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Jun Kataoka – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation proposes novel Domain Adaptation (DA) methods in real-world industrial settings, where the availability of labeled data is limited and test data can significantly differ from training data. Particularly, our research addresses key challenges in DA, including the applicability of DA methods in industrial settings, strategies to…
Descriptors: Industry, Authentic Learning, Data, Training Methods
Neal, Oscar – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As societies become increasingly global the competition for customers continues to increase. In competitive markets, it is important to identify a process to acquire and retain the most profitable customers. To discriminate customers, it is important to understand the value different customers bring to an organization. Much research has been done…
Descriptors: Competition, Diversity, Models, Higher Education
Malone, Sean P. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The pivotal role Ed-Tech facilitates as an industry is increasing in education. As education evolves, the emergence of Ed-Tech in the classroom, data collection, curriculum, assessment, and student information continues to drive new initiatives, projects, and solutions in the school. The cross-sectional relationship between education and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Industry, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19
Melissa I. Bloch-Meier – ProQuest LLC, 2021
While millions of workers are injured on the job every year (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2019), at least some of these injuries can be attributed to failure to use what was learned during safety training (Safety Partners LTD., 2014). By better understanding workers' experiences, organizations may be better able to create more impactful safety…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Employees, Safety Education, Workplace Learning
Robin Shaw Brandenburg – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Improving instructor and student satisfaction with training in a global semiconductor company was the focus of this dissertation in practice. This study followed the Performance Improvement/Human Performance Technology (HPT) model as the overarching framework (Van Tiem et al., 2012). Fifty students and four instructors participated in this…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Training, Global Approach, Models
Charles S. Dye – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The present study seeks to develop a situated construct of learner engagement within an instructional experience. Despite compelling potential benefits to instructional practice, extant learner engagement research has been limited to either within-the learner constructs or adding a simplistic behavioral component to a model and largely discounting…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Inquiry, Educational Environment, Adult Learning
Chowdhury, Naser – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A renewed interest in cloud computing adoption has occurred in academic and industry settings because emerging technologies have strong links to cloud computing and Big Data technology. Big Data technology is driving cloud computing adoption in large business organizations. For cloud computing adoption to increase, cloud computing must transition…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Information Technology, Prediction, Models
Niknam, Mehrdad – ProQuest LLC, 2015
A construction project requires collaboration of different organizations such as owner, designer, contractor, and resource suppliers. These organizations need to exchange information to improve their teamwork. Understanding the information created in other organizations requires specialized human resources. Construction cost estimating is one of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Construction Industry, Costs, Internet
Cossio, Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this research study was to examine how chefs and other individuals in the food industry understood the field of culinary arts. This study used an instrumental case study with purposeful sampling of multiple cases. Through a series of open-ended interviews using snowball-sampling strategy that concluded with 45 participants sharing…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Food, Industry, Professional Personnel
Cathcart, Stephen Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This mixed method study examines HRD professionals' decision-making processes when making an organizational purchase of training. The study uses a case approach with a degrees of freedom analysis. The data to analyze will examine how HRD professionals in manufacturing select outside vendors human resource development programs for training,…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Professional Personnel, Decision Making
Johnson, Kenneth T. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Increased internal and external training approaches are elements senior leaders need to know before creating a training plan for security professionals to protect sensitive information. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore training strategies telecommunication industry leaders use to ensure security professionals can protect…
Descriptors: Information Security, Corporations, Telecommunications, Industry
Seda, Albert – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This research investigated the limitations of Albert Bandura's theory of observational training (also known as observational learning) when applied to e-learning. The study focused on professional employees in different industries around the United States. These professionals engaged in continuous training either in the classroom or on in an…
Descriptors: Observational Learning, Professional Development, Training, Statistical Analysis
Doskey, Steven Craig – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This research presents an innovative means of gauging Systems Engineering effectiveness through a Systems Engineering Relative Effectiveness Index (SE REI) model. The SE REI model uses a Bayesian Belief Network to map causal relationships in government acquisitions of Complex Information Systems (CIS), enabling practitioners to identify and…
Descriptors: Engineering, Systems Development, Program Development, Probability
Halim, Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This single explorative case study investigated the causes of churn in the telecommunication industry in Kenya, narrowed down to include only the capital city of Nairobi. The question of this dissertation was split into three sub-questions. The first sub-question investigated the behavioral patterns of customers causing churn. The second…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Industry, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
STEM Professional Volunteers in K-12 Competition Programs: Educator Practices and Impact on Pedagogy
Zintgraff, Alfred Clifton – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This mixed methods dissertation study explored how secondary school educators in specific K-12 competition programs recruited and deployed STEM professional volunteers. The study explored which practices were viewed as most important, and how practices related to constructivist pedagogy, all from the viewpoint of educators. The non-positivist…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education, Volunteers