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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The role of information and communication technology within Upriver Halq'eméylem language initiatives : a case study

Bourget, Nicolle Marie 28 March 2014 (has links)
This case study examines the effectiveness of information and communication technology (ICT) in the Upriver Halq'eméylem language activities. The research indicates that ICT has been successful in supporting micro-level activities managed by individuals; however, while certain elements of ICT were identified by participants as having the potential to help increase fluency, fluency has not been achieved. Recommendations include the creation of a catalogue of all content developed and applications in use to be maintained by a central and agreed upon party; the use of applications in a Software as a Service (SaaS) or similar model; continuation of ongoing formal and informal meetings of the individuals who are working to revitalize the language; and, that the community attempt to determine why language is not being spoken while continuing to make the language visible. One additional finding is that the funding available may be driving the adoption of ICT within the language program; additional research is required to fully understand the effects of funding models. While these recommendations are specific to this community, they may support other decentralized language programs.
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Ready to improve Brazil? : How social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro find the resources to do it.

Axelsson, Philip, Meisner, Hampus January 2014 (has links)
Background: Social entrepreneurship started to appear in the academic research in the end of 1990´s and has since then been well discussed by researchers. They have come up with numerous of different definitions and meanings of the term, but agree that the goal for these kinds of entrepreneurs is to create social value. Purpose: Our objective with this study is to create an understanding of where social entrepreneurs acquire the necessary resources to start their social business. Research question: How do social entrepreneurs acquire the necessary resources to start their social business in Rio de Janeiro? Methodology: The study adopted a qualitative research method and semi-structured interviews have been done in order to gather data. An abductive approach has been used where the authors has gone back and forth between the theory and the empirical findings. Research findings: The social entrepreneurs that we interviewed used the following ways to acquire resources to start their social business: Social venture capitalists, social capital, human capital, cultural capital and volunteers.
133

Determinants of Public Funding for Professional Athletic Venues

Holland, John K 01 January 2014 (has links)
This paper examines the financing of professional athletic venues and why certain franchises are able to obtain high percentages of overall stadium funding from the public. Existing literature shows the negligible effect of new athletic venues on the local economy and per capita income, and therefore the benefits from such a project are largely intangible. I use an ordinary least squares regression and show that the more successful a team is the less public funding they tend to receive. I also find that broad city statistics do not represent the specific areas that policy makers consider when making decisions about spending public money.
134

From Building Blocks to Cell Blocks: An Analysis of the Effect of Public School Funding on Juvenile Delinquency

Gupta, Chandrika 01 January 2015 (has links)
In this study, the primary question that is addressed is that of whether there exists a relationship between juvenile arrest rates and public school funding. Using publically available FBI arrest data, data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), and Census data, I used two OLS models to answer this question. The first model suggested that there was no statistically significant correlation between school spending per child and juvenile arrest rates. However, it indicated that juvenile arrest rates were correlated with median income, percentage of children below the poverty line, percentage of Black, Hispanic, and Mixed children in the state. The second model had conflicting results. The model suggested that with a $1000 increase in school spending per child, there would be a 0.46 percentage point decrease in juvenile arrest rates. In addition, it maintained that there was a statistically significant correlation between median income and juvenile arrest rates; however, the direction of the effect was positive.
135

“Our authority is community based”: funding, power and resistance in community-based organizations.

Amyot, Sarah 19 December 2011 (has links)
This thesis explores the relationship between funding practices and the non-profit sector through a case study of one community-based organization, called Ma Mawi wi Chi Itata Centre, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The thesis traces implications of the shift to project funding models and outcomes-based management for the communitybased organizations (CBOs). The research draws on Foucault’s governmentality analytic to illuminate how funding practices relate to neoliberal discourses and traces the tensions and resistances that are created by funding policy interventions at the point of practice. I argue tensions arise between: competition and collaboration; textual accountability and community need; reporting, learning, and teaching; different problem solving approaches; and individualism and community building practices. CBOs are intimately wrapped up in the project of governing. They are not either, a symbol of citizen engagement or a symptom of a decimated state; rather they are both, part and parcel of a system in which we are both governed and govern. / Graduate
136

Voices from Aboriginal child and family agencies in British Columbia: supporting Aboriginal adopted children with cultural planning.

Grzybowski, Kim 21 December 2012 (has links)
This study explores the stories of Executive Directors of Delegated Aboriginal Child Welfare Agencies in regards to cultural planning for Aboriginal children being adopted into non-Aboriginal homes in British Columbia. This qualitative study used an Indigenous methodology to describe and interpret the elements of cultural planning for adopted Aboriginal children by interviewing Executive Directors of Aboriginal child welfare agencies in the province of British Columbia. The purpose is to provide knowledge about cultural planning and safety agreements in conjunction with Aboriginal agencies and to also gain an understanding of how Aboriginal agencies are able to meet their commitment to retain their adopted children’s’ Aboriginal identity and maintain their connections to culture, community and or family. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six Executive Directors who volunteered for this study. Their stories were audio taped and analysed utilizing a thematic analysis. Two main themes emerged from the analysis were 1). Funding and 2), Legalizing Cultural Agreements. Ceremony was stressed throughout the interviews and is an integral part of Indigenous people and adequate funding needs to be re-addressed to support Aboriginal children in their best interests. Training continues to be a factor for adoptive parents to learn about the history of Aboriginal people and learning ways to best support the children they are adopting by learning about the rich cultures they belong to and how they will be able to make those connections. Funding of operational dollars for Aboriginal agencies appears to be at the fore front in every aspect of the cultural planning process. / Graduate
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A future for community radio in Australia: Funding, licensing and legislative issues.

El -Ghul, Saba January 2004 (has links)
The community radio sector is an important cultural resource for the Australian community. It is experiencing rapid growth with an increase in the number of licensed radio stations, however, government funding has not proportionally increased and this is threatening the financial viability of many stations. The key issue addressed in this research is the need to find ways to enhance community radio's sources of funding without imperilling its status as a not-for-profit sector. This study argues that there is no inherent conflict between entrepreneurial principles and not-for-profit principles, and as long as all revenue is invested back into the station, then there should be no limit on income generation for community radio. Overseas community radio experience supports this argument.
138

Funding Hospital Services: A Critical Analysis and Feasibility Study of the Casemix Funding Model in Iran

Ghaffari, Shahram Unknown Date (has links)
Background Hospitals in Iran have mainly been managed in a centralised system and funded historically through annual budgeting with little autonomy at hospital level. The current annual budgeting system is inequitable and is not reflective of hospital activity. Hospital resources are not distributed with regard to efficiency indicators and lobbying and political power of the managers are common issues influencing budget. Evidence suggests that hospitals in Iran will be even further challenged due to the growing and aging population. Reform of funding policy, particularly in hospitals, is now being considered as a critical step to improvement of Iran’s health system. Objectives This is a study of the theoretical and practical aspects of the implementation of casemix funding of hospitals in Iran. It aims to identify the knowledge and attitude of hospital managers and staff about the feasibility of casemix; to investigate availability, reliability and completeness of hospital discharge and financial data; to measure the appropriateness of the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRGs); to build up a basis for further studies on casemix funding of hospitals; and, to assist the efficient use of scarce resources among and between hospital systems. Methods First, a descriptive survey, using an eleven-item questionnaire, was conducted to assess the level of knowledge and attitudes of hospital managers and key staff about casemix funding and its appropriateness. Second, patients’ clinical and demographic information were collected from the discharge system of a single study hospital, to evaluate the accuracy and completeness of these data for adopting casemix in Iran’s hospitals. This information was used to classify patient episodes into DRG classes using the LAETA Grouper and AR-DRGs. Third, DRG cost weights were calculated based on the internationally accepted principles of 'activity-based' cost accounting and cost-modelling, taking into account current realities of hospital accounting structures, availability of data, as well as time and budget constraints. To identify whether there is any association between modelled cost weights and length of stay at the DRG level, two statistical measures, the Pearson correlation coefficient and regression coefficient were calculated using the STATA statistical package. Finally, a total of 465,531 acute inpatient separations, from 35 hospitals, was used to examine the performance of AR-DRGs in the study environment. L3H3; IQR; and 10th- 95th percentile methods were used for excluding extreme cases. The coefficient of variation (CV) and reduction in variance (R2) were used to measure the degree of homogeneity achieved by the classification system and the extent to which the dispersion of lengths of stay could be explained by grouping the cases into the discrete DRG classes. Results The staff survey results showed that 75% and 58% of the participants had not ever heard of the terms casemix and DRGs, respectively. The majority of the participants described casemix and DRGs as a cost allocation and/or funding tool rather than a classification system useful for management and performance measurement. The most common barriers to casemix implementation outlined by the participants included: the lack of good foundation knowledge; difficulty in data access; and lack of or incomplete knowledge of the chief managers and staff about the casemix. The data quality study findings suggest that the accuracy and completeness of the available data in the study hospital is variable and not highly reliable. The grouper identified invalid records of principal diagnosis, age, sex, and length of stay for 4% of total separations. No complication and comorbidity effects were recorded for 93% of cases. Although general practitioners are employed as gate keepers to control coding accuracy, there is no standard quality control to secure the accuracy and consistency of coding either at the physician or coder level. Coders, except in a few cases, have not been formally trained. According to the data study, the estimation of DRG cost weights using a clinical costing approach is almost impossible due to inadequate financial and utilisation information at the patient level, poorly computerised 'feeder systems', and low quality data. In contrast, the cost modelling approach, using Australian service weights resulted in the average DRG cost weight of 2.723 million Iranian Rials (equal to US $295). A regression coefficient of 0.14 (CI = 0.12 − 0.16) suggests that the average cost weight increases by 14% for every one day increase in average length of stay. Classifying a total of 465,531 acute inpatient separations using AR-DRG resulted in 579 DRG classes. Although reduction in variance (R2) for untrimmed data was low (R2 = 0.17) for LOS, trimming by L3H3, IQR, and 10th-95th percentile method improved the value of R2 to 0.53, 0.48, and 0.51, respectively. Low values of R2 for DRGs within several MDCs such as MDC 02, 05, 10, 15, and MDC 20 were identified. Conclusion This study concludes that the implementation of the casemix funding of hospitals in the Iranian health system and in Iranian Social Security Organisation in particular, is quite feasible and that AR-DRGs would provide a useful basis for introducing casemix in the system. However, the effective implementation of casemix in Iran would depend on a number of factors including: active cooperation and contribution of hospital staff at all levels and in all departments in the implementation process and provision of reliable data; updating hospital information systems; improving the quality of costing information; adopting an appropriate classification system, and, finally, adequate scrutiny of health care providers’ behaviours through the regular assessment of hospital performance and quality of care.
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The Impact of Performance Indicators on the Work of University Academics: A Study of Four Australian Universities

J.Taylor@murdoch.edu.au, Jeannette Taylor January 1999 (has links)
In 1988, the Australian Federal Government released the document Higher Education: A Policy Statement which was intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the higher education sector. This paved the way for the application of performance indicators (Pls) across higher education, most notably the creation of a link between Pls (called the Composite Index) and the research component of the annual government funding to universities. Although PIS for teaching became popular, funding for the teaching component was not directly attached to PIS and remained largely based on student enrolments. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of university academics in Australia on the effects of research and teaching as a result of the introduction of funding based on research Pls. The academic literature suggests that Pls can bring about desirable effects but it also warns that their imposition, particularly by the government on universities, may lead to unintended and undesirable effects, such as goal displacement and strategic manipulation, which may be designed to enhance apparent research performance. To guide the investigation, it was hypothesised that the government's Pls which focus on research will be integrated into the universities' internal policies; will encourage universities to place a high priority on the research activities funded by the Pls; will lead to significantly more paperwork; will contribute to a significant change in the approach to research but not to teaching; and will result in academics adopting negative attitudes towards Pls. Two basic sources of information were obtained to evaluate these hypotheses. First, the administrations of selected universities were consulted, and staff interviewed, to gauge the degree of change that had been implemented by the universities. Second, a questionnaire was constructed in order to assess academics' attitude towards Pls, and their perceptions of an association between Pls and their institutional reward system. The questionnaire also assessed changes in research, teaching and paperwork activities. The universities selected characterised the different kinds of universities found in the Unified National System of the Australian higher education system. One hundred and fifty-two academics from these universities were surveyed by the questionnaire. Thirty percent of these academics participated in a structured interview. The disciplines from which the academics were selected for participation included arts/humanities, science, and professional studies which included a natural science based profession and a social science based profession. In addition, a case study of one of these universities was carried out. The institutions were found to have reorganised their internal policies to incorporate and focus on the Pls in the government's Composite Index. The academics surveyed were generally found to have negative attitude towards their institutional Pls, although staff of higher rank had relatively more positive views. Reasons for their dissatisfaction included the inability of Pls to capture the various dimensions of academic work and privileging research over teaching. For a majority of the academics, the introduction of Pls was associated with a rise in paperwork load and a change in the approach to research in terms of focusing on publications and external research grant applications, particularly those counted in their institutional PI-based funding schemes. The time devoted to these activities, as well as the number of publications and grants for which they were expected to apply, have significantly increased. It was found that staff did use various strategies to maximise their PI scores, such as writing shorter papers in order to increase the quantity of publications. The proportion who changed their approach to teaching was also sizeable; most of them were concerned about getting students through their courses with minimum fuss by having lower ambitions for students and pandering to their superficial needs. However, the proportion who changed their teaching was significantly less than those who changed their research. One possible reason could be the lack of special incentives to increase their emphasis on teaching.
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A goal Programming R&D project funding model of the US Army Strategic Defense Command using the analytic hierarchy process

Anderson, Steven M. January 1987 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1987. / Thesis Advisor(s): Boger, Dan C. Second Reader: Andrus, Alvin F. "September 1987." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 23, 2010. DTIC Descriptor(s): Army Budgets, Decision Making, Goal Programming, Antimissile Defense Systems, Army Operations, Coefficients, Computer Programs, Hierarchies, Linearity, Management, Military Strategy, Mathematical Models, Operations Research, Personnel, Sensitivity, Theses, Army Research. DTIC Identifier(s): Army strategic defense command, Analytic hierarchy process. Author(s) subject terms: Goal Programming " Analytic Hierarchy Process, R&D Project Funding Models. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167). Also available in print.

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