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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Funding Agencies"”.
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The effects of government funding agencies’ support on the success of SMMEs within the King Cetshwayo District: a study of uMhlathuze Municipality
This study investigated the effects of government funding agencies’ support on the success of small, micro, and medium enterprises (SMMEs) within the uMhlathuze Municipality in the King Cetshwayo District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Despite the critical role SMMEs play in economic growth and …
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Identifying Dimensions of Montana Tribal Community Capacity in Relation to the Funding Application Process
Foundations and government agencies have historically played a critical role in supporting community-based health promotion programs (Easterling, Gallagher & Lodwich, 2003). Despite availability of federal and state funding for health promotion efforts within American Indian reservation communities …
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Identifying Dimensions of Montana Tribal Community Capacity in Relation to the Funding Application Process
Foundations and government agencies have historically played a critical role in supporting community-based health promotion programs (Easterling, Gallagher & Lodwich, 2003). Despite availability of federal and state funding for health promotion efforts within American Indian reservation communities …
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Doing qualitative research with people and organisations: How do researchers understand and negotiate their research relationships?
… and discussed. These are: the researchers, the funding agencies, the gate-keepers, and the research groups. Whilst, the issues involved with the post-data collection stages of research are not presented here, the issues associated with the pre-data-collection phases and data-collection phases of …
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Trajectories of Innovation: Measurements, Models & Interventions
… (ii) Division of innovation labor among funding agencies – most large public funding agencies are located 10-27 years from the commercialization of new vaccines while most mission-oriented agencies and pharmaceuticals fund research 2-19 years from commercialization. In addition, most …
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Program officers at the National Science Foundation: a case study of the Biological Instrumentation Program
… concerning the program officers of science funding agencies. The current literature places the program officer in a black box, implying an autonomous professional. In contrast this study portrays the Program Officer as embedded in a web of relationships extending within and without the …
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Examination of Canadian parents' awareness of early intervention supports for their child diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder : a co-cultural perspective
… the potential to investigate further into how funding agencies can utilize word of mouth methods of communicating to ensure correct information is disseminated to the parents regarding early intervention.
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Setting priorities for conducting and updating systematic reviews
… reviews. We selected 11 national research agencies in the UK, Netherlands, France, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the USA. We devised and used a checklist based on Chalmers and Glasziou’s “avoidable research waste” framework (and evaluated the processes and policies of …
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A greener plan for public housing: a study of Colorado Housing Authorities' utilization of green built technology
… conservation data will assist CHAs, as well as funding agencies, to identify current levels of technology implementation to use as a planning tool for current and future energy projects. The purposed methodological approach will incorporate the use of a census design, which will examine current …
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From protest to development : the dynamics of change at the Western Province Council of Churches
… of the NGO sector. It is funded by foreign donor agencies. This thesis studies the transformation of the WPCC as an organisation. This occurred as a direct result of the political transition in South Africa between 1990 and 1994. The main forces pressing change upon the WPCC during this period …
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Uncertainty and individual discretion in allocating research funds
… is a long-standing tradition in public research funding agencies of distributing funds via peer review, which aggregates evaluations of proposed research ideas from a group of external experts. Despite complaints that this process is biased against novel ideas, there is poor understanding of an …
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The Relationship between Motivation and Evaluation Capacity in Community-based Organizations
… and performances to governments, donors, and funding agencies. To meet these demands, community-based organizations have identified the need to build their own evaluation capacity. Increasing the evaluation capacity of an organization requires evaluation capacity building at an individual …
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Enhancing Community to Come Up With A Strategy For Sustaining Development Achievements: A Case Of King’ori Community In Arumeru District, Arusha Region, Tanzania
… challenge to both the community and the external funding partner has been the programmes’ sustainability. How would the community’s achieved impacts be sustained? This question has been the major concern to most of development partners today. Most of communities and the funding agencies have taken …
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Perspectives on south-north institutional collaboration/partnership research in higher education
… and achievement, inclusivity, influence of funding agencies, and powers behind the mostly published and cited articles. To fill this gap, this dissertation explored perspectives on institutional South-North research collaborations/partnerships (ISNRC) in higher education to make sense of the …
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The Practice and Benefit of Applying Digital Markup in Preserving Texts and Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis of a Blank-Verse Translation of Virgil's Aeneid
… interest as well as support granted by funding agencies. Some editions are dedicated to the collection and representation of the life's work of a single author, others to mass digitization and preservation of centuries' worth of texts. Very few of these examples, however, approach the …
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Can the economic impacts of infrastructure projects be predicted? : economic development projects in the Appalachin Mountain Region
… of such projects. Such information would help funding agencies decide how best to allocate their funding from the point of view of maximizing the economic impacts of the projects they fund. I compared 52 projects in terms of project type, economic impacts and efficiency of public funding, …
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Gay identity formation: An (auto)ethnographic look at gay volleyball
… of gay sporting communities and call upon funding agencies to assist with the movement so as to improve the health and well-being of people marginalized for their non-conformity to gender or sexual norms.
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Mental Health Clinicians' Perceptions, Knowledge, Level of Training, and Utilization of Evidence Based Practices with a Specific Focus on Dialectical Behavior Therapy
… mental health budgets, and requirements by funding agencies such as Medicaid, it is imperative that mental health clinicians (MHCs) be trained in and utilize EBPs to improve funding and ensure continuity of best practice in clinical interventions with clients. Minimal research exists on MHCs …
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Transdisciplinarity on Paper: How do interdisciplinary faculty translate university initiatives into the classroom?
… the previous decade, are reinforced by federal funding agencies because of their potential to yield technological innovation, and in turn, economic growth. However, the sustained development of transdisciplinary or interdisciplinary curriculum design remains limited due to the multiple competing …
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Using grant applications to measure the evolution of collaborative and non-collaborative research
… products or acquiring knowledge. Government funding agencies actively encourage collaborative work, supporting thousands of research projects. The increase in collaboration has led to innovative ways of measuring research dynamics, and the impacts of collaboration with respect to …
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