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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Funding mechanisms"”.
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The applicability of performance-based funding mechanisms in Malaysian Public Universities
A performance-based funding (PBF) mechanism is now widespread in educational institutions in both developed and developing countries. The Malaysian Government also has intention to implement PBF in public universities, yet no study has explored the applicability of PBF implementation in Malaysian …
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Alternative Funding Mechanisms for Public Recreation: An Analysis of the Montana State Parks Opt-Out Fee
… support (Fretwell and Frost, 2006). Adequate funding has been described as the most important factor in the delivery of recreation at the local level (Gladwell, Anderson, and Sellers, 2003). While public recreation funding originally came primarily from general tax revenues at the federal, …
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Learning to Burn, Burning to Learn: Transforming Professionals and Organizations through the US Fire Learning Network
… and organizational incentives and funding mechanisms have stalled the adoption of landscape scale ecological fire restoration as a guiding paradigm. Using a case study approach, this dissertation examines the potential of a multi-scalar collaborative network, the US Fire Learning …
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Implementing HIV/AIDS global fund programs : funding disbursement mechanisms in Zambia
… analyzes the performance of the various funding mechanisms by exploring systems and procedures; public or non-governmental status; implementation models; staffing issues; NGO and CSO involvement in project implementation; and the absorption of funds. The dissertation makes an assessment …
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How Organizational Communication Shaped the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement
… and distinct goals, constraints, compromises, funding mechanisms, and public values.</p> <p>This study analyzed public documents from seven different organizations that provided input in the public consultations regarding the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement, which completed in 2005. This …
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Analyzing the influence of financing and governance on cross-sector social partnerships (CSSPs) value creation. A key focus on CSSPs involved in water sustainability in South Africa
… a single case study with explicit financing mechanisms, capabilities, and governance mechanisms for the creation of value of a water sustainable ecosystem. To date, research investigating partnership performance focused on the use of explicit targets, in a multi-actor cross-sector setting …
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Challenges faced by IRB Approved Studies due to Sample Size Shortfalls and Low Patient Accrual
… patient accrual rates, and evaluates the role of funding mechanisms and study sites. Findings reveal discrepancies between proposed and actual sample sizes and durations, shedding light on the complexities of study execution. Moreover, the study uncovers no significant differences in patient …
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Education Finance as a Social Determinant of Health in the United States
… Ohio in order to compare voucher and traditional funding mechanisms in relation to the health pathway framework. Ultimately, this thesis concludes that education finance is a social determinant of health and voucher programs have not been shown to positively impact health outcomes when compared to …
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Breaking the grant cycle: on the rational allocation of public resources to scientific research projects
… presents a reformative criticism of science funding by peer review. The criticism is based on epistemological scepticism, regarding the ability of scientific peers, or any other agent, to have access to sufficient information regarding the potential of proposed projects at the time of …
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Equity in Texas Public Education Facilities Funding
… in the past. Historically, most facilities funding ability for school districts has come from the local community and has been tied to property wealth and the ability of the community to raise significant tax dollars to pay for school buildings. Responding to an expanding need for increased …
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Adaptive design of clinical trials : understanding the barriers to adoption
There is great competition for clinical research funding. This is in part due to the National Institute of Health's reduced budget to support such initiatives. It has resulted in a growing trend for clinical research to use adaptive design models to accelerate clinical trials and at the same time …
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Territorialização e descentralização nas políticas de fomento à cultura como ferramentas de promoção da equidade social: Uma análise da implementação da Lei Aldir Blanc
… each territory. It seeks to understand how the funding mechanisms established by the law have promoted the democratization of access to cultural resources and strengthened cultural diversity across different Brazilian territories. It is expected to identify the strategies adopted to promote the …
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The Politics of Numbers: Statistical Fairness, Market Justice and the ‘inclusion’ of First Nations people in Australian Universities
… us? Second, what are the main policy (especially funding) mechanisms influencing universities and how do these impact Indigenous peoples’ participation in Australian universities? Third, how might we assess these policies, their priorities, and the story that the data tells us from a social …
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Green Promises, Grey Realities: The Politics of Park Provision in Sydney
… explores the institutional, structural, and funding mechanisms that underpin park delivery across a constrained regulatory context. The research identifies six critical elements for effective delivery of open space provision: funding, land availability, community input, open space standards, …
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The Fundability and Marketability of Green Buildings at Public Universities: Transcending the Funding Paradigm at Cal Poly
… commonly cited barriers are cost and lack of funding. The outcome however (as evidenced by other CSU’s) is not just driven by the state’s capital outlay process that has historically supported new construction on CSU campuses. It is determined by the priorities, perceptions and values that …
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The Responses Of Local Education Authorities To Changes In Their Functions: A Study Of In-Service Education And Training
… During recent years, however, changes in the funding of LEAs and the introduction of specific grants significantly impacted on the organisation and delivery of INSET. This research ascertains the INSET provision in a sample of five LEAs; identifies the similarities and differences between …
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Engaging with Motor Neurone Disease
… over the past two decades. A combination of funding mechanisms, activism and policy reports have demonstrated that engaging with those affected by conditions is important for research. Across policy and academic literature, engaging particular groups within research has been considered …
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An evaluation of Greene's resource theory of party dominance with reference to the South African case
… described through case studies of the party's funding mechanisms, its relations with public resources, and a specific study of patronage within the ANC during Jacob Zuma's presidency. This dissertation finds that Greene's hyperincumbency approach was insufficient to accurately explain the ANC's …
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Leveraging the US Army Corps of Engineers Public-Private Partnerships (P3) Pilot Program to Promote Equitable Outcomes from Local Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Projects
… non-federal partners, leverage progressive local funding mechanisms, and ultimately reduce climate risks in vulnerable communities while meeting USACE’s mission of protecting U.S. Citizens, reducing disaster risk, and providing vital infrastructure needs and solutions.
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Student Retention: One College's Attempt To Deal With The Problem In The Light Of Recent Government Policy 1999-2002
… to define drop-out as a problem and to use funding mechanisms and the inspection process to penalise colleges which experience higher than average rates of drop-out. A review of the literature indicated that during the last ten years the dominant assumption that influenced the policy …
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