REQUIRED) IT organizations are currently facing a trade-off between standardization and customer individuality. Standardization is one means to realize scale economies, is prerequisite to automate the delivery of IT-services and hence a possibility to cut costs. Best-practice frameworks like ITIL also drive the standardization efforts by defining IT-service catalogues and standard processes. Up...

The Spencer Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation, in collaboration, reopen our grants competition to support research on the development and improvement of the measurement of indicators of classroom quality in grades K through 12. Quality is defined as those features and processes of classrooms that are likely to cause improvements in important youth outcomes such as academic achievem...

OBJECTIVE To implement peer-led team learning in an online course on controversial issues surrounding medications and the US healthcare system. DESIGN The course was delivered completely online using a learning management system. Students participated in weekly small-group discussions in online forums, completed 3 reflective writing assignments, and collaborated on a peer-reviewed grant propo...

Introduction The SKA site submission process requests an analysis of the tropospheric properties of the candidate sites as they relate to the SKA. The request should be viewed in the context of a radio telescope operating at up to 25 GHz. In particular the RFP requests information on ? Local tropospheric transparency and “microscopic tropospheric stability” ? Diurnal and annual variation of the...

While writing a grant proposal may take a few days, the planning of the study takes much longer and requires thoughtful consideration. The use of a systematic and itemised approach can help in planning crucial details of a study. An eight-step, 28-question, iterative approach is proposed to help with the careful planning of experiments in order to maximise the researchers' chances of acceptance...

Introduction During the last years, significant progress was made in the control of resistive wall modes (RWMs) in reversed field pinches (RFPs). It was demonstrated on several different devices that static current driven RWMs can be completely suppressed and controlled [1,2]. It is well known that also tokamak advanced scenarios suffer from RWM instabilities. The RWM in a tokamak is typically ...

Let’s try to understand how we’re going to extract Verhaar style spinexchange parameters from the cryomaser experiment. Marc handed me a bunch of papers to use as reference. He has me start with section 3.C of Ron’s thesis [1] along with a page from a grant proposal that is very similar. Then he has me reading work of the UBC guys. They have both a nice short paper [2] and a much more detailed ...

Judging a gymnastics routine is a noisy process, and the performance of judges varies widely. The International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG), in collaboration with Longines and the Université de Neuchâtel, is designing and implementing an improved statistical engine to analyze the performance of gymnastics judges during and after major competitions like the Olympic Games and the World Champio...

The authors presented a proposal for surgical classification of chronic suppurative otitis media which may be used' for evaluating the surgical outcome of the disease.

Receiving thoughtful comments in this symposium from 19 of the discipline's most innovative empirical researchers is gratifying and goes a long way toward bringing issues of replication and data accessibility into public view. The progress made in the preceding pages clearly demonstrates the virtues of a community of scholars willing to share sufficient information to benefit from each other's ...