Rozprawy doktorskie: „Science and Technology Research Center”

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Ward, Elizabeth Buchanan. "Campus and consortium in an era of large-scale research: An historical study of the Virginia Associated Research Center, 1962-1967". W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618488.

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A large agency of the Federal Government, three public institutions of higher learning, and two agents of State Government in the Commonwealth of Virginia launched a federally funded research and education consortium in 1962. The Virginia Associated Research Center (VARC) promised great success. The University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and The College of William and Mary joined forces to provide the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center with a scientific research base and a graduate education program. The Commonwealth initially provided enthusiastic support from the Governor's office and from the State Council for Higher Education.;The three colleges agreed to cooperatively manage and operate the NASA Space Radiation Effects Laboratory on the Virginia Lower Peninsula. NASA funded the costs of operating the laboratory, gave the colleges research time for experiments and provided the colleges with large multidisciplinary grants. In return, the colleges were to set up graduate education programs for NASA employees. These graduate programs were to grant degrees from the respective institutions for course work taken at the VARC site on the Peninsula. The research function of the consortium proved to be more productive than the education function.;Certain criteria for successful and unsuccessful consortia were ascertained from the literature. VARC's characteristics were analyzed according to these specific criteria. The three institutions could not agree on how to operate the facility. Inherently weak governance structures in the consortium led to the failure of the venture; after only five years, the consortium dissolved. The Governor of Virginia placed the Center under the auspices of the college nearest the Peninsula, The College of William and Mary. Though unsuccessful as a consortium, VARC became a means to achievement for the three colleges. Each of the three gained stronger, more reputable physics departments and two of the institutions achieved modern university status. A qualitative analysis emerges as the consortium's operation and characteristics unfold through oral history. The study details circumstances which led to VARC's demise and simultaneously describes a key transitional period for The College of William and Mary in its three hundred year history.

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Boschi, Frank Carl. "Best practices for building and maintaining university-industry research partnerships a case study of two National Science Foundation engineering research centers /". Diss., Connect to this title online Connect to this title online (alternative address), 2005. http://www.montana.edu/etd/available/boschi%5F0805.html.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2005.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on June 10, 2006). Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Larry Baker. Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224).

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Earl, Emily Charlotte. "I Still Play: Exploring Play and Creativity in Early Adulthood Amongst Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics Professionals". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/594957.

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Play is acknowledged as a fundamental need and right of the human experience. However, across the human lifespan is not always valued. Research on play has traditionally been on children, and while some attention is now being paid to older adults, there is little scholarship regarding play in adulthood. This exploratory study examined how early adulthood (25-40 years old) play, the influence playing has on creativity and career performance, and implications for future research on play. The study was completed utilizing traditional and non-traditional research methods with the intent to incorporate the participants' voice and perspectives into a human-centered research design. The end results of this study, demonstrated that early adults engage in a number of play experiences that shape their development and learning as well as influence their creativity and work performance. The use of human-centered research provided participants with the opportunity to individualize data collection, analyze results, and have a voice in the final product.

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Boardman, Paul Craig. "University research centers and the composition of academic work". Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11172006-161054/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007.
Barry Bozeman, Committee Member ; Juan Rogers, Committee Chair ; Diana Hicks, Committee Member ; Gordon Kingsley, Committee Member ; Phil Shapira, Committee Member.

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Sakaria, Kristoffer, Anna Karin Fahlander i Slawomir Dawid. "Minor Field Study : Tanzania OnLAN - Infrastructure, computers and learning. Introducing Information Technology in Montessori Training Centre?s Work Practice". Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap och medieteknik, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3214.

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This project focuses on the installation, teaching, and developing Information Technology in a self-maintained collective organisation: the Montessori Training Centre, Lushoto, Tanzania. Our practical endeavour consists in implementing modern technology in this environment. We have organised teachings for the staff of this organisation based on basic knowledge in computer use. We also studied how Information Technology may be implemented and its impact on their schooling system, their administrative tasks as well as their business activities (such as hostel and small scale manufacturing). The expected result of our work is to provide the Montessori personnel with independent means of computer management with built-in facilities for extensions, as well as technical means to maintain their technical equipment.
Ett försök att introducera modern teknologi i en skola för montessori förskolelärare.
Kristoffer Sakaria, 0708-284551

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Maus, Benjamin. "Designing Usable Transparency for Mobile Health Research: The impact of transparency enhancing tools on the users’ trust in citizen science apps". Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21637.

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Medical researchers are exploring the potential of patients’ mobile phones and wearables for medical studies. The contribution of volunteers in a form of citizen science, where citizens donate their data for research purposes, can enable studies on a large scale. This research area, known as mobile health, often relies on shared data such as tracked steps or self- reporting forms. Privacy, transparency and trust play a fundamental role in the interaction of users with related platforms that agglomerate medical studies.This project explores privacy concerns of potential users of mobile health citizen science apps, summarises similar user patterns and analyses the impact of transparency enhancing tools on the users’ trust. In this context, a prototype with different features that aim to increase the transparency is designed, tested and evaluated. The results indicate how users perceive the importance and the generated trust of the proposed features and provide recommendations for data donation platforms.

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Tošić, Damjan, i Usman Tariq Bhatty. "Value Co-Creation & Proposition in Service Business Models & Eco-Systems – Interactions, Perspectives, Roles : 20 Manager Interviews in SMEs & MNCs 3 Case Studies from IBM (Leadership, Strategy, Technology, Services)". Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för företagsekonomi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-34812.

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The academic and business understanding of how Business Models through Service Logic co-creates, proposes, and captures value in extensive and complex Networked Systems is at its first daylight, specifically in the context of Service Systems with their Ecologies. With the complexity emerging in the Service Economies along with the advances in Information and Communication Technology such as the Cloud and Big Data, to describe and define the business operations, units, and value propositions consequently is done by business modeling and innovation of the company to acquire a current or new capitalization strategy, control and execution. Open Business Models such as the Business Model Canvas are easily integrated in existing or new Enterprises and Service Systems, and aim to facilitate the development of private as well as public entities in adapting, accessing, and integrating operant and operand resources by the ever-so-more used Service Logic. A Service Business Model has the academia and business recognized Service-Dominant Logic (S-D Logic) as a foundation for sensemaking in complex Networked Systems and Service Economies. The authors have conducted 20 face-to-face interviews with private and public company managers at all levels, review of literature in the Business Model and Service Logic fields, and also reviewed case studies from IBM on Business Models and its Leadership, Strategy and Technology (and Services) – which is a natural extension of our Interdisciplinary and Systems Sciences studies with S-D Logic at Karlstad Business School and Karlstad University for the past four years. The author’s research, interviews and IBM’s case studies show a need for further conceptualization and sensemaking of the Value Co-Creations and Propositions in Service Eco-System settings – and also decision-making assistance for managers designing, innovating and using Service Business Models to create sustainable Ecologies. Moreover, a Leadership perspective with a systems level strategy in Service Eco-Systems through externally-faced Value Propositions with the ability to create opportunities needs to be developed through a systems thinking. Furthermore, the quality of interaction, shared information, and influence in Dyad Perspective to facilitate Triad Relationships captures value – which is facilitated by the new Service Canvas Business Model. We argue for a multiple perspective in Service Business Models to cater both partner and customer perspective with internally- and externally-faced Value Propositions to Co-Create or Capture Value – we see that this requires an objective (objectification) foundation for consensus; the 4C model. We contend that Service Eco-Systems cannot scale or sustain without the proper use of Technology specifically Communication but also Information, which determine most of the quality in modern and digital service interactions and perspectives. Our interviews, reviews, and cumulative research in Service Business Models and Eco-Systems with IBM case studies are all strong foundations for current and future research but also for business practice today.

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Van, der Vyver Mathilda. "Designing a marketing strategy for the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology at Stellenboshc University". Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/15045.

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Thesis (MBA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (C+B) is a research centre that provides bursaries for post-graduate students to study in the field of "Invasion Biology". One of the goals of the centre is to ensure that 50% of the funded students are from previously disadvantaged groups. However, since its inception in 2004 it has consistently been unable to meet this goal. The researcher, who has insight in the centre's marketing activities and has knowledge of marketing, is of the opinion that the reason for this failure is due to the lack of knowledge of the target market and the lack of a targeted marketing strategy. As background this report investigates the theory related to marketing and whether this is applicable to a centre such as the C-I-B. The conclusion that the marketing theory is relevant to the C-I-B, lead to a market research project that informed the development of a marketing strategy suggestion which the researcher believes will address the stated problem. The report concludes with recommendations to other stakeholders who should address the deeper lying problems which surface at secondary school level.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Sentrum van Uitnemendheid vir Indringer Biologie (S-I-S) is 'n sentrum wat beurse voorsien vir nagraadse studente wat studeer in die veld van "Indringer Biologie". Een van die sentrum se doelwitte is om te verseker dat 50% van sy studente deur voorheen benadeelde groepe verteenwoordig word. Sedert sy ontstaan in 2004 kon die sentrum nog nooit hierdie doel bereik nie. Die navorser, wat insae het in die bemarkingsaktiwiteite van die sentrum en kennis dra van bemarkingsbeginsels, is van mening dat hierdie probleem die gevolg is van gebrekkige kennis van die teikenmark en 'n gebrek aan 'n gefokusde bemarkingsstrategie. As agtergrond ondersoek hierdie verslag die teorie ten opsigte van bemarking en of hierdie teorie relevant is vir 'n sentrum soos die S-I-B. Die gevolgtrekking was dat die teorie wel relevant is vir die S-I-B en het gelei tot 'n marknavorsingsprojek wat bygedra het tot die ontwikkeling van 'n bemarkingsstrategie voorstel, wat die navorser glo die probleem sal aanspreek. Die verslag sluit af met voorstelle aan die ander belanghebbendes wat verantwoordelikheid behoort te neem vir die dieperliggende probleme wat op sekondere vlak geidentifiseer is.

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Park, Mathew Soongmin. "The Center for Innovative Technology". Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53151.

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Columns and walls are reinvented in my experience while pursuing the project. It is my belief that architecture should be reinvented every time a building is designed and built.
Master of Architecture

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Lobel, Ruben. "Pricing and incentive design in applications of green technology subsidies and revenue management". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72846.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, 2012.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-147).
This thesis addresses three issues faced by firms and policy-makers when deciding how to price products and properly incentivize consumers. In the first part of the thesis, we focus on a firm attempting to dynamically adjust prices to maximize profits when facing uncertain demand, as for example airlines selling flights or hotels booking rooms. In particular, we develop a robust sampling-based optimization framework that minimizes the worst-case regret and dynamically adjusts the price according to the realization of demand. We propose a tractable optimization model that uses direct demand samples, where the confidence level of this solution can be obtained from the number of samples used. We further demonstrate the applicability of this approach with a series of numerical experiments and a case study using airline ticketing data. In the second part of the thesis, we propose a model for the adoption of solar photovoltaic technology by residential consumers. Using this model, we develop a framework for policy makers to find optimal subsidy levels in order to achieve a desired adoption target. The technology adoption process follows a discrete choice model, which is reinforced by network effects such as information spread and learning-by-doing. We validate the model through an empirical study of the German solar market, where we estimate the model parameters, generate adoption forecasts and demonstrate how to solve the policy design problem. We use this framework to show that the current policies in Germany could be improved by higher subsidies in the near future and a faster phase-out of the subsidy program. In the third part of the thesis, we model the interaction between a government and an industry player in a two-period game setting under uncertain demand. We show how the timing of decisions will affect the production levels and the cost of the subsidy program. In particular, we show that when the government commits to a fixed policy, it signals to the supplier to produce more in the beginning of the horizon. Consequently, a flexible policy is on average more expensive for the government than a committed policy.
by Ruben Lobel.
Ph.D.

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Gibson, Elizabeth Carole. "A Measurement System for Science and Engineering Research Center Performance Evaluation". PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3285.

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This research provides performance metrics for cooperative research centers that enhance translational research formed by the partnership of government, industry and academia. Centers are part of complex ecosystems that vary greatly in the type of science conducted, organizational structures and expected outcomes. The ability to realize their objectives depends on transparent measurement systems to assist in decision making in research translation. A generalizable, hierarchical decision model that uses both quantitative and qualitative metrics is developed based upon program goals. Mission-oriented metrics are used to compare the effectiveness of the cooperative research centers through case studies. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) industry university cooperative research center (IUCRC) program is the domain of organizational effectiveness because of its longevity, clear organizational structure, repeated use and availability of data. Not unlike a franchise business model, the program has been replicated numerous times gaining recognition as one of the most successful federally funded collaborative research center (CRC) programs. Understanding IUCRCs is important because they are a key US policy lever for enhancing translational research. While the program model is somewhat unique, the research project begins to close the gap for comparing CRCs by introducing a generalizable model and method into the literature stream. Through a literature review, program objectives, goals, and outputs are linked together to construct a four-level hierarchical decision model (HDM). A structured model development process shows how experts validate the content and construct of the model using these linked concepts. A subjective data collection approach is discussed showing how collection, analysis and quantification of expert pair-wise-comparison data is used to establish weights for each of the decision criteria. Several methods are discussed showing how inconsistency and disagreement are measured and analyzed until acceptable levels are reached. Six case studies are used to compare results, evaluate the impact of expert disagreement and conduct criterion-related validity. Comparative analysis demonstrates the ability of the model to efficiently ascertain criteria that are relatively more important towards each center's performance score. Applying this information, specific performance improvement recommendations for each center are presented. Upon review, experts generally agreed with the results. Criterion-related validity discusses how the performance measurement scoring system can be used for comparative analysis among science and engineering focused research centers. Dendrograms highlight where experts disagree and provide a method for further disagreement analysis. Judgment quantification values for different expert clusters are substituted into the model one-at-a-time (OAT) providing a method to analyze how changes in decisions based on these disagreements impact the results of the model's output. This research project contributes to the field by introducing a generalizable model and measurement system that compares performance of NSF supported science and engineering focused research centers.

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Barry, Andrew Michael. "The science of science : programmes of British space research". Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333979.

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Ramesh, Priya. "INSIGHT: SEMANTIC PROVENANCE AND ANALYSIS PLATFORM FOR MULTI-CENTER NEUROLOGY HEALTHCARE RESEARCH". Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1449067807.

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Hong, Xinting. "INTEGRATED DATA INTEGRATION AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS PLATFORM FOR MULTI-CENTER EPILEPSY RESEARCH". Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1562864784609067.

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Shi, H. (Henglin). "A GQM-based open research data technology evalution method in open research context". Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201605221853.

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Open Research Data is gaining popularity nowadays, and various research units and individuals are interested to join this trend. However, due to variety of Open Research Data technologies, they have found it is difficult to select proper ones for their specific requirements. Thus, a method for evaluating of Open Research Data related technologies is developed in this study for researchers to select proper ones. Firstly, the theoretical knowledge of research data sharing and reusing barriers is resulted from a structured literature review. As a result, from the 19 primary studies, 96 instances of existing barriers are identified and classified to seven categories, where four of them are research data sharing barriers and rest of them are reusing barriers. This knowledge is regarded as an important resource for understanding researchers’ requirements on Open Research Data technologies, and utilized to develop the technology evaluation method. Additionally, the Open Research Data Technology Evaluation Method (ORDTEM) is developed basing on the Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) approach and resulted research data sharing and reusing barriers. To develop this method, the GQM approach is adopted as the main skeleton to transform these barriers to measurable criterion. Consequently, the ORDTEM, which is consisting of six GQM evaluation questions and 14 metrics, is developed for researchers to evaluate Open Research Data technologies. Furthermore, to validate the GQM-based ORDTEM, a focus groups study is conducted in a workshop. In the workshop, nine researchers who has the need to participate Open Research Data related activities are recruited to form a focus group to discuss the resulted ORDTEM. And by analysing the content of the discussion, 16 critical opinions are addressed which resulted eight improvements including one refinement on an existing metric and seven new metrics to ORDTEM. Lastly, a testing process of applying ORDTEM to evaluate four selected Open Research Data technologies is implemented also for validating whether it can be used in solving real-world evaluation tasks. And more than the validation, this experiment also results the materials about usage of ORDTEM, which is useful for future adopters. However, more than developing the solution to eliminate the difficulty of selecting technologies for participating Open Research Data movements, this study also provides two additional contributions. For one thing, resulted research data sharing and reusing barriers also direct the future effort to prompt Open Research Data and Open Science. Moreover, the experience of utilizing the GQM approach to transform existing requirements to evaluation criterion is possible to be studied for developing other requirement-specific evaluation.

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Cole, Christopher John. "Research in Information Technology: Analysis of Existing Graduate Research". Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3184.pdf.

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Pack, Robert P., i J. Polaha. "Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health: The Science of Using Science". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1349.

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Löfstrand, Martin. "Att skapa förutsättningar för lärande på science center". Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-31845.

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Uppdraget som låg till grund för detta examensarbete var att utveckla Vattenfall Science Centers utställning och verksamhet. Uppdraget formulerades i ett syfte att studera hur sciencecentret som koncept kan utvecklas genom att pröva hur ett sociokulturellt perspektiv pålärande yttrar sig i skapandet av en interaktiv installation. Målet med arbetet är att föreslå hurett science center kan formas och utvecklas för att skapa förutsättningar för lärande.Arbetet delades upp i tre delar. Första delen består av en studie av litteratur med syfteatt få en övergripande bild av den forskning som berör lärande på museer. Målet var att belysaviktiga aspekter för lärande på museer. Andra delen består av arbetet med att formulera endidaktisk modell som svarar för vad, varför och hur ett ämne eller ämnesområde skapresenteras, samt att tillämpa den didaktiska modellen i skapandet av en interaktivinstallation. Tredje delen av arbetet består av en utvärdering av mötet mellan den skapadeinstallationen och dess användare.I denna rapport presenteras arbetets tre delar för att avslutningsvis leda till endiskussion kring examensarbetets huvudfråga: Hur kan förutsättningar för lärande möjliggörasi utformandet av en interaktiv utställning?Att skapa förutsättningar för lärande handlar om att skapa förutsättningar föraktiviteter som möjliggör lärande. Genom utformning och val av innehåll i en utställningfinns möjlighet att skapa mer eller mindre goda förutsättning för lärande. Därför är det viktigtatt från början ha en klar bild av vilken typ av aktivitet som det är önskvärt att utställningeninbjuder besökaren till, exempelvis samarbete, samtal och besökarens egen påverkan.Det traditionella science centret är ofta kritiserat för att framställa naturvetenskap ochteknik som något färdigt och opåverkbart. För att skapa intresse och engagemang för dessaämnen och för områdena energi och miljö betonas från flera håll vikten av att iställetframställa dem nyanserat och från flera perspektiv. Därför är det viktigt att i arbetet med attutveckla en interaktiv utställning eller en science center verksamhet diskutera hur det tänktaämnet ska presenteras för att uppnå detta.Att skapa och utveckla en utställning och en verksamhet är en arbetsprocess sominvolverar många människor. Här liksom i alla situationer där många människor ärinvolverade i ett och samma projekt behövs en tydlig ambition och tydliga mål medverksamheten som kan styra och leda arbetsprocessens alla delar. I arbetet har det betonats attdenna ambition kan utvecklas från att intressera besökaren för naturvetenskap och teknik, idetta fall med fokus på energi- och miljöfrågor, till att också skapa engagemang. Engagemangsom exempelvis kan skapas genom att erbjuda besökaren verktyg för att själv kunna agera ochpåverka framtiden i relation energi- och miljöfrågor.
This study illuminates how the science center as a concept can be developed and how asociocultural perspective on learning influences the design of an interactive exhibit. The aimof the study is to propose ideas on how a science center can be designed and developed withthe purpose of creating good conditions for learning.The work was divided in three parts. In the first part literature was studied with theaim of highlighting aspects important for learning from a sociocultural perspective. In thesecond part an educational model was formulated based on the result from the literature study,interviews and study visits. The educational model was then used to guide the design of aninteractive exhibit on hydro power. The third part consists of an evaluation of the exhibitbased on observation of the visitors’ interaction with the exhibit.In this thesis the work and the result of the three parts are presented leading to a finaldiscussion about the key question of the study: How can learning possibilities be createdthrough the design of an interactive exhibition?Creating possibilities for learning is about creating possibilities for activities thatmakes learning possible. Through the design and in the choice of content of an exhibition it ispossible to create more or less good conditions for learning. Therefore it is important to havea clear picture of what type of activities it is desirable that an exhibition invite the visitor to,for example cooperation and conversation and the visitors’ possibility to influence the resultof the activity.The traditional science center is often criticized for presenting science and technologyas something static and finished. To create interest and engagement for the subject area it isinstead needed to be presented from a wide range of perspectives. Therefore throughout thework of developing an interactive exhibition or a science center it is important to discuss howthe subject area can be presented to fulfil this aim.Creating and developing an exhibition is a work that involves a number of people withdifferent backgrounds, knowledge and ideas. Just as in any other project that involves manypeople a clear ambition with clear goals is needed and makes a shared vision possible that canlead and steer all parts of the work.

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Farrell, Michael M. "Expansion of the Center for Network Innovation and Experimentation (CENETIX) network to a worldwide presence". Thesis, Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2591.

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This thesis will focus directly on the enhancement of an established Network Operations Center (NOC) and will extend the capabilities of this asset beyond its present scope. By defining the current infrastructure using present network management tools it will provide a better understanding of the present network, as well as enhance management for future field experiments. Finally, extending the CENETIX network via implementation of Virtual Private Networking (VPN) technology will allow other experimental labs who currently utilize the Defense Research Engineering Network (DREN), such as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Biometrics Fusion Center (BFC), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTR), Office of Force Transformation (OFT), Coast Guard station (located in Alameda), various other US allied forces, Oversea Partners, etc.) access to current and future field experiments.

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Quintero, Michael C. "Constructing a Clinical Research Data Management System". Thesis, University of South Florida, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10640886.

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Clinical study data is usually collected without knowing what kind of data is going to be collected in advance. In addition, all of the possible data points that can apply to a patient in any given clinical study is almost always a superset of the data points that are actually recorded for a given patient. As a result of this, clinical data resembles a set of sparse data with an evolving data schema. To help researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center better manage clinical data, a tool was developed called GURU that uses the Entity Attribute Value model to handle sparse data and allow users to manage a database entity’s attributes without any changes to the database table definition. The Entity Attribute Value model’s read performance gets faster as the data gets sparser but it was observed to perform many times worse than a wide table if the attribute count is not sufficiently large. Ultimately, the design trades read performance for flexibility in the data schema.

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Mwamadzingo, Mohammed. "The interaction of universities and industry in science and technology in Kenya". Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321477.

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Batchelor, Peter J. "The connective service : a research laboratory for the University City Science Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71385.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-44).
This thesis explores the idea of the conduct of science and how people come together in order to share knowledge in the working place. The building is a framework or setting for activities that support the ideas of scientific inquiry. The seven story building on a street corner in West Philadelphia is divided into horizontal zones or realms. The ground floor is dedicated to retail trade allowing for the continuous net of city activity to pass through the building. The main entry is narrow in order to avoid interrupting this continuous city net. The second and third floors are dedicated to bankers and brokers. the industry which is both private and public. The upper floors house the private research laboratories. Elevators carry scientists to these upper levels. In order to encourage gathering and exchange among scientists. a sky lighted stairwell links the three floors. In addition. on the north side is a meeting room from where scientists might gather to exchange ideas. The view from the meeting room is to the east. towards city hall and the central business district, symbolic of their relationship to the larger world beyond their own world of scientific inquiry.
by Peter J. Batchelor.
M.Arch.

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Phusavat, Kongkiti Peter. "A methodology to identify success criteria for the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41507.

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The study has two objectives: to develop a methodology to identify success criteria for the VT CRC and to communicate outputs (success criteria) to selected members of the VT CRC’s stakeholders. A methodology is developed to identify success criteria based on the VT CRC's primary objectives. These primary objectives are: technology transfer and economic development. The purposes of a methodology are to place the VT CRC within the framework of Virginia Tech's larger missions and then to identify success criteria. A methodology consists of seven steps. There are thirteen success criteria which have been identified by a methodology. A methodology is based on management systems engineering theories, concepts, and tools/techniques. The study communicates outputs from a methodology by a questionnaire. Questionnaires will be sent to twelve selected members who are from the VT CRC, the university, tenants, and Town of Blacksburg. Their responses will be analyzed to decide whether these outputs are success criteria for the VT CRC and whether a methodology accomplishes its purposes. Furthermore, a background of Virginia Tech and a concept of university-related research parks will be discussed. Included in a discussion of Virginia Tech are missions, a modern view of a land-grant university, and roles of the Virginia Tech Foundation. Included in a discussion of research parks are purposes, benefits, and drawbacks.
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van, der Heijden Anna M. H. "Creating an Environmental Education Website at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center". Miami University / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1019050512.

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Venters, Will J. "The introduction of knowledge management technology within the British Council : an action research study". Thesis, University of Salford, 2003. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2104/.

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The study describes action research undertaken within the Knowledge Management programme of the British Council, a not-for-profit multinational organisation. An interpretive methodology is adopted because of its appropriateness to the study of real-life complex situations. There is a contested literature on Knowledge Management which this study explores and contributes too. The action research draws on a social constructivist stance to develop and introduce Knowledge Management systems for significant groups within the organisation. A rich set of issues emerge from the literature, and the action research, which contribute to the discourse on Knowledge Management systems and their use in practice. The study suggests that a methodological framework is beneficial in supporting the development and introduction of such systems. However the research identified that Knowledge Management problems cannot be identified and so reconceptualises Knowledge Management in terms of improvement. A framework is developed (AFFEKT: Appreciative Framework for Evolving Knowledge Technologies) to such improvement. This framework is used in the final action research cycle. The conclusions are drawn from a reflection on the application of this framework and reflection on broader issues raised by the action research. The study concludes that knowledge management systems should introduced through an ongoing iterative process of reflection and action. Knowledge Management systems should encourage new work practices, however this requires a realisation that the development of a Knowledge Management systems is a reflective process by which the system is integrated into existing practice and enables users to critique this practice. The study contributes to the discourse concerning the application of technology within Knowledge Management (Galliers 1999; Alavi and Leidner 2001; Butler 2002; Wickramasinghe 2002). It contributes to the field of Information Systems by describing a coherent narrative on the introduction of knowledge management systems within a unique organisational context, and by developing a framework to aid intervention.

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Sokolova, Tatyana. "Achieving integration in interdisciplinary research: Strategy or emergence? A case study of interdisciplinary research in Sweden". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-192956.

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The purpose of the study is to analyse an interdisciplinary research (IDR) project in order to identify whatconstitutes a strategy of integration of disciplinary insights. Through interviews, observations andanalysis of scientific articles produced by the researchers, the study explores the processes of IDR andrelates them to psychological and sociological theories of group research. The results show thatresearchers employ an emergent strategy which they design ad hoc, and which consists of certain patternsof behaviour that allow them to navigate conflict and partially integrate their insights into the problem.The study offers a number of recommendations that might be useful to take into consideration whendesigning an IDR project.

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He, Yurong. "Data sharing across research and public communities". Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10242315.

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For several decades, the intensifying trend of researchers to believe that sharing research data is “good” has overshadowed the belief that sharing data is “bad.” However, sharing data is difficult even though an impressive effort has been made to solve data sharing issues within the research community, but relatively little is known about data sharing beyond the research community. This dissertation aims to address this gap by investigating how data are shared effectively across research and public communities.

The practices of sharing data with both researchers and non-professionals in two comparative case studies, Encyclopedia of Life and CyberSEES, were examined by triangulating multiple qualitative data sources (i.e., artifacts, documentation, participant observation, and interviews). The two cases represent the creation of biodiversity data, the beginning of the data sharing process in a home repository, and the end of the data sharing process in an aggregator repository. Three research questions are asked in each case:

• Who are the data providers?

• Who are the data sharing mediators?

• What are the data sharing processes?

The findings reveal the data sharing contexts and processes across research and public communities. Data sharing contexts are reflected by the cross-level data providers and human mediators rooted in different groups, whereas data sharing processes are reflected by the dynamic and sustainable collaborative efforts made by different levels of human mediators with the support of technology mediators.

This dissertation provides theoretical and practical contributions. Its findings refine and develop a new data sharing framework of knowledge infrastructure for different-level data sharing across different communities. Both human and technology infrastructure are made visible in the framework. The findings also provide insight for data sharing practitioners (i.e., data providers, data mediators, data managers, and data contributors) and information system developers and designers to better conduct and support open and sustainable data sharing across research and public communities.

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Romeo, Michael Joseph. "BioMedTech Virtual Clinic: Building a Virtual Interactive Simulation for Educational Research". Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1355177747.

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Shrikumar, Aditi. "Designing an Exploratory Text Analysis Tool for Humanities and Social Sciences Research". Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3616576.

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This dissertation presents a new tool for exploratory text analysis that attempts to improve the experience of navigating and exploring text and its metadata. The design of the tool was motivated by the unmet need for text analysis tools in the humanities and social sciences. In these fields, it is common for scholars to have hundreds or thousands of text-based source documents of interest from which they extract evidence for complex arguments about society and culture. These collections are difficult to make sense of and navigate. Unlike numerical data, text cannot be condensed, overviewed, and summarized in an automated fashion without losing significant information. And the metadata that accompanies the documents – often from library records – does not capture the varied content of the text within.

Furthermore, adoption of computational tools remains low among these scholars despite such tools having existed for decades. A recent study found that the main culprits were poor user interfaces and lack of communication between tool builders and tool users. We therefore took an iterative, user-centered approach to the development of the tool. From reports of classroom usage, and interviews with scholars, we developed a descriptive model of the text analysis process, and extracted design guidelines for text analysis systems. These guidelines recommend showing overviews of both the content and metadata of a collection, allowing users to separate and compare subsets of data according to combinations of searches and metadata filters, allowing users to collect phrases, sentences, and documents into custom groups for analysis, making the usage context of words easy to see without interrupting the current activity, and making it easy to switch between different visualizations of the same data.

WordSeer, the system we implemented, supports highly flexible slicing and dicing, as well as easier transitions than in other tool between visual analyses, drill-downs, lateral explorations and overviews of slices in a text collection. The tool uses techniques from computational linguistics, information retrieval and data visualization.

The contributions of this dissertation are the following. First, the design and source code of WordSeer Version 3, an exploratory text analysis system. Unlike other current systems for this audience, WordSeer 3 supports collecting evidence, isolating and analyzing sub-sets of a collection, making comparisons based on collected items, and exploring a new idea without interrupting the current task. Second, we give a descriptive model of how humanities and social science scholars undertake exploratory text analysis during the course of their work. We also identify pain points in their current workflows and give suggestions on how systems can address these problems. Third, we describe a set of design principles for text analysis systems aimed at addressing these pain points. For validation, we contribute a set of three real-world examples of scholars using WordSeer 3, which was designed according to those principles. As a measure of success, we show how the scholars were able to conduct analyses yielding otherwise inaccessible results useful to their research.

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Williams, A. Lynn, i J. Olsen. "Making Phonological Intervention Accessible through Research-based Technology". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2081.

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Pereira, Maria Teresa Castelao. "Gaston Bachelard's scientific philosophy: an approach to science and technology studies". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41622.

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The contributions of Gaston Bachelard to the history and philosophy of science are not very well known in the United States. This thesis traces the particular characteristics of Bachelard's epistemology within the context of early twentieth century French culture and science. Bachelard began his career in philosophy comparatively late in life and although his background in mathematics and physics was reflected in his philosophical approach to science, he belonged more to the French intellectual avant-garde than to the traditional philosophies of positivism and pragmatism defended by the Third Republic. Bachelard's writings represent an important contribution to a new vocabulary in epistemology, and they influenced scholars such as Georges Canguilhen, Alexandre Koyré, Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. His works definitely deserve wider exposure, as they easily connect with problems that American scholars pursue today in Science Studies.
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Zamanzad, Ghavidel Alireza. "Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Development and Research: An infrastructural study". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-45871.

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Wang, Lisheng 1977. "The Web of science : power structure research of the American stem cell industry". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32274.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2004.
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This thesis reviews the developments in the research of business power and social structure, particularly focusing on the phenomena of "inner circle" and "structural hole" and their underlying theories. Through a close study on its technical and commercial developments as well as its ethical controversies, the American stem cell industry is found to be an interesting area to carry out the power structure research. Increasing political intervention and declining profitability make the American stem cell industry highly analogous to the entire American corporate community in 1970s and early 1980s when business inner circle first emerged. Meanwhile, the American stem cell industry also differs from the social context of a typical inner circle in a number of ways, which means special research strategy is required for the study on stem cell inner circle. Such analogue with slight deviation brings excitement to the power structure research in this highly entrepreneurial yet tightly regulated industry. 12 U.S. stem cell companies that well represent the American stem cell industry are selected to form a sampling for this power structure study. Stem cell inner circle is defined in this thesis as a group of people who are playing critical roles in the stem-cell related scientific, commercial, governmental activities. In search for this inner circle, definitions are given to the stem-cell related scientific, commercial and governmental activities to first identify people who are important individuals in the scientific, commercial and governmental circles respectively. By overlapping those three circles, a group of people in the intersection, termed the "stem cell inner circle", are identified.
(cont.) The formation of such an inner circle is then empiristically explained with the theory of "structural hole", especially the brokerage mechanism, based on the unique academic, commercial and political characteristics of the American stem cell industry. Finally, a number of possible topics for future researches that can be built on this thesis are suggested.
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Ryan, Neal. "Science and Technology Policy in Australia: Implementation Problems and Prospects". Thesis, Griffith University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367205.

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A long standing economic problem in Australia has been its inability to convert its world class scientific research and development into high value, internationally competitive industries. Throughout the 1980s Commonwealth and State governments have attempted to address this issue through a series of interventions which have done little to change the situation. Indeed, the new technology sector in Australia remains economically and politically unimportant in the 1990s. This thesis examines government intervention in the new technology sector with a particular focus on public policy implementation issues which have been an important influence on outcomes. This thesis concentrates attention on the recent government assistance for the commercialisation of technology in Australia. This task is undertaken in two parts. First, there is an examination of the institutions and actors which have impacted on the development of science and technology (S&T) policy in Australia. This level of analysis provides sufficient disaggregration of the S&T policy environment to be able to examine important areas affecting the implementation of policy, and provides a context for evaluating specific government programs. Second, government programs assisting in the commercialisation of technology are evaluated with respect to: political outcomes such as political support, coordination and consistency; and economic outcomes such as commercial benefits and the development of industrial structures. This thesis examines four Commonwealth programs which have been the main source of assistance to the commercialisation of technology in Australia, and the intervention of State governments in the sector. The Commonwealth programs examined here are the Management and Investment Companies Program, Australian Government Offsets, National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Program, and National Procurement and Demonstration Program. Institutions, actors and programs provide the empirical evidence for addressing two implementation research questions which are central to this thesis. The first research problem is to assess the impact of implementation on policy outcomes. Second, analysis of the outcomes of programs enables the disaggregration of the important elements of implementation. The first conclusion drawn from this thesis is that poor implementation strategies have been a central influence on the inadequate results achieved from government intervention in the new technology sector. The implementation of government S&T programs have been characterised by: a lack of cooperation, coordination and coherence between Commonwealth agencies, and between Federal and State governments; and an absence of effective linkages between program objectives, long-term commercial and structural needs of the sector and implementation strategies. Second, the elements of implementation which have dominated S&T policy outcomes in Australia have been: the absence of political support base to vigilantly support the cause of new technology programs, and argue for changes where appropriate; and the absence of sound commercial theory in implementation strategies. These elements of implementation suggest that fixture government support for new technology industries requires programs to be more closely linked to existing economic interests, and strategies enhancing the prospects of industries succeeding commercially.
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Abuel-Futuh, Haytham. "News Feeds Clustering Research Study". NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/52.

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With over 0.25 billion web pages hosted in the World Wide Web, it is virtually impossible to navigate through the Internet. Many applications try to help users achieve this task. For example, search engines build indexes to make the entire World Wide Web searchable, and news curators allow users to browse topics of interest on different structured sites. One problem that arises for these applications and others with similar goals is identifying documents with similar contents. This helps the applications show users documents with unique contents as well as group various similar documents under similar topics. There has been a lot of effort into algorithms that can achieve that task. Prior research include Yang, Pierce & Carbonell (1998) research where they looked at the problem of identifying news events exploiting chronology order, Nallapati, et al (2004) research who built a dependency model for news events and Shah & Elbahesh (2004) research where they used Jaccard coefficient to generate a flat list of topics. This research will identify training and testing datasets, and it will train and evaluate (Pera & Ng) algorithm. The chosen algorithm is a hierarchical clustering algorithm that incorporates many of the ideas researched earlier. In evaluation phase, error will be measured in the ratio of miss-categorized documents to the total number of documents. The research will show error can be as low as 0.03 with a model built on a single node processing 1000 random distinct documents. In evaluation of the algorithm, the experiments will show that (Pera & Ng)’s fuzzy equivalence algorithm does produce acceptable results when compared to Google News as a reference. The algorithm, however, requires a huge amount of memory to hold the trained model. This renders it not suitable to run on portable devices.

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Seaman, David M. "Leading Across Boundaries| Collaborative Leadership and the Institutional Repository in Research Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges". Thesis, Simmons College, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10601531.

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Libraries often engage in services that require collaboration across stakeholder boundaries to be successful. Institutional repositories (IRs) are a good example of such a service. IRs are an infrastructure to preserve intellectual assets within a university or college, and to provide an open access showcase for that institution’s research, teaching, and creative excellence. They involve multiple stakeholders (librarians, IT experts, administrators, faculty, and students) and are typically operated by academic libraries. They have existed since the early 2000s.

Collaborative leadership has been studied in areas such as health care and business, but it has received little attention in studies of library leadership and management. Collaborative leadership has been shown to be an effective leadership style for an increasingly networked world; it is an interactive process in which people set aside self-interests, share power, work across boundaries, and discuss issues openly and supportively. Collaborative leadership moves organizations beyond mere cooperation towards a state of interdependence; it empowers all members of a team to help each other to achieve broader goals, find personal satisfaction in their work, and sustain productive relationships over time. A better understanding of collaborative leadership can inform both IR development and future complex multi-stakeholder campus services.

Two methodologies – content analysis of IR web pages and surveys of library directors and IR developers – were employed to determine if IRs revealed evidence of collaborative leadership. The study populations were those members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Oberlin Group of liberal arts colleges that operated IR services by July 2014 (146 institutions overall). The research examined if IR format, size, age, nomenclature, or technology platform varied between ARL and Oberlin Group members. It asked if there is any difference in the perception of collaborative leadership traits, perceived IR success, or collaborative involvement with stakeholder communities between ARL and Oberlin Group members or between library directors and IR developers. The study found evidence of all six collaborative leadership traits being examined: assessing the environment for collaboration, creating clarity, building trust, sharing power, developing people, and self-reflection.

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Dias, Mary Beatrice. "Evaluation of Policy and Research Interventions in Science and Technology: Consequence Assessment of Regulatory and Technology Transfer Programs". Research Showcase @ CMU, 2011. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/82.

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This research contributes to efforts in assessment studies related to science and technology interventions. The work presented in this thesis focuses on understanding the effects of policies that influence science and technology interventions, and determining the impact of science and technology interventions themselves. Chapter 1 explores how the USA PATRIOT and Bioterrorism Preparedness Acts affected scientific progress. Regulations and guidance stemming from these pieces of legislation placed restrictions on microbiological research involving certain dangerous pathogens, including B. anthracis and Ebola virus. On a macro level, results indicated that research involving virulent strains of these organisms was not inhibited by the biosecurity laws. The most striking negative effect was a loss of efficiency. Chapter 2 examines a pilot research intervention in information and communication technology for development (ICTD). Initial assessments in the field indicated that technology has the potential to be successfully implemented in an underserved community. Researchers’ experience in the field also identified the challenges and rewards of conducting field research in ICTD. Chapter 3 presents the PREval (Pilot Research Evaluation) framework, which was developed to address the specific needs and challenges of ICTD field researchers. This framework draws from established evaluation techniques and other available resources on project assessment, but offers instructions customized for ICTD pilot research interventions. Initial testing of the concept behind PREval indicated that it can be feasibly applied to a range of ICTD projects and has the potential to add value to ICTD pilot project evaluations. Chapter 4 demonstrates the potential for an assistive technology tool to impact a developing community in the long term. This study examined whether the use of the Braille Writing Tutor could be sustained within the Mathru School for the Blind in India. Sustainability was explored at the micro level based on three dimensions: financial, technological and social. Findings suggest that this assistive technology is financially and socially sustainable given the current conditions at the Mathru School. However, the technology can be modified to render it more technologically sustainable at this location.

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Marchenko, T. "Tianjin University of science and technology". Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/65671.

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I have been studying Economics of Enterprise for 4 years. It fascinates me from year to year more and more. And now I am the student of two universities: Sumy State University and Tianjin University of Science and Technology (TUST) (Tianjin, China). I have never been to China before so I have known nothing about this country. My first impression was good both about the country and about people with their traditions and customs.

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Chi, Curtis H. "Architecture and site: a field research center for the studies of environmental science, horticulture, landscape architecture, and forestry". Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53344.

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The relationship of building to site is the most fundamental aspect in the creation of architecture. As man is a product of nature and his environment the way in which he chooses to after that environment in the process of building reveals not only his attitude towards his physical surroundings, but his purpose and justification for dwelling there. Not all attitudes will be the same, just as purpose will vary from person to person and structure to structure. Mario Botta has said, “The first step in the architectural act is taking possession of the site. It is a conscious act of transforming a unicum, an awareness that grounds the new intervention in the geography, history, and culture of a particular site. The architecture is the constriction of this site. There can be no indifference toward the site. It is the very territory of architecture as well as the primary condition determining the laws by which one must build.” Within the scope of my project I hoped to define this awareness within myself, this conscious act of defining and creating architecture against a background that demands the site be recognized as a primary generator of architectural form and attitude.
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Parandehgheibi, Marzieh. "Survivable paths in multilayer networks". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72646.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
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We consider the problem of protection in multilayer networks. In single-layer net- works, a pair of disjoint paths can be used to provide protection for a source-destination pair. However, this approach cannot be directly applied to layered networks where disjoint paths may not always exist. In this thesis, we take a new approach which is based on finding a set of paths that may not be disjoint but together will survive any single physical link failure. First, we consider the problem of finding the minimum number of survivable paths. In particular, we focus on two versions of this problem: one where the length of a path is restricted, and the other where the number of paths sharing a fiber is restricted. We prove that in general, finding the minimum survivable path set is NP-hard, whereas both of the restricted versions of the problem can be solved in polynomial time. We formulate the problem as Integer Linear Programs (ILPs), and use these formulations to develop heuristics and approximation algorithms. Next, we consider the problem of finding a set of survivable paths that uses the minimum number of fibers. We show that this problem is NP-hard in general, and develop heuristics and approximation algorithms with provable approximation bounds. We also model the dependency of communication networks on the power grid as a layered network, and investigate the survivability of communication networks in this layered setting. Finally, we present simulation results comparing the different algorithms.
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Sokol, Joel Scott 1971. "Optimizing paint blocking in an automobile assembly line : an application of specialized TSP's". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58514.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, 1999.
Submitted to the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.
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In the automobile manufacturing industry, vehicle production is an assembly-line process. Automobile companies typically sequence vehicle production based on workload balancing factors, with little consideration of vehicle colors. The resulting sequence usually has a small average paint block size. Because automobile manufacturers use expensive and sometimes pollutant chemicals to clean out old paint at each color change, they would like to increase the size of the paint blocks, while maintaining the original workload-balanced vehicle sequence. To achieve this goal, Ford and other automobile manufacturers are considering automated vehicle storage and retrieval systems that would allow them to perturb the original sequence around the vehicle painting station, creating larger paint blocks and then restoring the original sequence after painting. To evaluate these systems, it is necessary to develop a method for re sequencing cars and for calculating the resulting savings in paint cleanings. The problem of resequencing can be cast as a traveling salesman problem with time windows. For a real-life sequence size of 750 cars and windows of 75 slots per car in either direction, direct modeling using the strongest known ... formulation yields an integer program with up to 200,000 constraints and 14,000,000 variables. Reduced formulations. We exploit special problem structure to solve the LP relaxation of this problem quickly using Lagrangean relaxation. We prove and use an order-within-color property to construct an enumerative formulation, and use a greedy approach to bound the LP optimum. We decompose the problem and solve smaller enumerative formulations sequentially to generate a heuristic solution that empirically is within 2.5% of optimality. Because our heuristic and bounding procedure runs in a total of one minute, an automobile manufacturer could use the process to adjust the resequencing process in real time to compensate for vehicles that have been delayed in the original sequence due to production defects or other disruptions. We also establish worst-case bounds ranging from 2.5 to 6 for another related heuristic.
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VILCHIS, VELAZQUEZ ROXANA. "EVALUACIÓN DE LAS PROPIEDADES FÍSICAS Y VISCOELÁSTICAS DE GRANOS DE TRIGO (Triticum aestivum L.), CENTENO (Secale cereale L.) Y TRITICALE (X Triticosecale Wittmack". Tesis de Licenciatura, UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/105736.

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Fue posible determinar y diferenciar el comportamiento viscoelástico de los granos evaluados a diferente contenido de humedad, mediante el método de compresión uniaxial a baja deformación
La evaluación de la calidad de los granos cereales se relaciona inicialmente con sus características físicas y químicas, sin embargo, la determinación de sus propiedades viscoelásticas complementa y favorece un proceso de clasificación más selectivo y objetivo. El trigo (Triticum aestivum L.), centeno (Secale cereale L.) y triticale (X Triticosecale Wittmack) son tres cereales que tienen una amplia relación entre sí, debido a que el último es el resultado de la cruza de los dos primeros. En este contexto, los objetivos de este estudio fueron evaluar las propiedades físicas y viscoelásticas (determinadas por compresión uniaxial a baja deformación) de granos de trigo, centeno y triticale en función de su contenido de humedad (12% y 16%), así como identificar las posibles correlaciones existentes entre ambos tipos de propiedades. Los resultados indicaron que tanto el contenido de humedad como el tipo de grano tuvieron un efecto altamente significativo sobre la mayoría de las características evaluadas. De manera general, el incremento del contenido de humedad de los granos originó que los valores medios de algunas propiedades físicas (apariencia y geométricas) aumentaran. Por el contrario, los valores medios de las propiedades viscoelásticas y otras físicas (mecánicas), disminuyeron significativamente. Se identificaron diversas correlaciones altamente significativas entre las propiedades físicas y viscoelásticas, destacando entre otras las inversamente proporcionales (negativas) que tuvo el módulo de elasticidad (propiedad viscoelástica) en relación con varias propiedades físicas, así como las registradas entre el diámetro aritmético y el volumen elipsoidal (propiedades físicas), respecto a diversas viscoelásticas.

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Rosenberg, Scott A. (Scott Alden) 1973. "Managing a data analysis production line : an example from the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genomic Research". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87865.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2003.
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Chu, Kang Mei, i 康梅菊. "Science and Technology Research Center Design at NTUT －An Application of Heuristic Structure Theory". Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62206948855396311127.

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國立臺北科技大學
建築與都市設計研究所
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Space structure is the surface structure of a represented meaning. The deep structure is the operating rule of the structure of represented meaning. Heuristic structure is the deep structure………... （Jen-Hui,Tsai，1999：200）By means of the heuristic structure manipulating model, this design-thesis tend to construct a deep structure of the design issue, which is also the structural expound of the design. The definition of deep structure is the constructing meaning, which dominate the transformation from situations to design concepts, and the syntheses physical materials into space formation. That represents the constructed meaning.

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Tseng, Huan-Chun, i 曾煥鈞. "Relative Research in Learning Motivation of Maker Education and Science - a Case Study from Maker Education and Technology Center". Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9r2erj.

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國立高雄師範大學
工業科技教育學系
107
Relative Research in Learning Motivation of Maker Education and Science – a Case Study from Maker Education and Technology Center Abstract This research aims to discuss the relationship between learning motivation of maker education and science. Secondly, the different background for different student’s learning motivation toward maker education and science was analyzed. Finally, the relationship of learning motivation between maker education and science was discussed. Questionnaire Methodology was used in this research, and mainly analyzed the data of students in Taoyuan, Shalu, Alian maker education and technology center. There were three major findings in the study: 1. Students who often repaired their toys or participated in science club and maker faire had higher learning motivation of maker education. 2. Students who had participated in extracurricular science club activities had higher learning motivation of science. 3. Students who had higher learning motivation of maker education had higher learning motivation of science. Keywords: Maker Education, Science, Learning Motivation, Maker Education and Technology Center

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Shravan, S. K. "Improving Data Center Utilisation by Reducing Fragmentation". Thesis, 2018. https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/4891.

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Virtualization enables better server consolidation and utilisation compared to stand-alone servers running a single workload. This enabled wide-spread cloud adoption among many organizations. Data center utilisation is very important as it costs millions of dollars to setup (capital expenditure), operate and maintain(operating expenditure). Many data centers still suffer from poor host utilisations. Poor utilisation means resource idling, loss of revenue and increased carbon footprint. Hence, this opens an opportunity to explore options for using data center resources optimally. This work defines resource fragmentation in the context of a data center's resources and how it can be used as a metric for data center utilisation and discusses the key factors affecting resource fragmentation. Some of the main factors are Virtual Machine(VM) Sizing, Host Configuration and Virtual Machine Placement. Various VM Sizing approaches - prede ned, ne-grained, exible and custom VM sizing, and how resource fragmentation varies in each case is explained. These VM Sizing approaches are evaluated using VM utilisation traces of a private data center. The number of hosts required to host the workloads reduced by 32% when moved from pre-de ned VM Sizes to custom VM Sizes. This work also shows the role of correlation of VM Sizes and host con guration in determining resource fragmentation by evaluating di erent host con gurations using the VM utilisation traces. VM Placement algorithms also play a crucial role in determining data center resource fragmentation. The problem of VM Placement is to obtain an optimal packing of VMs on hosts i.e. the number of hosts required should be minimum. The problem being NP-Hard, it becomes practically infeasible to get an optimal placement within the time constraints for making scheduling decisions. VM Placement can be seen as a Multidimensional Vector Packing Problem(MDVPP). VPSolver, using arc- ow formulation with graph compression, gives an optimal solution for Bin-Packing and related problems. This thesis proposes grouping-based heuristic to solve for large instances of MDVPP, based on the Divide-and-Conquer paradigm, using VPSolver. An extensive evaluation, of 3510 instances, comparing the proposed heuristic with existing popular heuristics in this space is done and it was observed that for most large instances, the proposed heuristic gives better solutions compared to existing ones sometimes at the cost of higher computation time taken. With the proposed heuristic, the number of bins required is reduced upto 8.15%, for larger instances, compared to existing heuristics.

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Lai, You-Ze, i 賴有澤. "Performance Evaluation and Improvement for Research and Development Center in University－Using a University of Science and Technology as example". Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wzqp47.

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遠東科技大學
創新設計與創業管理研究所
99
The Department of research and Development Centers have been set up in universities across Taiwan in recent years in hope that Government, academia, research institutes will have more opportunities to collaborate and increase research funding. A combination of research and development centre of science and technology, university of science and technology research and development capabilities can upgrade the effectiveness of the research and development outcome, and enhance the country's overall economic development. It goes without saying that the performance of the research and development plays a vital role for schools to get outside resources. However, because the evaluation of the performance must take a number of factors into consideration, it has become a difficult issue.So, This study utilized nine research and development eeniers of a university as subjects, In this study, the number of manpower, the personnel costs, the use of space, the book value and the research and development costs; the amount of industry-university cooperation, patent number were used as output factors, the amount of technology transfer, the number of center award cooperation and customer satisfaction. This study utilized DEA (Data Envelope Analysis) to evaluate the performance of research and Development Center. In addition, CCR data envelope analysis method,the slack variable analysis and the application of model comparison and cross efficiency method were used to evaluate the performance of research and Development Center. Finally, this study proposed recommendations for the relative low efficient research and development centers for further improvement. The results of this study can be beneficial to school administrators for evaluating the performance of research centers. As a result, it is hoped that the valuable educational resources will be well-utilized.

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"Information Technology Center". 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890231.

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Wong Chi Wing Dick.
"Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1997-98, design report."
Includes bibliographical references.
BACKGROUND --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- SYNOPSIS
Chapter 1.2 --- DESIGN MISSION
Chapter 1.3 --- CLIENT PROFILE
Chapter 1.4 --- USERS PROFILE
Chapter 1.5 --- SITE SELECTION
Chapter 1.6 --- OUTLINE OF PLANNING FACILITIES
Chapter 1.7 --- SITE CONSTRAINT
Chapter 1.8 --- SCHEDULE OF ACCOMMODATION
PLANNING / ZONNING STRATEGY --- p.13
Chapter 2.1 --- SITE ANALYSIS
Chapter 2.2 --- DESIGN CONCEPTS
DESIGN PROCESS --- p.24
Chapter 3.1 --- FIRST REVIEW
Chapter 3.2 --- SECOND REVIEW
Chapter 3.3 --- THIRD REVIEW
Chapter 3.4 --- FINAL DESIGN
ENVIRONMENTAL --- p.32
Chapter 4.1 --- PASSIVE SOLAR ENERGY
Chapter 4.2 --- H.V.A.C.
Chapter 4.3 --- PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE
Chapter 4.4 --- COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
LIFE SAFETY --- p.38
Chapter 5.1 --- COMPARTMENTATION
Chapter 5.2 --- FIRE FIGHTING
Chapter 5.3 --- MEANS OF ESCAPE
STRUCTURE --- p.41
Chapter 6.1 --- STRUCTURAL GRID
Chapter 6.2 --- OVAL SHAPE STRUCTURE
Chapter 6.3 --- COMPUTER STRUCTURE SIMULATION
Chapter -- --- SPECIAL STUDIES
Chapter 6.4 --- FIXING DETAILS DESIGN
EXTERNAL ENVELOP --- p.50
Chapter 7.1 --- SCREEN WALL
Chapter 7.2 --- EGG SHELL ENVELOP
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE --- p.53
Chapter 8.1 --- CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE OF CYBER GAMES HALL
COST --- p.41
Chapter 7.1 --- PROJECT FINANCE
Chapter 7.2 --- TIME SCHEDULE
Chapter 7.3 --- BUILDING COST ESTIMATION
Chapter 7.4 --- PROFESSIONAL FEE

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Lin, Bor-Yow, i 林柏佑. "The Research of Information Technology Applied to Distribution Center". Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25062317319092579931.

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Huang, Chia-Wen, i 黃佳文. "Factors Influencing Brand Equity - An Example of Instrument Technology Research Center". Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5jh789.

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靜宜大學
企業管理學系
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Past studies put more emphasis on how to enhance brand equity of B2C, and less on that of B2B. The primary focus of this research is about in a B2B condition, how Instrument Technology Research Center’s image, and old clients’ word-of-mouth referrals would impact brand equity. Brand awareness is the mediator in this study, which is investigated to see how it affects the 3 factors that contribute to brand equity: Instrument Technology Research Center’s image, customized service, and old clients’ word-of-mouth referrals. The 152 subjects in this study are from Instrument Technology Research Center’s current and potential clients. Through structural equation modeling analysis, it is found that research institute’s corporate image, customized service, and old clients’ word-of-mouth referrals are beneficial to enhancing brand awareness; also, brand awareness has positive correlation with brand equity. However, research institute’s corporate image, customized service, and old clients’ word-of-mouth referrals do not directly contribute to brand equity improvement. Enhancing brand equity could be achieved only through brand awareness.

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