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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"brokering"”.
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Integrating Adaptive services in Grid Resource Brokering
… dynamic within Grid architectures. Grdi resource brokering is introduced to simplify resource discovery, selection, and job submission for Grid application. However, it is the responsibility of a Grid resource broker to distribute jobs among heterogeneous resources and optimise the resource usage. …
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Transforming knowledge, crossing boundaries: exploring educational knowledge brokering
… investigate the concept of educational knowledge brokering (activities aimed at better connecting research to practice and policy in the educational ecosystem) in terms of its processes and implications for practice, with a focus on mathematics education but with broader implications for …
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A Policy-Based Resource Brokering Environment for Computational Grids
… resources, a critical component is the resource brokering environment that mediates the discovery, access and usage of these resources. With the consumer's constraints, provider's rules, distributed heterogeneous resources and the large number of scheduling choices, the resource brokering …
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Practices of Brokering: Between STS and Feminist Engineering Education Research
… STEM fields. Building upon Wenger's concept of brokering, I analyze how I brought previously underexplored STS and feminist theory literature into engineering education journals. In producing this dissertation, I aim to illuminate some of the efforts and challenges of bringing STS and Women's …
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Brokering practices among international EAL students at a New Zealand university
… a phenomenon in cross-cultural contexts known as brokering. Brokering refers to help-seeking social interactions, where students seek assistance with unfamiliar academic texts and practices from brokers who are able to bridge knowledge gaps. A multi-methodological approach underpinned by a social …
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Community development trusts: brokering property rights on ‘communal' land in the Richtersveld
Property is a concept that gained traction by the ways in which it organises human relations and access and ownership resources. Research in legal geography has shown that property is mobilised to justify or resist dispossession. Colonial powers invoked problematic ideas of the property rights of …
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The Role of Cognition and Sociodemographics on Health Brokering Performance in a Diverse Adult Sample
Background: Health brokering is a phenomenon through which individuals assist their loved ones (usually older and/or with lower literacy levels) in understanding health-related subjects, or engaging with healthcare services, by acting as intermediaries and interpreters of information on their …
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Brokering Culture and Labor: An Anthropological Analysis of IT Offshore Labor between Japan and India
The rapid expansion of information and communication technology (ICT) has accelerated the distribution of work across geographically dispersed areas, and this transnational relocation of work is viewed as a seamless transaction by proponents of technological globalization. However, a close …
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Effects of culture brokering on individual well-being and family dynamics in a sample of immigrant young adults from Eastern Europe
The current study explored the effects of culture brokering on the well-being and family dynamics of immigrant young adults from Eastern Europe. Data were collected from 197 first generation immigrant youth (M age = 22.93, SD = 2.89) from 12 different countries in Eastern Europe. The majority of …
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Project knowledge management and brokering in virtual team-environments : application of best practices from modern e-learning management
… evidence pertaining to project knowledge brokering in virtual team-envi¬ron¬ments. Paradoxically, virtual set-ups are increasingly used to facilitate the access, trans¬fer and application of knowledge that is dispersed and stuck globally within company-silos and social-networks. These …
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Tilling the Field of Rural Arts Education in Canada: The Role of Intermediary Organizations in Brokering and Supporting Partnerships
Intermediary organizations (IOs) are described across sectors as third-party entities that broker, guide, support, and evaluate partnership initiatives. This multiple-paper dissertation examines the work of IOs in supporting arts education partnerships in rural communities. The introductory chapter …
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The Community-Based Organization as Cultural Broker: Building Bridges Between Recent Immigrant Families and Schools in Low-Income Communities
… low-income communities by examining the cultural brokering process of one particular CBO. Understanding how an organization approaches working with families and their schools; how organization staff attempt to build understanding, trust, communication, and ultimately relationships between families …
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Protection versus flexibility: a critical analysis of the new labour brokering provisions introduced by the 2014 amendments to the Labour Relations Act, 66 of 1995
The paper will focus primarily on Labour Law with a particular emphasis being placed on the amendments to the LRA that deal with labour-broker employees. In order to fulfil this endeavour, the perceived purpose of labour law will be looked at to inform a discussion of what the amendments should be …
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Control and in-situ measurement of adaptive and reconfigurable RF systems.
… sharing is enabled by both smart spectral brokering systems that coordinate real-time sharing and reconfigurable hardware that can be optimized to improve performance in different operating conditions, enabling additional flexibility in spectrum assignments. This dissertation examines a …
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The Evolving Project Management Office as a Tacit to Explicit Knowledge Broker
… This study explores the extent of the knowledge brokering function and determines if there is evidence of a mediating or moderating effect by the PMO on the tacitness of knowledge. This brokering function is examined via the project manager expectations and attitudes about knowledge sharing, …
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Brokering strategic partnerships between Asian and western biopharmaceutical companies in the global biologics market : assessment of capabilities of Asian participants in the biologics contract manufacturing organization marketplace
It has become increasingly important for companies in the biopharmaceutical industry to maximize the clinical, commercial and economic impact of their products on a global scale. In this context, both Western and Asian firms have been engaging in international merger and acquisition (M&A) …
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Cultural Discovery in Nursing Practice: The Experience of Nurses' Who Work with Vietnamese
… care, and being able to develop a shared brokering relationship with interpreters. Taking extra care included being respectful in a culturally appropriate way, doing a bit more then the usual nursing care, and developing partnerships with clients. Shared brokering included working with …
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Expositions, museums, and technological display : building cultural institutions for the "inventor citizen" in the late nineteenth century United States
… the museum world and the world of engineering by brokering the culture of technology and securing a subordinate, yet permanent place for technology within the museum world. Key issues in the negotiation and brokering include the nature of the culture of technology, the professionalization process …
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