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Webster, Kasey Johnson. "Using STAR-CCM+ to Evaluate Multi-User Collaboration in CFD." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6094.
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The client-server architecture of STAR-CCM+ allows multiple users to collaborate on a simulation set-up. The effectiveness of collaboration with this architecture is tested and evaluated on five models. The testing of these models is a start to finish set-up of an entire simulation excluding computational time for generating mesh and solving the solution. The different models have distinct differences which test every operation that would be used in a general CFD simulation. These tests focus on reducing the time spent preparing the geometry to be meshed, including setting up for a conformal mesh between multiple regions in conjugate heat transfer models. Results from these five tests show a maximum speed up of 36%.
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Aldstadt, David. "Imaginary co-signatures: collaboration, authorship, and star personae in films by Marcel Carne with Arletty and by Jean Cocteau with Jean Marais." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371473066.
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Aldstadt, David. "Imaginary co-signatures : collaboration, authorship, and star personae in films by Marcel Carné with Arletty and by Jean Cocteau with Jean Marais /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402957195597.
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Sedgwick, Donna Ann. "To Work Together or Not? Examining Public-Public Program Collaboration Between Head Start and the Virginia Preschool Initiative." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73503.
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This dissertation investigates public-public program collaboration (PPPC) between Head Start and the Virginia Preschool Initiative and asks why and how, and to what extent PPPC occurs between these preschool programs. To frame an understanding of PPPC, the dissertation assays collaborative process dimensions, collaborative management techniques, and degrees of collaborative activity. In-depth interviews with Head Start and VPI administrators result in the analysis of 16 Head Start-VPI dyadic relationships and places the focus of this research on the micro-level actions of the program administrators. Each Head Start-VPI dyad is assigned a degree of collaborative activity along a continuum ranging from no relationship (one dyad), cooperation (four dyads), coordination (six dyads), or collaboration (five dyads), and is assessed in terms of the presence or absence of the collaborative process dimensions of governance, administration, organizational autonomy, norms of trust, and mutuality. Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is used to identify the underlying process dimensions that comprise collaboration at the varying degrees of collaborative activity. Collaborating dyads generally are found to exhibit all of the process dimensions, where the no relationship and cooperating dyads exhibit relatively few of the process dimensions. Coordinating dyads typically have strong structural dimensions but weak mutuality, or strong social capital dimensions, but weak administration. The dissertation shows how public administrators engage the collaborative management techniques of activating, framing, mobilizing, and synthesizing, and finds variation in management techniques across types of collaborative activities. It also argues for activation activity to include "history of collaboration" stories and identifies six framing types that intersect at being collaborative or non-collaborative in focus and mature or immature. The dissertation concludes with recommendations for current preschool administrators and future scholarship.Ph. D.
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Dalex, Karl. "Incubateurs, start-up et partenariats." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAB003.
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La start-up, définie comme un état transitoire durant lequel un individu ou un groupe d’individus en manque de ressources et en condition de forte incertitude est à la recherche d’un business model scalable doit faire face à de nombreux enjeux. Les collaborations avec des entreprises matures apparaissent comme un catalyseur pour le développement de ces jeunes entreprises innovantes. Accompagnée pour la majorité d’entre elles par des incubateurs, cette thèse propose de plonger dans les pratiques de ces structures en termes d’accompagnement des entrepreneurs sur le sujet de la collaboration. Ainsi à travers une méthodologie empirique basée sur une étude de cas nous montrons que les collaborations impactent la start-up suscitant des changements de Business Model importants tout au long de son développement. Notre seconde étude empirique sur une population d’incubateurs en France montre qu’il ne se dégage aucune tendance générale dans les pratiques d’accompagnement sur le sujet de la collaboration. En parallèle, il se dessine qu’au sein d’une même structure chaque pratique est dépendante de l’accompagnant. Nos résultats permettent dans un premier temps de mettre en avant les impacts que peuvent avoir les collaborations sur le développement de la start-up à travers les changements de Business Model qu’elles engendrent. Notre étude permet également de mieux appréhender les différentes pratiques d’accompagnement mises en place par les incubateurs et de proposer des recommandations à l’attention des dirigeants de structures d’accompagnementStart-up defined as a transitional state during which an individual or a group of individuals in need of resources and under conditions of high uncertainty are looking for a scalable business model and must face many challenges. Collaborations with mature companies appear to be a catalyst for the development of these young innovative companies. Supporting for the majority of them by incubators, this thesis proposes to dive into the practices of these structures with the entrepreneurs followed on the subject of collaboration. First, and through an empirical methodology based on a case study, we show that collaborations impact start-ups by driving significant business model changes throughout their development. Once this observation has been established, our second empirical study on a population of incubators in France shows that there is no general trend in support practices on the subject of collaboration. At the same time, it is clear that within the structures themselves, each practice is dependent on the support person. Thus, each of the structures is characterized by an absence of harmony between the different practices. Our results first highlight the impacts that collaborations can have on the development of the start-up through the changes in the Business Model they generate. In a second step, our study allows us to better understand the different support practices implemented by incubators and to propose recommendations for the managers of support structures
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Reyes-Gonzalez, Leonardo. "Research Collaboration, Academic Stars and the Evolution of Science Systems." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2012. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/87.
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The important growth in research collaboration is generating increasing attention by research administrators and policy makers. There is much interest in improving our understanding of the nature, dynamics and impact of this cooperation in science. This thesis contributes to this area in three dimensions. First, it proposes a novel method by which one can characterize and assess research collaboration, which takes into consideration the self-organizing process of scientific collaboration. Second, building partially on the new method, it studies how research collaboration, in particular research groups and scientific stars, influence the nurturing of new researchers that enter a scientific system. Finally, it explores in detail what the new researchers look for, and find, in their early collaborations. The field of physics and related areas (including applied physics, material sciences and optics) in Mexico is used to look at these issues.
The proposed evaluation method uses self-organizing characteristics of science to identify and compare relevant units of analysis. To characterize groups, the thesis exploits the patterns of collaboration and develops a method that identifies and benchmarks research groups. Collaboration patterns of researchers are used to identify the frontiers of the focal research units and the backward citation patterns are employed to establish relevant benchmark units for each focal unit. The results suggest that the definition of the unit of analysis affects our understanding of the position a research institutions has within the Science Technology and Innovation (ST&I) System and provides evidence that the performance of Mexican institutions in Physics is highly heterogeneous within institutions. This is important because research administrators and policy makers need to take into account this heterogeneity when assessing the ST&I system.
The second contribution of this thesis is an investigation of how different forms of scientific collaboration early on in the career of a researcher relate to his or her future publication and citation rates, and their likelihood of becoming a leading scientist. In particular it quantifies the effect of collaborative research environments, such as prominent scientists or research groups (identified using the method developed in the thesis), on new scholars. This study shows that eminent scientists have an important role in the development of a scientific system (especially within the context of an emerging economy) in terms of publications and citations. In particular it finds that these stars have a positive and significant effect on the productivity and impact of young researchers, as well as on their likelihood of also becoming leading scientists. In addition, early collaboration with a highly productive research group and the leader of this group also contributes to superior productivity performance by scientists.
Third, this thesis explores how budding scientists, some of which became highly accomplished researchers, used their collaborations with other top scientists and research groups early in their career. This works finds that researchers who later became star scientists focus on acquiring new ideas and knowledge through early interactions with other scientists, particularly foreign collaborators and existing stars, whereas those less prominent focus on accessing resources and only learning “basic” research kills, like publishing.
Finally, this thesis provides important insights for policy makers by showing the significance research collaboration has in the development of ST&I of an emerging economy. In addition, this work highlights the importance of endogenously defining the unit of analysis and taking into account the heterogeneity within the system when making assessments of the ST&I system. Furthermore, this dissertation shows the relevance scientific stars surrounded by nurturing environments have in the progress of science, as well as the importance cooperation with these scientists and foreign collaboration has in exposing young faculty to new ideas.
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Ambrosino, Julien. "Apports de l’hybridation de méthodes de créativité pour l’émergence de projets collaboratifs d’innovation dans les pôles et clusters : proposition de la méthodologie de facilitation d’ateliers STAR et de l’outil de brainstorming électronique IdeaValuation." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BORD0094/document.
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Dans le contexte spécifique de coopétition entre les membres des clusters, l'émergence de projets collaboratifs innovants est une question clé pour les adhérents et les structures permanentes des clusters. Compte-tenu des écosystèmes hétérogènes qui évoluent au sein des clusters, la stratégie d'Interclustering qui est menée pour créer de nouveaux types de projets intersectoriels nécessite de nouveaux outils appropriés pour soutenir l'émergence d'idées innovantes et créatives. De fortes synergies sont mises en évidence grâce à l'animation de clubs d'innovation impliquant des participants provenant des milieux industriels, académiques, scientifiques et des structures de développement économiqueIn the specific context of coopetition between members of clusters, innovative collaborative projects emergence is a key issue for members and clusters. Given the heterogeneous ecosystems that evolve within the clusters, the interclustering strategy which is conducted to create new types of cross-sectoral projects require new appropriate tools to support creative and new ideas emergence. Strong synergies are highlighted through the use of the discovering matrix and 9 screens tools. These links help facilitators of clusters to optimize the preparation and animation of creative sessions. Strong synergies are highlighted through the animation of innovative clubs involving participants from industrial, academic, scientific and economic development organizations
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Andersson, Stina, Charlotte Cohn, and Mathilda Eriksson. "Ensam är inte stark : En kvalitativ fallstudie om interkommunal samverkan." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-53032.
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Interkommunal samverkan är framhållen som en lösning på små kommuners utmaningar med att uppfylla sina åtaganden och tillgodose medborgarnas behov med begränsade resurser. Urbanisering och demografisk utveckling bidrar till att interkommunal samverkan blir ett allt mer ökande fenomen bland små kommuner i Sverige. Interkommunal samverkan är ett förhållandevis ostuderat område, syftet med studien är därför att öka förståelsen för interkommunal samverkan och de faktorer som kan påverka samarbetet mellan kommunerna. Genom en induktiv forskningsansats och kvalitativ fallstudie har vi studerat fenomenet interkommunal samverkan mellan två små kommuner i södra Sverige som ingått samverkan genom avtal. Det empiriska insamlade materialet har vi sedan sammanställt och utifrån resultatet valt teorier för att öka förståelsen för fenomenet. Utfallet av studien har visat att samverkan är komplext och de svårigheter som har identifierats kan relateras till följande områden: otydliga ansvarsområden och arbetsfördelning i avtalet, brist på kommunikation och information till medarbetarna, kommunernas olika förutsättningar samt medarbetarnas avsaknad av en närvarande chef och ledare. Vidare har vi formulerat förslag på åtgärder som kan förhindra svårigheterna. Innan samverkan ingås bör en konsekvensbedömning utföras för att kartlägga kommunernas syfte och mål med samverkan samt vilka resurstillgångar och förutsättningar kommunerna har för att samverka. Ansvarsfördelningen och specifika arbetsuppgifter bör tydligt beskrivas i avtalet för att undvika missförstånd och osäkerhet. Medarbetarna har en betydande roll i samverkan, och eftersom interkommunal samverkan ofta är ett top down-beslut är det viktigt att ledningen tar hänsyn till deras behovs och involverar medarbetarna i hela processen.Collaboration between small municipals have become a solution and necessity to overcome the challenges small municipals are experiencing and to fulfil their obligations. Due to urbanisation and demographical change, collaboration is an increasing phenomenon among small municipals in Sweden. The area is not particularly researched and the purpose of this study is to create a greater understanding of inter-municipal collaboration and identify factors that can affect the cooperation between the municipals. We have studied the phenomenon with an inductive research method and qualitative case study of two small municipals in Southern Sweden collaborating by a contract agreement. Everyone directly involved in the collaboration on different hierarchical levels in both organisations have been included in the research. Based on the result of our collected empirical material we have used with theories in order to increase our understanding of the phenomenon. The result of our research has proven that inter-municipal collaboration is complex and the main difficulties we have identified can be related to following areas: unclear division of responsibilities and tasks in the agreement, lack of communication and information to the co-workers, the municipals’ different assumptions and the absence of a manager and leader. We have composed suggestions to action that may prevent and avoid the difficulties. An impact assessment should be conducted before the collaboration is initiated in order to identify the purpose, objectives, resources and assumptions each municipal have. The division of responsibilities and tasks should be clearly specified in the agreement in order to avoid misunderstandings and uncertainty. The co-workers have a significant role in the collaboration and as inter-municipal collaboration often is a top down decision, it is important that the management take the co-workers' needs into consideration and involve the employees in the entire process.
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Peters, Sophie, and Caren Behrens. "Collaborative Innovation between Family Businesses and Start-Ups : An empirical study on how family business attributes influence the decision for collaborative innovation with start-ups." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48566.
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Abstract Background: Innovation is a key factor in the development of new businesses as well as in the sustainable success of existing organisations. Especially for family businesses, innovation is the main strategic instrument to ensure economic growth, prosperity, and transgenerational survival. However, many organisations are unable to achieve success by themselves; thus, collaborative innovation becomes increasingly important. While collaborative innovation with start-ups is highly promising for corporations, it remains unclear how feasible the decision for this approach is for family firms due to their distinct attributes. Purpose: This thesis aims to research how particular family business attributes influence the decision for collaborative innovation with start-ups. Thereby we contribute to existing academic literature and provide valuable insights for family firms to further increase their innovation potential. Method: To fulfil the purpose of this exploratory research study, secondary data, in the scope of a literature review as well as additional valuable sources and primary data, in the form of qualitative interviews, are gathered. The in-depth interviews allow us to collect responses on sensitive information on firm insights, while triangulation with secondary data enables us to generate a deep understanding of different perspectives significant to this study. In total, ten semi-structured interviews from six family businesses are conducted. Later, Grounded Theory is used for analysing the data. Conclusion: The results show that two of the examined attributes, namely risk aversion and unwillingness to collaborate with external partners, have a negative influence on the decision for collaborative innovation with start-ups. The other two attributes, long-term orientation and unwillingness to invest in innovation purposes both demonstrate ambivalent findings. Thus, their influence cannot be clearly evidenced in this study.
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Malek, Sheikh Al Najjaryn. "Förutsättningar för samverkan : En kvalitativ studie om förutsättningars betydelse för projektet Sluta skjut." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42906.
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This study aims to understand the importance of prerequisites for collaboration between public/political agencies with the help of literature about the concept of collaborative governance. The choice of using collaborative governance is based on the fact that the concept has not been applied to collaboration between the public/political actors before. This paper has the Swedish project Stop the shooting (Sluta skjut) as an example to understand the importance of prerequisites for collaboration between the Police, Probation Service, and Malmö municipality. With the help of this project, I will try to understand some of the promoting and hindering factors for collaboration in the studied project. To ascertain the prerequisites, I study will be interviewing representatives from the three mentioned actors. To study the importance of prerequisites I used Ansell & Gash's (2008) theory about starting conditions which includes three prerequisites that according to them can make or break any collaboration process. These prerequisites are power-resource balance, incentives for participation, and prehistory of collaboration. In addition, to examine how much these prerequisites mean for collaboration, I will also see if any prerequisites are of importance that Ansell & Gash (2008) do not mention. The result of the study concludes that Ansell & Gash's (2008) starting conditions are of big importance for a successful collaboration process and were of importance for deeming ‘Sluta skjut’ as a successful project. The conclusion of the study shows that there are two more important prerequisites in addition to Ansell & Gash (2008) that all actors should aim to fulfill before collaborating, these are the time aspects regarding implementation and understanding of the different logics for each actor.
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Biswas, Sampoorna. "Combating the cold-start user problem in collaborative filtering recommender systems." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60254.
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Thwaits, Claire. "The barriers and enablers to effective fintech start-up collaboration with South African Banks." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59788.
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South Africa faces a crisis of entrepreneurship - there are too few small businesses, and not enough skilled entrepreneurs to start more. Yet at the same time, the country has one of the best banking systems in the world. Recently, the interaction between technology entrepreneurs and the financial sector has come under the spotlight, and these two formerly isolated sectors have become the focus of much consideration in the thriving fintech space. Increasingly, financial services organisations, especially banks, and financial technology entrepreneurs, are recognising the importance of strengthening relations. This exploratory study uses findings from interviews with bank executives and fintech entrepreneurs to explore the growing role that collaboration plays. Banks employ a variety of means to drive innovation, and some of these factors affect the relationship with external collaboration partners. Similarly, fintech entrepreneurs are motivated to partner with established firms in order to bring their business to market and access the resources and funding they need to scale. This study explores the process of collaboration between fintech entrepreneurs and banks in South Africa, as a means of understanding which factors contribute to, and which undermine, the likelihood of effective collaboration.
Drawing on established theory on innovation and collaboration, as well as scrutinising the entrepreneurial ecosystem that influences these collaborations, the study presents a framework for engagement between banks and fintech entrepreneurs looking at four key factors: innovation capability within banks, collaboration characteristics of fintech entrepreneurs, the modes of collaboration, and the macro-economic conditions that affect fintech ecosystems.
Primary data collected from both a focus group and individual interviews was interpreted via qualitative analysis. The study found that ecosystem factors are less important than effective fintech-bank collaboration in South Africa, despite evidence to the contrary in the literature. Furthermore, the innovation dynamics within banks have a greater impact on collaboration than the behaviour of fintech entrepreneurs alone, and clear rules of engagement in cooperative arrangements between these two former foes can vastly improve success.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Conaway, Kathryn A. "HEAD START TEACHERS’ INTENTIONS TO IMPLEMENT SUGGESTIONS FOLLOWING MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLES OF WORKING ALLIANCE AND TEACHER EFFICACY." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1182373197.
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Sickman, Linda Sue. "Changes in Teacher Literacy Enrichment Behaviors Following Modeling by a Speech-Language Pathologist During Book Reading." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179425466.
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Yeloshyna, Natallia. "The New Collaborative Cinema: Fan Labor in Contemporary Film Franchises." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou161800816475422.
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Rickieno, Rizal. "University coworking space as a collaborative learning space." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203477/1/Rizal_Rickieno_Thesis.pdf.
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QUT Foundry is a university coworking space that is actively involved in supporting and promoting entrepreneurship for students, staff and alumni to develop entrepreneurship and innovation to grow on campus. This thesis explores the role of the QUT Foundry in promoting entrepreneurship and collaborative learning activities among its members, through interviews with QUT Foundry staff and members. Using qualitative methods approach, this study identified that combining the concept of place, people and system can provide greater opportunities to generate creativity and innovation within university coworking spaces.
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Dais, Sofoklis, and Dimitrios Stylianidis. "Collaborate? Let me check if I need you right now! : Collaboration and openness initiatives and activities in six Greek start-ups." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-20407.
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Context: Start-ups have recently emerged as an operational model for small and newly-founded firms globally. This increasing business acceptance is present within the European markets, as well as within the Greek. Researchers also complied to the ”commands” of the industry and startup research followed the same, to practice, increasing course. Although the increase in both research and practice is visible, and the fact that several start-up related topics are well-documented, the start-up literature still shows certain limitations that need to be answered. Theory: This study performs an extensive review of the start-up literature, provides definitions and descriptions of key start-up characteristics, and identifies the main streams, and limitations of start-up research, as long as cases of actual start-ups within the Greek business reality. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide insight on certain literature limitations by examining start-up customs towards collaboration and openness initiatives and activities. More in detail, the study aims to identify whether start-ups are able to collaborate (newness and smallness paradox), what is the extent (breadth and depth, partner variety, and collaboration content) of their collaboration and openness customs with different partners, but also the individual importance of specific partners, and the ways this importance changes through different phases of the start-up growth. Also, documented matters such as the determinants of collaborations and the internal organizational structure of start-ups towards openness and collaborations are also discussed. Design/Methodology/Approach: A multiple-case study that follows the replication logic is performed. The study focuses on six Greek online start-ups, and extracts information initially from the websites of the firms, and then by interviewing one key employee in each start-up. The combined information from each case are cross-analysed so as behavioural patterns to emerge and conclusions to be drawn regarding start-up initiatives and activities towards collaboration and openness. Findings: Start-ups are indeed able to collaborate and practice openness with external partners from the beginning, while the collaboration and openness is closely related to the desired outcome/collaboration content that fulfils a specific need. This desired outcome is connected to the extent – breadth and depth – of the collaboration, but also to the type of each partner. Thus, startups closely collaborate with few and selected partners of each kind (e.g. universities, supplies etc.), with the exception of customers and users. The collaboration with customers and users is wide and limited on their feedbacks due to their numbers. Customers, users, suppliers, innovation intermediaries, and universities were identified as the most important partners to start-ups. The importance of these partners is connected to the start-up growth lifecycle. Innovation intermediaries are the most important startup partners, while customers, users and suppliers are important from the stabilization phase and during the whole start-up lifecycle. Universities importance were not found to be clearly connected to the startup growth phases, but mostly to the collaboration content. Regarding the importance, some differences might occur amongst start-ups active in different industries. Those differences are industry specific and affect how and when each start-up collaborates with different partners. Finally, this study confirmed the propositions of previous studies regarding the determinants and internal organizational structure towards collaboration and openness with external partners. Research limitations and implications: Although the present study shows a set of limitations mostly regarding the number and distribution of the cases, it is the authors’ belief that it also shows a set of theoretical and practical implications. It provides managers and researchers with findings on uncharted territories in start-up literature, it connects its findings to prior start-up research, and provides insight on the almost undeveloped literature on Greek start-ups.
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Brauer, Janin, and Anna Schmidt. "Let's start co-creating! : Establishing more successful collaborations between influencers and companies through co-creation." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-149316.
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Influencer marketing has become a buzz word within the industry over the last few years. However, marketers claim that the industry needs to focus on a more quality-driven approach for brand collaborations instead of just looking after follower numbers and the potential brand awareness guaranteed by them. Therefore, the aspects and interests behind the collaborations of companies and influencers become of more importance. This research project aims for gathering more insights on the current and future collaboration practices in order to answer the question of how potential conflicts of interest between companies and influencers can be better managed. The choice of this research topic was driven by the fact that existing literature approaching influencer marketing and the collaboration practices between companies and influencers so far mainly focuses on the company’s perspective and thereby leaves out the interests of the influencers engaging in brand collaborations. Thereby, a research gap was identified that clearly emphasises the influencers’ perspective on currentcollaboration practices and expectations for future collaborations. Thus, the influencers’ perspective on potential conflicts of interest and critical aspects within collaborations were analysed in order to develop suggestions for better managing conflicts of interests between those two parties in the future. In order to gather the necessary insights qualitative interviews among seven Instagram influencers and two representatives from influencer marketing agencies were conducted. The findings of this thesis revealed three main critical aspects for successful future collaborations between companies and influencers to manage potential conflicts of interest; a stronger focus on a qualitative fit, a more transparent communication and a knowledge improvement about the influencer marketing business. In connection to the existing literature the findings suggested that the co-creation of brands and the building of brand partnerships can support the management of potential conflicts of interest and furthermore help to prevent them from the beginning on. From a theoretical perspective this thesis bridged the identified research gap by analysing the collaboration between companies and influencers from an influencer perspective and thereby suggested the use of co-creation as a theoretical framework for managing conflicts of interest within brand collaborations. Moreover, the findings revealed practical implications for the influencer marketing industry in regards to the need of more interactive dialogues, a more qualitative selection of collaboration partners and the necessity for a deeper examination and knowledge improvement of the influencer marketing industry in the future.
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Fisher, Teresa Renae. "To Stay and To Change: Beginning Social Justice Educators Creating Collaborative Third Space(s)." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/48/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed July 29, 2010) Joyce E. Many, committee chair; Peggy Albers, JoAnna White, Dana L. Fox, committee members. Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-408).
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Lindsey, Laura Irene. ""You've got to start messy" : an exploration of the process of involvement in a large scale educational collaboration." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2167.
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There is increased pressure on Higher Education (HE) institutions from Government to collaborate, which is reflected in funding calls where collaborative bids are often favoured. Academic collaborations at the institutional level have built on research partnerships between individual academics. Although collaborations between HEIs are increasing, it is an under researched area. The focus of research has mainly been on smaller scale collaborations at the level of individual academics or between professions. However, the process of collaboration between institutions needs more attention. This qualitative study addresses the gap in existing research in social psychology and organisational theory by exploring the experience of involvement and the lifecycle of collaboration in a large scale HE-NHS collaboration. The study setting was CETL4HealthNE, a five year HEFCE funded collaboration. The study utilised semi-structured interviews (n=14) with members of the collaboration and longitudinal documentary analysis (n=46, length=5 years). The two main areas of interest were individual experience of involvement and the development of the collaboration. Participants perceived their involvement as a balancing act, involvement in the collaboration was hard work but very rewarding. Relationships with others were central as participants believed the networking formed foundations for future partnerships. Deepening trust at an individual level translated into improved partnership at an organisational level. The lifecycle of the collaboration had three distinct phases: formation, mobilisation and revision. This study portrays collaborations as socially constructed entities where relationships and the context play a vital part. The lifecycle of an individual collaboration is part of a larger cycle of collaborations, traces of the past are carried into the future through personal connections. With the increase of HE collaborations and the proposed organisational changes to the NHS, the study highlights the need to find ways to utilise the connections of previous working partnerships to enable new collaborations to benefit from them.
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Taylor, Wade. "Predicting Marital Discord and Depression in Early Head Start Mothers: A Step Toward Marriage and Family Therapy Collaboration." DigitalCommons@USU, 2001. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2713.
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The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) recently sponsored Head Start-Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) program partnerships. MFT programs can begin building similarly successful collaborative partnerships with Early Head Start (EHS) programs through using all or portions of this research study. This study has been dedicated to describing the occurrence, co-occurrence, and predictive characteristics of marital discord and depression in families served by EHS programs. This identification of at-risk families can then be used to bolster existing treatment efforts, develop new maritally based interventions, and facilitate increased referrals.
Marital discord and depression are two often interrelated problems EHS mothers are at increased risk to face because they have low incomes and very young children (up to age three). Previous research has demonstrated the negative effects of marital discord and maternal depression on child, adult, and family development. Research with various married samples has further identified variables predictive of marital discord and depression. It was the aim of this study to reexamine these predictors and test couple measures to find the most effective identifying variables.
Cross-sectional and prospective longitudinal research analyses were conducted from surveys with 148 EHS married mothers and their spouses to answer specific research questions. In general, results revealed that EHS married mothers were (a) slightly less depressed and maritally discordant than what might be expected of lower income parents, (b) more prone to experiencing these problems the more children they had, and (c) more accurately identified by considering couple data, which included similarity in earlier marital discord, earlier depression, religious activity, attachment attitudes or demographic variables. The limitations of this study included weaknesses in measurement and analytic procedures largely resulting from the use of data originally organized at a national level with Jess complementary purposes in mind. In the future research should address the limitations and incorporate the findings of this study into development and testing of theoretically driven marital interventions in EHS samples. Systemic implications and managing ethical concerns of using the proposed marital interventions in EHS- MFT collaborative effort are also discussed.
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Welch, Victoria Carolyn. "Experiences of Sure Start Children's Centre Teachers : emerging roles and identities in a collaborative setting." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/34023/.
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Sure Start Children’s Centres deliver a wide range of services to families with young children. For over a decade an important aspect of Sure Start has been collaborative work involving diverse practitioners, professionals, agencies and organisations. The role of Children’s Centre Teacher (CCT) was established in 2005 with the aim of improving children’s social and cognitive development. This qualitative study examines the experiences of individual CCTs, paying attention to their descriptions of role, their professional identities and how they experience and understand collaborative working. The study uses two methods to collect data, iterative email interviews and personal interviews conducted on a one-to-one basis or in small groups. A total of 15 informants provided data through emails, interviews or both. In terms of role, the study finds that respondents report considerable differences between the centre-based role and that of a classroom teacher. Uncertainty, variability and change pervade their accounts. Despite this it is possible to identify key characteristics of the nature of CCT activity through CCTs’ comparisons of their new role and their previous work. In terms of identity, CCTs clearly position themselves as professionals and place themselves as senior members of the Children’s Centre team. However, identifying the CCT role as a unique profession, teaching specialism or discrete occupation is found to be problematic for a number of reasons. Informants endorse collaborative working, which they describe as part aspiration and part achievement, reporting a mixture of successes and barriers. Children’s Centre Teachers invoke two modes to describe the collaborative work they undertake, the first appears close to traditional models of interprofessional working, the second, which describes the majority of the work they undertake, casts CCTs as advisors and consultants to staff members they see as subordinate. The study also comments on how email interviews might be used in future research.
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Holder, Debra Herschberg. "The good, the bad, and the better: A constructivist study of one Healthy Start Collaborative." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1515.
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Medina, Darinka, and Mariama Jatta. "Sårbar, riskfylld, eller missgynnad? : Utsatthet bland ungdomar i Västerås stad." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-6322.
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Ungdomsåren är en omtumlande period av förändring och identitetsutveckling. När det rör sig om utsatta ungdomars hälsa är denna grupp exponerad för en eller flera riskfaktorer samtidigt. Enligt internationella och nationella styrdokument är ungdomar en prioriterad grupp då det finns studier som visar på en ojämlikhet i hälsa bland målgruppen. Studiens referensram innefattar tre olika dimensioner av begreppet utsatthet, vilka är sårbar, riskfylld och missgynnad. Syftet med denna studie var att få en ökad förståelse för nyckelpersoners uppfattningar gällande social utsatthet bland ungdomar i åldern 13-19 år. Studiens avsikt har även varit att identifiera utsatta ungdomars behov samt nuvarande och framtida insatser inom problemområdet. Tio enskilda djupintervjuer genomfördes inom sex olika arenor i Västerås stad. Resultatet visade att nyckelpersonernas uppfattningar överensstämde inom många aspekter när det rör sig om social utsatthet bland ungdomar. Resultatet visade vidare på att alla ungdomar är utsatta på ett eller annat sätt men att utsattheten är mer påtaglig bland ungdomar med bristande skyddsnät och ett negativt socialt nätverk. Vidare efterfrågades empowerment och meningsfulla fritidsaktiviteter av nyckelpersonerna samt ett ökat samarbete mellan olika aktörer i syfte att motverka denna utsatthet i Västerås.
The adolescence years can be seen as a critical period due to developmental changes. When it comes to the situation of vulnerable and disadvantaged adolescents, this group is often exposed to several risk factors simultaneously. According to international and national public health documents inequalities in health among adolescents prevail and they are therefore seen as a prioritized group in society. The study's frame of reference includes three dimensions such as vulnerable, hazardous and disadvantaged adolescents. Furthermore the purpose of the study was to explore different key persons' understanding of the target group in the age of 13-19, as well their knowledge of present activities to counteract this problem. In addition, the need for new activities and initiatives are identified within the purpose of the study. Ten indepth interviews were conducted at six different arenas which were associated with adolescents in one way or another. The result of the study indicated that most of the adolescents were negatively exposed in one way or another. However the most exposed were the adolescents with a lack of social support and a negative social network. The different key persons' concept of vulnerable and disadvantaged adolescents is mutual in many aspects. According to the study objects there is consequently a need for empowerment and meaningful recreational activities, as well as a need for an extended collaboration between different actors regarding the prevalent youth work in Västerås.
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Lazarevic, Lidija. "Start Your Motor to Break the Code: a case of collaboration between school and parents of children with dyslexia." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31378.
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The intention of this case study is to contribute to the general body of special education needs (SEN) knowledge with the results from SEN provision practice for children diagnosed with dyslexia in one particular school. The aim of the study is to get a deeper understanding for how educators (headmaster, teachers and SEN teachers) and parents of children diagnosed with dyslexia experience their collaboration in meeting the needs of these children in the inclusive mainstream classroom. Questions addressed are: how communication of expectations for the remedial measures takes place, how the process of remedial measures is communicated, how educators and parents experience their cooperation and, what impact does the school policy have on the collaboration between teachers and parents. The theoretical framework is based on a communication, relations-based perspective (KoRP). The hybrid nature of this perspective covers the different aspects of the schools organisation and practice with the focus on relation between individuals and their environment. Participation of pupils with dyslexia in the learning process is observed in the classrooms as well as through the eyes of their educators and parents. Relations of all sides involved in the SEN: teachers and parents, teachers and pupils with dyslexia, parents and their children are studied. Formal and informal communication and collaboration, seen as participation in SEN activities, are analysed. The methods used are: observations of two lessons, school document analysis and seven interviews. Four educators and three parents are interviewed. The empirical findings confirm the vital role of good relations for learning of children with dyslexia. Good relations can be established and maintained by securing the clear routines in school with the special accent paid on the sensitivity of the initial contact between school and parents. Swift action in recognizing the difficulties, introducing a SEN toolkit and contacting parents is appreciated by all sides involved. The parents’ relief from the guilty feeling of inadequacy follows. Good relations require meetings in person. Collaboration is established by good relations and it enhances the participation in learning activities of children with dyslexia. School policy documents have a positive effect in giving clear guidance in securing routines of SEN. They provide enough maneuvering space before the action plans of provision (APP) are introduced. Educators see action plans of provision (APP) as necessary documentation while parents show indifference to them. Much about SEN routines in the years 1-3 remains to be done. In conclusion, the effects of clear routines as defined by Skolverket (2014) leave space for building good relations on all levels: organisational, group and individual and have a positive outcome in this case study. The implications of this study are directed mainly to broadening the mandatory rights of the SEN educators in organising a closer collaboration with the parents of children diagnosed with dyslexia and spreading SEN knowledge to the early stage of the school. Although the results of this case study cannot be generalized they cast the light on questions that need yet to be answered by all schools: how SEN educators can best be involved in the early intervention (years 1-3) and what more they can do to improve the collaboration between school and parents from the position of KoRP.
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Sohlberg, Henrik. "Recommending new items to customers : A comparison between Collaborative Filtering and Association Rule Mining." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-170770.
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E-commerce is an ever growing industry as the internet infrastructure continues to evolve. The benefits from a recommendation system to any online retail store are several. It can help customers to find what they need as well as increase sales by enabling accurate targeted promotions. Among many techniques that can form recommendation systems, this thesis compares Collaborative Filtering against Association Rule Mining, both implemented in combination with clustering. The suggested implementations are designed with the cold start problem in mind and are evaluated with a data set from an online retail store which sells clothing. The results indicate that Collaborative Filtering is the preferable technique while associated rules may still offer business value to stakeholders. However, the strength of the results is undermined by the fact that only a single data set was used.E-handel är en växande marknad i takt med att Internet utvecklas samtidigt som antalet användare ständigt ökar. Antalet fördelar från rekommendationssytem som e-butiker kan dra nytta av är flera. Samtidigt som det kan hjälpa kunder att hitta vad de letar efter kan det utgöra underlag för riktade kampanjer, något som kan öka försäljning. Det finns många olika tekniker som rekommendationssystem kan vara byggda utifrån. Detta examensarbete ställer fokus på de två teknikerna Collborative Filtering samt Association Rule Mining och jämför dessa sinsemellan. Båda metoderna kombinerades med klustring och utformades för att råda bot på kallstartsproblemet. De två föreslagna implementationerna testades sedan mot en riktig datamängd från en e-butik med kläder i sitt sortiment. Resultaten tyder på att Collborative Filtering är den överlägsna tekniken samtidigt som det fortfarande finns ett värde i associeringsregler. Att dra generella slutsatser försvåras dock av att enbart en datamängd användes.
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Uchida, Chiharu Hashimoto. "Making possibilities visible: the process of collaboration between general and special education teachers in an inclusive early childhood education program." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1127237508.
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Rosengren, Christofer, and Christoffer Nilsson. "Kunskapsbildning i en tvärsektoriell samverkan - En fallstudie kring autonoma fordon i Göteborgs stad." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22193.
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Många av våra samtida städer står inför en ökad urbanisering vilket kan leda till störrepåfrestningar och nya utmaningar för stadsplaneringen att handskas med. Smarta städer harkommit som en reaktion på den ökade komplexitet städerna står inför i samband med attfler människor kommer konkurrera om samma ytor. En av dessa komplexiteter är hurmobiliteten i städerna ska förbättras utan att äventyra andra värden. Idag sker det enintensiv utveckling av autonoma fordon vilket många tror kan vara en lösning påmobilitetsproblematiken. En identifierad problematik är den stora ovissheten, som härrörfrån de bristande erfarenheterna kring autonoma fordons effekter i staden. Denna ovisshetskapar behovet av en tvärsektoriell samverkan mellan kommunal planering ochteknikutvecklingsföretag för att åstadkomma en mer omfattande kunskapsbild.En fallstudie har genomförts i Göteborg där representanter från den kommunalaplaneringen, det privata näringslivet och konsultföretag har intervjuats. Observationsstudierhar genomförts för att få en uppfattning av hur kunskapsbildningsprocessen ser ut mellanden offentliga och privata sektorn. Detta för att få en bild av vilka utmaningar ochmöjligheter de olika aktörerna ser med en implementering av autonoma fordon i stadenslångsiktiga planering. Resultaten som har kommit fram i denna fallstudie pekar på problemsom kan uppstå när avgränsningen i ett kunskapsgenererande projekt leder till ettkunskapsbortfall. Undersökningen identifierar även den problematik som kan uppstå närolika fackspråk möts för att tillsammans generera en gemensam kunskapsbild.Many of our contemporary cities face increased urbanization, which can lead to greaterstrains and new challenges for urban planning to deal with. Smart cities are a reaction tothe increased complexity that cities face, as more people will have to compete for the samespace. One of these complexities is how urban mobility should be improved withoutcompromising other values. Today there is an extensive development of autonomousvehicles, which many believe may be a solution to mobility issues. An identified problem isthe great uncertainty, that derives from the lack of experience regarding autonomousvehicle effects in the city. This uncertainty creates a need for cross-sectorial collaborationbetween municipal planning and technology developing companies in order to achieve amore comprehensive knowledge base.A case study has been conducted in Gothenburg where representatives from municipalplanning, private industry, and a consulting company have been interviewed. Observationshave been conducted to gain an understanding of how the knowledge-making processlooks like between the public and private sector, this to get a picture of the challenges andopportunities that the various actors identify in relations to the implementation ofautonomous vehicles in the city's long-term planning. The results that have emerged in thiscase study points to problems that may arise when the delimitation of a knowledgegeneratingproject leads to a loss of knowledge. The study also identifies issues that mayarise when different technical languages meet to mutually generate a comprehensiveknowledge base.
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Andreasson, Carl. "Ensam är inte stark : En flerfallsstudie om samverkansprocesser inom södra Stockholms förorter." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182393.
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Studien är en flerfallsstudie med syftet att undersöka vilka utmaningar tre samverkansprocesser inom fältet samhällsplanering i södra Stockholm ställs inför samt vilka motiv som ligger bakom samverkansprocesserna. Neoliberalismen är idag ett faktum och påverkar samhällsplaneringen då fler aktörer finns med inom fältet som tidigare dominerats av offentlig sektor (Brenner & Theodore, 2002). Governance står för förändrade omständigheter under vilka samhället styrs, där governance är metoden för det nya styrsättet. Governance kan uttrycka sig i nätverksliknande arrangemang likt samverkansprocesserna som föreliggande studie berör. Samverkansprocesserna ses som en variant av privat-offentliga nätverk som enligt governanceteorin kan skapa en förskjutning av makt, från folkvalda politiker till privata företag (Hedlund & Montin, 2009). Inom studien undersöks hur demokratiska värden uttrycks i samverkansprocesserna och hur detta kan påverka den representativa demokratimodellen. Detta studeras genom intervjuer med fyra intervjupersoner som arbetar med samverkansprocesserna, dessutom används dokumentanalys som metod. Resultaten visar att governance präglar de tre studerade samverkansprocesserna. Samverkansprocesserna uppfyller olika demokratiska värden. Hur dessa kan anses vara legitima inom den representativa demokratimodellen är däremot en aspekt som behöver studeras vidare.This study is a multiple-case study with the aim of examining the challenges that three collaboration processes in community planning in southern Stockholm face and the motives behind the collaboration processes. Neoliberalism affects urban and regional planning as more actors are included in the field, a field that was previously dominated by the public sector (Brenner & Theodore, 2002). Governance stands for changing circumstances under which society is governed, where governance is the method for a new way of governing. Governance can express itself in network-like arrangements similar to the collaboration processes involved in the present study. The collaboration processes are, as seen in this study, a variant of private-public networks that, according to governance theory, can create a shift in power from elected politicians to private companies (Hedlund & Montin, 2009). The study examines how democratic values are expressed in the collaboration processes and how this can affect the representative democracy model. This is studied through interviews with four interviewees working on the collaboration processes, and document analysis is also used as a method. The results show that governance characterizes the three studied collaboration processes. The collaboration processes fulfil different democratic values. However, how these can be considered legitimate within the representative model of democracy is an aspect that needs further study.
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Pearce-Neudorf, Justin. "Collaborative Innovation: A shared discourse within Phnom Penh’s co-working community?" Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21654.
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This paper explores the existence of a shared community involving the members, users and organisers of three collaborative work spaces located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Situated as part of an emergent global phenomenon, these spaces, despite having notable differences, share many important features and are, I argue, part of a knowledge exchanging cluster of grassroots entrepreneurialism and innovation-oriented organisations, groups and events in the Phnom Penh area. I explore this cluster as a community in two ways: firstly through the mapping of a knowledge architecture locating the spaces and their actors as nodes within a flow of relationships and activities, secondly, via a networked ethnographic inquiry tracing these flows to actors within the network through qualitative research methods. In doing so I reveal the degree to which there exists a shared community perceived by the users and organisers of these spaces as well highlighting potential opportunities for greater sharing of knowledge, ideas and experience. The paper finds that though a nascent community does exist, there is still significant variance in the levels of cognisance of this community by the different actors as well as in the approach to its engagement. Despite this, there remains, in large part, a shared set of goals and values paving the way for future community collaboration.
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Pozo, Manuel. "Towards Accurate and Scalable Recommender Systems." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CNAM1061/document.
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Les systèmes de recommandation visent à présélectionner et présenter en premier les informations susceptibles d'intéresser les utilisateurs. Ceci a suscité l'attention du commerce électronique, où l'historique des achats des utilisateurs sont analysés pour prédire leurs intérêts futurs et pouvoir personnaliser les offres ou produits (appelés aussi items) qui leur sont proposés. Dans ce cadre, les systèmes de recommandation exploitent les préférences des utilisateurs et les caractéristiques des produits et des utilisateurs pour prédire leurs préférences pour des futurs items. Bien qu'ils aient démontré leur précision, ces systèmes font toujours face à de grands défis tant pour le monde académique que pour l'industrie : ces techniques traitent un grand volume de données qui exige une parallélisation des traitements, les données peuvent être également très hétérogènes, et les systèmes de recommandation souffrent du démarrage à froid, situation dans laquelle le système n'a pas (ou pas assez) d'informations sur (les nouveaux) utilisateurs/items pour proposer des recommandations précises. La technique de factorisation matricielle a démontré une précision dans les prédictions et une simplicité de passage à l'échelle. Cependant, cette approche a deux inconvénients : la complexité d'intégrer des données hétérogènes externes (telles que les caractéristiques des items) et le démarrage à froid pour un nouvel utilisateur. Cette thèse a pour objectif de proposer un système offrant une précision dans les recommandations, un passage à l'échelle pour traiter des données volumineuses, et permettant d'intégrer des données variées sans remettre en question l'indépendance du système par rapport au domaine d'application. De plus, le système doit faire face au démarrage à froid utilisateurs car il est important de fidéliser et satisfaire les nouveaux utilisateurs. Cette thèse présente quatre contributions au domaine des systèmes de recommandation: (1) nous proposons une implémentation d'un algorithme de recommandation de factorisation matricielle parallélisable pour assurer un meilleur passage à l'échelle, (2) nous améliorons la précision des recommandations en prenant en compte l'intérêt implicite des utilisateurs dans les attributs des items, (3) nous proposons une représentation compacte des caractéristiques des utilisateurs/items basée sur les filtres de bloom permettant de réduire la quantité de mémoire utile, (4) nous faisons face au démarrage à froid d'un nouvel utilisateur en utilisant des techniques d'apprentissage actif. La phase d'expérimentation utilise le jeu de données MovieLens et la base de données IMDb publiquement disponibles, ce qui permet d'effectuer des comparaisons avec des techniques existantes dans l'état de l'art. Ces expérimentations ont démontré la précision et l'efficacité de nos approchesRecommender Systems aim at pre-selecting and presenting first the information in which users may be interested. This has raised the attention of the e-commerce, where the interests of users are analysed in order to predict future interests and to personalize the offers (a.k.a. items). Recommender systems exploit the current preferences of users and the features of items/users in order to predict their future preference in items.Although they demonstrate accuracy in many domains, these systems still face great challenges for both academia and industry: they require distributed techniques to deal with a huge volume of data, they aim to exploit very heterogeneous data, and they suffer from cold-start, situation in which the system has not (enough) information about (new) users/items to provide accurate recommendations. Among popular techniques, Matrix Factorization has demonstrated high accurate predictions and scalability to parallelize the analysis among multiple machines. However, it has two main drawbacks: (1) difficulty of integrating external heterogeneous data such as items' features, and (2) the cold-start issue. The objective of this thesis is to answer to many challenges in the field of recommender systems: (1) recommendation techniques deal with complex analysis and a huge volume of data; in order to alleviate the time consumption of analysis, these techniques need to parallelize the process among multiple machines, (2) collaborative filtering techniques do not naturally take into account the items' descriptions in the recommendation, although this information may help to perform more accurate recommendations, (3) users' and items' descriptions in very large dataset contexts can become large and memory-consuming; this makes data analysis more complex, and (4) the new user cold-start is particularly important to perform new users' recommendations and to assure new users fidelity. Our contributions to this area are given by four aspects: (1) we improve the distribution of a matrix factorization recommendation algorithm in order to achieve better scalability, (2) we enhance recommendations performed by matrix factorization by studying the implicit interest of the users in the attributes of the items, (3) we propose an accurate and low-space binary vector based on Bloom Filters for representing users/items through a high quantity of features in low memory-consumption, and (4) we cope with the new user cold-start in collaborative filtering by using active learning techniques. The experimentation phase uses the publicly available MovieLens dataset and IMDb database, what allows to perform fair comparisons to the state of the art. Our contributions demonstrate their performance in terms of accuracy and efficiency
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Olave, Jara Michael, and Carl Sandqvist. "Kooperativt Lärande : Några metoder i ett internationellt perspektiv." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, matematik och samhälle (NMS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-41431.
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Abstract Denna kunskapsöversikt har genomförts för att få svar på frågan “Vilka metoder för kooperativt lärande används i matematikundervisningen i Sverige samt resten av världen, och hur effektiva kan de vara?”. Översikten ser över flera olika metoder och koncept, dessa är; TPS, STAD, TAI, peer collaboration och Jigsaw. Även hur de används i de olika länderna som studierna gjorts i, undersöks. Dessa metoder och koncept valdes då flera studier satte dessa i fokus. Kunskapsöversikten ser även över ifall metoderna är effektivare än den traditionella undervisningen som används i dessa länder. Kunskapsöversikten har utförts med hjälp av en sökprocess i sökmotorn “LibSearch”. Sökorden “cooperative learning” och “mathematics” har varit utgångspunkten för sökningar kring frågan. Även sökordet “methods” har använts när studier kring metoder i kooperativt lärande var viktigt att hitta. Resultaten visar att kooperativt lärande samt deras metoder är mer effektiva än traditionell undervisning i matematik. Kooperativt lärande kan även delas in i två olika beskrivningar; ett metodfokuserat arbetssätt, som fokuserar på att använda den bästa metoden, och ett kooperativfokuserat, som fokuserar på att arbetsformen för eleverna uppfyller kravet för att ses som kooperativt. Länder som inte arbetat kooperativt men infört det får även en högre effekt än länder som redan har infört det, men skiftar metod. Det identifierades även att TAI och STAD var två metoder som fungerade bra i de klassrum där kooperativt lärande introducerades. Fortsatt jämförande av de två metodernas arbetssätt är något som kan forskas vidare om för att få ytterligare information om någon metod är den mest effektiva. Nyckelord: Jigsaw, kooperativt lärande, peer collaboration, samarbete, STAD, Sverige, TAI, TPS
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Thomas, Arne [Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] Werwatz, Linus [Akademischer Betreuer] Dahlander, Axel [Gutachter] Werwatz, and Linus [Gutachter] Dahlander. "Empirical essays on the role of stars in collaborative organizations / Arne Thomas ; Gutachter: Axel Werwatz, Linus Dahlander ; Axel Werwatz, Linus Dahlander." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/118869748X/34.
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Weng, Li-Tung. "Information enrichment for quality recommender systems." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29165/1/Li-Tung_Weng_Citation.pdf.
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The explosive growth of the World-Wide-Web and the emergence of ecommerce are the major two factors that have led to the development of recommender systems (Resnick and Varian, 1997). The main task of recommender systems is to learn from users and recommend items (e.g. information, products or books) that match the users’ personal preferences.
Recommender systems have been an active research area for more than a decade. Many different techniques and systems with distinct strengths have been developed to generate better quality recommendations. One of the main factors that affect recommenders’ recommendation quality is the amount of information resources that are available to the recommenders. The main feature of the recommender systems is their ability to make personalised recommendations for different individuals. However, for many ecommerce sites, it is difficult for them to obtain sufficient knowledge about their users. Hence, the recommendations they provided to their users are often poor and not personalised. This information insufficiency problem is commonly referred to as the cold-start problem.
Most existing research on recommender systems focus on developing techniques to better utilise the available information resources to achieve better recommendation quality. However, while the amount of available data and information remains insufficient, these techniques can only provide limited improvements to the overall recommendation quality.
In this thesis, a novel and intuitive approach towards improving recommendation quality and alleviating the cold-start problem is attempted. This approach is enriching the information resources. It can be easily observed that when there is sufficient information and knowledge base to support recommendation making, even the simplest recommender systems can outperform the sophisticated ones with limited information resources. Two possible strategies are suggested in this thesis to achieve the proposed information enrichment for recommenders:
• The first strategy suggests that information resources can be enriched by considering other information or data facets. Specifically, a taxonomy-based recommender, Hybrid Taxonomy Recommender (HTR), is presented in this thesis. HTR exploits the relationship between users’ taxonomic preferences and item preferences from the combination of the widely available product taxonomic information and the existing user rating data, and it then utilises this taxonomic preference to item preference relation to generate high quality recommendations.
• The second strategy suggests that information resources can be enriched simply by obtaining information resources from other parties. In this thesis, a distributed recommender framework, Ecommerce-oriented Distributed Recommender System (EDRS), is proposed. The proposed EDRS allows multiple recommenders from different parties (i.e. organisations or ecommerce sites) to share recommendations and information resources with each other in order to improve their recommendation quality.
Based on the results obtained from the experiments conducted in this thesis, the proposed systems and techniques have achieved great improvement in both making quality recommendations and alleviating the cold-start problem.
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Weng, Li-Tung. "Information enrichment for quality recommender systems." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29165/.
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The explosive growth of the World-Wide-Web and the emergence of ecommerce are the major two factors that have led to the development of recommender systems (Resnick and Varian, 1997). The main task of recommender systems is to learn from users and recommend items (e.g. information, products or books) that match the users’ personal preferences.
Recommender systems have been an active research area for more than a decade. Many different techniques and systems with distinct strengths have been developed to generate better quality recommendations. One of the main factors that affect recommenders’ recommendation quality is the amount of information resources that are available to the recommenders. The main feature of the recommender systems is their ability to make personalised recommendations for different individuals. However, for many ecommerce sites, it is difficult for them to obtain sufficient knowledge about their users. Hence, the recommendations they provided to their users are often poor and not personalised. This information insufficiency problem is commonly referred to as the cold-start problem.
Most existing research on recommender systems focus on developing techniques to better utilise the available information resources to achieve better recommendation quality. However, while the amount of available data and information remains insufficient, these techniques can only provide limited improvements to the overall recommendation quality.
In this thesis, a novel and intuitive approach towards improving recommendation quality and alleviating the cold-start problem is attempted. This approach is enriching the information resources. It can be easily observed that when there is sufficient information and knowledge base to support recommendation making, even the simplest recommender systems can outperform the sophisticated ones with limited information resources. Two possible strategies are suggested in this thesis to achieve the proposed information enrichment for recommenders:
• The first strategy suggests that information resources can be enriched by considering other information or data facets. Specifically, a taxonomy-based recommender, Hybrid Taxonomy Recommender (HTR), is presented in this thesis. HTR exploits the relationship between users’ taxonomic preferences and item preferences from the combination of the widely available product taxonomic information and the existing user rating data, and it then utilises this taxonomic preference to item preference relation to generate high quality recommendations.
• The second strategy suggests that information resources can be enriched simply by obtaining information resources from other parties. In this thesis, a distributed recommender framework, Ecommerce-oriented Distributed Recommender System (EDRS), is proposed. The proposed EDRS allows multiple recommenders from different parties (i.e. organisations or ecommerce sites) to share recommendations and information resources with each other in order to improve their recommendation quality.
Based on the results obtained from the experiments conducted in this thesis, the proposed systems and techniques have achieved great improvement in both making quality recommendations and alleviating the cold-start problem.
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Johansson, Jonas, and Kenneth Runnman. "A sentiment analysis approach to manage the new item problem of Slope One." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-208667.
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This report targets a specific problem for recommender algorithms which is the new item problem and propose a method with sentiment analysis as the main tool. Collaborative filtering algorithms base their predictions on a database with users and their corresponding ratings to items. The new item problem occurs when a new item is introduced in the database because the item has no ratings. The item will therefore be unavailable as a recommendation for the users until it has gathered some ratings. Products that can be rated by users in the online community often has experts that get access to these products before its release date for the consumers, this can be taken advantage of in recommender systems. The experts can be used as initial guides for predictions. The method that is used in this report relies on sentiment analysis to translate written reviews by experts into a rating based on the sentiment of the text. This way when a new item is added it is also added with the ratings of experts in the field. The result from this study shows that the recommender algorithm slope one can generate more reliable recommendations with a group of expert users than without when a new item is added to the database. The expert users that is added must have ratings for other items as well as the ratings for the new item to get more accurate recommendations.Denna rapport studerar påverkan av problemet med nya objekt i rekommendationsalgoritmen Slope One och en metod föreslås i rapporten för att lösa det specifika problemet. Problemet uppstår när ett nytt objekt läggs till i en databas då det inte finns några betyg som getts till objektet/produkten. Då rekommendationsalgoritmer som Slope One baserar sina rekommendationer på relationerna mellan användares betyg av filmer så blir träffsäkerheten låg för en rekommendation av en film med få betyg. Metoden som föreslås i rapporten involverar attitydanalys som det huvudsakliga verktyget för att få information som kan ersätta faktiska betyg som användare gett en produkt. När produkter kan bli betygsatta av användare på olika forum på internet så finns det ofta experter får tillgång till produkten innan den släpps till omvärlden, den information som dessa experter har kan användas för att fylla det informationsgap som finns när ett nytt objekt läggs till. Dessa experter kommer då initiellt att användas som guide för rekomendationssystemet. Så när ett nytt objekt läggs till så görs det tillsammans med betyg från experter för att få mer träffsäkra rekomendationer. Resultatet från denna studie visar att Slope One genererar mer träffsäkra rekommendationer då en ny produkt läggs till i databasen med ett antal betyg som genererats genom attitydanalysanalys på experters textrecensioner. Det är värt att notera att ett betyg enbart för dessa expertanvändare inte håller utan experterna måste ha betyg av andra produkter inom samma område för kunna influera rekommendationer för den nya produkten.
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Thell, Anna-Jackelin. "Mäns våld mot kvinnor i nära relationer : En kvalitativ studie om hur samverkan fungerar mellan två myndigheter och en ideell organisation i Västerås stad." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-48755.
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In 2006, the Swedish government established the gender equality policy "women and men should have the same power to shape the society and their own lives", together with six sub-goals. This thesis has examined the governments sixth equality sub-goal "men's violence against women should cease". There is a national strategy to prevent and combat this violence, where collaboration is highlighted as an important factor. The thesis also elevates how men´s violence against women in close relationships is currently a global societal problem that extends beyond categories such as social class, ethnicity, age et cetera. The aim of this thesis was to investigate how the local collaboration is structured and worksbetween the police, social services and the women's shelter in Västerås, regarding the implementation of the governments sixth equality sub-goal. A qualitative method was used in form of semi-structured interviews to answer the purpose and the questions of the thesis. Two employees from each authority and a non-profit organization were selected as informants, determined through three categories. The theoretical framework was based both on a collaborative theory and an implementation theory. The result showed that collaboration is necessary as a method while working for women who are vulnerable to violence in order for them to receive adequate support and assistance. It´s also important for the employees, since no individual authority or organization can be responsible to solve men's violence against women. Currently, the collaboration between the three actors in Västerås work relatively well. However, this thesis shows that more resources need to be invested in the collaboration. Communication needs to be improved and clearer goals that formulates the legitimacy of everyone participating in the collaboration work need to be set. The conclusion partly shows that collaboration needs, not only to exist, but also be prioritized at all levels of the institutions working with this issue. Even politicians need to prioritize and invest resources that may enable a well-functioning collaboration which is vital for the work against men’s violence against women.
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Bertin, Clarice. "Driving factors for symbiotic collaborations between startups and large firms in open innovation ecosystems." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/restreint/theses_doctorat/Bertin_Clarice_2020_ED221.pdf.
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La collaboration entre startups et grandes entreprises s’avère de plus en plus nécessaire dans le contexte actuel d’innovation ouverte, d’accélération de la demande du marché et donc de course de plus en plus rapide à l’innovation. Ces partenaires asymétriques présentent toutefois des différences notoires qui peuvent générer une distance entre eux, susceptible de mettre en péril le projet de collaboration. Au-delà de la dyade, d’autres acteurs de l’écosystème, en particulier les intermédiaires de l’innovation, participent également au projet de collaboration. L’objectif de cette thèse est de faire émerger les facteurs favorisant la collaboration symbiotique entre startups et grandes entreprises, basés sur une indépendance organisationnelle et financière des acteurs. Cette thèse vise également à montrer l’intérêt du recours à l’analogie avec la symbiose biologique entre symbiotes interagissant dans un écosystème donné. Il s’agit ainsi de mettre en exergue les facteurs d’équilibre de la relation, dans une optique gagnant-gagnant. Partant des différences mises en lumière à travers la distance cognitive, cette recherche propose d’étudier le phénomène de la collaboration startup - grande entreprise selon une approche exploratoire et une méthode mixte, qualitative et quantitative, basée sur la méthode des cas. L’étude de 38 cas réalisée (ayant conduit à une collecte de données auprès de 53 répondants sous forme d’entretiens et de questionnaire) propose une approche temporelle, multi-perspectives et holistique, mobilisant le cadre théorique de la proximité (géographique, cognitive, sociale, organisationnelle) et celui des capacités dynamiques. Cette recherche a donné lieu à quatre articles conduisant à plusieurs contributions théoriques et managériales. En premier lieu, l’étude selon la perspective des startups a permis d’identifier les facteurs favorisant la proximité et la collaboration entre startups et grandes entreprises en fonction de quatre niveaux : intra-organisationnel de la grande entreprise, intra-organisationnel de la startup, inter-organisationnel et écosystémique. La poursuite de l’exploration a mis en lumière la complémentarité des compétences des équipes fondatrices de startups, en comparaison avec les startupers solos, et qui est source de proximité avec les grandes entreprises. La suite de l’étude, selon la perspective des grandes entreprises, a mis en évidence l’importance d’un management fondé sur l’intelligence collective ainsi que de l’évolution du rôle des managers intermédiaires des grandes entreprises dans l’implémentation d’une stratégie d’innovation ouverte intégrant une variété d’acteurs, telles que les startups. Enfin, l’étude de la perspective des intermédiaires de l’innovation quant à leurs rôles dans le développement de la collaboration startup - grande entreprise a permis de faire émerger ces différents rôles selon trois phases de la construction de la collaboration, dont celui de constituer une ressource externe pour la grande entreprise pour la régénération de ses capacités dynamiques. Une contribution transversale est également l’identification et l’opérationnalisation des 2+1 phases de la collaboration suivant un axe chronologique : les phases Amont, de Design et de Processus de la collaborationCollaboration between startups and large firms is becoming increasingly necessary in the current context of open innovation, accelerating market demand and thus the increasingly rapid race to innovate. These asymmetrical partners, however, present significant differences that can generate a distance between them that can jeopardize the collaboration project. Beyond the dyad, other actors of the ecosystem, in particular innovation intermediaries, also participate in the collaborative project. The objective of this thesis is to bring out the factors fostering symbiotic collaboration between startups and large firms, based on an organizational and financial independence of the actors. This thesis also aims to show the interest of using the analogy with the biological symbiosis between symbionts interacting in a given ecosystem. The aim is thus to highlight the balance factors of the relationship, in a win-win perspective. Starting from the differences brought to light through cognitive distance, this research proposes to study the phenomenon of startup - large firm collaboration according to an exploratory approach and a mixed qualitative and quantitative method, based on the case method. The study of 38 cases carried out (leading to a data collection from 53 respondents in the form of interviews and survey) proposes a time-based, multi-perspective and holistic approach, mobilizing the theoretical framework of proximity (geographical, cognitive, social, organizational) and that of dynamic capabilities. This research resulted in four articles leading to several theoretical and managerial contributions. Firstly, the study from the startup's perspective allowed to identify the factors fostering proximity and collaboration between startups and large firms according to four levels: intra-organizational of the large firm, intra-organizational of the startup, inter-organizational and ecosystemic. Further exploration has then highlighted the complementary skills of startup founding teams, compared to solo startuppers, which is a source of proximity to large firms. The continuation of the study, from the perspective of large firms, brought to light the importance of a management based on collective intelligence as well as the evolving role of middle managers in large firms in the implementation of an open innovation strategy integrating a variety of actors, such as startups. Finally, the study of the perspective of innovation intermediaries regarding their roles in the development of startup - large firm collaboration has allowed these different roles to emerge according to three phases of the collaboration construction, including that of constituting an external resource for the large firm for the regeneration of its dynamic capabilities. A transversal contribution is also the identification and operationalization of the 2+1 phases of the collaboration along a chronological axis: the Upstream, Design and Process phases of the collaboration
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Younkman, Freddy W. "The Impact of Teacher Professional Development on Student Achievement at a North Texas High School as Measured by End-of-Course Assessments in Algebra I and English Language Arts." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248429/.
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The purpose of this study determined if a significant relationship existed between the amount of professional development that teachers participated in and the impact on the classroom instruction that followed. The goal was to study the effect that this had on student achievement in the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) for English 1 and Algebra 1 for students at a large north Texas high school. Testing years for the study included the school years 2013-14, 2014-15, and 2015-16. Additional variables included the work in three areas of teacher professional development over the three-year period. Fourteen teachers, in two subjects, were studied in their implementation of classroom instruction. Particular attention was given to the instructional changes, and the number of hours of professional development in the areas of instruction, technology, and differentiation. Teachers were given opportunities to participate in 18 hours of professional development in all three areas in each of the three years. Teachers were then asked to incorporate the work that they completed each year into their day to day classroom instruction. The goal of the implementation of the professional development in addition to the curricular specifics regarding instruction of state standards was expected to produce increased state scale score marks for the students in the classes. Results of the study indicated success for students in the area of English 1 end-of-course assessment. From the beginning of the study, where student success rates in English state assessment was calculated at 47% overall passing rate, to the completion of the study, where student success was charted at 70% overall passing rate, significant changes were noted. In addition to the improvements made in English I, there were also significant changes made in the approaches to the Algebra 1 assessment. Classroom instructional practices were noted as much improved, and professional learning community collaboration produced significant classroom instructional improvements.
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Hjorth, Isis Amelie. "Networked cultural production : filmmaking in the Wreckamovie community." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c5baae87-6667-463a-bef2-b22d25c75896.
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This thesis challenges core assumptions associated with the peer production of culture using the web-based collaborative film production platform Wreckamovie to understand how peer production works in practice. Active cultural participation is a growing political priority for many governments and cultural bodies, but these priorities are often implemented without a basis in empirical evidence, making it necessary for rigorous scholarship to tackle emerging networked cultural production. Existing work portrays peer production efforts as unrealistically distinct from proprietary, market-based production, incorrectly suggesting that peer production allows distributed, non-monetarily motivated, collaboration between self-selected individuals in hierarchy-free communities. In overcoming these assumptions, this thesis contributes to the development of a consolidated theoretical framework encompassing the complicated and multifaceted nature of networked cultural production. This theoretical framing extends Bourdieu’s theory of cultural production and reconciles it with Becker’s Art Worlds framework, and further embeds and draws on Benkler’s notion of commons-based peer production. Concretely, this research tackles the emergence of new collaborative production models enabled by networked technologies, and theorizes the tensions and challenges characterizing such production forms. Secondly, this thesis redefines cultural participation and considers the divisions of labour in online filmmaking materializing from the interactions between professional and non-professional filmmakers. Finally, this study considers the social economies surrounding networked cultural production, including crowdfunding, and characterizes associated conversions of capital, such as the conversion of symbolic capital into financial capital. Methodologically, this thesis employs an embedded case study strategy. It examines four feature film productions facilitated by the online platform Wreckamovie, as well as the online community within which these productions are embedded. The four production cases have completed all production stages, and have resulted in completed cultural goods during the course of data collection. This study’s findings were derived from two and half years of participant observations, interviews with 29 Wreckamovie community and production members, and the examination of archived production-related discourses (2006-2013). Ultimately, this study makes concrete proposals towards a theory of networked cultural production with clear policy implications.
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剛士, 大平, and Tsuyoshi Ohira. "日本の介護サービス組織における連携と組織の有効性." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13106300/?lang=0, 2019. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13106300/?lang=0.
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日本の介護サービス組織における連携が組織の有効性（介護職の職務満足や職場継続意思、また介護サービス組織のケアの質の管理や効率性）に与える影響を探索し、施設と訪問介護の組織構造が連携や有効性に与える影響、および組織連携と有効性の関係に対する組織構造の調整効果を検証した。その結果、連携は効率性の一部を除いて組織の有効性を高めること、また組織構造は連携と有効性に対して、個別に影響を与えることが明らかになった。博士(技術・革新的経営)
Doctor of Philosophy in Technology and Innovative Management
同志社大学
Doshisha University
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Tecklenburg, Gerhard. "Design of body assemblies with distributed tasks under the support of parametric associative design (PAD)." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5809.
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This investigation identifies how CAD models of typical automotive body assemblies could be defined to allow a continuous optimisation of the number of iterations required for the final design and the number of variants on the basis of Parametric Associative Design (PAD) and how methodologies for the development of surfaces, parts and assemblies of the automotive body can be represented and structured for a multiple re-use in a collaborative environment of concept phase of a Product Evolution (Formation) Process (PEP). The standardisation of optimised processes and methodologies and the enhanced interaction between all parties involved in product development could lead to improve product quality and reduce development time and hence expenses. The fundamental principles of PAD, the particular methodologies used in automotive body design and the principles of methodical development and design in general are investigated. The role which automotive body engineers play throughout the activities of the PEP is also investigated. The distribution of design work in concept teams of automotive body development and important methodologies for the design of prismatic profile areas is critically analysed. To address the role and distribution of work, 25 group work projects were carried out in cooperation with the automotive industry. Large assemblies of the automotive bodies were developed. The requirements for distributed design work have been identified and improved. The results of the investigation point towards a file based, well structured administration of a concept design, with a zone based approach. The investigation was extended to the process chain of sections, which are used for development of surfaces, parts and assemblies. Important methods were developed, optimised and validated with regard to an update safe re-use of 3D zone based CAD models instead of 2D sections. The thesis presents a thorough description of the research undertaken, details the experimental results and provides a comprehensive analysis of them. Finally it proposes a unique methodology to a zone based approach with a clearly defined process chain of sections for an update-safe re-use of design models.
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Vice, President Research Office of the. "Newswire." Office of the Vice President Research, The University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2661.
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UBC's research community recently received a significant boost in financial support for five research hubs that will join the Centre for Brain Health as newly appointed national Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR).
Two UBC economics professors were recognized with separate Bank of Canada awards: the Research Fellowship 2008 and the Governor's Award.
UBC's Brain Research Centre has recevied $25 million from the Province of BC to establish a new facility focused on translational brain research.
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Kranjc, Gregor Joseph. "Between the star and the swastika : Slovene collaboration and national identity, 1941--1945 /." 2006. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=442398&T=F.
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Jheng, Yu-Ting, and 鄭宇婷. "The Dynamic Prediction Model of Number of Star of Software Crowdsourcing Collaboration Development Projects." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z9f9hs.
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Software Crowdsourcing Collaboration Development is an online platform for providing centralized management of project code. In recent years, many enterprise projects are developed by software collaboration development are not internal development. They expect to develop the project through the power of crowd. However, there is extreme gap of the number of star between software projects even in the famous companies. Therefore, the project development needs a way to effectively predict the number of star and understand how to plan the project specification design, such as the program language, the number of project owners, or the size of the documentation, in order to attract more star in the project. Compared with past static prediction models, our designed dynamic models can dynamically add the parameters of user participation and predict the adjustments of models. Finally, the prediction models is verified by cross validation. Research result：(1) The models which adds the parameters of user participation is more accurate than the models that does not. (2) The crowdsourcing construction will gradually be higher than the project construction on the impact of the number of star. Therefore, the prediction models of number of star needs to consider the user participation factors. In the late of project, the resources of project development should gradually transfer from the project development to the user interaction and project discussion
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Chih-Hsiang, Shen, and 沈志翔. "The Innovation Value of Collaboration Between Flow in Star Inventor and Inventors in Corporation: The Moderate Effect of Knowledge Similarity and Network Centrality." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95790585740608416045.
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Owing to new patent category, new issues patient represents new products and new opportunity for corporation and that is the reason why we want to discuss the organization new patent category and new issues patient; and further, We focus on impact of the collaborate frequency of flow inventor with organization intra-inventor on organization new patients and new patient category. But what person that they collaborate can make them a better performance? What the situation maybe inventors are not suitable for collaboration? So, we used the inventor knowledge similarity and network central to be moderator. This research data come from Gartner database and the USPTO patent database. After collecting data and calculating variables, we used SPSS17.0 statistical software to analysis. Finally, I had four consequences: (1) If flow star inventor collaborate with intra-organization inventor more, the innovation performance will be poor. (2) If the centrality of intra-organization inventor is higher, it will weaken the negative impact of flow star inventor collaborate with intra-organization inventor on the innovation performance. (3) If the centrality of intra-organization inventor is higher, it will weaken the negative impact of flow star inventor collaborate with intra-organization inventor on the innovation performance.
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Brinkman, Dane A. "Supporting families through collaboration : an analysis of Oregon Even Start partnerships." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/33446.
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In recent years interorganizational collaboration has increasingly been
emphasized as an important step for addressing inefficiencies in the delivery of human
services. Among the many benefits of collaboration described by human service authors
are the creation of a more consumer-friendly service system, more efficient use of
available resources, and avoiding service duplication. During the Spring and Summer of
1996, six focus groups were conducted in Oregon to assess the quality of collaboration
between local social service providers and Even Start, a federally funded family literacy
program. The federal Even Start legislation required that all Even Start programs
collaborate with social service providers in their local communities to improve services
for families and avoid duplication of services.
This study examined data from the Even Start focus groups using a three-level hierarchical model to determine the approximate level of collaboration that existed in each of six Even Start communities. Results of the analysis indicated that collaboration in
three of the six Even Start communities was at or near coordination, the middle level of the three-level model. Collaboration in the other three communities appeared to be somewhere below the lowest level of the model, cooperation. Although agencies at such
a minimal level of collaboration may consider each other partners, they are likely to have
limited knowledge about each other's operations and clients.
Because three of six Even Start communities fit below the lowest level of the
model, the model had limited utility for this analysis. However, for interagency
relationships at higher levels, the model was effective in helping to find the approximate
intensity of collaboration. Although the primary focus of the model used in this analysis
was on collaboration intensity, a comprehensive evaluation of collaboration would
include numerous additional variables, especially outcomes related to the purposes of the
interagency relationship.
Several lessons learned during the course of this study have implications for future research. First, by creating data sets that are amenable to examination from multiple perspectives, qualitative methods offer unique flexibility for data collection in secondary circumstances such as the present study. Second, it is likely that collaboration in occurs in varied patterns, few of which resemble the highest levels of collaboration advocated by authors in the field. Finally, rather than broadly encouraging human service organizations to move toward the highest levels of collaboration, researchers need to provide answers to basic questions about what forms of collaboration are most helpful, in which circumstances, and why.Graduation date: 1999
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"Circle of stars: Faculty collaboration in the glow of broadcasting. A participatory action research study." NATIONAL-LOUIS UNIVERSITY, 2007. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3258422.
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Souza, Caio Mendes. "A framework for identification, selection and collaboration of Corporations with Start-ups within Open Innovation." Master's thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/121642.
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"Bridging the Divide: Why Landscape Architects Should Start Preaching to the Choir." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55637.
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abstract: While Lynn White’s 1967 article, The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, ignited a firestorm of controversy regarding the relationship between religion, particularly Christianity, and the environment, the testing of White’s hypothesis, that Christians are anthropocentric and anti-environment, has produced results that are significantly less clear. Additionally, little research has been conducted with experts in the field of Christianity, the clergy, adding to already significant gaps in the literature. The current research study helps fill that gap by providing the perspective of clergy on the relationship between Christianity and the environment. This qualitative study uses in-depth interviews to assess the topics of importance to members of the clergy within the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan region as well as their professional perspective of the relationship between religion and the environment. The results indicate that community is of great importance to leaders of faith-based organizations, but stewardship is also a primary foundation of the church. While no support was found for White’s hypothesis, a willingness to learn and a need for expertise on environmental issues was identified. In this regard, environmental professionals, specifically landscape architects, have been identified as the ideal group to provide the bridge between faith-based organizations and the environment.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Design, Environment and the Arts 2019