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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Time Zones"”.
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Impacts Of Transportation And Population Upon Western North Dakota School Consolidation
… district consolidation issues to the area: 1) time zones differences; 2) time on a bus; 3) identifying key stakeholders; and 4) other factors as noted by respondents. Data was collected from a mail back questionnaire sent to administrators and school board members. Major findings were: 1) time …
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The relationship between travel and won/loss records and performance measures in Major League Baseball
… travel (i.e. number of miles traveled, number of time zones crossed, direction of travel, and game number at home or on the road) and the performance of professional baseball teams (i.e. won/loss, runs scored, hits, errors committed, double plays executed, and runs allowed). Stepwise multiple …
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Spellbound : an activity-based outdoor mobile multiplayer game
… despite physical distances and differences in time zones. Players enjoy new experiences in awe-inspiring interactive worlds while effectively inactive. This project is a physically active outdoor social game that embeds a layer of fantasy and challenge in the real world employing location-based …
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Long-term power systems integration using OSeMOSYS SAMBA - South America Model Base - and the bargaining power of countries : a cooperative games approach
… electricity demand, population growth, time zones and reserve margin were considered. The Brazilian and Bolivian perspectives of power systems integration were modelled according to data presented by national power plans. The comparison of different scenarios provides insights regarding …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry Into The Perceptions Of E-Leaders On Virtual Team Leadership
… maximizing productivity, reducing product time to market, and cost reduction. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of virtual leadership, as seen through the eyes of study participants (Merriam, 2009). Participants …
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Work distribution in global product development organizations
… in coordinating and collaborating across time zones, cultures, geographical locations, and organizations. These challenges are magnified in the case of firms engaged in the design and development of complex engineered products. Our field study of the global engineering efforts of five …
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Non-Photic Mechanisms of Entrainment In Bmal1 Deficient Conditions
… cues that have become a part of the modern times such as electricity, shift -work, rapid travel across various time zones, easier access to nutritionally unbalanced food items, and various rigid social demands have deleterious effects on our internal clock, and generally reduce robustness of …
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Globetoddler : enhancing the experience of remote interaction for preschool children and their traveling parents
… maintain a feeling of connectedness. Different time zones and contexts are some of many factors that make "being together" more challenging when physically apart. Modern communication technologies, such as phones and IM clients, improve communication, but seldom achieve the same level of …
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D-work innovation : where, when and in which social context do good ideas evolve in the distributed work environment of knowledge workers?
… in collocated settings for fixed periods of time. Currently we are experiencing a major shift towards distributed work. D-work is multi-tasking (workers participate in many projects and teams that often change), multi-locational (work is conducted by people located in different divisions, …
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Inferring user location from time series of social media activity
… ranging from tracking diffusion of sentiment to earthquake detection. One approach used to determine a user's home location is to examine the timing of their posts, but the precision of existing time-based location predictors is limited to discrimination among time zones. In this …
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My ornament : writing women's moving, erotic bodies across time and space : a novel and exegesis
… women and their moving, sexual bodies across time and space. In so doing, its aim is to place women at the centre of literary/critical discourse, emphasising connection rather than differences across cultures. The voices of the two main characters, Rachel and Muddupalani, alternate, cross …
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Virtual Team Development Analysis and Optimization: Examination of a Change Process in an IT Company Based on Synergetics
… are based in three different countries and four time zones. For supporting organizational and operational change, the transitional phase following the change of management is accompanied and analyzed based on the theory of synergetics according to Haken/Schiepek (2010). Since implementing changed …
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VEI : an intelligent web collaboration system for virtual engineering
… project but living around the world in different time zones and thus having different working hours. The collaborations among the team members are intensive and important to the success of the project. Traditional collaboration methods, such as mail, telephone and so on, cannot fulfill the …
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The Generational Impact in Virtual Teams
… cultural and language differences as well as time-distributed team members when compared to the Baby Boomers. However, the results for the technology hypothesis were mixed and motivated further research. Therefore, the second study focused on generational differences in views on specific ICTs. …
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Tele-proximity : the experienced educators’ perspective of human to human communication in distance education
… and contextual factors (University policy, time zones, technologies, learning objectives, educator and student identities). Specifically, audiovisual cues have an impact on educators, the learning process and immediacy. The theory of Tele-proximity formulated to explain how educators and …
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Biotic and abiotic responses to rural development and legacy agriculture by southern Appalachain streams
… watershed using hydraulic modeling. The travel time required for water to drain from the watershed to a stream reach provided a continuous index to delimit watershed sub portions along a spatial continuum. Within travel time zones (TTZs), I consider land-use at increasingly larger scales …
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A three dimension hyporheic model of the River Bure: Understanding the nutrient dynamics and the role of streambed heterogeneity
… of hyporheic exchange and potential mixing zones for contaminants as a function of residence time. The proposed work has the potential to depict high residence time zones and biogeochemical reactivity in homogeneous and heterogeneous sediments. Furthermore, fieldwork analysis shows that in …
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Chinese-language Cyberspace: Overseas Chinese Cyber Nationalism and Migrant Identity
… Chinese. Transcending national borders and time-zones, the internet is a quintessential medium enabling migrants to strengthen ties with the homeland, and to voice their allegiance to China. The internet therefore opens up new grounds and innovative angles to reevaluate how transnational …
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Epidemiology and risk factors for illness in athletes participating in sport tournaments or competitions - a specific focus on Rugby Union
… training, during tournaments or at competition time. The incidence of illness in sports varies in different sporting codes and across different tournaments and competitions. The Super Rugby competition is a particularly demanding 16-week tournament among countries in the Southern Hemisphere, and …
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Knowledge Sharing and Virtual Team Performance in Supply Chain Management: Challenges and Strategic Implications
… organisational projects successfully and on time. Due to this change in working practices, the growth of virtual team usage in organisations expanded in an unprecedented fashion. Organisations were taken unawares by these unforeseen restrictions on their way of conducting business, and didn’t …
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