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Software Process Control Without Calibration, Oussama El-Rawas
Software Process Control Without Calibration, Oussama El-Rawas
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Software process control is important for large enterprise since it is essential for software project management. Boehm [10, 12--15, 20] argues that the best way to do software process control is reusing old proven models (e.g. COCOMO for effort, COQUALMO for defects, etc) while tuning them to local data in order to obtain accurate estimates. This however suggests that historic data is available related to the use of these models in previous software projects. This is not the case, as the availability of relevant historic data related to the use of the above models in a specific software environment is …
Single Female Headed Household Unemployment, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Single Female Headed Household Unemployment, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Single Parent Headed Family Households, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Single Parent Headed Family Households, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Median Household Income In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Median Household Income In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Civilian Unemployment Rate, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Civilian Unemployment Rate, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Post Graduate Degree Holders, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Post Graduate Degree Holders, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Population That Speaks English "Not Well" Or "Not At All" Within Grand Rapids, Mi In 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Population That Speaks English "Not Well" Or "Not At All" Within Grand Rapids, Mi In 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Percentage Of Households Not Owning Vehicles In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Percentage Of Households Not Owning Vehicles In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Persons With High School Diploma Only In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Persons With High School Diploma Only In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Percentage Of Households Not Owning Vehicles In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Percentage Of Households Not Owning Vehicles In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Households Below The Poverty Line In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Households Below The Poverty Line In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
The Constant Cycle: Day To Day Critical Action Of The Quipped Project, Jennifer M. Medves, Sarita Verma, Teresa Broers
The Constant Cycle: Day To Day Critical Action Of The Quipped Project, Jennifer M. Medves, Sarita Verma, Teresa Broers
The Qualitative Report
Action research in the critical paradigm involves a process of continual refection in and on action including the research process itself. In the second in a series of several papers we report on the day-to-day management of the QUIPPED project. The aim was to facilitate patient centered care through inter-professional collaboration with health care learners at a Canadian university. Reflections of the continuum from early conceptualization of the project in 2004 through to lessons learned in 2008 are described. Key components include the importance of team development, overall coordination, and attention to logistical and structural issues are explored. The importance …
Making A Connection Between Student Achievement, Teacher Accountability, And Quality Classroom Instruction, Kelli Ballard, Alan Bates
Making A Connection Between Student Achievement, Teacher Accountability, And Quality Classroom Instruction, Kelli Ballard, Alan Bates
The Qualitative Report
The importance of standardized test results is becoming more prevalent in the structure of classroom instruction and the operation of schools throughout the nation due to pressure on educators and students from various levels of authority. This study looks at the relationship between classroom instruction and standardized test content and the effects this has on students, parents, and teachers. Seventeen fourth grade students, fourteen parents of fourth graders, and fifteen elementary teachers completed surveys. The study describes several positive and negative aspects to standardized tests, along with ideas of who is responsible for test performance. Standardized tests provide comparisons and …
Keeping And Using Reflective Journals In The Qualitative Research Process, Michelle Ortlipp
Keeping And Using Reflective Journals In The Qualitative Research Process, Michelle Ortlipp
The Qualitative Report
The problem of bias in qualitative research particularly is still debated in methodology texts and there is a lack of agreement on how much researcher influence is acceptable, whether or not it needs to be “controlled,” and how it might be accounted for. Denzin (1994) refers to this as “the interpretive crisis” (p. 501). I chose to make my experiences, opinions, thoughts, and feelings visible and an acknowledged part of the research process through keeping reflective journals and using them in writing up the research. The aim of this paper is to show how reflective journals were used in engaging …
Strategizing Routines On The Cusp Of Multiple And Competing Institutional Logics Of Foreign Aid, Jaime Chua
Strategizing Routines On The Cusp Of Multiple And Competing Institutional Logics Of Foreign Aid, Jaime Chua
Student Scholarship
Using critical realist research, we sought to understand how nonprofit organizations blend deliberate and emergent strategizing to cope with neoinstitutional dilemmas posed by donors' competing logics. To gain organizational legitimacy and access to resources, international nonprofits must conform to donors' normative processes and practices which tend to be ineffectual. An international nonprofit operating in the highly complex international development field provided an ideal setting for investigating how routines blend and moderate deliberate and emergent strategies. Consistent with the view that strategic insights come from different organizational levels, we examined key patterns of interactions and routines between middle and top-level managers. …
Bridging The Great Divide - Moving From Outsider To Insider: How For Profit Executives Become Effective Nonprofit Ceos, Antoinette E. La Belle
Bridging The Great Divide - Moving From Outsider To Insider: How For Profit Executives Become Effective Nonprofit Ceos, Antoinette E. La Belle
Student Scholarship
A leadership crisis in the nonprofit sector is portended by sector growth, turnover at the top and a smaller cohort of leaders coming up from behind. Crossovers from the corporate sector present an alternative source of CEO talent, but a dearth of empirical research about top executives who cross the boundaries of sector, organization, and, at times role, stymies our understanding of the transition process of for-profit to non-profit leaders. In depth interviews with U.S. nonprofit leaders--both crossover CEOs and CEOs hired from within the nonprofit sector--compared and contrasted transition experiences. Rather than significant differences between the two groups, our …
Ostensive And Performative Routines And Strategies For Institutional Adaptation And Innovation, Jaime Chua
Ostensive And Performative Routines And Strategies For Institutional Adaptation And Innovation, Jaime Chua
Student Scholarship
Using critical realist research, we sought to understand how nonprofit organizations blend deliberate and emergent strategizing to cope with neoinstitutional dilemmas posed by donors’ competing logics. To gain organizational legitimacy and access to resources, international nonprofits must conform to donors’ normative processes and practices which tend to be ineffectual. An international nonprofit operating in the highly complex international development field provided an ideal setting for investigating how routines blend and moderate deliberate and emergent strategies. Consistent with the view that strategic insights come from different organizational levels, we examined key patterns of interactions and routines between middle and top-level managers. …
The Relation Between Management's Perception Of Causal Ambiguity In Firm Competencies And Firm Performance: An Empirical Examination In Chile, Richard I. Araya
The Relation Between Management's Perception Of Causal Ambiguity In Firm Competencies And Firm Performance: An Empirical Examination In Chile, Richard I. Araya
Student Scholarship
Ambiguity about firm and competitor competencies and resources challenges managerial decision making − especially in developing countries where asymmetric information is higher than in the developed ones. Although a number of scholars have addressed “causal ambiguity” and its relationship with firm resources and competencies, and theorists have suggested a positive relationship between it and organizational performance, these links remain unclear. On one hand, ambiguity may protect a firm because competitors cannot easily imitate it (Alvarez & Antolin, 2005). On the other hand, causal ambiguity may impede imitation of valuable resources within the firm, limiting management ́s ability to manage resources …
The Link, Vol 2, No. 12, December 2008, Illinois State University, Center For Teaching, Learning, And Technology
The Link, Vol 2, No. 12, December 2008, Illinois State University, Center For Teaching, Learning, And Technology
The Link
Newsletter for the Illinois State University Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
No-Drama Obama: Personal Memoirs, Bestsellers, And Qualitative Research: A Review, Maureen Duffy
No-Drama Obama: Personal Memoirs, Bestsellers, And Qualitative Research: A Review, Maureen Duffy
The Qualitative Report
Personal memoirs and life histories are forms of qualitative research that from time to time appear on bestsellers lists. These forms of research detail the authors’ experiences of living and reflecting upon their everyday lives—lives that may be unique in some sense or lives made unique by the richness of the interplay of living, reflecting, and writing. In this review, I make the case for viewing moments in all lives as worthy of the development of personal memoir or life history and for using memoir as a way of generating takeaways or lessons learned. I review Elyn Saks’ (2007) memoir …
Sensory Isolation In Flotation Tanks: Altered States Of Consciousness And Effects On Well-Being, Anette Kjellgren, Fransica Lyden, Torsten Norlander
Sensory Isolation In Flotation Tanks: Altered States Of Consciousness And Effects On Well-Being, Anette Kjellgren, Fransica Lyden, Torsten Norlander
The Qualitative Report
A qualitative analysis (The Empirical Phenomenological Psychological method) of interviews involving eight patients (depression, burn-out syndrome, and chronic pain) was carried out in order to obtain knowledge regarding the effects of flotation tank therapy. This knowledge might be helpful for both professionals and potential floaters. The analysis resulted in 21 categories, which were summarized as four themes: (a) experiences during flotation, (b) perceived effects afterwards, (c) technical details, and finally (d) the participants ́ background, motivation, and expectations. Floating was perceived as pleasant. An altered state of consciousness was induced, varying from a milder state including profound relaxation and altered …
No Margin For Error: A Study Of Two Women Balancing Motherhood And Ph.D. Studies, Robin S. Grenier, Morag C. Burke
No Margin For Error: A Study Of Two Women Balancing Motherhood And Ph.D. Studies, Robin S. Grenier, Morag C. Burke
The Qualitative Report
This cogenerative ethnography explored the lived experiences of two graduate students balancing Ph.D. studies and motherhood through McClusky’s (1963) Theory of Margi n. Specifically, we asked ourselves: What impact does pregnancy have on personal and academic selves and how are multiple roles and responsibilities managed? Through an analysis of dialogues, artifacts, conceptual maps, and narratives, examples of internal and external lo ad revealed the dynamic nature of the female experiences in graduate school. Excerpts from the data showed how roles, relationships, and experiences are characterized and how similar or different those example s were, given individual context. Implications of this …
Population Density, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Population Density, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Female Headed Households Below The Poverty Line In 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Female Headed Households Below The Poverty Line In 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Single Female Headed Household Unemployment Rate, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Single Female Headed Household Unemployment Rate, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Median Individual Earnings In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Median Individual Earnings In 2000, Grand Rapids, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Population Below The Poverty Line, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Population Below The Poverty Line, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Single Female Headed Family Households, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Single Female Headed Family Households, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
Below 200 Percent Of The Poverty Line, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Below 200 Percent Of The Poverty Line, Grand Rapids, Mi 2000, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center
Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets
No abstract provided.
University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2008.12, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Affairs
University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2008.12, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Affairs
Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)
Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.