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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Dissemination of knowledge"”.
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Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem
<p>This research explores the removal of surrounding populations within fourteenth century travel literature in the cities of Baghdad and Jerusalem, I analyze two Christian travelers, Marco Polo and John Mandeville, and one Muslim traveler, Ibn Battuta. As a basis of comparison, I discuss the …
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THREE TRAVELING WOMEN WRITERS: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF BRAZIL, PATAGONIA, AND THE U.S., 1859-79
<p>The technological progress of the nineteenth century made travelling across the seas and the publishing of travel narratives both possible and desirable. Women used this as an opportunity to gain greater freedom of mobility and authorship. Instead of focusing on solitary travelers, this …
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The impact of information technology on knowledge creation in Woolworths
The impact of Information Technology (IT) on knowledge creation (KC) in companies is both an interesting and challenging topic. This study investigated what the use of IT does to support KC and how it works to bring about that support. Two case studies on the development of Woolworths Financial …
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A Formative Evaluation of Personal Learning Networks for Professional Development in the Architecture + Design Industry
This research is a formative evaluation of personal learning networks to determine their applicability for professional development in the architecture and design industry. The researcher seeks to find a catalyst toward discipline-wide realization of integrated design practices. This research …
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The Efficacy of Knowledge Sharing: Centralized Vs. Self-Organizing Online Communities
This study investigates the impact of an online community's control structure on the knowledge sharing process in that community. Using a framework comprised of legitimate peripheral participation theory and the weak-ties phenomenon, the study focuses on a comparative analysis of self-organizing …
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O PROCESSO DE ANÁLISE DO RETORNO SOBRE INVESTIMENTO EM TREINAMENTO: UM ESTUDO DE CASO
The emergence of new companies contributed to the development of organizations as well as the increase in job training. This demand specialized and technical in many cases is not found in traditional institutions of learning. There will be a real need to develop multipliers of technical knowledge …
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The Influences on K-2 Teachers' Approaches Towards Assessment and Developmentally Appropriate Practice
Kindergarten-second grade teachers often have to navigate conflicting paradigms as they attempt to honor the developmentally appropriate practices best suited for their young learners while working within the demands of the current educational paradigm of high-stakes testing and standardization. …
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Cloud computing for digital libraries
… technologies for the storage, preservation and dissemination of knowledge in its various forms, such as research documents, theses and dissertations, cultural heritage documents and audio files. These systems can make use of cloud computing to achieve high levels of scalability, while making …
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Manifestations and Perceptions of Organizational Tolerance of Military’s Sexual Harassment and Assault by Gender, Race, Rank, and Service Branch in 2006 and 2010
… and 2010 Workplace and Gender Relations Surveys of Active Duty Members (WGRA), a governmental survey that examined workplace SH/SA. This dissertation investigates how gender, race, rank, and branch of military service were associated with SH/SA. It also examines organizational tolerance of sexual …
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Efeitos dos programas de qualidade de vida dos usuários do SUS com doença obstrutiva crônica: Revisão da Literatura
… with the disease, with consequences in the lives of patients and their families , generate human suffering , damaging the healthy quality of life. OBJECTIVE: To review the evidence in the scientific literature on the effects of quality of life programs in the user with COPD conducted from October …
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Programa saneamento expresso: potencial de disseminação estratégica das inter-relações entre gestão de recursos hídricos, saneamento básico e educação ambiental
… especially with regard to the preservation of water resources. The integration between policies that promote water resources management, basic sanitation and environmental education contributes to citizen education, enabling individuals to understand their crucial role in advancing …
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Sociotechnical systems in campus stormwater management: impediments and driving forces for refined sustainable systems
Throughout the United States, stormwater runoff from streets and similar hardscapes has had detrimental effects, often resulting in flooding, erosion, and health concerns. This thesis focuses on stormwater management as it relates to university campuses and the benefits of having formal stormwater …
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INVESTIGATING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: SURVEY OF INCLUSIVE DESIGN ATTITUDES WITHIN LONDON’S TUBE STATIONS
… resulted from biased design attitudes of built environment professionals (Section 1). Literature surveys observed that designers design for their own demographic group and that railway development privileged or disadvantaged different groups of people (Section 2). Surveys identified …
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A feira de ciências como espaço multirreferencial de investigação, construção e difusão do conhecimento
… investigates the presence and implications of multireferentiality for the dissemination of scientific knowledge in science fairs, focusing on the Bahia Science, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Fair (FECIBA) and the 4th Science Fair of the Manoel Benedito Mascarenhas State Rural School …
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From Victorian to Modernist: the changing perceptions of Japanese architecture encapsulated in Wells Coates' Japonisme dovetailing East and West
This thesis chronicles the change in perception of Japanese architecture from the Victorian, where it was little recognised, to an inspiration for inter-war modernist architecture and lifestyle; to record, to a lesser extent, how Japanese art, particularly the way in which it was displayed, …
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Legitimate influence: the key to advanced nursing practice in adult critical care
At the inception of this research study the intent was to inform the debate regarding advanced nursing practice in adult critical care, in the United Kingdom. Argument within the nursing profession was vociferous concerning the nature of advanced nursing practice and to achieve some insight into …
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Promoting innovation in electricity distribution networks : new tools for regulators and planners
… seen an unprecedented increase in the adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) in distribution networks around the world. In most jurisdictions the increase in DERs has been met with a "fit and forget" network management approach whereby grid planners accommodate these resources by …
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Benjamin Hallowell: Educational Leader of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, 1799 - 1877
This study is an investigation of the life of Benjamin Hallowell (1799-1877) a significant contributor to the spread of useful knowledge in the middle (1824-1877) of the nineteenth century. During this period the advancement of knowledge, once the domain of the landed gentry, became the province of …
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Wissenschaft im Bild : performative Aspekte des Bildes in Prozessen wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisgewinnung und -vermittlung
… on the specific intra-scientific purposes of images as well as the procedures of a mediation of science via images. Based on the hypothesis that scientific images can function as a tool for the dissemination of scientific knowledge, this study offers a critical evaluation of the …
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Factors Facilitating Peer-Reviewed Publication by Clinical Nurses in Magnet Settings
… in hospital settings that enhance the dissemination of knowledge related to best practices. The purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors that facilitate publication by clinical nurses in Magnet hospitals. These factors were explored using …
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