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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Research Capacity"”.
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Research capacity development of individuals at three South African university research centres
… has been recognition of the need for increasing research capacity at South African universities and within the national science system. Furthermore there has been a need to address imbalances in the racial and gender profile of researchers. There has been a growth of application-oriented, …
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Qualitative mid-term evaluation of a maternal and child health training and research capacity building program in Kenya
… opportunities and support for postgraduate level research and for training healthcare professionals at eight Kenyan health centers. This is a secondary analysis of a rapid assessment of 28 key informant interviews and six focus group discussions at six of the MNCH sites with hospital …
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Building `capacity' for education research among scholars of the global South: Learning from the case of an international research collaboration in Tanzania
… production vis-à-vis a case study of one research collaboration between scholars based in Tanzania and the United States. The Teaching in Action Research Project involved nine faculty based in Tanzania in an applied, multi-sited team ethnography that examined aspects of pedagogical …
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African researchers' perceptions and expectations of the benefits of genomics research in Africa : a qualitative study
Introduction: Genomics research raises a number of ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI), one of which is the concept of benefit sharing. While benefits and benefit sharing are difficult to discuss because of questions on what needs to be shared, with whom and by whom, it cannot be pushed to the …
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Understanding the Role of Researchers in Engaging and Communicating Sciences with Inuit Youth
Over the past decade, Inuit and non-Inuit researchers have worked in partnerships to conduct research that give voice to non-Western knowledge systems. However, studies show that although many researchers demonstrate a keen interest in engaging with Inuit youth, they often lack the resources and …
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Embedding a Culture of Research in Canadian Community Hospitals
This study aims to understand how research culture is experienced and shaped in Canadian community hospitals to provide strategies for strengthening community hospital research culture. This qualitative interpretive study employed Schein’s Model of Organizational Culture as a theoretical framework …
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Hartbeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) Pioneering Advantage: Exploring Scientific Instrumentation Co-Location Benefits in Ensuring African Research Facility Sustainability
… astronomy facilities with instrument co-location capacity in the 8 Square Kilometre Array (SKA) African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN) partner countries. The premise of the research is that the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) had laid down a blue-print and is …
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Systems Dynamics Simulation To Improve Timber Harvesting System Management
… a given machine combination and is designed as a research tool to investigate the cause and impact of machine interactions. This model has a defined system structure and can incorporate up to five machines for each of three phases in the harvesting operation: felling, skidding and processing. …
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Insights into the South African research landscape through mining theses and dissertations using transformer-based language models
Postgraduate research plays a critical role in the development of national research capacity and advanced knowledge production. In South Africa, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) constitute a substantial yet underutilised body of scholarly output for analysing postgraduate training, …
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Aplicación de analítica digital, marketing digital y nuevas tecnologías en empresas peruanas
… able to apply information technology knowledge, research capacity and analytical capacity to design creative solutions to the challenges faced by the company for which he works; ensuring at all times to observe ethical principles and social responsibility. Likewise, they must have skills, among …
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Dissemination patterns of scientific abstracts presented at the first and second African Conferences of Emergency Medicine
… modern health care practices. Ongoing biomedical research is needed to expand existing knowledge and improve quality of care, but it needs to reach clinicians to drive change. Journal articles and conference presentations are dissemination tools. The aim of the study was to establish the …
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A household survey of maternal and child health in the Mount Frere Health District, Eastern Cape
… process was followed, in order to develop research capacity within the district, and to facilitate interaction between health workers and the community. Methods: Structured questionnaires were used by local research trainees to gather data from each household on: • household demographics; • …
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Factors that influence the utilisation of high performance computing systems at selected higher education institution
… quality of education. This was done to improve research capacity and correct resource disparities in institutions. However, not all universities offer access to and ensure the effective use of these systems. As a result, the study aimed to investigate the factors that affect how the University …
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Enhancing the Use of Network Meta-analysis to Synthesize Information on Benefits and Harms of Drugs to Support Regulatory and Reimbursement Decisions in Canada
… data network. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION: Pragmatic research around methodological areas in network meta-analysis were conducted to address real world problems for decision makers. It is my hope that this thesis and the approaches used in this thesis for the application of network meta-analysis will …
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A Sensitivity Analysis Framework for Health Economic Evaluation in Middle Income Countries: Appropriately Incorporating a Comprehensive Approach
… there are also shortages in skills and research capacity, creating a strong complementary need to consider the contextual feasibility of applying more resource demanding sensitivity analysis methodologies. Given the above, it is therefore critical to establish whether and when the …
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Assessing eHealth knowledge diffusion within the public health sector in Kenya using social network analysis
… tacit nature of knowledge within networks, low research capacity and output, information guarding, geographical distance between collaborating organisations, and low cohesion were some of the factors found to inhibit knowledge diffusion within the eHealth implementation space in Kenya. The …
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Postgraduate Student Success: A Case Study of the South African Military Academy
… success allows HEIs to not only improve the research experience of the postgraduate students, but also improve the research output and student throughput rates of the institution. Researchers assert that it is important to explore the research experience of postgraduate students to improve …
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Research on the epidemiology and prevention of HIV in rural south west Uganda, 1989-2010
This thesis is based on research on the epidemiology and prevention of HIV among adults in rural Masaka district, Uganda (1989-2010). Arising from this research are 10 published papers, which I have used to explore three research questions: (i) what are the trends in HIV prevalence and incidence in …
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A Comparison of Fluorescent Microscopy Methods for the Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis
… trachomatis in in vitro cell culture, to develop research capacity and set the stage for the important future research needed to combat this pathogen. In this study, C. trachomatis was cultured from existing laboratory stocks and used to optimise and compare microscopy-based quantification …
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