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Zharova, Alona. "Measures of University Research Output." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18799.
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New Public Management unterstützt Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen dabei, in einem stark wettbewerbsorientierten Forschungsumfeld zu bestehen. Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit, z.B. die Verteilung von Mitteln für den Forschungsbedarf und Forschungszwecke, erfordert von Politik und Hochschulmanagement, die Beziehungen zwischen den Dimensionen der Forschungsleistung und den resultierenden oder eingehenden Zuschüssen zu verstehen. Hierfür ist es wichtig, die Variablen der wissenschaftlichen Wissensproduktion auf der Ebene von Individuen, Forschungsgruppen und Universitäten zu untersuchen.
Das Kapitel 2 dieser Arbeit analysiert die Ebene der Individuen. Es verwendet die Beobachtungen der Forscherprofile von Handelsblatt (HB), Research Papers in Economics (RePEc, hier RP) und Google Scholar (GS) als meist verbreitete Ranking-Systeme in BWL und VWL im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Das Kapitel 3 liefert eine empirische Evidenz für die Ebene von Forschungsgruppen und verwendet die Daten eines Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB) zu Finanzinputs und Forschungsoutput von 2005 bis 2016. Das Kapitel beginnt mit der Beschreibung passender Performanzindikatoren, gefolgt von einer innovativen visuellen Datenanalyse. Im Hauptteil des Kapitels untersucht die Arbeit mit Hilfe eines Zeit-Fixed-Effects-Panel- Modells und eines Fixed-Effects-Poisson-Modells den Zusammenhang zwischen finanziellen Inputs und Forschungsoutputs.
Das Kapitel 4 beschäftigt sich mit dem Niveau der Universitäten und untersucht die Interdependenzstruktur zwischen Drittmittelausgaben, Publikationen, Zitationen und akademischem Alter mit Hilfe eines PVARX-Modells, einer Impulsantwort und einer Zerlegung der Prognosefehlervarianz. Abschließend befasst sich das Kapitel mit den möglichen Implikationen für Politik und Entscheidungsfindung und schlägt Empfehlungen für das universitäre Forschungsmanagement vor.<br>New Public Management helps universities and research institutions to perform in a highly competitive research environment. Decision making in the face of uncertainty, for example distribution of funds for research needs and purposes, urges research policy makers and university managers to understand the relationships between the dimensions of research performance and the resulting or incoming grants. Thus, it is important to accurately reflect the variables of scientific knowledge production on the level of individuals, research groups and universities.
Chapter 2 of this thesis introduces an analysis on the level of individuals. The data are taken from the three widely-used ranking systems in the economic and business sciences among German-speaking countries: Handelsblatt (HB), Research Papers in Economics (RePEc, here RP) and Google Scholar (GS). It proposes a framework for collating ranking data for comparison purposes.
Chapter 3 provides empirical evidence on the level of research groups using data from a Collaborative Research Center (CRC) on financial inputs and research output from 2005 to 2016. First, suitable performance indicators are discussed. Second, main properties of the data are described using visualization techniques. Finally, the time fixed effects panel data model and the fixed effects Poisson model are used to analyze an interdependency between financial inputs and research outputs.
Chapter 4 examines the interdependence structure between third-party expenses (TPE), publications, citations and academic age using university data on individual performance in different scientific areas. A panel vector autoregressive model with exogenous variables (PVARX), impulse response functions and a forecast error variance decomposition help to capture the relationships in the system. To summarize, the chapter addresses the possible implications for policy and decision making and proposes recommendations for university research management.
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Nieminen, Mika. "Academic research in change : transformation of Finnish university policies and university research during the 1990s /." [Helsinki] : Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013110817&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Isaac, Glen E. "University student records : privacy and research access." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25705.
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This thesis examines the legal, ethical, and procedural issues faced by Canadian university archivists who seek to develop sound policies for research access to student records. The study begins by reviewing the basic types of student records created by university administrative offices--including academic, personnel, financial, medical, and counselling files—as well as some of the current and potential uses of the records by researchers. The thesis then turns to a study of the "right to privacy" itself, and explores how the privacy concerns of the subjects of personal records have been been addressed in government studies and in Canadian law. The existing records policies of Canadian universities and various ethical statements of both university administrators and researchers are also examined. In this manner, the complex problem of balancing privacy rights with research needs is viewed from the perspective of the subjects, creators, and users of student records.
The study concludes by reviewing the choices open to archivists with regards to the formulation of access policies. Several opposing views of privacy are evaluated in order to identify those views which can be supported by archivists and those which cannot. The argument is made that archivists need to construct a solid theoretical framework for their access policies by analyzing carefully such factors as the ends to be served by the protection of privacy, the types of research access to be provided to student files, and the nature of the university administrative environment. It is contended that such an analysis indicates a need for policies consisting of graduated sets of access restrictions--policies which are sufficiently flexible and sensitive to guard against unwarranted invasions of student privacy while still permitting a broad range of research studies to be conducted.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of<br>Graduate
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Robertson, Tausha D. Brooks Edward F. "Characteristics of effective university-industry research relationships." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,498.
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Thesis (DrPH)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Administration." Discipline: Health Policy and Administration; Department/School: Public Health.
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Zhang, Haifei. "University Technology Transfer and Research Portfolio Management." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11038.
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University technology transfer is of critical importance to the U.S. innovation economy. Understanding the drivers of technology transfer efficiency will shed light on University research portfolio management. In this dissertation, survey data from The Association of University Technology Managers is analyzed in various aspects to offer a overall understanding of the technology transfer industry, which include University research fund composition, technology transfer office staffing, licenses executed to start-ups, small companies, and large companies, license income composition, legal fee expenditures, new patents applications, provisional patents, utility patents, and non USA patents, invention disclosures, U.S. patents issued, start-ups initiated, and annual averages of U.S. University technology transfer offices. Then, a two-stage technology transfer model based on Data Envelopment Analysis is proposed to address the limitation of the single-stage model. The two-stage model provides the capacity to evaluate the efficiencies of university research and technology transfer office separately and also as a whole, offering better insights for university technology transfer management. Year to year productivity changes are also measured using Malmquist Index. It is found the productivity growth has stemmed primarily from a growth in commercialization by all universities rather than a catching up by the inefficient universities. Finally, technology transfer efficiency and academic reputation is studied for the first time. Counter intuitively, they are not correlated. To further understand University research portfolio management, Modern Portfolio Theory is applied for the first time in this field. University disciplines are categorized into three major disciplines: engineering, physical and mathematical sciences, and biological and life sciences. The risk and return of technology transfer are defined and research portfolio risk-return curve are solved. Then correlation between portfolio balance and technology transfer efficiency are studied. It is found that a balanced portfolio is correlated to technology transfer efficiency, which means Universities can structure its research portfolio to increase technology transfer efficiency.<br>Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Chen, E. Yegin (Elmer Yegin). "The economics of university-industry research relationships." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13149.
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Pertuzé, Salas Julio Alberto. "Best practices for industry-university research collaborations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52756.
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Thesis (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2009.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-59).<br>This thesis reports a study of industry-university collaborations aimed at the development of best practices to enhance the impact of such collaborations on company competitiveness. The data sample involves twenty-five research-intensive multinational companies which engage in collaborative research on a regular basis. Over 100 different collaboration projects are analyzed through interviews with the responsible project managers and with senior technology officers. The interviewees provided both quantitative and qualitative information about the success and lack of success of the collaborations. Based on these data, seven best practices for managing collaborations have been defined which, when taken together, significantly contribute to the long-term success of the collaboration. These practices are: 1) select collaboration projects that complement company R&D; 2) select university researchers who understand specific industry goals and practices; 3) select project managers with strong boundary spanning capabilities; 4) promote longer collaboration timeframes; 5) provide appropriate internal support for project management; 6) conduct regular meetings at the company between university and industry researchers; and 7) build awareness of the university project inside the company.<br>by Julio Alberto Pertuzé Salas.<br>S.M.in Technology and Policy
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Ostrom-Blonigen, Jean. "Funding the Technology of a Research University." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27007.
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Using the central information technology unit (CITU) on the North Dakota State University (NDSU) campus, this project triangulated two independent studies in an effort to converge data findings. The studies were conducted in an effort to determine whether CITU?s budget constraints were known to its stakeholders and how the extended use of the theory of Communication Privacy Management (CPM) into this organizational communication setting might be possible. The studies, which were both conducted by a CITU employee (participant/observer) included: 1) an online email survey involving 244 non-student employee participants and 2) interviews with 21 non-student employees. In Study #1, the participant/observer and two independent coders found, with the exception of CITU?s leadership, that NDSU?s non-student employees did not appear to consider CITU?s budget constraints in their IT needs/requests of CITU. From these results, the participant/observer and two independent coders identified a communication opportunity for CITU to create a message linking CITU?s inability to meet the campus? IT needs/requests directly to its budget constraints. In Study #2, the participant/observer and two independent coders again found, with the exception of CITU?s leadership, that NDSU?s non-student employees did not appear to consider CITU?s budget constraints in their IT needs/requests of CITU. Additionally, the participant/observer and two independent coders found the presence of all six CPM propositions and four facets of communication identified in both the CPM and organizational communication literature. Even in an open-records state, such as North Dakota, CPM may be useful in describing the communication challenges surrounding both private and traditionally private information within newly formed organizations like CITU or within existing organizations that function more as a set of unrelated individuals. Central IT units or other organizations that are experiencing relationship dissatisfaction with their stakeholders due to budget constraints must work to invite their stakeholders to be co-owners in their budget difficulties, so that they understand why their IT need/requests are not being met. In order to accomplish this task, CITU?s message must be simple and consistent and must be accompanied by a firm set of negotiated rules. When messages are consistent and understood, satisfied co-ownership exists.
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Stafford, Mehary T. "Faculty Research Productivity at Addis Ababa University." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67945/.
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This study explores the research productivity of Addis Ababa University (AAU) faculty. AAU was established in 1950 and is the oldest modern higher educational institution in Ethiopia. Recently AAU took steps to transform itself to become a pre-eminent African research university. One of the characteristics of a research university is the focus on the amount of research conducted by the institution's faculty. Academic institutions measure research productivity primarily based on published work. The purpose of this study was to analyze the research productivity of AAU faculty, and to examine the differential predictive effects of individual and environmental variables on faculty research productivity. This quantitative study used a theoretical framework and instrument, Faculty at Work. Four hundred questionnaires were distributed to Addis AAU faculty in person and 298 questionnaires were returned resulting in a 74.5% response rate. After exclusion of 12 cases with missing information, 286 cases (71.5% response rate) were analyzed. Most of the respondents were men (M = 92.1%, F = 7.9%). The average age of AAU faculty was 44. A hierarchical multiple regression was used to examine the ability of six sets of independent variables (sociodemographic, career, self-knowledge, social knowledge, behavior, and environmental response) to predict research productivity (publication output). Results indicated that there are productive researchers at AAU, and the theoretical framework explained 67.6% of the variance in publication output.
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Bakaev, Maxim, Martin Gaedke, and Sebastian Heil. "Kansei Engineering Experimental Research with University Websites." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-210231.
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This technical report presents the data and some results of the experimental research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (Kansei Engineering), undertaken jointly by Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany) and Novosibirsk State Technical University (Russia) in Feb- March 2016. In the experiment, 82 Master and Bachelor students of both universities evaluated 21 website of selected German and Russian universities per 10 emotional and 5 quality scales.
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Dison, Arona. "Research capacity development of individuals at three South African university research centres." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7177_1253849279.
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<p>In South Africa, there has been recognition of the need for increasing research capacity at South African universities and within the national science system. Furthermore there has been a need to address imbalances in the racial and gender profile of researchers. There has been a growth of application-oriented, multidisciplinary research centres at South African universities in response to changing national and international knowledge contexts. Many research centres have a research capacity development component and run postgraduate programmes in collaboration with academic departments. This it was relevant to investigate what types of contexts these centres provide for research capacity development and postgraduate education. In this study, individual research capacity development was examined as a process of identity formation and socialisation through social, organisational and epistemological lenses.</p>
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Pendleton, Mark. "'A place of teaching and research' : University College London and the origins of the research university in Britain 1890-1914." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274388.
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Rynkun, Renata. "Collaboration between university research and industry : innovation process." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-840.
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<p>This dissertation study focuses on reasons and means of industry and university</p><p>collaboration which lead to innovation. Collaboration in this study is viewed as one:</p><p>communication, exchange of knowledge and learning form the innovation process. This</p><p>research has followed a qualitative approach for methodology and the data was collected</p><p>through two interviews. The results of this study show how university research</p><p>collaborates with industry from the university research point of view. The findings also</p><p>reveal that university research can not produce innovation without practical knowledge</p><p>which is provided by company during collaboration. In the same way the company can</p><p>not produce scientifically based innovation without the interactive learning.</p>
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Aslan, Amat-Senin. "University-industry research and technological links in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493519.
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The general aim of this study was to better understand the phenomenon of university-industry links in Malaysia, particularly in research and technological innovation activities. The objectives were to provide an analytical description, to identify the characteristics and explore the factors influencing university-industry research and technological links in the context of Malaysia, and to test out the applicability of the existing approach and model in describing and explaining the phenomenon in the context of the country.
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Graham, Byron Joshua. "The governance of publicly funded university research projects." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601624.
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Previous studies have identified a range of economic and social benefits that can arise from publicly funded research {Roper et al., 2004; Salter and Martin, 2001}. These include the benefits arising from the traditional academic missions of educating students and generating new knowledge through research, as well as the benefits arising from university industry links and innovation (Mansfield, 1991; 1998; Roper et aI., 2004; Salter and Martin, 2001). However, to date few studies have focused on the influence that governance can have on publicly funded university research projects and the benefits that arise from them. This thesis therefore develops a framework which links the governance literature with the literature on the benefits from publicly funded university research. The framework considers the influence of governance on a range of traditional academic, technology exploration, and technology exploitation project goals and objectives and their achievement. The framework also considers the influence that governance can have on the extent and importance of industry involvement in publicly funded university research projects. The framework is examined through a large scale survey of projects funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The results highlight the importance of rewards, the project discipline, and the importance attached by principal investigators to different professional activities, in influencing the project goals and objectives. The project focus is found to be the most important predictor of the achievement of the range of project goals and objectives. Industry involvement [s influenced by the project goals and objectives, and the importance that the principal investigator attaches to third stream activities. Not only do these findings contribute to the theoretical literature, but they also have practical implications for the governance of research projects by funding bodies, Principal Investigators, and universities.
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Hassan, Farah D. "Maximising value from university and industry research collaboration." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312762.
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Enrriquez, Gutierrez Juan Carlos. "In the Pursuit of Becoming a Research University." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195722.
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Many universities and colleges are shifting their missions from teaching-oriented to research-oriented (Clark, 1978, 1983; Riesman, 1956; Selingo 2000), a phenomenon that has become known as academic/institutional drift. During recent years, the knowledge society has created an environment that further encourages the shift by influencing stakeholders in higher education institutions to increasingly accept the role played by research institutions as the most legitimate. Consequently, higher education institutions are becoming increasingly involved in the pursuit of knowledge creation. They are concluding that legitimacy and prestige will be obtained in return, as well as material resources (Slaughter & Rhoades, 2004).Despite the fact that the production of knowledge by Latin American universities is marginal in an international context (Albornoz, 1993; Albatch, 2003), some of them are experiencing institutional drift. Using a case study in combination with a qualitative approach, this research project aims to highlight the nature and implications of the phenomenon through focusing on a Mexican university system. Semi-structured interviews with individuals occupying key positions within the organization and institutional documents constitute the study's sources of information. In addition, academic capitalism, institutional theory, and Hackman's theory of resource allocation are utilized as its theoretical framework.The findings of the study show that although the institution is actively engaging in academic capitalism, societal benefit is not being neglected as a result of such engagement. Nonetheless, the findings relate academic capitalism to further stratification within and across the institution's campuses. It is also concluded that the institution is experiencing isomorphic change by modeling itself after those universities it perceives as prestigious and legitimate in the research endeavor. Regarding internal resource allocation, it is demonstrated that a unit's centrality with respect to the institution's research strategy greatly explains its gains in institutional resources.This study also includes some implications and recommendations for the institution to concentrate on and/or address in order to succeed in its research endeavor. Lastly, some considerations regarding further research are introduced.
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Hauksson, Árni G. (Árni Gudmundur) 1968. "The commercialization of university research discoveries : are university technology transfer offices stimulating the process?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10063.
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Cavani, Jane Sarah O'Reilly. ""Do you ever get this feeling…?" : university teacher narratives from a research-led university." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8619/.
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In 2002 a contractually differentiated teaching–focused post, University Teacher (UT), was created within my Russell Group HEI. This interpretivist study seeks to explore the impact of the ‘lived experience’ of this recent post on both myself and a group of 11 colleagues, some of whom were transferred and others employed as UTs. A narrative approach is adopted to evaluate existing public stories of the UK HE sector and changing definitions of academic functions and identities alongside original private stories, both my own and those co-constructed with participants. My primary research comprised in-depth narrative interviews with four Senior UTs, six UTs and one research-focused Lecturer recently transferred from a UT post. The interviews sought to elicit participants’ storied accounts of professional identity construction and management on the career paths towards their current posts and beyond. The interview data was examined reflexively using a pragmatic hybrid model based on a range of narrative analytic lenses: structural and linguistic narrative analysis of three case studies, together with thematic analysis of narratives across all 11 interviews. The participants shared highly personal, emotional and reflective accounts. The case study analysis centred on the identification and scrutiny of overarching plotlines, key episodes, genres and characterisation. The thematic analysis revealed common concerns around the job title, the relative weightings and status of teaching and scholarship, the nature of scholarship and career progression. The complex connection between intra-, inter-, cultural and structural dimensions proved key; personal values and agency, relationships with peers and managers, and institutional and sectoral priorities were all essential to the achievement of a progressive, as opposed to a regressive or static, UT identity typology. UTs clearly had some control over their own agency. However, institutional leaders and line managers were seen to have more significant power to promote or inhibit identity growth for academics on differentiated contracts. Changes have recently been made to the UT post in relation to the job title and promotion criteria. In the conclusions I suggest that further research is needed on the effect of these changes and on the impact of contractual differentiation on staff and students across the HE sector. Implications for institutions and staff on how to facilitate teaching-focused academics’ positive identity growth are also put forward.
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Kelley, Ronald B. "An analysis of newspaper coverage of research at a midwest public research university /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974645.
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Hwami, Rudo. "Researching research culture: a case study of Rhodes University Humanities Faculty research culture." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7522.
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This thesis explores the idea of research having organisational characteristics which are affected by the institutional culture but can not be defined as a subculture of the institutional culture. In particular, it examines how research culture(s) can be exclusionary and reproduce discriminatory practices. Using quantitative data in the form of Rhodes University Annual Reports and interviews conducted with 11 participants, the thesis documents the current research practices of the Faculty of Humanities at Rhodes University. Such practices incorporate multiple dimensions, including how research is done, who does research, what research is done and research funding rituals. The purpose of this study is to reveal how research cultures are constructed through the seemingly mundane and everyday research practices within a research community. Through the analysis of these everyday practices, participants’ experiences and theoretical arguments, this thesis found that research culture and institutional culture are separate entities, and that research culture plays a vital role in the formation of research practices.
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McGinley, Susan. "Archiving Ecosystems: The University of Arizona Campus Herbarium." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622189.
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Cora, Alisha J. "University of Wisconsin-Stout Research Services process and procedure evaluation." Online version, 2003. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2003/2003coraa.pdf.
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Boardman, Paul Craig. "University research centers and the composition of academic work." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11172006-161054/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007.<br>Barry Bozeman, Committee Member ; Juan Rogers, Committee Chair ; Diana Hicks, Committee Member ; Gordon Kingsley, Committee Member ; Phil Shapira, Committee Member.
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Ion, Robert Aurelian. "Fuel depletion analyses at the Missouri University Research Reactor." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5903.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (March 2, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Fu, Xiao. "Commercialization of university research : the case of Nanjing, China." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44544.
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The Chinese government is propelling commercialization of university research as a strategy to boost industrial innovation and upgrade economic structure. Nanjing, the national third largest hub of science and technology (S&T) resources, was selected in 2009 as the only pilot city for comprehensive S&T institutional reform. Based on in-depth key informant interviews, site visits and documents collected from multi-sources, this study examines the framework conditions as well as specific mechanisms of university research commercialization in Nanjing. This research also strives to broaden and deepen the existent literature on university-industry liaison in China, which is detected as empirically narrow, theoretically thin and analytically shallow. Following an introduction (chapter 1) and a literature review (chapter 2), a China-specific model to analyze regional/local innovation is designed based on a critical review of the development trajectory of innovation theories (chapter 3). Employing this theoretical tool, the multi-layer policies, institutions and programs set up by multi-scalar governments to govern innovation and technology commercialization in Nanjing are depicted and interrogated (chapter 4). At a conceptual level, this multi-layer framework apparatus displays a pattern of “hierarchical amplification”, which the author argues has led to propensities of overcapacity, irrationality and “mission creep” in China’s efforts at boosting innovation. Empirically, four sets of university-affiliated research commercialization channels operating under the multi-layer framework in Nanjing are studied – 1) university technology transfer offices, 2) enterprise-college-institute cooperation platforms, 3) university science parks, and 4) university spin-off companies (chapter 5). This thesis concludes by summarizing the research and identifying impediments in the current university research commercialization regime (chapter 6).
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Tanner, Brian Charles. "A center for sleep research at Emory University Hospital." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24124.
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Lanskoronskis, Marius. "Modelling university research management the context of transformation process." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090922_094730-34524.
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Following the models of the research management theory, modern science approach and priorities of international initiatives and documents concerning higher education the dissertation discusses research management in European universities. The novelty of such analysis is expressed through developed theoretical model for university research management merging elements of the change management theory models, characteristics of modern science and priorities of international initiatives and documents. The model is validated by the method of cases study performed in six European countries – Belgium (Flemish region), Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Germany – and illustrating their practices of university research management. Following the research findings the extended version of the model is provided. The latter defines the cycle of research management in universities. Such a model may be applied as an instrument to set institutional priorities in research management and to define alternatives for their implementation. Discussing applicability of the model in Lithuania the conclusion is made that it may contribute to effective reorganisation of research management in local universities and increase their competitiveness and international visibility.<br>Disertacijoje, remiantis pokyčių vadybos teorijos modeliais, šiuolaikine mokslo samprata bei tarptautinėmis iniciatyvomis ir dokumentais, įtakojančiais aukštąjį mokslą, nagrinėjamas mokslinių tyrimų valdymas Europos universitetuose. Šios analizės naujumas pasireiškia apjungiant pokyčių vadybos teorijos modelių elementus, šiuolaikinės mokslo sampratos bruožus ir tarptautinių iniciatyvų bei dokumentų prioritetus į teorinį modelį, skirtą mokslinių tyrimų valdymui. Šis modelis yra tikrinamas pasitelkiant atvejų analizės metodą, apimantį šešių valstybių – Belgijos (Flandrijos regiono), Čekijos, Danijos, Olandijos, Suomijos ir Vokietijos – universitetų mokslinių tyrimų valdymo praktikas. Atsižvelgiant į jas, yra pateikiama išplėstinė modelio versija, nubrėžianti universitetinių mokslinių tyrimų universitete valdymo ciklą. Toks modelis gali būti taikomas kaip instrumentas siekiant apibrėžti mokslinių tyrimų valdymo prioritetus bei numatant alternatyvas jų įgyvendinimui. Diskutuojant šio modelio pritaikomumą Lietuvoje, daroma išvada, kad jo taikymas šalies aukštojo mokslo institucijose galėtų prisidėti prie efektyvaus mokslinių tyrimų valdymo reorganizavimo bei universitetų konkurencingumo ir tarptautinio matomumo.
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Goktepeli, Sinan. "Positron research at the University of Texas at Austin." Digital version:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992801.
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McIntosh, Cecilia A. "Building and Sustaining Research at East Tennessee State University." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/366.
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Meyer, Matthew. "Persistence of Engineering Undergraduates at a Public Research University." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4261.
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This mixed-methodological study determined which factors contributed to undergraduate student attrition, and evaluated reasons ten undergraduate engineering students failed to complete their engineering degree at a major western research university. Institutional data were collected on engineering students over a multi-year period. These data were separated into groups of engineering students who persisted to the Junior year of their undergraduate engineering program (persisters), and those students who left their engineering program before their Junior year (nonpersisters). A quantitative analysis comparing these two groups of students uncovered significant predictors of persistence/nonpersistence in the engineering program. Qualitative inquiry was used to identify factors leading to nonpersistence from the perspective of ten nonpersisting student volunteers from the institutional data population. Together, the quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry formed a mixed-methodological study which provided a vivid picture of the challenges facing a major western research university regarding persistence of engineering undergraduates.
Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of the institutional data collected on engineering undergraduate students uncovered several factors predictive of persistence/ nonpersistence. These include projected age at graduation, high school GPA and ACT scores, residency status, scholarship, and financial aid.
Common themes for ten students who dropped out of engineering included individual factors such as poor academic performance, feeling unprepared for demands of the engineering program, difficulty fitting into engineering, and institutional factors such as disappointment with engineering advising. New concepts uncovered in this paper, which were not prevalent in existing research, include a deeply emotional attachment between participants and the concept of being an engineer, a deeper understanding of student’s sense of loss and failure, and their easy transition from engineering to another major.
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Silegren, K. (Krista). "Research production or productive research?:strategic management and performance measurement in University of Oulu." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201801101027.
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This thesis explores the strategy and its management at the University of Oulu in relation to the political and legal guidance. Conflicting interests inside the organization are also examined. In order to combine both internal and external pressure mechanisms on strategic management and performance measurement, the institutional perspective is needed. Neoinstitutional theory with mechanisms of institutional isomorphism provide framework for understanding what pressure mechanisms affect the most on universities as an organization. In strategic management, attention is also paid to how the strategy is implemented and how the strategic performance is monitored in case university.
Thesis is executed as qualitative case study which aims to describe how the external pressure mechanisms for institutional isomorphism a) materialize in the strategic management and b) reflect on the performance measurement criteria of University of Oulu. The analysis was primarily based on three managerial documents. Complementing information was acquired through interviewing the person responsible for these managerial documents, university intranet and official publications. The analysis was carried out as theory-grounded content analysis.
The data was coded in theory-based categories: coercive / regulative, mimetic / cultural-cognitive and normative. As a result of analysis it can be stated that institutional isomorphism is materialized in the case of University of Oulu through all three aforementioned mechanisms. The coercive features are based on University law, MCE funding criteria, MCE performance agreement and other laws or regulations. The mimetic features are related to organization structure, management frameworks, monitoring systems and other things, for example profiling. The normative features are rooted in academic profession, social obligations, recruiting and accreditation. The most visible finding regarding the performance measurement were a) strong influence of coercive mechanism through MCE funding criteria, which shows as almost complete copying of funding criteria to be used as performance measurement indicators in strategic management b) the need to further develop the PM system.
The findings of this study are from many parts in accordance with previous studies utilizing the same framework in university context and are considered reliable. However further conclusions about how the institutional isomorphism influences other universities’ strategic management and performance measurement cannot be drawn based on this case study. Thus more research is needed on how the universities form, implement and monitor their strategies under the effect of different external and internal pressures.
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Nguyen, Quy Huu. "Factors Influencing the Research Productivity of Academics at the Research-Oriented University in Vietnam." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366248.
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This study investigated the factors that influence the research productivity of academics at one of the leading universities of Vietnam, which is anonymously named the Research-Oriented University (ROU). Exploring the impacts of three sets of possible influences – research environment, research motivation, and research behaviours – the study predicted that the interconnected relationships among environmental factors (individual academics and the institution), research motivational factors, and research behavioural factors ultimately influenced the research productivity of ROU’s academics. The study focused on two categories of research productivity outputs: 1) the total number of publishing outputs and 2) the total number of international refereed journal articles from 2009 to 2013.<br>Thesis (Professional Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Education (EdD)<br>School of Education and Professional Studies<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Serido, Joyce, Jeff Harrison, and Susan McGinley. "Arizona Pathways to Life Success for University Students (APLUS)." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622079.
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Ngugi, P. M. Y., and P. M. Masau. "Kiswahili Research in Kenyan Universities:." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-98085.
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The Department of Linguistics and African Languages, in which Kiswahili is a central subject, was established in the Faculty of Arts at the University College of Nairobi in 1969. Since then, at least five more departments which are devoted to the teaching and study of the Kiswahili language and literature have been established in various Kenyan universities (see below). Most of these departments run post-graduate programmes leading to MA. and PhD - degrees. As a result, considerable research activity related to both the Kiswahili language and literature has been going on. This is evident from the dissertations that have been written and that continue to be written every year.
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Bellardo, Heather A. "PREFERENCE DRIVEN UNIVERSITY COURSE SCHEDULING SYSTEM." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2010. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/324.
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University course planning and scheduling is the process of determining what courses to offer, how many sections are needed, determining the best term to offer each section, assigning a faculty member to instruct each section, and scheduling each section to a timeslot to avoid conflicts. The result of this task has an impact on every student and faculty member in the department. The process is typically broken down into three major phases: course offering planning, faculty assignment to planned course sections, and course scheduling into timeslots.
This thesis looks at each of these phases for the Industrial and Manufacturing department and brings them together into a decision support and scheduling system. A decision support tool is created to facilitate planning of course offerings. Operations research is applied to assign sections to faculty members using a faculty preference driven integer linear programming model in order to minimize dissatisfaction in the department. Next, the faculty-section pairs are scheduled into university timeslots using a complex integer linear programming model. This scheduling model takes into consideration the faculty member time availability and preferences and general student time slot preferences as it minimizes dissatisfaction while avoiding conflicts among labs, faculty members and courses offered for each class level.
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Kokt, D., L. O. K. Lategan, and F. M. Orkin. "Reflecting on multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary (MIT) research at the Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT)." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 10, Issue 3: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/621.
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Published Article<br>In their research as well as their teaching, universities of technology (UoTs) expect to be infused by the application of technology and to be integrally related to the world of work. At the same time, research at UoTs is characteristically innovatory, in the specific sense of transforming research discoveries into products or services that are user-oriented and commercially viable. Since practical problems and user needs do not respect disciplinary boundaries it follows, firstly, that such research at a UoT will in some sense not respect disciplinary boundaries, i.e. it will have to connect, cross, or integrate traditional disciplines. This paper seeks accordingly conceptually to differentiate the relevant senses of multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary (MIT) research. It then characterises the fourteen current research programmes at Central University of Technology (CUT) in these regards, comparing the findings from interviews with the programme leaders with the insights of the authors.
Secondly, in that most research at UoTs is also expected to be innovatory, it is demanded of researchers that they also master the skill of researching the feasible applications of findings, developing products, and envisaging commercialisation; and handing the stakeholder relationships that arise in these interactions. The interviews further indicate the extent to which the respective programmes have moved down the MIT road. They also reveal that the challenges that are faced by the programmes are overwhelming generic rather than specifically MIT-related. Some strategic recommendations are extracted from the findings.
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Leišytė, Liudvika. "University governance and academic research case studies of research units in Dutch and English universities /." Enschede : University of Twente [Host], 2007. http://doc.utwente.nl/58088.
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Tsai, Min-Hua. "Organising the socio-economic relevance of university research : the case of nanomaterials research in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47900/.
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This thesis is concerned with academics' behaviour when organising research aimed at being relevant. More specifically, this study combines a sociological approach and an extensive bibliometric analysis, investigating the relationships between scientists' perceptions of relevance, their research behaviours and their publishing activities in terms of organising nanomaterials research in Taiwan. By introducing a resource-based concept of the notion of relevance from a scientist's perspective, it contributes to intellectual debates on changes to knowledge production and the relationship between scientific excellence and socio-economic relevance. The study finds that the ways nanomaterials scientists perceive and organise their research, specifically in terms of research orientation, industry involvement and interdisciplinary collaboration, are not entirely oriented towards socio-economic concerns. Scientists tend to adapt to the demand for relevance by demonstrating potential research applications and forming interdisciplinary collaborations. Nevertheless, they are more persistent in terms of not having industry involved in the research process. Balancing adaptation and persistence reflects scientists' concerns with securing financial, intellectual and symbolic resources in order to establish their academic credibility. The bibliometric analysis broadly confirms the qualitative results findings, showing an increasing trend towards publishing in applied and targeted basic journals, and towards interdisciplinary collaboration. Yet, the proportion of university-industry papers has been rather stable over time. While our interviews suggest that senior scientists tend to consider interdisciplinary collaboration as a way to facilitate application, the bibliometric analysis shows that interdisciplinary co-authored papers tend to be more basic and receive more citations. The analysis also finds that junior scientists tend to feel more pressure to achieve a strong academic performance, thereby pushing them away from activities concerning achieving the envisioned socio-economic relevance of their research. Given the ambiguous notion of relevance and the inconsistency of policy practices, this thesis suggests that the real pressure is more to do with the demand for excellence than for relevance.
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Robinson, Elizabeth Ann. "Professional Development Among Brigham Young University Faculty." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7400.
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This thesis is a qualitative research study examining views of faculty at Brigham Young University regarding professional development at the university level. Subjects who participated in the study were selected based on being full-time, part-time, adjunct, tenured, and non-tenured professors at Brigham Young University. Instructors who work solely with online students were not included. The contacts also did not include student teachers, support staff, non-teaching faculty or graduate students.The key findings from the qualitative research study report that faculty differentiate between two categories of professional development, one concerned with teaching and other aspects of working at a university, and the other is the development and continuing training in their original field or specialty. Additionally, the research shows that while time is the most commonly cited reason for not attending professional development, it is possible to potentially offer incentives to overcome that barrier to attendance. Professional development activities that are created in an informal manner and are more localized to smaller units within the university-a college, a department, even a subset of a department-seem to be more meaningful to faculty than traditional formally organized professional development by the university. The overall conclusion from this qualitative research study is that professional development activities should be more flexible and adaptive to the maturation of needs of the intended participants. The current initial professional development at Brigham Young University is viewed positively as being very helpful; however, the longer faculty stay at the university the more they seek out informal professional development focused on specific issues for which they are not finding assistance. The implication of this study is when universities focus on initial professional development for new faculty often professional development opportunities for mid-career faculty are not emphasized or arranged. Ways to address this gap may include specifically labeling activities like seminars as professional development and then increasing resources devoted to them or giving faculty an allowance per person per year and allowing them to choose how to invest that allowance-either in more training within the teaching profession or within their specific discipline.
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Lategan, Laetus O. K. "A conceptual analysis of a university of technology and its contribution to research and development." Interim : Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 7, Issue 2: Central University of Technology Free State Bloemfontein, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/389.
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Published Article<br>This paper provides a conceptual overview of one of the three types of university in the South African higher education band, namely the university of technology. The contention of the paper is that universities of technology should have the same core activities as the general or classical university, that is teaching, research and service. The differences between the types of university exist on a conceptual level and therefore also in their approach to science in general. The conceptual analysis illustrates how the university of technology contributes towards research and development. It is for this reason that this university type should be welcomed by the university sector. Its overall contribution to what a university is should be acknowledged.
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Fischer, Manfred M., and Attila Varga. "Geographic Knowledge Spillovers and University Research: Some Evidence from Austria." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2000. http://epub.wu.ac.at/4239/1/WGI_DP_7400.pdf.
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Coberly, Beth Marie. "Faculty Satisfaction and Orgnizational Commitment with Industry-University Research Centers." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08052004-152228/.
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Faculty are an important part of cooperative research centers. However, their decision to become involved in a center is entirely voluntary. A center?s success is dependent on both the recruitment and retention of top-notch faculty. Knowing what contributes to a faculty member?s satisfaction, commitment, and ultimately decision to remain in the organization should be a high priority for center management. The purpose of this study was to examine the concepts of satisfaction and organizational commitment as they pertain to faculty involved in industry-university research centers. A model, which included the variables of intrinsic rewards, extrinsic rewards, satisfaction, commitment, and retention cognitions, was proposed. Data were collected from faculty at industry-university research centers nationwide via an Internet survey. Results showed support for the proposed model. In particular, the model shows that satisfaction is a significant predictor of commitment. Both intrinsic and extrinsic rewards were significant predictors of satisfaction. Intrinsic rewards also had a direct effect on commitment. Both satisfaction and commitment have a significant direct effect on retention cognitions. Implications of the model results for centers are discussed.
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Altunsu, Sonmez Ozlem. "Religiosity, Self-monitoring And Political Participation:a Research On University Students." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615374/index.pdf.
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First of all, this study deals with the religiosity in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity<br>and investigates whether there is a relationship between the self-monitoring and these types. The important point here is that non-religious individuals were studied under this scope, as well. Another building block of the study is the relationship between religiosity and political participation forms. Just as religiosity, political participation was reviewed from a multi-dimensional point of view and conventional, unconventional and post-modern participation were investigated both in terms of non-religious, intrinsic and extrinsic religious individuals. Likewise, the relationship between political participation and self-monitoring was analyzed, as well. The important point for the study here is that no other study of a similar nature has been found neither in the national nor international literature, and that, therefore, the study will contribute to both in this sense.
A questionnaire was conducted on 872 university students. Numerous analyses were conducted in this study in order to reveal the relationship among these concepts. As a result of the study, it was found that the intrinsic religiosity is associated with low-self-monitoring while the extrinsic religiosity is associated with high-self-monitoring. In addition, it was determined that self-monitoring is positively influential on the political participation. In parallel to the relationship of the self-monitoring with the religiosity, it was found out that the extrinsic religious perform more participation in every form of political participation than the intrinsic religious.
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Suwannarat, Patha. "Library leadership in research university libraries." 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32021606.html.
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WANG, TSE-FENG, and 汪澤鳳. "The Research of Shanghai Elderly University." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60581874744743175662.
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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>高齡者教育所<br>95<br>The purpose of the present study is to investigate the Shanghai Elderly University. The documentary analysis method was mainly adopted and interview on the telephone secondly. The documents which had been collected from 1985 to December of 2006 included the relative documents, books, reports, editorials, and websites of Shanghai Elderly University. By reading and arranging them, the researcher tried to discuss the origin, the development, the administrative organization, funds, the sources of the instructors, the admission, the members, the teaching issues, and the curriculums of Shanghai Elderly University. After the discussion of the above, the researcher generalized the features from it and provided some recommendations for the elders’ education in Taiwan.
The research about Shanghai Elderly University can be generalized into five features as below:
1. about the administrative organization: the good framework of administrative organization, the institution-base management, and using the elders'' human resources.
2. about the budget structure: the low tuition supported by the government.
3. about the teachers: from broadness and diversity.
4. about the curricula: diverse courses and discretionary enrolment and leaving.
5. other dimensions: innovative administering, gathering the elders for congregate dialing and watching, and learning points around the city.
Besides, the researcher analyzed the implement of Shanghai Elderly University, then pointed out the dilemma and blind spots of it, and finally provided the elders’ educational institutes with five recommendations as following:
1. about the administration: different organizations to supervise different municipal elderly universities
2.about the budget: the budget support was insufficient, and the low tuition made old members not leave and new ones not be able to enter.
3. about the admissibility: strict membership resulted in trouble enrolling new members.
4. other dimensions: citizens still lacked the concept of lifelong learning, technological accessory learning should consider the poverty gap between urban and suburb areas, learning space of elderly universities is insufficient, and so on.
At last, the research of Shanghai Elderly University provides eight recommendations as below:
1.The government can offer different types of elderly learning courses.
2.The government should pay much attention to elderly learning institutions and fixed budget support.
3.The government should set up an organization to supervise elderly educational institutions.
4.Offering diverse courses can attract the elders to take part in learning activities.
5.Use elderly volunteers and elderly human resources well.
6.Elderly educational institutions should offer thorough information service.
7.Don''t limit teaching to traditional instruction and offer diverse learning models.
8.Put emphasis on communication between domestic and foreign elderly educational institutions.
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SHENG, YANG WAN, and 楊萬聖. "Research On Cyberbullying Among University Student." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68418710151707649267.
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碩士<br>義守大學<br>資訊管理學系碩士在職專班<br>102<br>The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between Cyber-bullying problems and internet behavior, and survey by 431 questionnaires to understand the parameters and usage situation, and analyze significance.
The major conclusions are following: 1. there are differentiations among sex, grade, achievement, school on roles of cyber-bullying. 2. There’s a significant relation between cyber-bullying and internet behavior and usage place. 3. There’s a significant relation between parents and cyber-bullying. 4. Most cyber bullying incidents took the form of harassment, insult, or humiliation, rumors, attack, identity theft, and relationship bully. 5. Cyber bullying occurred frequently in a variety of venues and through different mediums: that were web pages, chat rooms, e-mails, instant messaging on the Internet, text messaging via a cell phone, social networking websites, video-sharing websites and topic chat rooms which harassment took place. 6. The factor of peers was related to the role as a victim, an informer, and a supporter significantly. 7. Those who witness cyber bullying generally do not intend to reveal the truth because they don’t want to get in trouble or to be revenged.
The study provided several suggestions to school, related institutions, and further study in future.
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"Proposal Editing in University Research Administration." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53690.
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abstract: This project presents a mixed methods analysis of proposal editing in sponsored research administration at U.S.-based universities. As sponsored research funding has become increasingly competitive, universities have sought to support their faculty and research infrastructure by offering proposal editing services as a component of the proposal development process. However, the relative newness of proposal and research development as fields, combined with prior studies that show a general lack of research into proposal editing and faculty perceptions of proposal development resources, mean that these areas can benefit from additional focused research. This study aimed to answer two primary research questions: How do universities approach and offer proposal editing as a component of the proposal development process, and what are faculty reactions to editing services as a resource during that same process? The study consisted of two components: a survey of 32 faculty members' perceptions of editing services as an element of their proposal development, and interviews with ten research administrators and editors to discuss how editing services function within the proposal preparation process. Despite a small sample size and disciplinary homogeneity, the survey results showed that demand for institutionally provided editing services varies by research field and activity level, but that faculty showed noticeable interest in at least having the option of an editor reviewing their proposals prior to submission. Interview participants agreed that faculty who are new or early in their careers, along with faculty who speak English as a second language, are especially interested in receiving editing services. Editors themselves provide various levels of edit, dependent on their own backgrounds, editing timelines, and faculty receptiveness to the edits. When provided, edits focus on compliance and grammar, but deeper edits help academic styles of writing transition into more persuasive grant writing styles to strategically position the proposal. As proposal editing services become more widespread as a way of supporting faculty and increasingly proposal quality and success, universities should implement editing services according to faculty demand and needs. Careful implementation can ensure that editing services fully support faculty while making a meaningful impact on a university's research development strategies and goals.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Masters Thesis Technical Communication 2019
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Mindruta, Constanta Denisa. "Markets for research : a matching approach to university-industry research collaborations /." 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3363040.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: . Adviser: Rajshree Agarwal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-135) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Sun, Shou Pi, and 孫守丕. "Research Over University Performance Measurement─Applying Balanced Scorecard on a Private University." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01399276205738566605.
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碩士<br>開南管理學院<br>公共事務管理學系碩士班<br>94<br>ABSTRACT
Research Over University Performance Measurement─Applying Balanced Scorecard on a Private University
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Sun, Shou Pi
July 2006
ADVISOR: Dr. Chen, Huei-yuan
DEPARTMENT: Public Affairs and Management
MAJOR: Public Affairs and Management
UNIVERSITY: Kainan University
DEGREE: Master of Arts
In recent years, the development of higher education has rapidly expanded due to its extensive demands. However the situation led to some problems as well, such as the lower quality of education, the crowding out of educational funds, the aggravation of school managements and most of all the domestic low birth rate and advertising for students from foreign universities after entering WTO. All of these phenomena result in a severe competition over our domestic higher education market.
When schools face the fact of changes in the educational system and environment, they spontaneously develop their distinctive characteristic to advertise for more students. This study is to lead in the balanced scorecard; by interviews and documents, attempting to progressively analyze through the four layers of the balanced scorecard, furthermore, to go a step further and establish the balanced scorecard for schools. With this concept, the development strategy for schools and the effect evaluation system thus can combine together, making the school operating tactic into an actual action.