China’s rising leadership in science and technology: quantitative and qualitative indicators

Economics of Science & Technology Leadership

Rising to Challenges of combining qualitative and quantitative Research

This paper reports on the methodological challenges encountered during a research project employing a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The worldwide shortage of educators for information technology prompted the researchers to explore the personal qualities desired for Computer Educators who are Destined to Achieve Results (CEDARs) and to develop an assessment instrument t...

Women’s Leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics:

Despite gains overall, women are still under-represented in leadership positions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Data in the US suggest around onequarter of deans and department heads are women; in science this drops to nearly 1 in 20. Part of this problem of under-representation stems from the population pool: only 33% of science and engineering doctorate ho...

Personality and leadership: a qualitative and quantitative review.

This article provides a qualitative review of the trait perspective in leadership research, followed by a meta-analysis. The authors used the five-factor model as an organizing framework and meta-analyzed 222 correlations from 73 samples. Overall, the correlations with leadership were Neuroticism = -.24, Extraversion = .31, Openness to Experience = .24, Agreeableness = .08, and Conscientiousnes...

Quantitative and qualitative indicators of cone and seed for identification of two Juniper species in Golesan province

Among the Six native species of Juniperus genus in Iran,  J. polycarpos and J. excelsa have highest frequent and geographical distribution on the highlands of the country and play a crucial role in the natural ecosystem of presented area. Due to the similar appearance of mentioned species, it's difficult to identify them in the nature. In this study, quantitative traits indicators of cone and s...