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Showing 1 to 20 of 1631 for “"in-service"”.
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Experiments in service learning
Service learning, an educational method that involves the application of academic work to projects that benefit under-served communities, was explored in two complementary forms. First, the development of an alternative form of charcoal made from sugarcane agricultural waste is discussed, including …
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Modelling customer satisafaction in service industries.
This research considers a Customer Satisfaction Index approach and its relative benefits to the UK community. It is focussed on the service industries in both the public and private sectors. It looks at, and develops the measuring and modelling processes involved and employs a Structural Equation …
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Patterns of innovation in service industries
Over the years, scholars studying technology-based innovation have uncovered patterns of success and failure. Many of the lessons learned from these observations can serve as powerful guidelines for leaders of industry as they guide their firms into new markets or help defend against emerging …
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Quality and Capacity Decisions in Service Industry
In this research we provide different analytical models that capture the effects of quality of service. We consider quality of service as a measure separate from capacity decision and analyze the effects of these decisions on costumers' behavior. The first part of research investigates the …
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Evaluation in-service program for professional development
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if an in-service would help the staff gain knowledge and experience in dealing and interacting with different languages and cultures that are represented in the school.</p> <p>The staff was given an in-service, part of which placed them in different …
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Data-driven System Design in Service Operations
The service industry has become an increasingly important component in the world's economy. Simultaneously, the data collected from service systems has grown rapidly in both size and complexity due to the rapid spread of information technology, providing new opportunities and challenges for …
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An assessment of Botswana teacher in-service
The importance of In-service training in Botswana's education system cannot be overemphasised. The formulation of an in-service policy and deployment of resources in the support of the policy, is testimony of the government's commitment to the in-service work. In-service is highly regarded in the …
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Associations of Civic Attitudes in Service Learning
… and social participation. Students enrolled at institutions of higher education have the opportunity to transform their social interests into advocacy through personal connections with the community. Service learning is an effective method of increasing citizenship participation and civic …
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Criteria for the evaluation of in-service education
… a set of criteria which were appropriate for use in the evaluation of inservice teacher education programs. After a review of research and literature was conducted, the advocated criteria were organized according to an adaptation of a basic model of evaluation designed by Stufflebeam, CIPP …
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Public participation in service delivery at Umhlathuze Municipality
This study aimed at examining the extent to which the public participates in service delivery, looking specifically at the level and nature of participation in service delivery processes, and perceptions communities have with regards to the type of services rendered. The study was necessitated by …
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Local church members in service of the church
This study examines the decline of the quality of Christian life and suggests religious education as the answer to the problem. Religious education will be an effective method for the improvement of Christian life. Key terms used in this study are defined. The previous work done in the field of …
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End-to-end security in service-oriented architecture
<p>A service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based application is composed of a number of distributed and loosely-coupled web services, which are orchestrated to accomplish a more complex functionality. Any of these web services is able to invoke other web services to offload part of its functionality. …
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Testing advanced transactions in service-based software systems
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), and its implementation as Web services (WS), provide a new computing paradigm in which functional and non-functional requirements of specialised services are published over the Internet such that they can be dynamically discovered and composed in order to …
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Investigating a geometry course for in-service teachers
… teachers' pedagogical and content knowledge. It investigated the impact that a geometry course (Shape and Space), had on the teachers levels of understanding of Shape and Space. The course was conducted over 5 days. A literature search revealed a few different tools in designing the course, the …
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Critical reflection and the savior role in service learning
<p>"Service-learning is an emergent high-impact practice in higher education. Research suggests that universities have increasingly incorporated service-learning projects into their curriculum, which have facilitated deeper approaches to learning where students can achieve greater content learning, …
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Mechanistic Analysis of in-Service Airfield Concrete Pavement Responses
The effect of temperature curling on pavement responses was analyzed. A theoretical analysis of the effect of pavement temperature distribution on total and load-induced responses is presented and complemented with Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The analysis of in-situ interface condition was based …
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