the privatization of the
sector in 1998. In the
last six years, the Brazilian telecommunication system has
progressed from
inefficient and outdated to world class. To succeed in the
current highly
competitive environment, telecommunication service
providers must focus their
strategy on their market and clients. These firms must be
able to implement
strategies that assure the quality of their products and
services and client
satisfaction. The objective of this research is to assess
how project management
can contribute to effective strategy implementation to
guarantee and sustain
competitive advantage in a dynamic environment. The
investigation follows a case
study format, and its object of study is the Brazilian
telecommunication company
EMBRATEL. Instruments of data collection range from
documental/telematic
compilations to perception survey through structured
questionnaires and
interviews. Data analysis, based on both quantitative and
qualitative methods, and
interpretation were based on academic references, based on
research of available
literature, and in most part with the support of the
systemic and integrative model
developed by Macedo-Soares (2001b). Among the most
significant results, it fits
to highlight the fact of the company doesn´t have a well-
implemented project
management methodology. It was recommended that EMBRATEL
should develop
a corporate methodology in projects management, based on
the best practices of
the market and integrated into the measure system for
control of the strategic actions.
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Sharkey, John Patrick 1954. "A simulation environment for multiple project resource optimization." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34810.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2004.<br>Vita.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-99).<br>This thesis develops a numerical simulation environment as a management support tool applicable to the selection and scheduling of multiple, concurrent research and development projects under conditions of constrained resources and uncertain program requirements. A prototype version of this software tool, called SEMPRO (Simulation Environment for Multiple Project Resource Optimization), is developed to capture an operational model of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center flight and a representative research project portfolio. An attribute-driven Work Breakdown Schedule generates resource-loaded activity networks for each entry in the research project portfolio. The project selection and project coordination problems are formulated as Binary Integer Linear Programming problems, as extensions of the traditional Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP). To alleviate the computational obstacles associated with these NP Hard problems, a Lagrange Relaxation formulation is used to generate a near-optimal, time-phased sequence for execution of the selected project activity networks. Stochastic, non-linear, discrete-event simulation dynamics are then employed to validate these linear optimization solutions against a representative model of the organization's research and development project operational processes. The SEMPRO prototype is written in the Microsoft Excel Visual Basic Application language to facilitate project management visualization and knowledge transfer.<br>by John Patrick Sharkey.<br>S.M.
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Raudaskoski, J. (Jukka). "International project management in the Russian business environment." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201604141481.
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Project management is a discipline that manages projects, both domestic and international, so that they are completed successfully in time and according to project plan. In international and especially in Russian business context, project management is vital tool in order to fulfill customers’ need and solve possible cross-cultural problems and in this way foster new possibilities for new project opportunities for project providers.
Russian business environment is approaching to the Western business culture and environment, but it still has its own characteristics. These characteristics must be taken account when Western project providers enter the Russian markets or operate there.
The purpose of this Master’s Thesis was to study how can the international projects be successfully managed in the Russian business context from the project providers’ perspective The focus was on risk management and stakeholder management in the Russian business environment. Also the cultural aspects were taken account in this study.
The research approach of the Thesis was deductive and qualitative. The empirical data was collected through seven unstructured face-to-face interviews with Finnish small and middle sized project providers which possess experience on Russian business environment as well as with Russian business experts.
The result revealed that risk management of projects should be accordance to the target market, in this case the Russian Federation, and must contain also general risk management of project business. Also stakeholder management is vital when operating in Russian business environment since networking and trust are extremely important in Russian business
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Warka, Jette Lyng. "Family environment and the development of hardiness." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1138.
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Jones, Sandra Joyce. "How an after school environmental science club can increase environmental knowledge: Awareness and sensitivity towards the environment for third and fourth grade students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3377.
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Children today are disconnected from the natural environment around them, sometimes finding it annoying, lacking in excitement, and little use to them. Their attention and focus are spent inside watching TV, playing games on computers or a variety of other electronic devices. The purpose of this project was to see if after-school exposure to an Enirovnmental Science Club on the school grounds can impact student attitudes toward our local environment and to increase these third and fourth grade students' knowledge and awareness of their environment.
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Hardbeck, Michael J. "Decision making for software project management in a multi-project environment: an experimental investigation." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23609.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>Software project development can be characterized as failing to meet the user's needs
within budget and schedule limitations. The number of software development failures
far exceeds the number delivered as specified throughout industry and specifically in the
Department of Defense. The System Dynamics Model of Software Project Management is
a sustained and generally accepted quantitative model for simulating the software
development lifecycle. Dynamic management issues can now be evaluated in an
experimental setting which eliminates the financial risks.
The objective of this thesis is to use the System Dynamics Model's gaming interface
to investigate the effects of managerial motivation on software project managers in a multiproject
environment. Specifically, this experiment was conducted to determine the effect
of individual or team motivation on subsystem managers of a larger project. The effect of
the two motivation methods are measured in terms of staffing level decisions, final cost
and final duration.
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Kapogiannis, G. "A conceptual framework for project managers to improve projects performance." Thesis, University of Salford, 2013. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/30642/.
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The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector often encounters difficulties in attaining satisfactory project performance. The secondary data in this research (literature review) clearly shows that an inability to pre-identify problems leads to projects becoming ‘risky’. This can be due to a lack of meeting certain project targets, i.e., a lack of predicting ‘accurate’ project time and costs, a failure to raise the project’s quality issues and failures in predicting a project’s return on investment. In addition, it has been shown that a major lack of anticipating problems within a construction project can occur because of a lack of providing accurate data/information and a lack of team collaboration between project stakeholders. Much research has been conducted in order to anticipate construction project problems and to attempt to offer technological solutions, including information maturity models. However, in spite of all this, research projects still run into risks. Therefore, this thesis aims to investigate a conceptual framework to support construction project managers in order to enhance project performance. This conceptual framework brings together three main entities: Integrated Collaborative Technologies, Team Collaboration and Proactive Behaviour. These three notable entities are used to support project managers’ strategies in order to successfully fulfil the project. In order for this to be achieved the researcher has met the following objectives: an investigation as to how proactive behaviour impacts on the progress of construction projects, an investigation into how team collaboration relates to proactive behaviour and an investigation into how team collaboration and integrated collaborative technologies can support proactive behaviour. The research design includes primary mixed data analysis and secondary data analysis from the literature review. In order to gather data, semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire have been undertaken by the researcher. The proposed conceptual framework was tested by asking professional experts whether the proposed framework was applicable within a construction project environment. The research shows that there is a relationship between integrated collaborative technologies and team collaboration, and team collaboration and proactive behaviour, and hence these factors impact on project performance. Moreover it has been proved that, in order to achieve a successful outcome, a project requires stakeholders to learn how to collaborate with the support of integrated collaborative technologies. Throughout this ‘iterative process’ construction project managers can enhance their proactive behaviour at an individual level and thus can enhance their ability to pre-identify construction related problems. Arguably, this behavioural change will impact positively on project performance indicators.
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Cordero, Vincent Valdez. "Internal psychological states in a diverse work environment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3080.
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The study examined the internal states (self-esteem and ethnic identity) that may affect individuals in a diverse work environment and lead to conflict. In particular it was expected that ethnic identity and self-esteem would mediate the relationship between diversity and conflict. Participants from a wide variety of organizations in Southern California completed an online survey. Statistical analyses revealed that self-esteem and ethnic identity did not mediate the relationship between diversity and conflict. However, many of the variables were significantly related to each other. Implications of the findings are discussed.
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De, Villiers Hendrik Jacobus. "Risk management in a project environment / Daan de Villiers." Thesis, North-West University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2418.
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Brown, Alan William. "A view mechanism for an integrated project support environment." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2067.
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In the last few years the rapidly expanding application of computer technology has brought the problems of software production increasingly to the fore, and it is widely accepted that current software development techniques are unable to produce high quality software at the rate required to keep pace with this. To try to improve this imbalance, the fte1d of Software Engineering has been advanced as a possible solution, attempting to apply the formal methods of an engineering discipline to software design and implementation. One of the most promising areas to be developed in this fte1d is that of Integrated Project Support Environments (IPSE's), which attempt to spread the focus of attention during software development from the coding stage to embrace the whole development cycle, from initial requirements speciftcation through to operational maintenance. These environments hope to improve prodUction efficiency and quality by providing a complete set of support tools to help with each stage of software development, and to supply the necessary tool integration to ensure a smooth transition of use between these tools. This thesis examines the services provided as part of an IPSE which allow users and tools to interact in a meaningful way throughout the life of a project. In particular, a view mechanism is seen as a vital component of these services allowing indiVidual external views of the facilities to be deftned which suit different users' needs. A model of a view mechanism for an IPSE is developed, and within a particular implementation of an IPSE, a view mechanism is formally deftned and implemented. Finally, the view mechanism is analysed and discussed before concluding with some directions for future research.
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Pan, Jiayi. "Construction project information management in a semantic web environment." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7823.
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Modem construction projects, characterised by severe fragmentation from both geographical and disciplinary perspectives, require accurate and timely sharing of information. Traditional information management systems operate on a textual basis and do not always consider the meaning of information. Current web-based information management technology supports information communication to a reasonable extent but still has many limitations, such as the lack of semanticawareness and poor interoperability of software applications. This research argues that Semantic Web technologies can enhance the efficiency of information management in construction projects by providing content-based and contextspecific information to project team members, and supporting the interoperation between independent applications. A Semantic Web-based Information Management System (Sams) for construction projects was created to demonstrate the above concept. The approach adopted for this research involved creating a new framework for Semantic Web-based information management. This extensible system framework enables the system to merge diverse construction information sources, ontologies and end-user applications into the overall Semantic Web environment. The semantic components developed in this research included a project document's annotation model, a project partner's user profile model, and several lightweight IFC-based ontologies for documented information management. This supports intelligent information management and interoperation between heterogeneous information sources and applications. The system framework, prototype annotations, and ontologies were applied to a concept demonstrator that illustrated how the project documents were annotated, accessed, converted, categorised, and retrieved on the basis of content and context. The demonstrator (named SwiMS) acts as a middleware, which mediates between user needs and the information sources. Information in project partners' documents were mapped and accessed intelligently. This involved the use of rule-based filtering and thus prevented the users from being overwhelmed by irrelevant documents or missing relevant ones in heterogeneous and distributed information sources. It also enabled the adaptation of documents to individual contexts and preferences, and the dynamic composition of various document management services. Evaluation of the system framework and demonstrator revealed that the system enhances the efficiency of construction information management, with the three most beneficial areas being project knowledge management, collaborative design and communication between project team members. The Swims annotations, ontologies and deductive rules are important technologies provide an innovative approach to managing construction information. These enable the information in construction documents, both structured documents and un-structured documents, to be interpretable by computers. This ensures the efficiency and precision of construction information management.
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Mejia, Gabriel. "Psychological quality of life in the nursing home environment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3178.
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This study confirms that depression is highly prevalent in nursing homes. In addition, this study reveals incongruency between depression rates and recognition rates of depression in the nursing home environment.
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Huff, Richard A. (Richard Allen). "An Experimental Investigation of Information Systems Project Escalation: An Examination of Contributory Factors in a Business Environment." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279017/.
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The purpose of this research is to continue examining the project management process. The management of projects is complicated. It is the complexity of the process that makes a project so difficult to control. This research examines the effect of particular facets of the project manager's skill set and operating environment on management decisions.
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Whitten, Jordan. "The Boone Dam Project." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3585.
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The photographer discusses his work in “The Boone Dam Project”, a Masters of Fine Art exhibit held at the Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee from March 18 through March 29, 2019. The exhibition consists of a collection of 14 large color archival inkjet prints from a large body of work that surveys a lakeside community’s landscape and residents affected by lowered lake levels during a dam repair. A catalog of the exhibit is included at the end of this thesis.
Whitten examines formal and conceptual influences through historical and contemporary photographers. Images included are works made by Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Susan Lipper. Influences outside of photography are discussed through literary works of Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver. Critical influence regarding landscape and human interactions is presented in regards to essays by J.B. Jackson.
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Williams, Heather Jeannine. "The principal's role in school climate." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3031.
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Redman, William Laurence. "Language, myth, and perceptions in writing about the natural environment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1593.
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ABDOUSSI, Sarah. "Project Finance in the Energy FieldCase Study: A wind Power Project in a Moroccan-like environment." Thesis, KTH, Energisystemanalys, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-142824.
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Companies, governments and NGOs are involved in designing and planning the future energy landscape of countries. Engineers and scientists contribute highly to this planning through bringing innovative, efficient and reliable technical solutions. Their know-how is used during the project development, the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) phase as well as during the Operation and Maintenance stage. However, a successful energy plan depends on many other parameters such as the legal side, the political background of the country, the financing methods, the funding, the environmental aspects and the social acceptance. This Master Thesis Project focuses on the financing side of energy projects, which is a key point to properly manage competitive and viable projects. The strong link between the financing and the political background will be shortly commented throughout the report. In the first part of the report, the focus is put on the Project Finance. All along the report, the theoretical concepts will be illustrated with examples taken from the EDF EN projects, mainly in the Middle East and North African area. The second part deals with the risks associated to power projects. Commercial and political risks are listed and the main mitigation tools are explained. The third part of the report is dedicated to basic business models for energy projects. A simplified economical and financial model is described in detail and run for a wind farm project in a Moroccan-like environment. A sensitivity analysis (fourth part) concludes the report through analyzing: - the impact of technological choices on the internal return on investment will be studied - the impact of the financial parameters on the project structure.
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Companie, Fabio. "Evaluation of the challenges to project delivery confronting project leaders in the dynamic human settlement environment." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32523.
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Governments around the world are battling and continually trying to address the housing backlog, which stems from previous discriminatory regimes and increasing urbanization. The housing backlog in South Africa has increased significantly and most especially in Cape Town. Housing is seen as a measure to transform and unify the aforementioned segregated population. Project Leaders (PLs) are saddled with the responsibility of housing delivery and managing diverse stakeholders. Although project management is the driving force behind the provision of housing delivery, the project process is not free from dynamics. These housing projects constantly attract social and political attention, resulting in the PL repetitively contending with the inherited social and political dynamics of the Human Settlement Environment (HSE). This dynamism creates a complexity that poses numerous challenges that hinder the PL's ability to lead, manage and transform housing projects. This research examines the challenges faced by PLs in the HSE, and whether PLs exercise a capacity to creatively transform, maintain, and lead the project organization. A qualitative research approach with inductive-philosophical reasoning was chosen for the study. The research employed interviews for data collection. A sample of 19 PLs working in the public sector of human settlements in Cape Town was purposefully selected to participate in the study. The collected data was analysed using thematic analysis to identify appropriate themes. The research defined dynamic HSE as a new variable through the literature conducted and contributing to the body of knowledge. The results further identified six themes emerging from the challenges faced by PLs. They are: 1) Social challenges; 2) Political challenges; 3) Organizational challenges; 4) Legislative challenges; 5) Multi-stakeholder challenges; and 6) Skills challenges. Following on from these themes, two key issues showed that social and political influence were the dominant factors affecting the implementation of housing projects. The research found that PLs do not have the authority in housing delivery. This limits the PL's ability to creatively transform, maintain and lead the project organization.
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Smith, Valerie Rose Riecke. "Impact to alternative contracting methods using multivariate analysis in the regulatory environment." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24633.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Building Construction, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.<br>Committee Chair: Oberle, Rita A.; Committee Co-Chair: Castro-Lacouture, Daniel; Committee Member: Bluestein, Fradya; Committee Member: Dobbins, Michael; Committee Member: Roper, Kathy
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Jakobsson, Johan, and Nora Fosse. "A Project Management Information System with Key Performance Indicators in a Multi-Project environment - An action research with IKEA AB." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-40790.
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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe how IKEA AB, works with projects today. Further, the aim is to give a suggestion on how a Project Management Information System could look like in the multi-project organization IKEA AB. In order to control and monitor, this study also includes performance measurements, in the form of KPIs, into the Project Management Information System. Background: In today’s business life many companies are a multi-project organization with several ongoing projects at the same time. By using a Project Management Information System organizations are able to monitor, control and support projects. IKEA AB described having a set project methodology, but that project managers often work in their own way, and that this lead to a problem with monitoring and supporting project. Methodology: The methodological approach in the study is action research. The contacts and interviews were conducted thru a semi-structured approach with people related to projects in different ways, project managers and management board members. Findings: The findings of the study are that projects at IKEA AB are not conducted in a cohesive way. The suggestion for a Project Management Information System at IKEA AB containing of several parts; the system need to include a project plan, KPIs to monitor cost, time and resources, and project members feelings needed to be monitored during execution. The information also needed to be presented in two separate dashboards to deliver the right information to the right person.
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Al-Kaabi, Mohamed. "Improving project management planning and control in service operations environment." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/5486.
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Projects have evidently become the core activity in most companies and organisations where they are investing significant amount of resources in different types of projects as building new services, process improvement, etc. This research has focused on service sector in attempt to improve project management planning and control activities. The research is concerned with improving the planning and control of software development projects. Existing software development models are analysed and their best practices identified and these have been used to build the proposed model in this research. The research extended the existing planning and control approaches by considering uncertainty in customer requirements, resource flexibility and risks level variability. In considering these issues, the research has adopted lean principles for planning and control software development projects. A novel approach introduced within this research through the integration of simulation modelling techniques with Taguchi analysis to investigate ‗what if‘ project scenarios. Such scenarios reflect the different combinations of the factors affecting project completion time and deliverables. In addition, the research has adopted the concept of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to develop an automated Operations Project Management Deployment (OPMD) model. The model acts as an iterative manner uses ‗what if‘ scenario performance outputs to identify constraints that may affect the completion of a certain task or phase. Any changes made during the project phases will then automatically update the performance metrics for each software development phases. In addition, optimisation routines have been developed that can be used to provide management response and to react to the different levels of uncertainty. Therefore, this research has looked at providing a comprehensive and visual overview of important project tasks i.e. progress, scheduled work, different resources, deliverables and completion that will make it easier for project members to communicate with each other to reach consensus on goals, status and required changes. Risk is important aspect that has been included in the model as well to avoid failure. The research emphasised on customer involvement, top management involvement as well as team members to be among the operational factors that escalate variability levels 3 and effect project completion time and deliverables. Therefore, commitment from everyone can improve chances of success. Although the role of different project management techniques to implement projects successfully has been widely established in areas such as the planning and control of time, cost and quality; still, the distinction between the project and project management is less than precise and a little was done in investigating different levels of uncertainty and risk levels that may occur during different project phase.
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Jackson, A. R. "Abstract data types and the integrated project support environment database." Thesis, University of York, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382958.
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Amaral, João Alberto Arantes do 1965. "Project management in distributed collaborative environment : the IeCollab case study." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84223.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-116).<br>by João Alberto Arantes do Amaral.<br>S.M.
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Bo, Steve. "The influence of family environment on psychological separation in late adolescence." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/469.
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Alvarez, Rhonda Kay. "Relationships between family environment, psychological maltreatment, and well-being and symptoms." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1890.
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An examination of the relationships between family environment, psychological maltreatment, subjective well-being and psychological distress. Certain family environments may be more at risk for engaging in psychological maltreatment than others.
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DeLong, David Blane. "A web-based, database bound, WYSIWYG development environment for web applications." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2580.
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This project, WebAppDesigner, combines a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSISYG) web page designer, database table designer, query tool, and an automatic deployment process into a single easy to use solution for small businesses and individuals.
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McCord, Eric Steven. "The relationship between place management and physical environment in apartment crime." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2686.
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The focus of this research is crime in multi-unit rental structures, Specifically, apartment complexes. It seeks to identify management policies and environmental attributes that are associated with lower crime and police calls for service rates.
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Weydt, Ingunn Kristine. "The human side of project management: an investigation of critical chain concepts in the Argentinean Project Environment." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/3975.
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Previous issue date: 2008<br>The global marketplace is rapidly intensifying. Longer product sales lives, greater profit margins or simply survival, is dependent on management¿s ability to create and lead change. Project Management has become an important competency, combined with other business practices to adapt to the trend of changing conditions. Critical Chain is a relatively new project methodology, elaborated by Eliyahu Goldratt in order to complete projects faster, make more efficient use of resources and securing the project deliverables. The methodology is based on the assumption that traditional project techniques such as CPM and PERT, do not recognize critical human behavior. The methodology claims that many project failures are a direct result of how safety is built into the task delivery times, and then wasted by human behavior such as Student Syndrome, Parkinson Law and Multitasking. However, there has been little or no previous research regarding this topic in the Argentine marketplace. This study intended to investigate to what extent the human behavior concepts of critical chain project management are present, by performing in-depth interviews with Argentine project stakeholders. It appears that the four human behavior concepts are present in Argentina and that the majority of Argentine companies are yet to apply project management techniques.
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Fiala, Ivo. "Řízení projektů výrobních zakázek." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-241438.
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The Diploma thesis deals with process improvements in project management in Alstom Power s.r.o.. The thesis is divided into three basic parts - theoretical, analytical and proposal part. The theoretical part focuses on the description of the analytical methods for examining the business environment, which will afterwards be used to analyse the current state of a company's position in the second part, analytical part, of this work. In the analytical part are identified the same errors during the project implementation. In the last part of the own proposals are presented measures that could eliminate errors and streamline process of the project implementation.
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Zika-Viktorsson, Annika. "The industrial project. Studies of the work situation of project members." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Machine Design, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3422.
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<p>The aim of the thesis was to investigate and analyze howproject members at operative level experience industrialproject work. The project goal, alongside the time limits,methods applied, and cooperation, were envisaged to set theprerequisites for the work situation. Four empirical studies,based on both qualitative and quantitative methods, areencompassed by this thesis. In total, 31 companies and 298respondents were involved in the studies. The studies wereperformed in product-development and construction settingswithin the mechanical engineering industry. The analysis showsthat project work is characterized by: 1) Goal-focusedcooperation in flexible and changeable work groups. Demandscompetence for cooperation; interaction and communicationconstantly adjusted to problem-solving processes; and jointactivities for goal definition. 2) Treating time as a resource.A fast pace of work demands shared responsibilities in a team;unconstrained interaction and communication; and socialsupport. Scarce time resources give rise to the risk ofneglecting needs for long-term knowledge development. 3)Development and insecurity. Development makes contingency-basedsupervision and planning needed, together with team-basedplanning and goal formulation. High levels of developmentstimulate knowledge and improvements to routines and practices.Technological development also entails insecurity, whichrequires the ability mentally to cope with flexibility andcontinuous adjustments.</p><p><b>Keywords:</b>Project organization, Project work, Projectmanagement, Project team, Product development, Constructionprojects, Psychosocial work environment.</p>
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Zhen, Yongjian. "Improving students' math problem-solving skills in a computer-assisted learning environment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1797.
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Lang, Delia Lucia. "Effects of a racist environment on hypertension: Traditional versus acculturated African Americans." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1484.
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Vorster, Francois. "Critical factors for project success in an engineering environment / Francois Vorster." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2341.
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Not every project deserving of success achieves it. Conversely, not every project heading for the scrap heap arrives. The journey to project success is long and hard and does not happen overnight. To understand the journey to project success we need to understand what makes a project successful. A successful project can be classified as a Project of which the costs did not exceed 25% of the agreed capital approved with a less than 25% schedule slip and with all the operational problems being sorted out in less than a year. Project success potential, can be increased by focusing on the critical factors listed in this study, namely: Project Front End Loading (FEL), high calibre project teams, and people skills/soft skills of project management. The success of a project can be increased when the project has high calibre project teams starting the project with very effective Front End Loading (FEL) and keep project team members continuity based on the fact that the project is managed by a project manager understanding people who have the soft skill to lead and influence the project team, rather than managing the team. The research was conducted by means of a literature and empirical study. The literature study documents the critical factors for project success. Knowledge gained from the literature study formed the basis for the empirical study to test critical factors for project success in practice and the recommendations can be read in chapter four.<br>Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2009.
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Marks, Lori J. "Project PAVE: Providing Access to the Visual Environment: Low Vision Inservice." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1999. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3718.
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Thomson, Craig S. "A study of the innovation process within the construction project environment." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2006. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a8b6b947-a768-4419-890d-1a6bc733c2c7.
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Over the last decade the low levels of innovation observed within the construction industry have been identified as potentially threatening the long-term future and sustainability of the industry. The root of the problem centres not on its idea generation or creativity capabilities, but on an inability to implement and manage the innovation process. Construction management is identified as focusing predominantly on `innovation' and its management implications within three predominant lines of enquiry; by focusing on specific types of innovation, from an institutional viewpoint and from an emerging organisational perspective, and therefore neglecting a project focus. Academics expressed concern that this failure was aligned to a wider failure to understand the realities of managing innovation within the project environment as a mode of production.This thesis aims to understand the conceptual existence of innovation within the project environment, and to develop an understanding of the nature of the interaction of the innovation process and its management within the wider processes and requirements of the project. The research sought to develop a set of attributes for innovation in projects, assess the possibility of developing a model of the innovation process, and a set of management success factors.A qualitative research approach was adopted using the principles of grounded theory,with the objective of allowing an understanding of the innovation process to emerge within the context of the construction project. A representative sample of nine case studies were selected and considered using a longitudinal approach. 75 semi- structured interviews were conducted across the case studies and analysed using grounded theory. A pilot study of analysis techniques revealed the value of applying the Nvivo software package to assist in the handling of complex data and an advanced cross comparison of the influence of the individual attributes. The thesis presents a generic model of the innovation process, highlighting the factors of influence and management requirements for its successful management. The model is structured as a linear process model, with four phases (initial, formulation and development, implementation and handover) with the boundaries between each determined by a decision gate. Two layers of management were observed for each phase, the phase specific management control system and the overall innovation management. Emphasis was placed on the inclusion of feedback within the model, highlighted at all levels and phases of the process. The research observed the contrasting nature of the integration of the innovation and project processes for the different innovation types, highlighting the varying significance of the activities of the process depending on the form of the attribute. The model displayed a generic structure, however it was observed that within each phase the nature of the activities and influencing factors were fluid and fuzzy, determined by the contextual nature of the attributes.22 generic management success factors were identified across the innovation process divided into strategic, structural and cultural factors. Analysis observed that the significance for management of each of these factors varied depending on the influence of the form of each of the attributes. Key success factors for facilitating the form of each attribute were presented, however evidence suggested that only by considering the influence of the attributes as a set would successful management be achieved. A management facilitation grid is presented to aid practitioners in identifying the nature of an appropriate management response, representative of the requirements of the particular context.The findings of this research present the opportunity for the further investigation of its specifics and wider implications as it marks merely the starting point of our understanding. An expansion of the number of case studies would provide the opportunity to increase the focus on the specifics of the research and allow for the widening of its scope to include for example, the role of SME's and the implications of the supply- chain. However, it is the potential offered within the research by taking its findings back to the industry for practical consideration that is particularly exciting. The adoption of its principles within practical examples would further the development of the model and the understanding of its practical relevance. Further, the findings of the research have the potential to be developed into training packages for those managing innovation, with particular reference to the use of the grid as a tool.
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Sandoval, Adriana Aja. "Does a coeducational environment affect performance for female students in physical education classes?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3337.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate how a coed environment affects a female student's performance in physical education classes. The focus of this study is middle school students. Most middle school students are normally going through puberty and many environmental changes at a new school. These changes can influence a student's performance often in P.E., causing a decrease in performance and participation which can lead to physical inactivity.
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Dullien, Starley Beatrix. "Constructivism for the English-as-a-second-language learning environment and professional development." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2691.
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This project addresses the needs of the adult learner. The adult learner referred to in; this project comes from two distinguishable groups. One group of adult learners consists of the ESL students who attend adult school or community-based English programs. The other group of adult learners consists of the teachers within adult education ESL programs who themselves are students as they participate in professional development workshops.
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Carroll, Autumn Nichole. "Successful midlife aging in a changing work environment: A model of midlife adaptation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2733.
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The purpose of this study was to construct a model of midlife work adaptation that depicts a basic framework outlining coping processes by which midlife adults use to approach changes identified in the current midlife context that challenge them cognitively, physically, and emotionally.
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Sjögren, Källqvist Anna. "Projektledning från ovan - Beroenden och kopplingar i en industriell multi-projektverksamhet." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Industrial Economics and Management, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1573.
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<p>This licentiate thesis discusses management and control ofan industrial business that implements several projects at thesame time, a so-called multi-project business. The questionthat will be answered is: What distinguish the management of amulti-project business and what is crucial for the managementto focus on? The thesis is based on a case study at a companycalled Adtranz Signal in Sweden. Adtranz Signal develops,designs and delivers signal and safety systems for the railway.They are a perfect example of a modern company that operatesthe main part of their business with projects.</p><p>The discussion will take us beyond the single project andabove the project manager. This is necessary because projectmanagement literature, by tradition, emphasizes on theindividual project, and the complexity of problems when aproject is executed isolated from the ordinary business. Todaythere are only a few empirical and theoretical studies ofmulti-project businesses, especially those that focuses on howindustrial companies use projects and lead project work.</p><p>The scientific contribution in this thesis consists of twoparts. The first part is a profound empirical description ofhow management, control and realization of a multi-projectbusiness work. The second part is a further development of theliterature considering management problems in a multi-projectbusiness. Finally there are three important conclusions pointedout:</p><p>It exists dependencies and connections between theprojects in the companys multi-project businessThedifferent dependencies can be categorizedThedependencies and connections are important and must be handledsince they effect the management of the multi-projectbusiness</p><p><b>Keywords:</b>Management and control of a project business,industrial projects, multi-project business, multi-projectenvironment, project-based company, project management</p>
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Krueger, Paula Kay. "China and the USA: An analysis of intercultural training methods in the corporate environment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2563.
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This project presents the cultural significance of establishing and maintaining business relationships with Chinese counterparts. It includes sample training modules to provide intercultural training for all firms engaged in business with China.
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Peansupap, Vachara, and vachara peansupap@rmit edu au. "An Exploratory Approach to the Diffusion of ICT in a Project Environment." RMIT University. Property, Construction and Project Management, 2005. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20050331.101946.
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The research aims to understand the nature of ICT diffusion at the intra-organisational level. It uses both quantitative and qualitative research approaches to identify factors and processes influencing ICT diffusion at the actual implementation phase. The result indicates that management, individual and technology group factors are essential to ICT diffusion at the initial adoption stage. In addition, the integration of change management and knowledge sharing and learning theory to diffusion of innovation theory can help to better explain ICT diffusion at the actual implementation stage.