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Clarke, David. "Coastwise from Cumberland : Maryport coastal trade, 1855-1889 /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ34170.pdf.
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Schell, Christopher. "Ecology and life-history variation within a population of the frog Limnodynastes Tasmaniensis (Anura: Myobatrachidae) from a remnant woodland of the Cumberland plain in north-western Sydney /." View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040423.154855/index.html.
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Thesis (PhD.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002.<br>"A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Centre for Integrated Catchment Management". References : leaves 133 - 162.
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McCallister, Michael Philip. "Abundance, Distribution, and Habitat Use of Sharks in Two Northeast Florida Estuaries." UNF Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/352.
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Sharks are considered top predators in many marine ecosystems, and can play an important role in structuring those communities. As a result, it is necessary to understand the factors that influence their abundance and distribution. This is particularly important as fishery managers develop fishery management plans for sharks that identify areas that serve as essential fish habitat (EFH). This includes nursery habitat where sharks are born and juveniles spend the early part of their life. However, our understanding of shark habitat use in the northeast Florida waters is limited. The goal of this thesis was to characterize the abundance and distribution of sharks in northeast Florida estuaries, and to examine the effect of abiotic and biotic factors affecting shark habitat use. A bottom longline survey conducted from 2009 – 2011 indicated that 11 shark species use the estuarine waters of northeast Florida during summer months. Atlantic sharpnose (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae), blacktip (Carcharhinus limbatus), bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo), and sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) were the most abundant species and made up 87.1% of the total catch. Month, bottom water temperature, and depth were the most important factors determining the presence and abundance of these species. This study also examined the role of prey abundance in determining the abundance of Atlantic sharpnose sharks. The probability of catching an Atlantic sharpnose shark, and the abundance of Atlantic sharpnose sharks, were most influenced by site. Neither potential prey abundance nor preferred prey abundance were not significant factors effecting Atlantic sharpnose abundance. This may be a result of prey sampling not providing an accurate measure of the true availability of prey resources. Other factors, such as predation risk, may better explain habitat use patterns of Atlantic sharpnose sharks. Continued sampling will give a better understanding of the factors influencing shark habitat use in this area.
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Katz, Jacob Sylvan. "Bibliometric assessment of intranational university - university collaboration." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364943.
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Mosca, Michela [Verfasser], Harald [Akademischer Betreuer] Clahsen, and Kees de [Akademischer Betreuer] Bot. "Multilinguals' language control / Michela Mosca ; Harald Clahsen, Kees de Bot ; University of Trento, University of Groningen, Macquarie University, Newcastle University." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1218402571/34.
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Mosca, Michela M. [Verfasser], Harald [Akademischer Betreuer] Clahsen, and Kees de [Akademischer Betreuer] Bot. "Multilinguals' language control / Michela Mosca ; Harald Clahsen, Kees de Bot ; University of Trento, University of Groningen, Macquarie University, Newcastle University." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1218402571/34.
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Cebi, Esra. "University Students." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610828/index.pdf.
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The main purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of perceived social support, psychological distress, prior help-seeking experience, and gender on attitudes toward seeking psychological help of university students. In addition to the main purpose<br>gender, faculty, living arrangement, and year of study differences in attitudes toward seeking psychological help and students&rsquo<br>knowledge about the psychological counseling services of the METU Health and Guidance Center were investigated.
The sample consisted of 417 (223 female, 194 male) undergraduate students of Middle East Technical University. The data was gathered using the scale of Attitudes Toward Seeking Psychological Help-Shortened (ASPH-S), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and a demographic information form.
It was found that nearly half of the participants (47%) had knowledge about the psychological counseling services of the METU Health and Guidance Center. Friends were the most frequently stated sources of help (59%) in times of need for personal problems. Females had more positive attitudes toward seeking psychological help than males. Students of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences, and students of the Faculty of the Education were found to have more favorable attitudes than of the Faculty of Engineering students. Finally, hierarchical regression analysis showed that perceived social support, prior help-seeking experience, and gender significantly predicted attitudes toward seeking psychological help. However, psychological distress was not associated with help-seeking attitudes.
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Öcalan, Özel Sila. "University-industry interactions : understanding university licensing strategies and beyond." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAB009/document.
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Cette thèse porte principalement sur les stratégies de licence des universités. Afin de comprendre l’impact social des stratégies de licences universitaires, nous examinons le lien entre le degré d’exclusivité des licences et les diverses caractéristiques des inventions sous licence. Les résultats théoriques et empiriques de nos recherches suggèrent que les pratiques des OTTs ne sont peut-être pas toujours optimales, ce qui laisse à penser que des améliorations pourraient encore être apportées. Lorsque les innovations sont séquentielles, les universités pourraient introduire des stratégies alternatives de licences open source. Nous élargissons notre étude en examinant les interactions dynamiques entre divers canaux formels et informels de transfert de connaissances. Notre analyse qualitative longitudinale suggère que l’interaction dynamique crée un effet cumulatif important vis-à-vis de l’activité de valorisation de la recherche, et renforce la dimension collective de la valorisation<br>This thesis primarily focuses on university licensing. To understand the social impact of the university licensing strategies, we examine the link between the degree of exclusivity of licenses and the various characteristics of the licensed inventions. The theoretical and empirical findings of our research suggest that the practices of university technology transfer offices (TTOs) may not always be optimal, underlying the fact that there may still be room for the improvement. We also suggest that, when the innovations are sequential, universities might introduce alternative open source licensing (OSL) strategies. Furthermore, we expand our study by examining the dynamic interactions between various formal and informal channels of transfer. Our longitudinal qualitative methodology suggests that, dynamic interaction creates a strong cumulative effect with respect to the research valorization activity and reinforces the collective dimension of valorization
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Caro, Cocotle Brenda Judith. "University museums : border-crossing territories? : the institutional boundary between university and university museum as complex territories." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38283.
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The present research examines the conflicted position of university museums as part of an overarching institutional structure - the university -, but yet are also characterized, as a result of a wide range of uniquely museological traits, as peculiar institutions in their own right. The objective is to understand what university and university museums enunciate about their institutional rationality. The notion of territory and territorial action offer the possibility to develop a flexible but tight research frame for analyzing the relationship between both institutions. The research explores a case study: the relationship between the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, National Autonomous University of Mexico} and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporánea (MUAC, Contemporary Art University Museum). The thesis is divided in 7 chapters and 2 appendices. Chapter one is the introduction, chapter two presents a panorama of research field about university museums, chapter three looks towards Mexican context, and how university has been a key agent to the develepment of museological context in Mexico, chapter four delivers the theoretical framework that has being used, chapter five addresses MUAC origins, chapter six delivers the core analysis of the study case, chapter seven presents key findings and conclusions; appendix 1 offers an example of discourse analysis, and appendix 2 delivers the transcriptions of the interviews held with MUAC's staff.
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Daghbashyan, Zara. "Essays on University Efficiency Analysis and Entrepreneurship among University Graduates." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Samhällsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-109298.
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The thesis consists of five papers: three deal with the efficiency of higher education institutions (HEI) and two with entrepreneurship among university graduates. The efficiency of HEIs is analyzed at three different levels: units of one university, universities of one country and universities of a group of European countries. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA) the first paper compares technical efficiency among university units at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm). An interesting result is that there seems to be a complementary relationship between efficiency of resource utilization in teaching and in research. The second paper applies stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to estimate the cost efficiency of Swedish higher education institutions. According to the estimates, half of the Swedish HEIs have an above average efficiency of 85 percent. The efficiency differences are mainly influenced by the source of funding, HEI size, the number of students per faculty as well as faculty and student compositions. The third paper analyses the cost efficiency of universities among a set of public higher education institutions from six European countries by means of stochastic frontier techniques. The results suggest small variation in the mean economic efficiency of higher education institutions from UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, implying that the efficiency differences are not explained by country effects. Instead the variations in efficiency are related to organizational differences. The two essays on entrepreneurship among university graduates are based on a unique dataset encompassing individual level data on all employees registered in the Swedish labor market. The first paper explores the differences in entrepreneurial choice of graduates from different universities. The main finding from this paper is that the entrepreneurial choice of graduates from internationally ranked Swedish universities systematically differs from others with the difference varying by the area of education. The second paper on entrepreneurship aims at explaining the high interest in entrepreneurship among arts graduates and finds that the need for self-expression is among the main motivations for their high interest in entrepreneurship.<br><p>QC 20130107</p>
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Latif, Mohammad. "Innovation in university education : a case study of Brunel University." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292836.
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Marple, Amanda. "Democratizing University Foodscapes? Student Food Cooperatives and the Neoliberal University." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10752427.
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<p> According to a report published in 2015, the National Center for Education estimated that over 20 million students were forecasted to enroll in higher education in the 2016–17 school year, situating American universities as major institutional food retailers. Over the past two decades, corporate food providers have increasingly sought long-term public and private university contracts as a means to expand their reach into lucrative campus food landscapes (foodscapes), replacing in-house services with cheaper, more “efficient, and “productive” dining strategies. Companies such as Sodexo, Aramark, and Bon Appetit control the foodscapes of many university campuses across the United States, creating food environments dominated by corporate interests. </p><p> However, at the same time these corporate food service providers have colonized university food terrains, a growing movement of consumers concerned with ethical food sourcing have driven students across the United States to seek alternatives to dominant food sourcing strategies on their campuses. In a context of increased corporate control over their university foodscapes, student across the US have launched campaigns aiming to develop and establish student food cooperatives (SFCs), organizations seeking to assert the availability of sustainable, ethical, and healthy food options on campus in addition to pushing for more student decision-making power within their university food environments (Marsden, 2000). </p><p> It is within this context that my thesis aims to explore if and how student food cooperatives are creating new spaces for food sovereignty and if they are democratizing the control over their university food systems through campus based food initiatives.</p><p>
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Richardson, Tina. "The unseen university : a schizocartography of the Redbrick University campus." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6916/.
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This thesis examines the tensions between the discourse of Higher Education (HE) in Britain and how the university is physically manifest. Using Bill Readings’s concept of “excellence” from The University in Ruins (1996), it critiques the corporate oriented contemporary university in an attempt to challenge its neoliberal rhetoric. The narratives and processes that support the concept of the corporatised university – whether they appear in the form of its relationship with industry, in the performative measures applied to teaching or in the situating of the student as consumer – will be examined by using the University of Leeds campus. Using archived documents, historical information and psychogeographical methodology, a poststructuralist analysis is provided of the Redbrick University campus based on its origins in the Civic University model of HE. As well as including spatial theorists from the field of urban theory and postmodern geography, the main poststructuralist thrust will be from Félix Guattari – the schizoanalysis he carried out in the institution of psychiatry and his work on molecular revolutions. The methodology will include analysis in the form of urban walking and theories about walking practices, which will include the work of the Situationist International (1957-1972). The outcome of the project appears takes the form of a discourse analysis and semiology of university representations. This thesis offers a supplementary social history of the campus and a critique of university urban development. It provides a view of the campus that is other to the typical one, demonstrating that it can be a place where people challenge conventional routes and express their desire to be creative in response to university space. This schizocartography reveals the hidden university campus and suggests that there are minoritorian politics in operation that challenge dominant discourses and how they appear spatially.
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Johnes, J. "University performance indicators." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233998.
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Blass, Eddie. "The future university." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1232/.
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The 'university' has been around for centuries, and yet the majority of British Universities have yet to reach their 50th birthdays. The higher education sector has been through extensive change over a relatively short period of time, and will continue to do so as the future requires it. This thesis briefly maps the residual and dominant models of the university before examining the emergent model and drawing out a future model. While much of the history is based in Britain, the emergent and future models draw on examples from all around the world. Essentially the future model of the university will have three core elements. It will be corporate, global, and virtual. Each of these is examined in detail in the thesis, and thought is also given to the potential impact of these developments on academics within universities and potential future students. The models presented here may cause concern and some resistance in the higher education community. It is hoped that they will stimulate debate and action regarding the future, rather than encouraging people to stand their ground and defend the dominant or residual models. The emergent model is already upon us. The future model is there for us to shape.
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Weyr, Jan. "University Residential Centre." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226577.
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This diploma thesis is aimed on solution of a three-storey object for residential and commercial purposes of a university. In the ground floor there is canteen with canteen kitchen, café, shops and fitness. The first and second floors are designed as an accommodation for students with different types of room layouts. Reinforced concrete skeleton was chosen as a load-bearing system of the building and acoustic masonry is used as an infill material. The roof is designed as a green flat roof with extensive type of flora. The object is founded on piles.
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Dvořák, Petr. "University Residential Centre." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226582.
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University Residential Centre is the theme of this Master's thesis. The aim was to create a building, which will provide comfortable living and learning to students. The building has three floors - there are student apartments for one to four people in the upper two floors. The ground floor is dedicated to educational purposes. It contains a library and two lecture halls. From the constructional point of view, the structural system is a reinforced concrete skeleton. Main vertical elements are columns and main horizontal are two-way reinforced slabs. Utilization of glass facade and innovative type of thermal insulation can be found interesting.
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Odendal, Marta W. "Students' university choice." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23039.
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This thesis addresses UK students’ university choice using discrete choice methods and micro-data obtained from Higher Education Statistical Agency for graduates between 2006 and 2010. The thesis consists of three chapters with each addressing a different aspect of students’ choice. The studies are intended to provide policy-makers and other decision-makers with valuable information that will help them to implement strategies and policies for better higher education. Some work in the literature has been dedicated to students’ university choice. This thesis explores this body of work and builds on it, extends it and improves what is previously known in the literature. The aim of the first chapter is to investigate what affects students’ university choice. It contributes to the literature by establishing the best method to do so. Two models are used: the standard conditional logit and conditional logit with, what is called in this paper, alternative specific constants. Conditional logit with alternative specific constants improves on conditional logit twofold: it deals with unobserved university characteristics and improves the model fit. The results show that the probability of attending a university decreases with an increase in tuition fees and distance between students’ home and the university, and decreases in students’ socio-economic status. The second chapter further investigates the importance of distance on students’ university choice and it contributes to the literature by calculating the willingness to pay of students for distance to university. The chosen models are estimated for different socio-economic group of students separately. This methodology allows for meaningful comparison between socio-economic groups and produces more reliable estimates due to the fact that it accommodates for different unobserved characteristics of universities for different groups of students. The results show that students with the highest socio-economic status are not affected or have a positive utility of distance. The willingness to pay of other socio-economic groups are mixed and depend on the university characteristics used in the model. The third chapter focuses on students’ attitudes towards costs and benefits of university degree by calculating the discount rate of future income using marginal utility of graduate income and tuition fees. In addition, the chapter shows how use of consideration sets of universities for each student improves the model fit. The results show that students have a normal discount rate around 1% without consideration sets. The discount rate becomes negative in all models apart from one, when consideration sets are used.
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De, Munnik Evert. "The virtual university." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 2, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/457.
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Published Article<br>The article views the concept of a virtual university. Various conceptual definitions are presented to debate the question on what a virtual university is. The author explains the important contribution of technology driven education in the delivering of academic programmes. Throughout the article the advantages of virtual education are highlighted. Some of the advantages include effective transfer of learning to the work place and quick feedback on performance. The article concludes with a future scenario of virtual universities.
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Merschen, Jutta. "An economic analysis of the university university governance and the effects of faculty participation in university decision-making." Stuttgart Ibidem-Verl, 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2772719&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Hoye, Katherine. "University Intellectual Property Policies And University-Industry Technology Transfer In Canada." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2855.
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This research investigates the relationship between those incentives for faculty support of university-industry technology transfer that are governed by university intellectual property policies and technology transfer outcomes at Canadian universities. <br /> Empirical research, chiefly conducted in the United States, has explored the link between the incentives that are governed by IP policies and various outcomes and found that financial incentives are correlated with a variety of outcomes. This research extends the literature by exploring the same underlying relationship, in Canada, where IP policies also determine ownership and control of the development of the IP; some universities retain control over the development and other universities let the ownership and control vest with the inventors. <br />The research question was pursued by conducting three studies, each of which provided a different perspective. The first study seeks to explain cross-institutional patterns in the numbers of patents held by Canadian universities using variables that represent the financial incentives and control offered to faculty inventors by the universities' policies. The second study investigated the impact of a policy change at the University of Toronto, using interrupted time series analysis techniques. The third study investigated the experiences of faculty inventors at the University of Waterloo through indepth interviews and thematic analysis of the resulting qualitative data. <br /> The first, cross-sectional study failed to generate statistically significant results. In the second, longitudinal study, the change from a "university-owns" to an "inventor-owns" policy appeared to have significantly and substantially increased the number of invention disclosures submitted to the University of Toronto by its faculty members. The third, qualitative study suggests that faculty members interpret the incentives governed by intellectual property policies and that this interpretation is shaped by group norms, academic leadership, university culture and the inventors' experiences with technology transfer support organizations. Therefore, Studies 2 and 3 indicate that university intellectual property policies are effective levers with which to stimulate university-industry technology transfer and thus deserve further study. The importance of university factors in Study 3 implies that intellectual property policies must fit with their organizational contexts in order to be productive. <br />This research also has important policy implications. Many governments have been attempting to emulate the American Bayh-Dole Act by introducing or changing national regulations affecting university IP policies. This research suggests that these national regulations may actually depress researcher support for technology transfer and thus the amount of activity at those institutions that would benefit from an alternate policy. In effect, standardization of university IP policies through national regulations may deprive university administrators of an effective lever for encouraging technology transfer on their campuses. This inference will be the focus of further research which will broaden the work documented in this dissertation by exploring the relationship between university IP policies, university-industry technology transfer, and university factors, including culture, across a wider range of universities.
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Williams, Dina. "Determinants of university spin-off process : evidence from a Russian university." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493976.
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The University spin-off process in Russia is a field of research that has so far received very little attention. The ambition of this study is to provide an understanding of the process of new technology-based firm creation from the universities in a context of the Russian Federation. The thesis objectives assess the factors influencing the formation of new firms, their needs, and barriers to growth.
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Wakeling, Judy. "University women : origins experiences and destinations at Glasgow University 1939-1987." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/638/.
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McArthur, Maureen H. III. "The Impacts of Owning Private Companies on University Faculty: The Experiences of Biotechnology Faculty and University Administrators in One University." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37019.
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It has recently become rather common for life science faculty to own a private company related to university research, an extreme form of entrepreneurial activity. Yet our understanding of how this changes the experiences of the entrepreneurial scientists and administrators is limited. This thesis, based primarily on in-depth interviews with three entrepreneurial biotechnology faculty, their graduate students and employees, their department heads, and university-level administrators, reveals how scientists and administrators are responding to conflicts and others' perceptions of conflict arising from their entrepreneurial activity. The faculty and administrators organize these conflicts into five categories: issues which they consider to be genuine conflicts but do not act upon; issues which they consider to be genuine conflicts and do act upon; issues which they do not consider to pose genuine conflicts but which they act upon because others perceive those issues to be conflicts; issues which they consider to be conflicts but which none of the principals expect to be experienced at their particular university; and issues which they do not consider to raise genuine conflicts whether experienced at their university or elsewhere. This thesis also shows how entrepreneurial faculty are incorporating business into their teaching and are altering their interactions with academic peers and graduate students all due to their entrepreneurial activity.<br>Master of Science
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Nicklaus, Mark Bodnar. "Videogame use among male residents in university housing at Eastern Illinois University /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131566279.pdf.
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Pitt, Anna Tamsin. "Auditory discrimination in dyslexia : differences between university and non-university educated individuals." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ad1dfcb0-cfe1-4d62-a603-749ccf84a0a9.
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It is still unresolved whether individuals with dyslexia suffer non-verbal auditory processing deficits that may explain their phonological problems. Many studies have shown that dyslexic individuals are poor at discriminating pure tones, and this deficit has been attributed to impaired rapid auditory processing. In order to investigate the temporal properties of auditory processing in dyslexia, I have therefore studied the pure tone discrimination abilities of dyslexics, and then analysed the effects of varying interstimulus interval, the amount of frequency difference, and the effect of adding distractor tones during the interstimulus interval. In an investigation of dyslexic individuals’ ability to remember sequences of tones or digits (tonal and digit recognition memory), Rose and Rosner (2005) found that their results were affected by the education their subjects had received. The university educated dyslexics showed little tone discrimination deficit, whereas the dyslexic participants who never attended university showed greater deficits. Therefore, another aim of this thesis was to further study these findings and to identify any auditory processing compensatory mechanisms used by dyslexics who have received higher education. In eight different auditory tasks, the majority of which I programmed, I found strong evidence of non-verbal auditory processing deficits in dyslexic individuals. The comparison of university and non-university groups showed that educational differences had clear effects on many of their abilities, and should not be underestimated. The results showed that: • In general, dyslexics had poorer auditory frequency discrimination than controls. • Dyslexics who did not attend university had lower performance on almost all the auditory tests than the university dyslexic or control groups. • Unexpectedly, university educated dyslexics were less distracted by interrupting tones during frequency discrimination than university educated controls. • In a tone sequence memory task, the university educated dyslexics compensated in their performance to a level not much below that of the university educated controls, and above the controls who did not go to university. • The frequency recognition tasks positively correlated with literacy abilities, and were independent of general intelligence. The strongest correlations were in the non-university dyslexic group. The implications of these results are that not only do dyslexic individuals suffer from a low level, non-linguistic, auditory processing deficit, but those who do not get to university are less able to compensate for these difficulties. It is impossible to say if the higher performance in university educated dyslexics was due to compensation, or if their presence at university was due to a lack of these deficits in the first place. Nevertheless, since university educated dyslexics were better at resisting distractions this may underlie their ability to compensate. These findings could facilitate the creation of new teaching methods to support the development of dyslexics’ compensatory skills and new non-linguistic diagnostic aids. These would help with identifying dyslexia in second languages and enable earlier testing and identification, before reading failure exerts its inevitable negative effects on children’s self-confidence, happiness and future academic potential.
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Ramos, António Romeral. "Access in private University in Japan: J. F. Oberlin University case study." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/3428.
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Mestrado em Ensino Superior<br>A presente dissertação visa analisar como as questões sociais e políticas influenciam as condições de acesso nas universidades privadas do Japão. O estudo de caso foi a estratégia adoptada para explorar as políticas de acesso,
tendo em conta os factores sociais, políticos e académicos do contexto japonês. A Universidade J.F. Oberlin foi o caso usado para este propósito.
A história, economia e tradições da sociedade japonesa, ainda que em diferentes medidas, sempre influenciaram significativamente as políticas de acesso ao ensino superior e são por isso inseparáveis desta análise.
Os dois momentos mais importantes a nível político nesta temática são o processo de desregulamentação, ou seja, a transferência de controlo do governo central para o poder do governo regional, local e institucional durante o mandato de Nakasone (primeiro-ministro japonês), e, posteriormente a privatização de instituições públicas. Consequentemente, estas foram
adquirindo maior autonomia durante o governo de Koizumi, sucessor de Nakasone. As mudanças sociais são visíveis pelo número decrescente de
alunos que concluem o ensino secundário, a grande variedade de novos candidatos ao ensino superior e a falta de confiança neste sector. Estes dois factores exigiram dos decisores políticos e aos líderes institucionais soluções para estes problemas nacionais. As preocupações académicas foram
atenuadas com maior grau de autonomia e consequentemente maior responsabilidade.
O grande sistema de ensino superior japonês (maioritariamente composto por instituições privadas) enfrenta grande competitividade para atrair estudantes qualificados. Desta forma, as instituições têm que gerir cuidadosamente as suas políticas de acesso de forma a assegurar simultaneamente qualidade e um número satisfatório de matrículas para garantir a sua existência e futuro.
No entanto, ao desenvolver os seus processos de admissão com êxito, as instituições têm que considerar vários obstáculos ao mesmo tempo que
facilitam este processo. O carácter específico de cada instituição é um factor extremamente importante na distinção das melhores instituições que, em tal processo competitivo, precisam de procurar melhorar constantemente e alcançar major prestígio.
ABSTRACT: The present thesis aims to analyse how social and policy issues influence access conditions to private universities in Japan. The case study is the
strategy adopted to explore the implementation policy under social, political and academic factors in Japanese context. J.F. Oberlin University was the case chosen to achieve this goal.
Those factors were at completely different level although with enormous influences in Japanese higher education access, moreover they were
dramatically connected and clearly associate with that context. Japanese society, history, economy, tradition and develop have been always significant
influences in Japanese higher education context.
The two main factors at policy level were the deregulation process from central governmental control to local, regional and institutional power under Nakasone cabinet and afterward the privatization of public institutions and increase
autonomy of private institutions under Koizumi cabinet. Social changes were represented by the decreasing high school graduate population, the wide variety of the new applicants and the lack of trust in tertiary education. Both stage demanded to policy-makers and institutions leaders to face serious problems at national level. The academic concern was dealt by the institutions with wide freedom and strong responsibility. The large Japanese system (basically private institution) faces a strong competition to attract enough and well qualify students. Therefore, institutions need to achieve their best admission policy procedures in order to assure, simultaneously, quality and a
successful enrolment for its existence and a booming future.
Nevertheless, in order to develop a success admission process, institutions have to consider several hurdles and facilitate. The specific and unique character of each institution would be an extremely important factor to characterize and distinguish them. In the tough competition process institutions need to improve and increase their prestige. The efficiency to measure the wide
variety rank of student skills, motivations and backgrounds is an important process in order to build up a future and successful institution.
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Sun, Xiaocheih. "Behavioral Differences in the Classroom: U.S. University Teachers and Chinese University Teachers." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4921.
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Although intercultural scholars examine the differences in cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes between the U.S. and China, few specifically have studied cultural differences between U.S. and Chinese university classrooms. This study examines behavioral differences exhibited by U.S. teachers in U.S. university classrooms and Chinese teachers in Chinese university classrooms. This research addresses three areas of significance. First, Chinese students studying in the U.S. who read this thesis may be better able to cope with the U.S. educational system and communicate more effectively with both U.S. students and teachers. Second, this research may help U.S. university teachers to better understand the Chinese culture and Chinese students. Third, this research may increase U.S. teachers' awareness of and sensitivity to the increasingly multicultural classroom environment in the U.S. Three male university teachers in the U.S. and three male university teachers in China were observed and videotaped in this study. The data analysis was guided by categories establish by Gudykunst (1988), Hofstede (1986), and Lieberman (1993) as behavioral indicators of cultural styles. Several interesting findings occurred among overall descriptive observation and qualitative accounts of observations. First, a powerful trend of behavioral differences exhibited in the classroom by U.S. university teachers and Chinese university teachers was found. The findings in this search strongly support findings by Gudykunst (1988), Hofstede (1986), and Lieberman (1993) that U.S. university teachers exhibited far more individualist/direct communication styles and small power distance/personal communication styles than Chinese teachers, while Chinese teachers exhibited more collectivist/indirect communication styles and large power distance/contextual communication styles than U.S. teachers. Second, the results of this research provide valuable insights for both U.S. university teachers and Chinese university teachers; that is, culture reflects teachers' and students' values, assumptions, and behaviors. U.S. culture reflects values, assumptions, and behaviors, such as individualism, direct communication styles, small power distance, and personal communication styles. However, Chinese culture reflects collectivism, indirect communication styles, large power distance, and contextual communication styles.
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Suo, Chang. "University Linked Retirement Community Design ------- Take University of Cincinnati as an Example." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1470741443.
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Kwong, Kit Ching Emily. "Student university choice : a study of JUPAS entrants to a HKSAR university." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31017.
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The rapid expansion of university places in Hong Kong between the late 1980s and the middle of 1990s has brought about a number of changes to the local higher education scene. Primary among these changes is the increased choice of university education for students. Along with the widened choice, new consumer groups and a more competitive market environment are created. Consequently higher educational institutions have to place more emphasis on promoting and marketing their own programmes and courses. It appears that a wide array of student recruitment activities take place without a systematic analysis of the factors affecting student university choice. The lack of local research on university choice suggests that researching into this area to examine students' decision-making process would be worthwhile. This study presents the findings of a questionnaire survey of 1,684 first-year undergraduate entrants to a university in Hong Kong. Two sets of data were collected: first, the importance of twenty-eight identified factors in affecting student university choice; second, the students' rating of the University on these factors. The study aims to identify the influential factors in student university choice, and measure the strengths and weaknesses of the surveyed University against these factors.
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Zhong, Ningsha. "University autonomy in China." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0005/NQ27760.pdf.
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Potts, Gareth Richard. "Towards the embedded university?" Thesis, University of Reading, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297675.
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Kavulya, Joseph Muema. "University Libraries in Kenya." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15022.
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Ganz allgemein zeigen die Ergebnisse dieser Untersuchung, dass die gegenwärtige Lage der Bibliotheken in staatlichen Universitäten durch extrem geringe Ressourcen für die Bücher-, Zeitschriften und Mediensammlungen und hinsichtlich Ausstattung und Personal gekennzeichnet. Private Universitäten haben diese Probleme in weit geringerem Maße. Unter Studierenden, Lehrenden und Universitätsbeamten ist durchaus die Ansicht verbreitet, dass Universitätsbibliotheken eine entscheidende Rolle in Lehre, Forschung und Studium spielen. Man nimmt allerdings auch zur Kenntnis, dass die Universitätsbibliotheken in Kenia, besonders diejenigen der staatlichen Universitäten, keine wirkungsvollen Dienstleistungen erbringen. Dies hat zur Entwertung ihrer Rolle in der Hochschullandschaft geführt. Die Studie zeigt, dass die moderne Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik in die kenianischen Universitätsbibliotheken Einzug gehalten hat. Doch ist die Entwicklung zum einen durch die Finanzierungslücken behindert worden, sodass Computer nicht angeschafft und Netze nicht aufgebaut werden konnten, zum anderen durch das Fehlen von geschultem EDV-Personal und durch die kümmerliche Telekommunikations-Infrastruktur im Lande. Diese Untersuchung kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Maßnahmen erforderlich sind, die Situation der Universitätsbibliotheken in Kenia zu verbessern - dies auch als ein Weg, die Qualität des Universitätsstudiums in Kenia zu steigern. Diese Maßnahmen umfassen zunächst die Aufnahme einer langfristigen Planung auf allen Gebieten bibliothekarischer Arbeit. Zweitens sollten die leitenden Bibliothekare die zentrale Bedeutung der Bibliotheken hervor heben, welche ihnen im Zusammenhang der gesamten Universität zukommt. Um nutzbare Quellen der Information zu bleiben, müssen die Universitätsbibliotheken in Kenia, die moderne Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik einsetzen. Die Anwendung neuer Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik kann den Bibliothekaren an den Universitäten helfen, besseren Zugang zu örtlichen und zu globalen Informationen zu schaffen, zum Beispiel durch elektronische Media und Internetzugang.<br>This study argues that the provision of library services in Kenyan public universities is characterised by extremely inadequate resources in terms of funds, information materials, equipment and staff. Private university libraries experience these problems albeit to a lesser degree. Although there is widespread opinion among students, lecturers as well as university administrators that university libraries play a critical role in the teaching, research, and learning activities, there is also awareness that university libraries in Kenya, especially those in public universities are not effectively providing services which has limited their role in research and learning in the university. Finally, modern information and communication technology is being incorporated in the management of university libraries in Kenya. However, this trend has been hindered by first, lack of funds to purchase equipment such as computers and set up networks, secondly by lack of skilled personnel in information technology, and finally by poor telecommunications infrastructure in the country. There is therefore need for adoption of strategic planning in all areas of library management and to remain viable sources of information, university libraries in Kenya have to make use modern information and communication technology. This will enable university libraries to facilitate better access to local and global information for example through electronic and internet media.
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Hopkinson, Peter G. "Towards the Sustainable University." Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4711.
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no<br>All universities have the capacity to embrace, embed or ignore
sustainable development. Looking across the sector and reflecting on
the past seven years and my own institutional experiences, the key
finding is that change for campus and curriculum-based sustainability is
clearly possible but unpredictable.
For many years my own institution (University of Bradford) struggled to
make progress in a number of key aspects of `campus greening¿ including
recycling, green build, energy management, green travel, fair trade etc.
It employed its first environmental manager as recently as 2003. Up until
2007, education for sustainable development (ESD) was largely found
in one small academic department. Now, as this paper describes, it is a
central feature of the learning and teaching strategy for the university
and an overall institutional objective.
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Van, Pelt Tom Gregory. "University Square Development Proposal." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1275.
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The University Square Development Proposal (USDP) explores the redevelopment of the underutilized University Square site (the Site) in the City of San Luis Obispo (the City.) The Sites proximity to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), a university with significant student housing needs, makes it an ideal location for student housing. The City has also expressed interest in the Site, having identified it in the General Plan Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE) update as a “Special Planning Area”. The LUCE proposes a new mixed-use typology on the Site that may include a mixture of multi-family housing, retail services, entertainment, and recreation.
The USDP is an early take on redevelopment of the Site, and provides a development option that accommodates both the objectives of Cal Poly, by providing student housing, and the City, by proposing a mixed-use development typology. To this end, the USDP includes a site assessment, project program, design vision, and financial analysis. The USDP concludes with project evaluations and lessons learned.
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Harris, Erica E. "University Board and Performance." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/160965.
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Business Administration/Accounting<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation examines the impact of board of director characteristics and policies on nonprofit performance. Using data collected through a survey of nonprofit colleges and universities, I provide evidence that specific board member characteristics and board monitoring policies are vital in shaping both the financial and nonfinancial success of nonprofit institutions of higher education. Related to board characteristics, results indicate that bigger boards with more major donors are consistently associated with better performing organizations, confirming my board contribution hypothesis. These results are in addition to noteworthy relationships between nonprofit success and the number of meetings held by an organization as well as the impact of recruiting board members who serve on other nonprofit boards. In terms of board monitoring, findings confirm regulatory and advisory recommendations that the use of a conflict of interest policy, disclosure of business relationships, nominating and compensation committees are important aspects of board development in addition to longer board terms. These relationships confirm all three monitoring hypotheses, suggesting that board disclosures, organization, and independence all have an important impact on success when it is measured as organizational efficiency, one of the most studied and relied upon measures of performance in the nonprofit sector. This work makes important, initial forays into the relationships between board of director qualities and nonprofit performance. Although limited by the relatively small sample of colleges and universities, given the lack of public data available related to nonprofit boards, this study is unique in the ability to analyze nonprofit boards with both financial and nonfinancial performance measures.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Sjöö, Denniz, and Marcus Hedenskog. "Malmo University facility management." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21428.
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Titel: En studie av studenternas upplevda kvalitet vid Malm Universitet Ämne, kurs: Facility Management, kandidatuppsats 15 hpFörfattare: Marcus Hedenskog, Denniz SjööHandledare: Peter PalmNyckelord: Facility management, egen regi, outsourcing, uppfattad kvalitet ___________________________________________________Att förstå hur lokaler på universitet och högskolor används är viktigt för att kunna stödja den undervisning som bedrivs där. Förbättring av stödverksamheter till skolans kärnverksamhet är det mest effektiva sättet att öka inlärning och den upplevda kvaliteten i lokalerna och därför spelar lokaler och lokalvård en stor roll i hur studenter på universitet och högskolor presterar under sina studier. Lokalvården på Malmö Universitet har därför en central roll i arbetet på Malmö Universitets Facility Service för att skapa en studiemiljö av hög kvalitet. I dagsläget utförs lokalvården av två olika lokalvårdsaktörer, varav den ena är en extern aktör och den andra är en del av Malmö Universitets organisation.Syftet med studien är att med utgångspunkt i rapporten Utvärdering av lokalvårdsorganisationen, undersöka eventuella skillnader mellan lokalvårdasktörerna på Malmö Universitet. Utvärderingen skall ses som en kvalitetsparameter och komplement till den utvärdering av skillnader i kostnader mellan de olika lokalvårdsaktörerna som finns i nämnda rapport.Studiens insamlade information grundar sig på en enkätundersökning och intervjuer med studenter i de fyra universitetsbyggnaderna Niagara, Gädda, Orkanen och Hälsa & Samhälle på Malmö Universitet. Resultatet av studien pekar på att lokalvården på Malmö Universitet uppfattas både som viktig för studenterna och att den idag håller en hög och jämn kvalitet. Studenterna misstar dock många av byggnadens och lokalernas tekniska kvaliteter som ålder och skick för den tekniska kvalitetet som levereras i lokalvården. De små skillnader som kannoteras i uppfattad kvalitet av lokalvård relaterar snarare till byggnadernas skick och karaktär än kvalitet i utförandet hos de respektive lokalvårdsaktörerna. Den uppfattade kvaliteten av lokalerna och dess påverkan på studieresultat har därmed ett starkare samband mellan nya och ljusa lokaler än en högre kostnad för lokalvården.<br>Titel: A study of the students perceived quality at Malmo University Subject, course: Facility Management, Bachelor thesis 15 hp Authors: Marcus Hedenskog, Denniz SjööAdvisor: Peter PalmKeywords: Facility management, in-house, outsourcing, perceived quality ___________________________________________________To understand how space in university premises is used is important to be able to support the education that is taken place. Improvement in the supporting function to the core business is the most efficient method to increase learning and perceived quality in the premises. That is why spaces and cleaning plays a big role in student study results in university. Therefore the cleaning in Malmö University plays a big role in the work of Malmö University Facility Service to create a high quality study environment. Today the cleaning is performed by two contractors, one is an external actor and the other one i part of the Malmö University organization.The purpose of the study is to evaluate the student’s perception of differences in quality of the cleaning operators at Malmö University with the basis of the report Utvärdering av lokalvårdsorganisationen. The evaluation is to be seen as an quality parameter and complement to the existing evaluation of the difference in cost in contracting the two cleaningoperators in the report.The collected information from the study is based on a survey and interview with students in the four university buildings Niagara, Gäddan, Orkanen and Hälsa & Samhälle at Malmö University. The result in this study shows that the cleaning at the Malmö University premises is perceived as both important to the students and to be of an high and even quality today. However the students are mistaking many of the building qualities like age and condition for the technical quality of the performed cleaning that is performed. The small differences thatcan be noted is perceived quality of the cleaning relates to the condition and character of the building rather than the quality in performance of the cleaning operator. The perceived quality of the premises and the effect on study result thereby has a stronger connection between new and airy spaces rather than to higher cost for cleaning operation.
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Chagas, José Bernardo Fonseca Pólvora Trindade. "University student gambling consumption." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12142.
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Mestrado em Marketing<br>The present research analysed gambling activity of college students from a consumer behaviour perspective in order assess their gambling behaviour. A questionnaire was administered to 216 college students from several courses in different universities in the city of Lisbon (Portugal). No significant differences were found between men and women in gambling activity , both for players and non-players in all the types of games analysed (lottery, bingo and casino). Even tough most students were infrequent gamblers, lottery playing was found to the most played form of gambling (79.6%). Lottery playing was found to be related to parental gambling. This research also examined peer influence and addictive behaviours as gambling influential factors. No significant relationship between peer influence, addictive activities (alcohol drinking and smoking) and university student gambling was found.
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Loong, Hong-nin Connie. "Job satisfaction of university graduated registered nurses from the University of Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31972974.
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Krasniqi, Yllka. "How about Karlstad University? : A study about the international students at Karlstad University." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1423.
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<p>The study aims to examine the factors that influenced the international students when selecting Karlstad University as an institution. The study also contains a secondary aim which is to examine how the international students evaluate their experiences in Karlstad. Further the study is built upon four research questions, where the three first research questions can be referred to the main aim whereas the fourh research question can be referred to the secondary aim. The main aim is by the research questions divided into a three step process, the factor that influnced the international students to study abroad, to study in Sweden and to study at Karlstad University. The fourth research question which concerns the secondary aim is about how the international students evaluate their stay in Karlstad.</p><p>The enquiry has been made with help of a questionnaire, which 98 of the international students at Karlstad University answered. The study showed that factors that influenced the international students to study abroad was to gain better understanding of the foreign language and the foreign culture. The students were also influenced by the student life and the life experiences that they would gain by studying abroad. They also stated that the value of their resume would be higher because of these studies. Factors that influenced the students to study in Sweden was i.a the factor of knowledge and awareness. A majority found the knowledge of Sweden, the reputations of the institution quality, the awareness of the quality of the education as influencing factors. The students also found it easy to obtain information about Sweden, which is very good since this factor is a great contribution to knowledge and awareness. The answers showed that a small majority of the students were influenced by low fees and by recommendations from authorized representatives. The students were influenced by low crime and low racial discrimination factors, such as factors of clean environment and an exiting place to live in. The influencing factors of studying at Karlstad University were the reputation for quality, the reputation of institution staff, the broad range of courses and programs and the the good facilities. However many of the students stated that they choose Karlstad University because of the agreements between Karlstad University and the home University. As the students were asked to evaluate their stay in Karlstad, they seemd to be satisfied with the quality of education, the facilities, the student accomodations, the students life and Karlstad as a city.</p>
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Centeno, Ignacio, He Peng, and Parityada Punthapong. "Do Entrepreneur Courses Matter? : An Investigation of Students from Swedish University, Mälardalen University." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-849.
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<p>The purpose is to investigate the relationship between Entrepreneur</p><p>perspectives and education objectives in order to explore students´</p><p>attitudes towards the course and also their expectations to become an</p><p>Entrepreneur.</p>
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Loong, Hong-nin Connie, and 龍康年. "Job satisfaction of university graduated registered nurses from the University of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31972974.
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Liu, Hong, and Ying Wang. "Female's Career Advancement in Tertiary Educational Field : University of Gävle and Guizhou University." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-18202.
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Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of national culture on female’s career advancement and different barriers that females may confront in University of Gävle and GuizhouUniversity Method: Both qualitative and quantitative methods are employed in the current study. Qualitative data is collected by sixteen interviews including ten participants from University of Gävle and six participants from GuizhouUniversity. And the quantitative data is collected by one hundred questionnaires in the two universities. Result and Conclusions: The study finds out that Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions: power distance, collectivism vs. individualism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity vs. femininity, long-term orientation vs. short-term orientation and indulgence vs. restraint could affect female’s career advancement in varying degree in which power distance and masculinity vs. femininity differentiate the two universities to a large extent. Moreover, the study shows gender stereotyping, lack of networking, and lack of mentorship are most obvious barriers for female’s career advancement while the impact of glass ceiling, opportunities and self-confidence is relatively. Suggestion for further studies: Future studies could take more cultural models into consideration. Bigger samples in two countries should be collected to view a whole picture of female’s situation in Swedish and Chinese tertiary education field. Contribution of the thesis: The model of relationship between national culture and female’s career advancement provides a framework for the further studies relating to female’s under-representation in tertiary field. Barriers identified by the authors remind the universities to improve their organizational management.
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Adams, George Edward. "Student perceptions of university faculty on the length of enrollment of university students." Diss., This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-134549/.
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Huang, Heng-Chin, and 黃恆欽. "Industrial-University Collaboration and University Innovation Performance." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15298501445082682382.
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碩士<br>大葉大學<br>企業管理學系碩士班<br>98<br>In this century, not only the ways of business operation are changing, but also schools operations are changing, too. For this reasons, it is important for universities to use the new knowledge to innovate so that they can obtain their competitive advantage. By using different department subventions to research and development and promote collaborations between teachers and enterprises, universities learn and create new knowledge from the Industrial-University Collaboration relationship.
This study empirically examines the relationship between Industrial-University Collaboration and University Innovation Performance. In this study, sample was col-lected from the list of the Taiwan’s universities, include university, university of science and technology, and colleges.
The finding shows that Industrial-University Collaboration, incubator and subven-tions has positive impact on University Innovation Performance.
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Chiang, Yu-Chih, and 江毓志. "University Faculty Evaluation：A Case of S University." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/625gkp.
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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>公共行政學系公共政策碩士在職專班<br>102<br>Article 21 of the University Act states that faculty evaluation at university level should cover teaching, research, guidance provision, service provision, etc. Based on the principle of university autonomy, the Ministry of Education allows individual universities to set their own rules for faculty evaluation, and to decide which methods should be used, what items and content should be covered, what weightings should be employed, etc.; this has created a situation where there is considerable variation in the standards applied to faculty evaluation. The implementation of faculty evaluation can lead to changes in the campus environment, and can be seen as constituting a threat to faculty members; the results of faculty evaluation also affect the way universities manage their faculty “manpower.” This study seeks to determine whether faculty evaluation is in fact able to reflect faculty achievements and performance and create real benefits for universities.
The goal of the present study is to undertake empirical analysis of the S university actual results obtained in faculty evaluation, so as to gauge how effective faculty evaluation is in reality. It is anticipated that the results obtained in this analysis can provide a useful reference for improving faculty evaluation; a number of suggestions are made as to how such improvement could be carried out.
The study makes use of the independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA analysis. The first step is to analyze the relationship between faculty members’ personal background and their faculty evaluation results and weighting. The study then proceeds to explore, from the faculty members’ perspective, the impact of the individual dimensional weightings and special evaluation indicators on faculty members’ evaluation results. The following conclusions are reached:
1. Faculty member background variables (including gender, age, department, and years of service) have a significant impact on faculty members’ evaluation results.
2. Faculty member background variables (including gender, age, department, and years of service) have a significant impact on the dimensional weightings in faculty evaluation.
3. The distribution of the four dimensional weightings (teaching, research, administrative service, and guidance provision) is correlated with the evaluation results.
4. The special evaluation indicators relating to university performance, including “teaching performance feedback,” “receipt of teaching awards,” “simultaneous holding of administrative posts,” “undergoing training in teaching methods,” “publications,” “taking on of special projects,” “provision of specialist services,” etc., are correlated with the results obtained in the individual dimensions of faculty evaluation.
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JIN, GEUM JA, and 陳錦子. "CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95791693882777949166.
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碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>教育學系<br>86<br>The Educational Ideals and Policies of the
Roman Catholic Universities The Purpose of this
study is to answer the following questions: First, what
is the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and
the Education? Second, why does the Roman Catholic Church
has established the universities? Third, what are the
missions and the characteristics of the Roman Catholic
Universities? Finally, in terms of the methods and the
contents of the teaching and learning, what kind of
things make the Roman Catholic Universities so different
from the other universities? The results of this study
are: The Church''s evangelization work, in a sense, is
one Kind of education. The universities came out during
the late Medieval Ages, and their reformation and
thereafter development got much aids from the Church, and
Church''s doctrines got reasonable reorganization and
advancement from them. The purposes and missions of
the Roman Catholic Universities: The overall
purposes of establishing the Roman Catholic Universities
are: (1) The integration of knowledge; (2)the dialogues
between religion and rationality; (3)the concern of
ethics and morality; and (4)the vision of theology. The
mission of the Roman Catholic Universities are: (1)The
services for the church are the society; (2) the pastoral
ministries; (3) the dialogue with other cultures; and (4)
the evangilical works. The characteristics of
the methods of teaching and learning of the Roman
Catholic Universities are the emphasis of the theology
and the concerns of ethic and morality.
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Richardson, Carrie-Anne. "Rural university." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10569.
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Rural Development is an urgent agenda in South Africa, dealing with the rectification of the inequities of the past, and encouraging the economic development of rural areas and, consequently, the country. Education forms a vital aspect of rural development, empowering rural people to uplift themselves and their communities. Higher education is particularly important as a tool for mobilizing talent and developing the skills that will develop South Africa.
It is the intention of this project to explore the notion of a Rural University: a centre of academic excellence in adult education located in a rural area that will open up the world for rural people, giving them access to the great body of human knowledge, and an opportunity to contribute to it: giving rural people an academic voice. The project investigates the economic and social viability of such a centre, as well as an appropriate approach to the development of curriculum, program, business model and design, that is sensitive to both the people and the land, questioning traditional notions of what a university should be in the process, by appropriating the typology to suit a rural context
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Wrice, Sheldon B. "Faculty perceptions of two urban university libraries the University of Akron and Georgia State University /." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/34309630.html.
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Cheng, Ya-ju, and 鄭雅如. "Measurement of University Staff’s Service Quality:Case of MingDao University." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5zd8x8.
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碩士<br>明道大學<br>管理研究所<br>97<br>To strengthen the management of school performance, and stressed the growing importance of the concept of service, the administrative services unit, a positive change to "service quality ","customer-oriented" and "customer satisfaction" to promote the mission point of view. Service units of the school administration of the work of service quality research, scholars have less to be explored in this regard. Therefore, this study from the work of school administrative services unit of study quality of service to customer satisfaction point of view, to explore the process of
administrative handling of "service quality" related issues, a view from the reflection of the
extent of certain phenomena and to explore the management implications of for the management
of reference, is worthy of more research and discussion on the subject, but also the motivation for
this study.
In this study, private study Ming Dao University, reference Parasuraman, Zeithaml & Berry
(PZB, 1988) theoretical model of service quality framework for the design of the questionnaire
items, and all the teachers to do the survey. Survey data through the SPSS statistical computing
software, the establishment of service quality dimensions of the assessment model, meta-analysis
to seek priority service improvement projects to provide services for school administration
service improvement and quality management of reference.
Conclusion This study found that school teachers and students in the Ming Dao
University Office of Academic Affairs and the Office of Academic Affairs of great importance to
the quality of the degree of fat observed in the number of "Reliability" for teachers and students
of Ming the most important part; followed by the "Assurance" "Empathy", "Tangibles" and the
last is "Responsiveness." In the School Department and the satisfaction of the Registrar Office,
we found that most are not satisfied with the "Responsiveness ", “Assurance” and “Empathy." In
order to maintain the quality of these services to improve the strategic importance of the accuracy
and timeliness, we must attach importance to teachers and students to collect information about
Ming Dao’s views and satisfaction, to improve the direction of the amendment.