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Showing 1 to 20 of 210 for “"research council"”.
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The Development and Evaluation of an Empathy Intervention for Nursing Students: Using the Medical Research Council Framework
… </i></b>This study utilises the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions. In line with this framework, this study has three phases. Before starting the phases, a pre-clinical stage was conducted, which involved a thorough review of the …
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An assessment of the eResearch Knowledge Centre's support practices in the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa
… of this study was to determine whether the eResearch Knowledge Centre's (eRKC) research support services are in line with the needs of Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) researchers. It was also intended to identify gaps in services that could be filled by additional services. The …
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An evaluation of the requirements of users of biomedical informational services as provided by the South African Medical Research Council
… was also identified and evaluated. The research study was undertaken by (a) conducting a review of the literature; and (b) conducting an empirical study of users and non-users of IML to construct both a "personal" and "information behaviour" profile of both the user and non-user groups. …
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Exploring the impact of library instruction on the Human Sciences Research Council staff, in support of achieving their research and academic goals
… library instruction (LI) on the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) staff, in support of achieving their research and academic goals. The study used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design, which consisted of two separate phases: quantitative data collection followed by qualitative data …
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Spatial variability of hydraulic properties as affected by physical properties of selected soil types in South Africa
… Experimental farm and Roodeplaat, Agricultural Research Council farm). The objectives of this study were to determine the spatial variability of soil water content, water infiltration and hydraulic conductivity on selected soils. Field measurements were done on a 20 m × 20 m. Soil hydraulic and …
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Development and Evaluation of a Simulation System Based Upon Standard Pedestrian Thoroughfare Methodologies
… Capacity Manual 2000 (HCM) (Transportation Research Board, National Research Council [TRB], 2000a) methodologies into a ProModel simulation and then compares and contrasts the results of the HCM calculations with the ProModel simulation.
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Dietary intakes of twenty-six preadolescent girls
… Recommended Dietary Allowances of the National Research Council. Subjects between the ages of seven and nine years and in the height-weight range considered normal for this sex-age group were chosen. After different methods of dietary survey were considered the two-week record of food intake was …
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Evaluating IEPs of Elementary School Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… Act and recommendations from the National Research Council on educating students with ASD, has challenged school districts to develop programming targeting specific impairments characteristic of students with ASD. The purpose of this study was to evaluate programming through the evaluation …
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Dietary Effects of Selenium During Reproduction in the Rat (Lactation, Milk, Pregnancy, Bioavailability, Glutathione Peroxidase)
The National Research Council (NRC) has recommended a dietary selenium (Se) concentration of 0.1 ppm for the laboratory rat. This dietary level produced maximal liver glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity in growing male rats. Similar studies were not performed in female rats during growth or …
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Students' Conceptions of Normalization
… has become an increased focus of education researchers within the past decade. As part of these efforts, discipline-based education research (DBER) has emerged within STEM education as a way to address discipline-specific challenges for teaching and learning, by combining expert knowledge of …
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The Left Regular Representation of a Semigroup
… is reflexive (the reflexivity problem). This research has been funded in part by a scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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The magnesium content in one-hundred gram portions of commonly served foods and in the controlled diets served twelve preadolescent girls for fifty-three days in the summer of 1958
… in all nutrients as recommended by the National Research Council (34) except for the nitrogen intake which averaged 3.46 grams daily for five six-day periods, and 2.83 grams for the following three six-day periods.
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Backfill pressures within a reinstated trench: The Gatineau field project.
… distribution system infrastructure, the National Research Council of Canada undertook a joint research project with the City of Gatineau, PQ, to better understand the nature of backfill pressures acting through the reinstated trench and upon buried water pipe. This thesis first presents the …
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University Research and Industry Involvement. Three Essays on the Effects and Determinants of Industry Collaboration and Commercialisation in Academia
… with industry and how these collaborations a¤ect research outputs in terms of publications and patents. It employs a longitudinal dataset that comprises more than 4000 engineering academics over 20 years and a smaller subsample of 479 academics over 12 years and uses robust econometric approaches …
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Reconstruction of the Spatial Distribution of Surface Activity Concentration for an In-Situ, Gamma-Ray, Truck-Borne Survey
… at the experimental proving ground of Defence Research and Development Canada, in Suffield, Alberta. The Nuclear Emergency Response Team of Natural Resources Canada conducted two mobile surveys to reconstruct the distribution of surface activity concentration of the deposited material, …
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The knitter's tale: a practice-led approach to framework knitting through a contemporary exploration of traditional practices, patterns, skills and stories
… The investigation was conducted using active researcher participation to determine the contribution that personal experience can make to ‘experiential knowing’. This research was supported by a Collaborative Doctoral Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) which set the …
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Wise Practices in Indigenous Program Evaluation
This research project explores approaches and methodologies of program evaluation in the context of Indigenous programs that are operated by or funded by non-Indigenous organizations. It asks two research questions: a) What constitutes Indigenous program evaluation? and b) How can program …
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Performance of selected different types of stone fruits in a summer rainfall area, South Africa
… project was initiated in 2007 by Agricultural Research Council through the collaboration of Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Infruitec-Nietvoorbij (Stellenbosch) Western Cape and University of Venda in Limpopo Province. This was a continuous assessment about the performance of selected stone …
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