Books: 'MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT'

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Conducting educational research: Guide to completing a major project. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2011.

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Boudah, Daniel J. Conducting research: Guide to completing a major project. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2011.

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Teichler, Ulrich. The ERASMUS experience: Major findings of the ERASMUS Evaluation Research Project. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1997.

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Ernst & Young (Firm) and University of Warwick. School of Industrial & Business Studies., eds. Key success factors in acquisition management: A joint research project into integrating major acquisitions. [U.K.]: Ernst & Young, 1995.

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Billings, Deborah Lynn. Training midwives to improve postabortion care in Ghana: Major findings and recommendations from an operations research project. Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas, 1999.

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Barham, Kevin. Management for the future: A major research project jointly sponsored by the Foundation for Management Education and Ashridge Management College. Berkhamsted: Ashridge Management College, 1988.

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H, Murphy C., ed. Paris Kanonen--the Paris guns (Wilhelmgeschütze) and Project HARP: The application of major calibre guns to atmospheric and space research. Herford [Germany]: E.S. Mittler, 1988.

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Bull, G. V. Paris Kanonen--the Paris guns (Wilhelmgeschütze) and Project HARP: The application of major calibre guns to atmospheric and space research. Herford [Germany]: E.S. Mittler, 1988.

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Health, Bromley, and East Sussex Family Health Services Authority., eds. Partnerships for change: The report of a major research project commissioned to create a framework for action for the development of GPs and primary care teams. Bromley: Bromley Health, 1994.

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Ontario. Ministry of Housing. Housing Conservation Unit. In your neighbourhood: A context for, and to communicate the findings of a major research project on neighbourhood intensification, undertaken for the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and the Ministry in 1983. S.l: s.n, 1988.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011). Subcommittee on Oversight. NSF's oversight of the NEON project and other major research facilities developed under cooperative agreements: Joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight & Subcommittee on Research and Technology, Committee on Scnoience, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, February 3, 2015. Washington: U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2015.

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Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System. Technical volume - research methodologies of the major research projects conducted by the Commission. [Toronto: The Commission, 1995.

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Trust, Wellcome. The Wellcome Trust Review 1999: A selection of research projects and major initiatives. London: Wellcome Trust, 1999.

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Office, General Accounting. Nuclear waste: Yucca Mountain project behind schedule and facing major scientific uncertainties : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1993.

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Office, General Accounting. Nuclear waste: Yucca Mountain Project behind schedule and facing major scientific uncertainties : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Washington, D.C: U.S. General Accounting Office, 1993.

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Knezo, Genevieve Johanna. Major science and technology projects: Megaprojects and presidential initiatives, trends through the 1994 request. [Washington, D.C.]: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1993.

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California. Legislature. Joint Committee on Science and Technology. California's failure to secure major research projects, State Capitol, Room 3191, Sacramento, California, Wednesday, February 24, 1988: Hearing. Sacramento, CA: Joint Committee on Science & Technology, 1988.

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Bartoli, Gianni, Francesco Ricciardelli, and Vincenzo Sepe, eds. WINDERFUL Wind and INfrastructures. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/8884531381.

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WINDERFUL (an acronym for Wind and INfrastructures: Dominating Eolian Risk For Utilities and Lifelines) is the title of a research project carried out by eight Italian Universities from the end of 2001 to the end of 2003. The project was centred on how "to keep a city running and ensuring quality services during and after major windstorms", avoiding "major failures" of engineering facilities and main infrastructures. The book reports the main results obtained in the project, and for each typology the tool for assessing its reliability are discussed, together with the criteria for its improvement.

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Yun, Su-jae. Chuyo chŏngchʻaek kwaje e taehan kungmin manjokto chosa, punsŏk =: An analytic research on national satisfaction index of major policy projects. Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi: Hanʼguk Haengjŏng Yŏnʼguwŏn, 2005.

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Technology for small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa: Experience with food crop production in five major ecological zones. Washington, D.C: World Bank, 1989.

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Haroutyunian, Sona, and Dario Miccoli. Orienti migranti: tra letteratura e traduzione. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-499-8.

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The book series, edited by Nicoletta Pesaro and sponsored by the Department of Asian and North African Studies, aims to give voice to a time-honoured branch of theoretical and practical research across the disciplines and research domains within the Department. The series aims to establish a platform for scholarly discussion and a space for international dialogue on the translation of Asian and North African languages. In doing so, the project aims to observe and verify the translingual and transcultural dynamics triggered by translation from and into said ‘languages-cultures’, as well as to identify and explore the deep cultural mechanisms and structures involved in interethnic behaviours and relationships. Translation is also a major research tool in the humanities. As a matter of fact, a hermeneutic potential in terms of cultural mediation is inherent in translation activities and in the reflection on translation: it is precisely this potential that allows scholars, in both their research and dissemination work, to bring to the surface the interethnic and intercultural dynamics regulating the relationships between civilisations, both diachronically and synchronically. The project is a continuation and a development of the research carried out in recent years by the former Department of East Asian Studies – now Department of Asian and North African Studies – of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice through a series of initiatives organised by the research group on the translation of Asian languages “Laboratorio sulla Traduzione delle Lingue orientali” (Laboratori sulle lingue orientali). Such activities involved periodical meetings on translation, whose objective was to introduce and discuss specific issues in translation from and into Asian languages, as well as several international events (workshops, conferences, and symposia).

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Cioni, Elisabetta, and Alberto Marinelli, eds. Le reti della comunicazione politica. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-133-5.

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In the contemporary scene, alongside the crisis of political communication and the traditional forms of participation, the transformation of the formats and languages of telepolitics and the increasingly more widespread access of the citizens to interactive platforms that liberate them from the role of mere spectators of the political debate, have come to assume major significance. This book proposes an approach of meditation and mixed methods research, already validated within the framework of the project «Against political communication. Rethinking participation in the age of the old and new media» (PRIN 2007). The aim is to explore the ways in which political communication is currently exploiting the media ecosystem, and the role of this new media equilibrium in the construction of political concepts and political participation on the part of the citizens.

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Rippa, Alessandro. Borderland Infrastructures. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725606.

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Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland Infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China’s peripheries.

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Larsen, Ole Damgaard. Ship collision with bridges. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/sed004.

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<p>Any struoture in navigable waters constitutes a hazard to shipping and is itself vulnerable to damage or destruction in the event of vessel collision. Worldwide vessel traffic and the average size of vessels continue to lncrease. At the same time, ever more bridges crossing navigable waterways are being planned and constructed, sometimes with inadequate navigation clearance and/or lnadequate protection.<p> The objective of this publication is to provide information and guidelinesfor engineers charged with the planning and design of new bridges, navlgation channels, and prevention and protection measures. Lt offers advice on upgrading and retrofrtting existing bridges and navigation channels. And lt provides the means to evaluate the safety of bridges, vessels, persons and the environment. <p>After reviewing some basics o! navigatlon and vessel traffic, and considering risk acceptance and collision risk, the publication examines vessel impact forces on bridges and proposes appropriate bridge design criteria. Prevention measures, such as regulations and management systems. And protectlon measures and systems are also described. Major international research projects have provided the analytical basis for the publication, including the development of vessel collision guide specific-atrons for the Federal Highway Administration in the USA and the vessel colllsion design crrteria developed for the Great Bell Crossing in Oenmark. <p>Prepared by Ole Damgaard LARSEN, Chairman of the IABSE Working Group "Ship Collision with Bridges'', lhis 132 page publlcation is a must for any engineer dealing with structures in navigable waters.

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Boudah, Daniel J. Conducting Educational Research: Guide to Completing a Major Project. SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2019.

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Boudah, Daniel J. Conducting Educational Research: Guide to Completing a Major Project. SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2014.

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Technology decision-making at the major banks: A management research project from Stuart Research : project analysis volume. Cambridge, MA (200 O'Brien Highway, Cambridge 02141): Stuart Research, 1988.

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Johnsen, Berit, ed. Research Project Preparation within Education and Special Needs Education: Introduction to Theory of Science, Project Planning and Research Plans. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23865/noasp.124.

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Careful planning is a key to quality research. This anthology is addressed to anyone who is in the planning phase of a major study – individually or in national or international cooperation. The examples discussed concern critical analysis of individually tailored inclusive practices in the community of the class, with a critical view of their successes, shortcomings and obstacles. The book is divided into four parts: Part One contains a discussion of the international concept of the inclusive school and articles on theory of science. Part Two contains historical and empirical discussions of the emergence, development and current state of doctoral programs. Part Three describes development of research plans, while Part Four consists of research plans in a joint international comparative classroom studies project towards inclusion. This is the first of three anthologies related to the international comparative research cooperation project WB 04/06: Development towards the Inclusive School: Practices – Research – Capacity Building.

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Flyvbjerg, Bent. Did Megaproject Research Pioneer Behavioral Economics? Edited by Bent Flyvbjerg. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732242.013.8.

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With Albert O. Hirschman, project management scholarship has what it lacks the most: an eminent intellectual and social scientist who has thought long and hard about project management, and especially the management of large transformative projects. Cass Sunstein, co-author of Nudge and a key contributor to behavioral economics, distinguishes Hirschman as an early behavioral economist and says that his main contribution to project management, the book Development Projects Observed, “can plausibly be counted as a work in behavioral economics.” This chapter tests Sunstein’s claim by assessing Hirschman’s work in major project management, and asks what we can learn from Hirschman, as scholars, policy makers, and project leaders. The focus is on Hirschman’s principle of the Hiding Hand, first described in Development Projects Observed, because this is rightly considered his largest idea on project management and is one of his main contributions to economics and social science.

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Bull, Gerald V., and Charles H. Murphy. Paris Kanonen-The Paris Guns (Wilhelmgeschutze and Project Harp : the Application of Major Calibre Guns to Atmospheric and Space Research). Presidio Press, 1991.

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Davidson, Judith. Research Design in Team-Based Qualitative Research. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190648138.003.0003.

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In the introduction to this chapter and interwoven throughout the text is the message that qualitative research begins and ends in writing, which in this case means that research design is a beginning point for that writing. This chapter is composed of three major sections that illustrate how team start-up is critical to how the writing will proceed down the line. The first section—Team Formation—provides detailed information on issues to consider in establishing the team in a manner that will be most beneficial to the conduct of qualitative research. The second section—Research Design and Project Organization—discusses early writing tasks, establishing a project management system, and the importance of linking all of this to a data archiving plan. Digital tools are discussed in some depth. The third section—Caring: Internalized and Externalized—suggests a novel approach to the issue of ethics and team management.

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Thompson, Paul, Ken Plummer, and Neli Demireva. Pioneering Social Research. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447333524.001.0001.

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Presenting the landmark pioneers' life stories project, this book documents how modern social research in the United Kingdom was shaped. It sheds new light on the lives, methods and motivations of men and women who helped develop a new world of research methodology, pioneered feminist research, and first confronted the issues of race and ethnicity. Many of the pioneers' lives were shaped by the declining decades of the British Empire, and the book begins by highlighting the experiences and practices of the generations who were active from the 1950s to the 1980s, the crucial founding generations for today's social research scene. These were the decades which saw the final phase of colonial anthropology, the explosive growth of sociology in universities, and then the founding of theme-based women's, ethnic and cultural studies and the development of ethical practices and systematic methodologies. The book combines the fascinating history of the generations who built outstanding and influential social research with providing a major resource for current research and especially for methods for future teaching.

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Davidson, Judith. Substantive Writing in Team-Based Qualitative Research. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190648138.003.0005.

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This chapter, with an emphasis on writing about the substantive findings of a project, begins with turning our attention to the interpretive work that brings those findings into view. Interpretive work includes building up and then layering interpretive memos that fix propositions, often through interpretive meetings. Teams offer special opportunities for this work through their ability to “work the boundaries” of their multiple members. These activities will lead to the beginning of the writing process, and this chapter provides detailed information on the ways teams can develop collective writing opportunities for members that will expand their writing capacities. Teams also offer advantages in testing the trustworthiness of the results of the work. A major focus of this chapter is on two questions: What might you report? What form can that report take? In addition to traditional formats, this chapter provides extensive discussion of new and creative approaches substantive writing can take.

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Mun, Eun-Young, and Anne E. Ray. Integrative Data Analysis from a Unifying Research Synthesis Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190676001.003.0020.

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Integrative data analysis (IDA) is a promising new approach in psychological research and has been well received in the field of alcohol research. This chapter provides a larger unifying research synthesis framework for IDA. Major advantages of IDA of individual participant-level data include better and more flexible ways to examine subgroups, model complex relationships, deal with methodological and clinical heterogeneity, and examine infrequently occurring behaviors. However, between-study heterogeneity in measures, designs, and samples and systematic study-level missing data are significant barriers to IDA and, more broadly, to large-scale research synthesis. Based on the authors’ experience working on the Project INTEGRATE data set, which combined individual participant-level data from 24 independent college brief alcohol intervention studies, it is also recognized that IDA investigations require a wide range of expertise and considerable resources and that some minimum standards for reporting IDA studies may be needed to improve transparency and quality of evidence.

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Managing Capital Costs of Major Federally Funded Public Transportation Projects: Research Results Digest. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.17226/23227.

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Box, L., and D.B.W.M. van Dusseldorp. Sociologists in Agricultural Research : Major Findings of Two Research Projects in the Dominican Republic and the Philippines. Center Agricultural Pub & Document, 1992.

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Nuclear waste: Yucca Mountain Project behind schedule and facing major scientific uncertainties : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1993.

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Nuclear waste: Yucca Mountain Project behind schedule and facing major scientific uncertainties : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1993.

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Department of Defense. 2008 DARPA Digest - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Overview of Mission, Management, and Major Current Projects, Doing Business with DARPA (Ringbound). Progressive Management, 2007.

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Stanford, James N. New England English. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190625658.001.0001.

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For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of American English, and “New England accents” are very well known in popular imagination. But since the 1930s, no large-scale academic book project has focused specifically on New England English. While other research projects have studied dialect features in various regions of New England, this is the first large-scale scholarly project to focus solely on New England English since the Linguistic Atlas of New England. This book presents new research covering all six New England states, with detailed geographic, phonetic, and statistical analysis of data collected from over 1,600 New Englanders. The book covers the past, present, and future of New England dialect features, analyzing them with dialect maps and statistical modeling in terms of age, gender, social class, ethnicity, and other factors. The book reports on a recent large-scale data collection project that included 367 field interviews, 626 audio-recorded interviews, and 634 online written questionnaires. Using computational methods, the project processed over 200,000 individual vowels in audio recordings to examine changes in New England speech. The researchers also manually examined 30,000 instances of /r/ to investigate “r-dropping” in words like “park” and so on. The book also reviews other recent research in the area. Using acoustic phonetics, computational processing, detailed statistical analyses, dialect maps, and graphical illustrations, the book systematically documents all of the major traditional New England dialect features, other regional features, and their current usage across New England.

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Reyes Gutiérrez, Arturo, Dulce Daniela Navarro Moreno, and Fabiola García Vega. Business plan Focused on Research and Development Projects. EPOMEX-UAC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26359/epomex.cemie092021.

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El plan de negocios, es una herramienta que ayuda a estructurar la información necesaria para demostrar la viabilidad del proyecto o empresa que se esté desarrollando, pues nadie crea proyectos para perder capital. El Plan se compone de 6 estudios, entre los cuales puede llegar a omitirse alguno, de acuerdo con las necesidades del proyecto e intereses de quien lo desarrolla. Estos a grandes rasgos son: Estudio Administrativo Describe los aspectos organizativos del proyecto/empresa que se deben de considerar en su desarrollo como la estructura organizacional, descripción de los puestos, la filosofía empresarial, los objetivos que guían las acciones, el análisis por medio de la herramienta foda para desarrollo de estrategias, etcétera dando como resultado una mayor identidad al proyecto/ empresa. Estudio de Mercado Describe de forma detallada y concisa los aspectos relevantes del mercado los cuales afectan directamente al proyecto en desarrollo, tales como la competencia, segmentación de mercado, perfiles de mercado, patrones conductuales de consumo, mezcla de mercadotecnia, valor de mercado, pronóstico de ventas e investigación de mercados. Cada uno de estos elementos serán de gran utilidad para la toma de decisiones respecto a decisiones del mercado. Estudio Técnico Se define como “producir lo que se va a vender” y responde a las siguientes preguntas: ¿Dónde localizar la empresa/proyecto? ¿Cómo distribuir los recursos en la planta para usarlos eficientemente? ¿Qué recursos necesito para producir mi producto? ¿Dónde obtener los materiales, herramientas, maquinaria, necesarios? ¿Cuáles son los procesos necesarios para la producción de mi producto? ¿Qué maquinaria y equipo utilizar en los procesos? Estudio de Responsabilidad Social Este estudio ayuda a generar estrategias de mejora en propuestas para el buen funcionamiento empresarial respecto al manejo del personal en cuanto a desarrollo de carrera y planificación de vida, cuidado de medio ambiente y responsabilidad social, mitigación de residuos. Tener este estudio ayuda a crear una imagen responsable, empática y ecológica del proyecto, siendo así más atractivo para el agente inversor del mismo. Estudio Legal Se define la figura jurídica que tendrá la organización, así como todas las obligaciones y beneficios que se adquieren al llevar a cabo su creación, como son: las obligaciones fiscales adquiridas, los contratos de transferencia de tecnología, la contratación del personal, los títulos de bienes de raíces, la protección de la propiedad industrial de la tecnología, entre otros. Estudio Financiero Demuestra la rentabilidad del negocio en términos económicos a través de informes contables proyectados o históricos, razones financieras e indicadores de viabilidad como lo son el vpn, tir, roi y pri. Todos estos estudios muestran la viabilidad del proyecto en su totalidad, es decir, la capacidad de mantenerse operando a lo largo del tiempo. Asimismo, se enfoca en la viabilidad del proyecto tecnológico, demostrando que existe un mercado a satisfacer que está dispuesto a pagar por producto; la viabilidad legal, definiendo las obligaciones y beneficios adquiridos; la viabilidad de responsabilidad social, puntualizando en estrategias que generen una imagen positiva, limpia y empática del proyecto ante el mundo actual y; la viabilidad financiera demostrando que el proyecto es rentable, en otras palabras, que genera las suficientes ganancias para llevarse a cabo.

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Coogan, Prof Michael, ed. Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible: Digital Collection. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780197669402.001.0001.

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The Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible series is a major reference work, consisting of comprehensive essays by scholars from many countries and with a wide variety of perspectives on Biblical Studies. The Digital Collection represents an online expansion of the project, featuring articles previously published on Oxford Biblical Studies Online, now exclusive on Oxford Reference. With bibliographic references and suggestions for further reading, each entry provides a thorough overview of the topic and serves as an entrance point to further research for both seasoned scholars and beginning students.

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Prasad, Monica. Problem-Solving Sociology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197558485.001.0001.

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Problem-solving sociology attempts to use the traditions of sociological research to solve real-world problems, and uses the attempt to grapple with real-world problems as a way to reformulate understandings of society and renew or reinvent those traditions. This book provides advice for how to turn an interest in solving major social problems into research projects that begin to do so. The book provides suggested methods and tools, models of successful problem-solving research conducted by established scholars as well as by undergraduate and graduate students, defenses against some common objections, and an exploration of where this kind of work fits in contemporary sociology.

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Baumgartner, Frank R., Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman, eds. Comparative Policy Agendas. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835332.001.0001.

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The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a given institution of government in a particular country took action on any issue of public policy. All topics are covered, comprehensively, over several decades, in some countries going back to World War II. Because of the open-data philosophy that animates the international network of scholars involved in the project and their meticulous attention to comparability and common data coding conventions, the databases of the CAP represent an unprecedented resource for the study of public policy across national borders. In this major new book, leaders of each national team provide the background and information needed for anyone to understand how best to make use of these newly available historical databases. Interested users will range from novice students of public policy to accomplished scholars, from interested citizens to professional journalists, political or partisan activists, and professional staff of legislative assemblies or national administrative agencies. The book’s sections include chapters introducing the CAP to a new audience, describing each national project, illustrating various cross-national uses and analyses that the CAP data allow, and concluding with ideas for further practical and research uses.

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Norris, Pippa. Why American Elections Are Flawed (and How to Fix Them). Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713408.001.0001.

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The flaws in the American electoral process have become increasingly apparent in recent years. The contemporary tipping point in public awareness occurred during the 2000 election count, and concern deepened due to several major problems observed in the 2016 campaign, worsening party polarization, and corroding public trust in the legitimacy of the outcome. To gather evidence about the quality of elections around the world, in 2012 the Electoral Integrity Project was established as an independent research project based at Harvard and Sydney universities. The results show that experts rated American elections as the worst among all Western democracies. Without reform, these problems risk damaging the legitimacy of American elections—further weakening public confidence in political parties, Congress, and the U.S. government, depressing voter turnout, and exacerbating the risks of mass protests. This book describes several major challenges observed during the 2016 U.S. elections arising from deepening party polarization over basic voting procedures, the serious risks of hacking and weak cyber-security, the consequences of deregulating campaign spending, and lack of professional and impartial electoral management. This book outlines the core concept and measure of electoral integrity, the key yardstick used to evaluate free and fair elections. Evidence from expert and mass surveys demonstrate the extent of problems in American elections. The book shows how these challenges could be addressed through several practical steps designed to improve electoral procedures and practices. If implemented, the reforms will advance free and fair elections, and liberal democracy, at home and abroad.

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Waggoner, Michael D., and Nathan C. Walker. Introduction. Edited by Michael D. Waggoner and Nathan C. Walker. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199386819.013.2.

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In the Introduction, co-editors Michael D. Waggoner and Nathan C. Walker articulate the purpose of The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Education, which is to examine the current state of religion and American education from homeschooling to private religious schools to public schools to religious institutions and on through the range of public and private higher education. They explain that the book is organized into five sections: Frameworks; Lifespan Faith Development; Faith-Based K-12 education; Religion and Public Schools; and Religion and Higher Education. Within these sections forty leading scholars in the field of religion and education, review these topics in thirty chapters. The contributors offer an in-depth synthesis of major issues within the field, while contributing to lively debates about the links between landmark research contributions and contemporary research agendas. Designed for an interdisciplinary audience, the Oxford handbook serves as a legacy project for leading scholars who are critically shaping the future direction of the field of religion and American education.

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Mayer, Nonna, and Vincent Tiberj. How to Study Political Culture Without Naming It. Edited by Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy G. Mazur. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669691.013.15.

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The boom in survey research, the increasing internationalization of political science, and the development of large-scale comparative projects have renewed the study of political culture and invalidated the notion of a French “exceptionalism.” But French scholars, influenced by Marxism, social history, and Bourdieu’s legacy of “critical sociology,” still have a different understanding of political culture, and prefer to use other concepts such as ideology. After a rapid overview of the founding studies and debates, this chapter shows how French research on political culture or cultures in the plural developed in its own way, and outlines the major challenges it is facing today on issues such as race and ethnicity, gender, globalization, and poverty.

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Eiran, Ehud. Post-Colonial Settlement Strategy. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474437578.001.0001.

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Settlement projects are sustained clusters of policies that allow states to strategically plan, implement and support the permanent transfer of nationals into a territory not under their sovereignty. Once a common feature of the international system, settlement projects are now rare, and contradict international norms. Yet, these modern projects had been an important feature of some of the longest conflicts of our times, such as Israel-Palestine and Morocco-Western Sahara. Moreover, they had a profound effect on conflicts: they led to their prolongations, affected their levels of violence, patterns of resolution, as well as post-conflict stability. With this significance in mind, the book asks why states launched new settlement projects during the era of decolonization, against common practice and against international norms. The book introduces the international environment as an important enabling variable for the launch of these projects. By drawing comparisons between three such major projects--Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, Morocco in Western Sahara and Indonesia in East-Timor—the book classifies post-colonial settlement projects as a distinct cluster of cases that warrant a different analytical approach to traditional colonial studies, including settler-colonialism approaches. Built on a careful synthesis of existing principles in international relations theory and empirical research, the book advances a clearly formulated theoretical position on the launch of post-colonial settlement projects. The result yields a number of fresh insights into the relationship between conflict, territory and international norms.

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Kulkarni, Kunal, James Harrison, Mohamed Baguneid, and Bernard Prendergast, eds. Breast surgery. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198729426.003.0021.

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Breast cancer trials started in the 1930s and have made major contributions to the field of evidence-based medicine and the management of breast cancer. In the United States, the National Surgical and Adjuvant Breast Project (NSABP), established in 1957, has been responsible for many pivotal breast cancer trials in breast cancer surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy. The Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group (EBCTCG) started in 1985, with the aim of sharing data from high-quality randomized trials worldwide to promote high-quality meta-analyses. Increasingly, breast cancer is being recognized not as one single pathology, but as a disease with a biology and behaviour that is individual to each patient. This chapter discusses trials which have been pivotal in this dynamic time for breast cancer research and which have led the way in personalized therapies for cancer patients.

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Swire, Peter, and Justin Hemmings. Stakeholders in Reform of the Global System for Mutual Legal Assistance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685515.003.0021.

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This chapter briefly explains the reasons that Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) and other forms of trans-border access to electronic data are vital and becoming increasingly more so for law enforcement in this age of globalized evidence. It then presents the goals of key stakeholders in MLAT reform: national governments other than the United States; the US government, both for law enforcement and other goals; technology companies, such as email and social network providers; and civil society, seeking goals including privacy, free speech, and democracy. This chapter is part of a broader research and law reform project on law enforcement access to electronic evidence held in other nations. Our ultimate goal is to propose reforms (or meaningful alternatives) to the Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) system. Any such reforms, however, will have to be built on an accurate understanding of the incentives and perspectives of the major stakeholders.

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