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Avaliação da Geração de Conhecimento por Meio da Correlação Entre Investimentos em Ciência, Tecnologia & Inovação e Impacto no Desenvolvimento Socioeconômico

Description: Paper attempts to correlate socioeconomic development indicators from a sample of fourteen countries, including Brazil, and performance indicators in Science, Technology and Innovation.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Seibert, Caroine Heidrich & de Barros Neto, João Pinheiro
Partner: UNT College of Information

Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity

Description: This is the official website for Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID) at the University of North Texas. CSID conducts research into the theory and practice of inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to knowledge. The site includes information about CSID's research projects, its publications, and the people involved.
Date: 2014
Creator: University of North Texas. Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Conexão Entre Conhecimento e Aprendizagem na Indústria 4.0: Análise do Estado da Arte

Description: Paper seeks to identify studies that relate the Industry 4.0, Learning and Knowledge constructs and categorize them to analyze trends of topics covered, areas of study, reference journals and countries of origin, in order to determine the current state of the art.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Senna, Diego Augustus & De Araújo Nery Ribeiro, Jurema Suely
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Descoberta de Conhecimento em Bases de Dados Públicas: Análise dos Empreendimentos Voltados à Extração De Argila no Estado de Santa Catarina

Description: Paper proposes a procedure to monitor the activity of clay extraction in the State of Santa Catarina through the crossing of information present in different databases, and explores barriers to this crossing as well as benefits for proper monitoring of potentially polluting and resource-using activities.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Perin, Adenilson; dos Santos, Caio Alvarez Marcondes; Rados, Gregório Jean Varvakis & dos Santos, Neri
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Development of the Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Near-death Experiences Scale

Description: The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure healthcare professionals’ knowledge and attitudes about near-death experiences (NDEs) that would demonstrate acceptable psychometric properties. In consultation with a focus group of six NDE experts, I developed the 50-item Knowledge and Attitudes toward Near-Death Experiences Scale (KANDES), including the 24-item KANDES–Attitude subscale (KANDES-A) and the 26-item KANDES–Knowledge subscale (KANDES-K). Including a pilot administr… more
Date: August 2013
Creator: Pace, Laura
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Effect of Auditor Knowledge on Information Processing during Analytical Review

Description: Auditors form judgments by integrating the evidence they gather with information stored in memory (knowledge). As they acquire experience, auditors have the opportunity to learn how different patterns of evidence are associated with particular audit problems. Research in experimental psychology has demonstrated that individuals with task-specific experience can match the cues they encounter with patterns they have learned, and form judgments without consciously analyzing the individual cues. Ac… more
Date: February 1995
Creator: O'Donnell, Ed
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Impact of Leadership Styles and Knowledge Sharing on Police Officers’ Willingness to Exert Extra Effort to Provide Better Security: A Study in the Riot Unit of the Turkish National Police

Description: The motivation for this study is to understand the factors affecting police officers’ willingness to exert extra effort for providing better service through knowledge sharing in different working environments such as riots. Since managers’ leadership styles may be important factors affecting subordinates’ willingness to exert extra effort, this study investigates which of the leadership styles -- transformational, transactional or laissezfaire leadership -- will have a positive effect on office… more
Date: August 2011
Creator: Tombul, Fatih
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Investigation of the Effect of Normative Systems on an Empirical Variable

Description: This investigation is concerned, with the problem of the normative constraints upon scientific research within the broad theoretical framework of the sociology of knowledge, i.e., the contention that knowledge is functionally related to the social system. The concepts "knowledge" and "Social system" are open to wide interpretation; however, in this study knowledge refers to an empirically verifiable variable and the social system is synonomous with the normative system.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Sizemore, Mark T.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Knowledge and Confidence of Speech-Language Pathologists Regarding Autism

Description: The increased prevalence rate of autism has immense implications for speech language pathologists (SLPs) who are directly involved in the education and service delivery for students with autism. However, few studies have documented the effectiveness of the knowledge and confidence of SLPs regarding autism. The purpose of this study was to measure the knowledge and confidence of SLPs regarding autism and the extent to which their educational and professional training prepared them to work effect… more
Date: December 2010
Creator: Ray, Julie M.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Knowledge wins : public library books are free.

Description: A soldier climbs rocks to find stacked books that lead to a shining city in the distance. A rifle and military gear lie on the rocks near his feet. The titles on the spines of the books include: "Farming", "Drafting", "Citizenship", "Building", "Machine Shop Work", "Business", "Seamanship", "Engineering", "Law", "Foreign Trade", "Shipbuilding". The city skyline features tall buildings and smokestacks.
Date: unknown
Creator: Smith, Dan, 1865-1934.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Participants and Nonparticipants in Nonformal Education in Thai Rural Areas: A Secondary- Analysis

Description: This study was a secondary analysis of survey data on participants and nonparticipants in Thai rural education programs. The original data were collected in 1987 by the Office of the National Educational Commission, Office of the Prime Minister, Bangkok Thailand. This study was conducted in order to examine the effect of selected demographic variables on participation and to determine why some rural villagers participate in nonformal educational programs and other villagers do not. The data wer… more
Date: December 1989
Creator: Puongrat Kesonpat
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Philosophy Matters - Examining the Value of Knowledge

Description: This paper discusses the University of North Texas' (UNT) Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID), where philosophers continue to examine the value of knowledge. The authors also discuss one example of CSID's work with the Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR) project. CAPR is a four-year project (2008-2012) studying the changing nature of peer review processes across six U.S. and foreign public science agencies. CAPR is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) S… more
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert & Holbrook, J. Britt
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Relationships between selected sociometric variables and academic performance for counselors in training.

Description: The purpose of this research was to examine what relationships existed between selected sociometric variables and measures of academic performance for students in a counselor training program. The sociometric variables included counseling ability, counseling knowledge, and friendship. Academic performance measures included subject GPAs, group counseling participation and final grades, prepracticum grades, and practicum grades. Data was collected from sociometric questionnaires and academic reco… more
Date: May 2006
Creator: Smith, Michael Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Seeking Mental Health Support Among College Students in Video-Based Social Media: Content and Statistical Analysis of YouTube Videos

Description: This article presents a study that aims to identify strategies for using video-based social media to combat stigmatized diseases, such as mental health, among college students. The authors identify effective strategies for designing video-based social media content for supporting college students’ mental health. Results show that the videos where individuals share their personal stories, as well as experiential knowledge (ie, tips and advice), engaged more viewers in both the short term and lon… more
Date: November 11, 2021
Creator: Choi, Bogeum; Kim, Heejun & Huh-Yoo, Jina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Topical content in sexuality education and sexual health outcomes.

Description: Secondary analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health is used to examine possible explanatory variables for sexual health outcomes. Linear and logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between sexual health outcomes and topical content in sexuality education, controlling for race, biological sex, low socioeconomic status, and religiosity. Results indicated increasing topical content in sexuality education had a positive effect on know… more
Date: December 2007
Creator: Cudhea, Maia Christine
Partner: UNT Libraries
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