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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Research agenda"”.
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A research agenda for the study of empowerment in hospitality organisations
… as a Human Resource strategy. Similarly, researchers have associated empowerment with a range of organisational outcomes. Sternberg (1992), for example, associated empowerment with customer satisfaction levels, employee efficiency, and employee morale, and Sparrowe (1994) hypothesised …
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Religion and International Society - Approaches to Including Religion in the International Relations Research Agenda
… theoretical concepts and approaches to fill the research gap. Religion is integrated into the theoretical framework of the English School in the form of a “prime institution” and with the help of the “quilt model”. While the former expands the theoretical framework, the latter adds an analytical …
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Context-driven research on and for multilingual learners: Developing and disseminating a research agenda for international education
The publications submitted as the body of research for this PhD by Published Work are the result of four research projects, spanning 20 years of work over four continents with families, organisations, and schools. At the heart, they tell the story of a journey from practitioner to mentor …
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A review, synthesis, and research agenda for the customer service experience, and an investigation of customer mistreatment dimensions
… service literature published in key service research outlets since 2000 was reviewed. Specifically, a review and synthesis of key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings were completed for three research areas: (a) affect in customer service, including emotional labor and emotional …
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Extending the Geographic Information Systems Research Agenda by Studying the Spatial Dimension of the Complex Real-World Problem of Homelessness
… chapter in this dissertation offers a roadmap to research on complex real-world problems such as homelessness by surveying the literature on homelessness that uses big data, artificial intelligence, geo privacy, blockchain, agent-based modeling, and social network analysis.</p>
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Underspending of capital expenditure at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa: current state of knowledge and a research agenda
… underspends the allocated CAPEX budget. Little research has been done on the entity's habitual underspending. The absence of the research into underspending of CAPEX at PRASA could affect the entity's ability to find sustainable solutions to the phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to …
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No Research About Us Without Us. Using Feminist Participatory Action Research to set the Obesity Research Agenda with Pakistani Women Living in Bradford
… obesity related conditions are high in Bradford. Research priority setting can guide the development of policy and practice, resulting in more relevant research. There are no research prioritisation exercises targeted at obesity in Pakistani women. Aim: To develop an obesity research agenda with …
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'The sick poor and the quest for medical relief in Oxfordshire ca. 1750-1834'
… Old Poor Law has remained comparatively under-researched. The parochial nature of its administration, combined with a paucity of systematic local or regional studies has meant that although many excellent general surveys of welfare provision have been published, the issue of the plight of sick …
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Semantic Interaction for Symmetrical Analysis and Automated Foraging of Documents and Terms
… is not yet well defined. We begin our research efforts by developing a computational pipeline that models and captures how a system processes semantic interactions. We then expanded this model to denote specifically how each component of the pipeline supports steps of the Sensemaking …
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The impact of public attitudes and behaviour on the effective valorisation of household organic waste into agricultural compost: case study Limbe and Douala - Cameroon
Building on the development of a research agenda, the research used best practices in the UK and other developed countries to design the aims and objectives from which the methods were developed. Based on the research agenda, trends in household behaviour in Cameroon were examined in order to …
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Distant Relations: A Study of Identity, Ethics and Power in the Relationship Between Britain and the United Kingdom Overseas Territories
… and theoretically to a constructivist research agenda in which inter-subjective meaning attributed to international actors holds equal weight to power and material factors.
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The effectiveness of approach : addressing the value of rights-based interventions to protect human rights defenders in oppressive environments
This commentary statement accompanies the research outputs (listed in Annex 1) submitted for the award of Ph.D. by Prior Output at London Metropolitan University. The commentary describes the genesis of the work presented, and brings coherence and context to the submission. The nine outputs in the …
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Analysis of the Stakeholder Derived Conceptual Models and Exploration of Lung Cancer Screening Barriers in a Medically Underserved Area
… cancer. The SEED method is a community-engaged research approach to develop conceptual models and generate patient-centered research questions. This method has been used to engage community stakeholders of Martinsville, Virginia to develop conceptual models of the factors contributing to lung …
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CLAIRE makes machine translation BLEU no more
… tenants of the mainstream machine translation research agenda, suggesting in particular that the use of linguistic models should be reexamined.
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Analysis and Reduction of Moire Patterns in Scanned Halftone Pictures
… Fourier transform method. Finally, we propose a research agenda for further investigation.
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Assessing Visual Literacy: A Review and An Attempt
… continuing call for visual literacy assessment research. The project has contributed two manuscripts that examine the existing visual literacy assessment research and document an attempt at designing and developing an evidence-based visual literacy assessment product. The first manuscript, a …
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Internationalisation and the pursuit of a developmental settlement : the case of a South African university
… and enthusiastic pursuit of its international research agenda and its focus on individual agents and collective individual agents as facilitators of that research agenda, allows it to pursue a “developmental settlement” while internationalising. Although it is marked by contestations and …
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The Context of HIV /aids-Related Health and Preventive Behaviors: An Analysis of Kisumu District, Kenya
The research concludes that the spatial context of HIV/AIDS-related health and preventive behaviors cannot be properly understood without looking at the role of health and health care in people's lives and that these roles differ in rural, peri-urban and urban areas, an idea that propels the …
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Piecing a Quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the Making of African American Women's History
… of African American women. Using archival research, oral history and narrative analysis, I examine the influence of race, culture and gender on the research agenda and knowledge production of an African American woman librarian.
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Piecing a quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the making of African American women's history
… of African American women. Using archival research, oral history and narrative analysis, I examine the influence of race, culture and gender on the research agenda and knowledge production of an African American woman librarian.
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