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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Quality higher"”.
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AI needs-based configurator implemented in Java
… utilize the existing Java code-base to produce higher recommendation quality, higher user acceptance, and new product generation.
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The Lived Experience of Graduate Nursing Students in Distance Education
… students were able to participate in affordable, quality higher education. Computers appeared to play a major role in the students' learning experience. Commitment by the College of Nursing to deliver the program in an orderly manner was perceived as weak and created anxiety in the students. …
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Friendships across time and space: the effects of a life transition on friendships
… relational outcomes. In regard to communication quality, higher quality of communication was associated with positive relational outcomes for all mediums except for e-mail and face-to-face contact. Agreeableness and Extraversion were also strongly related to positive friendship outcomes, although …
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21st century tertiary design education in post-apartheid South Africa : a question of quality
… terms of policy and regulation or is it what the higher educational providers do in terms of curriculum and methodology that creates excellence? In the first part the dissertation traces the development of higher education policy in South Africa following the political changes from Apartheid to …
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Food access in local food retail stores: a mixed method approach
… more access to convenience stores that sell low-quality, higher priced and unhealthy food items. This thesis examines how store managers and owners actively shape local food environments by providing different types of foods at their stores located in different neighborhoods. Access is viewed as …
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Seismic Facies Mapping for Source Rock Distribution of the Rakopi Formation in Deep-water Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
… of this study is to estimate source rock quality and distribution of the Rakopi Formation in the Romney 3D survey utilizing seismic facies analysis, log motif, and geochemical evaluations. </p> <p>The Rakopi Formation records the northwest prograding megasequences of the Taranaki Delta. …
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Health technology assessment of online eLearning for post-registration health professionals’ education
… or face-to-face learning resulted in higher post-intervention knowledge scores (21 studies; small to large effect size; very poor quality); higher post-intervention skills scores (seven studies; large effect size; low quality); higher attitude scores (one study; very low quality); …
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Novel Chemically Selective Rapid Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques and the Clinical Applications
… imaging methods for the generation of high quality fat-only or water-only images in short scan durations. High quality fat imaging is mainly used for human fat distribution measurements. The study of fat distribution is important for both clinical diagnosis and basic research. The abnormal …
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A mixed-method approach to analyze the robustness of natural language processing classifiers
… the trade-o_ between attack efficiency and text quality. Higher constraints on the attack search space will improve text quality but reduce the attack success rate. In this thesis, I introduce a framework for the evaluation of NLP classifier robustness. Black-box attack algorithms are paired with …
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MOOCs and access to higher education by South African underprivileged learners
… South Africans struggle to access higher education for various reasons. Higher education potentially increases opportunities for the underprivileged to improve their socio-economic conditions. Higher education MOOCs have been revolutionary in providing quality higher education …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Domestic and Trade Policies in the Presence of Production and Consumption Externalities
… are among the first to allow environmental quality and the structure of industry protection to be simultaneously evaluated in a political economy framework, when some industry groups lobby their governments for higher output prices. The equilibrium tax and subsidy policies are implicitly …
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Dimensions of ‘Quality’ In The Case Of Foreign Degree Awarding Institutes of Sri Lanka: A Multiple Stakeholder Perspective
The provision of quality higher education is of critical importance for the economy of a developing country like Sri Lanka. This research considering the quality issues of the foreign degree awarding institutes of Sri Lanka investigates the dimensions of quality in relation to these institutes from …
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Teacher Perceptions of Internet-Based Distance Education in Adventist Colleges and Universities : a Mixed-Methods Study
… important in order to maintain the delivery of quality higher education and to encourage the systemic adoption of policies and practices that promote excellence in IBDE. The quality of online distance education will increasingly become the standard by which students choose a program as their …
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Enhanced Digital Capability through the use of Simulation in Footwear Product Creation
… the benefits could provide increased product quality, higher customer satisfaction with performance, and positive mindset shifts within design teams, allowing cross-functional team members to be more collaborative and efficient in their communication. While the potential benefits could …
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Fabrication of In₂(Se, Te)₃ chalcogenide thin films by thermal co-evaporation
… well-oriented thin films of high crystalline quality. Higher annealing temperature resulted in films with higher crystallinity, whereas annealing durations longer than 1 hour did not contribute significantly to the film phase or crystallinity. AFM measurements of surface morphology before and …
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Seasonal influent characterization, model calibration, SRT and energy usage for nitrogen removal at a full scale wastewater plant
… system and directly influences the effluent quality. Higher SRTs are associated with high bioreactor biomass concentrations, which can provide improved effluent quality, but imposes higher solids loading rates on secondary clarifiers and potentially higher rates of oxygen demand. The effects …
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The muffled accomplishments: South Asian digital learners’ invisible footsteps in MOOCS
… to the developing world’s lack of access to quality higher education because anyone can access the information, as long as they have access to the Internet. However, there have been limited research focused on how MOOCs has changed access and quality of education for students in the Global …
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The value of using education research to enhance the curriculum in legal education
… University, and further impact on the external higher education landscape. It demonstrates how extrinsic evidence and action research methods were used to develop aspects of the curriculum and overall academic experience of law students. The impact of these innovations was analysed with …
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Who does external quality assurance policy in Sāmoa serve, and who benefits?
Quality assurance has been described as the single most significant policy to have emerged in the higher education sector in recent times. This research critically examines the question of who is served by external quality assurance policy for higher education in Sāmoa through an examination of the …
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A framework for strategic planning of data analytics in the educational sector
… and data veracity referring to integrity and quality. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have a significant range of data sources across their operations and increasingly invest in collecting, analysing and reporting on their data in order to improve their efficiency. Data analytics and …
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