module guide 2010/11 - University of Warwick
... What does the web site cover? How useful is it to someone trying to find out about the organisation? What improvements would you suggest in either design or content? (This should be approximately 25-35 per cent of the report) ...
... What does the web site cover? How useful is it to someone trying to find out about the organisation? What improvements would you suggest in either design or content? (This should be approximately 25-35 per cent of the report) ...
After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research
... their “treatment of process-tracing as simply another means of increasing the number of observable implications of a theory. In fact, processtracing is fundamentally different from statistical analysis because it focuses on sequential processes within a particular historical case, not on correlation ...
... their “treatment of process-tracing as simply another means of increasing the number of observable implications of a theory. In fact, processtracing is fundamentally different from statistical analysis because it focuses on sequential processes within a particular historical case, not on correlation ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IR&D PROJECT DATA AND OF R&D INVESTMENT Frank Lichtenberg
... their model implies that development projects should exhibit increasing effort profiles, whereas projects subject to greater uncertainty as to their difficulty (such as basic research projects) would not necessarily do so, and might be expected to exhibit flatter (or even negatively sloped) profiles ...
... their model implies that development projects should exhibit increasing effort profiles, whereas projects subject to greater uncertainty as to their difficulty (such as basic research projects) would not necessarily do so, and might be expected to exhibit flatter (or even negatively sloped) profiles ...
Final Exam Study Guide Spring 2003 FAMR 380
... C. any extraneous variable is just as likely to affect one group as it is to affect the other. D. all of the above 63. Which one of the following statements would be appropriate for the method section of a research report? A. Past research shows men generally talk more than women. B. For men the ave ...
... C. any extraneous variable is just as likely to affect one group as it is to affect the other. D. all of the above 63. Which one of the following statements would be appropriate for the method section of a research report? A. Past research shows men generally talk more than women. B. For men the ave ...
slides
... Unfortunately these goals almost always con ict. • Types provide strong guarantees but restrict expressiveness. • Safety checks eliminate errors but have a cost—either at ...
... Unfortunately these goals almost always con ict. • Types provide strong guarantees but restrict expressiveness. • Safety checks eliminate errors but have a cost—either at ...
Lecture-23
... (bounded) by their ability to process information. – Assumptions are that decision makers: • Will not seek out or have knowledge of all alternatives • Will satisfice—choose the first alternative encountered that satisfactorily solves the problem—rather than maximize the outcome of their decision by ...
... (bounded) by their ability to process information. – Assumptions are that decision makers: • Will not seek out or have knowledge of all alternatives • Will satisfice—choose the first alternative encountered that satisfactorily solves the problem—rather than maximize the outcome of their decision by ...
Briefing: Managers and Management
... • The limitations included the difficulty for managers in problem situations and the fact that human behavior is complex. This complicated the problem for managers trying to use insights from the behavioral sciences which often changed when different behavioral scientists provided different solution ...
... • The limitations included the difficulty for managers in problem situations and the fact that human behavior is complex. This complicated the problem for managers trying to use insights from the behavioral sciences which often changed when different behavioral scientists provided different solution ...
Chapter 2: Management -- Past and Present
... – Scalar chain — there should be a clear and unbroken ...
... – Scalar chain — there should be a clear and unbroken ...
SYSTEM ACCEPTANCE ROLE IN ACTUAL USE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
... and creation of knowledge, including the development of new forms of communities, networks, or matrixed organisations (Calvin, 2005). However such tools for the most part are still based on text and code, and thus represent explicit knowledge transfer (McAdam and McCreedy, 2000). These tools face ch ...
... and creation of knowledge, including the development of new forms of communities, networks, or matrixed organisations (Calvin, 2005). However such tools for the most part are still based on text and code, and thus represent explicit knowledge transfer (McAdam and McCreedy, 2000). These tools face ch ...
Can and should educational research be educative
... universal and eternal, whereas the latter focus on what is changeable. And, since human social life is open to change, being at least in part a product of our actions, Aristotle argues that "domestic, legislative, and political science" (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1141b27) must be practical rath ...
... universal and eternal, whereas the latter focus on what is changeable. And, since human social life is open to change, being at least in part a product of our actions, Aristotle argues that "domestic, legislative, and political science" (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1141b27) must be practical rath ...
Fundamentals of Sampling Methods
... Stratified sampling • Population is partitioned in strata through control variables (stratification variables), closely related with the target variable, so that there is homogeneity within each stratum and heterogeneity between strata • A simple random sampling frame is applied in each strata of t ...
... Stratified sampling • Population is partitioned in strata through control variables (stratification variables), closely related with the target variable, so that there is homogeneity within each stratum and heterogeneity between strata • A simple random sampling frame is applied in each strata of t ...
Heavy-Tailed Behavior and Randomization in Proof Planning Andreas Meier Carla Gomes Erica Melis
... Heavy-Tailed Problems and Randomization Combinatorial search methods often exhibit a remarkable large variance in performance on problems of the same complexity c 2001, American Association for Artificial IntelliCopyright gence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. ...
... Heavy-Tailed Problems and Randomization Combinatorial search methods often exhibit a remarkable large variance in performance on problems of the same complexity c 2001, American Association for Artificial IntelliCopyright gence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. ...
CHAPTER 8
... After selecting either the complete questionnaire or the appropriate items for inclusion in the questionnaire to measure those concepts the researcher wants to measure, the researcher has to decide on the modes of eliciting information from the respondents and the modes of returning information (Bak ...
... After selecting either the complete questionnaire or the appropriate items for inclusion in the questionnaire to measure those concepts the researcher wants to measure, the researcher has to decide on the modes of eliciting information from the respondents and the modes of returning information (Bak ...
History of Mathematics in Germany, 1920 - 1960
... A crucial issue in systematic prosopography is the construction of a questionnaire about the relevant sample of persons that is (a) sufficiently informative for answering the historical questions raised and that can (b) be answered for each individual with reasonable effort. During the workshop, a c ...
... A crucial issue in systematic prosopography is the construction of a questionnaire about the relevant sample of persons that is (a) sufficiently informative for answering the historical questions raised and that can (b) be answered for each individual with reasonable effort. During the workshop, a c ...
Toward a social responsibility theory for educational research (in
... is based in different relationships, and has different ways of conceiving knowledge and its relations to practice”. Within this definition Reason and Bradbury contrast action research, like Eikeland (2008), with the normal science tradition in social sciences. Moreover in the additional remarks on t ...
... is based in different relationships, and has different ways of conceiving knowledge and its relations to practice”. Within this definition Reason and Bradbury contrast action research, like Eikeland (2008), with the normal science tradition in social sciences. Moreover in the additional remarks on t ...
TCF-59 - Exemplar Global
... Evidence required to demonstrate the operational effectiveness of a documented ITSMS is defined, using ISO20000:2005 as the reference, with omission or deviation justified, giving examples for specific business/industry sectors. ...
... Evidence required to demonstrate the operational effectiveness of a documented ITSMS is defined, using ISO20000:2005 as the reference, with omission or deviation justified, giving examples for specific business/industry sectors. ...
Document
... Big Data-some challenges for social science ▶ Big Data can mean a paradigm shift to data discovery science from hypothesis testing science. Implications for refereeing in grants and journals? ▶ For some social scientists, new inter-disciplinary opportunities arise from Big Data e.g. at the interfac ...
... Big Data-some challenges for social science ▶ Big Data can mean a paradigm shift to data discovery science from hypothesis testing science. Implications for refereeing in grants and journals? ▶ For some social scientists, new inter-disciplinary opportunities arise from Big Data e.g. at the interfac ...
Comparative research_final - (BORA)
... have never been taught how to conduct cross-national studies. We were trained in universities where the main focus was on sociological methodologies for studies within our own culture. Much of the discussion at the Research Council symposium centred on this issue, and it seemed as though we had all ...
... have never been taught how to conduct cross-national studies. We were trained in universities where the main focus was on sociological methodologies for studies within our own culture. Much of the discussion at the Research Council symposium centred on this issue, and it seemed as though we had all ...
Six strategies for mixing methods and linking data in social science
... does call for an explicit and considered theory of data integration. But problems can arise because methods, approaches, and the theories underpinning these, do not always add up to a consensual take on the social world, or what its constituent parts might be, nor how they fit together. Differences ...
... does call for an explicit and considered theory of data integration. But problems can arise because methods, approaches, and the theories underpinning these, do not always add up to a consensual take on the social world, or what its constituent parts might be, nor how they fit together. Differences ...
... H1: The mean of leadership, quality culture, improvement methods & human resource management are the same for all sizes of organizations. Ha1: The mean of leadership, quality culture, improvement methods & human resource management are not the same for at least two sizes of organizations. Research M ...
Decision Making Learning Objectives
... courses of actions to solve the problem. The time and costs it takes to search and discover possible solutions limits a decision-maker's search for alternatives. • Rate each alternative. This measures how well will each alternative achieves the criteria, and requires forecasting the probable impact ...
... courses of actions to solve the problem. The time and costs it takes to search and discover possible solutions limits a decision-maker's search for alternatives. • Rate each alternative. This measures how well will each alternative achieves the criteria, and requires forecasting the probable impact ...
SLA: to Sign or Not to Sign - Infoscience
... execute. Inspired by ethnography, contextual inquiry is a field qualitative datagathering approach. Applying contextual inquiry requires adopting an appropriate relationship model to interact with the practitioner, for which we always choose the master/apprentice relationship model [9]. In the maste ...
... execute. Inspired by ethnography, contextual inquiry is a field qualitative datagathering approach. Applying contextual inquiry requires adopting an appropriate relationship model to interact with the practitioner, for which we always choose the master/apprentice relationship model [9]. In the maste ...
Social science research and designs in Caribbean
... • social transfer mechanism causality-focused research strategy is the deductive approach to the relationship between theory and research, employing rigid norms of the natural sciences and the ontological view that reality is an external, objective entity (Bryman, 2004:19). This contrasts with non-p ...
... • social transfer mechanism causality-focused research strategy is the deductive approach to the relationship between theory and research, employing rigid norms of the natural sciences and the ontological view that reality is an external, objective entity (Bryman, 2004:19). This contrasts with non-p ...
Ch - Pearson Canada
... The values we would have obtained if we could accurately measure everyone in the population. Two factors affect the accuracy of our estimates: ...
... The values we would have obtained if we could accurately measure everyone in the population. Two factors affect the accuracy of our estimates: ...
A Constructive Heuristic for the Travelling Tournament Problem
... From the set of patterns, we select and combine those that lead to good quality solutions. In the optimisation step we improve the solutions with local search. Examples of the neighbourhood moves considered are: - swap the first and the last opponent team in a sequence of three, - swap entire sequen ...
... From the set of patterns, we select and combine those that lead to good quality solutions. In the optimisation step we improve the solutions with local search. Examples of the neighbourhood moves considered are: - swap the first and the last opponent team in a sequence of three, - swap entire sequen ...