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EXAMINING THE SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH PROCESS: A SEQUENTIAL MIXED METHODS STUDY ON SUPERINTENDENT CONSULTANT PERSPECTIVES
<p>This study examines the Texas superintendent search process through a sequential mixed-methods design, integrating quantitative data analysis with qualitative insights from superintendent search consultants. Based on human capital theory, this research examines how candidate qualifications, …
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Exploring Barriers That Higher Education Women Presidents And Chancellors Experience During The Centralized Search Process
… journey for these jobs. The purpose of this research was to engage women who were past and present presidents or chancellors of public or private nonprofit colleges and universities to explore their experiences with gender-bias during the president/chancellor recruitment, selection, and …
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Levels of Effectiveness of Communication Skills Used by College Students During The Job Search Process
… reported that college students conducting job search processes do not posses the skills they seek in applicants. Specifically, employers have mentioned the lack of written and oral communication skills among applicants. It would seem that there is a clear distinction between the communication …
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An Investigation of the Physician Search Process and Its Relationship to Perceived Illness Acuity (Health Care, Marketing)
Subject. An understanding of the search process patients go through when locating a physician can help health-care professionals better understand the information needs of their patients. This understanding can help practitioners compete more successfully in the increasingly competitive health-care …
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Digital Searching: A Grounded Theory Study on the Modern Search Experience
… study explores US adults' modern information search process as they pursue information through digital search user interfaces and tools. To study the current search process, a systematic grounded theory methodology and two data collection methods, a think-aloud protocol and semi-structured …
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Nontraditional University President: From Candidate To President
… transitional experience of the presidential search process and the competencies he believed he possessed and how those competencies have been utilized as a university president. The study utilized Creswell’s approach to phenomenology to document the experience of going through the search …
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Does using social networks lead to better job opportunities? : a direct test
Research on the effect of social networks on job search outcomes has provided mixed results. Some studies found that the use of social contacts has positive effects on wages and on the other indicators of job quality while some others found negative effects. Previous studies, however, suffered from …
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Search Techniques for Evolutionary Constrained Optimization
… Problems (COPs) has been an important research topic in the optimization, operation research, and computer science domains. Over the last few decades, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely adopted to solve such problems. However the main search operators of EAs, such as crossover …
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Comparative study on data searching in linked list & B-tree and B+tree techniques
There are many methods of searching large amount of data to find one particular piece of information. Such as finding the name of a person in a mobile phone record. Certain methods of organizing data make the search process more efficient. The objective of these methods is to find the element with …
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*Interactive Genetic Algorithms for Adaptive Decision Making in Groundwater Monitoring Design
This research tries to fill this need by proposing and analyzing optimization methodologies, which include subjective criteria of a decision maker (DM) within the search process through continual online interaction with the DM. The design of the interactive systems are based on the Genetic …
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A*-Based Path Planning for an Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Team in a Radio Repeating Operation
… technique is formulated as an A*-based search and this thesis presents the formulation of this path planner as well as an investigation into strategies that provide computational efficiency to the search process. The path planner uses predictions of radio signal health at different …
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Constraint programming for optimization under uncertainty in inventory control
… reasoning, and provide information to the search process on the most viable course. Stochastic Constraint Programming (SCP) is a novel framework that generalizes CP to stochastic problems, allowing both to model and solve this class of problems by using any available existing CP solver. …
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Unconscious Bias: An Investigation of the Impact of Applicant Race on Curriculum Vita Review
… very few empirical studies exploring the actual search process. The limited research available regarding race suggests that traditional search processes do not result in hiring applicants of color (Smith et al., 2004) but there is no research that identifies factors that might be addressed to …
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Search Strategies in Holistic Design Problems
The research examines the search process of holistic design in three cases that differ markedly in their complexity, namely graphical design, small household appliance design, and automotive design. Design, as a creative activity, employs a search process because solutions cannot be found by …
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Toward a More Diverse Leadership: Understanding the Early Processes and Leadership Perceptions in a Community College Presidential Search Committee
The findings from the five subsidiary research questions were related to the study's overarching research question by applying the theoretical concept of gatekeeping to the college's presidential search process. The resulting gatekeeping model revealed four key elements of primary interest to the …
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Hardware for Searching Very Large Text Databases
The problems involved in searching very large text databases are discussed. It is shown that conventional techniques for searching current databases cannot be scaled up to larger ones, and that it is necessary to build hardware to search the database in parallel if reasonable search times are …
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The relationship of job seeker work experience and gender to the importance placed on work-related attributes
… of work related attributes during the employment search process. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to investigate: 1) the relationship of job seeker work experience to the importance placed on work-related attributes, and 2) the relationship of job seeker gender to the importance placed …
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An intelligent analysis of policing data for identity resolution
… information for fraud. Identity resolution, the process of identifying and merging duplicates or similar entries, is critical for law enforcement agencies globally. However, matching identities in big data presents challenges due to inconsistencies, including typographical errors, naming …
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Studies of active information in search.
A search process is an attempt to locate a solution to a problem, such as an optimization problem, where the space is usually too large to exhaustively sample. In order to investigate this idea this work looks a three examples of searches as cases studies. The examples considered are the location …
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A Framework for Influencing Massive Virtual Organizations
… provided to allow the administrator to guide the search process by injecting solutions known to work for a particular agent. The performance of the framework is evaluated via comparison to individual state-space search.
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