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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Research output"”.
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Organizational Consensus Regarding the Relative Importance of Research Output Indicators
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A bibliometric analysis of research at the University of Namibia
Bibliometric analyses of journals and research institutions have been carried out in several studies and countries. These studies mainly use mainstream bibliographic databases (Scopus and Web of Science [WoS]) as the primary sources for their bibliometric analysis. However, such studies are yet to …
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Gender differences in returns to academic collaboration
… obtaining the most prestigious positions in the research community. In 2018, women made up just 26.2 percent of full professors and 19.7 percent of university presidents in Europe, one of the regions that have made the most progress toward gender parity (European Commission, 2021). Compared to …
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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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Essays on Competition, Innovation, and Public Policy
… 1 and 2); (ii) universities that conduct both research and teaching activities (Chapter 3); and (iii) the relationship between competition and productivity (Chapter 4). Chapter 1 considers desirable technology transfer in a stream of cumulative innovation. Technology competition is likely to …
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Integrating institutional repositories into the Semantic Web
… Web promises new ways of adding value to research material by making it more accessible to automatic discovery, linking, and analysis. Institutional repositories contain a wealth of information which could benefit from the application of this technology. In this thesis I describe the …
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Folklore coupled with tourism as a tool for economic empowerment of the disadvantaged poor rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal (North Coast)
This research study is, inter alia, an attempt to respond to His Excellency, President Mbeki's call and pronouncement of the African Renaissance viz, that there be a reawakening and rebirth of Africa's heritage. This implies, amongst other things, the restoring of an African's dignity and respect, …
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A critical examination of the effectiveness of faculty-based student learning support
… an overview of the background literature, research methodology, ethical and reliability considerations linked to two projects whose overarching theme is the support and improvement of the student experience. The overview begins with an outline of the aim of this thesis, followed by a …
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Labor Market Dynamics: The Role Of Occupations And Technological Changes
… of DYNARE software affected economics researchers. At the field level, the technology increased the quantity of research output and lowered entry barriers for new authors. At the individual level, however, established authors with high exposure to the new tool experienced relative …
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[Re]rendering the real: experiments in phantasmagoric intervention and scenographic reverie
The research centres principally on the experience of wonder; specifically, exploring strategies for engendering moments of wonder, and allied experiences of intrigue, curiosity and fascination, in both audiences and makers. This enquiry is particularly concerned with the pursuit of wonder in terms …
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Resource Spillover from Academia to High Tech Industry: Evidence from New Nanotechnology-Based Firms in the U.S.
… university scientists bring other resources into research collaboration and contribute to firm part-nerships in both direct and indirect ways. This thesis proposes the concept of resource spillover, which captures the various ways in which university scientists can benefit col-laborating firms. …
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The moderating effect of time-perspective on the intention-behaviour relationship
… of intentions are widely pursed in marketing research and are based on the premise that they are reliable proxies for actual ensuing behaviour. Although research supports this assumed relationship between intentions and behaviour, mounting empirical evidence suggests that the strength of this …
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Building evidence for improving childhood immunisation coverage in Africa.
… Africa’s contribution to the global immunisation research output is minimal. There is no association between research productivity and immunisation coverage in Africa, which may signal lack of interactive communication between policymakers and researchers. Furthermore, individual and contextual …
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Knowledge production practices in higher institutions of learning in Zambia: a case of the University of Zambia
… production. This is achieved by conducting research which results in various research products being produced, as well as through teaching and the production of graduates. The main objective of the study was to explore and describe knowledge production practices and their attributes within a …
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An investigation of factors related to research productivity in a public university in Thailand: a case study
… efficient and effective in both teaching and research. However, there appear to be many obstructions to research productivity, that in turn cause low levels of research outcomes. These problems need resolution and elimination in order that universities, through their academic staff can …
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A collaborative framework for feasibility analysis in automotive product development with global supply chain
… approach due to its iterative nature. Researchers argue that the time to market process and the cost of NPD can be reduced considerably by involving the support functions of the supply chain to a greater extent and also earlier in the NPD process. There is a potential industrial …
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Economics in transition in Eastern Europe and the function of the Bruxelles consensus
… in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Based on our research output, this thesis offers many such perspectives that can help understand the logic of the transformation and the subsequent business done by national and international enterprises. We have interwoven many information-rich threads of …
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Getting to gender parity in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT
… for its undergraduate education programs and research output. But MIT leads in another important way: the Institute also boasts one of the most gender-balanced STEM-oriented undergraduate student bodies in the world. The purpose of the study was to help illuminate how the Mechanical …
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To what extent has research conducted by the GaWC Research Network aided our understanding of large EU law firm geography?
… firms. In testing my hypothesis, I have drawn on research conducted by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network to assist me. Between 1999 and 2010, the GaWC published seven research papers exploring the geographies of large US and UK law firms. Several of the GaWC’s observations …
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An Edge-Based Blockchain-Enabled Framework for Preventing Insider Attacks in Internet of Things (IoT)
… the overall security risks to the systems. This research, which focuses on addressing insider attacks on IoT, studies the likelihood of malicious insiders' activities compromising some of the security triad of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) of a supposedly secure IoT system …
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