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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Complex Challenges"”.
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Wise women, complex challenges : barriers to success for lower-income microentrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area
Microenterprise has recently received significant public attention and support as an economic development and poverty alleviation strategy in the United States. Considering the economic, social and professional benefits of microenterprise, self-employment will continue to be pursued by many …
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Bayesian participatory-based decision analysis : an evolutionary, adaptive formalism for integrated analysis of complex challenges to social-ecological system sustainability
… and decision-makers who are dealing with complex social-ecological system sustainability and decision-making challenges. To this end, we propose a new approach, called Bayesian Participatory-based Decision Analysis (BPDA), which makes use of graphical causal maps and Bayesian networks to …
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Extended Evaluation: Unraveling Medicaid Patient Trajectories and Improving Intervention Candidate Identification
… through the health system. Recognizing the complex challenges of social determinants of health, this study seeks to find patterns and opportunities within the Medicaid population’s healthcare journeys. Through time series analysis we try to understand the utilization trajectories of Medicaid …
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Augmented Intelligence in Leadership Development: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Real-Time Support Within Organizational Contexts
Leaders in today's fast-paced world face complex challenges requiring quick decision-making skills. These challenges are global and intricate; leaders are expected to navigate them easily, even without formal leadership training. Moreover, given the rapid advancement of technology, it has become …
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Systemic Team Coaching in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous (VUCA) World
… within a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world. The research investigates how these interventions can enhance team cohesion, communication, and adaptability. Utilizing an interpretative phenomenological approach, qualitative data was collected through …
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Proposed management architecture for managing a distributed network information system
… its mission-critical processes. "However, the complexity of the modem infrastructure, and the changes affecting it, produce significant management challenges." (Ref 1, .451). The purpose of this study is to develop a management architecture that will assist Network Managers in formulating …
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Lived experiences of single teenage mothers at KwaMsane Township, KwaZulu-Natal
In an era marked by the complex challenges confronting young people, addressing teenage pregnancy requires a comprehensive multi-sectoral response that empowers and supports adolescents on multiple fronts. The qualitative study’s objectives were to explore the psychosocial experiences of single …
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Ensuring Equitable Tenant Outcomes: Case Studies of Building Decarbonization Initiatives in Greater Boston, Massachusetts
… However, these programs and policies generate complex challenges at the intersection of housing, climate, and environmental justice, especially for cities that face barriers to adopting strong renter protections. This thesis offers two case studies regarding tenant-related equity concerns that …
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Knowledge Reuse as a Foundation for Security Metrics
… level and type of diversity in security presents complex challenges for which we have little basis. We propose a new way of conceptualizing attack difficulty in terms of knowledge reuse. To this end, we present two models---one abstract model inspired by artificial intelligence search and another …
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Brewing Resilience: A Case Study in Adapting Small Business Strategy with Systems Thinking
… effectively applied to small businesses facing complex challenges. Using Lamplighter Brewing Co., an independent microbrewery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a case study, the research examines how the brewery adapted to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the evolving economic …
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Perceptions of the Impact of Coaching on Principal Performance
… today than ever with increasing accountability, complex challenges, and dwindling resources. The purpose of this research was to examine the techniques, principles, structures, models, and impact of leadership coaching on principal performance. The overarching research question for this study …
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Development and Evaluation of a Framework for Mentor-Based Engineering Outreach
… teams and organizations is needed to solve the complex challenges the world is facing. However, the number of people from historically underrepresented groups—such as women, Indigenous, Black, and Hispanic engineers—falls short of parity with the population [1-4].Mentoring programs successfully …
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Experiences with cultural capital in education : exploring the educational life stories of first-generation postsecondary students
… pathways and achieve academic success despite challenges posed by the cultural capital privileged within the education system. Given cultural capital's effect on academic success, understanding first-generation students' educational life stories sheds light on the complex challenges facing …
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Navigating Corporate Accountability: Addressing Regulatory Challenges in the Face of Human Rights and Environmental Violations
… severe violations of human rights, resulting in complex challenges. Despite numerous cases brought to light through legal battles and media coverage, existing international and domestic regulatory frameworks have struggled to comprehensively address the extensive harm caused by MNCs. Regulations …
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Adopting Agile Leadership During the Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study of University Student Affairs Leaders
… March 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic created complex and time-sensitive challenges for colleges and universities that temporarily closed campuses and restricted access to students and personnel. Given the pandemic's magnitude, there was no roadmap to resolve these challenges. Leaders drew on …
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Examine Local Food Systems Planning Through a Climate-Biodiversity-Health Lens: A Comox Valley Case Study
… understanding of how local food systems' challenges and opportunities connect and integrate with other local and regional sustainability objectives. The research identified 123 systems nodes, which were organized into five categories: food, climate, biodiversity, health, and governance. …
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Exploring rising anxiety levels in higher education : perspectives of administrators, faculty, and students on essential support and barriers
… and self-efficacy while also revealing the complex challenges faced by faculty and administrators in addressing the growing mental health needs of students. Although limited by its small and geographically narrow sample, this research contributes foundational knowledge to inform future …
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Growing Toward the Sun: How the Good-Food Movement Catapulted a Small New York City Third-Sector Organization into Rapid Growth, Success, and Many Challenges
… purchased, and prepared. It also considers the complex challenges presented by the burgeoning LFS movement in NYC. This study reveals weak contact points in Food Rights network design as well as organizational strengths that could assist it and other LFS-focused NGOs in addressing the many …
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Business performance measurement : a soft systemic approach
… thesis, was to perform an investigation into the challenges of business performance measurement. The second objective of the research was to respond to these challenges, by articulating a Soft Systemic approach to business performance measurement. To meet the objectives of the research, the …
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Multi-stage polymer systems for the autonomic regeneration of large damage volumes
… a robust chemistry capable of addressing the complex challenges encountered by autonomic regeneration. Although self-healing polymers have the potential to increase material lifetimes and safety, these systems have been limited to recovery of internal microcracks and surface damage. Current …
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