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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"centers of excellence"”.
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How The Arts Administration Program at The University of Akron Can Position Itself for Future Success
… review. The newly created University System of Ohio hopes to streamline funding and differentiate the 13 public universities in the state of Ohio so that Ohio citizens get the best results for the fewest public dollars. The Arts Administration program at The University of Akron is not the …
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Evaluating the Impact of an Academic Interdisciplinary Patient Aligned Care Team on Patients and Trainees within a Veterans Affairs Academic Medical Center
The Veterans Health Administration (VA), with the Office of Academic Affiliations, launched a pilot project, the Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE), to create a training program focused in the primary care setting with multiple disciplines (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and …
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CREATE: Clinical Record Analysis Technology Ensemble
… challenge was to correctly predict the severity of psychiatric symptoms on a 4-point scale. Our winning submission uses a novel stacked machine learning architecture in which (i) a base data ingestion/cleaning step was followed by the (ii) derivation of a base set of features defined using text …
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The Role of Collaboration in Knowledge Production and Technology Transfer
"The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of collaborative forms employed by a Global Diversified Healthcare Company with locations worldwide and its academic research hospitals. A case method approach has been utilized to provide knowledge of the context, dynamics, and …
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Investigating the U.S. Army's Human Dimension Strategy
… (AHDS). The AHDS elevates the importance of optimizing individuals and teams as a hedge against the future world challenges (2015). While the AHDS applies to all "warfighting" functions, this thesis investigates the Human Dimension Strategy transformation efforts applied to the U.S. Army …
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A Historical Review and Financial Analysis of Higher Education Funding in Tennessee.
<p>This was a study of the development of an objective funding method for public higher education institutions in Tennessee. The review covers the history of higher education funding from the early 1800s through the beginning of the twenty-first century with emphasis on the early 1960s through the …
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KNOWLEDGE TRANSIT: THE CREATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND ORCHESTRATION OF INNOVATION ACROSS SPACE
The desegregation of global value chains has accelerated the development of a fabric of connectedness between firms, locations, and inventors. The modern global business world is now characterized by these connections, which serve as conduits of high value knowledge between specialist repositories, …
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AHS Maglev System Architecture
… period between 1993-1998 a vision was presented of an Automated Highway System developed under a contract naming Virginia Tech one of the three ITS Research Centers of Excellence in the United States by the Federal Highway Administration. The AHS envisioned would consist of a guideway constructed …
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The Effects of Core Audit Teams' Review of Centralized Audit Teams' Work
… such as the core team discounting the results of the CAT's testing, which can reduce consistency across engagements. I investigate this concern by conducting an experiment to examine if the core team's review of the procedures used by the CAT and the client's views about the CAT's evidence …