Research Objectives. The objectives of this study included the following: • Improve the IID estimation algorithm and enhance its applicability by limiting the input to traffic volume only. Since volume can be directly measured by single loop detectors, the most common type of traffic sensors in the existing roadway network, an IID estimation algorithm requiring only volume input is highly desirable. • Implement the new IID estimation approach in a computer program for automatically quantifying IIDs on a regional freeway network. • Expand the database developed in Phase I to support IID analysis on a larger freeway network, i.e., the Puget Sound regional freeway network. • Present the incident information together with IID estimates on the Digital Roadway Interactive Visualization and Evaluation Network (DRIVE Net), a regional map- based online data sharing, modeling, and analysis platform developed by the Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab).
Research Objectives. The main objective of this dissertation is to shed light on the growth processes of technology-based new ventures and link these processes to performance. The previous section revealed that a conceptual framework for research in this direction has to meet two fundamental requirements. First, it has to assume an inside-out perspective on the organisation and second, it has to be dynamic. The concept of dynamic capabilities (Xxxxx and Xxxxxx 1994; Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, and Xxxxx 1997; Xxxxx and Xxxxxx 1999; Xxxxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx 2000; Xxxxx and Winter 2002; Winter 2003) has attracted growing attention from strategic management scholars during the past years. The main purpose of this framework is to explain how firms gain a competitive advantage under conditions of rapid and unpredictable change. This dynamic concept is especially relevant in Schumpeterian worlds dominated by innovation-based competition, creative destruction of established competencies, and increasing returns (Teece, Xxxxxx, and Xxxxx 1997). In fact, entrepreneurial firms mostly compete on innovation (Xxxxxx and Xxxxx 1977; Xxxxxx and Xxxxxxx 2000; Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxxx 2002; Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxxxx 2002). Consequently, the concept can be considered to analyse performance differences and thus differences in growth rates of technology-based new ventures. According to Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, and Xxxxx (1997) dynamic capabilities are an organisation's “ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments” (p. 516), and thus are a source of competitive advantage under conditions of rapid change (Xxxxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx 2000). The concept of dynamic capabilities builds on the resource-based view of the firm (Wernerfelt 1984; Xxxxxx 1991; Xxxx and Schoemaker 1993; Peteraf 1993), which argues that the competitive advantage of organisations is contingent upon their resource base. When firms grow in high-velocity environments, they need to alter this resource base and consequently have to deploy certain capabilities. However, these capabilities need to be developed as well. Just as firms do not have a large resource base from the beginning (Stinchcombe 1965; Romanelli 1989; Brush, Xxxxxx, and Xxxx 2001; Xxxxxx and Xxxxxxxx 2003; Ravasi and Turati 2005), new organisations do not possess dynamic capabilities in their early days (Helfat and Peteraf 2003). Given this theoretical excurse, I am able to specify the initial research objective. In order to describ...
Research Objectives. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to: • Contribute to the knowledge base and development of food safety systems globally due to the increasingly diverse and complex food supply; • Enhance and broaden FDA’s ability to address global food safety and public health issues associated with food; • Provide opportunities to leverage additional resources among WTO member countries; • Support FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (Pub. L. 111-353) and its International Food Safety Capacity Building Plan, which emphasizes the concept of preventing food safety related problems before they occur, and the importance of establishing strong relationships and mutual support among all stakeholders, including multilateral organizations, to improve worldwide food safety.
Research Objectives. The objectives of this study were:
i. To determine the challenges facing the convergence between Kenya Commercial Bank and Safaricom Kenya Limited
ii. To find out the drivers of the convergence between Kenya Commercial Bank and Safaricom Kenya Limited
iii. To determine the benefits of the convergence between Kenya Commercial Bank and Safaricom Kenya Limited
Research Objectives. The focus of this research was to develop a template PA and TSD for CO. Because CO analysis can be performed using a “worst case” approach, a broad range of project types and worst case modeling inputs were assessed with the objective that state DOTs could then avoid performing unnecessary CO analyses under NEPA. Except in the most extreme cases, the PA template may eliminate the need for future project-specific hotspot analyses for CO. The templates developed from this research can serve as the baseline set to which states can expand or add additional information based on their specific needs. The objective for PM and MSATs was to outline potential research areas that would support NEPA analyses and help in developing PAs for MSATs and PM. The objective was also to provide approaches for streamlining air quality analyses and to support development of necessary data inputs for emissions and air quality modeling.
Research Objectives. A description of the research to be performed by Visiting Scientist at UW is provided in Exhibit A hereto (“the Research”).
Research Objectives. Goals related to the chemical and/or physical contaminant inquiries regarding target Ojibwe foods: □ Objectives regarding the inquiry into elemental contamination of wild rice
Research Objectives. To indicate the extent to which medical education includes a focus on Indigenous health at Cumming School of Medicine.
Research Objectives. Evaluate the use of an established in vitro method for lead bioaccessibility (EPA method 1340) for assessing the biogeochemistry of lead and other elements in contaminated soils.
Research Objectives. Contractor shall carry out certain tasks to address the following research objectives under the project:
1. Objective No. 1: Contractor shall provide up to 40 hours of consultation regarding the Self- Directed Care (SDC) Project. This can include presentations to stakeholder groups and consultation services on the materials developed during the Performance Improvement Project phase to develop recommendations for including self-directed care for mental health as a Medicaid benefit. Contractor shall provide consultative and logistical support to increase stakeholder engagement through surveys, in-person or virtual focus groups, and other related activities. Contractor will complete a final SDC report summarizing their findings relating to the SDC Project.
