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ACCOUNTABILITY AND PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PROMISE, POTENTIAL, AND PITFALLS OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
(2013)
In recent years, performance based accountability regimes have become increasingly prevalent throughout government. This dissertation explores the role of performance data in higher education policymaking, both in terms ...
Bayesian Approaches to Detect and Mitigate Ground Clutter mixed with Weather Signals
(2013)
Ground clutter is a long standing issue in radar meteorology, considering that it can bring significant bias to the estimations of weather moments, polarimetric parameters, rainfall rate, hydrometeor identification, etc. ...
COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH THROUGHPUT SCANNING MICROSCOPY FOR METAPHASE CHROMOSOME IMAGING
(2013-12)
Specimen scanning is a critically important tool for diagnosing the genetic diseases in today’s hospital. In order to reduce the clinician’s work load, many investigations have been conducted on developing automatic sample ...
Analyzing the Human Sex Ratio at Birth
(2013-12-13)
The effect of income, education, employment, marital status, age, race, birth order, and national economic conditions on the sex ratio at birth were analyzed for the N = 21,597 children of the National Longitudinal Survey ...
Observations and Simulations of Polarimetric, X-Band Radar Signatures in Supercells
(2013)
Polarimetric weather radars, with the additional information collected, allow one to infer scatterer and precipitation properties considerably more easily than single-polarization radars. Given the relationship between the ...
APPLICATION OF THE LEARNING CYCLE IN MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2013)
This study was designed to compare factual knowledge retention and clinical skills outcomes of two different teaching designs: inquiry via the learning cycle and exposition via power point presentation. This research was ...
The Revival of Russia’s Gubernatorial Elections: Liberalization or Potemkin Reform?
(2013-11-18)
After an eight year pause, gubernatorial elections returned to Russia in 2012. Formerly appointed governors are now being put to the electoral test, and the Kremlin is discovering the extent to which it sacrificed effective ...
Ten Myths About Character, Virtue and Virtue Education - Plus Three Well-Founded Misgivings
(2013-04-30)
Initiatives to cultivate character and virtue in moral education at school continue to provoke sceptical responses. Most of those echo familiar misgivings about the notions of character, virtue and education in virtue – ...
Understanding the Nature and Impact of Business Models
(2013)
As business model centered research has grown significantly over the last decade, the focus has primarily been on establishing an initial understanding of the construct. Much of the existing research has focused on defining ...
Mannose-Binding Lectin 2 Gene and Risk of Adult Glioma
(PLos One, 2013-04-18)
Background and AimsThe immune system is likely to play a key role in the etiology of gliomas. Genetic polymorphisms in the mannose-binding lectin gene, a key activator in the lectin complement pathway, have been associated ...