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Sung, Johnny. "The developmental worker : social engineering and worker participation." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29344.
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There are four broad aims in this thesis. Firstly, I explore how the developmental state achieves its developmental objectives through collaborative effort with the workers. Secondly, within this context, I examine the significance of the practice of social engineering and nation building, and how social engineering and national building form an integral part of Singapore's economic growth process. These analyses give rise to new perspective in examining the growth process in Singapore - i.e. the 'developmental worker' model. The third aim of this thesis is therefore to establish the theoretical content of the developmental work model. The fourth aim of the thesis is to employ both qualitative and quantitative data to substantiate the developmental worker model in Singapore. The contributions of the developmental worker model are two-fold. Firstly, to my best knowledge, it is the first attempt of its kind to incorporate a workers' perspective into the analysis of the gwoth experience in Singapore. By creating a complementary concept (i.e. the developmental worker model) for the developmental state mode, the thesis makes the developmental state model analytically more 'complete'. Secondly, through the developmental worker model, the thesis also represents the first attempt to examine the empirical content of the workers' interpretative understanding process and the collective beliefs of Singapore workers. The combined effects of these two empirical elements lead to the ultimate social actions on the part of the workers, i.e. a collaborative effort between the state and workers to achieve the 'economic miracle' in Singapore.
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Viljoen, Ezalle. "Employee participation within an engineering support services company / E. Viljoen." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9237.
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The general objective of this study was to explore and investigate employee participation within an engineering support services company. Attention was therefore given to the opinions and perceptions of employees and managers regarding employee participation as well as the relationship between employee participation and employees’ union membership. To conduct this study a qualitative and quantitative research design was adopted. In order to examine employees and managers’ opinions and perceptions, semi-structured one-on-one interviews were conducted with participants. Six employee participation themes were identified as well as various sub-themes. Self-developed group administrative questionnaires were also utilised to determine the relationship between employee participation and union membership. The study found that employees and managers attach positive opinions and perceptions towards employee participation therefore leading to positive participation outcomes. In exploring the relationship between employee participation and union membership it was found that 87.1% of the employees in the company did not belong to a union. It was also found that there is a statistical significance relationship between employees’ race and their tendency to join a union (0.068). Employees also indicated that they will join a union if co-management and self-management (as forms of employee participation) is not present in their organisation; with a statistical significance of 0.016 and 0.068. Information presented in this study can be used to develop effective employee participation strategies as well as assist in implementing these strategies.Thesis (MCom (Labour Relations Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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Nietner, Larissa F. "Shareables : systems for rapid prototyping of IoT devices to broaden participation in engineering design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113543.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The thesis outlines the development of a design activity and toolkit for connected devices, which provide opportunities for social impact through technical creativity. Statistically, girls place higher value on social impact than their male counterparts, while they see less how engineering can have relevant social impact. These two factors contribute to girls tend to losing interest in STEM, often during middle school, so a mindset change is desirable to achieve a motivational and thus educational effect. Creative, innovative engineering activities with perceived social impact may motivate middle and high school girls and build their confidence in their ability to impact people's lives with technology they create. This work tests this hypothesis using different forms of a design activity that enables students to collaboratively build personal and wearable smart devices. Examples of creations based upon this design toolkit include connected medical bracelets, physical activity monitoring and other devices. Design requirements for intrinsically motivating and engaging experiences are derived from literature and practical examples in psychology, behavior and education research. A creative experience is based on these frameworks and is prototyped to test engagement, attraction, mindset change and other parameters with adolescent girls. This offers new working methods for the human-centered design process around complex systems design. Building on focus group experiments and experience testing, a hardware toolkit is developed, which combines modular sensing devices with a wirelessly connected cloud-based programming application. Sensors include accelerometers, temperature and pulse sensors. A multi-instance implementation of IBM's Node-Red interface is adapted and customized to form the basis of an interactive, audio-graphical program and application editor. The realization of this toolkit allowed for conducting experimental workshops and for quantifying an increase in participants' self-efficacy and interest in design and engineering as a result of the intervention. A fundamental change in many girls' mindset was observed in multiple experiments with the prototype systems, regarding both creative self-efficacy and engineering perception. Girls who initially thought of themselves as "not creative" were able to contribute viable, innovative ideas when they were introduced to the toolkit concept. Once equipped with adequate tools, ideas could form and come to surface. An important finding from experimental workshops was was that even girls with extensive prior STEM or coding experience showed a significant increase in their self-efficacy in using technology for social impact. The opportunity to impact a range of personally relevant areas adds purpose and meaning to existing skills. In the same experiments, interest in an engineering career also increased to a significant degree. In a separate analysis, the effect of instruction style on self-efficacy and motivation is investigated. It is shown that it is critical to encourage participants to reflect on the social impact of their creation in order to convey a relevant real-world experience ("I enjoyed it because I made something useful"). Based on workshop findings, detailed feature requirements specific to the toolkit are identified and implemented over multiple iterative design stages. A web platform that allows students to share, collaborate on and interact with each other's projects is developed to provide means for long-term engagement beyond the experimental workshop settings. This work contributes research methodology for quantifying the success of motivational interventions. Observed sensitivities and input gathered by participants inform design principles for similar educational experiences.
by Larissa F. Nietner.
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Ray, John R. "Barriers to more active contractor participation in the Department of Defense Value Engineering program." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA350145.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998.Thesis advisor(s): David A. Smith, Keith F. Snider. "June 1998." Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118). Also available online.
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Wilson, Nicholas. "Cooperation, control and productivity : an analysis of participation and profit-sharing in British engineering." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278820.
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Sandberg, Lennart. "Measurement of percieved participation in decision-making." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26153.
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Richards, Gregory Stephen. "Expressed attitude towards physical fitness contrasted with actual participation in physical exercise." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4682.
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Hamel, Candyce. "Determinants of participation in an online community of practice (OCoP)." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28383.
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In 2008, a cohort of Inuit researchers met in Ottawa for a two-week training course on Inuit health research and planning. A means for ongoing communication after the course was necessary to build on their acquired knowledge. Research shows that online communities of practice (OCoPs) are often unsuccessful due to factors such as a lack of time and a lack of member involvement in design of the OCoP. The objective of this research was to find the determinants that impact participation in an OCoP of members from a cohort of Inuit researchers. An open-ended interview questionnaire was developed and members were interviewed. Results show lack of time as the main barrier to participation. Involvement in the development of an updated OCoP is of interest to many members. In a culture that has been built and sustained by knowledge sharing, an OCoP is a legitimate tool.
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Roue, Leah C. "Young women's perceptions of technology and engineering factors influencing their participation in math, science and technology? /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007rouel.pdf.
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Sharma, Nand 1979. "The role of private participation in enhancing the Indian transport sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17830.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-148).
The Indian transport sector, one of the largest transport networks in the world, faces some serious issues. These may be identified as follows: * Unmet demand for service and infrastructure * Conflicting responsibilities * Inadequate resource mobilization * Poor Asset Management * Inadequate imposition of accountability Increasing the level of private participation in transport sector is one of the possible solutions to solve these problems. At present, private participation in the transport sector in India is low and generally restricted to small projects. Although various steps have been taken to attract the private sector participation in transport sector in India, various indirect and direct constraints exist in its implementation. Indirect constraints include low economic growth, higher poverty rate and high population growth rate. The direct constraints include planning and the institutional issues, methodological or procedural issues, financial constraints, social and the political constraints. In order to alleviate these constraints various steps can be taken. At the planning and the institutional level, India needs to develop a strategic planning network. At the legal and the regulatory level, there is a need for well-drafted laws and regulations related to private sector participation. Also, the amount of government support needs to be clearly defined for the toll road projects in India. Traffic forecasting techniques should be improved, and the government should promote public acceptance for private participation in transport sector.
by Nand Sharma.
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Zetterberg, Pär. "Engineering Equality? : Assessing the Multiple Impacts of Electoral Gender Quotas." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-100822.
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The driving question of this compilation thesis is whether quotas for political assemblies represent an effective tool for breaking down gender inequality in the political sphere. To put it differently, focus is on the possibilities for policy-makers to engineer equality. As a response to persistent patterns of male dominance in political decision-making, approximately 100 countries, both democratic and authoritarian, have adopted these affirmative action measures. The introductory section presents an argument as to why we should focus on certain impacts in order to be able to answer the question about the effectiveness of quotas. It suggests that the point of departure for empirical assessments of quota policies should be the normative arguments for supporting the reform, and the effects that normative theorists and quota advocates expect from these measures. The three studies that make up the core of the thesis build on previous empirical research on quotas, and examine some of their possible effects at both the elite level and mass level. Study I theoretically scrutinizes how the procedures for selecting women to political office shape these women's legislative autonomy, and thereby their possibilities to substantively represent women. The study identifies mainly two factors as important: a large body selecting the candidates and a rule-bound and thus bureaucratized selection procedure. Study II empirically tests the claim that women elected through quotas are more likely to suffer from institutional constraints in the legislature, and thereby have a harder time working for the benefit of women, than other female representatives. By conducting a comparative case-study of two Mexican state legislatures, no support is found for this hypothesis. Quotas have also been justified because of their likely impacts on female citizens' perceptions about politics. Study III addresses this issue by performing a statistical analysis on the impacts of quotas on Latin American women's political attitudes and behavior. In contrast to previous research on the topic, the study finds little proof of positive impacts of quotas on women's political engagement. Taken together, the thesis does not provide a clear-cut answer to the question as to whether it is possible to engineer equality within politics. However, it sheds new light on the complexities of quota impacts, and it qualifies and nuances the picture for those who expect quotas to be an overall solution for problems of gender inequality.
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Clark, Abigail M. "Investigating the Impact of Informal Engineering Education on Middle School Girls’ Engineering Identity Development." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1626713852044666.
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AlSugair, Najla. "Increasing the Female Labor Participation Rate in Saudi Arabia: A Systems Approach to Solving Childcare Access Issues for Saudi Women." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/367.
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Sohn, Okjoo 1967. "The government's roles to regulate private participation in transportation infrastructures and services in Korea." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47919.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-95).
This thesis is to review lessons from worldwide experiences of privatization process for government's roles to regulate private participation in transportation infrastructures and services, to analyze current situation in Korea in context of privatization focusing on managing demand forecasts risks to deal with possible optimistic behaviors in the public and private sector under the generous government income guarantee mechanism through comparison with the case in UK, and to suggest strategic implication for the government to achieve service quality improvement from efficiency and creativity as well as expansion of transportation infrastructure and services from private participation.
by Okjoo Sohn.
S.M.
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Ritter, Monique. "A review of causes for the relative unequal participation of women in science, engineering and technology and initiatives." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71861.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Current literature reveals that men and women do not participate in the science, engineering and technology (SET) sector on equal grounds – not qualitatively (access) or qualitatively (ease of participation). It is important that women have access to and actively participate in science; they make up more than half of the world’s population and gender equality enhances a country’s economic growth and competitiveness. Furthermore, the focus should extend further than advocating for equal access to SET to actively promoting increased participation by women. Women bring a distinctive quality to SET precisely because of their gender. They are able to increase overall SET participation numbers and positively contribute to the quality and agenda of science. This study used the pipeline theory and lifecycle approach as theoretical bases to investigate the causes for unequal participation and reviewed initiatives aimed at increasing and facilitating the participation of women in SET. Identified causes include unequal access, male-dominated nature of science, tensions of reconciling professional and private life, differences in recognition and reward, and lack of female representation in leadership. The primary methodology used was a documentary analysis study design, consisting primarily of desktop literature searches and categorization. An initiative summary framework was used to summarise and code 123 identified initiatives into an initiatives summary database. Findings were both positive and negative. The study found that women in many cases are on equal footage with their male counterparts and can manage a healthy work-life balance if provided with the necessary support but many women still describe a male-dominated work environment that is exclusionary. Findings indicate that, although decreasing, there is still gender bias in recognition and reward and that female scientists underutilise financial rewards. Women in SET do not receive equal pay for equal work and there is a distinct lack of female representation in SET leadership bodies such as academies of sciences, scientific boards and publication boards of academic journals. The most common modes of intervention are policy interventions, gender mainstreaming, advocacy and interest groups, and provision of training and support. The majority of initiatives are aimed at bringing about change at a national/policy level and are driven primarily by government and academia with academia playing an important middleman role - assisting and guiding government in the design and roll-out of policies on the one hand and meeting the human resource needs of industry on the other. Although government and academia have done well in driving initiatives that increase the participation of women in SET at both school and tertiary level, more needs to be done by industry to drive the facilitation of participation. There are very few initiatives addressing the retention of women in SET; this is linked to the lack of attention to returners as a specific target group. The study concludes that the majority of countries are succeeding in closing the participation gap in terms of access or horizontal gender equality, but that vertical segregation (focusing on recognition, reward and advancement), although acknowledged, remains a mostly unaddressed challenge.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Huidige literatuur dui daarop dat vroue en mans nie gelyke deelname geniet in die Wetenskap, Ingenieurswese en Tegnologie nie – nie kwantitatief (toegang) of kwalitatief (gemak van deelname) nie. Die belangrikheid van deelname word gesket teen die kennis dat vroue die helfte van die wêreld se bevolking verteenwoordig en dat lande wat geslagsgelykheid nastreef oor die algemeen hoër ekonomiese groei en mededingenheid toon. Die fokus in die debat gaan dus nie meer net oor die reg tot toegang nie maar ook oor aktiewe en gemaklike deelname wat vroue toelaat om juis hul unieke eienskappe na die wetenskap te bring. Die studie het die pyplynteorie en ‘n lewenssiklusbenadering as die teoretiese grondslag gebruik om die deelname van vroue in die terrein te bestudeer. Die navorsing het gepoog om die hoofoorsake vir die relatiewe ongelyke deelname van vroue in die Wetenskap, Ingenieurswese en Tegnologie te bepaal. Die hoofoorsake is geidentifiseer as ongelyke toegang, die manlik-gedomineerde aard van wetenskap, die spanning om professionele en persoonlike lewe te versoen, verskille in erkenning en beloning; en die gebrek aan vroulike verteenwoordiging in leierskap. Verder wou die studie bepaal watter inisiatiewe in gebruik is vir die uitbreiding en vergemakliking van vroue se deelname in die veld. Die hoof metodologie was ‘n dokumentêre analise studie ontwerp. ‘n Inisiatief opsommingsraamwerk is gebruik om die 123 geïdentifiseerde inisiatiewe op te som en te kodeer en is saamgevat in 'n inisiatiewe opsommingdatabasis. Bevindinge was beide positief en negatief. Die studie het bevind dat vroue in baie gevalle gelyke toegang geniet en 'n gesonde balans tussen hul persoonlike en professionele lewe kan bestuur indien die nodige ondersteuning gebied word. Baie vroue beskryf egter nog steeds 'n manlik-gedomineerde werksomgewing. Hoewel die neiging dalend is, is daar nog steeds geslagsvooroordele in erkenning en beloning en vroulike wetenskaplikes maak nie genoegsaam gebruik van finansiële belonings wat wel tot hul beskikking is nie. Vroue ontvang ook nie gelyke betaling vir gelyke werk nie. Daar is 'n duidelike gebrek aan vroulike verteenwoordiging in leierskap soos aangedui in die samestelling van akademies van die wetenskap en die bestuursrade van wetenskaplike rade en publikasie rade van wetenskaplike vaktydskrifte. Die mees algemene vorme van intervensies is beleidsintervensies, geslagshoofstroming, voorspraak en belangegroepe, en die verskaffing van opleiding en ondersteuning. Die meerherheid van inisiatiewe is daarop gemik om verandering teweeg te bring op nationale en beleidsvlak en word hoofsaaklik gedryf deur die staat en die akademie. Die akademie speel dan ook ‘n belangrike middelman rol deurdat hul aan die een kant die regering bystaan in die implementering van beleid en aan die anderkant ook die menslike hulpbron behoeftes van industrie moet voed. Daar is ‘n leemte by die meerderheid van inisiatiewe in die aanspreek van die behoeftes van vroue wat wil terugkeer na die veld na ‘n periode van afwesigheid en aan die retensie van vroulike wetenskaplikes. Die studie kom dus tot die gevolgtrekking dat die meerderheid van lande en inisiatiewe daarin slaag om meer gelyke deelname in terme van toegang of horisontale geslaggelykheid te bewerk, maar dat vertikale segregasie (met ‘n fokus op erkenning, belong en bevordering), nog heelwat aandag moet geniet.
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Calderon, Camilo. "Learning from Slum Upgrading and Participation : A case study of participatory slum upgrading in the emergence of new governance in the city of Medellín–Colombia." Thesis, KTH, Urban Planning and Environment, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-9616.
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This document compiles a highly discussed issue present in many cities of the developing world today; it brings forward the importance of facing the challenges that slums create to today’s cities and the mechanisms used for tackling such challenge. The study focuses on the use of Participatory Planning approaches in the context of slum upgrading, giving the reader an insight to the advantages and challenges that such an approach has. It is built around a case study in the city of Medellin, Colombia where there has been a strong political will and commitment to implement programs and projects in the poorest areas of the city. This initiative emerged as a need to tackle deep rooted problems present in the slum areas of the city that together with other issues placed Medellin as the most dangerous city of the world during the 1990s.
For tackling such a problem, the local Administration (2003-2007) created a slum upgrading model called “PUI - Proyecto Urbano Integral” (Integral Urban Project) which is said to be based on “participatory planning” and “slum upgrading” principles. The results of the first project following the “PUI Model”, the “PUI Noriental”, have been promoted by the Administration as highly successful and been considered as a model for slum upgrading both nationally and internationally. Therefore, there is the need to acknowledge and critically asses the PUI Model by evaluating its principles, its methods and its results having a deeper understanding and assessment of the concepts behind such an approach; specially since it has been internationally recognized that there is a lack of cases in which the ideals of participation and slum upgrading are put in practice.
In this order of ideas, the principles, methods and tools of the “PUI Model” and its implementation in the “PUI Noriental”, are evaluated based on international theories and experiences dealing with the topic. By doing so, it is shown the close link between the principles of participation and the very nature of slum upgrading processes. As well it is brought forward the need to implement such kind of a approaches in cities presenting problems with slum areas. The results of the evaluation show that even though there is a strong political will towards using principles of participatory planning and slum upgrading approaches in Medellin, there is still a high need to have a deeper understanding of such concepts and the way they can be implemented. Nevertheless, it is shown that even with these shortcomings the significant outcomes produced by the PUI Noriental are a clear example that participation in the context of slum upgrading is a strong tool to bring benefits to the people of such areas.
The thesis was not publishes (printed) by the department. The copy I am uploading is the final version accepted by the department.
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Burton, Timothy Paul. "Public participation : principles and practice : the legal regulation of water pollution." Thesis, University of Hull, 1990. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3897.
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The main body of the thesis is a detailed study of the practice of the legal regulation of water pollution, primarily between the period of 1 October 1983 and 31 August 1989, although reference is made to events preceding that period where necessary to provide a full assessment.
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Whittier, Jeremy, and Christina R. Kalel. "Where did you go? Encouraging female participation within Red Hat, Inc." The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608318.
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Edited by Dr. Brandy A. Brown and Romi C. WittmanAs U.S.-based companies continue to struggle to fill science, engineering and technology (SET) positions with domestic talent, a large portion of the available workforce (women) continues to be underrepresented. This project discusses the strategic advantages of encouraging female workforce participation in SET roles within global technology companies. Three publicly traded companies - Netflix, Facebook and Red Hat, Inc. - are compared utilizing self-reported diversity numbers to see the varying levels of women in those workplaces. The diversity policies and benefits programs of these three companies are discussed as well as available corporate statements regarding workforce diversity policies. Finally, utilizing information from programs proven to increase women’s participation and retention within SET roles, suggestions are provided, namely sponsorship of women in the workplace.
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Zhang, X. "Designing a geographic visual information system (GVIS) to support participation in urban planning." Thesis, University of Salford, 2004. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2178/.
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The growth of the international movement to involve the public in urban planning urges us to find new ways to achieve this. Recent studies have identified information communication technologies (ICT) as a mechanism to support such movement. It has been postulated that integrating geographic information system (GIS), virtual reality (VR) and Internet technologies will facilitate greater participation in planning activity and therefore strengthen and democratise the process. This is a growing area of research. There is, however, concern that a lack of a theoretical basis for these studies might undermine their success and hamper the widespread adoption of GIS-VR combination (GVIS). This thesis presents a theoretical framework based on the Learning System Theory (LST). ICT technologies are then assessed according to the framework. In the light of the assessmenta, prototype has been designed and developed based on a local urban regeneration project in Salford, UK. The prototype is then evaluated through two phases, namely formative evaluation and summative evaluation, to test the feasibility of the framework. The formative evaluation was focused on evaluating the functionality of the prototype system. In this case, evaluators were experts in IT or urban planning. The summative evaluation focused on testing the value of the prototype for different stakeholder groups of the urban regeneration project from local residents to planning officers. The findings from this research indicated that better visualization could help people in understanding planning issues and communicate their visions to others. The interactivity functions could further support interaction among users and the analysis of information. Moreover, the results indicated that the learning system theory could be used as a framework in looking at how GVIS could be developed in order to support public participation in urban planning.
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Minichiello, Angela L. "Towards Alternative Pathways: Nontraditional Student Success in a Distance-delivered, Undergraduate Engineering Transfer Program." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4950.
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Today, postsecondary engineering education stands perched on the edge of transformation. A precursor to impending change is national recognition that nontraditional students—adults and working students with socioeconomic backgrounds not currently well-represented in engineering education—possess untapped potential to improve the diversity as well as increase the size of the U.S. engineering workforce. To support nontraditional student participation in engineering, a qualitative investigation was undertaken to examine the ways in which nontraditional engineering undergraduates defined and experienced success during their engineering education. It is thought that, through a deeper, richer understanding of the ways in which the nontraditional engineering undergraduates overcome barriers and experience success, newer, more impactful alternative pathways that assist nontraditional students in becoming part of the engineering profession can be envisioned and developed.
During this study, 14 nontraditional student participants were purposefully sampled from the population of undergraduates who participated in a distance-delivered, alternative engineering transfer program offered at a western, land-grant, public university between 2009-2015. Qualitative data from in-depth interviews were used to co-develop life history–style narratives for each of the participants. Completed narratives chronologically ordered and richly described the participants’ experiences leading up to, happening during, and occurring after their engineering education. Narrative analysis revealed that the nontraditional student participants viewed their own educational success contextually, relationally, and in terms of their long-term goals for social mobility through engineering careers. Additionally, the distance-delivered alternative engineering transfer program was seen to promote their educational success in three ways: a) working to promote long-range career goals through job market signaling, b) enabling academic bootstrapping in an adult learning environment, and c) maintaining connection to community-based support through place. Recommendations for engineering programs that seek to broaden nontraditional student participation are offered.
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Rydhagen, Birgitta. "Feminist Sanitary Engineering as a Participatory Alternative in South Africa and Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2002. http://www.bth.se/fou/forskinfo.nsf/allfirst2/0ecaa05e81bfec0ec1256fbd0057a98b?OpenDocument.
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Chu, Katharine (Katharine L. ). "Taiwanese political call-in talk shows : control and "credible participation" hidden behind the spectacle." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68515.
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Thesis (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, September 2011."September 2011." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Recently, governments have leveraged a variety of new technologies, especially new social media, to create an open government, or Government 2.0 that is transparent in its policies and gives its citizens the ability to collaborate and participate. Social media has been known for its ability to instantly connect a decentralized group of users; the ease at which the technology communicates makes the results of such technologies unpredictable and elusive. Despite television's reputation as a "passive" medium, I demonstrate that Taiwanese political call-in shows have been a successful form of credible and "controlled participation" for over a decade. With the inception of multi-party elections, these talk shows have served a purpose beyond getting good ratings and bringing in profits for the networks; they provide politicians and viewers alike an opportunity to participate. To understand the participatory culture, I studied Taiwanese political talk shows as a media system by analyzing the style and content of Taiwanese talk shows, as well as the social, cultural, legal, political, and economic institutions, practices, and protocols that shape the technology. The call-in talk shows transforms the medium into what John Gee calls an "affinity space," a term often used to describe the communities built using social media. Even with the culture of openness on Taiwanese political talk shows, the value system by which television is constructed and limited interactivity of the technology preserve the credibility content, and create an effective blueprint for bidirectional interaction between the government and the public.
by Katharine Chu.
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Sally, Mehdi. "Stakeholder participation and sustainability challenges confronting a small urban community-managed water supply project: case study of Buea, Cameroon." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106392.
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Community-managed initiatives play an important role in global efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goal for water supply provision of halving the population without access to improved water sources, especially in developing countries. However, in the context of growing urbanisation, these community-managed projects are increasingly intersecting urban areas that by their very nature are at odds with traditional rural community-based management practices. This research examines the case of a small community-managed water supply scheme in Buea, a rapidly growing urban area in Cameroon. The study adopted qualitative research methods (household questionnaires and interviews of community water management and users) and applied choice experiments to better understand the sustainability challenges facing community-managed water supply projects in an urbanizing setting, a phenomenon of growing importance in many developing areas. This thesis presents and discusses the findings that in urban areas, community-managed schemes face added management and planning pressures because of larger, more diverse, populations and rapid population growth. Therefore they require greater support from government, non-governmental organisations, and development agencies to provide them with improved technical planning capacity and post-construction operation and maintenance support. Furthermore, urban community-managed schemes require strong political and institutional support to uphold their participatory mechanisms that due to the urban context are at risk of failure. Lack of participation has the added consequences of reducing accountability, reducing cost recovery, and impairing financial sustainability. Based on the results of this research in Buea, failing the provision of support, the future of community-managed schemes in urban areas is an unsustainable one, reneging on the Millennium Development Goals and forcing a return to "unimproved" sources of water.Les projets gérés par les communautés jouent un rôle important dans les efforts mondiaux pour atteindre l'Objectif du Millénaire pour le Développement rélatif à l'approvisionnement en eau, en particulier dans les pays en voie de développement. Toutefois, dans le contexte de l'urbanisation croissante ces projets de développement communautaires se trouvent de plus en plus dans les zones urbaines qui, par leur nature même, sont en conflit avec les notions et pratiques traditionnelles de la gestion communautaire rurale. Cette recherche examine le cas d'un projet de gestion communautaire pour l'approvisionnement de l'eau à Buea, une région en pleine expansion urbaine au Cameroun. L'étude a adopté des méthodes de recherche qualitative et a appliqué la modélisation de choix pour mieux comprendre les défis auxquels font face les projets de gestion communautaire d'approvisionnement en eau dans un contexte urbain, phénomène en pleine expansion dans de nombreuses régions en voie de développement. Les résultats de cette thèse font apparaitre que le contexte urbain rajoute des exigences aux processus de planification et de gestion. Ce qui nécessite un plus grand soutien de la part du gouvernement, des organisations non-gouvernementales, et des agences de développement pour améliorer les capacités techniques de planification ainsi que le fonctionnement et l'entretien des réalisations post-construction. En outre, les projets de gestion communautaires en milieu urbain ont aussi besoin de l'appui politique et institutionnel ferme pour assurer la durabilité de leurs mécanismes de participation qui sont de plus en plus difficiles à soutenir en zone urbaine et sans lesquels la viabilité financière de ces projets est mise en doute. A défaut d'appui, l'avenir des projets communautaires d'approvisionnement de l'eau dans les zones urbaines risque d'être compromis, affectant la réalisation des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement et obligeant un retour aux sources d'eau insalubres.
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Opdyke, Aaron. "Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Systems| A Comparative Analysis of Post-Disaster Shelter Coordination, Stakeholder Participation, and Training." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10617829.
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Sustainable infrastructure that is used and maintained by communities over time, and resilient to hazards, is sorely needed in developing countries where natural disasters cause disproportionate damages and mortality as well as impede development efforts. Shelter is universally recognized as a foundational element of disaster recovery; and while its ability to provide protection from the elements is a core function, it also affords broader social and economic benefits. Unfortunately, conventional approaches in post-disaster shelter reconstruction focus primarily on rapid and recognizable results over long-term outcomes, perpetuating pre-existing vulnerabilities and failing to provide acceptable standards of service. There exists a need to better understand how shelter recovery processes employed by stakeholders lead to eventual infrastructure system outcomes. This research longitudinally analyzed 19 humanitarian shelter projects following Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines over a three-year period, seeking to answer the overarching research question of what combinations of coordination, stakeholder participation and training across project delivery phases lead to resilient and sustainable community infrastructure systems? A multi-method approach consisting of case study methods and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was employed to analyze the impact of combinations of project processes in leading to infrastructure outcomes. This research (1) identified key factors influencing inter-organizational coordination in post-disaster contexts; (2) identified types of household participation that arise in shelter projects and analyzed their impact on project outcomes; (3) identified methods of construction training used in shelter projects and their impact on household knowledge acquisition; and (4) analyzed combinations of coordination, participation, and training across the planning, design, and construction phases of shelter projects that led to infrastructure resilience and sustainability, in isolation and combination. The results contribute to understanding of shelter processes and organizing structures necessary for resilient and sustainable systems, building theory of reconstruction process pathways. Practically, findings can aid practitioners identify more effective modalities of delivering shelter assistance in post-disaster humanitarian response.
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Tomlinson-Dykens, Susan Ann. "Executive education programs in the construction industry : an analysis of existing national programs and current industry participation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45718.
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Nguema, Ndong Arland. "Investigating the Role of the Internet in Women and Minority STEM Participation: A Case Study of Two Florida Engineering Programs." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3734.
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Despite our awareness of the fascination modern humans have with the Internet, little is known about how and why colleges and universities create and maintain Websites. At the most general level, in this case study, I hypothesize that university Websites serve as communication and marketing tools in attracting students. At the most specific level, I postulate that civil engineering programs with Web pages depicting images of women and minorities would be more successful in recruiting and retaining women and students of color than civil engineering programs with Web pages displaying fewer or no images of women and minorities. The primary goal of this case study was to examine the relationships between Website information content and the recruitment and retention of women and minority pre-civil engineering students. The second, but equally important, goal was to investigate the reason(s) why, despite efforts to recruit and retain individuals from disenfranchised populations into STEM majors, students from these groups not only remain underrepresented in engineering, but leave this discipline at a much higher rate than their non-minority male counterparts. This case study focused on two Florida state university civil engineering programs and drew on ethnographic research methods. I used interviews, focus groups, Web pages, demographic sheets, and observations to examine the relationships between Website content and access to undergraduate civil engineering programs for women and students of color. The study sample involved 40 respondents, including pre-civil engineering students, civil engineering professors, and university administrators. Research findings suggested that Internet marketing has become a key strategy used by civil engineering programs in recruiting and retaining students from underrepresented groups. Additionally, the study revealed that both prospective and pre-civil engineering students use departmental Websites for communication and enrollment purposes. Last, but certainly not least, the study found that online climate is a significant factor in the recruitment and retention of women and students of color in civil engineering programs.
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Sammons, Pamela Mary. "Participation in vocational further education : a study of factors influencing entry into commercial, construction and engineering training in Inner London." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1985. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/3295/.
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The study has focused on student entry into low-level vocational further education/training. The aims were: 1) to identify patterns of participation in three types of vocational training within inner London; 2) to compare the characteristics of students undertaking different courses; and 3) to establish the relative importance of a variety of factors (socio-structural, attitudinal and 'area' influences) in accounting for participation in different kinds of training. A number of hypotheses about the contribution of these potentially influential factors have been tested. Attention has been paid to vocational preferences and job ambitions, due to their close links with training choices. The study adopted an inter-disciplinary approach. Analyses of the spatial patterns of entry into the three types of training (from maps of students' home addresses) revealed significant differences. These spatial patterns of student over- and under-representation were found to be related to socio-economic characteristics of neighbourhoods, and provided evidence of possible 'area' influences. Socio-structural factors, particularly social class, were strongly related to participation in all three types of training. Other factors (sex, parents'/siblings' employment fields, and vocational subjects studied at school), however, were important in accounting for students' particular choices of course. Job ambitions and attitudes towards employment were also closely related to entry. Marked differences in attitudes and ambitions were identified between male and female students, and there was evidence of sex-stereotyping in perceptions of particular kinds of employment. Attitudes, however, were not associated with area differences in student over- or under-representation. Explanatory analyses indicated that parents'/siblings' employment fields, and the subjects students had studied at school, were of major importance in accounting for particular training choices. Influences related to residential area were significant only for construction training. These results support the view that socio-structural factors are major determinants of low-level vocational training choices.
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Adams, Christiaan Scott 1973. "An interactive, online Geographic Information System (GIS) for stakeholder participation in environmental site selection." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30073.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2004.Vita.
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An interactive, online geographic information system (GIS) was developed to enhance the involvement of stakeholders in the public participation processes of site selection issues in the marine environment. Displaying educational material and interactive maps of relevant data, this new tool allows users to input personal preferences for the criteria they value in the siting decision, and produces a map showing the most and least suitable sites according to the user's weighting of the criteria. Current decision-making processes focus on finding an optimum solution from a number of alternatives using an objective analysis of the criteria, but are often inaccessible to many stakeholders, and do not consider the fairness of the outcome to the stakeholders. This tool is intended to educate stakeholders and enhance their involvement in the public decision-making process. To demonstrate the interactive, online GIS concept, a website called eSite was assembled, using as its case study the hypothetical issue of siting marine reserves within the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Marine resource protection is a controversial issue with many stakeholders in New England, where fishing in the Gulf of Maine has a long history, and human activities have had significant impacts on the marine environment. Marine reserves are an emerging tool for protecting marine ecosystems and enhancing marine resources, and the siting of reserves is an important emerging issue. Pre and post-surveys were conducted as part of the demonstration site to evaluate eSite. It was shown to be effective at increasing understanding of marine reserves and was perceived as a useful tool in improving the decision-making process.
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Byerline, M. Joleen. "How Kaizen Group Leader Selection Affects Group Participation." TopSCHOLAR®, 2013. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1273.
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Organizational communication research indicates group member participation increases as the legitimate power differences among group members decreases. Lean principles and practices indicate Kaizen Event members will contribute regardless of legitimate power levels, due to member training, education, and the Lean team-oriented culture. Further study is needed to determine if Lean culture and training maximize group member contribution, or if legitimate power levels in Lean environments manipulate participation. The focus of this case study is a central Kentucky Lean manufacturing organization that practiced Lean principles for at least three years and completed a Kaizen Event within twelve months previous to the beginning of the study. The participating organization indicated the legitimate power levels of Kaizen Event members. Kaizen Event members received a voluntary survey consisting of Likert scalescored questions regarding his or her perceptions of level of participation, encouragement and opportunity to participate, comfort in participating, and the degree the group listened to the member. The results of the survey indicated participation in the Kaizen Event groups did not significantly differ among different legitimate power levels.
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Reynolds, Morgan E. "It takes two to un-tango: Modulating continuous participation in joint activity." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594929298207994.
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Mark, Emil. "Usability : Through the use of guidelines and user participation." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4910.
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The Department of Engineering Science at University West in Trollhättan was in need of a new system for scheduling personnel, as the existing system is based upon an Excel-file and is hard to work with and does not provide an easy way for the users to collaborate.The purpose of this study was to examine how existing principles and guidelines regarding interface design can be used to create a new web based system with a high usability. The purpose is also to examine how participatory design affects the design process and outcome.To create a system with a high grade of usability, a number of existing rules and guidelines regarding usability and a number of subjects regarding interaction design, were used by the development team as tools.Even though the study showed that usability guidelines can be a valuable tool and provide a good foundation it is important to emphasize the use of other techniques. For example the use of participatory design, which in the study was found to be of great value to the development team.Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap vid Högskolan Väst i Trollhättan var i behov av ett nytt tjänsteplaneringssystem då det nuvarande system som är Excel-baserat är svårt att arbeta med och ej erbjuder något effektivt sätt för användarna att samarbeta.Syftet med studien var att studera hur de principer och riktlinjer som finns gällande interaktionsdesign kan användas för att skapa ett nytt webbaserat system. Syftet var också att undersöka hur deltagande design påverkar design processen och dess resultat.För att skapa ett system med en hög grad användarbarhet har ett antal regler och riktlinjer som berör användarbarhet och ett antal begrepp inom interaktionsdesign använts av utvecklingslaget som verktyg.Även om studien visar att användning av användarbarhetsriktlinjer kan vara ett värdefullt verktyg och erbjuda en god grund är det viktigt att använda fler tekniker. Till exempel användandet av deltagande design, som i studien har funnits vara av stort värde för utvecklingslaget.
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Hall, Janice Leshay. "Disaggregating the Monolith: A Case Study on Varied Engineering Career Orientations and Strategies of Black Women in Tech." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103708.
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Diversifying the engineering workforce has been a national imperative for several decades. The increased participation of Black students in engineering is commonly identified as a crucial area for improvement. Yet, the rates of engineering degree completion are slowing for Black women in particular. In 2015, less than one percent of all U.S. engineering bachelor's degrees were awarded to Black women. To support broadening participation efforts, I use an anti-deficit approach to examine the career orientations and mobility patterns of Black women working in computing and engineering roles in the tech industry. By
characterizing the different career motivations, strategies, and points of transition in the careers of a diverse sample of Black women, I sought to disaggregate the Black women's engineering and computing career experiences—particularly as it relates to how and why they move into, around and out of roles in the tech industry. Using a qualitative multi-case study, I conducted a multi-level career mobility analysis on secondary data and user-generated social media artifacts to extend theory on career orientations and talent management to help normalize "non-traditional" career trajectories. The study findings are useful to inform the next generation of Black women interested in tech on the different ways to approach and achieve
subjective career success and satisfaction in engineering and computing fields. In this dissertation work, I
discuss how the varied insights of Black women's career experiences in tech can be leveraged for practitioners and industry leaders to broaden the participation (e.g., to attract, retain and better support) of students and employees by identifying their career orientations and then using that to inform career preparation and development that aligns with different engineering and computing career outlooks.Doctor of Philosophy
The lack of role models is a hindrance for aspiring Black women engineers and their decisions to continue choosing engineering. The lack of representation of Black women in industry similarly presents obstacles for their career advancement. Because neither role models or representation can be increased in retrospect, it is imperative to study and highlight the visibility of the Black women engineers currently practicing engineering and bring awareness to their career experiences in industry to better inform recruitment and retention efforts. The purpose of this qualitative multi-case study is to describe the varied career orientations of Black women working as engineers in Tech and to link their career orientations to their career outcomes. To support broadening participation efforts, this research uses an anti-deficit approach to examine the career mobility patterns of Black women working in computing and engineering roles in the Tech industry. Using a curated secondary data set based on social media artifacts and user generated data, this study characterizes the different career motivations, strategies, and points of transition in the careers of a diverse sample of Black women. In efforts to disaggregate Black women's engineering and computing career experiences, ten perspectives on how and why Black women move into, around and out of roles in the tech industry were examined. The analysis revealed that participants' career orientations were differentially motivated by needs, talents and or values which influenced how participants made career related decisions. Additionally, both physical and psychological mobility of participants was examined and then compared in the cross-case analysis to derive six unique career archetypes that were useful in characterizing the career challenges and aspirations in participants' lived career experience. This study aims to normalize "non-traditional" career trajectories and inform the next generation of Black women interested in Tech on the different way(s) to approach and achieve career success and satisfaction in engineering and computing fields. In addition, study findings can be leveraged by human resource personnel and career managers to anticipate common career challenges based on individual employee career orientations, and align better reward structures and policies to support a wider range of employee career outlooks. The study emphasizes the strategies and outlooks critical for Black women's success and satisfaction to support their continued participation in the engineering and computing workforce.
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Ljungblad, Robert. "Blockchain in an Internet-of-Things Network Based on User Participation." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Datavetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-75041.
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The internet-of-things is the relatively new and rapidly growing concept of connecting everyday devices to the internet. Every day more and more devices are added to the internet-of-things and it is not showing any signs of slowing down. In addition, advancements in new technologies such as blockchains, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and machine learning are made practically every day. However, there are still much to learn about these technologies. This thesis explores the possibilities of blockchain technology by applying it to an internet-of-things network based on user participation. More specifically, it is applied to a use case derived from Luleå Kommun’s wishes to easier keep track of how full the city’s trash cans are. The goal of the thesis is to learn more about how blockchains can help an internet-of-things network as well as what issues can arise. The method takes an exploratory approach to the problem by partaking in a workshop with Luleå Kommun and by performing a literature study. It also takes a qualitative approach by creating a proof-of-concept solution to experience the technology firsthand. The final proof-of-concept as well as issues that arose during the project are analysed with the help of information gathered and experience gained throughout the project. It is concluded that blockchain technology can help communication in an internet-of-things network based on user participation. However, there is still a lot more to learn and uncover in future research.Internet-of-things är ett relativt nytt men snabbt växande koncept som handlar om att koppla upp vardagliga saker till internet. Varje dag kopplas mer och mer enheter upp och det visar inga tecken på att sakta ner. Det görs även framsteg inom andra nya teknologier som blockkedjor, artificiell intelligens, virtuell verklighet och maskininlärning i stort sett varje dag. Dock finns det fortfarande mycket att lära sig om dessa teknologier. Denna rapport utforskar blockkedjeteknologins möjligheter genom att applicera det på ett internet-of-things-nätverk baserat på användarmedverkan. Mer specifikt, det är applicerat på ett användningsfall grundat i Luleå Kommuns önskan att lättare hålla koll på hur fulla deras soptunnor i och runtom staden är. Målet med denna rapport är att lära sig mer om hur blockkedjor kan stödja ett internet-of-things-nätverk och utforska vilka problem som kan uppstå. Metoden tar en explorativ ansats till problemet genom att delta i en workshop tillsammans med Luleå Kommun och genomföra en litteraturstudie. Dessutom tas en kvalitativ ansats genom att skapa en prototyplösning för att få förstahandserfarenhet av teknologin. Den slutliga prototypen och problemen som uppstod under projektets gång är analyserade med hjälp av information och erfarenhet som samlats genom hela projektet. Sammanfattningsvis kan blockkedjeteknologi hjälpa till kommunikationen i ett internet-of-things-nätverk baserat på användarmedverkan. Dock finns det fortfarande mycket att lära sig om denna teknologi i framtida forskning.
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Carlson, Douglas. "Mapping Public Participation in Sweden : An overview of the individual's voice in the planning process." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-208979.
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Public participation in Sweden is something that has grown fourth after the democratisation of the planning process in urban and regional planning. The goal was to strengthen the sustainability of the projects while inviting the concerned to directly influence and discuss the needs and solutions that arise during exploitation. Three areas are examined to create an understanding of how public participation looks like today. The representations of these areas are Boverket and SKL for the public sector, Arkus for the research community and PLAN for the professional forums. There is a general consensus on what public participation is today as well as what problems it faces, with some differing aspects. An imbalance in representation of different social groups where some create a stronger voice and influence than others affect the decision-making, based on lacking resources, apathy concerning the subject or project in question or even existing prejudice. This, in combination with what is considered to be insufficient information and difficult communication in general, leads to misunderstandings and a more arduous planning process. Some point to that the legislature needs additional streamlining and centralisation of decision-making structure while others point to greater dialogue outside existing public hearings with a permanent and continuously updated platform outside the legislature. Modernisation of the general means and technology used in the dialogue seem like the next step and further research should be made on this to determine its effect on public participation and its development.Medborgardeltagande i Sverige är något som kommit till efter demokratisering av planeringsprocessen i samhällsbyggnadssektorn. Målet var att stärka hållbarheten hos projekten medan man samtidigt bjöd in de berörda att direkt påverka och resonera kring behov och lösningar som uppstår vid exploateringen. För att ta reda på hur läget ser ut idag för medborgardeltagande så undersöks tre olika forum för planerare. De forum som utgås från är dels Boverket och SKL för den offentliga sektorn, dels Arkus som forskning samt PLAN som debatt och professionell plattform. Samtliga undersökta källor visar generellt konsensus om vad medborgardeltagande är i dagsläget samt dess problem, med några skillnader i synpunkter. Det råder obalans i representationen för olika sociala grupper där vissa har en betydligt starkare röst i påverkan av beslut, på grund av bland annat bristande resurser, viss apati angående ämnet eller projektet i fråga samt existerande fördomar. Detta, i kombination med vad som anses vara bristande kommunikation och information i överlag, leder till missförstånd och i allmänhet en mödosammare planeringsprocess. Vissa pekar på att lagstiftningen behöver effektiviseras och centralisera beslutsorganen mer medan andra pekar på större dialog utöver existerande samråd med en ständigt pågående och uppdaterande plattform utanför lagstiftningen. Modernisering av medlen och tekniken som används i dialogen verkar vara nästa steg i utveckling och vidare forskning bör göras för att fastställa dess effekt på medborgardeltagandet och dess vidare utveckling.
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Gartland, Clare. "'Cultivating rough diamonds' : a study of student ambassadors' contribution to widening participation schemes in engineering and medicine at two contrasting universities." Thesis, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), 2012. http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/19996/.
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Özalp, Dilek. "Science Teachers' Understandings of Science Practices before and after the Participation in an Environmental Engineering Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Program." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5388.
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In 2012, National Research Council published a new science education framework that explains the science practices and its importance in understanding the process of knowledge development. The students were expected to engage in all the practices by grade 12. All science teachers need some kind of support to improve their understandings of these science practices (NRC, 2012). An important key component of engaging teachers in scientific investigations is to have the teacher participate in a research laboratory experience (NRC, 1996). Research Experiences for Teachers programs (RET) serve as a promising form of professional development to achieve this goal. These programs allow teachers to experience scientific inquiry.
The context of the study was a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program supported by National Science Foundation It was located in an United States university Environmental Engineering program. There were five preservice and ten inservice teachers in this research. In addition, there were six professors and eight graduate students who served as mentors. Each teacher worked with a specific professor and graduate student mentor in their research projects that are related to the management of the nitrogen cycle, provision of clean water, or urban infrastructure improvement. Also, four professors from engineering and science programs were interviewed to find out what each science practice means to them. The research design of this study was mixed methods that combined quantitative and qualitative research approaches into a single study. In this study, two teachers were selected for the case study based on their experiences and improvements. The study utilized different data sources such as surveys, interviews, observations, and documents. Each research question was addressed based on the results of overall analysis of all the teachers, as well as the results of each case. To find out whether there was a statistically significant difference between the pre-, mid-, and post teacher surveys, repeated measures ANOVA was used for each item. In addition, for the items that showed a statistical difference a Tukey test was conducted to find -which surveys -were significantly different from each other. Also, partial eta squared effect size was calculated for each item. Professor and graduate students' surveys were analyzed by a repeated measures ANOVA and Tukey tests. All interviews were transcribed by the researcher. The data from the interviews were coded and analyzed using a qualitative analysis software. In order to analyze the data in the observations, coding of the qualitative data procedure was employed. The teachers' poster presentations were evaluated by using the researcher-created rubric that has the criteria for each expected part of the poster presentation.
The findings of this research suggest that teachers have naive understandings of science practices before they participate in an RET program because they do not have opportunities to learn what those practices mean. The findings also suggest that the teachers still have naive understandings after they participate in an RET program. This is a very important contribution to the literature, in that it is difficult for the teachers to teach those practices in their classrooms if they do not have complete and appropriate understandings of what those practices actually mean. The findings also indicated that teachers' participation in the RET program helped them to improve their abilities to engage in science practices but they need more experience, knowledge, and abilities to engage in the specific practices where they had least improvements. The analysis also indicated that the teachers who actively engaged in the science practices, had productive discussions with the graduate student mentors and participated the quick lessons they gave, read the literature for their research, used new techniques and methods, and participated in the research group meetings improved more on the abilities of engaging in science practices compared to the teachers who did not have the opportunity to participate in the practices because of the structure of their projects, had low interest, and received most of the information directly from the graduate students.
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Esposito, Vittorio. "Impact of the Botkyrka Project on Gender Equality and Youth Participation : A Capability Approach Perspective on #UrbanGirlsMovement." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-286213.
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The #UrbanGirlsMovement Pilot Project in Botkyrka was aimed at implementing feminist urban planning at local level, in order to develop innovative solution to improve socio-economically vulnerable urban areas. By laying its foundation on feminist urban planning practices, co-creation and youth participation, this case study aims at examining the implementation and potential impacts of the Botkyrka Pilot Project and how it could have potentially influenced a transformation in the practices of institutions towards more inclusive urban planning. Moreover, benefits and shortcomings were analyzed through the lenses of the Capability Approach, which is a multidimensional framework that prioritizes a person’s capabilities as opposed to the means of living. The results reveal the need for enhancing the gender perspective in urban planning, give marginalized groups a platform to make their voices heard, and confirmed the importance of youth and youth participation towards creating a better urban future. It was concluded that the process may lead to a ripple effect, potentially leading to a long lasting impact on both Botkyrka and surrounding municipalities, successfully bridging the gap between professionals and locals. However, many obstacles were identified that could prevent the project from having a positive effect, such as institutional resistance, public sector economy, and power imbalance.Pilotprojecktetd #UrbanGirlsMovement i Botkyrka hade som mål att implementera feministisk statsplanering på lokal nivå för att utveckla innovativa lösningar för att kunna förbättra socioekonomiskt utsatta områden. Baserat på feministisk stadsplanering, samskapande, och ungdomsdeltagande syftar det här arbetet att undersöka genomförandet, utforska möjliga effekter av, samt försöka reda ut hur pilotprojektet i Botkyrka kan ha skapat en förändring i samhället för mer inkluderande stadsplanering. Fördelar och nackdelar analyserades genom “Capability Approach” som prioriterar en individspersons förmågoristället för dess tillgångar. Resultaten pekar på att det finns ett behov av att utveckla förhållningssättet kring könsperspektiv inom stadsplanering genom att ge marginaliserade grupper en plattform där de kan bli hörda, samt hur viktigt det är att involvera ungdomen för att skapa en bättre framtid. Det är möjligt att projektet kan ha gett upphov till en kedjereaktion som skulle kunna bidra till långtgående effekter där gapet mellan civila och tjänstemän minskar, både i Botkyrka och kringliggande kommuner. Många hinder för en sådan positiv utveckling upptäcktes också, till exempel, institutionell tröghet, ekonomi inom offentlig sektor, och maktobalans.
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Ogilvie, Andrea Marie. "Understanding Transfer Student Pathways to Engineering Degrees: A Multi-Institutional Study Based in Texas." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96022.
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In recent decades, recruitment and retention efforts to meet workforce demands and broaden participation in colleges of engineering across the country have focused primarily on catering to the needs of first-year, traditional age college students who matriculate from high school into 4-year institutions. While these efforts have moved the needle on enrollment and retention for undergraduate students in engineering, growth and improvement measures have started to taper in recent years. To meet current and future workforce demands for more STEM professionals in the United States, we must be creative about how to move beyond this ceiling effect; and, great potential exists among the growing population of students who begin their pursuit of a higher education at institutions other than 4-year public/private colleges.
The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of engineering transfer students and their experiences at both sending and receiving institutions. Part of a larger mixed methods research investigation, this study draws on survey data from a sample of 1,070 engineering transfer students who transferred to one of four 4-year Texas institutions as new engineering students between 2007 and 2014. Research sites include four of the top ten producers of U.S. Hispanic/Latino engineers; and the framework for transfer student capital was used to organize this study's data collection and analytical plan.
Structured as a manuscript style dissertation, this investigation offers a synthesis of recent literature on engineering transfer students and yields important findings on engineering transfer student movement through the higher education system at two distinct phases: 1) at the beginning of their higher education pathways in an investigation of students' reasons for starting at another institution and factors that influence their decisions to transfer; and 2) at the phase immediately following transfer in an investigation of the transition experience for students who transfer to a 4-year institution. For each phase, I identify emergent constructs and explore differences across subgroups of engineering transfer students (i.e., type of institution - selective versus open enrollment; type of transfer pathway - lateral versus vertical; student status as Hispanic/Latino; student status as first generation).
This research joins and expands the small body of literature on engineering transfer students and brings data to higher education administrators so they can make more informed adjustments to existing institutional policies and practices that impact students as they transfer to engineering programs at 4-year institutions. Last, findings from this study also advance the current state of community college research on transfer students more generally.PHD
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Maczka, Darren Kurtis. "Computing Trajectories: Pathways into Computer Science and Programming Experience in the First Year." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/92198.
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Many universities across the United States have been experiencing an increased demand for computer science majors. Adjusting curriculum to meet increased demand runs the risk of damaging ongoing efforts to broaden participation in computer science. To manage growth, and increase the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the field, we must first understand current patterns for participation, and factors that may impact access and persistence.
Universities with common first-year engineering programs present an opportunity for addressing some of the barriers that have traditionally limited access to computer science to certain groups. In particular, common first-year programs could provide early positive experiences with computer programming which encourage more students to consider computer science as a viable major.
To better understand how a common first-year engineering program may impact matriculation and persistence in computer science, I conducted studies to identify high-level patterns of participation in computer science, as well as how students experience programming instruction in an introductory engineering course. All studies share the same context: a large public research institution with a common first-year engineering program.
Results indicate that women are leaving computer science at all points of the curriculum, contributing to a reduced representation of women earning CS degrees. In contrast, URM and first-generation students have higher representation at graduation than when declaring major interest before the start of their first year.Doctor of Philosophy
Many universities across the United States have been experiencing an increased demand for computer science majors. Adjusting curriculum to meet demand runs the risk of damaging efforts to increase the diversity of the computer science workforce. To manage growth and increase the representation of women and underrepresented minorities (students who are not white or East Asian) in the field, we must first understand who currently studies computer science, and factors that lead to their success in the major. Universities with general first-year engineering programs present an opportunity for addressing some of the barriers that have traditionally discouraged women and underrepresented minorities from pursuing computer science. In particular, these programs could provide early positive experiences with computer programming which encourage more students to consider computer science as a possible major. To better understand how experiences during students’ first-year transition to college may impact decisions to major in computer science, I conducted studies to explore who enters computer science, and how they succeed in the major, as well as how students experience programming instruction in an introductory engineering course. All studies share the same context: a large public research institution with a general first-year engineering program. Results indicate that women are leaving computer science at all points of the curriculum, contributing to a reduced representation of women earning CS degrees. In contrast, underrepresented minority students and students with parents who did not receive a college degree, make up a higher percentage in the group graduating with a CS degree than in the group who declare CS as their first major.
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Rådelius, Elias. "Community Radio 2.0 - Reinventing Participation, Empowerment and Community in Converging Public Spheres." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23049.
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New technologies, such as social media and web services, are becoming increasingly common and important tools for community radio stations. The convergence of community radio, social media and web services opens up new opportunities for participation from the audience and challenges previous conceptions of community, participation, empowerment and the public sphere. This study focuses on how this convergence affects notions of participation, empowerment, community and the public sphere as well as the resulting challenges and opportunities. The study was conducted at three community radio stations in the Western Cape, South Africa and used a mixed-methods approach of qualitative interviews, a survey and netnographic observations of social media and web presence.The findings show that social media and web services increases and changes participation by extending possibilities to interact independently of spatiotemporal limitations of radio broadcasts. It has direct effects on the content of the radio shows and the audience is empowered as co-producers and contributors of content. Additionally, the interaction itself creates new content in other mediums, such as blogs. The study also shows how the converging public spheres of community radio and social media are contradictory as participation becomes economized and exclusionary and relies heavily on financial means, access and digital literacy of the community. The expanded, global reach of community radio also challenges the notion of community as it includes distant and diasporic communities. However, the presence in the global mediascape harmonizes with community radio values of self-representation and self-expression. The study concludes that community radio stations need to both strategize their social media use while balancing their mandate to be a voice of the voiceless that lack access and/or digital literacy to participate.
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Xu, Nora (Nora Lan). "Active participation of buildings in the power sector : the case of small office buildings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103567.
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Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Technology and Policy Program, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140).
Under the broad context of decarbonization of the energy sector, commercial buildings are well-suited for providing ancillary services to the electricity grid and poised to transform from passive consumers to active electricity market participants. A data-driven multi-zonal thermal response model is formulated and fit to EnergyPlus simulation data from a Department of Energy Small Office Reference Commercial Building for the months of June, July and August. When validated and tested against EnergyPlus simulation data, the thermal response model performs well. The thermal response model is then used in a co-optimization of energy and ancillary provision for a small office building with a variable air volume system from [9] using summer wholesale electricity and ancillary services prices from ISO-NE. Under six different price cases, the individual small office building provides maximum hourly regulation and spinning reserve capacities of 3.2 and 4.4 kW respectively and daily total regulation and spinning reserve capacities of 51 and 46 kW respectively. When scaled up over similar building stock in New England, small office buildings can provide up to 9.5% of ISO-NE's daily regulation requirement and 8% of the daily spinning reserves requirement. From an economic perspective, a small office building's potential summer ancillary services' revenues are not sufficient to drive investment in installation of a building automation system, variable air volume system and associated metering. However, buildings may invest in the necessary equipment for energy cost reductions and to participate in other demand response programs. Increasing building participation rates in ancillary services markets requires addressing the principal-agent problem, building-specific concerns such as program controllability and convenience and targeted policies aimed at increasing availability of clear aggregator-enabled building participation avenues.
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Wendt, Mattias. "Stay Hydrated: How motivational design can support the caregiver’s role in patient participation." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23057.
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The research of this study was conducted at Malmö Hospital in collaborationwith Region Skåne. In this paper various methodologies from interactiondesign are used to explore how patient participation in hospital can be aidedand improved. It investigates what aspects of motivational design can bebeneficial to healthcare. The literature used in this study analyses the currentwork values of Malmö Hospital and how it relates to motivational and servicedesign. The study presents design findings based on a service mapping of thehospital along with an evaluation of the current working conditions. Finally,a concept is presented designed to enhance communication between patients and caregivers by visualizing patient water balance.
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Lidberg, Sebastian. "Användarmedverkan i systemutveckling : Problem och möjligheter i praktiken." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-13725.
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Användarmedverkan har genomtiderna ansetts vara lösningen på alla problem inom systemutveckling. Dock har författare inom området delade meningar om den faktiska betydelsen av att involvera användarna i processen. Kärnlitteraturen som behandlar ämnet är av en äldre karaktär, fast än idag refereras det till dessa författare som behandlar ämnet. Den tekniska utvecklingen kan gett människor i största allmänhet en större teknisk förståelse, frågan är om detta ha påverkat användarmedverkan? Frågeställningen som kommer ge svar på denna fråga är: Hur ser användarmedverkan ut i dagens praktik, vilka möjligheter och problem kan det innebära? Syftet för denna undersökning är att granska hur dagens praktiker ser på användarmedverkan, vilka problem och möjligheter de står inför idag jämfört med vad den äldre litteraturen påvisar. Denna undersökning bygger på en tidigare undersökning av Agnes Hedberg och Sanna Järlstig (2016) från Linköpings universitet, dem själva ansåg att deras resultat var vagt utifrån antalet respondenter. Därför har antalet respondenter i denna undersökning tre-dubblats för att se om slutresultatet skiljer sig ifrån varandra. Ytterligare ställs resultatet av denna undersökning emot litteraturen för att se om skiljaktigheter kan tydas ifrån dagens praktikers syn på användarmedverkan. Resultatet från denna undersökning visar upp en syn på användarmedverkan i dagens praktik där det är mer ett måste att involvera användarna. Synen som litteraturen påvisade om att användarmedverkan skulle vara kostsamt och tidskrävande betonas inte lika starkt i dagens praktik. Praktikerna uttrycker att utvecklingsprocessen som helhet är kostsam och tidkrävande men att exkludera användarna är inte ett alternativ utifrån det mervärde som ges genom involvering. Resultatet i jämförelse med den tidigare undersökningen styrker deras resultat och betonar stora likheter med vad Hedberg & Järlstig (2016) fastställde.User participation is argued to be the solution for all issues regarding system development. However, researchers within this field have different views of the impact of involving users in this process. Even though the literature utilized in this thesis can be perceived as old, the author identified it to be the most frequently referred to by others. Thereby, the quality of the literature remains high. The digital development has contributed to a better technical understanding in general, but the question is if this has affected the user participation? The problem investigated was therefore: What is the view of user participation today, and what problems and opportunities are associated with it? The purpose of this study was to investigate today’s practice of user participation. More specifically, what problems and opportunities that are faced by companies and suppliers. This study was based on a previous thesis conducted by Agnes Hedberg & Sanna Järlstig (2016) from Linköping University, who perceived their own findings as biased and vague, due to their low number of interviewees. Therefore, the author of this thesis determined to triple the number of interviews to examine if the outcome changed. Moreover, the findings from the empirical data were also compared with the literature, in order to analyze if the current perception of user participation differs from the previous one. The result of this study demonstrates that the involvement of users in the development, was perceived as essential. The companies argued that the development process was costly and time consuming in general, but not to the same extent as the literature did. On the contrary, the interviewees emphasized the importance of not excluding the users, since their involvement rather added value to the process. This study’s results confirmed many of Hedberg & Järlstig (2016) findings, by highlighting the similarities between the two theses.
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Luccioni, Carlo. "Open Participation - How online tools could foster user engagement aimed to city development." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22555.
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The thesis research question originated form an interest in experiments with web and social media tools, and explores in what ways these kinds of communicative and collaborative media could facilitate opening dialogue among citizens and various actors present in the area of Malmö.The research approach deemed most suitable for the selected area is a combination of a participatory design methodology and ethnographic research. During the fieldwork phase different use situations were investigated through interviews, surveys and case studies. The purpose of the investigation was mapping the different stakeholders who operate to solve these problems engaging the residents. The modalities of communication of Malmö municipality and its non-profit organizations have been analysed. The results were compared with other researches in the fields.To understand the motives behind the users’ behaviour, the reasons for active and non- active participation have been investigated, especially those related to social media. Between a form of passive and active engagement a different form of engagement has been identified, that could include the mixed user group of individuals who are interested in being gradually involved in volunteering; having different level of indirect engagement can facilitate these users in “taking the first step” to participate.The concept was developed as a Facebook App in collaboration with Frivilligcentra. The app will allow the users to define their own engagement path, dividing every local volunteering event in tasks, with different levels of involvement. Overall it may define a new flexibility in the non-profit sector- in the sense of time, place, diversification of the experience, engagement - which could demonstrate that with the support of online tools organizations and users can interact better.
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Sjöberg, Helena. "Women's participation in the planning process : A case study of rural villages in the Uttarkashi district." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Arkitektur och vatten, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-64076.
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Cities and villages are built by and for its inhabitants, and are designed to support different kind of lifestyles, needs and habits. In turn, urban and village planning and consequently its structures greatly influence the daily lives of the inhabitants of said structures. The relation between gender roles (and subsequent gender inequality), and planning processes is relevant, because the distribution of power affects the planning of communities and the resulting development. This is not limited to cities, but all planned settlements – rural as well as urban. The local instrument for rural development in India is the gram panchayat, a local council where inhabitants can propose developments for their village, if voted through, where these projects are organized and implemented. In India, women and men are not able to lead equal lives. When a society is unequal, inequality can manifest itself throughout structures in society – physical as well as nonphysical. Since culture is a set of rules for how to live in a society, treating men and women differently has to be a part of these rules (or at least not contested) for an unequal society to remain the same. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the present gender roles in the Indian culture affect the participation of women in the gram panchayat, and how this affects the development of rural villages. In order to investigate this issue, a literature study was conducted to understand India as a country, its culture and gram panchayat system, and knowledge of gender roles present in the Indian society. Interviews were held with representatives from governmental and non-governmental organizations in order to gain additional information about the Indian culture, gender roles and living circumstances in the rural parts of Uttarakhand. The case study consists of field studies in rural villages in the Uttarkashi district, where women were interviewed regarding their participation in the gram panchayats i.e. the local planning process. The results of the study show that there are gender roles present in the Indian culture which are mostly shown through a clear division in responsibilities between women and men in India. Results from the literature study and the interviews indicate that these gender roles have their roots in religion, mainly Hinduism since it is the dominant religion in India. In the rural villages in the case study, this division in responsibilities mean that some women are not participating in the planning process because they do not have the time, and sometimes they are not called to the gram panchayat meetings at all. There were however women in both villages from the field studies who participated. The results are inconclusive regarding whether the participation of women in the planning process affects the resulting development in the villages. However, some researchers argue that equality between the genders contributes positively to overall development.
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Huledal, Mattias, and Li Wirström. "Factors Affecting Employees' Participation in Employee Driven Innovation A case study at Viaplay during the innovation initiative called Hack Days." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224222.
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Reeder, Christina. "Analysis of Students' Knowledge, Perceptions, and Interest in Engineering Post Teacher Participation in a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Professional Development." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955105/.
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This study examined the impact of the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Teachers (RET) in engineering at University of North Texas on students after their teachers' participation in the program. Students were evaluated in terms of self-efficacy, knowledge of engineering, perceptions of engineering, and interest in engineering. A 22-item Likert pre/post survey was used for analysis, and participants included 589 students from six high schools, one middle school, and one magnet school. Paired surveys were analyzed to determine if there was a statistically significant difference in attitudes and knowledge after teachers implemented lessons from their time at the RET. Surveys were also analyzed to determine if there was a statistically significant difference in student response based on gender or student school type. Results showed no statistically significant difference in the self-efficacy of students, however there was a statistically significant difference in knowledge, perceptions, and interest in engineering. In addition, there was a statistically significant difference between genders on an isolated question, and seven out of the 22 Likert questions showed a statistically significant difference between student school types.
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Daniels, Anton. "Information Security in an Internet of Things Network Based on Blockchains and User Participation." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74757.
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The amount of connected Internet of Things devices has seen a large growth during the last couple of years and shows no signs of slowing down. Considering the momentum of the technological advancement in our society with new technologies such as blockchains, AI and machine learning, a large amount of issues could occur if not prevented beforehand, especially within security. Therefore this thesis will examine how to maintain the information security in an Internet of Things network based on blockchains and user participation, by taking an exploratory approach to create an understanding of the issues and possible solutions when implementing a network of this type. By using a case developed together with Luleå Kommun this thesis takes a qualitative approach to the research. This is done by using solutions to issues which appeared during the development of this implementation to draw a conclusion on how to maintain the information security in an Internet of Things network based on blockchains and user participation.
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Teninge, Alexandre. "PARTICIPATION AUX SERVICES SYSTÈME DE PARCS ÉOLIENS MIXTES : APPLICATION EN MILIEU INSULAIRE." Phd thesis, Grenoble INPG, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00473142.
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Le fort développement qu'a connu l'énergie éolienne cette dernière décennie en Europe se retrouve aujourd'hui au niveau mondial. Cette croissance a été rendue possible grâce à divers facteurs qui ont guidés les volontés de politique énergétique en faveur de cette énergie. Or un tel développement amène à repenser son intégration dans les systèmes d'énergie électrique. C'est pourquoi les conditions de raccordement qui lui sont imposées évoluent et tendent à ce qu'elle participe aux services système. Ces travaux de thèse s'intéressent à la mise en oeuvre de parcs éoliens basés sur une mixité technologique, capables de satisfaire les nouvelles et futures exigences de raccordement. L'aptitude de différentes technologies d'éoliennes à répondre à différents services est analysée afin de définir les solutions envisageables pour la création de tels parcs éoliens. Ces travaux se conclus sur une étude d'intégration de parcs éoliens mixtes en milieu insulaire.
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Peters, Anne-Kathrin. "Learning Computing at University: Participation and Identity : A Longitudinal Study." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Datorteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-331613.
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Computing education has struggled with student engagement and diversity in the student population for a long time. Research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education suggests that taking a social, long-term perspective on learning is a fruitful approach to resolving some of these persistent challenges. A longitudinal study has been conducted, following students from two computing study programmes (CS/IT) over a three-year period. The students reflected on their experiences with CS/IT in a series of interviews. Drawing on social identity theory, the analysis has focused on describing participation in CS/IT, doing, thinking, feeling in relation to CS/IT, as negotiated among different people. Phenomenographic analysis yields an outcome space that describes increasingly broad ways in which the students experience participation in CS/IT over the years. Two further outcome spaces provide nuanced insights into experiences that are of increasing relevance as the students advance in their studies; participation as problem solving and problem solving for others. Problem solving defined as solving difficult (technical) problems seems predominate in the learning environment. Problem solving for others brings the user into perspective, but first in the human computer interaction (HCI) course in year three. Students react with scepticism to HCI, excluding HCI from computing, some are students who commenced their studies with broader interests in computing. Demonstrating (technical) problem solving competence is the most vital indicator competence in the two study programmes and the students adapt their reflections on who they are as computing students and professionals accordingly. People showing broader interests in computing risk being marginalised. I identify a gap between conceptions of computing as interdisciplinary and important for society and constructions of computing as technical. Closing the gap could improve retention and diversity, and result in graduates that are better prepared to contribute to societal development.