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Showing 1 to 20 of 3591 for “"research design"”.
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Anticorruption in Public Procurement - A Qualitative Research Design
This qualitative approach to research develops a case oriented design in order to examine risks of corruption in public procurement. The method involves expert interviews as the most important data collection tool and explains how to examine the information by means of a qualitative content …
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A Research Design for Assessing the Possibilities of Localized Food Production
Local food production movements have claimed a central role in proposals to mitigate some of the negative effects of economic globalization. Although not meant to be a panacea for the ills of the neoliberal order, local food production is advocated as a sustainable solution to a portion of the …
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Bias and clinical judgment in counselling and psychotherapy: extending theory and research design
In an investigation of how counsellors make decisions about how to intervene on behalf of their clients twelve trainees (six family counsellors and six person-centered counsellors) sorted a series of 32 possible counseling procedures from most to least desirable into a quasi-normal Q-distribution. …
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Research, design and construction of a team of Small Size League Soccer robots for RoboCup Soccer
Small Size League (SSL) Soccer at RoboCup uses the complexity of a well kown human sport to extend the capabilities of mobile robotics as well as automated computer control. The game creates a environment where technically complicated miniature soccer robots are required to perform the tasks based …
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The impacts of labor-intensive roads in Colombia : a framework for analysis, research design and preliminary test.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1978
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A single systems research design to examine the effectiveness of osteopathic treatment for people with osteoarthritis of the hip
… OA was caused by osteopathic treatment. Further research is required to determine the role of osteopathy in the management of people with hip OA.
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EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF PUBLICATION BIAS IN SINGLE-CASE RESEARCH DESIGN FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
In single-case research design (SCRD), experimental control is demonstrated when the researcher’s application of an intervention, known as the independent variable, reliably produces a change in behavior, known as the dependent variable, and the change is not otherwise explained by confounding or …
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Innovating for Global Health through Community-Based Participatory Research: Design of Mechanical Suction Machines for Rural Health Clinics in Malawi
… and inconsistent access to electricity. This research aimed to improve health outcomes in LMIC through an enlightened understanding of challenges associated with healthcare technology. To understand LMIC barriers to acquiring, maintaining, and repairing medical equipment, a community-based …
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The effect of a 4-week sprint training program on sprint ability of female soccer players: a single-subject research design
… sprint biomechanics Method: Using single-subject design three female football players aged 16-17 were tested in a 10 m-, and 40 m sprint test during a baseline-, and intervention period. Also, video analysis was used to study changes in sprint biomechanics from before and after the intervention. …
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Reading young adult dystopia. Analysing teenage readers’ portrayals of discursive positions about rebellion in young adult dystopia in a mixed-methods research design combining grounded theory methodology and situational analysis
… copies worldwide. Remarkably, there is a lack of research that focusses on readers’ perspectives on reading YA Dystopia. Many female teenagers have or will live through their adolescence dealing with ideologies, convictions, or perspectives that they negotiated or negotiate with in context of …
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How Research Design can Impact the Evaluation of Policing Interventions: The development of an integrity model as part of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a police-led diversion scheme
… Yet, a consensus has developed derived from research studies and meta-analysis that custodial sanctions, overall, do not reduce reoffending. Whist it is a key responsibility for the police in England & Wales to bring offenders to justice, the police also retain the option to deal with less …
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The effect of the ACA Medicaid expansions on mortality : evidence from state border counties.
… a difference-in-difference (DD) causal inference research design to study the impacts of the ACA Medicaid expansion on adult mortality rates and the spillover effects potentially caused by it. The research design shows no statistically significant results for the impact of the expansion on adult …
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Design and implementation of a six-degree of freedom robotic platform for measuring the forces of flying objects
The purpose of this project was to research, design and build a six-degree of freedom platform that measures the forces of flying animal robotics. The platform had to have an embedded force sensing mechanism and should be able to move in response to forces detected and measured. The platform had to …
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The state, hegemony and ideology: reflections on the 1976 student uprisings and the 2015 #feesmustfall movement
… state and civil society. Using a comparative research design, where the case studies are the 1976 Student Uprisings and the 2015 #FeesMustFall movement, the study examines one moment of student protest in each of these regimes, to show the conditions that produce similar moments of dissent, …
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Public Values in Design and Planning for the Boneyard Creek in Champaign-Urbana
This research design combined visual representations of alternative flood control strategies with contingent valuations to obtain public input into these interacting factors.
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Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location
… between 1965-1984 (Kitwana, 2002, p. xiii). The researcher employs a three-part research design, which includes autoethnography, a series of textual analyses, and a semi-structured focus group interview from a purposive sample of five young Black women from a Virginia public housing community, …
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Educational Facilities Planning: A Systems Model
… represents a theoretical construct from which design professionals and educators can better organize, understand, analyze, communicate, and research complex cause-effect relationships that occur when educational facilities are designed and constructed. The Systems Model for Planning of …
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Classifying Intermediary Non -Governmental Organizations According to Their Strategies to Empower Local Grassroots Groups
… chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Background; (3) Research Design and Methodology; (4) Literature Review and Variable Construction; (5) Data Collection; (6) Data Analysis; (7) Findings; and (8) Conclusions.
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A Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods Study Measuring the Impact of Math-Economics Cross Curricular Intervention
<p>Research studies in the past have linked math ability to success in economics courses. However, most of these studies have utilized a quantitative study design with limited studies testing the influence of math interventions on student’s academic ability in economics courses. This study will use …
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Experiences of Botswana women diagnosed with both HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer
… A phenomenological descriptive qualitative research design was therefore appropriate to answer the research question.
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