The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol has a dual objective: to encourage low-cost emission reduction and to promote sustainable development in the host countries of CDM projects. The CDM has by and large delivered on the first objective but arguably not on the second. This paper assesses quantitatively the form and prevalence of co-benefits in CDM projects. Adopting a broa...

CONTEXT: Numerous studies have investigated the use of cross-company datasets to estimate effort for single-company projects; however to date only one has compared the effect of using a chronological split instead of a random split to assign projects to a training set and a validation set, finding no significant differences. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to extend [15] using a project-by-...

This study identifies ten potential critical success factors (CSFs) in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems implementation from ERP and IS literature and examines the application of these factors in eight projects. ERP systems promise to provide an off-the-shelf solution to an organization’s information needs. Implementation of ERP projects has proven difficult, complex, costly and time c...

In this paper we describe recent developments in the CLARIN-NL project with the goal of sharing information on and experiences in this project with the community outside of the Netherlands. We discuss a variety of subprojects to actually implement the infrastructure, to provide functionality for search in metadata and the actual data, resource curation and demonstration projects, the Data Curat...

Students can contribute to the design and development phases of eLearning projects, and also learn through the process. This study focused on two projects at a university in Hong Kong (development of Pharmacy eCases, and the establishment of an eLearning Assistants scheme) in which students designed, wrote and developed teaching materials with space to show initiative. Evaluation strategies inc...

Background With support from USAID-funded projects, the Dominican Republic (DR) started organizing a unified pharmaceutical system (SUGEMI) in 2010. Implementing SUGEMI included developing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all system components, appointing personnel for national and regional pharmaceutical units, and training on-site staff responsible for pharmaceutical supply management...

We describe a general methodology, socio-cognitive engineering, for the design of human-centred technology. It integrates software, task, knowledge and organizational engineering and has been refined and tested through a series of projects to develop computer systems to support training and professional work. In this paper we describe the methodology and illustrate its use through a project to ...

! Sample Leading Indicators • New actions, use strategies and techniques • Use cumulative & effective language • From “caused” to”contributed to” • Adjustments made • Report more comfort/energy, less fatigue, “easier” • Fewer negative comments about machines/tools • Purchasing/Contracting supports • Used at home/personal activities • Say shared with family members • Safety Committees trained • ...

The use of computer-based surgical simulators for training of prospective surgeons has been a topic of research for more than a decade. As a result, a large number of academic projects have been carried out, and a growing number of commercial products are available on the market. Keeping track of all these endeavors for established groups as well as for newly started projects can be quite arduo...

Numerous studies have used historical datasets to build and validate models for estimating software development effort. Very few used a chronological split (where projects’ end dates are used so that training sets only contain projects that were completed before the start date of each project in the validation set), and only one compared chronological split to random split. Therefore the aim of...