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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"global survey"”.
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The management of acute knee dislocations: a global survey of orthopaedic surgeons' strategies
… with different economic status. Methods: A survey sent to members of the Societe Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopedique et de Traumatologie (SICOT) compared different management strategies for acute multiligament knee injuries (aMLKIs). These were compared after categorising surgeons into …
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Development of a Small University Satellite for Performing a Global Survey of Gravity Waves in the Mesosphere
Understanding the dynamics and energy transfer within the atmosphere is important for a broad range of applications including communication, navigation, space travel, weather, and climate change. However, space weather research is currently limited by a lack of essential space measurements. Access …
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Emerald cities : the emergence of mega developments in the 21st century
… boom in megacity development. Its basis is a global survey of megacity building that quantifies the amount of current development and qualifies the various city types and themes, the countries in which megacities are being built, and the firms that are building them. The key findings from the …
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Cross check survey : World Commission on Dams
… World Commission on Dams (WCD) has completed a global survey of the performance, impacts and decision-making aspects of 125 large dam projects - th Cross-Check Survey. The primary aim of the Survey was to determine broad patterns and trends indicative of past performance, impacts and …
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Protected area assessment and reporting: an examination of current approaches and evolving needs with application of an integrated model in Egypt
… This research reports on the findings of a global survey of 62 A/R initiatives in 19 countries and a corresponding analysis of the application of the ecosystem approach in these initiatives. An organisational culture that supports evaluation and participation is an important ingredient for …
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TransformScout : finding compositions of transformations for software re-use
… example, nearly 70% of respondents to a recent global survey of IT workers and business users called data integration a high inhibitor of new application implementation. A number of frameworks and tools have been developed to enable data integration tasks. The most prominent include schema …
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The impact of the language barrier on the management of multinational companies : a case study and survey, based exploration of the impact of the language barrier on the strategies, policies and systems by which multinational companies manage their subsidaries
… case study, refined and then re-tested in a global survey of multinational subsidiaries. The principal findings of the empirical phases of the thesis endorse the main tenets of the model: - That language difference between parent and subsidiary will impair communication, create mistrust and …
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Crustal History Indicators on Mercury
… would be likely to be underrepresented in the global population. Using shaded-relief models with alternative artificial illumination to complete resurveys, I found that my global survey of basinedge scarps has been affected. Consequently, I advise the use of shaded-relief models in addition to …
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Mitigation of Inorganic Arsenic in Rice
… world population. Here I present results from global survey of market available polished white rice, circa 1200 samples were analysed from 29 distinct sampling zones, across 6 continents. The global average for inorganic arsenic was 66 µg/kg, ranging from trace levels to 399 g/kg. South …
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The implementation of knowledge management systems: An empirical study of critical success factors and a proposed model
… and their degree of criticality; (3) exploratory global survey of 92 organisations in 23 countries that have already implemented or are in the process of implementing KM; (4) in-depth case studies of four leading organisations to understand how KM implementation processes and the critical factors …
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Global Airway Management of the Unstable Cervical Spine Survey
… technique for airway management, we conducted a global survey to evaluate current clinical practice. Methods After ethics approval, we created a questionnaire featuring one emergency and one urgent elective hypothetical patient with unstable injuries of the cervical spine. Target sample sizes per …
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The biogeochemistry of methane isotopologues in marine and lacustrine sediments
Methane is a globally significant greenhouse gas, energy resource, and it is a product and reactant of microbial metabolisms. Multiple sources and sinks of methane can be challenging to distinguish from each other, thus complicating the understanding of methane budgets and the effects of microbes …
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Innovating Government the Open Way: Modeling the Open Data Ecosystem
… Sierra Leone, and the City of Los Angeles. A global survey was then conducted to test and refine the proposed model, which was further evaluated using the Indian case study. The final MODE framework presents a structured interaction between three primary stakeholder groups (i.e., data …
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A hybrid scavenger grid approach to intranet search
According to a 2007 global survey of 178 organisational intranets, 3 out of 5 organisations are not satisfied with their intranet search services. However, as intranet data collections become large, effective full-text intranet search services are needed more than ever before. To provide an …
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The Biogeochemistry of Methane Isotopologues in Marine and Lacustrine Sediments
Methane is a globally significant greenhouse gas, energy resource, and it is a product and reactant of microbial metabolisms. Multiple sources and sinks of methane can be challenging to distinguish from each other, thus complicating the understanding of methane budgets and the effects of microbes …
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Dynamic trading and behavioral finance
… react to large changes in asset prices. We use a global survey of individual investors, financial advisors, and institutional investors to do this. We find that most institutional investors expect to exhibit highly contrarian reactions to past returns in terms of their equity allocations. …
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Anonymous Indoor Positioning System using Depth Sensors for Context-aware Human-Building Interaction
… billion in the next 5 years based on the 2016 global survey report (Marketsandmarkets.com). Therefore, this thesis focused on exploring and investigating "depth sensors" application in detecting occupants' indoor positions to be used for smarter management of energy consumption in buildings. An …
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Creating healthier populations: an assessment of the use of data on social determinants of health to inform decision-making in eight countries
… using multiple data sources. METHODS: An online survey collected relevant individual-level data from Brazil, China, Germany, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the United States using RIWI—a professional global survey platform that uses a patented Random Domain Intercept Technology™ (RDIT™). …
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Tumour ecology of breast cancer patient-derived xenografts
… as study tools for tumour ecology. After a global survey of all 100 available models, we thoroughly analysed a set of 15 xenografts using single cell RNA- and DNA-sequencing (scRNA/DNA-seq), three-dimensional imaging with serial two-photon tomography (STPT) and two-dimensional transcriptomic …
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Open cluster groups and complexes
… subsample of the catalogue for the Milky Way global survey of Star Clusters (MWSC; Kharchenko et al. 2013), which became available recently, and was used as reference sample. Furthermore, I implemented Monte-Carlo simulations with randomised samples created from two distinguished input …
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