Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-235).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-235).

Collaborative innovation has become increasingly relevant for maintaining competitive advantage. Recent researchers posit that trust, which is core for collaborative innovation can be built through corporate social responsibility (CSR). Yet relatively little is known about the impact of CSR and its dimensions on collaborative innovation. Based on a panel data analysis covering the period 2009 to 2018, this thesis examines the relationship between Collaborative innovation and CSR on publicly listed manufacturing firms around the world and extends the literature by proposing that a firm's absorptive capacity exerts a moderating effect on this relationship. The study finds empirical evidence that supports the assertion that CSR promotes collaborative innovation. Importantly, the effect only manifests through the environmental dimension of CSR. The results also show that firms with higher absorptive capacities are more inclined to collaborate for innovation. However, the effect of CSR, especially the social and corporate governance dimensions on collaborative innovation dwindles in the presence of high absorptive capacity. These results have theoretical implications and provide valuable managerial recommendations for socially responsible firms that seek to form strategic alliances for innovation.

This thesis deals with the task of identifying implicit citations between scientific publications. Apart from being useful knowledge on their own, the citations may be used as input to other problems such as determining an author’s sentiment towards a reference, or summarizing a paper based on what others have written about it. We extend two recently proposed methods, a Machine Learning classifier and an iterative Belief Propagation algorithm. Both are implemented and evaluated on a common pre-annotated dataset. Several changes to the algorithms are then presented, incorporating new sentence features, different semantic text similarity measures as well as combining the methods into a single classifier. Our main finding is that the introduction of new sentence features yield significantly improved F-scores for both approaches. / Detta examensarbete behandlar frågan om att hitta implicita citeringar mellan vetenskapliga publikationer. Förutom att vara intressanta på egen hand kan dessa citeringar användas inom andra problem, såsom att bedöma en författares inställning till en referens eller att sammanfatta en rapport utifrån hur den har blivit citerad av andra. Vi utgår från två nyliga metoder, en maskininlärningsbaserad klassificerare och en iterativ algoritm baserad på en grafmodell. Dessa implementeras och utvärderas på en gemensam förannoterad datamängd. Ett antal förändringar till algoritmerna presenteras i form av nya särdrag hos meningarna (eng. sentence features), olika semantiska textlikhetsmått och ett sätt att kombinera de två metoderna. Arbetets huvudsakliga resultat är att de nya meningssärdragen leder till anmärkningsvärt förbättrade F-värden för de båda metoderna.

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Tom Murphy, dramaturgo irlandês, apropria-se da tradição e a reescreve transformando-a e contextualizando-a para a Irlanda contemporânea. O trabalho trata de três peças: The Morning After Optimism (1971), The Sanctuary Lamp (1976) e The Gigli Concert (1983), que se caracterizam, predominantemente, pela reescritura. O estudo tem por objetivo analisar como a herança literária efetivamente ocorre na composição das peças de Tom Murphy, através da intertextualidade em citações, alusões, paródias, reescrituras e outras formas, bem como entender os motivos do autor utilizar-se de obras da tradição clássica, renascentista, medieval, dos contos populares, das óperas e música popular para escrever as três peças. / Thomas Murphy, an Irish playwright, appropriates tradition and rewrites it transforming and transcontextualizing it to the contemporary Ireland. The dissertation deals with three plays: The Morning After Optimism (1971), The Sanctuary Lamp (1976) and The Gigli Concert (1983) which are predominantely characterized by rewriting. The study aims to analyze how literary heritage effectively occurs in Tom Murphy\'s plays through intertextuality in citations, allusions, parodies, rewriting and other related forms, as well to understand why the author uses works of art from classical, renaissance, medieval, fairy tale, opera and popular music tradition to write the three plays.

For biomedical research to improve clinical practice, and for funding levels to be sustained, it is increasingly important to understand the pathways from research to clinical practice and to assess the societal impact of research. Approaches to research evaluation through traditional study of journals, journal articles and standard citation analysis, have played comparatively small roles in these developments. In this thesis I critically review how I applied existing methods, and developed a new approach, to study two pathways from research to clinical practice. For Pathway 1, questionnaire surveys of clinicians' views on journals read to inform their clinical practice, and comparisons with impact factors, revealed that a few journals were read widely and considered important by clinicians. Relationships between journal importance and impact factor were complex. For Pathway 2, I applied a novel methodology to identify important citations to four key research papers in an attempt to trace important citations through numerous citing generations. My findings included: few cited papers were important to the citing papers; the number of citation occasions within the citing paper correlated strongly with a cited paper's importance; self-citations were also important; and it was feasible to trace through a series of generations of citations. Evidence of societal impact of the four key research papers examined in my studies included important papers in subsequent generations cited in clinical guidelines, many of which were international. In assessing the impact of my own studies, I found Pathway 1 papers had societal impact on research evaluation methodology; journal editorial policy; and medical library provision policy and practice. Societal impacts of the new methodology, Pathway 2, included informing further methodological development and research evaluation. My portfolio, together with my critical review, adds understanding and provides additional data to current assessment methods of wider impacts of research, and bases for further studies.

This research has found that the field of international blended learning (BL) is prepared for stronger communication and collaboration. Collaboration is currently limited, and regions vary greatly in terms of citations. However, BL is growing worldwide and each region has much to offer to the community. Greater collaboration among researchers and practitioners can be profitable regardless of location. In the first article the authors compared the top cited BL articles to understand which articles from each region are the most cited, how the regions compare in terms of citations and which journals publish these highly cited articles. The authors used this data to construct a broad overview of the field as a whole and submit is as partial fulfillment of the literature review requirement. This research was designed by both authors and carried out by the first author with advice from the second author. In the second article the authors delved deeper into the top articles to discover and compare the topics and themes of the top articles on BL from different regions of the world. The authors examined methodological patterns, learner type, level of blend, terms for blending, and research questions in order to understand the research practices and topics of interest within the BL community. This article is also submitted as partial fulfillment of the literature review requirement for a master's degree in Instructional Psychology and Technology. This research was designed by both authors and carried out by the first author with advice from the second author.In the third article the authors sought to take a snapshot of the present state of blended learning. The authors drew conclusions from survey responses and interviews with current blended learning researchers and practitioners focused on BL around the world. This research was designed by both authors and carried out by the first author with advice from the second author and assistance from the third author. The first author conducted all interviews and made final decisions on coding and analysis, with input from the other authors.

Texte remanié de : Thèse de doctorat : Philiosophie : Université de Cologne : 1966. / Trad. de : "Zitat und Zitierkunst in Montaignes Essais" Bibliogr. p. 137-152. Index.

The quality of care in nursing homes has been evaluated from many varying perspectives, but few studies have analyzed quality in light of complaints made to state survey agencies by residents, their family members, or other individuals interacting with the nursing home. This study analyzed complaints, investigation of complaint allegations, and complaint-related deficiency citations to determine their effect, if any, on the quality of care in nationwide nursing homes. Using the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) survey dataset for facility characteristics and the complaint investigation dataset for outcomes of complaint investigation, analyses conducted included descriptives, correlations, conceptual mapping for complaint-related deficiencies, chi-square tests of independence, t-tests, and generalized estimating equations. At baseline, approximately 66% of nursing homes were for-profit and roughly 53% belonged to a chain membership, while the average percent of residents receiving Medicaid for care reimbursement was 60%. Results indicated that nursing homes differed significantly by profit status and chain membership on whether a complaint was received and whether a deficiency citation was issued following a complaint investigation. Additionally, certain facility and resident-aggregated characteristics, as indicated by odds ratios, were associated with an increase in the likelihood of receiving a complaint or a complaint-related citation. With respect to facility characteristics, for-profit nursing homes and those nursing homes belonging to a chain membership were found to have more complaints and more complaint-related deficiency citations than nonprofit nursing homes and non-chain facilities. Resident-aggregated characteristics, such as a nursing home having more residents restrained, more residents with a catheter, or more residents with a diagnosis of depression, indicated a greater likelihood of receiving a complaint or complaint-related deficiency citation in longitudinal analyses. While additional research could aid in interpreting the effect of complaints on quality of care in nursing homes, study results indicate several facility and resident-aggregated factors that may aid in better understanding of quality of care and improve the training of surveyors and nursing home staff to improve quality of care for residents.