The Delphi Method of group communication was used with experienced distance education stakeholders in the United States from the areas of research, policy, and practice to identify priorities in K–12 distance education over the next five years. Data from the three rounds of this study were organized and compared using descriptive statistics. The results of the analyses by statement and by subsc...

Senescence of carnation petals is accompanied by autocatalytic ethylene production and wilting of the petals; the former is caused by the expression of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase and ACC oxidase genes and the latter is related to the expression of a cysteine proteinase (CPase) gene. CPase is probably responsible for the degradation of proteins, leading to the decomposition...

Executive Summary The Delphi method is an attractive method for graduate students completing masters and PhD level research. It is a flexible research technique that has been successfully used in our program at the University of Calgary to explore new concepts within and outside of the information systems body of knowledge. The Delphi method is an iterative process to collect and distill the an...

Ultraviolet spectrophotometry has been successfully used for the qualitative as well quantitative determination of various phytoconstituents. For phytoconstituents in extract by ultraviolet spectrophotometry, absorbance at specific wavelength is measured. As a mixture number constituents, different constituents same along with compound interest can occur giving wrong interpretation observed dat...

Information systems (IS) departments face many challenges in today’s rapidly changing environment. One approach to understanding the challenges faced by IS departments is to survey IS managers to elicit what they consider key issues. Key issues in IS management surveys have been conducted for many years in many nations and regions. However, most key issues surveys seem to lack a theoretical bas...

The purpose of this study was to increase our understanding of Traffic Safety Culture (TSC) by identifying its constituent components. A review of existing safety culture literature was conducted. Next, 18 international experts participated in a Delphi Technique to rate candidate TSC components. Corresponding survey items were then developed and pretested. Our final survey instrument was mailed...

This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted with the aim of understanding factors that triggers chaos, pattern for chaos and its impact to the environment of ICT based project development. The survey is conducted using two-round Delphi method on a selected pool of experienced project managers who were involved in mega ICT project development in Malaysia between the years 1994 until 2...

all the major subfields and important aspects of the field. This article presents a systematic and comprehensive knowledge map of the field, and is grounded on the panel discussions. The map has 10 basic categories: The model establishes the groundwork for formulating theories of information science, as well as developing and evaluating information science academic programs and bibliographic re...