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Aiding Planning in Air Traffic Control: An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Perceptual Information Integration
(Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2002-09-01)
Prior research examined how controllers plan in their traditional environment and identified various information uncertainties as detriments to planning. A planning aid was designed to reduce this uncertainty by perceptually ...
The Boundary-spanning Role of Democratic Learning Communities: Implementing the IDEALS
(Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009-07-01)
This multi-case study investigates characteristics and practices in schools that expand the traditional boundaries of school leadership and transform schools into democratic learning communities based on the level of ...
Beliefs of Science Teachers Toward the Teaching of Science/Technological/Social Issues: Are We Addressing National Standards?
(Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2001-10-01)
As science educators, we must view the changing nature of society brought on by technology and the global nature of society as an impetus to reexamine the nature of science instruction. We have been bestowed with the ...
Transport Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions
(2007)
Characteristics of wireless sensor networks, specifically dense deployment, limited processing power, and limited power supply, provide unique design challenges at the transport layer. Message transmission between sensor ...
An Experimental Investigation of Applying Mica2 Motes in Pavement Condition Monitoring
(Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2009-01-01)
Pavement maintenance is vital for travel safety, thus detecting dangerous road conditions in a real-time fashion is desirable. Using an off-the-shelf wireless sensor network to detect such conditions at a low cost poses ...
Beyond the Search for Competition in Social Service Contracting: Procurement, Consolidation, and Accountability
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2009-03-01)
The authors argue it is time to move beyond thinking of competition in social service contracting simply in terms of whether competitive tendering procedures are used. Although the procurement process is important, other ...
Action Research as a Burnout Intervention: Reducing Burnout in the Federal Fire Service
(The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2006-06-01)
Despite a rapidly growing body of work on the nature of stress and burnout in organizations, relatively little research has been conducted to develop strategies for reducing burnout. In this article, we discuss collaborative ...
PROFESSIONAL VERSUS POLITICAL CONTEXTS: INSTITUTIONAL MITIGATION AND THE TRANSACTION COST HEURISTIC IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS OUTSOURCING.
(2006-09)
IS research has considered the outsourcing decision from the perspective of transaction cost economics (TCE) and institutional theory. In this research, we consider how the appropriation of the logic of transaction cost ...
One Hundred Years of Humor in American Advertising
(Journal of Macromarketing, 2005-06-01)
This study addresses a gap in the extensive scholarly literature on advertising humor by exploring advertisers’ uses of humor and explanations for its broad appeal as a message tactic throughout the previous century. The ...
College Students' Collaborative Use of Inspiration‚Ñ¢ to Generate Concept Maps in an Educational Technology Class
(Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2002-06-01)
Presented is a qualitative study of five groups of college students using Inspiration™ to construct concept maps in an educational technology class. Analyses addressed how the maps changed during the semester, how the ...