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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Top-ranked"”.
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A Comparison of the Curricula of the Top-Ranked Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing Programs in the United States
… to producing high quality graduates. Seven top-ranked prelicensure baccalaureate nursing programs were selected based on three national college rankings services. Based on data from interviews and publicly accessible documents, seven case studies were compared and analyzed for curriculum …
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Staying in chemistry: factors that predict undergraduate retention and recruitment at a top‐ranked chemistry program and university
Top-tier, research I university chemistry programs across the country have the opportunity to answer President Obama’s call to increase the number of high quality STEM majors graduating with chemistry degrees. Chemistry majors at institutions such as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign …
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Images of gender arrangements of three American social organizations: a content analysis of top ranked Google images of individuals preforming organizational roles
This study explores existing beliefs and often unspoken social structural arrangements related to male privileges by examining three different, but rather important, American social organizations—the NFL, U.S. military and higher education institutions. With queries from the Google image database, …
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Exploratory Study of Chief Information Officers in Fortune Service and Industrial Organizations
… of chief information officers (CIO's) in the 100 top-ranked Fortune Service organizations and in the 100 top-ranked Fortune Industrial organizations. A questionnaire was used to collect data on the following topics: the information activities managed, information-related concerns, titles, …
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Robust curved road boundary identification using hierarchical clustering.
… poor lighting. The proposed method constructs a ranked list of possible road boundaries through agglomerative hierarchical clustering of edge segments. Each node in the hierarchical clustering is a potential road boundary. Top ranked road boundaries are paired with each other to identify …
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Phenotype prediction and feature selection in genome-wide association studies
… technique, and a hybrid method where a subset of top ranked SNPs from the Wald test are used to train the SVM. Both case- control studies and quantitative phenotypes are examined. For each method and data set, a series of least squares linear regression models is generated from nested subsets of …
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Optimal survival trees ensemble
… corresponding survival tree, the trees grown are ranked in ascending order with respect to their prediction errors. A certain number of the top ranked survival trees are selected to be assessed for their collective performance in an ensemble. An ensemble is initiated from the top ranked selected …
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Raptors in Temperate Grasslands: Ecology of Ferruginous Hawk, Golden Eagle, and Northern Harrier in the Northern Great Plains
… the influence of land cover on nest success. The top-ranked nest survival model for ferruginous hawks in ED was <em>S<sub>Null</sub></em> (<em>wi</em>= 0.87) suggesting that none of the landscape predictor variables had any effect on survival and survival probability was constant between years; it …
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Quantitative Trait Loci, and Use of the Theory for Detecting Favorable Alleles in Maize Genetic Materials
… Four populations were found which were in the top ranked populations for relative number of favorable alleles for all five diseases. Breeding decisions about whether to self in the F1 or backcross to one of the elite inbreds before selfing were indicated.
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Greener Golf Operations: A Comparative Case Study of Ontario Golf Courses Engaged in Environmental Sustainability Initiatives
… sustainability (ES) initiatives at five top-ranked Ontario golf courses that were members of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf (ACSP). Research Questions: (1) How are golf courses adapting to safeguard the natural environment? (2) Why or why not are golf courses moving to …
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B2B brand engagement in social media: The employee's perspective
… and were split into two groups, namely the 30 top ranked firms, and the 30 bottom ranked firms. These reviews were then analyzed, using Hart's theory of word choice and verbal tone, in DICTION, the content analysis software. The results indicate that there are significant differences between …
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Webpage rank using Bayes' rule and connected components
… than PageRank. Moreover, the orders of the top ranked pages in the two approaches are matched above 99%.
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Perceptual Differences in the Conversational Performance of People with Severe Expressive Aphasia Using Three Types of Visual Screen Displays on Speech Generating Devices
… chose sessions using VSD as their "best" or top-ranked sessions in the forced-choice ranking task. Qualitative analysis revealed that peer communication partners and participants with aphasia had both favorable perceptions and criticism of the VSD.
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In silico prediction of non-coding RNAs using supervised learning and feature ranking methods
… from positive and negative test sets. The set of top-ranked features is then used to construct classification models: Naive Bayes, Fisher Linear Discriminant, and Support Vector Machine (SVM). These models are compared to the performance of the same models with a baseline feature set and with an …
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Selection of landscapes by male ruffed grouse during peak abundance.
… to examine two sets of a priori models. The top model in the first set was the null model (intercepts only), but a model representing Shannon‘s Evenness Index was competing. This competing model contained the second greatest cumulative weight (AICcwi = 0.203). Shannon‘s Evenness Index was …
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Evaluate and Benchmark Aris
… metric (specification score) to ensure that the top ranked retrieved documents possess good quality specifications for transferring specifications. Finally, we compare the performance of Aris 1.0 and Aris 2.0 as retrieval and mapping system and also its ability to create the verified …
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The Association Between Co-authorship Network Structures and Successful Academic Publishing Among Higher Education Scholars
… who published articles in at least one of four top-ranked higher education research journals. Based upon structural holes and cohesion, seven different co-authorship network structures were identified. In terms of total publications, findings suggest that filling structural holes—a network …
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New towns from gowns : urban form and placemaking at college campuses
… need to have more than a well-planned campus and top-ranked academic programs to attract students and faculty. Rather, they need to have a complementary "town/gown" relationship with their host community. The "college town" -a quintessentially American ideal city formcan provide a very high …
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Lexical syntax for statistical machine translation
… results show a good improvement over a top-ranked state-of-the-art system.
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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to Countries of Latin America: A Comparative Study The Cases of Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba
… in these countries, Brazil and Mexico are the top ranked countries in attracting the most FDI inflows. It was evident that MNCs prefer democratic governments, such as Brazil, Mexico and Costa Rica over authoritarian governments because the political and economic stability that democratic …
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