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Sparks, Betsy H. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Business Intelligence is a major expenditure in many organizations and necessary for competitive advantage. These expenditures do not result in maximum benefits for the organization if the information obtained from the Business Intelligence System (BIS) is not used in the management decision-making process. This quantitative research study used an…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Decision Making, Information Utilization, Performance Factors
Yuan, Dayu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Graphs are widely used to model structures and relationships of objects in various scientific and commercial fields. Chemical molecules, proteins, malware system-call dependencies and three-dimensional mechanical parts are all modeled as graphs. In this dissertation, we propose to mine and index those graph data to enable fast and scalable search.…
Descriptors: Graphs, Data Collection, Information Retrieval, Databases
Watcharadamrongkun, Suntaree – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Public demands for accountability in higher education have placed increasing pressure on institutions to document their achievement of critical outcomes. These demands also have had wide-reaching implications for the development and enforcement of accreditation standards, including those governing pharmacy education. The knowledge management (KM)…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Pharmaceutical Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Information Technology
Wieman, Robert Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many stakeholders have long argued that teachers should use data from their own teaching as a way to improve their performance. The first chapter of this dissertation is a summary of the literature that advises mathematics teachers about what data they should gather and how they should use those data to improve instruction. The literature is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies, Instructional Improvement
Ramakrishnan, Thiagarajan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the external factors that influence an organizations' business intelligence (BI) data collection strategy when mediated by BI attributes. In this dissertation, data warehousing strategies are used as the basis on which to frame the exploration of BI data collection strategies. The attributes include…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Change Strategies, Investigations, Performance Factors
Coleman, Janice – ProQuest LLC, 2008
A study was conducted to investigate the teaching methods valued and used by faculty in Arkansas public higher education institutions at the freshman and sophomore levels. The participants were 336 teachers who responded to a 21 item survey distributed to college teachers in Arkansas. The study sought to collect relevant demographic data and to…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Community Colleges, Higher Education