Projects and programmes are inherently complex; the interaction of people, systems, processes and data within a dynamic environment creates an intricate network of agents whose behaviour can be unpredictable and unexpected. The management of this complexity is ordinarily concern…
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This thesis extends the existing literature on the response of labour markets to different types of economic shocks. First, we examine the effects of sector-specific fluctuations in job separation and job finding rates on the overall unemployment, sectoral allocation of labour a…
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been a central pillar of evidence-basedpractice and policy-making in healthcare over recent years. Traditionally, this hasfocused on effectiveness evidence from trials.. There is increasing understanding,however, that other study designs…
Randomised trials of complex interventions are typically designed, conducted, and analysed as if they are drug trials. Although there are many parallels there are also a number of important distinctions, which are seldom considered when designing individual trials. One of these …
A few scholars have argued that the Internet is a valuable channel for social marketing, and that practitioners need to rethink how they engage with target audiences online. However, there is little evidence that online social marketing interventions can significantly influence …
Social interaction, including social behavior and associated outcomes, consists of a continuous exchange and interpretation of information between social actors. According to attribution theory, subjective causal analysis of the causes of important social events determines, at l…
A meta-analysis was conducted on data from three program arms of the U.S. National Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS). Data representing over 37,000 non-Typhi Salmonella isolates were extracted from 15 final reports published by USDA, CDC, and FDA from program years…
The aim of this dissertation is to identify effective educational interventions in Sub-Saharan African with an impact on student learning. This is the first meta-analysis in the field of education conducted for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper takes an in-depth look at twelve diff…
The aim of this thesis is to report on a transdisciplinary approach, regarding the complexity of thinking about human embodiment in relation to machine embodiment. A practical dimension of this thesis is to elicit some principles for the design and evaluation of virtual embodime…
Although there have been many prior studies of the determinants of capital structure, most have investigated listed companies in countries with well-developed markets and institutions. The main objective of the present study is to extend prior research by investigating both list…
As scientific and medical communities research the next generation of vaccines, medical providers and parents observe the current routine vaccination schedules published for children today. And despite the fact protection is available from a number of preventable diseases throug…
The rational choice perspective has a storied history dating back to the enlightenment period of the 1700s. In criminology, the perspective has undergone several revisions, testing, and iterations. One of the more recent lines of research in this perspective is the merger of ind…