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Shah, Manisha. "Clinical ginseng research a critical review /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31969811.
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Lategan, L. O. K. "Identifying critical factors to deal with research ethics." Interim : Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 7, Issue 1: Central University of Technology Free State Bloemfontein, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/381.
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Published ArticleIn this article the focus is on the role of ethics in the research cycle. The author argues that current thinking with regard to ethics in research is very often scattered and limited to certain disciplines and certain activities only. It is also pointed out that research ethics is not only applicable to the actual doing of research but also processes associated with research such as supervision, the commercialization of research and the presentation of research within the public domain.
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Gabriel, Rachel, J. Lester, and Renee Rice Moran. "Performing Research to Examine Critical Issues in Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3600.
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Jensen, Mari N. "UA Awarded $4.35M to Study Earth's Critical Zone." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622074.
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McPherson, Maggie. "Critical success factors for e-learning in Higher Education : an emancipatory and critical research approach." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14643/.
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For e-Learning to be successful, it is simply not enough that the courses are well designed, that the module delivery adopts appropriate pedagogical approaches, that tutors are well versed in their subject matter areas and are able to facilitate online courses. The intricacy of the various interest groups involved in this process has prompted this investigation into critical success factors for e-Learning. This holistic investigation seeks investigate the whole range of issues that might impact on the success of e-Learning and the key research question to be addressed is 'What are the underlying Critical Success Factors (CSFs) required to support the design, development, implementation and management of e-Learning in HE institutions?' In the context of this research, a compelling justification for adopting a more interpretivist approach is that it is often neither possible nor desirable to engage in research that is purely based on quantification when investigating attributes such as • attitudes, beliefs or judgements. In the context of this research, the goal was to allow the e-Learning CSFs to emerge from the evaluation of factors in the limited sphere of five high level categories, rather than placing a wider focus on the key performance indicators of HE programme provision in its entirety. By adopting a critical research approach, it was possible to elicit views from participants attending a number of international conference workshops in an environment away from their day to day work. The data was collected through focus groups at international workshops and was analysed through thematic analysis using a process of isolating and selectively coding similarities and differences of key issues within a particular aspect of e-Learning as identified by participants emerging from their own professional practice.
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葉克剛 and Hak-kong Yip. "A critical review of clinical trials in dental research." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31969896.
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Luger, Michael, and Harvey Goldstein. "Research (Science)Parks as Public Investment A Critical Assessment." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1989. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6170/1/IIR_Disc_41.PDF.
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Doncaster, Katherine. "Making meaning in research interviews : a critical discourse analysis." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260280.
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Yip, Hak-kong. "A critical review of clinical trials in dental research." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21852297.
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Emamjome, Fahame. "Re-conceptualisation of information quality : a critical realist perspective." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/105645/1/Fahame_Emamjome_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis presents detailed methodological guidelines and a comprehensive conceptual framework to guide and to harmonize studies on information quality as a multi-disciplinary object of study. Despite the abundance of literature on information quality, this phenomenon has not been defined clearly and research efforts have failed to address practical challenges resulting from complex contextual situations and technological advancements. This thesis addresses this issue by building a meta-framework for conceptualizing information quality to align research efforts with real world problems. This framework is built on the tenets of applied Critical Realism, Peircian Semiotics and social science methodological guidelines.
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Krauss, Kirstin Ellard Max. "Ethical ICT research practice for community engagement in rural South Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/39923.
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The research reported here evolved from the researcher’s ethnographic immersion in an ICT for
Development (ICT4D) project in a deep rural part of South Africa. During ethnographic immersion,
three key issues emerged from fieldwork. Firstly, the researcher realised his limited understanding of
the worldview of research participants. Secondly, he realised his inability to appropriately and
ethically do community entry and implement the ICT4D artefact (e.g. ICT4D training and policy),
especially because of his limited understanding of the cultural context, underlying values,
emancipatory concepts and interests, as well as incomplete insight into the oppressive
circumstances that the people in the research setting find themselves in. The third issue relates to an
inability to interpret and explain the collisions and conflicts that emerged from introducing, aligning,
and implementing the ICT4D artefact. Through critical ethnographic methods and a critical
orientation to knowledge, the researcher shows how these inabilities, collisions, and false
consciousnesses emerged to be the result of cultural entrapment and ethnocentricity that he and
the research participants suffered from.
A key argument throughout this thesis is that the emancipation of the researcher is a precursor for
the emancipation of the researched. The researcher thus asks: In what ways should ICT4D
researchers and practitioners achieve self-emancipation, in order to ensure the ongoing
emancipation and empowerment of the deep rural developing community in South Africa? The
study subsequently argues the link between the topic of this thesis, namely the issue of ethical
research practice, and the primary research question. A unique perspective on these problems is presented as the study looks at emancipatory ICT4D research and practice in context of a deep rural
Zulu community in South Africa, and specifically the journey of social transformation that the
researcher himself embarked on.
The study retrospectively applies Bourdieu’s critical lineage to reflect on the research contribution
and how the researcher was eventually able to construct adequate knowledge of the ICT4D social
situation. Building onto the idea of critical reflexivity, the researcher argues that critical
introspection should also be part of critical ICT4D research in South African contexts. Through
confessional writing, the researcher describes experiential knowledge of the worldview collisions
that emerged from ICT4D research and practice. In particular, manifestations of the collisions
between the typical task-orientated or performance-orientated value system of Western-minded
societies and the traditional loyalty-based value system or people-orientated culture of the Zulu
people are described.
The research contributes by challenging dominant ICT4D discourses and by arguing for an end to a
line of ICT4D research and practice where outsiders with a Western task-orientated worldview, like
the researcher himself, make unqualified and inadequate assumptions about their own position in
ICT4D practice, and about their own understanding of how to “develop” traditional communities in
South Africa through ICTs. Following Bourdieu, the researcher argues that one can only build an
adequate understanding of the social situation through critical reflexivity, by making the necessary
knowledge breaks, and by allowing oneself to be carried away by the game of ICT4D practice.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Hulling, Cornelia. "Cobalt Stories : Unearthing narratives through critical research and artistic practice." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85999.
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This project is an exploration of practices around the critical raw materialcobalt, it’s history, and current relevance in Swedish discourse. Critical raw materials are identified by the European Commission as materials of high importance to the EU’s economic system as well as the high risks related to their supply and production. As the demand for cobalt grows due to it’s usefulness in rechargeable batteries in for example smartphones, laptops and electric cars, the metal is predicted to become scarce in a near future. In Sweden there is a discourse on whether or not to mine for cobalt, among other earth elements, locally, and the industry is lookingfor ways to recycle old rechargeable batteries at larger scales to secure the resource. The criticality of cobalt does not only concern supply and economic importance however. In Congo some mines have been reported to still be dug by hand, under extremely poor conditions and risking the health and safety of the workers, as well as the surrounding societies. Through a critical research and design process these topics are explored alongside the more locally known use of cobalt oxide as a vibrant blue colour pigment for ceramics and glass. With the process I aim to create a design that engages with the criticality as well as a designerly fascinationwith the material. The end result being a speculative design fiction of the mythological creature cobelt, and how complex narratives can be unearthed in craft based practice.
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Athman, Athman Hussein. "Understanding Swahili cultures. Some critical remarks." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-95362.
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East Afiica and in particular the coastal region has been attractive for many researchers from the colonial period to the present times. Foreign researchers mostly from Europe and America have come to the Swahili coast with much curiosity on a wide range of subjects. Beginning in the 19th century when Africa was regarded by Europeans as `the dark continent` inquisitive geographers, prospective traders, colonial administrators and Christian missionaries came to satisfy their curiosity. On top of their duties they also embarked on research on various desciplines, in particular geography, linguistics, anthropology, and history. Their findings were then compiled in the form of books and theses which today form the basis of our reference.
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Camangian, Patrick. "Teaching like our lives matter critical pedagogy and classroom research /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2026666421&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Mignot, Philip. "Metaphor : a paradigm for constructive and critical research into 'career'." Thesis, University of Reading, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399392.
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Evans, Rob. "Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome : research from a critical perspective." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392833.
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McGuinness, Andrea Lynn. "Online Discussion Boards Foster Critical Views In Students' Research Writing." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1311267109.
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Carroll, Tony. "Educating the critical mind in art : practice-based research into teaching critical studies in A level art." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393251.
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I researched an area of the curriculum called 'the critical and historical study', a part of the Advanced level art syllabus in which I felt improvements could be made in my teaching. An investigation of the relationship between my teaching and students' responses was carried out as part of reviewing and improving the critical study unit of coursework. Curriculum changes made between 1997-1999, intended to provide students with different ways of making practical responses to other people's art and a range of methods for interpreting the meanings of art were studied using action research methods to capture the dynamic of changes in practice and in my thinking. Changes were also being made more broadly at a structural level through post sixteen educational policy reforms. I wanted to situate my practice in the contextual dimensions of A level art and describe my involvement in writing a new syllabus for the subject during this period of reform. I also wanted to understand better concepts of critical studies in art education historically in their policy contexts. Undertaking curriculum policy analysis helped me to make sense of the latest period of change and explore curriculum divisions within the subject such as the 'uneasy relationship' between art history and studio practice. A relationship whose unease intensified in the mid 19805 and coincided with my career entry into the teaching profession. I turned my attention to the emergence of critical studies over the last forty years, and considered how that impacted on my teaching in the last fifteen years. I traced different conceptions of critical studies to unravel the value positions of its promoters in order to understand and to locate my own position in the development of the discipline. In combination, these interests gave my research a multiple focus and required complex methodologicaJ approaches in order to make sense of critical studies in art education through my classroom practice and students' experiences, curriculum policy histories, art education literature and autobiographical life history.
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Maximin, Brent M. "Critical Evaluation and Life Course Change: The Development of the Critical Problem-Solving Skills Scale – Qualitative Extension." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/418.
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The thesis serves as an evaluation of the psychometric properties of a measure of cognitive competence used with a multi-ethnic, adolescent sample. The primary goal of this study was the development of the Critical Problem Solving Skills Scale – Qualitative Extension, using Relational Data Analysis (RDA). This study builds on previous work that has been conducted to provide evidence for the reliability and validity of the RDA framework in evaluating youth development programs (Kurtines et al., 2008).
Inter-coder percent agreement among the TOC and TCC coders for each of the category levels was moderate to high, with a range of .76 to .94. The Fleiss’ kappa across all category levels was from substantial agreement to almost perfect agreement, with a range of .72 to .91. The correlation between the TOC and the TCC demonstrated medium to high correlation, with a range of r(40)=.68, p
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Sheth, Mallory. "Predicting mortality for patients in critical care : a univariate flagging approach." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98560.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-89).
Predicting outcomes for critically ill patients is a topic of considerable interest. The most widely used models utilize data from early in a patient's stay to predict risk of death. While research has shown that use of daily information, including trends in key variables, can improve predictions of patient prognosis, this problem is challenging as the number of variables that must be considered is large and increasingly complex modeling techniques are required. The objective of this thesis is to build a mortality prediction system that improves upon current approaches. We aim to do this in two ways: 1. By incorporating a wider range of variables, including time-dependent features 2. By exploring different predictive modeling techniques beyond standard regression We identify three promising approaches: a random forest model, a best subset regression containing just five variables, and a novel approach called the Univariate Flagging Algorithm (UFA). In this thesis, we show that all three methods significantly outperform a widely-used mortality prediction approach, the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score. However, we assert that UFA in particular is well-suited for predicting mortality in critical care. It can detect optimal cut-points in data, easily scales to a large number of variables, is easy to interpret, is capable of predicting rare events, and is robust to noise and missing data. As such, we believe it is a valuable step toward individual patient survival estimates.
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Jancsary, Dennis, Markus Höllerer, and Renate Meyer. "Critical analysis of visual and multimodal texts." SAGE, 2016. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6126/1/Dennis_etal_2016_SAGE%2Dcritical%2Danalysis.pdf.
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Baker, Jack David. "Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Youth Participatory Action Research." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1538816180877824.
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Martinez, Tiburcio Felix. "Maritime protection of critical infrastructure assets in the Campeche Sound." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Dec%5FMartinez%5FTiburcio.pdf.
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Silver, Byron D., and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "A transient period for enabling motion vision precedes the critical period for ocular dominance plasticity." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2005, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/287.
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The premise that mature visual function depends upon the nature of visual experience during development is based primarily on experiments showing that visual deprivation during a 'critical' period early in life causes abnormalities in visual cortex and an enduring loss of spatial vision (amplyopia). There is, however, little evidence that early visual experience atually enables mature vision. Experments in this thesis provide such evidence. The measurement of optomotor responses daily from eye opening permanently enhances optomotor sensitivity and the perception of visual motion. The plasticity allowing this enhancement is transient and peaks in efficacy before the start of the classical 'critical ' period for ocular dominance plasticity. The enhancement is dependent upon optomotor responses generated by the movement of high spatial frequency visual stimuli, and is mediated by the visual cortex. These studies show that a form of experience-dependent plasticity, distinct from that of the critical period, enables mature motion vision.viii, 107 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
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Montazeri, Behzad. "Comparing Critical Chain Project Managemenet with Critical Path Method: A Case Study." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1935.
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Scheduling is a major task in project management. The current scheduling technique, Critical Path Method (CPM), has been widely applied for several decades, but a large number of projects fail to be completed on time and schedule delays occur in many projects. This raises question about the validity of the current project scheduling system. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), derived from Theory of Constraints, is a relatively new alternative approach toward scheduling projects. This study compared CCPM and CPM to determine which scheduling method delivers a shorter project duration and has a better usage of resources. A scheduling software called ProChain was used to reschedule a CPM based construction project using CCPM. The study concluded that the CCPM has the possibility to deliver shorter project duration and better resource usage in comparison to CPM. It was revealed that ProChain has limitation in the process of transforming a CPM schedule to a CCPM schedule. For example, ProChain treats any tasks without any predecessor as a project terminating task and puts a project buffer after it.
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McElhanon, Kevin Edward. "Autoantibodies Targeting a Critical Component of Sarcolemma Resealing Contribute to Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy Pathophysiology." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1585998781690227.
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Wangensteen, Sigrid. "Newly graduated nurses' perception of competence, critical thinking and research utilization." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för omvårdnad, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-6260.
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Sigrid Wangensteen has the recent years been engaged in doctoral studies at Karlstad University in combination with teaching at the bachelor program in nursing at Gjøvik Universtity College. This doctoral thesis is focused on newly graduated nurses, their perception of competence, critical thinking dispositions, research use and their experiences of being a nurse during their first year as a nurse. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used. The very first period of time was experienced as tough but when looking back the newly graduated nurses appreciated the tough time. They described the need for a supportive environment, and gaining competence through managing challenging situations. The leadership role constituted the main difference between being a student and being a nurse. In the quantitative study the nurses perceived their competence as good, rating the Helping role competence category highest and the Ensuring quality competence category lowest. With respect to critical thinking the CCTDI total scores indicated a positive disposition. As regards the CCTDI subscale scores the nurses reported highest values for intellectual curiosity (Inquisitiveness) and lowest for intellectual honesty (Truth-seeking). The nurses reported a positive attitude towards research, but only 24% were classified as research users. Supportive environment was a significant predictor for research use. Critical thinking was a prominent predictor for attitude towards research, for research use and perception of competence. Nurse leaders in clinical practice and nurse educators in nursing education and clinical practice play an important role in nurturing student nurses and newly graduated nurses with respect to critical thinking. There is a need to assess whether teaching strategies meet the requirements of critical thinking and EBP in nursing education.
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Lawson, Julie Margaret. "Critical realism and housing research an explanation for diverging housing solutions /." [Amsterdam : Amsterdam : AME, Amsterdam Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment, University of Amsterdam] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2003. http://dare.uva.nl/document/67848.
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Carrizosa, de la Torre Alvaro. "Platforms for critical systems practice : an organisation-based action research project." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269626.
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Bush, Anthony J. "'Doing coaching justice' : promoting a critical consciousness in sports coaching research." Thesis, University of Bath, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500692.
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This research enquiry is a positional paper that locates the context in which sports coaching research is undertaken. Embracing a physical cultural studies sensibility, the research enquiry raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualisation for research in the ‘field’. Deploying the theory and method of articulation (Hall, 1996) and Foucault’s (1969) genealogical method, this research enquiry maps out the critical history of the sports coaching present through consideration of the social forces that comprise our conjunctural moment (Grossberg, 2006). By doing so, the impact of the liberal capitalist order prevalent in higher education in the United Kingdom – termed the ‘proto-fascist / pernicious present’ (Giroux, 2005a; Silk and Andrews, in press) – is unpacked. Within this context, the research enquiry explicates how these various social forces congeal at, meet at, and frame the practice of sports coaching research. Through mapping sports coaching research within a corporatised higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematised.
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Fassbinder, Samuel Day. "Substitute teaching as critical research on school communication : an ethnographic study /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487953204280226.
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Kriel, Sandra. "Towards a critical approach to art education: in action research project." University of the Western Cape, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8412.
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Magister Philosophiae - MPhilThe action research project documented in this thesis was informed by Jurgen Habermas' theory of knowledge-constitutive interests. In this theory Habermas postulates three anthropologically deep-seated interests that inform our search for knowledge. These interests are the technical, the practical and the emancipatory. In the action-research project, which was done in collaboration with a group of first year art students at Bellville College of Education, I attempted to uncover the values, assumptions and interests underlying our educational interaction in the hope of transforming it to be more empowering and emancipatory. The project went through three stages, each of which was informed by a different interest. The first stage could be described as having a technical interest because it was based on positivist assumptions of reductionism, duality and linearity. In this "- stage art was understood as being value-free, objectively describing and reflecting visual reality. It was believed that theory and skills could be applied to achieve a predetermined product. In the second stage of the project the positivist paradigm of perception was replaced by the assumption that our relationship to others and the world is mediated by language which needs to be interpreted in a socio-political and historical context. Art does not only have a descriptive role but it can express subjective understandings of the networks of meanings and social rules involved in experienced reality. Finally, the third stage evolved within a critical framework informed by an emancipatory interest. In the drawing project we looked critically at aspects of our society which frustrate and constrain individuals to sustain dependence, inequality and oppression. We tried to uncover existing power relations and the historical, social and material conditions underlying certain problems we were experiencing. We hoped to find ways in which we could contribute to the transformation of ourselves and our society. The process of making art was here seen as a form of communicative action which can be empowering, emancipatory and transformative.
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Datchi-Phillips, Corinne. "Change in contexts a critical approach to empowerment research in counseling /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344571.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Counseling and Educational Psychology, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 7, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: B, page: 1338. Advisers: Barbara Dennis; Chalmer E. Thompson.
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Therry, Len. "Accounting education research: A critical examination and social semiotic case study." Thesis, Therry, Len (2002) Accounting education research: A critical examination and social semiotic case study. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2002. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52646/.
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To date, there has been no comprehensive study which evaluates research efforts in accounting education in terms of topics, research methods, whether (to what extent and in what manner) major calls for accounting education reform are being addressed and whether issues deemed important in the accounting education literature (emphasis on empirical research methods, consideration of learning theories, review of the non accounting and in particular education literature) are being considered by accounting education researchers.
This study addresses this gap in the literature by critically examining research output in the light of major issues identified in the accounting education literature over a ten year period (1989 to 1998) as published in the leading accounting education and accounting journals. A total of 1000 articles formed the data set initially used in the evaluation.
The results of the examination of research output indicates that two major sub topics dominated accounting education research efforts: teaching methods and curriculum-related issues (eg courses and content). A range of sub topics and research projects were also found to have been the focus of comparatively few studies. Research which dealt the topic of ‘education process’ was largely descriptive or prescriptive.
Educators had failed however to consider the potential contribution that qualitative research methods could make to accounting education and to the development of accounting education research. Learning theories (when considered) were largely drawn from the field of cognitive psychology and many educators (despite calls in the accounting education literature) had failed to consider the non accounting literature and in particular, the literature from other subject areas/disciplines. In this sense, it was argued that accounting education research was narrowly focused and that there was a need for additional research which considered these issues.
The second phase of the thesis addresses the need for such research by placing accounting education within a wider context of social theory to provide understandings concerning the complexity of the ‘textual’ or ‘discursive’ nature of social construction of accounting meaning in both the lecture and tutorial. In this sense, the study supports the need for educators to consider qualitative approaches to research, alternative learning theories, and the need to consider the education literature from other disciplines and subject areas.
Adopting a social semiotic conceptual framework and using the techniques of discourse analysis, evidence is generated which demonstrates the importance of social interaction, the significance of accounting education as representing a social practice, the relationship between language and the learning of accounting and the significance of recognising accounting as ‘discourse’. The case study represents a broader linguistic and social perspective to accounting education and in this sense, offers a different way of looking at accounting and accounting instruction - one in which learning is located in regular patterns of discourse and social practices. Recognising the importance of language as discourse and learning as inherently social challenges previously held notions of learning environments in accounting education.
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Larsdotter, Maria. "Discursive (dis)orders of Disability Research : A Critical Discourse Analysis of ’participation in research’ in Swedish Disability Research articles and overviews." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38897.
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In this thesis my aim is to analyse and discuss discourses of Swedish disability research, with focus on participation in research by disabled people. My research question is based on an observation that research overviews and evaluations repeatedly argue for the importance of participation of disabled people. This request has been recurrent and more or less intact in its form for over 20 years. My question is why this request has not been fulfilled or altered in its form. I base my theoretical framework and methodology on Critical Discourse Analysis, and the power of language in a constructed and reconstructed social reality, with a semi-structuralist approach as developed by the British sociolinguist Norman Fairclough. In focus is the discursive construction of research participation and participants. My result after a systemic-functional grammar analysis of governmental research reports and peer-reviewed articles published in English, in international academic journals, by researchers with affiliation to Swedish universities, is that participation is discussed in terms of disabled people primarily as the source of information rather than as actual actors in a research process. The discursive construction of disabled participants rests on identification and representation connected to being disabled / having an impairment. A discourse of knowledge validation is based on a division of roles, tasks and labour, in which researchers and participants are constructed in opposing subject positions. Participant influence is constructed in terms of subjectivity and personal interest, as opposed to the objective expertise of the researchers. Discourses are, however, found to be contested and inconsistent, both in terms of conceptual definitions of disability and disability research, and as manifested in actual use of language. The most fixed discourse seems to be that of requests for increased participation, and the attributing of personal experiences to participants, in contrast to attributing professional expertise to researchers.
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Gregory, Victor Paul. "Monte Carlo computer simulation of sub-critical Lennard-Jones particles." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11242009-020125/.
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Lemlem, Tigest F. "The politics of social work research : a critical analysis of the stated reasons for the research gap /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488187049540981.
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Fotiadou, Maria. "The discourse of careers services : a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of UK university websites." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2017. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/10127/.
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This thesis examines the discourse of careers services in UK university websites. The notion of employability has been presented and promoted by powerful groups, such as governments, organisations, the media, employers, and higher education institutions, as the remedy to the social problem of unemployment. Careers services in UK universities were given the role of ‘expert’ professionals who are there to support and guide students towards developing their employability and skills. This study examined the ideas and messages reproduced and promoted by the careers services, which could affect the students’ understanding of the ‘job market’ and their role in it. The chosen methodology, that is corpus-based critical discourse analysis, combined qualitative and quantitative methods and tools for the analysis of 2.6 million words deriving from 58 UK universities’ websites, and more specifically the careers services sections. In general, this thesis highlights some of the problematic, common-sense ideas that are being promoted by these services and encourages the denaturalisation of the careers services’ discourse. The main argument is that the language used by the careers services in UK universities reproduces and promotes neoliberal ideology. The analysis shows that higher education students are encouraged to develop ‘job-hunting techniques’ and are presented as responsible for their own ‘survival’ in a ‘fiercely competitive job market’. The notion of employability is promoted as the main solution to this highly problematic ‘reality’. The services advertise that they ‘know’ what employers are looking for from prospective employees and claim that they can ‘help’ students with their job search. The close analysis of linguistic data reveals that these services act as the ‘enablers’ of the students’ self-beneficiary action. In addition, besides their role as careers counsellors, the services’ use of language demonstrates their involvement in the therapeutic field. Finally, the language used by post-1992 and Russell Group universities was found to be quite similar. There are, however, some differences that could be viewed as signs of competition between these two university ‘groups’ and a preference of the job market towards a particular ‘group’ of graduates from elite institutions.
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Athman, Athman Hussein. "Understanding Swahili cultures. Some critical remarks." Swahili Forum; 2 (1995), S. 203-210, 1995. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11629.
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East Afiica and in particular the coastal region has been attractive for many researchers from the colonial period to the present times. Foreign researchers mostly from Europe and America have come to the Swahili coast with much curiosity on a wide range of subjects. Beginning in the 19th century when Africa was regarded by Europeans as `the dark continent` inquisitive geographers, prospective traders, colonial administrators and Christian missionaries came to satisfy their curiosity. On top of their duties they also embarked on research on various desciplines, in particular geography, linguistics, anthropology, and history. Their findings were then compiled in the form of books and theses which today form the basis of our reference.
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Eriksen, Scott D. (Scott Douglas). "A Critical Investigation of Positivism: Its Adequacy as an Approach for Accounting Research." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330743/.
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This dissertation addresses the influence of "positivism" in accounting research. Accounting research has been overwhelmed by "positivism" to the extent that the "scientific method" has become sacrosanct. The dysfunctional consequences include the extreme emphasis placed on methodology. Researchers believe that the methods applied, rather than the orientations of the human researcher, generate knowledge. This belief stems from an extreme objectivist ontological orientation. A second consequence of the "positivistic" influence is a change in direction of intellectual inquiries. Obsession with measurement and quantification has all but eliminated concern for values.
Specifically this dissertation asserts that the "scientific method" has been misapplied and misunderstood. The misapplication is that a method developed in the natural sciences has been blindly accepted and endorsed in the social sciences. It has been misunderstood in the sense that the abstract Cartesian-Newtonian view of reality has been mistaken for reality itself. The ontological assumptions inherent in this view have become integrated in the Western mind. The axiomatic nature of these assumptions have been ignored. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to project a point concerning research and knowledge. Hence, there are no "research findings" in the conventional sense.
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Reid, Toby. "Critical Making for Cybertherapy Innovation Design in HCI." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-88026.
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Design-oriented research is an approach to HCI research that frames HCI as a design discipline. One approach to design research is that of critical making, which incorporates critical thinking and practical ‘making’ into the design process whereby ‘making’ is framed as another context of thinking. Cybertherapy is any computationally mediated psychotherapy intervention technique. Contextually, cybertherapy is situated within the field of Psychology and yet it is argued here the area is non-binary by nature and highly relevant to the field of HCI. This study demonstrates the validity of critical making as a design-oriented research approach to the field of cybertherapy design and beyond. Through the immersive demonstration of critical making for cybertherapy innovation design, the design research approach is evaluated and argued to be a beneficial stance towards such non-binary research and development.
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Nelson, Kathryn Scott. "EFFECTS OF CRITICAL LITERACY ON COMPREHENSION: BRIDGING PARADIGMS IN CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436879204.
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Atiti, Abel Barasa. "Critical action research exploring organisational learning and sustainability in a Kenyan context /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/27324.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Environmental and Life Science, Dept. of Graduate School of the Environment, 2008.Bibliography: p. 370-395.
Part 1: Introduction and contextual influences ; chapter 1: Getting a sense of the research terrain ; chapter 2: Shaping contextual influences -- Part 2: Theoretical foundations of the study ; chapter 3: Understanding organisational change ; chapter 4: Exploring organisational learning and sustainability as social learning processes -- Part 3: Methodology and research processes ; chapter 5: Critical action research methodology ; chapter 6: Research design and processes -- Part 4: Contextual issues and social learning outcomes ; chapter 7: Critical organisational analysis of the NMK ; chapter 8: Deliberating and exploring possibilities for change -- Part 5: Discussion of findings ; chapter 9: Ontological, epistemological and pedagogical implications of the study ; chapter 10: Reflections, contributions and recommendations -- References.
The main goal of this study was to deepen an understanding of exploring organisational learning and sustainability using critical action research methodology in a Kenyan context. The research process invloved a group of 23 middle level management emplyees of the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) in identifying and acting on sustainability issues. This group was designed and cultivated as a community of practice for organisational learning purposes. The basic premise underlying the study is that exploring agential, structural and cultural interactions (morphogenetic relationships) through educational interventions (communicative interactions) in a community of practice can deepen context specific understanding of organisational learning and sustainability. I developed this argument by drawing on a complex philosophical framework that brought together assumptions from Archerian social realism, Deweyan pragmatism and critical theory. The framework underpinned three distinct and yet related theoretical perspectives - the Archerian morphogenetic approach. Habermasian critical theory and Lave and Wenger's communities of practice. The Archerian morphogenetic approach and Habermasian critical theory respectively provided ontological and epistemological perspectives for the study. Lave and Wenger's communities of practice approach provided both a unit of analysis (the NMK community) and a social theory of learning to complement the Archerian and Habermasian theoretical perspectives. -- I generated data within a 14-month period between March 2005 and March 2007 in three distinct but integrally intertwined broad action research cycles of inquiry. During the first cycle, the research group identified contextual issues related to organisational learning and sustainability. In the second cycle the group investigated the issues deeper and deliberated possibilities for social change and the emergence of sustainability. The final cycle delineated social learning outcomes from the study and explored ways of institutionalising social change processes. Throughout these cycles, I explored ways of knowing the social reality of enabling organisational learning and sustainability. The cycles were integral to communicative interactions, which I implemented as educational interventions for developing agency in the NMK community of practice. Data analysis was undertaken within cyclical processes of entering and managing data, manual coding and developing categories, identifying themes, presenting results and validating findings. -- Undertaking a collaborative critical organisational analysis of the NMK revealed various contextual factors that both constrained and enabled participant learning capabilities and reflexivity to address sustainability issues. These factors manifested as contextually mediated issues of communication and information flows, decision making and leadership (governance), staff motivation and development, financial management and identity and role of the NMK. The research process promoted collective social action and innovation, forstered critical reflections and reflexivity, enhanced democratic deliberations and strengthened systemic thinking capabilities in the NMK community of practice. This study contributes to the body of literature on environmental education in its employment of a coherent and complex philosophical and thoretical framework for exploring organisational learning and sustainability.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Huang, Yu. "Critical analysis of related research on characteristics of high performance virtual teams." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007huangy.pdf.
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Horne, J. D. "A critical analysis of sociology of sport : reflections on a research career." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.652592.
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This is a thesis by research publications about the sociology study of sport. During the twentieth century sport has become an increasingly significant social practice for many people, yet the sociology of sport remains a relatively marginal sub-discipline. Following a brief biographical journey through the candidate's career as a sociological researcher and writer, an outline of the sociology of sport is presented that attempts to explain this marginality. It is argued that sport provides a useful focal point for sociological research for substantive, theoretical and methodological reasons. The rest of the critical overview discusses the theoretical background to the submitted research papers in the light of these reflections on a research career. The thesis seeks to establish that sport is best understood as a product of contested cultural values and meanings in particular social formations. The sociological study of sport provides the opportunity to develop a critical methodological orientation to social scientific enquiry consistent with developments in epistemological and ontological frameworks that have taken place during the career of the author.
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HSU, REY-HAN, and 徐睿涵. "A Critical Research on P2P Lending." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r5n95b.
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碩士東吳大學
法律學系
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Peer-to-peer lending (P2P lending) is a fast-growing service in financial technology environment. Compared with traditional financial institutions, the P2P lending platforms have the advantages of simple procedures and low threshold for applying for loans. It is a very attractive option for individuals and enterprises with poor financial credits. There are some P2P lending company in Taiwan, and the legality of their operation have always been questioned. The main issues are that the operation of P2P lending could be against Securities and Exchange Act and The Banking Act of the Republic of China. Particularly, the critical concern lies in the violation of Securities and Exchange Act; which not only harms the rights of investors, but also undermines the order of the financial market. Therefore, this study focuses on the regulation of the P2P lending with regard to Securities and Exchange Act. The development of P2P lending is quite vigorous in the United States, but still faces the challenges of financial regulation. In 2008, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) determined that the notes issued by Prosper constitute investment contract in accordance with Howey and Reves Test. Therefore, Prosper should be regulated by the Securities Act of 1933. Some scholars have argued about this determination. The main reason for the debate is that scholars have different opinions on whether Prosper meets the "solely from the efforts of others" in the Howey Test requirement. With examining the literatures on the determination, the present study argues that Prosper has construct credit rating for borrowers and the scheme of investment interest rate for lenders, which is the key to making lenders profitable, so Prosper is enough to pass the Howey Test. One the other hand, due to the regulation of the Securities Act, some scholars think that P2P lending operators would bear the cost of registration and responsible for information disclosure, which will cause the lender to bear the credit risk of the platform and infringement of the privacy of the borrower. Regarding to this issue, the position of the present studies that with the establishment of the JOBS Act, the P2P lending operator who raises the total amount of capitals below a certain amount is exempted from the Securities Act, which has effectively mitigated the impact of the Securities Act on P2P lending operators. Hence, the P2P lending should not be fully exempted from the Securities Act. In Taiwan, the Securities and Exchange Act is adapted based on the framework of the Securities Act of U.S. But the investment contract is not included in the Securities and Exchange Act, the investor protection is insufficient. This study suggests that the investment contract should be included in Securities and Exchange Act. In addition, by examining the nature of P2P lending in Taiwan, the key to the lender's profit is the professional planning of the P2P lending operators, so it is in compliance with the Howey Test and should be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Act. The Finance Technology Development and Innovative Experimentation Act should also be applied, and then the law should be revised according to the experimental results. In the revision of the law, this study proposes that it is advisable to refer to the JOBS Act to add an exemption clause in Article 22 of the Securities and Exchange Act, and use the total amount raised as the threshold for exemption registration, so that the P2P lending can get rid of the illegal doubts. Finally, the P2P lending operators must pay attention to money laundering prevention in the future development and strengthen the protection of platform users in order to achieve stable and long-term development.
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Flicker, Sarah. "Critical issues in community-based participatory research." 2005. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=371025&T=F.
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Cian, Jyun-Zun, and 錢軍圳. "Critical Service Quality Research on Maokong Gondola." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60441010879570876274.
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科技管理學系碩士班
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Since Maokong Gondola began to work,it continued causing in controversy .Many people discussed its advantages and disadvantage through televisions or news papers.In fact, Maokong Gondola truly combine local traveling with scenic spots. It also brings a lot of tourists.Now.Maokong Gondola not only provides transportation function but also a sharp weapon of tourism. Sightseeing industry is a green industry.Accompany with the importance of sightseeing industry growing up, scenic spots start to compete for sightseeing people.How to gain competitive advantages is the most important thing Maokong is a very unique scenic spot because of its particular location and large population of Taipei.Hence,the service quality of Maokong Gondola will seriously influence sightseeing industry in Maokong. Choosing the people that ever took Maokong Gondola to be my object of the study.Using kano’s two-dimensional model and importance performance analysis to evaluate service quality. Questionnaire apply the scale that developed by Cronin and Taylor(1992). We sent the questionnaire ramdomly to the person that ever took Maokong Gondola. Finally, analyzing the data and induct the results to find the attributes that could possibly improve the service quality of Maokong Gondola. Research results show that the research including six critical service quality attributes. Critical service quality attributes include 「smooth of the route 」,「safety of the gondola」, 「actively release the information of the gondola」, 「the broken risk is low」, 「reasonable price」. 「safety of the gondola」that own better efficiency when you want to improve it. Considering the total satisfaction, 「staff wear clean and tidy 」influences the total satisfaction most.
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CHOU, CHIEN-JOU, and 周建儒. "Applied research of front craw critical stroke rate." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7cf66z.
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碩士國立中正大學
運動與休閒教育研究所
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Applied research of front craw critical stroke rate Abstract Purpose: Thesis of this study was to investigate the relationships between critical stroke rate (CSR) and front crawl performances stroke length and CSS. This study also tried to obtain a simple and effective method to measure CSR in a shorter distance. Method: This research collected the data of competitive events, swimming events, by a video camera. The film data include the 50-m, 100-m, 200-m and 400-m front craw competition processes. This research use the video to record the number of stroke cycles and swimming performance, to calculate the critical stroke rate with different distances (CSR51, CSR52, CSR54, CSR12, CSR14, CSR24andCSRall). Result: (1) 50M, 100M, 200M and 400M SL have significant negative correlation with CSR; (2) 50M, 100M, 200M, 400M front crawl performance and the CSS did not reach significant correlation with CSR; (3) CSR51, CSR52, CSR54, CSR12, CSR14, and CSR24 all significant correlation with CSRall (r = 0.44 ~ 0.99, p <.05). Conclusion: Swimmer and coaches will know that the lower CSR and SL will being lower too. But cannot see the relationship between CSR and front crawl performance and the CSS. At last, we won't use the complex test to get the CSR, there have the simple way to get CSR by using the 100M and 200M test. Keywords: swimming, number of stroke cycles, anthropometric
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Hsieh, Chao-ming, and 謝兆民. "The Research of Critical Resources for Entrepreneur Activity." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82502761897368578808.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
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Abstract To start an enterprise is a complicated management process, no matter what size of scale that includes five managements function – production and operation management, marketing management, human resource management, technology research and design management, and finance management. All of them involve planning, organizing, leading, and controlling field of managing in an all-round way. After having the above structure , people start to establish a platform. Entrepreneur Resources: resources are limited; especially starting an enterprise. The important essence of business plan is grows out of nothing turns from early days in a big way. Grows out of nothing, turns the great initial period element is since early day starts an entrepreneur resource. The entrepreneur resource view of initial stage has contained: the visible and invisible resources and psychological kinetic energy. The entrepreneur resources are limited therefore only can choose the essential resources. This also becomes a successful important condition for entrepreneurs to discard the general resources, cannot but seek unique or the fine resources turn into start an enterprise. Therefore the difference and the cost control become successful important attributes. Essential resources to start an enterprise: Starting an essential resource by meaning of word is interpreted as to undertake a business, necessary. Certainly must be integral, cannot be short of lacks. -Resources - It is a kind of goods and materials, must have moreover has the power use. Essential resources to start an enterprise namely must support the goods and materials and assets used while starting a business. Chinese older generation often saying that there should be three to start an enterprise: Oneself, skill and capital. All of them are sufficiently simple showing the essential resources inference. From the point of entrepreneur resources to consider about starting a business, the wider the scope is, the more sufficient resources are, the deeper the depth is, resources have key value. Starts an enterprise the essential resources scope and the content have: 1. The psychological kinetic energy should construct the scene of the enterprise. 2. The main skill of starting an enterprise is as follows: major technology, intelligence property and innovation 3. The enterprise fund comes from: (1) Own (2) private fund (3) the bank and government resource 4. Manage ability to operate should have: (1) Product development and market management (2) Internet rises and utilizes the thorough Internet to start an enterprise (3) Law and accountant (4) Join chain (5) Internationalized exchange rate risks (6) Knowledge management (7) CRM circuit terminal resources 5 Network and social relationships ability are as follows: (1) Prestige of individual and group (2) Interpersonal and enterprise network joint (3) Important interested party 6 Starts an enterprise the essential resources entire joint effort should have (1) Plan (2)carrying out( 3)leading( 4) control (5)Strategy, etc. Resource must manage then produce synthesis effect; with limited entrepreneur resource we must to launch well resource management. Activity management by objectives of resource, set up a procedure manage to finish even more and start an undertaking resource place need, most valid place most on. Simultaneously must let the resources benefit using the strategy increase the cost savings, let the way to start a business smooth-going. But start an undertaking the management of the risk has to be paid attention to, especially the fund limited resources have to concentrate, unable to avoid dangerous, research and develop, equipment and the human resources investment is unceasing. All of them will produce the sunk cost, therefore enterprisers must stop decreasing and withdrawing from the mechanism. If started a business all the time unable quantity has had and brought the anticipated financial benefit for the products and service, there are enormous financial pressure will manage risk well in advance. Hope this research can take new entrepreneurs with following the criterion consulted on the way of starting a business.