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Showing 1 to 20 of 479 for “"Research community"”.
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Modeling usage of an online research community
… and evaluate tools to stimulate engagement in a research community. These tools were designed based on a research framework of factors that influence online participation and relationship development. There are two main objectives for people to join an online community, information sharing and …
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Community data portraiture : perceiving events, people, & ideas within a research community
As a research community grows, it is becoming increasingly difficult to understand its dynamics, its history, and the varying perspectives with which that history is interpreted and remembered. This thesis focuses on three major components of research communities: events, people, and ideas. Within …
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More money, more science? : how the malaria research community responds to funding opportunities
Agencies that fund research shape both the rate and direction of scientific progress through the resource allocation choices they make. However, our understanding of the degree to which scientists respond to shifts in that allocation is very limited. How does the scientific community reorganize …
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Becoming a Member of the Research Community in Academe: Determinants of Postbaccalaureate Success for Traditionally Underrepresented Students
… graduate degrees? More specifically, the research asked the following questions about Students of Color (SoC) who participate in research opportunity programs: (1) What are the characteristics of students who express a desire for advanced degrees and how do these characteristics contribute …
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Defining Social Network Structure Through Text Similarity Analysis: A Model for Promoting Collaboration and Examining Conditions Impacting the Success of Collaborative Endeavors Within a Research Community
The file named "mosercourtney.pdf" is the primary dissertation file. Additional supplemental files (tables/figures) are also available.
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… critical discourse amongst the private landowner research community. While conducting research into private forest landowners, significant difficulties were noted within the forestry milieu over understanding complex socio-material systems. Consequently, an assertion was made that there exists a …
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… critical discourse amongst the private landowner research community. While conducting research into private forest landowners, significant difficulties were noted within the forestry milieu over understanding complex socio-material systems. Consequently, an assertion was made that there exists a …
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JHDLBits: An Open-Source Model for FPGA Design Automation
Today's Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) research community could use an extensible tool flow enabling designers to examine new algorithms and new methods of interacting with FPGA configurations. One such flow is JHDLBits, which integrates two prominent FPGA design environments: JHDL and JBits. …
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Extending the Reach of Educational Research: Applying Product Commercialization Processes to Communities of Practice
The ability to extend educational research beyond the research community could have a great impact on end-users such as teachers, students, or educational administrators. One way to extend the use of educational research is to create tangible educational products; such as virtual simulations, …
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Logistics of Liquid Delivery in Micro/nano Fluidic Networks
… also of theoretical interest to the operations research community.
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Architecture-Independent Design for Run-Time Reconfigurable Custom Computing Machines
The configurable computing research community has provided a wealth of evidence that computational platforms based on FPGA technology are capable of cost-effectively accelerating certain kinds of computations. One actively growing area in the research community examines the benefits to computation …
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Understanding time in natural language text
… support continuing work on these problems by the research community. We also discuss a few research directions suggested by this work that could further improve our understanding of time in natural language text. The thesis specifically addresses three key aspects of the temporal reasoning …
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INTROSPECT: A meta-level specification framework for dynamic, evolvable collaboration support
… over the past ten years has been given to the research field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Although a relatively young research domain, CSCW includes a large, multi-disciplinary research community with individuals from both computer science and social science related fields. A …
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The Interdependence of Scientists in the Era of Team Science: An Exploratory Study Using Temporal Network Analysis
… rise in team science and the emergence of the research group as the fundamental unit of organization of science affecting scientists’ opportunities to collaborate? Are the majority of scientists becoming dependent on a select subset of their peers to organize the intergroup collaborations that …
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The BioLighthouse: Reusable Software Design for Bioinformatics
… developers to make their tools accessible to the research community, for bioinformaticians to build bioinformatics workflows, and for the broader research community to consume these tools at a high level while knowing the tools will execute as intended.
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Microscopic characterisation of photonic devices
… seeks to provide the fibre optic industrial and research community with an alternative tool that is cost effective, having the accuracy and robustness of the existing techniques in addition to being non-destructive relative to the optical fibre. The development of non-invasive microscopic imaging …
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Scholarly Collaboration In Engineering Education: From Big-Data Scientometrics To User-Centered Software Design
<p>Engineering education research has grown into a flourishing community with an-ever increasing number of publications and scholars. However, recent studies show that a significant amount of engineering education knowledge retains a clear disciplinary orientation. If the gaps in scholarly …
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Microglia and Myelin: Improved Tools and Molecular Interactions
… was threefold: (1) creating and supplying the research community with much needed improved genetic tools to study the role of microglia, (2) developing analysis tools to facilitate the analysis of white-matter ultrastructure, and (3) defining the role of a candidate molecular mediator, IgG, as …
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Development of an FPGA Based Autopilot Hardware Platform for Research and Development of Autonomous Systems
… have become prevalent in recent years. The research community has different needs than the industrial community when designing a finalized unmanned system since the vehicle, the sensors and the control design are dynamic and change frequently as new ideas are developed and implemented. …
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A pilot study to assess the validity of the Joint Task Force's Questionnaire for collection of data to be used in defining job descriptions, educational requirements, boundaries of practice, and promotion criteria for the clinical research enterprise
<p>There is a movement in the clinical research community to define and develop core competencies for clinical research professionals. This pilot study was conducted to assess the validity of the Joint Task Force's Questionnaire as the appropriate tool for the collection of data to be used in …
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