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Showing 1 to 20 of 488 for “"collaborating"”.
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Durational Painting: gifting, grafting, hosting, collaborating
This thesis takes as its focus contemporary painting, and develops an understanding of painting as a time-based medium. My research project addresses the array of strategies artists employ to produce durational paintings, a term I have coined as a means of referring to paintings that destabilise …
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Decentralized control of multiple collaborating agents
This thesis investigates the effect of various factors on multi-agent collaboration in a simulated fire-fighting domain. A simulator was written that models fires and fire-fighting agents in an area of a few square city blocks. Different scenarios were constructed to test the effects of limiting …
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Grasping information and collaborating through shape displays
The vision to interact with computers through our whole body - to not only visually perceive information, but to engage with it through multiple senses has inspired human computer interaction (HCI) research for decades. Shape displays address this challenge by rendering dynamic physical shapes …
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Collaborating across boundaries : theoretical, empirical, and simulated explorations
Complex goods and processes require ever more sophisticated and specialized knowledge; harnessing multiple kinds of expertise to execute tasks, solve problems, and develop strategies is increasingly critical to organizations' survival. When specialists come together, however, they often speak in …
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Collaborative innovation in family firms : collaborating within and beyond
This dissertation is organised in four chapters. In Chapter 1, I present an overview of the thesis depicting rationale behind study, research methodology, empirical settings, and data collection. Further, I reflect on my PhD journey, from a student to an independent researcher. Chapter 2 consists …
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Collaborating on Reference: A Study of Discourse and Aphasia
Initial analysis showed that all four individuals with aphasia and their partners completed the barrier task trials in ways that were broadly consistent with Clark's collaborative referencing model. Across trials, the initial referencing expressions became more concise and the pairs showed a …
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Collaborating queues: large service network and a limit order book
… behaviour of two different models with collaborating queues: that is, models in which "customers" can be served by many types of "servers", and "servers" can process many types of "customers". The first example is a large-scale service system, such as a call centre. Collaboration is the …
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The Psychology of Collaborating and Co-Creating with Artificial Intelligence
… the psychological and behavioral implications of collaborating and co-creating with AI. This dissertation includes a qualitative investigation of fashion designers and stylists co-creating with AI (Paper 1), a theoretical exploration of creative autonomy when working with generative AI (Paper 2), …
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Collaborating with Black first-generation African youth for local career interventions
Recent job market trends show growth in attainment of educational opportunities for Black adults (Bureau of Labor Statistics; BLS, 2018). While this would typically be associated with higher levels of earning, there are still existing pay disparities for Black workers and other racial groups (BLS, …
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Human-guided management of collaborating unmanned vehicles in degraded communication environments
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) currently fulfill important roles in modern military operations. Present commitments to research and development efforts for future UASs indicate that their ubiquity and the scope of their applications will only continue to increase. For sophisticated UASs …
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Special issues in engaging and collaborating with families of English language learners
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Collaborating with Chicago Urban Communities: The Unforeseen Challenges of Better Museum Practices
… challenges that museums encounter when collaborating and consulting with communities. More specifically, this project looks at the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) and the exhibit <em>Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords</em> (CVL), which was …
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COLLABORATING TO RUIN? US NATIONAL LABORATORIES AND THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Following the Cold War, Russian and US research institutions forged new collaborative ties to take advantage of perceived complementarities in conducting scientific research as part of US nonproliferation initiatives. These ties appear to have been successful in the broader nonproliferation context …
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Clashing Cultures or Collaborating Networks: A Study of Organization Culture in Breast Cancer Prevention
… presents examples of both clashing cultures and collaborating networks, grounded in the data collected from participants. Leadership emerged from the data as a major theme/category expressed in different ways by participants from different organization culture perspectives.
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A Community-University Partnership: Collaborating to Improve Teacher Preparation for an Urban Indigenous Community
<p>This qualitative case study explored a community-university partnership for teacher preparation with an urban Indigenous community organization in Chicago, Illinois. In the examined partnership, Indigenous participants collaborated with university faculty to prepare graduate-level students in an …
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Proposed: Technical Communicators Collaborating with Educators to Develop a Better EFL Curriculum for Ecuadorian Universities
<p>This policy and action research in the form of a case study of language policy in Ecuador posits, with a pragmatic view, that students’ backgrounds, prior knowledge, and learning objectives should significantly impact curriculum development. Applying principles of information development, such …
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Examining the Impact of Facilitation on the Performance of Global Project Networks Collaborating in Virtual Workspaces
… revealed inappropriate ways of facilitating GPNs collaborating in virtual workspaces, which motivated the second study. In the second experiment, I observed two global and two domestic virtual project networks that were appropriately facilitated. I examined the interactions between network members …
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Collaborating With the Unit Clerk to Decrease Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration on a Medical Surgical Unit
<p>Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Medical errors also incur significant cost ramifications due to increased hospital length of stay and fines. Medication errors, a type of medical error, are one of the most common types of inpatient errors. Nurses are most …
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Collaborating at the Tower of Babel: The Meaning of Cooperation and the Foundations of Long-Term Exchange
This dissertation is the first to propose and validate a general process by which exchange partners arrive at a shared understanding of what actions constitute (vs. defection) in changing and complex environments, thereby making cooperation possible. Achieving cooperation in the face of incentives …
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