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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"National Science Foundation"”.
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Program officers at the National Science Foundation: a case study of the Biological Instrumentation Program
… of the Biological Instrumentation Program at the National Science Foundation. It was conducted in order to fill a lacuna in the literature concerning the program officers of science funding agencies. The current literature places the program officer in a black box, implying an autonomous …
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The impact of National Science Foundation investments in undergraduate engineering education research: A comparative, mixed methods study
… of taxpayers' dollars in research tied to the national priorities that contribute to its competitiveness in a global economy. As the federal funding agency with an explicit focus on engineering education, the National Science Foundation (NSF) contains a portfolio of projects focused on …
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Educational Equity and the National Science Foundation Systemic Initiatives: A Field's -Eye -View of Local Stakeholder Understandings
"Here, ""equality as a state-of-being"" (Es) is combined with Fairness (Vf) plus other local values (V1·· Vi) such as cultural ideals or local customs and is operationalized through ""equality as action"" (Ea). This combination creates the condition Equity (EQ). Es, Vf, and E a are …
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National Science Foundation Grant Implementation: Perceptions of Teachers and Graduate Fellows in One School Regarding the Barriers and Successes
… successes made during their participation in a National Science Foundation Grant. This study included 9 partner teachers and 7 graduate fellows who participated in the <em>Science First!</em> NSF GK-12 Grant. There were 16 participants in this study. This study was conducted at North Side …
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Effects of Leader Relationship Quality (LMX), Supervisor Support, and Upward Influence in National Science Foundation Industry /University Cooperative Research Centers
… industries and universities supported by the National Science Foundation. These partnerships enable the transfer of leading-edge technology developed in universities to industrial firms. Leadership plays a powerful role in the success of these research partnerships by creating an environment …
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Science In The Garden: A Personal Journey of National Science Foundation Grant For The Construction and Use of a Greenhouse and Related Facilities
… project was actually writing and submitting a national science foundation grant, the project that follows is a description of this process. The genesis of the work began as an idea a coworker of mine had. As a district, Franklin is highly limited in the resources available. Our science …
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Impact assessment of participation in a National Science Foundation human genetics and bioethical decision-making workshop on biology teachers' implementation of project synthesis goals
… the relationship between participation in National Science Foundation (NSF) Pre-College Teacher Development (PTDS) Projects on Human Genetics and Bioethical Decision-Making held at Ball State University and classroom implementation of the Desired Biology Program described by Project …
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Picosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy of Shocked Solids
… F49620-94-1-0108 and F49620-97-1-0056, and National Science Foundation Grants DMR 94-04806 and DMR 97-14843.
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Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Liquids
… Partial support is acknowledged from National Science Foundation grant DMR-9714843. I wish to also acknowledge support from AASERT fellowships DAAH04-95-1-0284 and DAAG5-98-1-0191.
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An approach for the separation of voices in composite musical signals
… is based upon work supported, in part, under a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."
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Time Resolved Spectroscopy in InAs and InSb based Narrow-Gap Semiconductors
… Deibel. This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation through grants Career Award DMR-0846834, AFOSR Young Investigator Program 06NE231. A portion of this work was performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (in collaboration with Dr. Stephen McGill), which is …
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New Models for Crowd Dynamics and Control
… This research was supported in part from the National Science Foundation through grant no. CMS-0428196 with Dr. S. C. Liu as the Program Director. This support is gratefully acknowledged. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this study are those of the writer …
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Strandline and Sediment Analysis of Stump Lake Area, Nelson County, North Dakota
… The work was started as a summer project under a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participation Program and completed for credit in Geologic Problems 421.</p> <p>The research began in July, 1967, after several weeks of familiarization with field techniques and problems associated …
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Reliability-based durability assessment of GFRP bars for reinforced concrete
… was conducted thanks to support from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education's Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Research and Traineeship (Award # DGE-0114342) Note: The opinions expressed herein are the views of the authors and should not be interpreted as the …
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Water circulation within Tomales Bay, California, U.S.A. : a Mediterranean climate estuary
… Ecosystems Research" (LMER) program of the National Science Foundation in the U.S.A. Research on terrigenous inputs, air-sea exchange, sediment-water exchange, ocena-bay exchange and internal cycling in estuaries was conducted. This thesis addresses the ocean-bay exchange section in …
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Understanding the gender differences in factors affecting the decision to study engineering t MIT
The National Science Foundation has found that the percentage of women studying engineering has stabilized, indicating a need to find methods to encourage women to become engineers. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that women who choose engineering indicate were important to their …
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Trustworthy Embedded Computing for Cyber-Physical Control
… material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number CNS-1222656. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. …
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The Automated Laser Position System - ALPS
… Control System (APAC) research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grant DMC-8717476. The ALPS concept has three primary components: a rotation laser, laser detectors and a central processing unit. ALPS generates both horizontal (X,Y) and vertical (Z) position information. It is …
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