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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Technical Expertise"”.
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Unstable Actors, Alternating Currents: Reimagining Bureaucratic Knowledge Production in the Technopolitics of Development
… Understanding the production of knowledge and technical expertise within these bureaucracies requires a dynamic, historically contingent, and relational conceptualization of bureaucracy itself. This paper is divided into two parts: Part I critically examines the divergent ways that bureaucracy …
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Should Tidal Energy Projects be run by the Public Sector? An Examination of Natural Resources Wales
… private sector can provide necessary funding and technical expertise, the public sector, through institutions like Natural Resources Wales, should play a vital regulatory role to ensure that environmental regulations and standards are upheld. Funding was one of the main driving factors that made …
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Migrant access to welfare payments in Ireland and the impact of Europeanisation: Comparing EU citizens and third-country national labour migrants.
… in large part due to the Irish State’s lack of technical expertise in EU, and national, welfare law, and the way in which the administration continues to operate. In almost every other respect, Ireland would appear to be a strong example of the impact of Europeanisation. Finally, the thesis …
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The role of institutional autonomy in telecommunications planning and development: a comparative case study
… priorities of investment, the level and role of technical expertise and choices of technology. The findings of the study confirm preliminary research by Hirschman (1967), Saunders, Warford and Wellenius (1983), Israel (1987), and Roth (1987), among others, that the autonomy of the …
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An exploration of corporate real estate management outsourcing practices in South Africa
… outsourced, followed by subject matter expertise in second and real estate management and transaction management in joint third. The majority of the organisations adhere to a global outsourcing strategy, as opposed to a local or no strategy. Correspondingly, the majority of the …
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Benjamin Britten’s compositions for children and amateurs: cloaking simplicity behind the veil of sophistication.
… performer, although drawing on his considerable technical expertise to tailor his music to the appropriate level of skill, there can be little doubt that this body of work contributes significantly towards what Humphrey Carpenter termed Britten’s “‘huge achievement.’”
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Gravity assisted continuous flow peritoneal dialysis (CFPD) in children with acute kidney injury
… pumps to circulate fluid, as well as high level technical expertise, limiting its utility in resource-constrained settings. Identifying safe, effective and low-cost techniques for CFPD may improve access to dialysis for children with AKI in low-resource settings.
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Engineering yeast for heavy metal waste remediation
… development of dedicated infrastructure and technical expertise. Instead, this work investigates biologically-derived strategies for managing waste, technologies also known as bioremediation.
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Creating Cold War Role Models: The AFT's and NEA's Use of Cold War Discourses to represent K-12 Teachers as Professionals during the Baby Boom Era, 1946-1965
… middle class compensation, public service, and technical expertise. The NEA from its origins in 1857 until the late 1950s adopted a top-down approach to professionalism. NEA leaders argued that the best way to elevate teaching was to advance public education. From its inception in 1916, the AFT …
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Reducing the implementation burden of Tangible User Interfaces in education
… the complete system itself and continual on-site technical expertise. This research presents a new TUI toolkit called TangiBoard which is specifically designed to solve these difficulties while reaching a bigger audience at the same time. The toolkit’s new marker set enables the development of …
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Urban Design Workshops: A System Model of Engagement for Sustainable Community Development
… local and lived experience with professional and technical expertise. Keywords: Urban design workshops, transit-oriented development, sustainable development, stakeholder engagement, teamwork mechanisms, urban planning, urban science, transdisciplinary engineering
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Process enablers for successful reverse engineering inside large organizations
… look for new ways to improve their business and technical expertise, reverse engineering facilitates detailed knowledge capture for many possible applications. These applications open new channels of revenue, create more options in the market, and drive value to customers. Although reverse …
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Exploring private sector challenges in financing ppps in botswana
… private sector: capacity issues and a lack of technical expertise, unclear legal/regulatory frameworks, unclear mandates and responsibilities for statutory bodies and ministries, unreasonable execution duration, and inadequate stakeholder engagements. Based on the findings, it is recommended …
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Design and Implementation of a Neocortical Visualization Tool
… However, these simulations often require technical expertise to create and can be difficult to analyze due to a lack of comprehensive visualization tools. Neocortical View, or NCV for short, aims to solve these problems by providing a simple, convenient graphical interface for managing …
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Personalized extensions : democratizing the programming of virtual-physical interactions
… not trivial and requires a significant level of technical expertise. This occasionally means having less personalized, more abstract language for those extensions. I describe and analyze the design of Personalized Extensions, an extension mechanism that allows the users of Scratch to personalize …
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Optimizing cybersecurity knowledge graph question answering: a framework for performance and generalization
… using KGQA systems requires a high level of technical expertise, and there are concerns about ForensiQ's inference speed and generalization ability. This thesis aims to enhance KGQA system usability in IoT forensics by extending ForensiQ’s framework to aid investigators, improving ForensiQ's …
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Transcriptomic and Secretomic Profiling of Isolated Leukocytes Exposed to Alpha-Particle and Photon Radiation - Applications in Biodosimetry
… are low-throughput and encumbered by time and technical expertise. Although there has been an emergence of gene-profiling tools for the purpose of photon biodosimetry, similar capacities do not exist for alpha-particle radiation. Herein is the first genomic study useful for alpha-particle …
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Mesh modification using deformation gradients
… process that requires both artistic talent and technical expertise. Despite the tremendous amount of artistry, skill, and time dedicated to the animation process, there are few techniques to help with reuse. Although individual aspects of animation are well explored, there is little work that …
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A study of US government's satellite incumbents and follow-on competitions
… few intellectual property rights and limited technical expertise. This thesis will explore a different competitive setting - the U.S. Government's unclassified satellite competitions - an arena characterized by deep technical skills, strong and lasting complementary assets and robust IP. Given …
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Adoption of new technologies in instructional design: a case study of communications faculty at Florida Community College at Jacksonville integrating an instructional web-based writing tool, my ACCESS into communications courses
… in dealing with technology is time and the technical expertise required to understand computer-based technology and its relevance to improving the teaching and learning process, compounded by the problem of having little or no research data available to support the claims of its …
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