Tesi: "Indicators of success"

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Stewart, Lisa Wynn. "At-Risk Indicators: The Impact on School Success". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1711.

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The hope of educators is that children will obtain a strong educational foundation that will lead to life-long learning and a bright future. However, several factors may play a role in hindering a successful outcome. Addressing the at-risk indicators of excessive absences, discipline referrals, socioeconomic status, disability status, early grade retention, and family composition gives insight into struggles students face. Looking at 6 research questions, an independent sample t test was used to determine the difference in students who had excessive absences and discipline referrals in relation to school success. A chi-square analysis was used to identify the relationship between socioeconomic status, disability status, family composition, early grade retention, and school success. Results of the study suggested that there was a significant negative relationship between school success and poor attendance and with discipline referrals. Socioeconomic status was not significant when looking at school success. The study showed that students eligible for free and reduced price meals program had nearly the same chance for school success as students who were not eligible for free and reduced price meals program. Disability status and grade retention were not significant factors in school success. Students who lived in a nontraditional family were not at risk for school failure.

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Prickett, Megan M. "Success Indicators of College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder". TopSCHOLAR®, 2015. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1524.

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This study examined the executive functioning skills as students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) entered college. The participants consisted of 95 college students with ASD who attended the Kelly Autism Program (KAP) on Western Kentucky University’s campus in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The individuals in the sample were categorized three groups: individuals who graduated from college, individuals who were still attending college, and individuals who dropped out of college. The results indicated that the executive functioning skills of inhibiting and initiation were statistically significantly different between the three groups and additional skills were significantly different when comparing only the group that graduated from college with the group that dropped out of college.

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Norton, Susan K. "Indicators of Success in the Blended Doctoral Cohort Model". Thesis, Concordia University Irvine, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840659.

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For decades, the cohort model has been utilized to bring graduate degrees to working adults who cannot put their family lives and careers on hold to attend a university in the more traditional way. With the growing access to reliable digital tools, some cohorts have taken advantage of the ability to meet online with live-streaming applications such as Skype, GoToMeeting, and Adobe Connect. The blending of online instruction and face-to-face interaction has given birth to blended learning, a hybrid of synchronous and asynchronous learning. With this evolution of curriculum and instruction delivery, questions arise regarding the quality of graduate programs. Are the students who are investing time and money into these graduate degrees receiving the high-level of quality that they would expect if they were attending the university in a traditional way? How are they interacting with their peers in a scholarly fashion? How are the professors engaging the students in meaningful and scholarly ways? How do students and institutions know what is working for the success of the student and what needs to be improved? This study sought to uncover answers to some of these questions as it researched 16 doctoral students in one blended cohort in central California. With primarily qualitative methods, the study attempted to describe the phenomenon that is the blended doctoral cohort, specifically researching the participants’ perspective of themselves and the blended cohort model at the beginning of their program and, again, at the end of their program.

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Ledwaba, Mahlaku Makhanana Phillistus. "Indicators of Career Success for Women in Male-Dominated Jobs". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60504.

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Literature shows that even after decades of the subject being at the top of organisations' agendas, advancement of women in the workplace, especially of women in male-dominated jobs is still progressing very slowly compared to their male counterparts. One of the reasons often cited for this slow progress is the inability of organisations to understand whether male-dominated jobs offer conducive environments for women to succeed in, and how this relates to the level of job satisfaction experienced by women. Organisations also have very little understanding of the career rewards that are preferred by women. Such an understanding is crucial in order for organisations to be able to offer women the preferred rewards so that they can succeed. This study aims to explain how person-organisation fit and person-job fit relates to job satisfaction of women in male-dominated jobs. Furthermore, the study aims to provide an explanation of whether this relationship exists as a result of subjective career rewards experienced by women in male-dominated jobs. This study was conducted in a company within the financial services industry based in South Africa. A deductive research approach was followed and data was collected through a hand-delivered survey. A quota sample (N=62) of males and females in both male-dominated jobs and female-dominated jobs was obtained. Data analysis was performed on SPSS 23.0 software to conduct t-tests, in order to compare means of variables. Regression analysis was conducted in order to assess a mediation relationship between the variables in this study. The results of this study indicate that person-organisation fit and job satisfaction do not have a statistically significant relationship for women in male-dominated jobs. The results also revealed that for person-organisation fit and job satisfaction, no mediated relationship on the part of subjective career rewards could be established. A recommendation for organisations is that they design their reward policies using an individual-based approach instead of a one-size-fits-all approach. Researchers could also ensure that the sample of respondents is representative of the demographics that are relevant to the study, in order to be able to better understand what they are studying. Furthermore, it is also recommended that researchers control for social desirability bias when doing research on sensitive issues such as reward differences and gender equity.
Mini Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
Human Resource Management
MCom
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Boisvert, Alaya, Sarah Cheevers, Erin Romanchuk e Karen Stroebel. "Measuring Success : Indicators for Strategic Approaches to Sustainable Community Planning". Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2836.

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Understanding successful community planning and transparently monitoring the process through indicators is essential for empowering communities to move towards a sustainable future. This paper investigates two key categories of indicators: 1) socio-ecological indicators and 2) process indicators. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development, the foundation of this research, offers a science-based and principled definition of sustainability, as well as a method for structuring, evaluating and informing the design of indicators. A universally applicable set of community planning process indicators has been devised through ‘backcasting’. First, a list of Success Criteria for an ideal sustainable community planning process was developed. To determine the gaps that require monitoring, general practices in current planning were next assessed against this vision of success. Indicators were then brainstormed to measure closure of the highlighted gaps and movement towards success. Finally, these indicators were evaluated against a comprehensive list of ideal indicator characteristics. In summary, applying whole systems and strategic approaches to identifying and designing indicators can be relevant in any context. Process indicators provide the structure in which to monitor planning at every level and across disciplines so that appropriate socio-ecological indicators can then be derived, while simultaneously ensuring more effective governance.

Alaya Boisvert - alaya.boisvert@gmail.com Sarah Cheevers - sacheevers@yahoo.com Erin Romanchuk - erinroser@gmail.com Karen Stroebel - kstroebel@gmail.com

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Duarte, Bruno Miguel Gonçalves. "Impact of social economic indicators on RSI incidence and success". Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9473.

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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
In this project we study the influence of socio-economic characteristics on the percentage of beneficiaries of “Rendimento Social de Inserção” (RSI) and on the percentage of exits from the RSI program that occur due to a change in income. The results indicate that the % of beneficiaries tend to increase with unemployment, younger people and reduced families, whereas it tends to reduce with high education levels and GDP. As for the % of exists from the RSI, the results we obtained show evidence that, on the one hand, they tend to increase with higher education, and on the other hand, they tend to reduce with unemployment, reduced income of the beneficiaries before entering the program, nuclear families and Local Purchasing Power.

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Lederhouse, Terra M. "Naked gobies (Gobiosoma bosc) as indicators of oyster reef restoration success". College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9243.

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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Biology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Bonaventura, Moreno. "Shortest paths to success : network indicators of performance in innovation ecosystems". Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2017. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/24555.

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In this thesis I show how various theories and methodologies borrowed from complexity science, organisation science, and network science can be suitably integrated to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of innovation processes. I study the network foundations of success in innovation ecosystems and I conduct several empirical investigations to identify those network characteristics that are expected to correlate with positive outcomes and success. I assess the extent to which the diversity and the strength in the networks of relationships boost the performance and success of scientists and early-stage firms. To this end I analyse two large-scale data sets about scientific publishing and start-up firms by making use of already existing topological network measures and by proposing novel measures to characterise the degree of interdisciplinarity and access to diverse pools of knowledge in scientific collaborations. Results provide empirical support to the idea that collaboration sustains innovation and performance by facilitating knowledge diffusion, acquisition and creation. First, results indicate that the networks of interaction between start-ups have a strong impact on the firms' longterm success. Second I find that, while abandoning specialisation in favour of moderate degrees of interdisciplinarity deteriorates scientific performance, very interdisciplinary scientists tend to outperform specialised ones. Additionally, I address the computational challenges related to the size of the data sets used and their time-varying nature. In particular I focus on the scalability challenges of incremental graph algorithms. The thesis contributes in this direction by proposing new efficient algorithms and data structures to handle and to analyse large graphs whose nodes and edges change rapidly over time. These efforts have been collected and made available to the public in the form of a web platform (http://lab.startup-network.org/) and an open-source python package, NetworkL (https://networkl.github.io/).

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White, Bonnie J. "Relationships Between Early Academic Indicators and Accelerated-Baccalaureate Student Nurse Success". ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3848.

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In 2013, the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses' (NCLEX-RN) passing standard was increased, leading to a decrease in NCLEX-RN pass rates. The passing standard increase was prompted by an advisory panel's determination that a gap in safe, competent practice existed among new graduate nurses. New graduates' success on NCLEX-RN is critical to meet workplace demand for new nurses. The purpose of this study was to examine whether cumulative grade point average at completion of 200-level nursing courses and scores on the standardized final exam in the 200-level fundamentals course were related to on-time nursing program completion and a Health Education Systems, Inc. Exit Exam score of 900 or higher. Research questions specific to relationships between early academic indicators and accelerated-baccalaureate student nurse success guided this explanatory correlational study. Classical test theory provided the framework for understanding the relationship between an observed score on an examination and an underlying proficiency that is unobserved. Archival data from a nonprobability convenience sample of 842 accelerated-baccalaureate nursing students at a university who graduated between 2011 and 2014 were analyzed using point-biserial correlation. Statistically significant, moderate positive relationships were found between early academic indicators and accelerated-baccalaureate student nurse success. A remediation curriculum has been developed as a recommended intervention. Curriculum promoting student retention can contribute to social change by improving student success and producing a more competent nursing workforce. These successes are important to retaining diverse students and addressing health disparities in the larger patient community.

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Bell, Michael A. "Determinants of Success in ISO 9000 Implementation". Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/536.

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The management of quality is a consideration in all industries. The ISO 9000 standard defines a management system framework which includes the necessary and sufficient elements for the systematic management of quality. Some organizations experience positive results from implementing an ISO 9000 based quality management system while others do not. Given its widespread use and the economic implications of ineffective implementation, this study analyzes the implementation process steps, the performance of system elements after certification and organization performance metrics. The methodology combines publicly available financial data and survey results to characterize the determinants of success for ISO 9000 quality management system implementation.

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Krutsinger, Roxane. "Evaluation of Grassland Restoration Success in Illinois Using Indicators of Ecosystem Function". Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1556741.

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Grasslands are known to have been an important ecosystem in the Illinois landscape prior to European settlement. They have been severely impacted by changes in land use such as the conversion of native grasslands to agricultural land for the production of crops and livestock. Grassland ecosystems are known to provide several essential ecosystem functions that are important for the maintenance of the ecosystem and for human survival. Some of the ecosystem functions associated with grasslands include: nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, and the cleansing of environmental contaminants from water or soil. As grasslands are converted to agricultural use, their ability to perform these ecosystem functions are greatly impaired or lost completely. Due to their recognized importance, grassland restoration projects have been given high priority by conservationists and governmental agencies around the world. Some grassland restorations aim to restore the native vegetation including the great species richness that grasslands, and prairie ecosystems in particular, are known for. Other projects, like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), aim to restore one of the vital ecosystem functions that grasslands provide. The measure of success for a grassland restoration has largely been evaluated using species composition and indices of species richness and evenness. These types of measurements do not directly assess the ability of a restoration site to perform the ecosystem functions of a native grassland. The aim of this study is to determine if ecosystem function is recovered over time since restoration. This will be accomplished using a chronosequence of grassland restorations at the Nature Institute in Godfrey, IL ranging from 1 year to 25 years since restoration. Several indicators of ecosystem functioning will be assesses at each site including: soil bulk density, soil organic matter, and peak standing crop. The differences in these characteristics among the sites were analyzed by one-way ANOVA followd by Tukey’s HSD test if significant. All properties were analyzed using linear regression to assess their fit to a linear model. Soil bulk density was found to moderately but significantly decrease in response to time since restoration (p = 0.0049) indicating a recovery from soil compaction and improved soil structure. Differences were detected in soil organic matter among the sites, but no linear trend in response to time since restoration was detected. Similarly with peak standing crop, differences were detected among the sites, but no linear trend with time since restoration. The lack of a predictable recovery in soil characteristics over time was attributed to differences in historical land use. In order to strengthen this study in the future, analysis of a remnant prairie and older restoration sites should be examined.

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Maouyo, Stephen Jojimbai. "Product design team interactions and peer feedback as indicators of team success". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90056.

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Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2014.
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Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-37).
Teams have become ubiquitous. They are used at all levels of academia, government, and industry, and their use spans all sectors and fields. Much work has been done on the factors that affect a team's performance and how and what type of interventions may be useful in improving a team's performance. One such type of intervention is peer review and feedback. In this study, team peer reviews completed during a semester-long product design project at MIT are coded into the categories of skills, effort, and performance strategies, and within those categories, whether comments are positive or negative, to attempt to determine a correlation between the way team members try to shape each other's behaviors and the eventual performance of the team. Results, although inconclusive, provide insights into potential directions of future research in this area.
by Stephen Jojimbai Maouyo.
S.M. in Technology and Policy

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Doehrman, Tessa Sue. "Factors influencing states' success in reaching Healthy people 2000 goals /". View online, 2007. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/249/.

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Bingham, Patrick Jerome. "The concurrent and predictive validity of elementary school teacher pre-employment success indicators /". Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Doyle, Joleen Marie. "Formative assessment of social competence : indicators of success in authentic elementary school tasks /". view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3055685.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-153). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Davis, Denise. "College Success for all Students: An Investigation of Early Warning Indicators of College Readiness". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33141/.

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The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine early warning indicators of college readiness among early college high school students at selected Texas institutions of higher education. Participants in this study included 134 of the class of 2010 from two early college high schools. The graduates were 86% Hispanic, 8% African American, 3% White, 2% Asian, 1% American Indian and 72% economically disadvantaged. A causal-comparative research design using multiple regression analysis of the data collected revealed that each one unit increase in world history was associated with a .470 (p < .05) increase in college GPA, while each one unit increase in Algebra I was associated with a .202 (p < .05) increase. Therefore, student grades in high school Algebra I and world history were the strongest statistically significant indicators that a student will maintain a 2.5 college GPA during the first year of college. According to the early warning indicators, students who maintain a grade of A or B in Algebra I are 10 times more likely to be college ready while having a 78% chance of maintaining a 2.5 or better in college courses. Further, the findings from this study found no significant relationship between TAKS assessment, socioeconomic status, gender or ethnicity and a student's ability to maintain a 2.5 or higher college GPA. Based on the findings from this study, the author recommends an examination of the high school curriculum with the goal of ensuring that students gain competency in courses that indicate college readiness.

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Underwood, Mark E. (Mark Eads). "Indicators of Persistence and Success of Community College Transfer Students Attending a Senior College". Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279173/.

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The purpose of the study was to determine whether age, ethnicity, gender, full-time/ part-time status, and the community college academic variables of cumulative GPA, total transferable hours, and number of completed core courses predicted students' persistence or GPA at a four-year university.

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Kelbaugh, Beverly M. "Exploration of teamwork in extension: identifying indicators of success using a modified delphi study". The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1054604099.

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Boss, Patricia M., e res cand@acu edu au. "Indicators of Satisfaction & Success For a Paediatric Outreach Nursing Service in Metropolitan Sydney, NSW". Australian Catholic University. School of Nursing, 2005. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp118.25102006.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the indicators of customer satisfaction and service success of a newly established paediatric outreach nursing service. Referring agents and care recipients were both consumers of the paediatric outreach nursing service. Both groups of consumers were surveyed to determine their satisfaction with the service delivery. Two satisfaction survey tools were developed to measure customer satisfaction. The tools were piloted and refined prior to distributing them. Both tools had a series of closed-ended questions and 3 open-ended questions. Eight service indicators were developed. These were designed to test the effectiveness of the service provided. The service indicators were piloted over two periods of three months and then modified based on the findings of the pilot period. The Paediatric Outreach Service (POS) is a positive service model for health care delivery. The survey results indicated that stakeholders were generally satisfied with the service delivery. When measured against service indicators that were developed for POS, the service performance was above average, with some opportunity to improve practice. Underpinned by a family-centered framework, POS has the capacity to empower children and their families in the planning and implementation of a management plan for the child’s illness. Such empowerment may lead families to practice better healthcare, develop better health-seeking practices and ultimately lead to healthier children. The results from this study has implications for nursing practice. The data obtained from this study may be useful to service providers considering commencing a paediatric outreach nursing service. Data may also be useful for existing service providers to use in order to review the aspects that consumers value against the service they currently provide. Keywords ambulatory care; paediatrics; home-nursing; community; evaluation; satisfaction; success; indicators

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Lyons, Candice-Lee. "Evaluating restoration success of alluvial diamond-mined sites in South Africa using invertebrate community indicators". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8974.

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Theuri, Naomi. "Indicators of NGOs Success & Impacts on NGOs Role in HIV Policy Process in Kenya". Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21798.

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NGOs have been actively involved in both global and national policy processes resulting to promotion of human rights. However, NGOs involvement in policy process heavily depends on their success, since policy makers choose to engage only successful NGOs. In determining whether NGOs are successful, indicators of NGO success should be evident in their operations. This thesis focuses on three indicators of NGOs success namely, sufficient resources, embeddedness in the community and an already established success in the country where NGOs are geographically located, with an aim to show that successful NGOs have a role in policy process, and such NGOs promote enjoyment of rights such as right to health and freedom from discrimination. The indicators are related to each other and are equally important for an NGO to gain success. Therefore, indicators of NGOs success have great impact on NGOs success that has an impact on NGOs role in policy process.

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Nielsen, Ingrid, e mikewood@deakin edu au. "Situational and dispositional indicators of performance: Competing models in education". Deakin University. School of Psychology, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050902.112422.

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The attainment of high grades on the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) is critical to the future study and employment prospects of many Australian adolescents. Thus it is important to understand the factors that contribute to performance in the VCE. The aims of this study were twofold: the main aim was to test competing models of academic performance, subsuming a range of situational and dispositional variables based on a) self-efficacy theory, b) target and purpose goals, c) cognitive skills and self-regulatory strategies, and d) positive psychology. These models were each tested in terms of English performance and mathematics performance as these units contribute proportionally the most to overall VCE scores. In order to study whether pressures peculiar to the VCE impact on performance, the competing models were tested in a sample of Victorian students prior to the VCE (year 10) and then during the VCE (year 11). A preliminary study was conducted in order to develop and test four scales required for use in the major study, using an independent sample of 302 year nine students. The results indicated that these new scales were psychometrically reliable and valid. Three-hundred and seven Australian students participated in the year 10 and 11 study. These students were successively asked to provide their final years 9, 10 and 11 English and mathematics grades at times one, three and five and to complete a series of questionnaires at times two and four. Results of the year 10 study indicated that models based on self-efficacy theory were the best predictors of both English and mathematics performance, with high past grades, high self-efficacy and low anxiety contributing most to performance. While the year 10 self-efficacy models, target goal models, positive psychology models, self-regulatory models and cognitive skill based models were each robust in the sample in year 11, a substantial increase in explained variance was observed from year 10 to year 11 in the purpose goal models. Results indicated that students mastery goals and their performance-approach goals became substantially more predictive in the VCE than they were prior to the VCE. This result can be taken to suggest that these students responded in very instrumental ways to the pressures, and importance, of their VCE. An integrated model based on a combination of the variables from the competing models was also tested in the VCE. Results showed that these models were comparable, both in English and mathematics, to the self-efficacy models, but explained less variance than the purpose goal models. Thus in terms of parsimony the integrated models were not preferred. The implications of these results in terms of teaching practices and school counseling practices are discussed. It is recommended that students be encouraged to maintain a positive outlook in relation to their schoolwork and that they be encouraged to set their VCE goals in terms of a combination of self-referenced (mastery) and other-referenced (performance-approach) goals.

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Peneff, Craig F. "Evaluation of a Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program Preadmission and Support Courses as Indicators of Student Success". Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1339600507.

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Falck, Mikael, e Fredrik Karlsson. "Key Performance Indicators : The key to success? - a study of how KPIs are used at Intersport". Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15279.

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Uys, Stefanie M. (Stefanie Margaretha). "The use of computerised games analysis to identify critical indicators of success in elite level netball". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52585.

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Thesis (MScSportSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Netball is a fast and skilful team sport in which players need to be "quickthinking", because they are required to make fast and accurate decisions in ever-changing situations. Netball is a highly tactical game. Therefore the game has to be analysed on all levels of play. During every game or training session the coach has to look for those factors that influence performance and determine success. Methods of games analysis have been improved through the development of video and computer technology, in order to help coaches gather critical data. This study will utilise games analysis as a method for gaining insight into what kinds of "critical incidents" on a netball court lead a team to either score a goal, or to allow the opponent to score against them. Four expert coaches analysed game play from three top-level international netball matches in order to identify the reasons for success/failure during game play. A computer-based games analysis system was used to identify the reasons for losing ball possession during the same games analysed by the experts. The results of computer-based games analysis was compared to the analysis provided by elite coaches in order to determine the value of the technology in providing relevant information. These identified key performance indicators were then ranked according to frequency. Additional games statistics were generated, using games analysis. This knowledge will not only contribute to an understanding of how technology can support coaching, but it will also expand our understanding of the tactics of netball and thus contribute to coaches' efforts to teach players how to make "good decisions". An important by-product of this study was the identification of the key performance indicators that influence success/failure in netball. This knowledge should help coaches determine what kinds of tactical learning situations are important to include in practice sessions. It is the coach's responsibility to develop thinking players. On court - during a game - it is the players' responsibility to read the game and make instant decisions. Also during the game - during time outs and half time- it is the coach's responsibility to give the players feedback on their decision-making and to make suggestions for improvements. Both roles require effective analysis of the game. Keywords: netball; games analysis; technology
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Netbal is 'n vinnige vaardigheidspel. Spelers moet oor die vermoe beskik om in aanhoudende veranderde situasies en spel vinnige, akkurate besluite te neem. Dit is 'n uiters taktiese spel en daarom moet dit op alle vlakke geanaliseer word. Gedurende elke oefensessie en wedstryd moet die aftigter fokus op faktore wat die sukses en prestasie van 'n speier of span kan beinvloed. Met behulp van die verbeterde rekenaar- en videotegnologie is verskillende metodes van wedstrydanalises ontwikkel - met die doel om afrigters te fasiliteer om kritiese informasie te versamel. Die doel van hierdie studie is om wedstrydanalise as 'n metode te beskryf om kritiese situasies te identifiseer wat tot gevolg het dat 'n span 'n doel wen of afstaan. Vier topvlak afrigters het drie internasionale wedstryde geanaliseer om sodoende die redes vir sukses of rnislukte pogings in die wedstryd te identifiseer. In dieselfde drie wedstryde is 'n rekenaar wedstrydanalise stelsel gebruik om die redes vir balbesit of -verlies te identifiseer. Die resultate van die rekanaar-gebaseerde spelanalises en die vier afrigters is vergelyk om die waarde van die verskil in informasie te vergelyk en te bepaal. Die kern prestasiefaktore wat deur bogenoemde geidentifiseer is, is volgens rangorde geplaas op grond van die frekwensie waarop dit voorgekom het. Hierdie inligting sal as 'n bydrae dien tot die wyse waartoe tegnologie afrigting kan ondersteun. Dit brei ook die verstaanbaarheid van taktiek in netbal uit en bevorder besluitnerning meer spesifiek. 'n Belangrike resultaat van die studie is die identifikasie van die kern prestasiefaktore. Hierdie inligting kan afrigters in verskeie taktiese leer-situasies ondersteun. Die ideaal is dat elke afrigter sy verantwoordelikheid sal besef om onafhanklike, selfdenkende spelers te ontwikkel. Op die baan is dit gevolglik die speier se eie verantwoordelikheid om die wedstryd te lees en besluite te neem. Gedurende halftyd en na die wedstryd is dit die afrigter se verantwoordelikheid om aan spelers terugvoering te gee, asook aanbevelings te maak ten opsigte van besluitneming. Beide rolle, as afrigter of speier, vereis effektiewe wedstrydanalise. Sleutelwoorde: netbal; wedstrydanalise; tegnologie
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Munkittrick, Peggi. "Indicators of Persistence and Success of Community College Transfer Students Attending a Large, Urban University in Pennsylvania". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/22678.

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Educational Administration
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The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which completion of Temple University's Core-to-Core articulation agreement requirements improves transfer students' likelihood to persist and to obtain a baccalaureate degree . Additionally, demographic variables (age, gender, ethnicity, financial aid eligibility), pre-enrollment variables (transfer GPA, transferable credits, Core-to-Core participation, educational intent, class standing, and community college attended), and enrollment variables (enrollment status, GPA trend, credits per semester, number of semester enrollments, and final GPA) were examined in order to determine whether they had any validity in predicting baccalaureate degree attainment. The study used an institutional case study design with historical data as the foundation for a multivariate analysis. The study population included 5419 students who transferred to Temple University between the Fall 1998 and Spring 2002 semesters. from one of eleven local community colleges that participated in Temple's Core-to-Core transfer program. A causal-comparative methodology was used to study the two groups - persisters and non-persisters. Descriptive statistics provided a picture of each group of students, while Chi-square and logistic regression analyses were used to determine the demographic, pre-enrollment, and enrollment variables that had the strongest ability to predict academic persistence. The Chi-square analyses presented a very detailed picture of the persisters and non-persisters. As a group, enrollment variables were the strongest predictors of baccalaureate degree attainment. However, the independent variables that were most significant and also the most meaningful were the number of semesters for which a student registered, final GPA, enrollment status (full-time/part-time), average number of credits per semester, GPA trend, and financial aid eligibility. A logistic regression analyses was then used to examine the predictive factors for baccalaureate degree attainment after eliminating several variables due to multicollinearity concerns and due to the complexity introduced with variables containing multiple nominal responses. The results were highly significant with 22.6% of the variance accounted for, indicating that the students who have a higher probability of graduating demonstrate a pattern of increasing GPA from initial transfer to graduation, have a higher transfer GPA, attend Temple University on a full-time basis, have taken advantage of Temple's Core-to-Core transfer program are eligible for financial aid, and are female.
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Samuel, Carlos. "The Current Status of Hazard Mitigation in Local Emergency Management: an Examination of Roles, Challenges, and Success Indicators". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699845/.

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This dissertation used an organizational structure framework to examine the current status of hazard mitigation from the perspective of emergency managers from four organizational structure categories. This study addressed three primary research questions: (1) What is the role of the local emergency management office in hazard mitigation and what is the function of other stakeholders as perceived by local emergency managers? (2) What are the challenges to achieving hazard mitigation objectives and what are the strategies used to overcome them? and (3) How do local emergency managers define hazard mitigation success? Thirty North Central Texas emergency managers were recruited for participation in this study, and data was collected through telephone interviews and an internet survey. A mixed methodology was used to triangulate qualitative and quantitative findings. Qualitative analyses consisted of inductive grounded theory, and quantitative data analyses consisted of independent samples t-test analyses, correlation analyses, and Chi-square analyses. Findings indicate that emergency managers from the different emergency management office categories have six self-identified roles in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation; have a similar reported level of involvement in different hazard mitigation-related activities; and perceive stakeholders as having four key functions in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation. Second, participants describe five obstacles that are categorized as internal organizational challenges and two obstacles that are categorized as outside organizational challenges. The Disinterested Stakeholders Challenge is rated as a more significant obstacle by participants from the Non-Fire emergency management office category. Emergency managers describe the use of four strategies for overcoming hazard mitigation challenges, and the ability to master these strategies has implications for achieving hazard mitigation success. Third, emergency managers define a tangible and intangible category of hazard mitigation success, and each category is comprised of distinct indicators. Lastly, the organizational characteristics of emergency management offices had significant relationships with their reported level of involvement in select hazard mitigation activities; the rating assigned to select hazard mitigation challenges; and the rating assigned to select hazard mitigation success measures. For integrated emergency management offices, their parent agency is found to be an asset for achieving hazard mitigation objectives.

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Sorensen, Emily Allyson. "Modeling Whole Farm Systems to Enhance Beginning Small Farmer Success in Southwest Virginia". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/72282.

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The number of very small farms (<10 acres) is increasing and beginning farmers (in practice for <10 years) are more likely to run them. Very small farms are typically complex systems in which the farmer manages both production of a diverse array of crops and marketing of crops directly to consumers and their failure rate in early years is high. This work seeks to increase the likelihood of success for beginning farmers by understanding these complex systems better. We collected qualitative and quantitative data from interviews with three successful beginning farm operations in Southwest Virginia covering practical and philosophical aspects of farm production, sales and management. We mapped social, environmental and economic aspects of farming systems and studied how farmers use resources (Community Capitals) and management to enhance their system's success, developing a broader definition of success that encompasses what farmers gain from farming beyond profitability. Using these maps, we created a system dynamics model of a small farm system in STELLA including unique components such as customer attraction and retention. Through model development, we learned that these successful farmers began their operations with experience and financial resources, and employed their skills, resourcefulness and cultural and social capital to charge prices for their products that could sustain their operations financially. Using our model, current and aspiring farmers, service providers, and small farm advocates will be able to simulate real or hypothetical farm systems to better understand what establishing a successful small farm might require and how to confront potential challenges.
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Kristof, Nicholas A. "Admissions and plebe year data as indicators of academic success in engineering majors at the United States Naval Academy". Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FKristof.pdf.

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McGlaughon, Andrew Tomasini Nathan. "An examination of the relationship between major facility upgrades/renovations and select indicators of success in Division I-A football (1997-2006)". Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1061.

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Title from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 27, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science Sport Administration." Discipline: Exercise and Sports Science; Department/School: Exercise and Sport Science.

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Sansom, Karen. "Indicators of Academic Success in a Medical Record Technology Program & Their Relationship to Attainment of a Passing Score on the Accreditation Examination". TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2810.

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During the selection and retention process in a medical record technology program, it is advantageous to identify those students who will fulfill the program's course requirements, as well as subsequently pass the accreditation examination. Graduates of such a program at Wbstern Kentucky University were studied to identify these demoaraphic and academic indicators. Using a stepwise multiple regression analysis, the variables of high school grade point average (GPA), college GPA, and composite ACT score were found to be significantly related to medical record GPA. Using the maximum Rsquare improvement technique, the variables of high school GPA, college GPA, age entering the program, English ACT score and number of credits at graduation were found to be significantly related to overall college GPA at graduation. Multiple regression analysis indicated that high school GPA and composite ACT score were found to be the best predictors of overall performance on the accreditation exam, though the relationship was not significant. Using the discriminant analysis technique, several variables were found to be significant in determining which students will pass the exam and which students will fail. Based on information age when entering the program, and number of medical record core courses repeated contributed significantly to the model. The model was applied to the actual data with a pass/fail accuracy rate of 82% for all students and a rate of 84% for those students passing the exam. Based on additional information after graduation, the variables of medical record GPA, composite ACT score, age when entering the program, and number of credits received at graduation contributed significantly to the model. The model was applied to the actual data with a pass:fail accuracy rate of 78% for all students and a rate of 89% for those students failing the exam.

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Salin, Gustafsson Martin, e Carl Frost. "Operational management through key performance Indicators : A case study performed at the warehouses at Fresenius Kabi". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-357294.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify and develop relevant keyperformance indicators within the warehouse operations in amanufacturing company, and how they can be used for control. Research question: In a manufacturing company, which are the most important KPIs forcontrolling and monitoring the warehouse operations, and how can thoseKPIs be developed?Methodology: This master thesis is based on a case study at a pharmaceutical companynamed Fresenius Kabi. A qualitative approach has been used whereprimary data was collected through 10 structured & semi structuredinterviews and through observations in the warehouses to understand thecurrent state. Secondary data was used in form of academic papers to seewhat previous research had to say about KPIs and operation & processmanagement. Internal documents were also used as a secondary source. Findings: Two key performance indicators have been developed, productivity andcost efficiency. A template has been designed to produce the KPIs. Thisstudy contributes to the understanding of how to develop KPIs that fits amanufacturing company´s warehouse operations and a recommendation onhow you could develop a system for producing the data.

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Milenkaya, Olga. "Validating Body Condition Indices As Indicators Of Individual Quality: Does Condition Explain Intraspecific Variation In Reproductive Success And Survival Among Crimson Finches (Neochmia Phaeton)?" Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23937.

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Body condition is expected to reflect individual quality because high quality individuals should be better at acquiring and using resources, resulting in higher fitness. However, the hypothesis that condition indices are meaningful indicators of individual quality has been questioned. I monitored a population of crimson finches (Neochmia phaeton) for reproductive success and survival over four breeding seasons. My study population is well suited for this research because individuals forage in common areas and do not hold territories such that variation in condition between individuals is not confounded by differences in habitat quality. Because little is known about crimson finches in the wild, I first describe their breeding biology and life-history traits (Chapter I). Next, I sampled them for commonly used condition indices including mass adjusted for body size, muscle and fat scores, packed cell volume, hemoglobin concentration, total plasma protein, and heterophil to lymphocyte ratio. I describe the variation in these indices and find that many vary by sex and breeding stage, and to a lesser extent by year, age and time of day, concluding that these covariates need to be controlled for when examining intraspecific variation in condition (Chapter II). If condition indices reflect inherent individual quality, then condition indices should be (a) repeatable within individuals, and (b) predictors of realized fitness. I test these two predictions in Chapters III and IV, respectively, and I find that condition indices are repeatable within individuals over short, but not long, time periods and that some indices predict reproductive success, while others do not, and that none predict survival. Both findings only partially support the hypothesis that condition indices are meaningful indicators of individual quality, raising concerns over this common interpretation. In Chapter V, I glean insights from the ecological and poultry science literature and discuss further complications with the use of condition indices as proxies for individual quality and fitness. I conclude that condition indices indicate how well an individual is currently acquiring resources as well as its likely physiological state over the next few months, but that they do not reflect individual quality and are not reliable proxies for fitness.
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Arms, Anda R. "Indicators of success: measuring outcomes of evacuating pets in state and local emergency preparedness operational plans in area of economic and public health value". Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6394.

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Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Richard L. Hoag
Abstract On October 6, 2006 President Bush signed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act (PETS Act, Pub. Law No. 109-308). The Act ensures that state and local emergency preparedness operational plans address the needs of individuals with household pets and service animals following a major disaster or emergency (The Library of Congress, 109:H.R. 3858, 2006). This thesis identifies nineteen indicators to be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the PETS program in the areas of economics and public health. This report gives specific examples of how each indicator can be used to measure, assess, guide, and monitor the outcomes of evacuating pets in state or local emergency preparedness operational plans.

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Neto, Paschoal Federico. "Desenvolvimento de veículos comerciais no Brasil: um estudo sobre parâmetros de sucesso em gerenciamento de projetos de produtos". Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12142/tde-24112016-150840/.

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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo pesquisar a importância de parâmetros de sucesso no processo de gerenciamento do desenvolvimento de veículos comerciais em empresas estabelecidas no Brasil, quarto maior mercado mundial. O referencial teórico tem como base os cinco critérios de avaliação de resultados de projetos descritos no Modelo Diamante de Shenhar e Dvir e os dez fatores críticos de sucesso (FCS) que formam o Modelo de Processo de Implantação de Projetos (PIP) de Pinto e Slevin. Para isto, foi feito um estudo de caso em uma grande montadora tradicional, por meio de um questionário dirigido a participantes de gerenciamento de projetos de produtos. A pesquisa revelou resultados interessantes tais como: (i) o perfil do participante de projetos de veículos comerciais, principalmente engenheiros com grande experiência profissional; (ii) as características principais dos produtos desenvolvidos, como inovação, tecnologia, complexidade e prazo restrito; (iii) a comparação de priorização dos critérios de sucesso segundo as opiniões dos entrevistados e segundo o que pensam ser o que sua empresa adota e (iv) a priorização dos FCS segundo suas próprias opiniões. Nestes dois últimos resultados, obtiveram-se achados que, por um lado, confirmam o referencial teórico e, por outro lado, mostram algumas diferenças como (i) o paradoxo de alguns altos executivos considerarem que a empresa adota critérios diferentes da sua própria priorização e (ii) a relação de importância dos FCS com o perfi do entrevistado e suas principais necessidades próprias para o desenvolvimento de projetos. Por fim, esta pesquisa traz colaborações para a academia, para as empresas e para a sociedade por meio da proposta do Mestrado Profissional em Empreendedorismo da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo (FEA-USP), que busca temas de pesquisa baseado no universo profissional, embasa os conceitos teóricos com a metodologia acadêmica e aplica a pesquisa novamente no campo profissional. Isto aproxima a Universidade ao mundo empresarial e colabora com uma melhora sustentável de produtividade da sociedade brasileira
This dissertation aims to research the importance of success parameters in the management process of commercial vehicles\' development in companies established in Brazil, world\'s fourth largest market. The theoretical framework was based on five criteria of project evaluation results, described in the Diamond Model designed by Shenhar and Dvir, and in ten critical success factors (CSF) that integrate the Projects Implementation Process (PIP) modeled by Pinto and Slevin. For this purpose, a case study in a large traditional automaker was done through a questionnaire addressed to participants of product management projects. This research showed interesting results such as: (i) the profile of commercial vehicles projects\' participants, which are mainly engineers with large professional experience; (ii) the developed products main characteristics, as innovation, technology, complexity and limited term; (iii) the comparison of success criteria prioritization according to the their own opinions and what they think their company adopts and (iv) the prioritization of CSF according to their own opinions. In the latter two results, research has gathered interesting findings that, on one hand, confirm the theoretical framework and, on the other hand, show some differences as (i) the paradox of some senior executives who consider that the company adopts different criteria than their own prioritization and (ii) the importance of CSF relationship with the respondents\' profiles and their own main needs for development projects. Finally, this research brings contributions to academy, to business and to society through the proposal of the Professional Master\'s Degree in Entrepreneurship of the School of Economics, Business and Accounting of the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), which seeks to research themes based on the professional world, underlies theoretical concepts with academic methodology and applies research findings again into the professional field. This brings the University closer to the business world and collaborates with a sustainable improvement of Brazilian society\'s productivity.

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Letsie, Moipone (Moipone Amelia Mantsebo). "The application of the Planning Indicators Model as a tool for measuring the success of the Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework in the Cape Metropolitan Area". Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16379.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Recently there has been growing interest in evaluating the performance and outcomes of spatial planning policies worldwide. In response to this a research was carried out to evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of spatial planning policies in the Cape Metropolitan Area (CMA). The Planning Indicators Model (PIM), which consists of a set of twenty-six indicators, was applied to monitor and measure the extent to which the Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework (MSDF) has affected land use and physical development in the CMA. To achieve the aim of the study, the research was divided into three phases. The first phase involved a literature review, the second phase involved interviews with planning officials and lastly, the collection of different thematic datasets required to run the Planning Indicators Model. The data sets were used to monitor and display spatiotemporal variations in conformance and performance indices in the form of maps. These maps were used to identify areas where strengths can be protected and where weaknesses need to be corrected. From a set of 26 indicators used for this study only two indicators monitored conformances (Growth of informal housing townships) over the period 1993 – 1998; the others simply indicated the present conditions. This means that the rest of the indicators did not show trends. However, the data are presented in this report as a useful baseline for future conformance and performance monitoring exercises. The study also revealed that for the past twelve years the MSDF has been the subject of extensive debate within the local authorities. Also several indicators seem to overlap and need to be clearly defined, thus it is recommended that some of these indicators should be combined to avoid duplication and confusion. Generally, the PIM can assist in making the impact of spatial planning greater in the CMA.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Onlangs is daar wêreldwyd groeiende belangstelling in die prestasies en uitkomstes van ruimtelike beplannings- beleide. In reaksie daarop is hierdie navorsing gedoen om die doeltreffendheid van die ruimtelike beplannings- beleide van die Kaapse Metropolitaanse Gebied (KMG) te evalueer en te monitor. Die Beplannings Aanwysers Model (BAM) wat bestaan uit ‘n stel van ses-en- twintig aanwysers, is aangewend om te meet tot hoeverre die Metropolitaanse Ruimtelike Ontwikkelings Raamwerk grondgebruik en fisiese ontwikkeling in die Kaapse Metropolitaanse Gebied beïnvloed het. Om die doelwit van hierdie studie te verwesenlik, is die navorsing gedoen in drie fases. Die eerste fase bestaan uit ‘n oorsig van die literatuur en die tweede fase uit onderhoude met amptenare verantwoordelik vir beplanning. Die laaste fase beslaan die versameling van die verskillende tematiese stelle data wat benodig word vir die Beplannings Aanwysers Model. Die stelle data is gebruik om die ruimtelike- en tydsvariasies in die konformering- en prestasie indekse te monitor en ten toon te stel in die vorm van kaarte. Hierdie kaarte is gebruik om die gebiede te identifiseer waar sterkpunte behoue moet bly en waar swakpunte reggestel moet word. Uit die stel van 26 aanwysers wat gebruik is vir hierdie studie, het net twee aanwysers konformering (Die groei van dorpsgebiede met informele behuising) gedurende die periode 1993 – 1998 gemonitor; die ander het eenvoudig die huidige toestand aangetoon. Dit beteken dat die ander aanwysers nie tendense aangetoon het nie. Die data word egter in hierdie verslag weergee as ‘n nuttige basis vir die toekomstige monitor van konformering en prestasie. Die studie toon ook aan dat daar gedurende die afgelope twaalf jaar baie deur plaaslike owerhede gedebatteer is oor die Metropolitaanse Ruimtelike Ontwikkelings Raamwerk. Ook oorvleuel sommige van die aanwysers en moet hulle meer duidelik omskryf word. Dus word daar aanbeveel dat sommige van die aanwysers gekombineer moet word om duplikasie en verwarring te voorkom. Oor die algemeen kan die Beplanning Aanwysers Model help om die impak van ruimtelike beplanning op die Kaapse Metropolitaanse Gebied te bevorder.

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Ahmed, Manik. "Assessing the Performance of Public-Private Partnership Highway Projects: From Anecdotes to Comprehensive Evidence". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104104.

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Over roughly the last three decades, governments worldwide have implemented public private partnerships (P3s) to mobilize both private funds and public resources to develop transportation infrastructure, which has provided private entities contemporary opportunities to design, finance, construct, operate and maintain these important assets. Typically, P3s are large and complex undertakings that involve and impact many stakeholders, including public officials, financiers, builders, business owners and taxpaying citizens. Consequently, their efficacy depends – to a great extent – on how well they meet the interests of this array of stakeholders. Hence, effective assessment of P3s is crucial to determine whether these infrastructure initiatives and project outcomes satisfy these stakeholders' interests throughout a P3's life-cycle. Researchers and practitioners have considered various aspects of P3s when considering their performance. In general, the current research landscape related to P3 performance includes two major areas: (1) the identification and implementation of critical success factors (CSFs) and key performance indicators (KPIs), and (2) the development of frameworks that conceptualize approaches to measure P3 performance. Numerous studies have focused on CSFs that are the "ingredients" of effective P3s. More recent studies have emphasized KPIs that are metrics to assess them. Alternatively, some research has taken a life-cycle approach to propose approaches for P3 evaluation that are more comprehensive than assessments of P3 delivery time and cost. While this research has produced useful insights, limited emphasis has been placed on assessing P3 performance comprehensively and beyond the public and private sector dichotomy. Therefore, this research develops a framework that identifies and assesses key stakeholder interests in P3s as a means to characterize their performance. Subsequently, this framework was employed in a case study of four P3 projects to evaluate how well these cases met stakeholder expectations and ultimately performed. The research to develop the framework and conduct the case study was organized in three integrated studies. The first study employed a systematic literature review of CSFs and KPIs where the extant literature remains largely segmented and fragmented. Synthesis of the literature helped to identify and characterize various CSFs and KPIs and their current employment within the P3 performance domain. This led to the development of a CSF-KPI framework that integrates these factors and indicators throughout a P3 project's lifecycle. The outcome of the first study served as the foundation for the second study where the framework to assess stakeholders' interests was constructed. In this process, the second study followed a systematic approach by integrating key components to assess performance. The development process involved several key steps: (1) identification of the key stakeholders – specifically the state (elected bodies and executive agencies), investors (equity providers), producers (project service providers) and users/citizens (individuals or groups impacted by a project); (2) characterization of their principal interests; (3) selection of indicators of these interests; (4) linkage of the indicators with 11 performance dimensions ranging from project environment to revenue and operations; and (5) connection of the performance dimensions with four levels of performance: planning, project management, business, and future potential. The framework was demonstrated and substantiated using data from the I-495 Capital Beltway Express project. The application confirmed the replicability of the framework. The final study utilized the framework to evaluate P3s effectiveness in serving stakeholders goals and objectives. A multiple case study was conducted of four P3 highway projects in the United States: I-495 Capital Beltway Express, LBJ Expressway, SR 125 (South Bay Expressway), and SH 130 (5and6) to examine the extent that state, investor, producer, and user/citizen interests were fulfilled. Overall, I-495 and LBJ Expressway met stakeholder interests more effectively than SR 125 and SH 130 (5and6); these two cases had stronger planning, project management, and business performance. Notably, the I-495 case was an unsolicited (or market lead) proposal that followed a collaborative planning process to shape and define the project to meet mutual interests while the LBJ Expressway case utilized a competitive best-value procurement to generate an innovative technical solution that reduced the project's cost and footprint. Whereas SR 125 and SH 130 (5and6) experienced various issues that led to their bankruptcy; the new owners of both projects have taken steps to improve their outlook. Overall, the research deepens understanding of the factors that impact stakeholder interests and their expectations of P3s, presents a holistic framework for P3 assessments, and provides evidence of how well multiple P3s performed, moving beyond conceptual frameworks that are currently found in the literature.
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Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) have been adopted extensively to facilitate the development of transportation infrastructure. The need for more efficient and effective P3 projects makes performance assessment increasingly important, especially with respect to stakeholder interests and expectations. Also, effective and efficient assessment of P3 performance is crucial to determine whether this infrastructure development strategy meets owners and stakeholders needs throughout the P3 project lifecycle. The absence of an effective and comprehensive approach to evaluate P3 performance can result in reliance on anecdotal evidence, which may inaccurately portray the outcomes of these projects. While numerous studies have examined multiple facets of P3s over the last two decades, limited emphasis has been placed on comprehensively assessing their performance. Consequently, the purpose of this research is to advance the state of knowledge of P3 project performance in the transportation sector. To realize this purpose, this dissertation performed three integrated studies. The first study examined the current literature to identify factors that influence P3 outcomes and metrics that measure them. The second study developed a performance assessment framework, which captures various phases of a project's life cycle and considers the perspectives and objectives of the range of stakeholders involved in or impacted by P3s. Further, the framework was demonstrated and substantiated using data from the I-495 Capital Beltway Express project. Finally, the third study examined four cases in the US market – I-495, LBJ Expressway, SR 125 (South Bay Expressway), and SH 130 (5and6) – to examine to what extent state, investor, producer, and user/citizen interests were fulfilled. The case study illustrated that I-495 and LBJ Expressway met stakeholder interests more effectively than SR 125 and SH 130 (5and6); I-495 and LBJ Expressway fulfilled their implementation, financial and service expectations whereas SR 125 and SH 130 (5and6) experienced implementation issues and financial distress. Overall, these studies support improved understanding of the factors that impact stakeholder interests in P3s and provide evidence of how well four P3s projects performed over time.

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Fauconnier, Justine. "Developing indicators of emotional school readiness of South African children and possible therapeutic use thereof". Diss., Pretoria : [S.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09122005-133806/.

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Rolfsdotter, Karlsson Annika. "Managing Performance Measurement : A study of how to select and implement performance measures on a strategic, tactical and operational level". Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Technology and Built Environment, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-662.

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The main purpose of this study is to define important criteria to consider when selecting and implementing performance measures on a strategic, tactical and operational level. The thesis is built around the questions "What to measure" and "How to measure". Generally within the thesis the question of "what" concerns different frameworks and working procedures that can be used to determine what to measure, while the question of "how" concerns criteria to consider when implementing performance measures, such as how to design measure formulas and targets, how to communicate measures, etc.

The study has been conducted as a qualitative study, where the empirical data has been collected through interviews and by using information material from the case company. The purpose of the case study was to test the theoretical framework. The studied case company was Sandvik Process Systems, a product area within the Sandvik group. The case study was complemented by two minor comparative studies of companies also belonging to the Sandvik group. In total the study comprised interviews with 15 persons within different organizational levels.

Several different frameworks aiming to help organizations to answer the question of what to measure have been developed during the last decades. The frameworks differ more or less, but theorists appear to agree on several matters. My conclusions of the most important criteria to be taken into consideration when answering the question of what to measure is:

* Complement the outcome measures, i.e. the financial measures that show the results from past efforts, by pro-active performance drivers - the measures that drive the future performance

* Ensure linkage between performance measures and company vision and strategic objectives

* Involve the co-workers in the process of developing measures

* Use an overall comprehensive view and methodic approach

* Limit the amount of measures

* Retain the methodic approach – manage the performance measurement system

After answering the question of what to measure there are also a number of important criteria to consider when it comes to how to measure and implement measures into the organization:

* Define measure purposes

* Assign reasonable targets to the measures

* Consider the field of application when designing a performance measure

* Communicate the performance measures

* Specify the measures

Despite attempting to simplify a complicated reality the frameworks aiming to help organizations to select measures are all rather complex. Hence, to develop and implement a PMS (Performance Measurement System) by the book will imply an extensive project for any company. How time- and resource demanding the project will become will differ from one company to another. Thus, a general conclusion of this study is that a company must start out from its own conditions in order for the development and implementation not to become too complex a project, where the organization loses focus and fails to manage the project all the way through.

Companies must consider factors such as the size and complexity of the organization, how the business is controlled and managed as well as the structure and control of an already existing PMS. For large organizations, already possessing a rather unstructured PMS, the best approach could be to look upon the development as a constantly on-going activity in the spirit of continuous improvements, rather than a complex project running over a limited time. A vital success factor is also to communicate the intentions to the whole organization at an early stage. If the whole organization is aware of the intention and the purpose this will facilitate the process of developing and implementing a successful PMS.

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Khalaf, Soran, e Jonathan Bjerkensjö. "Confidential Construction Project : An Explorative-Comparative Study Between Conventional and Confidential Construction Projects". Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297792.

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The definition of a project is that an individual or group of individuals carries out a work that results in a unique product or service. What is usually discussed in both the media and in the construction industry is the type of project that you can talk about. In this study, this is called conventional construction projects. There are also projects that you are not allowed to talk about and that must be kept secret for various reasons. These can, for example, be based on protecting national interests. In these projects, integrity is one of the most important parameters to keep track of from a management perspective. This study examines the work methodology in this area of the Swedish construction industry. The study is based on traditional project management theory and begins with a review of concepts such as critical success factors (CSF), the distinction between confidentiality and conventionality, key performance indicators (KPI) and the classic iron triangle. The study's question is whether these concepts appear and are applied differently in confidential construction projects compared to conventional ones. Are there any activities that are of utmost importance that they are carried out for a confidential project to be considered successful? The study was conducted as a qualitative, abductive study where information was obtained through semi-structured interviews. In total, eleven interviews were conducted with individuals who participated in some form of confidential construction project. All respondents have represented construction contractors during their time in confidential construction projects. The conclusion after the completed analysis of the interviews shows that confidential projects do not differ significantly in terms of project structure. On the other hand, this type of project is characterized by a much higher degree of accuracy regarding planning and implementation than a comparable conventional construction project.
Definitionen av ett projekt är att en enskild eller grupp av individer genomför ett arbete som resulterar i en, på något sätt, unik produkt eller tjänst. Vad som vanligtvis diskuteras i både media och i byggbranschen är den typ av projekt som du faktiskt får prata om. I denna studie kallas detta för konventionella byggprojekt. Det finns även projekt som du inte får prata om och som måste hållas hemliga av olika anledningar. Dessa kan exempelvis vara grundade i nationella skyddsintressen. I dessa projekt är integritet en av de viktigaste parametrarna att hålla koll på ur ett ledningsperspektiv. Denna studie undersöker arbetsmetodiken inom detta område i byggbranschen. Studien tar avstamp från traditionell projektledningsteori, och inleds med en genomgång av koncept såsom kritiska framgångsfaktorer (CSF), distinktionen mellan konfidentialitet och konventionalitet, nyckeltal (KPI) samt den klassiska järntriangeln. Studiens frågeställning är om dessa begrepp ter sig och tillämpas annorlunda i konfidentiella byggprojekt jämfört med konventionella. Är det några aktiviteter som är av yttersta vikt att de genomförs för att ett konfidentiellt projekt ska anses vara framgångsrikt? Studien har genomförts som en kvalitativ, abduktiv studie där informationsinhämtningen har skett genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Totalt har ett antal om elva intervjuer genomförts med individer som deltagit inom någon form av konfidentiellt byggprojekt. Samtliga respondenter har representerat byggentreprenörer under deras tid i konfidentiella byggprojekt. Slutsatsen efter den genomförda analysen av intervjuerna visar att konfidentiella projekt inte skiljer sig avsevärt mycket sett till struktur på projektet. Däremot karakteriseras denna typ av projekt av en mycket högre grad av noggrannhet avseende planering och genomförande än ett jämförbart konventionellt byggprojekt.

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Twort, Lauren. "Peace and recovery : witnessing lived experience in Sierra Leone". Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2015. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Peace-and-recovery(a8b5d351-0d32-495d-931d-36c5a1551647).html.

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A critical re-examination of the liberal peace is conducted to explore the ways in which certain ideas around peace have come to dominate and to be regarded as “common sense”. The foundation of my critique comes in the personalisation of peacebuilding through the stories of people who are the intended beneficiaries of its actions. This thesis seeks to open up and challenge the current measures of success and the location of power by introducing voices and experiences of Mende people located in the Southern and Eastern provinces of Sierra Leone. I have attempted to open up a reflexive space where simple questions can be re-examined and the location of recovery can be seen as a space influenced, shaped and performed in the context of diverse influences. I draw on my personal experience living in Bo, Sierra Leone for two months in 2014 and local level actors' subjective reflections on individual and communal notions of recovery, post-conflict. My findings are reflected in “building blocks” that uncover a partial story of personal perspectives on recovery. The story suggests a de-centred and complex “local” within the existing context and realigns the understanding of subject and agency within peacebuilding. This collection of experiences, stories and encounters reshapes the notion of peace as an everyday activity with the aim of improving well-being on a personal level. It is also a part of the peacebuilding process that exists outside of the traditional organisational lens. My main contribution has been in allowing alternative space(s) of peacebuilding and peace-shaping to have a platform that is not restricted by the confined epistemic “expert” community toward an understanding of “progress” as an experiential and subjective process of recovery. This approach sought to challenge the current site of legitimacy, power and knowledge, and in order to achieve this aim I drew on a new methodological toolkit and the absorption of key concepts from other disciplines such as managerialism and the sociological concept of the “stranger”. My research offers an opportunity to observe and utilise information sourced from the creativity and spontaneity of the everyday lived experiences of Sierra Leoneans and ordinary phenomena connected with this.

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Rizzatti, Émerson Oliveira. "Fatores críticos de sucesso para incubadoras: uma análise de incubadoras instaladas no Rio Grande do Sul". Universidade Federal do Pampa, 2018. http://dspace.unipampa.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riu/2964.

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O ambiente competitivo internacional em que estão imersas as atividades produtivas está baseado na capacitação tecnológica, na inovação, na flexibilidade e nas mudanças constantes e aceleradas. Tal cenário exige mudanças nas estratégias dos agentes econômicos e um aumento na participação do Estado no apoio aos sistemas produtivos regionais visando sua inovação e o seu desenvolvimento sustentável. Por isso, muitos governos investem na criação e manutenção de incubadoras de empresas, buscando fomentar o empreendedorismo, dar suporte aos empreendedores nos anos inicias do negócio e incentivar o desenvolvimento tecnológico de regiões ao redor do mundo. No entanto, o êxito das incubadoras e das empresas nelas incubadas é inter-relacionado e influenciado por diversos fatores, com dimensões internas e externas, estáticas e dinâmicas, táticas e estratégicas, organizacionais e técnicas, que influenciam diretamente na gestão e que garantem a sustentabilidade das organizações. O presente estudo, de caráter exploratório-descritivo, objetivou investigar a influência dos Fatores Críticos de Sucesso (FCS) no desempenho de incubadoras de empresas do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Após a revisão da literatura, foram identificados 33 FCS para as incubadoras. Esses FCS foram transcritos como perguntas no instrumento de coleta de dados para a entrevista com os 19 gestores de incubadoras de empresas em funcionamento no Estado. Na entrevista, além de identificar a percepção dos gestores com relação ao nível de prática de cada um dos FCS, também foram questionados os valores de 5 indicadores de desempenho das incubadoras para os anos de 2012 a 2016. Visando alcançar o objetivo específico de analisar a influência dos Fatores Críticos de Sucesso mais praticados sobre o desempenho de incubadoras de empresas do Rio Grande do Sul, foi aplicada como técnica o cálculo do coeficiente de correlação de Pearson para cada FCS em comparação com os 5 indicadores de desempenho. Após a realização das quarenta análises, não foi encontrada nenhuma correlação com valor significativo, o que indica que não é possível afirmar, que as oito categorias de Fatores Críticos de Sucesso exerçam influência sobre os cinco indicadores de desempenho das incubadoras estudadas. Esse fato pode ser explicado pelo pouco tempo de existência das incubadoras, pois 37% delas tinham quatro anos ou menos de atividades na data desta pesquisa, ou seja, essas incubadoras tiveram pouco tempo de colocar em prática muitos dos FCS aqui questionados, já que, de acordo com Dornelas (2002) o tempo médio de duração do ciclo de uma empresa dentro de uma incubadora é de 2 a 4 anos. Por outro lado, pode-se dizer que, de modo geral, o desenvolvimento dos FCS das incubadoras gaúchas é ainda inicial, pois poucas se avaliaram como tendo processos bem implementados e maduros dentre aqueles que foram avaliados. Mesmo assim, a questão de pesquisa foi respondida e os resultados apontam que três categorias de FCS apresentaram os maiores níveis de prática nas cinco incubadoras com as maiores médias nos indicadores de desempenho, sendo eles: Localização, Pré-Incubação e Graduação.
The international competitive environment in which productive activities are embedded is based on technological empowerment, innovation, flexibility and constant and accelerated change. Such scenario requires changes in the strategies of the economic agents and an increase in the participation of the State in the support to the regional productive systems aiming its innovation and its sustainable development. Therefore, many governments invest in the creation and maintenance of business incubators, seeking to foster entrepreneurship, support entrepreneurs in the early years of the business and encourage the technological development of regions around the world. However, the success of business incubators and incubated companies is interrelated and influenced by a number of factors, with internal and external dimensions, static and dynamic, tactical and strategic, organizational and technical, that directly influence management and ensure sustainability of organizations. This exploratory-descriptive study aimed to investigate the influence of Critical Success Factors (CSFs) on the performance of business incubators in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. After reviewing the literature, 33 CSFs were identified for the business incubators. These CSFs were transcribed as questions in the data collection instrument for the interview with the 19 incubator managers that are operating in the State. In the interview, in addition to identifying the managers' perception regarding the level of practice of each of the CSF, the values of 5 performance indicators of the incubators for the years 2012 to 2016 were also questioned. Aiming at reaching the specific objective of analyzing the influence of the most practiced CSFs on the performance of business incubators in Rio Grande do Sul, the Pearson’s correlation coefficient calculation for each CSF was applied as a technique in comparison with the 5 performance indicators. After the forty analyzes, no correlation with significant value was found, which indicates that it is not possible to affirm that the eight categories of Critical Success Factors influence the five performance indicators of the incubators studied. This fact can be explained by the short time of existence of the business incubators, since 37% of them had four years or less of activities at the time of this research, ie, these incubators had little time to put into practice many of the CSFs questioned here, according to Dornelas (2002) the average time of the cycle of a company within an incubator is 2 to 4 years. On the other hand, it can be said that, in general, the development of the CSFs of the incubators in the State of Rio Grande do Sul is still an initial one, as few have been evaluated as having well-implemented and mature processes among those that were evaluated. Even so, the research question was answered and the results show that three categories of CSFs presented the highest levels of practice in the five incubators with the highest averages in the performance indicators, being: Location, Pre-Incubation and Graduation.

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Ly, Thuy M. "Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater in Vietnam: An Overview and Analysis of the Historical, Cultural, Economic, and Political Parameters in the Success of Various Mitigation Options". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/41.

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Although arsenic is naturally present in the environment, 99% of human exposure to arsenic is through ingestion. Throughout history, arsenic is known as “the king of poisons”; it is mutagenic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic. Even in smaller concentrations, it accumulates in the body and takes decades before any physical symptoms of arsenic poisoning shows. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the safe concentration of arsenic in drinking water is 10 µg/L. However, this limit is often times ignored until it is decades too late and people begin showing symptoms of having been poisoned. This is the current situation for Vietnam, whose legal arsenic concentration limit is 50 µg/L, five times higher than the WHO guidelines. Groundwater in Vietnam was already naturally high in arsenic due to arsenic-rich soils releasing arsenic into groundwater. Then, in the past half century, with the use of arsenic-laden herbicides dispersed during the Vietnam War and subsequent industrial developments, the levels of bio-available arsenicals has dangerously spiked. With the proliferation of government-subsidized shallow tube-wells in the past two decades, shallow groundwater has become the primary source for drinking and irrigation water in Vietnam. This is a frightening trend, because this groundwater has arsenic concentrations up to 3050 µg/L, primarily in the +3 and +5 oxidation states, the most readily available oxidation states for bioaccumulation. This thesis argues that measures must be taken immediately to remedy the high concentration of arsenic in groundwater, which in Vietnam is the primary and, in some cases, the sole source of water for domestic consumption and agricultural production. Although there are numerous technologies available for treating arsenic in groundwater, not all of them are suited for Vietnam. By analyzing the historical, cultural, economic, and political parameters of Vietnam, several optimal treatments of groundwater for drinking water emerged as most recommended, a classification that is based on their local suitability, social acceptability, financial feasibility, and governmental support. Further research on irrigation water treatment is proposed due to the need for sustainable crop production, the safe ingestion of rice and vegetables, and the continued growth of Vietnam’s economy, which is heavily dependent on agriculture.

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Matusse, Joana Manuel. "Análise de projetos agrícolas do fundo distrital de desenvolvimento em Chibuto, Moçambique". Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2013. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/150.

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This research examines the implementation of agricultural projects benefited from the District Development Fund (FDD), taking as if the District of Chibuto, Mozambique. Considering the characteristics of the country, the relevance of the FDD and the need to have a higher rate of payment of these projects highlights the need to study these projects, despite their increased over the years, has led to low rates compared financial resources to pay the FDD. Therefore, compromises the multiplier effect of these financial resources that should benefit more community development projects. For the preparation of this paper was applied to semi-structured interview managers FDD District and the methodology was used "snowball" in the selection of farmers interviewed, where the inclusion of informants was progressive as one respondent indicated behalf of another interviewee. Applied questionnaire with closed and open questions about the implementation of the projects. It was found that most farmers and agricultural associations are delinquent on the payment of the FDD, even with money incomes satisfactory and that some aspects of technical, institutional and human influence in the payment of the FDD. It is imperative to recast the management mechanisms FDD accompanied by other public policies.
O presente trabalho analisa a implementação de projetos agrícolas beneficiados pelo Fundo Distrital de Desenvolvimento (FDD), tomando como caso o Distrito de Chibuto, Moçambique. Considerando as características do país, a relevância do FDD e a necessidade de se ter uma maior taxa de pagamento desses projetos, destaca-se a necessidade do estudo desses projetos. Apesar de seu aumento ao logo dos anos, a taxa de adimplência do pagamento dos recursos financeiros do FDD é baixa o que compromete o efeito multiplicador desses recursos financeiros que deveriam beneficiar mais projetos de desenvolvimento comunitário. Para a elaboração do trabalho foi aplicada entrevista semi-estruturada aos gestores do FDD do Distrito e foi usada a metodologia bola de neve na seleção dos agricultores entrevistados, onde a inclusão de informantes foi progressiva à medida que um entrevistado indicou nome de outro entrevistado. Aplicou-se questionário contendo perguntas fechadas e abertas sobre a implementação dos projetos. Constatouse que a maioria dos agricultores familiares e associações agrícolas estão inadimplentes em relação ao pagamento do FDD, mesmo com rendas monetárias satisfatórias e que alguns fatores de natureza técnica, institucional e humano influenciam no pagamento do FDD. É imperativa a necessidade de reformulação dos mecanismos de gestão do FDD acompanhada de outras políticas públicas.

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Foss, Carol Rolfe. "Nesting Success as an Indicator of Habitat Quality for Forest Songbirds". Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/FossCR2004.pdf.

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Bushell, Roland Allessandro. "The Labour Party and its statecraft : the indicator of success or failure?" Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503255.

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Stockham, Ty. "CALCULUS REMEDIATION AS AN INDICATOR FOR SUCCESS ON THE CALCULUS AP EXAM". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/898.

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This study investigates the effects of implementing a remediation program in a high school Advanced Placement Calculus AB course on student class grades and success in passing the AP Calculus AB exam. A voluntary remediation program was designed to help students understand the key concepts and big ideas in beginning Calculus. Over a period of eight years the program was put into practice and data on student participation and achievement was collected. Students who participated in this program were given individualized recitation activities targeting their specific misunderstandings, and then given an opportunity to retest on chapter exams that they had taken prior to remediation. Students were able to improve their scores on the original chapter exams and their grade in the class by demonstrating a greater understanding of the material after participating in the remediation sessions. This process was repeated for all chapter exams given during the academic year. In this study, a data analysis comparing the percent gain, after remediation, in each student’s overall class grade to their AP Calculus AB exam scores was conducted. Additionally, AP Calculus AB exam scores of students enrolled in these classes were compared to AP Calculus AB exam scores globally both pre and post implementation of the remediation program. The results of this study demonstrate that there is a substantial positive correlation between student participation in the remediation program and greater success on the AP Calculus AB exam. The average AP Calculus AB score for the students enrolled in AP Calculus AB during the eight-year period of implementing the remediation program increased by over 9%.

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Fonseca, Carolina Alves. "Frames e discurso discente – desvelando indicadores de sucesso em um projeto de dramaturgia". Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1141.

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CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Este trabalho dissertativo - vinculado ao macroprojeto Práticas de Oralidade e Cidadania (MIRANDA, 2007/ - ; FAPEMIG - APQ- 02405-09; PNPD/CAPES, 2011-2014; PPG Linguística/UFJF) e ao projeto Lexicográfico FrameNet Brasil (http://www.ufjf.br/framenetbr/) em sua linha Frames e Cidadania - objetiva mapear, a partir da perspectiva discente, os indicadores de sucesso presentes em um projeto de dramaturgia de uma escola pública na periferia de Juiz de Fora – MG reconhecida por gestores e professores pelo sucesso de seus projetos. Uma segunda meta investigativa da pesquisa consiste no aprofundamento de uma proposta de análise do discurso ancorada na categoria frame, bem como no modelo de anotação de texto corrido no Desktop da FrameNet Brasil. A base de dados constituiu-se por documentação em áudio (e posterior transcrição) de entrevistas semiestruturadas (LABOV, 2008 [1972]) com os alunos do 6º ano que participam do referido projeto de teatro (total de 7 participantes), antecedidas de um processo de imersão na comunidade investigada (6 meses, totalizando 15 visitas) registrado em um diário de campo. Esta pesquisa elegeu como metodologia o estudo de caso (YIN, 2001) em uma abordagem mista, adotando procedimentos analíticos quantitativos e qualitativos (SCHWANDT, 2006). As escolhas teóricas centram-se nas contribuições da Linguística Cognitiva (LAKOFF, 1987; FELDMAN, 2006; GEERAERS & CUYCKENS, 2007; CROFT & CRUSE, 2004; SALOMÃO, 2012) e em seu principal modelo semântico: a Semântica de Frames (FILLMORE 1982, 1895, 2007; RUPPENHOFER et al, 2010; SALOMÃO, 2009) e seu projeto de anotação lexicográfica FrameNet (www.framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). Para análise hermenêutica, valemo-nos da Sociologia (BAUMAN, 2007, 2008; JARES, 2004); da Filosofia Educacional (PRAIRAT, 2011; FREIRE, 2011; ARAGON & DIEZ, 2004); da Antropologia Evolucionista (TOMASELLO, 1999, 2003); além dos distintos olhares no campo da Ética e da educação cidadã (CLARCK, 1996; LA TAILLE, 2008, 2006; TOGNETTA & VINHA, 2008; COSTA, 2004; RIBAS, s.d; MIRANDA, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012; ULISSES, 2008; PEREIRA, 2004; ROCHA, 2008); que nos auxiliaram na compreensão dos indicadores de sucesso desvelados nos resultados analíticos. A análise de dados desenvolveu-se a partir do conceito de frame, que nos permitiu identificar de maneira segura as perspectivas instauradas pelo discurso discente. Sendo assim, foi possível estabelecerem-se duas redes hierárquicas de frames: uma cujo macroframe é Agir_intencionalmente (86 ocorrências – 74% do total) e outra relacionada aos frames Atributos_graduáveis e Comunicação (25 ocorrências – 26% do total). O exercício hermenêutico interdisciplinar dessas redes permite-nos afirmar que o professor de artes cênicas, de acordo com o discurso discente, conquista sua autoridade, em tempo de autoridade perdida, a partir: (i) da autoria de sua prática; (ii) do protagonismo juvenil e (iii) da afetividade. Os resultados, portanto, apontam caminhos para a superação da crise da sala de aula vivenciada atualmente e revelam significativo comprometimento dos alunos com o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de que são partícipes.
This dissertation project – bridged to the macro project Citizenship and orality practices (Práticas de Oralidade e Cidadania, MIRANDA, 2007/ - ; FAPEMIG - APQ- 02405-09; PNPD/CAPES, 2011-2014; PPG Linguística/UFJF) and to the lexicographic project FrameNet Brazil (http://www.ufjf.br/framenetbr/) in its lines Frames and Citizenship - it aims to mapping, through the student body, the indices of success found in a public school in the outskirts of Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais, acknowledged by administrators and teachers by the achievements in their projects. A second investigative goal of the research is the further development of a discourse analysis proposition anchored in the frame category, as well as the note-taking model on FrameNet Brazil Desktop. The database was made of audio files (and further transcription) of semi-structured interviews (LABOV, 2008 [1972]) with students from the 6th year taking part in the aforementioned theater project (seven participants total), preceded by an immersion process in the investigated community (fifteen visitations in six months) logged in a journal. This research has chosen the case study as methodology (YIN, 2001) in a mixed approach, taking both quantitative and qualitative analytical procedures (SCHWANDT, 2006). The theoretical choices are focused on the Cognitive Linguistics contributions (LAKOFF, 1987; FELDMAN, 2006; GEERAERS & CUYCKENS, 2007; CROFT & CRUSE, 2004; SALOMÃO, 2012) and its main semantic model: Frames Semantics (FILLMORE 1982, 1895, 2007; RUPPENHOFER et al, 2010; SALOMÃO, 2009) and its lexicographic project for noting FrameNet (www.framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). For the hermeneutic analysis, we based on the contributions of Sociology (BAUMAN, 2007, 2008; JARES, 2004); Educational Philosophy (PRAIRAT, 2011; FREIRE, 2011; ARAGON & DIEZ, 2004); Evolutionist Anthropology (TOMASELLO, 1999, 2003); and also the unique view on Ethics and citizenry education (CLARCK, 1996; LA TAILLE, 2008, 2006; TOGNETTA & VINHA, 2008; COSTA, 2004; RIBAS, s.d; MIRANDA, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012; ULISSES, 2008; PEREIRA, 2004; ROCHA, 2008); that have aided in the understanding of the success indicators unveiled on analytical results. The data analysis came through the concept of frame, which has allowed safely identification of the drawn perspectives on the student body. Being so, it was possible to establish two hierarchical frames networks: one which macroframe is Intencionally_act (86 occurrences – 74% total) and another related to frames Graduables_atributes and Comunication (25 ocurrences – 26% total). The hermeneutic interdisciplinary exercise from these networks allows saying that the Arts professor, in the course of his teaching career, has created a particular methodology that lies on valuing his student. Thus, he acquires his authority, in times of authority loss, through: (i) the authoring of his practice; (ii) the youth protagonism and (iii) affectivity. The results, therefore, lead to ways of overcoming classroom crysis currently seen and show substantial commitment from the students to the teaching/learning process they are taking part.

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Fox, Mairi-Jane Venesky. "Designing for Economic Success: A 50-State Analysis of the Genuine Progress Indicator". ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/679.

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The use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the primary measure of economic progress has arguably led to unintended consequences of environmental degradation and socially skewed outcomes. The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) was designed to reveal the trade offs associated with conventional economic growth and to assess the broader impact of economic benefits and costs on sustainable human welfare. Although originally designed for use at the national scale, an interest has developed in the United States in a state-level uptake of the GPI to inform and guide policy. However, questions exist about the quality and legitimacy of the GPI as a composite indicator. These questions include concerns about the underlying assumptions, the monetary weights and variables used, statistical rigor, magnitude of data collection required, and lack of a transparent governance mechanism for the metric. This study aims to address these issues and explore the GPI through a design-thinking lens as both a design artifact and intervention. The leading paper in this dissertation offers the first GPI accounting for all 50 U.S. states. State GPI results are introduced and compared to Gross State Product (GSP). Then an analysis of the components to GPI reveals which drive the differences in outcomes, including examining the sustainability aspects of the state-level results. The second paper investigates the quality of the GPI as a composite indicator by testing its sensitivity to numerical assumptions and relative magnitudes of components, with particular attention to the possible unintended policy consequences of the design. The third paper seeks to answer the question of both efficiency (data parsimony) and effectiveness (comparatively to other indicators) by analysis of correlations between GPI components and with other state-level indicators such as the Gallup Well-Being Indicator, Ecological Footprint, and UN Human Development Index. To garner insight about possible GPI improvements, goals, and governance gaps in the informal U.S GPI network, the final paper dives into processes, outputs, and outcomes from the community of practice as revealed through a facilitated U.S. GPI workshop.

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O'Reilly-Bargate, Karen. "School matriculation as an indicator of success in an accounting programme at Technikon Natal". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10956.

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Bibliography: leaves 83-87.
The high failure rate of students at Technikons is of great concern to all who are involved in tertiary education. If the current entrance requirements, which are predominately based on matriculation results, are failing to select successful students, these entrance requirements need to be investigated to determine if they are accurate predictors of success. The research reviews the current entrance requirements to Accounting programmes offered at Technikon Natal, and tests the reliability of these requirements, namely matriculation results, as predictors of success in the programmes. Predictor variables such as overall matriculation results, individual subjects or combinations of subjects are considered. The research used students registered for an Accounting diploma at Technikon Natal from 1996 to 1998. The progress of these students was monitored over the period of three years required to complete the Accounting programmes. Overall matriculation results, measured by Swedish points, and subjects studied for matriculation were used to determine if a correlation exists between these results and the number of subjects passed in each year of study. The overall conclusion is that students who have 26 Swedish points and above and/or Accounting matriculation results of a HG-D or SG-C pass more subjects in each year of the three-year Accounting programme than those students who have not achieved these results. The concurrent study of Accounting, Mathematics and Economics was significant for the second and third year of study. A degree of caution is necessary here as students with lower results were also successful in the completion of the Accounting programmes within three years.

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