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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"product-oriented"”.
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The Intelligent Facilitator's Assistant (IFA): Coupling models of product-oriented groups and expert facilitator behavior.
… with selected aspects of meetings employing tool-oriented electronic meeting support (EMS) systems. Issues in the separation of site-specific and domain-specific knowledge are discussed, as are alternatives for modeling facilitator behavior. Software activities carried out as part of the research, …
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Teachers’ Construction of Technology Integration Practices Within a Technology Supported Environment
… technology integration practices along a process-oriented and product-oriented spectrum. Taking these two findings into account, I developed the Pinwheel Framework in order to explain how teachers constructed their technology integration practices. This research shifts the conversation from …
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Study and analysis of best practices for the development of systems engineers at a multi-national organization
… This thesis will investigate a product oriented company which operates in various market segments. This company, a manufacturer with a history of producing reliable and scalable products, places heavy emphasis on systems engineering. This, in turn, creates the need for highly …
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Towards a theory of service innovation : an inductive case study approach to evaluating the uniqueness of services
… the innovation literature focuses exclusively on product-oriented companies. While scholars have begun researching innovation in service companies, the field of service innovation remains undeveloped and relatively immature. This paper begins with a summary of the various differences that …
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THEATRE PRODUCTION AS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: THE SUMMER MUSICAL PROGRAM AT THE SITAR CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION
… theatre has tended to focus on process-oriented drama and on programs that deal with participant's personal identity. These programs have become regarded as the standard for drama that benefits both children and the community. However, programs like the summer musical at the Sitar Center …
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Using Empathy in Design to Foster Interest in Social Issues
Design has transformed from being merely a product oriented discipline focused on the promotion of consumer goods to become a goal oriented practice seeking to address the needs and challenges faced by people in their communities. Conventionally, most designers have engaged various processes that …
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Hybrid forecasting for airline revenue management in semi-restricted fare structures
… -- a new technique which separately forecasts "product-oriented" demand using traditional forecasting methods, and "price-oriented" demand for passengers who purchase only in the lowest priced fare class available when booking. The goal of this thesis is two-fold: to first measure the potential …
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Towards meaningful computational descriptions of architectural form
… goals, mystified. Computerized design tools are product-oriented, not process-oriented. In Architecture, the how's are as significant as the what's. This thesis presents a computational environment for architectural design. The environment aims to overcome some critical limitations of current CAD …
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Product development processes and their importance to organizational capabilities
Product development is a creative and interdisciplinary activity that transforms a market opportunity and technological innovation into successful products. It is a set of activity-based processes in a product-oriented enterprise, and is essential to the economic success of such organization. …
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Stepping out of line: A systems-thinking, materials-centric approach to designing for sneaker circularity
… financial, and social contexts in which a product economy operates. In light of this complexity, the goals of this thesis are twofold. The first is to construct a systematic understanding of the broad, product-oriented challenges facing the development of a circular sneaker economy. Direct …
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Sport, art and contingency : redescriptions
In today's highly technical and product-oriented world, sport, like many other things, has become a realm of efficiency, records and statistics. While one can certainly appreciate the breathtaking accuracy, speed and strength of the world's elite athletes, seems that there may be more that can and …
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RM methods for multiple fare structure environments
… Hybrid Forecasting (HF), which forecasts "product-oriented" demand using traditional forecasting methods while simultaneously forecasting "price-oriented" demand for those passengers who will buy the lowest available fare, and Fare Adjustment (FA), which is used at the booking limit …
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Error patterns: what do they tell us?
… systems shows that most systems use answer data (product) for their analyses. This process of determining an error pattern, in addition, does little in the way of telling a teacher what should be done to help the child. This two-fold problem, extant in all computerized arithmetic diagnostic …
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USING WORKED EXAMPLES FOR TRAINING NUTRITION PROFESSIONALS TO DIAGNOSE NUTRITION PROBLEMS AND USE INTERNATIONAL DIETETICS AND NUTRITION TERMINOLOGY
… two types of modular worked examples; process-oriented (PSWE) and product-oriented (PDWE), for performance, cognitive load, and efficiency for nutrition diagnosis. One hundred and four students (104) from a 200-level course in human nutrition participated in the main study. Participants studied …
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Assessing evaluative measures for Internet-based courseware
… ofthe Web site. The second approach was a productoriented evaluation ofthe Web site with the use of a criterion-based checklist and an open-ended comments section. The findings indicate that a summative, criterion-based evaluation is best completed by a multidisciplinary team. The findi~gs …
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Pricing and licensing of software products and services : a study on industry trends
The software product business reached the $150 billion mark at the end of 2005. The pricing and licensing of new products, maintenance services, services and service maintenance have become an important strategy to deliver smooth and steady revenue growth. The main objective of this thesis work is …
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The social construction of gender in the practical arts
… how classroom encounters contribute to the reproduction or transformation of gender categories and how students' and teachers' discursive practices build and support patriarchal structures. The study is grounded in critical education theory, feminist theory, and ethnographic research. The …
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Measuring organisational readiness prior to IT/IS investment
… current IT/IS evaluation approaches are mainly a product oriented andpost-investment measures which don't address organisational readiness prior to IT/ISinvestment. This PhD study has developed a holistic model to measure the capabilityorganisations to 'successfully' implement IT by measuring …
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Critical computer animation: an examination of "practice as research" and its reflection and review processes.
… shifting away from the common creative product-oriented view. The model naturally led a practitioner to intervene one's perspective and previous ways of doing. It showed that the “Practice as Research” approach could increase creativity in a product while maintaining control in time …
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A framework for discretionary effort based on performance expectancies in integrated work environment
… at the macro (sector) level - with service-oriented sectors, such as retail, scoring higher Discretionary Effort compared to product-oriented industries, such as engineering. Within the clusters or units, process-oriented influencer variables, such as experience, showed significant effects …
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