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explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … training in the United States. We find evidence indicating that individuals who are more risk tolerant benefit more from … entrepreneurship training than less risk tolerant individuals. We find some limited evidence that individuals who have a preference for …
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E-learning, electronic or digital education, is one of the areas in which information and communication technologies … an extension of distance learning, and then of the so-called computer-assisted education, has now become an independent …, ever-expanding and increasingly dynamic industry. ELearning tools are now used at all levels and in all areas of education …
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The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...
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To help integrate activities in the environmental restoration and waste management mission of the Hanford Site, the Hanford Integrated Planning Project (HIPP) was established and funded by the US Department of Energy. The project is divided into three key program elements, the first focusing on...
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On September 1, 1991, Defense Programs (DP) within the US Department of Energy entered into a research grant with Management Systems Laboratories (MSL) of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), to study Tools, Methods, and Rules for Managing Cooperation for...
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This report provides a baseline assessment of the current state of energy efficiency-related education and training … programs and analyzes training and education needs to support expected growth in the energy efficiency services workforce. In … workforce education and training needs, we focus on energy-efficiency services-related jobs that are required to improve the …
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1991 was continued rapid growth for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) as it broadened its interdisciplinary research into the organization, evolution and operation of complex systems and sought deeply the principles underlying their dynamic behavior. Research on complex systems--the focus of work at...
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There are currently two major issues regarding Ph.D. scientists that are cause for concern. The first issue, adequacy of Ph.D. supply, follows from a general concern among educators and science policy specialists that the 1990s and beyond will usher in an era of general shortages for Ph D....
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availability of workers for these occupations via occupational mobility, training/retraining options, and salary adjustments. Third … occupations tend to be mobile within and across occupational categories; experience and on-the-job training are more crucial to … issues of worker supply than education; and, the clarity of an organization`s mission, budget allocation process, work …
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Understanding human-system response is critical to being able to plan and predict mission success in the modern battlespace. Commonly, human reliability analysis has been used to predict failures of human performance in complex, critical systems. However, most human reliability methods fail to...
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