Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2004. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 364-370). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 364-370). Also available on the Internet.

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 241-247).

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-177).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-152).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universiẗat Köln, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269).

Social networks have been used to understand how information flows through an organization as well as identifying individuals that appear to have control over this information flow. Such individuals are identified as being central nodes in a graph representation of the social network and have high "betweenness" values. Rather than looking at graphs derived from email, on-line forums, or telephone connections, we consider sequences of bipartite graphs that represent face-to-face meetings between individuals, and define a new metric to identify the information elite individuals. We show that, in our simulations, individuals that attend many meetings with many different people do not always have high betweenness values, even though they seem to be the ones that control the information flow. / Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This investigation happens with the paths of a researcher which, on meetings with the world, experiments intensities which move her places as a teacher. For so, actions which do not lead necessarily to learning, but to able cracks on crossed roles are lived, as long as collective agencements which make intensity traces pass. Starting on movements given in a specific time and place artistic intervention Waiting Moments, done inside an event called arte#ocupaSM a research which tries to escape those limits is developed, crossing other times and places, including the learning ones, and turning the act of waiting into a space of happenings. Authors as Deleuze, Guattari, Rolnik and Nietzsche bring indicatives to turn this research into paths of not knowing, of unexpected and multiple directions, lived in constant movements of nausea by the impossibility of fixing into a unique teacher place. By not having a unique place to settle, some unpredictable learning happens together with the dogs, the cracks and the rain. Through these, desires to know the world through timeless intensities resonate, knowing we do not choose data and learning to be researched, but we are chosen by them and we produce something with them. So the research allows discussions about the production of cracks on teacher s acting, counting with the unpredictability and uneasiness of raindrops and with the un-preoccupied commitment of dogs on a meet with daily happenings of an inhabited place. / Esta investigação acontece junto aos percursos de uma pesquisadora que, em encontros com o mundo, experimenta intensidades que movimentam seus lugares enquanto professora. Para tanto, são vivenciadas ações que não desembocam, necessariamente, em aprendizagens, mas que possibilitam fissuras nos papéis atravessados, bem como agenciamentos coletivos que fazem passar rastros de intensidades. Partindo de movimentos dados em um tempo e lugar específicos a intervenção artística Movimentos de Espera, realizada junto ao evento arte#ocupaSM desenvolve-se uma pesquisa que tenta escapar desses limites, atravessando outros tempos e lugares, inclusive os da aprendizagem, fazendo da espera um espaço de acontecimentos. Autores como Deleuze, Guattari, Rolnik e Nietzsche trazem indicativos para fazer dessa pesquisa caminhos de não saber, de direções inesperadas e múltiplas, vividas em constantes movimentos de náusea pela impossibilidade de fixidez em um único lugar professora . Não havendo um lugar único ao qual se fixar, investe-se em aprendizagens imprevisíveis junto aos cães, às rachaduras e à chuva. A partir deles ressoam desejos de conhecer o mundo através de intensidades atemporais, ao passo que não se escolhe os dados e aprendizagens a serem pesquisados, mas se é escolhido e se produz algo nos encontros com eles. Assim, a pesquisa permite problematizações acerca da produção de rachaduras na atuação docente, contando com as imprevisibilidades e incômodos dos respingos da chuva e com o comprometimento despreocupado dos cães no encontro com os acontecimentos cotidianos de um lugar habitado.

I takt med utvecklingen av av informations- och kommunikationsteknik (IKT) har det blivit alltmer vanligare att bedriva projekt på distans. Därför är denna studies syfte att undersöka hur projektmedlemmar beskriver upplevelser och erfarenheter av att delta i distribuerade projekt, samt de utmaningar som de har erfarit. Studien utgår ifrån en kvalitativ forskningsmetod och baseras på data insamlad från 9 öppen-strukturerade intervjuer. Datan har sedan analyserats med hjälp av en induktiv och tematisk analysmetod. Vidare visar den här rapporten att studiens respondenter har erfarenhet av att hantera utmaningar inom kommunikation, kultur och uppgiftslösningar när de arbetar i distribuerade projekt. Dessa utmaningar behandlar framförallt mänskliga behov, såsom gemenskap och motivation, men även hur dessa kan påverkas av de förutsättningar (till exempel beroendet och användningen av IKT) som råder inom distribuerade projekt. / In line with the development of information and communication technology (ICT), it has become increasingly common to undertake distributed projects. Therefore, this study's purpose is to investigate how project members describe their experiences of participating in distributed projects, as well as the challenges that they have been through. The study is based on a qualitative research method and is based on data collected from 9 open-structured interviews. The data has then been analyzed using an inductive and thematic analysis method. Furthermore, this report shows that the respondents of the study have experience in managing communication, culture and task challenges when working in distributed projects. These challenges address primarily human needs, such as community and motivation, but also how these can be influenced by the conditions (eg dependence and use of ICT) that exist in distributed projects