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RSS motivationMotivation and Hypothesis for Comparison Between Component Frameworks and DSL Paradigms
White Paper This paper provides motivation and hypothesis for comparison between the two paradigms. Both component frameworks and domain-specific languages aim to promote reuse and enhance product-line software development, but they approach the problem from... [16 Jul 2004]
Why They Fight: Combat Motivation in the Iraq War
White Paper Cohesion, or the bonds between soldiers, traditionally has been posited as the primary motivation for soldiers in combat. This monograph reviews the combat motivation literature and then analyzes findings from interviews conducted during the recent... [27 Dec 2004]
Faculty Pedagogical Approach, Skill, and Motivation in Today's Distance Education Milieu
White Paper This paper explores the pedagogical approach, skill and motivation factors that influence or are influenced by distance education instructors. Advancing distance education in today's technology-driven milieu requires a different pedagogical... [21 Apr 2005]
An Interesting Profile-University Students Who Take Distance Education Course Show Weaker Motivation Than On-Campus Students
White Paper During the 1999-2000 academic year, data was gathered from six selected colleges and universities in Ohio that revealed current operational practices regarding the establishment, practices, procedures, administration and management of distance... [20 Apr 2005]
Chapter 2: Power Management History and Motivation
White Paper PC power management responds to the need to reduce system power consumption in support of longer battery run times and global power conservation. Inventors of early power management technologies failed to understand the importance of centralized... [15 Sep 2007]
Charging for Packet-Switched Network Communication - Motivation and Overview -
White Paper Packet-switched network technology is expected to form the integration layer for future multi-service networks. The trend to integrate voice and data traffic can already be observed in the Internet and is expected to carry on until the full... [24 Feb 2004]
Motivation tactics for those who lead techies
White Paper In this chapter from his book, Leading Geeks, Paul Glen warns that traditional methods of motivating staff won't work with knowledge workers. These are his suggestions for what will work. [16 May 2006]
FAST TCP: Motivation, Architecture, Algorithms, Performance
White Paper This paper describes FAST TCP, a new TCP congestion control algorithm for high-speed long-latency networks, from design to implementation. The paper highlights the approach taken by FAST TCP to address the four difficulties, at both packet and flow... [18 Apr 2007]
Student Motivation for Learning at a Distance: Does Interaction Matter?
White Paper The study presented in this paper evaluated a distance education program offered by a land-grant university agricultural college. The study used Holmberg's and Moore's theoretical frameworks of didactic conversation and multiple interactions to... [20 Apr 2005]
Enterprise Incentive Management: Best Practices for Improving Motivation and Focus
White Paper Watch this educational Web seminar replay to learn five best practices in enterprise incentive management that will maximize your ability to drive sales force effectiveness, estimate expenses properly, and process commission payments quickly and... [24 Feb 2004]
Software Process Improvement: Management, Commitment, Measures, and Motivation
White Paper “Effective software process improvement will not start until management insists that product development work be planned and properly managed. Initiatives to improve the software development process originate from the demands made by major... [14 Aug 2003]
Layered Signalling - Motivation, Implementation & Measurements
White Paper The support of a single signalling protocol for all components on the data path of a QoS-based transmission cannot necessarily be assumed. In this paper, we investigate the issues surrounding hierarchically layered network QoS signalling... [24 Feb 2004]
Motivation and Incentives for Distance Faculty
White Paper At the millennium, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges estimated that one-third of all colleges and universities would be closing within ten years. Peter Drucker, a management theorist, recently predicted that higher... [20 Apr 2005]
Motivation of Software Developers in Open Source Projects: An Internet-Based Survey of Contributors to the Linux Kernel
White Paper The motives of 141 contributors to a large Open Source Software project (the Linux kernel) are explored with an internet-based questionnaire study. Measured factors were both derived from discussions within the Linux community as well as from... [18 Apr 2007]
Motivation for an Object-Oriented Approach to Software Engineering
White Paper Objects are not data. Data are not objects. Objects are not merely data and functions encapsulated in the same place. However, each object-oriented application must interface with (at least some) non-object-oriented systems, i.e.systems which do... [24 Feb 2004]
