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Jayasinghe, Upali W., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and Self-Concept Enhancement and Learning Facilitation Research Centre. "Peer review in the assessment and funding of research by the Australian Research Council." THESIS_CAESS_SELF_Jayasinghe_U.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/572.
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In higher education settings the peer review process is highly valued and used for evaluating the academic merits of grant proposals, journal submissions, academic promotions, monographs, text books, PhD thesis and a variety of other academic products. The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate the peer review process for awarding research grants used by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Large Grants Program and to propose strategies to address potential shortcomings of the system. This study also evaluated psychometric properties such as the reliabilities of various ratings that are part of the assessment process of the ARC Large grants Program. Data for the all grant applications submitted for the 1996 round of the Large Grants Program were provided by the ARC. In a variation to the typical peer review process, applicants were given an opportunity to nominate assessors to review their proposals. The results indicated that global ratings given by the researcher-nominated assessors were systematically higher and less reliable than those by panel-nominated external reviewers chosen by the ARC. The reliability of peer reviews is not adequate by most standards. A critical direction for future research is considering what strategies need to be put in place to improve the quality of the reviews. To improve the reliability it is recommended that researcher-nominated reviewers should not be used; that there should be more reviews per proposal and a smaller more highly selected core of reviewers should perform most of the reviews within each sub-discipline providing a greater control over error associated with individual reviewersDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Cora, Alisha J. "University of Wisconsin-Stout Research Services process and procedure evaluation." Online version, 2003. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2003/2003coraa.pdf.
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O'Grady, Kerry-Ann. "Pneumonia in Indigenous children in the Northern Territory, Australia, and the effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine : 1997 - 2005." Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2008. http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/359341.
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Jayasinghe, Upali W. "Peer review in the assessment and funding of research by the Australian Research Council." Thesis, View thesis, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/572.
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In higher education settings the peer review process is highly valued and used for evaluating the academic merits of grant proposals, journal submissions, academic promotions, monographs, text books, PhD thesis and a variety of other academic products. The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate the peer review process for awarding research grants used by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Large Grants Program and to propose strategies to address potential shortcomings of the system. This study also evaluated psychometric properties such as the reliabilities of various ratings that are part of the assessment process of the ARC Large grants Program. Data for the all grant applications submitted for the 1996 round of the Large Grants Program were provided by the ARC. In a variation to the typical peer review process, applicants were given an opportunity to nominate assessors to review their proposals. The results indicated that global ratings given by the researcher-nominated assessors were systematically higher and less reliable than those by panel-nominated external reviewers chosen by the ARC. The reliability of peer reviews is not adequate by most standards. A critical direction for future research is considering what strategies need to be put in place to improve the quality of the reviews. To improve the reliability it is recommended that researcher-nominated reviewers should not be used; that there should be more reviews per proposal and a smaller more highly selected core of reviewers should perform most of the reviews within each sub-discipline providing a greater control over error associated with individual reviewers
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Lin, Yu-Luen. "Solicitation Management System." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2976.
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This project updated the California State University, San Bernardino's Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization's Solicitation Management System (SMS) software, used to facilitate the processing of grant proposal solicitations. The SMS software update improved the interface so that it is more user-friendly, increased the processing speed, and added additional functions necessary to comply with new requirements. The software was rewritten using the Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
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Jayasinghe, Upali W. "Peer review in the assessment and funding of research by the Australian Research Council /." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20051102.114303/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003."A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy" Bibliography : leaves 350-371.
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Prentice, Tina Forward. "Case study research : public health grants : exploring grant criteria within public and private foundations in Austin, Texas /." View online, 2006. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/184/.
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Kingsmill, Patricia. "Implementation of Coeus grant management software at the Desert Research Institute." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2005. http://165.236.235.140/lib/PKingsmill2005.pdf.
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Smith, Kevin P. D. "Measuring the effects of organisational factors on research productivity and creativity in selected Canadian cardiovascular research institutions." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324156.
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Weierbach, Florence M., Mary Kay Goldschmidt, E. Cha, Rebecca Sutter, and C. Sutter. "Merging Education and Practice Program Grants with Community Based Participatory Research." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7382.
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West, Karen E. "The influence of order effect and reviewer experience in the grants peer review process /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9924941.
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Faulk, Lewis Haughton. "Nonprofit and foundation behavior in competitive markets for grants." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/41201.
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This dissertation analyzes competition for foundation grants in the nonprofit sector. First, I examine how inter-organization competition and foundation activity in local grants markets affect organization behavior through institutional pressure on (1) firm fundraising expenses, (2) program expense ratios, and (3) revenue diversification. Second, I explore the impacts of nonprofit program expense ratios and fundraising expenses on foundation grantmaking. This analysis focuses on the relative "prices" of donations to competing nonprofit organizations, represented by these expense ratios, and the impact prices have on foundation grant decisions relative to the impact that nonprofit marketing has. Finally, I examine whether greater competition in grants markets increases the importance of program expense ratios and firm marketing behavior for grant selection. Overall, this dissertation contributes to our understanding of organization behavior and foundation influence in grant-seeking markets and competition's role in the distribution of charitable grants.
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Faulk, Lewis H. "Nonprofit and Foundation Behavior in Competitive Markets for Grants." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/pmap_diss/39.
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This dissertation analyzes competition for foundation grants in the nonprofit sector. First, I examine how inter-organization competition and foundation activity in local grants markets affect organization behavior through institutional pressure on (1) firm fundraising expenses, (2) program expense ratios, and (3) revenue diversification. Second, I explore the impacts of nonprofit program expense ratios and fundraising expenses on foundation grantmaking. This analysis focuses on the relative "prices" of donations to competing nonprofit organizations, represented by these expense ratios, and the impact prices have on foundation grant decisions relative to the impact that nonprofit marketing has. Finally, I examine whether greater competition in grants markets increases the importance of program expense ratios and firm marketing behavior for grant selection. Overall, this dissertation contributes to our understanding of organization behavior and foundation influence in grant-seeking markets and competition's role in the distribution of charitable grants.
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Hurley, D., Ryan Andrew Nivens, Rosemary Geiken, and Renée Rice Moran. "How to Write a Successful RDC Grant for Funding: Lessons from a Panel of Awardees." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/241.
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Chen, Kun-Che. "Extending the solicitation management system: User interface improvement and system administration support." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3398.
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The main purpose of this project is to develop new functionalities for the Solicitation Management System (SMS) to support the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC), California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) and the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT), San Diego State University (SDSU) for the 2008 solicitation, which opened on 28 Jan 2008. SMS is a system built to facilitate the processing of grant proposal solicitations. The SMS was first built in 2004 and was primarily used by the OTTC, CSUSB for its solicitation activities. The new version of the SMS is more user friendly, so that it is easier for users to use and comprehend. The purpose of this software is to aid the processing of a solicitation for organizations that conduct solicitations for grant proposals.
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Fan, Yao-Long. "Re-engineering the solicitation management system." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3179.
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The scope of this project includes a re-engineering of the internal architecture of the Solicitation Management System (SMS), a web-based application that facilitates the running of grant proposal solicitations for the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB). A goal of the project is to increase consistency and efficiency of the code base of the system, making it easier to understand, maintain, and extend. The previous version of SMS was written to rely on the Spring and Hibernate frameworks. The project includes a restructuring of the system to remove reliance on the Spring framework, but maintain reliance on Hibernate. The result is an updated version of the SMS. The system was written using current technologies such as Java, JSP, and CSS.
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Ashley, Shena R. "Overcoming the "Do-Gooder Fallacy" explaining the adoption of effectiveness best practices in Philanthropic Foundations /." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06292007-005748/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Eric Twombly, Committee Member ; Theodore Poister, Committee Member ; David Van Slyke, Committee Member ; Mary Frank Fox, Committee Member ; John C. Thomas, Committee Chair.
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Wang, Chia-Chi. "Online solicitation management system for the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2950.
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The Online Solicitation Management System (OSMS) is a web-based system designed for California State University, San Bernardino's Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC) to run grant proposal solicitations more efficiently. The system accepts grant proposals, finds the best matched evaluators, calculates evaluation scores, and generated reports. Users in the system are divided into five (5) different roles: system administrator, program officer, staff, evaluator and applicant.
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Castanha, Rafael Gutierres. "Acoplamento bibliográfico como proposta metodológica para a mensuração da intensidade das ligações em genealogia acadêmica : a influência teórica de Aldo Barreto na ciência da informação /." Marília, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/180987.
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Orientadora: Maria Cláudia Cabrini GrácioBanca: Ely Francina Tannury de Oliveira
Banca: Lailah Santiago Bufrem
Resumo: Esta pesquisa propõe a utilização do Acoplamento Bibliográfico de Autores como método para a mensuração da intensidade das ligações em análises de Genealogia Acadêmica. Nesse contexto, o estudo analisa a contribuição do Método de Acoplamento Bibliográfico para a avaliação da intensidade da transmissão da corrente teórico-metodológica de um pesquisador entre seus descendentes acadêmicos (egressos orientados em nível de doutorado) e adota como universo de prova de conceito o conjunto de orientações concluídas de Aldo Barreto, pesquisador PQ-Sênior da área de Ciência da Informação, pesquisadores bolsistas de produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq. Os procedimentos metodológicos consistem em: identificar o do conjunto de pesquisadores bolsistas de produtividade em pesquisa da área da Ciência da Informação, com vigência em 2018, que foram orientados em nível de doutorado pelo Pesquisador Sênior Aldo Barreto, em um total de oito pesquisadores; recuperar os currículos Lattes de Aldo Barreto e de todos seus descendentes acadêmicos bolsistas PQ; recuperar o conjunto de artigos publicados de cada descendente e de Aldo Barreto, em um total de 230 artigos analisados; calcular o valor do índice normalizado de Acoplamento Bibliográfico de Autores, por Cosseno de Salton, entre Aldo Barreto e os pesquisadores descendentes analisados; construir a rede de genealogia acadêmica de Aldo Barreto e seus descendentes analisados, com as ligações entre eles proporcionais aos valores normalizados do acoplam... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This research proposes the use of the Author Bibliographic Coupling as a method for the measurement of the intensity of links in of Academic Genealogy. In this context, the study analyzes the contribution of the Bibliographic Coupling Method for the evaluation of the intensity of the transmission of the theoretic-methodological current of a researcher among his academic descendants (graduates oriented at doctoral level) and adopts as a universe of proof of concept the set of orientations completed by Aldo Barreto, PQ-Senior researcher in the area of Information Science, productivity researchers in CNPq. The methodological procedures consist of identifying the set of productivity researchers in the field of Information Science, effective in 2018, who were oriented at the doctoral level by the Senior Researcher Aldo Barreto, in a total of eight researchers; to retrieve Lattes curricula from Aldo Barreto and all his academic descendants PQ researchers; to retrieve the set of published articles of each descendant and of Aldo Barreto, in a total of 230 articles analyzed; to calculate the value of the normalized index of Authors Bibliographic Coupling, by Salton's Cosine, between Aldo Barreto and his descendant researchers; to build Aldo Barreto's academic genealogy network and of his descendants, with the links between them proportional to the normalized values of the bibliographic coupling. The most intense theoretical proximities, explicit in the intensity of normalized bibliogr... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Iannaccone, Maria Cristina <1993>. "L' Archivio amministrativo della British School at Rome (BSR). I Grants in Aid of Research." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12798.
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La BSR è una prestigiosa accademia di ricerca che da più di cento anni ospita studiosi internazionali interessati all’archeologia, all’arte e alla storia del Mediterraneo occidentale. Il suo vasto Archivio, ormai ibrido, accoglie una sezione amministrativa, che documenta le attività della BSR fin dalla fondazione nel 1901. Gli Administrative Records, quindi, comprendono molti fascicoli riguardanti le borse di studio e gli incentivi finanziari assegnati ai ricercatori, che sono da sempre il fulcro dell’attività dell’Accademia. Il presente contributo si focalizza in maniera particolare sui Grants in Aid of Research: contributi economici concessi agli studiosi in necessità di una sovvenzione, dapprima in via eccezionale e poi con una certa regolarità. I destinatari erano principalmente i ricercatori che, esaurita la borsa di studio della BSR, volevano prolungare la permanenza a Roma, per completare la ricerca o approfondirla. Proprio grazie a questi sussidi fu possibile la realizzazione di una grande quantità di progetti archeologici in Italia, pur se le somme destinate non erano ingenti. In questa sede si vogliono soprattutto ricostruire le vicissitudini riguardanti la concessione dei Grants in Aid of Research e fornire un inventario dei fascicoli dei vincitori. Si tratta di uno strumento di informazione e di accesso al fondo che ne permette una più facile fruizione, soprattutto in vista dell’adozione di un software di gestione elettronica.
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Cole, Kimberley W. "Principal Investigator and Department Administrator Perceptions of Services Provided by Offices of Research Administration at Research Universities." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1602.
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The purpose of this research study was to determine what service attributes were perceived as important factors for a successful Office of Research Administration (ORA) to provide to principal investigators and department administrators. Initially established more than 50 years ago, The Office of Research Administration (ORA) has evolved into an integral component for the fiscal sustainability of many institutions of higher education. Existing performance metrics based on financial measures do not sufficiently capture the quality of the level of service demands placed on the ORA by the two internal user groups. The conceptual basis of the Balanced Scorecard modified for the non-profit sector served as the theoretical framework.
The study involved 668 respondents (433 principal investigators and 235 department administrators) from 72 research universities. Principal investigators and department administrators agreed on 18 service items as important performance metrics for successful Offices of Research Administration. However, the two groups did vary somewhat in the degree of importance of these 18 service items. Four services, responding to email and phone messages within 24-48 hours, easy access to forms, and timely setup of the internal award account were identified as priority factors by greater than 90 percent of the principal investigators. In addition to these four items, another six items-trainings for new employees and training updates for existing employees, equal treatment by the ORA, easy access to policies, and promoting a team effort approach to research-were identified as prior factors by greater than 90% of the department administrators. Demographics did not display a significant relationship in the perceptions of either group. Principal investigators did display a higher satisfaction for level of performance for the items of importance, especially related to the priority factors at their current institutions.
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McGinnis, Jasmine A. "Participatory philanthropy: an analysis of community inputs impact on grantee selection." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43645.
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Institutional philanthropy (which includes the spectrum of all formalized grantmaking organizations) remains one of the least understood and researched aspects of giving. There is also limited scholarly attention to the relationship between foundation governance and grantmaking, despite normative claims about 'elite' foundation boards selecting 'elite' nonprofit's. Yet, foundations are increasingly using committees of community volunteers to allocate grants, rather than leaving grant decisions to a traditional board of directors. The goal of community involvement in grantmaking is better grant decisions, due to community members' information advantage and consequently greater knowledge of community needs. However, no one has tested whether community boards are making different decisions than traditional boards, much less whether their decisions are better. Drawing on a sample of 6 funders who use both community and traditional boards, their 616 grantees, and 955 comparable non-grantees I build on the economic model of giving to identify differences and similarities in the characteristics of nonprofit's that receive grants. Although I find much more congruence between grant decisions of community and traditional boards than literature expects I explore this finding through an in depth case study of two foundations who do this type of work. I find, similar to previous work in the public sector that simply involving community members in a grants process does not automatically generate different organizational decisions. Instead, it is only when a public participation program is effectively designed that grant decisions truly reflective community input.
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Smith, Sharon D. "Factors that Motivate Faculty to Pursue External Funding at a 4-Year Public Institution of Higher Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3011.
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The purpose of this quantitative nonexperimental study was to indicate a better understanding of factors that motivate faculty at a 4-year public institution of higher education to pursue external funding. The study is focused on examining the relationship between characteristics of individual faculty members, productivity related to external funding, and faculty perception of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors related to pursuing external funding. External funding is a major source of support for research at institutions of higher education. For universities to increase external funding for research along with increasing research productivity, it is essential that university faculty members are motivated to engage in research and seeking funding to support it (Chval & Nossaman, 2014). In order to provide adequate support universities need a clearer understanding of factors that may contribute to faculty’s motivation to pursue external funding.
This study was conducted at a 4-year public university in the Southeastern region of the United States. One hundred sixty-seven full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty participated in the study using the web-based anonymous Motivating Factors to Pursuing External Funding Faculty Survey developed by the researcher. The quantitative data were analyzed using a series of single sample t-test, independent t-test, and chi-squared test.
This study revealed that the gender and tenure status of full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty at the participating institution does not significantly affect their productivity as it relates to grant submissions or awards. The findings also indicated that the full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty perceive autonomy and self-actualization as significant intrinsic positive motivators and financial rewards as a significant extrinsic positive motivator to pursuing external funding. Additionally, the study found that the full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty did not perceive institutional support services as an extrinsic motivator to pursuing external funding.
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Matias, Inês Mendes. "The role of science and technology management companies in the set-up and coordination of multi-partners scientific alliances." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11652.
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Mestrado em Economia e Gestão de Ciência, Tecnologia e InovaçãoExistem, atualmente, poucos estudos académicos realizados sobre Gestão de C&T, nomeadamente sobre o tipo de entidades cuja atividade empresarial se concentra nesta área. Um exemplo de tais entidades são as empresas de Gestão de C&T que, entre outros, oferecem serviços de consultoria na construção de consórcios e na elaboração e submissão de propostas de financiamento. Neste trabalho propusemo-nos estudar e caracterizar estas empresas com base num painel de 66 empresas que operam na União Europeia. A análise foi realizada com base em doze variáveis estruturais e utilizando um modelo estatístico com base numa análise de clusters. Esta análise permitiu-nos identificar cinco grandes grupos de empresas. O tipo de serviços oferecido mostrou ser a variável que mais influenciou o agrupamento das 66 empresas nos cinco clusters. Cada cluster foi posteriormente caracterizado de acordo com o tamanho das empresas e o tipo de clientes. Não encontramos uma aparente correlação entre o número de serviços oferecidos e o tamanho das equipas das empresas, mas sim entre o tamanho e o tipo de serviços prestados. Encontramos evidências para um maior número de contactos por parte de PMEs do que de Universidades, na requisição de serviços de gestão de C&T. Os resultados obtidos mostram que estas empresas de gestão de C&T são bastante dinâmicas, com qualificações muito especializadas e com um grande foco no cliente e nas suas necessidades. Estes evidenciam um grande potencial de crescimento deste sector, e mostram a importância destas empresas na construção e gestão de consórcios e de propostas de consórcio.
S&T Management is a poorly studied field to what concerns the type of entities operating in such field. One example of such entities are S&T Management companies that provide a variety of services such as assistance in consortia assembly and in proposal submission. The present thesis proposes an objective characterization of such companies based on a panel of 66 companies operating in the European Union. The analysis was made based on twelve structural dimensions, and through a statistical model based in a clusters analysis for allowing the identification of 5 major groups of companies. Cluster patterns have been largely influenced by the type of service offered. Each cluster has been further characterized according to the size of the companies and type of clients. There is no apparent correlation between the number of offered services and the size of the team but, instead, with the type of services provided. There is, however, a slightly tendency for SMEs to request more often these companies' services than universities which lead us to conclude that consortia are usually led by SMEs rather than by academic groups. The results obtained show that these are dynamic companies, with very specific skills and a strong focus on the client's needs. The research identifies a great potential for the sector to grow, and highlights the importance of such entities in the assembly of multi-partner alliances but also the need for further studies.
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Blanton, William H. "A Regression Model of the Interactions Between Higher Education and High-tech Industries in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1992. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2882.
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This study examined the interactions--(1) research grants and contracts, (2) faculty consultation, (3) employee training, (4) student internships and co-ops, (5) universities sharing firm facilities, and (6) firms sharing university facilities--between higher education and high-tech industries in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia using multiple regression modeling. The purpose of the study was the development of a vision of what the future could be and the strategies to successfully overcome the threats and enrich the opportunities that exist between higher education and high-tech industries. Data were collected from the engineering and engineering technology faculty at Tennessee Technological University, East Tennessee State University, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and selected high-tech firms in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. The analytical process included four phases: (1) data collection and preparation, (2) reduction of independent variables, (3) model refinement, and (4) model validation. The analysis suggested that large universities with well-defined organizational channels seemed to have an advantage in obtaining research grants and contracts from large firms that were strongly involved in research and development. Likewise, faculty members seemed to use the facilities of large high-tech firms that were near to the university. More importantly, the study emphasized the mutual benefits that universities and industries could share through university-industry interactions if each could overcome formidable barriers that have been established through tradition, culture, and bureaucratic processes.
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Haarmann, Dirk. "From state maintenance grants 'to a new child support system: Building a policy for poverty alleviation with special reference to the financial, social, and developmental impacts." University of the Western Cape, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8410.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDState social security transfers for families existed in South Africa only in the form of state maintenance grants, which paid up to R700 to single parents. The system was not appropriate in the South African context, being racially biased and financially unsustainable. The Department of Welfare - following in principle the recommendations of the "Lund report" - introduced with effect from 1 April 1998 a child support grant which is payable to the primary care-givers of children, regardless of their family status. The level of benefit was set at RIOOper month per child for children up to the age of six (incl.). The Department declared that 48% or 3 million children should be targeted. At the same time, the SMGs are to be phased out over a three year period. This research was conducted between November 1995 and March 1998. The analysis of the different suggestions during the policy process and the final policy is based on two pillars: • A situation analysis of the living conditions of South Africa's children on the basis of a composite index. • An evaluation of policy scenarios on the basis of a microsimulation model. The index tries to give a complex picture of the living conditions of children by looking at the financial situation, housing, health, and employment opportunities of the households the children are living in. The analysis reveals that nearly 70% of South Africa's children up to the age of six (incl.) live below the poverty line as defined. A further analysis of the household structure indicates that poorer children are likely to live in larger households. The overall policy shift from a support of single parent families to children in poverty regardless of their family status is espoused. However, the microsimulation model which analyses the impact of different factors like the 'level of benefit', the 'age-cohort', the 'means-test', and the 'administrative requirements', reveals that there are still serious flaws in the current policy. Due to the fact that the means-test is based on the total household income, nearly 40% of the children living below the poverty line are excluded. In addition, the administration needs urgent attention as its capacity is the decisive factor in the success of the programme. The thesis calculates that in the next five years up to R2 billion less will be spent on poor children and the goal of reaching 3 million children will not be achieved, if the problems identified are not addressed. The thesis develops an alternative suggestion to the current policy. While microsimulation has become quite a standard procedure in the analysis of social policies in industrialised countries, there is so far no application in developing countries. It is hoped that by taking this policy analysis as a case-study, this thesis is a step towards the introduction of this method here. Microsimulation models provide important information to enhance the transparency and accountability of policy processes. In this case, civil society was able to challenge Government's decision on a very informed basis, to put pressure on decision makers successfully, and to make workable alternative suggestions. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that against Government's promise redistribution does not take place. Instead a shift towards a more neo-liberal approach in social policy is observed.
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Strickland, Clyde William. "Grant Proposal Writing: A Case Study of an International Postdoctoral Researcher." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1691.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.Title from screen (viewed on June 3, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Ulla Connor, William V. Rozycki, Thomas A. Upton. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-99).
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Mow, Karen Estelle, and n/a. "Research Grant Funding and Peer Review in Australian Research Councils." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 2009. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20091214.152554.
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This thesis considers the effects of research funding process design in the
Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical
Research Council (NHMRC). The program delivery mechanisms that the
ARC and NHMRC use differ in detail and each council claims to be using
the best selection model possible. Neither council provides evidence that
peer review is the best possible way of delivering government funding for
research and neither can produce empirical evidence that they use the
best possible peer review model to determine excellence.
Data used in this thesis were gathered over several years, forming a
comparative case study of the Australian Research Council and the
National Health and Medical Research Council, with illustrative data from
comparable international organizations in the UK and USA. The data
collection included: a survey of applicants, semi-structured interviews
with experienced panel members and former staff, observation of selection
meetings, and examination of publications by and about the research
councils.
Researchers firmly believe in peer review and their confidence enables the
system to function. However, the mechanisms of grant selection are not
well understood and not well supported by applicants, who criticize the
processes used to assess their work, while supporting the concept of peer
selection.
The notion of excellence is problematic; judgements of excellence are made
within frameworks set by the research councils and vary across
disciplines. Allocation of research funding depends on peer review
assessment to determine quality, but there is no single peer review
mechanism, rather, there exist a variety of processes.
Process constraints are examined from the perspectives of panel members,
peer reviewers, council staff and applicants. Views from outside and inside
the black box of selection reveal the impacts of process design on
judgements of excellence and decision-making capacity. Peer reviewers in
selection panels are found to use a range of differentiating strategies to
separate applications, with variance evident across disciplines and
research councils. One dominant criterion emerges in both the ARC and
NHMRC processes, track record of the applicants.
Program delivery mechanisms enable and constrain selection but every
peer panel member has to make selection decisions by defining discipline
standards and negotiating understandings within the panel. The extent to
which peers can do this depends on the number of applications assigned
to them, the size of the applicant field, and the processes they have to
follow. Fine details of process design, panel rules and interactions are the
tools that shape funding outcomes.
Research councils believe they are selecting the best, most meritorious
proposed research. However, I show in this thesis that the dominant
discriminator between applicants in Australian selection processes is
track record of the applicant. This effect is the result of several factors
operating singly or in concert. Researcher track record, largely determined
by quality and number of journal publications, is considered to be the
responsibility of universities but support for this capacity building has not
been systematically provided in Australian universities.
Reliance on track record to determine the outcomes of all but the very best
applications is very like awarding prizes for past work and is significantly
different from the models of grant selection that operate in comparable
international research councils.
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Gibson-Alonso, Tamara Ianthe. "Processes of Developing Effective Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in Education: A Content Analysis of Grant Related Documents." UNF Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/867.
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Research indicates that understanding the influence of leadership and partnership development can inform the need to improve public education (Penuel & Gallagher, 2017). Although leadership theory and change theory support the need for partnerships in education, less attention has been given to how such partnerships develop and the role that leadership plays in that process. Therefore, the present study explored the role of leadership within researcher-practitioner partnerships and the process of developing sustainable partnerships in education as documented in a set of federal grant proposals, their final reports, and other descriptions of their efforts. Grant documents examined were awarded from the 2013 funding announcement of the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships (RPP) in Education Research program.
In-depth qualitative document analysis provided a means to unobtrusively examine and interpret comprehensive, historical data (Corbin & Strauss, 2008; Patton, 2002). Directed content analysis (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005; Kaid & Johnston-Wadsworth, 1989) of the documents directed the process of data collection. This process used key concepts from the literature on transformational leadership, shared leadership, and leadership for change as the initial framework for data collection. Data analysis employed Eisner’s (1998) process of educational criticism using description, interpretation, evaluation, and thematics. Hatch’s (2002) process of typological analysis led to four typologies to organize the data for description and interpretation: capacity building; strategies for partnership development; approaches to communication; and the role of reflection in partnership development. The evaluation dimension of educational criticism indicated that partnerships employed shared leadership with evidence of internal and external support and a cultivation of shared commitment.
Themes indicated that partnerships focused on both rigorous research and reflective practice, leaders engaged partners in establishing the infrastructure and strategic plans of the partnership, and partnerships galvanized support to address complex social issues beyond their formal organizational structure. Recommendations for future research include the need: (a) to explore the dynamics of communication in partnership work; (b) to clarify and facilitate the process of change in grant and project development; and (c) to develop of a process for sustainability beyond a specific grant or project. Recommendations for practice include the need: (a) to explore the cultivation of relationships in support of partnership development; (b) to identify clearly the primary issue to be addressed in the work of the partnership, and (c) to clarify mutual outcomes. Conclusions from the present study indicate the importance of a focus on the deliberate development of the researcher-practitioner partnerships themselves, the importance of concrete strategies for sharing leadership, and the importance of the development of professional relationships that support sustainability in partnership development.
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Leal, Érika de Andrade Silva. "Avaliação dos efeitos e dos impactos do programa de apoio à pesquisa em empresas -PAPPE- subvenção econômica à inovação." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/182383.
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A participação dos governos no financiamento de programas voltados para estimular as inovações tem sido crescente nos últimos anos. Nesse contexto, as instituições de fomento aos programas de Pesquisa, Desenvolvimento e Inovação (P,D&I) demandam processos de avaliação dos efeitos e dos impactos dos programas financiados pelo setor público, sobretudo dos projetos oriundos do financiamento não-reembolsáveis das atividades de inovação diretamente às empresas, isto é, a subvenção econômica (SE) à inovação, que são relativamente recentes no Brasil. Assim, objetivo geral desta Tese é construir um modelo para avaliação dos efeitos e dos impactos de programas públicos de Pesquisa, (P,D&I), considerando as dimensões do desenvolvimento sustentável e especificidades locais. Para tanto, esta Tese está estruturada em 05 artigos, além da Introdução e Considerações Finais. No ARTIGO 1, foi elaborada uma proposta de indicadores para avaliar impactos da inovação no Espírito Santo (ES) e regiões semelhantes. No ARTIGO 2, identificou-se a oportunidade de avaliar os projetos oriundos da SE. No ARTIGO 3, elaborou-se uma revisão bibliométrica e análise de conteúdo sobre a SE no Brasil. No ARTIGO 4, foram apresentadas as etapas de construção do instrumento de avaliação de efeitos e impactos e, por fim, no ARTIGO 5, avaliou-se 53 projetos concluídos nos estados do ES, Santa Catarina (SC) e Paraná (PR). Construiu-se um modelo para estimar o efeito de cada dimensão para atingir os resultados propostos do programa. A principal contribuição desta Tese, é a proposta de construção de um modelo de avaliação de efeitos e impactos que permitiu mostrar que os projetos, oriundos da SE, ampliaram a competitividade das empresas a nível nacional e as inovações realizadas explicam o aumento percentual médio anual de 32,02% do faturamento das empresas. Outros efeitos e impactos relevantes também foram identificados como significativos para as empresas apoiadas considerando as dimensões tecnológica, cultura de inovação e relacionamento; no entanto, nas dimensões sociais e ambientais os impactos para a sociedade não foram significativos. Uma implicação desta Tese é a recomendação aos gestores públicos para que desenhem e operacionalizem a SE à inovação considerando as dimensões sociais e ambientais uma vez que não houve evidências de impactos significativos para este escopo do programa.The participation of governments in funding programs designed to stimulate innovation has been increasing in recent years. In this context, research, development and innovation (R&D&I) institutions require processes to evaluate the effects and impacts of public sector funded programs, especially those from non-reimbursable financing of innovation activities directly to the companies, that is, the grants innovation (SE), which are relatively recent in Brazil. Thus, the general objective of this thesis is to construct a model to evaluate the effects and impacts of public research programs, (R&D&I), considering the dimensions of sustainable development and local specificities. Therefore, this thesis is structured in 05 articles, besides the Introduction and Final Considerations. In ARTICLE 1, a proposal was made for indicators to evaluate the impact of innovation in Espírito Santo State (ES) and similar regions. In ARTICLE 2, the opportunity to evaluate projects from the SE was identified. In ARTICLE 3, a bibliometric review and content analysis on SE in Brazil was elaborated. In ARTICLE 4, the stages of construction of the instrument for the evaluation of effects and impacts were presented, and finally, in ARTICLE 5, 53 projects completed in the Santa Catarina State (SC) and Paraná State (PR) were evaluated. A model was constructed to estimate the effect of each dimension to achieve the proposed project results. The main contribution of this Thesis is the proposal for the construction of a model for the evaluation of effects and impacts, which showed that the projects, from the SE, increased the competitiveness of the companies at national level and the innovations carried out explain the 32,02% business income. Other relevant benefits were also identified as significant for the companies supported considering the technological dimensions, innovation culture and relationship; however, in the social and environmental dimensions the impacts to society were not significant. One implication of this thesis is the recommendation to public managers to design and operationalize SE to innovation considering the social and environmental dimensions since there was no evidence of significant impacts for this program scope.
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Kline, James Jeffrey. "Star Academics: Do They Garner Increasing Returns?" PDXScholar, 2016. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2713.
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This study examines the criteria which help academics receive National Institute of Health funds (NIH). The study covers 3,092 NIH recipients and non-recipients in the same department or institute at twenty-four universities. The universities are drawn from those below the top twenty in terms of receipt of NIH funds. With regards to performance, non- recipients have lower performance than recipients. A key determinant of the receipt of NIH funds is individual performance, as measured by the number of articles published and average citations per article in the two years immediately prior to the grant application. Professors receive more NIH money than do associates and assistant professors. Other positive contributors are the field of study, whether the academic has both a PhD. and Medical degree, and has licensed an innovation, been involved in the start of a new business and patented an invention through the university. To the extent that individual performance criteria represent the quality of the research proposal, allocation of NIH funds is based on merit.
A Tobit model indicates that being highly cited does not guarantee increasing returns. Likewise, career citations have only a small statistically significant impact. In addition, a negative coefficient associated with the second derivatives of both articles published in 2006-07 and their associated citations indicate diminishing marginal returns.
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Bierner, Mark. "Arboretum to Receive Research Grant." University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555921.
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Van, der Merwe Marietjie. "Development of a conceptual framework for the capacity enhancement of development workers in Botswana." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1472.
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Thesis (PhD (Curriculum Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Although Botswana is considered by some indices as an economically successful country, poverty is experienced by 30% of the population. This is considered a very high poverty rate especially when it is compared to other countries on a similar level of economic development. Several policies have been put in place by the Botswana government to relieve the consequences of poverty. One of these policies, the destitute policy, targeted those individuals who are disabled and/or unable to engage in sustainable economic activities, causing such individuals to have insufficient assets and income sources. It was found by the Botswana government that the implementation of the destitute policy aggravates dependency of the destitute on government support. As a result, development workers were expected to lead registered destitute to independence through the implementation of a destitute rehabilitation programme. However, literature suggested that approaches that are used by development workers to enable individuals to engage in sustainable economic activities are often detrimental to the very empowerment purposes that such workers set out to achieve. The objective of this research was therefore to develop a conceptual framework for capacity enhancement of development workers in Botswana. This objective was addressed through applying action research in order to gain in-depth understanding of the perspectives, practices and experiences of the key role players involved in destitute rehabilitation. This was done in one urban district, one semi-urban district and one rural district council in Botswana. This research took place in four phases, all of which were informed by the action research approach. The first phase comprised four cycles of action research. Each cycle encouraged reflection and observation on destitute rehabilitation practices and planning towards improved practices, followed by implementation. It became evident to the researcher that only singleloop learning was practiced by the development workers. Therefore, instead of gaining deeper insight into aspects that influence destitute rehabilitation, the same problems related to destitute rehabilitation practices were repeated by development workers. Reflection on this process created understanding by the researcher on why the expected results were not achieved. Based on this reflection, a literature review was carried out in iv Phase II to develop the final theoretical and methodological frameworks for this research. Phase III consisted of focus group discussions to understand the perspectives, practices and experiences of the different role players in destitute rehabilitation. The data produced in Phase III enabled understanding of how development workers’ capacity was influenced by the system within which they are operating. The results of this research showed that development workers saw themselves in the same state of powerlessness as the destitute and as not being able to influence the system within which they are operating. Phase IV comprised the application of the coding principles of grounded theory to make sense of data related to Phases I and III, followed by the application of critical systems heuristics to make further sense of the data. Based on the understanding that emerged through the application of CSH, a conceptual framework was developed for the capacity enhancement of development workers in Botswana. It became evident in this research that the challenge for the government of Botswana is to not only reduce the number of registered destitute, but to redesign the system within which destitute rehabilitation takes place, by using the conceptual framework developed in this research. The purpose of the conceptual framework is to enable policy-makers and development workers to scrutinise the whole system within which destitute rehabilitation is implemented by engaging the key role players in dialogue on adjustments that need to be made to the system to enhance development workers’ capacity in destitute rehabilitation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Alhoewel Botswana, gemeet aan sekere maatstawe, as ’n ekonomies suksesvolle land beskou word, leef 30% van die bevolking tans in armoede. Dit kan as ’n buitensporig hoë graad van armoede beskou word, veral as dit vergelyk word met lande met ’n soortgelyke vlak van ekonomiese ontwikkeling. Verskeie beleide is deur die Botswana-regering in werking gestel om die gevolge van armoede te bekamp. Een van die beleide, die sogenaamde beleid vir behoeftige persone, is spesifiek gerig op individue met ’n tekort aan bates of inkomstebronne veroorsaak deur gestremdheid en/of ’n onvermoë om aan volhoubare ekonomiese aktiwiteite deel te neem. Die Botswana-regering het egter bevind dat die implementering van hierdie beleid behoeftiges se afhanklikheid van regeringshulp vererger. As gevolg hiervan word daar van ontwikkelingswerkers verwag om geregistreerde behoeftiges na onafhanklikheid te lei deur die implementering van ’n program vir die rehabilitasie van behoeftiges. Die bevindings uit beskikbare literatuur dui egter daarop dat die metodes wat deur ontwikkelingswerkers gebruik word om behoeftiges in staat te stel om aan volhoubare ekonomiese aktiwiteite deel te neem dikwels ’n negatiewe uitwerking ten opsigte van die beoogde bemagtigingsoogmerke het. Die doel van hierdie navorsing was dus die ontwikkeling van ’n konsepraamwerk vir kapasiteitbou vir ontwikkelingswerkers in Botswana. Die mikpunt is benader deur aksienavorsing toe te pas om ’n grondige begrip te verkry van die perspektiewe, praktyke en ondervindings van al die rolspelers betrokke by die rehabilitasie van behoeftiges. Die navorsing het volgens die aksienavorsingsbenadering in vier fases in een stedelike, een newe-stedelike en een landelike distriksraad in Botswana plaasgevind. Die eerste fase het vier siklusse van aksienavorsing behels. Elke siklus het reflektering en observasie met betrekking tot ontwikkelingswerkers se bestaande rehabilitasiepraktyke aangemoedig. Dit is gevolg deur beplanning vir verbeterde praktyke en implementering van die beplande aksie. Dit het vir die navorser duidelik geword dat slegs enkellus-leer deur ontwikkelingswerkers toegepas is. In stede daarvan om ’n dieper insig in die aspekte wat die rehabilitasie van behoeftiges beïnvloed te verkry, is dieselfde problematiese praktyke met die rehabilitasie van behoeftiges telkens deur die ontwikkelingswerkers herhaal. Nabetragting oor die proses het die navorser die redes laat verstaan hoekom die verwagte resultate nie behaal is nie. Gebaseer op hierdie nabetragting is ’n literatuurstudie tydens Fase II uitgevoer om die finale teoretiese raamwerk en metodologie raamwerk vir die navorsing te ontwikkel. Fase III het fokusgroep-besprekings ingesluit om die perspektiewe, praktyke en ondervindings van die verskillende rolspelers tydens die rehabilitasie van behoeftiges beter te verstaan. Die gegewens verkry gedurende Fase III het die navorser insig gegee in die wyse waarop ontwikkelingswerkers se kapasiteit beïnvloed word deur die stelsel waarbinne hulle werk. Die resultate van hierdie navorsing het getoon dat ontwikkelingswerkers hulself beskou as in dieselfde toestand van magteloosheid as die behoeftiges, en dat dit vir hulle onmoontlik is om die stelsel waarbinne hulle werksaam is te beïnvloed. Fase IV het begin met die toepassing van koderingsbeginsels van gegronde teorie ter opklaring van gegewens verkry tydens Fases I en III, gevolg deur die toepassing van kritieke stelsel-heuristiek, ’n stelsel-denke-benadering, om die gegewens van Fase I en III te integreer. Die insig wat verkry is deur die toepassing van kritieke stelsel heuristiek het bygedra tot die ontwikkeling van die konsepraamwerk vir die kapasiteitsbou van ontwikkelingswerkers in Botswana. Dit het uit hierdie navorsing geblyk dat die uitdaging vir die Botswana-regering nie net is om die aantal geregistreerde behoeftiges te verminder nie, maar om ook die huidige stelsel waaronder die rehabilitasie van behoeftiges plaasvind, te herontwikkel deur die konsepraamwerk wat in hierdie navorsing ontwerp is, te implementeer. Die doel van die konsepraamwerk is om beleidmakers en ontwikkelingswerkers in staat te stel om die rehabilitasiestelsel van behoeftiges te bestudeer deur al die rolspelers in dialoog te betrek sodat veranderinge aan die stelsel gemaak kan word vir kapasiteitsbou van die ontwikkelingswerkers.
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Kennedy, Amber L. "Pedagogical considerations for a culturally responsive reading program for Indigenous students: Reflections from a critical participatory action research study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/225973/1/Amber_Kennedy_Thesis.pdf.
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Active student engagement in reading is a major concern of many state, national and international governments. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students on average are well behind Australian standards, due to many factors, including a lack of early reading success. This study investigated what constitutes a culturally responsive reading program for Indigenous children from a critical participatory action research perspective. Culturally responsive pedagogical practices, together with the support of a critical friend with knowledge of local language and culture, contributed to student reading gains (between one and four reading levels in the 5-week data collection period).
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Stiles, Lori. "UA Entomologist Wins Grant to Develop Malaria-Resistant Mosquito." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622080.
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Chan, So-Ming Clio. "Why aided schools have not joined DSS : a qualitative research /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14042782.
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Jones, Evelyn. "Transitional housing for minorities in the Inglewood community| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10024095.
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The purpose of this project was to write a grant proposal to fund a transitional housing program for disenfranchised minority youth between the ages of 16-24 who are students at Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) in Inglewood, California. This program will provide underprivileged youth with an opportunity to have a basic life need met, while developing autonomous abilities that will serve as a core foundation to help youth who are identified as marginal at best to reach self-actualization, thus breaking the generational cycle of depravity and immobilization. The transitional housing program's foundational core is centered on the Ecological Perspective, which takes into account not only the individual, but also the environment from which the individual came as a basis to better understand how to best meet the needs of those from various walks of life. The submission and/or funding of this grant was not a requirement for the successful completion of this project.
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Chan, So-Ming Clio, and 陳素明. "Why aided schools have not joined DSS: a qualitative research." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31957699.
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Senate, University of Arizona Faculty. "Faculty Senate Minutes March 3, 2014." University of Arizona Faculty Senate (Tucson, AZ), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/315505.
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Chikwamba, R. K. (Rachel Kerina). "The role of the discretionary grant in the dynamics of capability creation and exploitation in a public research organization : a case study of the CSIR." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29474.
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Public research institutions (PRIs) are tasked with generating new knowledge, as well as adding value to existing knowledge in order to come up with innovations that can contribute to national competitiveness. To this end, government provides discretionary or parliamentary grants to allow the public research institutions to execute their mandates by carrying out exploratory activities and exploitative activities in research and development.The study aimed to establish the role of the parliamentary grant in supporting the research and development endeavours of a public research institute, with a particular focus on the management of exploration and exploitation tensions in investing the parliamentary grant. The sustainability of the PRI was sus assessed using operating profits as a proxy. The relationships between levels of investment in exploratory and exploitative actives were assessed, as was the role of the innovation system in influencing the sustainability of the PRI. We use the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) the largest scientific research entity in South Africa, and its operational units as a case study.Consistent with information that is available in the literature, the data from this study shows that the discretionary grant plays a critical role as a funding stream for public research institutes, contributing to the effective execution of research and development activities of the entity. The discretionary grant is key in seeding new national competencies, and is a key initial investment in enabling the PRI to establish itself, generate outputs and outcomes that herald its competencies and thus position itself to earn other forms of income.The discretionary grant is invested for exploratory and exploitive activities. Exploratory activities generate new knowledge, which is necessary for competitiveness. Exploitative activities utilise existing knowledge to provide innovations that find utility in industries and the public sector. The manner in which the investment is split between exploration and exploitation was shown to be critical to the long term sustainability of the enterprise. Skewing investment in either exploration or exploitation alone is detrimental to sustainability.The optimal split of the discretionary grant between exploration and exploitation was found to be dependent on several factors, to include, the technology bases of the industries in which the entity operates and the connectivity and paths of knowledge flow in the innovation systems nationally and globally.Inability to earn other forms of income is in itself a threat to the long term sustainability, particularly in fiscally constrained environments that are typical of emerging economies. The ability to earn external income provides options for investment of the PG in building its capability base. Notable here is the fact that the absorptive capacity of the industry sector in the first place, the innovation system in which the entity operates and the connectedness of the entity within the system appear to have important influences on ability to earn other forms of income. In such cases, strategic decisions have to be made on whether the sector remains strategic enough for the country in deciding on continued investment.While the information derived from this study is very specific to the CSIR, a combination of the data and information in the literature provides insights that are applicable to other public research institutes, particularly in developing economies.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Venable, Jessica C. "Toward Epistemological Diversity in STEM-H Grantmaking: Grantors’ and Grantees’ Perspectives on Funding Indigenous Research, Programming, and Evaluation." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4308.
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Mainstream institutions have, historically, dismissed Indigenous worldviews, knowledges, and research approaches (Bowman-Farrell, 2015; Harrington & Pavel, 2013). However, in recent years, a literature has emerged articulating Indigenous research methodologies (IRMs), and their distinctiveness from Western, Eurocentric perspectives on inquiry (Denzin, Lincoln, & Smith, 2008; Kovach, 2009; Smith, 1999 & 2012; Wilson, 2008). This has coincided with increased need for IRM scholars and practitioners to secure extramural funds to support their activities. But questions remain as to how the U.S. federal grant making enterprise has accommodated Indigenous frameworks. This research explores synergies in the ways that grantees, grant makers, and other related stakeholders understand and navigate the federal funding enterprise in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health (STEM-H) fields; and the impact of how, and to what extent, this space is successfully navigated. To align with Indigenous worldviews, I use triple theoretical lenses of Tribal Critical Race Theory (Brayboy, 2005), Storytelling, and Interstitial Spaces (Cram & Philips, 2011), and an indigenized case study design. Eleven participants from Tribal Colleges and Universities and tribal communities, federal funding agencies, and consulting firms participated in unstructured interviews to tell their views about Indigenous approaches in the federal funding environment. Coupled with document review, the analysis showed that perceptions of risk, evidence, and expertise were sources of tension, although there were also areas of real and lasting success. I suggest that despite policies to diversify STEM-H grant making, Indigenous perspectives have largely been excluded from these discourses. This may have the effect of compromising the integrity of the validity construct as used in the dominant research methodology literature. I offer a model, called Fifth Paradigm Grantsmanship, as one means to usher transformative change in grant making.
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Lawrence, David Norman, and n/a. "Learning as Participation in Grains Research, Development and Extension in Australia." Griffith University. School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education, 2006. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070118.111610.
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This thesis is grounded in the introduction of participatory research, development and extension (RDE) to Australian agriculture. The emphasis on participatory processes emerged as the Transfer-of-Technology (ToT) model is no longer considered adequate to deal with complex farming systems and their diverse stakeholders (Packham 2003). However, RDE agencies are introducing participatory processes with a limited understanding of how they may work in Australia's developed agriculture sector (Vanclay 1994). Consequently, the initiation of three participatory Farming Systems RDE projects in Australia's northern grains region provides opportunity to explore and understand participatory approaches and their impact on participants. Three related themes are developed by exploring the nature of participants' diversity across these projects, the characteristics of participation in each project and the subsequent learning of participants: (i) that increased participation implicitly increases diversity in the conduct of RDE; (ii) that participatory RDE provides opportunities to integrate stakeholders' diverse experience and knowledge; and (iii) that participants' learning can improve current farming systems. Participatory action research was used to understand how participatory RDE should be enacted, and to involve project participants to help them also understand and improve their project processes and goals. The research utilised a range of qualitative and quantitative procedures including: participant and nonparticipant observation at project meetings and activities with farmers; focus groups and semi-structured interviews with project teams, their managers, and participating farmers; a team learning survey of team members; and custom-made questionnaires to quantify participants' perceptions of the projects, their processes, and impacts on learning and behaviour. These interventions identified participants' demographic, organisational and informational diversity. They also identified and elaborated their diverse aims, expectations and passions for participatory RDE, revealed individuals' preferred RDE methodologies and suggested their underlying worldviews. Indeed, ToT paradigms and positivist worldviews remained entrenched in most project staff and their managers. The teams consequently used participation to help farmers better understand technical issues, not build interdependent projects with integrated RDE processes. Farmers generally appreciated their increased participation and influence in RDE activities. While their initial consultative and functional participation did not extend to process decisions or project strategy, farmers valued the opportunity to work with the projects and influence the issues addressed. The projects consequently improved farming practices and management of issues that have long-eluded traditional RDE. For example, the widespread use of: (i) zero tillage and controlled traffic systems to control soil erosion; (ii) nitrogen fertilisers to match crop requirements; (iii) ley pastures to address soil fertility in grain and grazing systems; and (iv) new crops to diversifying grain systems away from monocultures. The projects provided farmers with opportunities for increased participation and learning over time. Functional participation developed in on-farm research that addressed issues identified with farmers, and action learning workshops provided proximal opportunities for farmers to understand existing information and use their own farm data in real decisions. In this way, the behaviourist learning of the ToT approach was supplemented by guided learning to integrate new meaning schemes with farmers' experiential knowledge. Some on-farm research and action learning activities extended to reflecting on their processes, and involved farmers in deciding the most appropriate RDE methodology and methods for subsequent activities. This opportunity to reflect on the values and assumptions of different approaches was critical in developing interactive participation and higher level learning for participants. Nevertheless, the initial participation in each project team failed to meet some team members' expectations. The expected task and process conflicts emerged, but small activity groups with shared values and RDE paradigms developed within each team. Team members' process conflict about the 'best' RDE methodologies for specific issues then developed into worldview conflicts about the relevance and rigour of these methodologies. Some smaller groups subsequently worked independently, with damaging relationship conflict developing from unresolved process issues between some individuals. Team members communicated, but their participation remained largely passive and consultative. Factors that shaped participation were identified, and a framework to support opportunities for stakeholders to plan, manage and evaluate RDE was developed. These helped increase participation in the projects. Participation within the projects' constituent activities subsequently fluxed from isolation to interactive participation. Individuals within activities now expected, and usually had, equality in content decisions (i.e. functional participation), which often extended to process decisions (i.e. interactive participation). Yet, the levels of participation between members of different activities varied across the projects. One project remained a series of parallel and relatively independent activities with passive and consultative participation. A second project had functional and interactive participation imposed for some activities, but otherwise used passive and consultative participation. The third project developed to provide functional and interactive participation in major project decisions. It then became apparent that the learning outcomes of each project varied. Individuals continued to learn from their participation in the projects, but the contributions of diverse sources and participation were major shapers of this learning. Participation within the less diverse activity groups produced mainly technical learning through participants' existing meaning schemes. Again, the level of participation between activities with diverse values, RDE paradigms, and worldviews, shaped the nature of learning. Passive and consultative participation produced mostly technical learning through existing meaning schemes. Yet, teams that embraced their diversity, and reflected on the assumptions of their different RDE methodologies, transformed their approach to learning. With high levels of diversity, the level of participation determined the level of learning. Essentially, participation became learning. This thesis confirms the potential of participatory RDE to improve farming practices. Consultation to identify priority issues, and functional participation to develop proximal opportunities for farmers to understand these issues and make their own decisions had a major impact on farming practices. Yet, participatory processes must rise above the prevailing ToT paradigms of RDE agencies to integrate participants' knowledge, and so achieve sustainable development in Australia. Three main process contributions are made to support this development. Firstly, the evaluation framework provides a challenge and structure to encourage the contributions of all participants at each stage of project activities. It provides a checklist for effective participation in Farming Systems RDE. Secondly, a typology of participation in Farming Systems RDE extends that proposed by Pretty (1995). It provides a catalyst and means to better understand and identify the most appropriate levels of participation in RDE projects. The associated checklist for assessing modes of participation allows monitoring of the participation developed in practice. Finally, the re-conceptualisation of a broader continuum of participation in Farming Systems RDE for developed agriculture is proposed. The subsequent development of the Doing successful on-farm research process is a culmination of the understandings developed in this thesis. It facilitates the development of interactive participation within the on-farm research process that is central to these projects. Recognising the technical focus of most current RDE agency staff, it guides their development of participatory on-farm research processes before reflecting on the appropriateness of different research methods to their research issues. The findings here cannot ensure the development of Australia's RDE beyond the ToT paradigm. However, this thesis provides important insights into the nature of diversity, participation, and learning in the Farming Systems projects, and a series of tools to support this development. Conceptually, it proposes that different kinds of participation will be shaped by participants' diversity from their prior experiences and their expectations that are in turn transformed through evidence of improved practice.
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Lawrence, David Norman. "Learning as Participation in Grains Research, Development and Extension in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366360.
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This thesis is grounded in the introduction of participatory research, development and extension (RDE) to Australian agriculture. The emphasis on participatory processes emerged as the Transfer-of-Technology (ToT) model is no longer considered adequate to deal with complex farming systems and their diverse stakeholders (Packham 2003). However, RDE agencies are introducing participatory processes with a limited understanding of how they may work in Australia's developed agriculture sector (Vanclay 1994). Consequently, the initiation of three participatory Farming Systems RDE projects in Australia's northern grains region provides opportunity to explore and understand participatory approaches and their impact on participants. Three related themes are developed by exploring the nature of participants' diversity across these projects, the characteristics of participation in each project and the subsequent learning of participants: (i) that increased participation implicitly increases diversity in the conduct of RDE; (ii) that participatory RDE provides opportunities to integrate stakeholders' diverse experience and knowledge; and (iii) that participants' learning can improve current farming systems. Participatory action research was used to understand how participatory RDE should be enacted, and to involve project participants to help them also understand and improve their project processes and goals. The research utilised a range of qualitative and quantitative procedures including: participant and nonparticipant observation at project meetings and activities with farmers; focus groups and semi-structured interviews with project teams, their managers, and participating farmers; a team learning survey of team members; and custom-made questionnaires to quantify participants' perceptions of the projects, their processes, and impacts on learning and behaviour. These interventions identified participants' demographic, organisational and informational diversity. They also identified and elaborated their diverse aims, expectations and passions for participatory RDE, revealed individuals' preferred RDE methodologies and suggested their underlying worldviews. Indeed, ToT paradigms and positivist worldviews remained entrenched in most project staff and their managers. The teams consequently used participation to help farmers better understand technical issues, not build interdependent projects with integrated RDE processes. Farmers generally appreciated their increased participation and influence in RDE activities. While their initial consultative and functional participation did not extend to process decisions or project strategy, farmers valued the opportunity to work with the projects and influence the issues addressed. The projects consequently improved farming practices and management of issues that have long-eluded traditional RDE. For example, the widespread use of: (i) zero tillage and controlled traffic systems to control soil erosion; (ii) nitrogen fertilisers to match crop requirements; (iii) ley pastures to address soil fertility in grain and grazing systems; and (iv) new crops to diversifying grain systems away from monocultures. The projects provided farmers with opportunities for increased participation and learning over time. Functional participation developed in on-farm research that addressed issues identified with farmers, and action learning workshops provided proximal opportunities for farmers to understand existing information and use their own farm data in real decisions. In this way, the behaviourist learning of the ToT approach was supplemented by guided learning to integrate new meaning schemes with farmers' experiential knowledge. Some on-farm research and action learning activities extended to reflecting on their processes, and involved farmers in deciding the most appropriate RDE methodology and methods for subsequent activities. This opportunity to reflect on the values and assumptions of different approaches was critical in developing interactive participation and higher level learning for participants. Nevertheless, the initial participation in each project team failed to meet some team members' expectations. The expected task and process conflicts emerged, but small activity groups with shared values and RDE paradigms developed within each team. Team members' process conflict about the 'best' RDE methodologies for specific issues then developed into worldview conflicts about the relevance and rigour of these methodologies. Some smaller groups subsequently worked independently, with damaging relationship conflict developing from unresolved process issues between some individuals. Team members communicated, but their participation remained largely passive and consultative. Factors that shaped participation were identified, and a framework to support opportunities for stakeholders to plan, manage and evaluate RDE was developed. These helped increase participation in the projects. Participation within the projects' constituent activities subsequently fluxed from isolation to interactive participation. Individuals within activities now expected, and usually had, equality in content decisions (i.e. functional participation), which often extended to process decisions (i.e. interactive participation). Yet, the levels of participation between members of different activities varied across the projects. One project remained a series of parallel and relatively independent activities with passive and consultative participation. A second project had functional and interactive participation imposed for some activities, but otherwise used passive and consultative participation. The third project developed to provide functional and interactive participation in major project decisions. It then became apparent that the learning outcomes of each project varied. Individuals continued to learn from their participation in the projects, but the contributions of diverse sources and participation were major shapers of this learning. Participation within the less diverse activity groups produced mainly technical learning through participants' existing meaning schemes. Again, the level of participation between activities with diverse values, RDE paradigms, and worldviews, shaped the nature of learning. Passive and consultative participation produced mostly technical learning through existing meaning schemes. Yet, teams that embraced their diversity, and reflected on the assumptions of their different RDE methodologies, transformed their approach to learning. With high levels of diversity, the level of participation determined the level of learning. Essentially, participation became learning. This thesis confirms the potential of participatory RDE to improve farming practices. Consultation to identify priority issues, and functional participation to develop proximal opportunities for farmers to understand these issues and make their own decisions had a major impact on farming practices. Yet, participatory processes must rise above the prevailing ToT paradigms of RDE agencies to integrate participants' knowledge, and so achieve sustainable development in Australia. Three main process contributions are made to support this development. Firstly, the evaluation framework provides a challenge and structure to encourage the contributions of all participants at each stage of project activities. It provides a checklist for effective participation in Farming Systems RDE. Secondly, a typology of participation in Farming Systems RDE extends that proposed by Pretty (1995). It provides a catalyst and means to better understand and identify the most appropriate levels of participation in RDE projects. The associated checklist for assessing modes of participation allows monitoring of the participation developed in practice. Finally, the re-conceptualisation of a broader continuum of participation in Farming Systems RDE for developed agriculture is proposed. The subsequent development of the Doing successful on-farm research process is a culmination of the understandings developed in this thesis. It facilitates the development of interactive participation within the on-farm research process that is central to these projects. Recognising the technical focus of most current RDE agency staff, it guides their development of participatory on-farm research processes before reflecting on the appropriateness of different research methods to their research issues. The findings here cannot ensure the development of Australia's RDE beyond the ToT paradigm. However, this thesis provides important insights into the nature of diversity, participation, and learning in the Farming Systems projects, and a series of tools to support this development. Conceptually, it proposes that different kinds of participation will be shaped by participants' diversity from their prior experiences and their expectations that are in turn transformed through evidence of improved practice.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education
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Graham, Khalil. "CALIFORNIA TURNAROUND SCHOOLS: AN ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT GRANT EFFECTIVENESS." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/edl_etds/6.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of School Improvement Grants (SIGs) in the state of California (CA) in increasing student achievement using the turnaround implementation model. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) included educational priorities focused on fixing America’s lowest achieving schools. SIGs (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) to the nation’s persistently lowest achieving public schools required schools accepting these awards to implement a federally prescribed school-reform model. Of these models, the school turnaround model is the most aggressive and least used. Using data from CA, the researcher analyzed student achievement results in reading and mathematics at six high schools in CA over a three-year span between their pre- and post-SIG-award year.
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VILCHIS, VELAZQUEZ ROXANA. "EVALUACIÓN DE LAS PROPIEDADES FÍSICAS Y VISCOELÁSTICAS DE GRANOS DE TRIGO (Triticum aestivum L.), CENTENO (Secale cereale L.) Y TRITICALE (X Triticosecale Wittmack." Tesis de Licenciatura, UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/105736.
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Fue posible determinar y diferenciar el comportamiento viscoelástico de los granos evaluados a diferente contenido de humedad, mediante el método de compresión uniaxial a baja deformaciónLa evaluación de la calidad de los granos cereales se relaciona inicialmente con sus características físicas y químicas, sin embargo, la determinación de sus propiedades viscoelásticas complementa y favorece un proceso de clasificación más selectivo y objetivo. El trigo (Triticum aestivum L.), centeno (Secale cereale L.) y triticale (X Triticosecale Wittmack) son tres cereales que tienen una amplia relación entre sí, debido a que el último es el resultado de la cruza de los dos primeros. En este contexto, los objetivos de este estudio fueron evaluar las propiedades físicas y viscoelásticas (determinadas por compresión uniaxial a baja deformación) de granos de trigo, centeno y triticale en función de su contenido de humedad (12% y 16%), así como identificar las posibles correlaciones existentes entre ambos tipos de propiedades. Los resultados indicaron que tanto el contenido de humedad como el tipo de grano tuvieron un efecto altamente significativo sobre la mayoría de las características evaluadas. De manera general, el incremento del contenido de humedad de los granos originó que los valores medios de algunas propiedades físicas (apariencia y geométricas) aumentaran. Por el contrario, los valores medios de las propiedades viscoelásticas y otras físicas (mecánicas), disminuyeron significativamente. Se identificaron diversas correlaciones altamente significativas entre las propiedades físicas y viscoelásticas, destacando entre otras las inversamente proporcionales (negativas) que tuvo el módulo de elasticidad (propiedad viscoelástica) en relación con varias propiedades físicas, así como las registradas entre el diámetro aritmético y el volumen elipsoidal (propiedades físicas), respecto a diversas viscoelásticas.
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James-Scribner, Jason. "Developing an online learning community to connect private and public child welfare services with faith-based communities| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10099851.
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Child welfare agencies continue to be challenged in their separate and collaborative pursuits to achieve child safety, well-being, and permanence. The debate over separation of church and state is turning new corners with the recognition that collaboration between faith-based communities and public/private child welfare can exist and yield great benefits. Individual sovereignty of faith-based, non-profit, private, and public child welfare agencies can better provide for national mandates of child safety, well-being, and permanency by allowing every provider to fulfill its mission according to its own values. Greater collaboration should be viewed less as private and faith-based supplementation of public incapacity and more as a strategic partnerships that capitalizes on the strength of each public and private sectors. Online, competency-based learning communities hold great promise to provide discursive learning opportunities for the transfer of training and practice knowledge regarding faith-based partnerships to advance the mandates of child welfare.
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Avin, Shahar. "Breaking the grant cycle : on the rational allocation of public resources to scientific research projects." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/247434.
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The thesis presents a reformative criticism of science funding by peer review. The criticism is based on epistemological scepticism, regarding the ability of scientific peers, or any other agent, to have access to sufficient information regarding the potential of proposed projects at the time of funding. The scepticism is based on the complexity of factors contributing to the merit of scientific projects, and the rate at which the parameters of this complex system change their values. By constructing models of different science funding mechanisms, a construction supported by historical evidence, computational simulations show that in a significant subset of cases it would be better to select research projects by a lottery mechanism than by selection based on peer review. This last result is used to create a template for an alternative funding mechanism that combines the merits of peer review with the benefits of random allocation, while noting that this alternative is not so far removed from current practice as may first appear.
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Tamsberg, Merle S. "Gifted and talented program evaluation : the acquisition of research skills in grades 3-8 /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148733599290369.
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Figuerola-Tarma, Guillermo-Antonio. "Panificadora de panes nutricionales a base de granos andinos." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad de Lima, 2016. http://repositorio.ulima.edu.pe/handle/ulima/3170.
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A partir del uso de las herramientas contables así como el análisis económico-financiero se evaluó la viabilidad del proyecto, haciendose estados financieros proyectados por 5 años y obteniendo utilidad a partir del segundo año desde la puesta en funcionamiento, asimismo se evaluó económicamente el proyecto con flujos de efectivo libres proyectados arrojando el valor actual neto de S/. 88,566 y una tasa interna de retorno de 30%. Por todo lo anterior el proyecto es viable y rentable. que dadas las nuevas tendencias en las preferencias de los consumidores representa una buena oportunidad de negocio, asimismo se debe explorar la realización de negocios relacionados, como por ejemplo la venta de tortas y otros bienes complementarios al pan, requiriendo ser continuado el proyecto una vez superado el plazo inicial de 5 años proyectados.Trabajo de investigación
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Paton, Elizabeth Jane. "Experiences in improving membership engagement and grant success for clinical research networks in particular for the Australian melanoma and skin cancer community." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27778.
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Introduction
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the important role of clinical trial networks (CTNs), specifically the national cancer cooperative trial groups (CCTGs), have in growing high-quality memberships and optimising grant success to support the undertaking of a greater number of investigator-initiated, high-quality, Australian-led, skin cancer clinical trials. This is critically important in Australia which has the highest skin cancer burden globally.
Methodology
Experiences from CTNs with a particular focus on the skin CCTG have been evaluated. Two studies have been undertaken.
Results
The essay comprises four chapters that deals with CTN function including membership optimisation and grant application success. Significant underlying themes were found. CTNs need:
• to have strong leadership, clear vision and robust governance;
• to be supported as they mature and reorganise;
• to build a strong culture which can enhance members’ commitment to the cause;
• to use resources wisely;
• to facilitate appropriate communications with and across all stakeholders when conducting RCTs;
• to encourage membership diversity and research participation; and
• to encourage their members to have a flexible mindset to optimise research success.
Conclusions
The thesis provides a significant resource for the CTN and CCTG community. The studies led to significant advances in the national capacity to support an international membership which is capable of securing funding to complete high-quality, Australian-led, investigator-initiated skin cancer research. The thesis demonstrates that a dedicated skin CCTG has a real place globally. The thesis provides a platform for further research in improving CTN function, reducing trial failure and improvements translating results to impact on community practice.