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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Dissemination of knowledge"”.

  1. Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem

    Gibbons, Abby2020

    <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 …

    columbus-state Repository record

  2. THREE TRAVELING WOMEN WRITERS: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF BRAZIL, PATAGONIA, AND THE U.S., 1859-79

    Fontes de Oliveira, Natalia

    <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 …

    purdue-thes Repository record

  3. The impact of information technology on knowledge creation in Woolworths

    Casarin, PaulDepartment of Information Systems1999

    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 …

    cape-town Repository record

  4. A Formative Evaluation of Personal Learning Networks for Professional Development in the Architecture + Design Industry

    Lally, Leigh A.Virginia Tech2014

    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 …

    vt Repository record

  5. The Efficacy of Knowledge Sharing: Centralized Vs. Self-Organizing Online Communities

    Godara, JaideepVirginia Tech2007

    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 …

    vt Repository record

  6. O PROCESSO DE ANÁLISE DO RETORNO SOBRE INVESTIMENTO EM TREINAMENTO: UM ESTUDO DE CASO

    Andrade, Ronnie Joshé Figueiredo dePrograma de Pós-graduação em Sistemas de Gestão2008

    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 …

    brazil-uff Repository record

  7. Cloud computing for digital libraries

    Poulo, Lebeko Bernard NkoebeleDepartment of Computer Science2013

    … 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 …

    cape-town Repository record

  8. Efeitos dos programas de qualidade de vida dos usuários do SUS com doença obstrutiva crônica: Revisão da Literatura

    Purificação, Maíla AlmeidaUniversidade Federal da Bahia2014

    … 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 …

    brazil-ufba Repository record

  9. Programa saneamento expresso: potencial de disseminação estratégica das inter-relações entre gestão de recursos hídricos, saneamento básico e educação ambiental

    Correia, Viviane Francis SilvaUNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA2024

    … 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 …

    brazil-ufba Repository record

  10. Sociotechnical systems in campus stormwater management: impediments and driving forces for refined sustainable systems

    Peterson, KyleUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2013

    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 …

    uiuc Repository record

  11. INVESTIGATING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: SURVEY OF INCLUSIVE DESIGN ATTITUDES WITHIN LONDON’S TUBE STATIONS

    Harding, JohnUniversity of Cambridge2011

    … 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 …

    cambridge Repository record

  12. A feira de ciências como espaço multirreferencial de investigação, construção e difusão do conhecimento

    Souza, Francisco Silva deUniversidade Federal da Bahia2025

    … 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 …

    brazil-ufba Repository record

  13. From Victorian to Modernist: the changing perceptions of Japanese architecture encapsulated in Wells Coates' Japonisme dovetailing East and West

    Basham, Anna Elizabeth2007

    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, …

    arts-london Repository record

  14. Legitimate influence: the key to advanced nursing practice in adult critical care

    Ball, C.City University London2000

    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 …

    city-london Repository record

  15. Promoting innovation in electricity distribution networks : new tools for regulators and planners

    Luke, Max NMassachusetts Institute of Technology2016

    … 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 …

    mit Repository record

  16. Benjamin Hallowell: Educational Leader of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, 1799 - 1877

    Winston, Lewis E. Jr.Virginia Tech1998

    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 …

    vt Repository record

  17. Factors Facilitating Peer-Reviewed Publication by Clinical Nurses in Magnet Settings

    Tyndall, Deborah EEast Carolina University2016

    … 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 …

    ecu Repository record

  18. Modeling usage of an online research community

    Zhang, Yi

    Although online communities have been thought of as a new way for collaboration across geographic boundaries in the scientific world, they have a problem attracting people to keep visiting. The main purpose of this study is to understand how people behave in such communities, and to build and …

    njit Repository record

  19. A comparison of science teachers' and engineering students' rankings of science and technology related global problems

    Ndodana, Cynthia BulelwaSchool of Education1996

    Using 262 acknowledged science educators from 41 countries, Bybee developed a scale for measuring the ranked priorities of scientists, and others, with respect to twelve major global problems related to science and technology in 1984. In 1993 this scale was re-administered to samples of 76 Cape …

    cape-town Repository record

  20. An investigation of the literary portrayal of children as participants in the liberation struggle as illustrated in Ellen Namhila's The Price of Freedom and Lydia Shaketange's Walking the Boeing 707

    Nahole, MarthaUniversity of Namibia2016

    This study investigates the literary portrayal of children as participants of the liberation struggle as illustrated in Ellen Namhila’s The Price of Freedom and Lydia Shaketange’sWalking the Boeing 707. The focus of the study was to investigate how the two Namibian autobiographical texts represent …

    namibia Repository record

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