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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"research infrastructure"”.
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Programmed emptiness : research infrastructure on the Tibetan plateau
The recent completion of a rail line running from central China to Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region has brought attention not only to China's Architecture and Urbanism questionable occupation of Tibet, but also to the face that modernization in the TAR has adopted and the accompanying …
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A mathematical model to simulate physiological adjustments to extreme environments to analyse human responses to adverse environmental conditions
… the effects of different interventions. This research aims to develop a computational biomedicine model with application to investigate the impact of underwater exposure on human physiology. Three contributions in this research comprise the development of the computational model, the model …
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If you build it, they will run : the role of clinical trial infrastructure in neglected disease R&D
… the role of country level clinical trial infrastructure on research and development (R&D) levels for neglected tropical diseases concentrated in those countries. Pre-existing clinical trial infrastructure in a location can affect the cost and time of clinical trials carried out there, thus …
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Does decreased research funding from the National Institutes of Health to local academic hospitals cause an increase in industry sponsored research funding?
… of Health (NIH) has been the stalwart of research funding at universities and academic teaching hospitals. However, since the start of the last decade NIH funding has contracted in real terms. Anticipating future Federal Government fiscal austerity, the situation appears unlikely to …
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Towards Accessible Diagnostics: Developing CRISPR-Based Colorimetric Tools for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
… investment, significant corruption, and minimal research infrastructure, among many others. Ultimately, these factors lead to a self-perpetuating cycle that sustains low levels of research-translation and, in turn, lack of accessible and reliable diagnostics, further exacerbating disease burdens. …
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Understanding the Role of Non-federal Funding Match on the Effectiveness of a U.S. Strategy to Strengthen Academic Research Competitiveness Nationwide
… ago to help U.S. states increase their academic research competitiveness, measured principally at the time by their shares of federal research funding. This study used a comparative approach to focus on a cohort of eleven U.S. states that have participated in the NSF EPSCoR Research …
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Beyond “Data Thrifting”: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Research Data Reuse In the Social Sciences
<p>The development of e-Research infrastructure has enabled data to be shared and accessed more openly. Policy mandates for data sharing have contributed to the increasing availability of research data through data repositories, which create favorable conditions for the reuse of data for purposes …
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Artificial intelligence perception of strategic decision-makers: an exploratory study [La percezione dell'Intelligenza Artificiale da parte dei decisori strategici: uno studio esplorativo]
La presente tesi di dottorato si propone di indagare il ruolo dell'Intelligenza Artificiale (IA) nei contesti decisionali strategici. La tesi si articola in tre capitoli principali. Il primo presenta una revisione sistematica della letteratura manageriale che ha esplorato le interazioni …
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Epidemiology and Control of Meningitis in Ghana: Application of Mathematical Modelling
… objectives of the roadmap. The central aim of my research is to understand the epidemiology and control of meningococcal meningitis in Ghana, with a particular focus on MenA. While I employed a range of analytical approaches, mathematical modelling formed the core of the study. I began by …
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The Cape Town Violence and Injury Observatory (VIO) Validity and utility of data sources for a prevention-oriented VIO in urban Cape Town, South Africa
… various iterations as a municipality-level research tool, to a city-level tool and thereafter as a national and transnational tool. Aims of this thesis The thesis aimed to assess the utility of clinical and non-clinical data sources in constituting a prevention-oriented violence and injury …
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CONSTRUCTING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH DATA: THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL PRODUCTION OF MARKETING INSIGHTS
… After reconstructing the development of market research and how it has changed since consumer culture has become increasingly datafied, it proposes analysing it through a performative and infrastructural lens, conceptualising marketing insights as outputs of a market infrastructure that embeds …