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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Research Centers"”.
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How university-based poverty research centers aim to inform antipoverty policy and practice
… the activities of two university-based poverty research centers in the United States—the Center for Research on Poverty in Society (CRPS), and the Regional Poverty Research Center (RPRC). Using a multiple case study approach, at each center, the study included document analysis; interviews with …
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Effects of Leader Relationship Quality (LMX), Supervisor Support, and Upward Influence in National Science Foundation Industry /University Cooperative Research Centers
<p>The Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) is a type of partnership between 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 …
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Research Centers as Modes of Technology Transfer between the University and Industry and the Implications for Public K-12 Schools
The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) is located in the south central region of Virginia commonly known as "Southside". The IALR was established in 2002 by the Code of Virginia for the primary purpose of revitalizing this economically distressed area of Virginia. The education of …
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Essays on Mathematical Modeling and Empirical Investigations of Organizational Learning in Cancer Research
… points to the diminishing returns of cancer research through time, as well as heterogeneities in cancer research centers' innovation strategies. This dissertation focuses on the strategic decision by cancer research centers to invest their resources in conducting early phases of clinical …
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The influence of social factors on the performance of a center: a case study of the "University Research Center"
… of interdisciplinary university based research centers were investigated by an analytical case study of one such center, the "University Research Center" (URC). A description of URC's life cycle and the various factors that affected its performance is presented. The sociocognitive …
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The Determinants of Police-Specific Contract Clauses
… into managerial prerogatives. The focus of this research centers on three types of environmental variables: legal, socio-economic, and internal bargaining, as independent variables.
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An Ethnography of Taste: Craft Beer Culture in Hattiesburg
… culture in Hattiesburg in order to answer the research question: Is taste what draws people to this culture? Beyond conducting classic participant-observation, I deployed the method of sensory activated participant-observation in my fieldwork. In so doing, this research centers the perspective …
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Dendrites or lambda-dendroids as generalized inverse limits
<p>"This research centers on the study of generalized inverse limits. We show that all members of an infinite family of inverse limit spaces are homeomorphics to one particularly complicated inverse limit space known as "The Monster". Further, properties of factor spaces and graphs of bonding …
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An Examination of an Ice House at Old Town Plantation
… at Old Town. It is his occupation that this research centers around. Excavations in 1994 revealed the foundation footings of his home, the associated springhouse and his ice house. This thesis is an in depth examination of ice houses around the world comparatively and how these structures …
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Discriminants: calculation, properties, and connection to the root distribution of polynomials with rational generating functions
This research centers on discriminants and how discriminants and their q-analogues relate to the root distribution of polynomials. This topic includes the connections between the root distribution of a sequence of polynomials and the discriminant of the denominator of its generating function. A …
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The grass is half-full : new biofuels from field to wheel
… The Department of Energy has sponsored new research centers to investigate cellulosic ethanol and improve the technology necessary to produce it. Even so, questions remain about the true potential of biofuels in the future alternative energy market.
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Factors in the Design and Development of a Data Warehouse for Academic Data.
… the realm of information technology, and current research centers primarily around data warehousing in business environments. As new as the field is in these environments, only recently have educational institutions begun to embark on data warehousing projects, and little research has been done …
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Second star on the right and straight on 'til morning: The reception of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan
The purpose of my research is to illuminate the long-standing reception of J.M. Barrie’s most famous story: Peter Pan. There are three distinct mediums for the story, theater, fiction, and film, and I unveil the successes and failures of each category. My research centers on the theories produced …
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A Swarm Intelligence Approach to Distributed Mobile Surveillance
… and coordination of multiple cooperating robots. Researchers have looked to the distributed control strategies found in nature in the form of social insects as an inspiration for new control schemes. Swarm intelligence research centers around the interactions of such systems and how they can be …
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Investigations Of Noncovalent Interactions Using Raman Spectroscopy And Electronic Structure Computations
This dissertation research focuses on the effects of noncovalent interactions on vibrational energy levels. Vibrational spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the study of the effects of weak intermolecular interactions such as hydrogen bonding and interactions with the environment, including …
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A Transport Layer Approach to Host Mobility
… in data throughput to mobile hosts. This research centers on the design of a transport layer host mobility architecture. The main components of this architecture are a link layer manager, to mediate access to the communication infrastructure; a multiplexing transport protocol framework …
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Improving relationships between public transit authorities and medical centers : case studies and applications to the Illinois Medical District (Chicago, Illinois) and Centro Medico (Sun Juan, Puerto Rico)
… transportation and mobility at urban medical centers, concluding that prioritizing transit access at medical centers has the potential to fundamentally transform the hospital experience by reducing congestion, increasing efficiency, improving the built environment, avoiding the deadening …
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Organizational Strategies of Influence on American Environmental Policy, 1976-2006: A Network Exploration of Power Elitism versus Pluralism
… by financially encouraging "independent" research centers to provide favorable testimony. Meanwhile, nonprofit organizations are more likely to be co-represented by shared experts, a resource that is strategically shared for political gain. These findings provide some circumscribed support …
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An Assessment of the Greatest Impacts on Distribution Uniformity for Drip and Micro Irrigation
<p>Using the Cal Poly Irrigation Training and Research Centers (ITRC) drip/micro evaluation program, global, or system, DU<sub>lq</sub> is computed by combining the component DU<sub>lq</sub> values of: pressure variation, uneven spacing between emitters, unequal drainage and “other” causes. “Other” …
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Mapping the Machair
The research aim is to create a novel symbolic textile language which draws on data collected between February 2023 and March 2024 from a specific area of machair on the Isle of North Uist. The data collected is drawn from several sources; audio recordings, journals, photography and informal …
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