Universities are in a period of transition driven by profound changes in society. “Strategic planning” is a common term used on many campuses to describe an ongoing process of program evaluation and refinement. Colleges of agriculture and education, the home of most agricultural education programs, are identifying priorities and clarifying missions. To provide a basis for decision-making and re...

To meet the market demands and ensure competitiveness, the search for quality has become a strategic goal for many companies, so the search for quality models becomes necessity. In this context, this paper proposes a tool support for implementation of Requirements Development process included in MPS.BR and CMMI programs, exclusively using free software tools, analyzing adherence to the maturity...

In December 2016, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Board of Directors approved the ASCO Strategic Plan to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Oncology Workforce. Developed through a multistakeholder effort led by the ASCO Health Disparities Committee, the purpose of the plan is to guide the formal efforts of ASCO in this area over the next three years (2017 to 2020). The...

Introduction Can individuals in emerging democracies learn democratic values and skills through participation in civic education programs? Certainly the U.S. government expects the answer to be yes. The State Department's Agency for International Development (USAID) and other governmental organizations spend tens of millions of dollars annually on civic education programs as part of their effor...

Objective: Identify the evaluation methods being used in academic medical libraries that are engaged in strategic planning, where in the planning and implementation process evaluation is being incorporated, and how the evaluation data are collected, analyzed, and incorporated into future strategic planning processes. Methods: Using the multi-case approach (five), data collection included docume...

The main weakness of shogi programs is considered to be in the opening and the middle game. Deep search is not enough to cover the lack of strategic understanding, so most strong shogi programs use a hill-climbing approach to build castle and assault formations. The problem of a hill-climbing approach is that if the final result of two different paths is the same, then the final score will also...

The aim of this study is to assess the status of strategic thinking among directors of private sport clubs in Shiraz city based on Goldman model. The methodology used here is descriptive-analytic and data are collected through literature studies and survey. The target population of the study included all private sport clubs offering more than three types of sports (90 clubs) and the samplin...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of reading instructional approach called MCSR- Modified Collaborative Strategic Reading on reducing intermediate EFL learner's reading anxiety. Based on a pretest-posttest design, MCSR was implemented with 64 EFL learners at intermediate level. They received EFL reading instruction according to MCSR over two and a half months. A ...

The successful implementation of new technologies is dependent on many factors including the efficient management of human resources. Furthermore, recent research indicates that intellectual assets and resources can be utilised much more efficiently and effectively if organisations apply knowledge management techniques for leveraging their human resources and enhancing their personnel managemen...