C and scholarly research often have very different objectives with respect to advancements in practice, theory, and observation (e.g., data collections). For example, consulting often emphasizes immediate benefits, specialized applications, and a focus on only the key variables. Scholarly research often emphasizes replicability, generalizability, and introducing previously uninvestigated variab...

Consulting and scholarly research often have very different objectives with respect to advancements in practice, theory and observation (e.g., data collections). For example, consulting often emphasizes immediate benefits, specialized applications and a focus on only the key variables. Scholarly research often emphasizes replicability, generalizability and introducing previously uninvestigated ...

the main purpose of this was to analyze challenges and improvement mechanisms of wheat consulting engineers (wces) in iran, isfahan provinces. it was based on survey research which has been two groups (consulting engineers and extension experts). the population of the study was 163 of wheat consulting engineers and 87 extension experts. out of which, 95 consulting engineers and 55 extension exp...

An important, if much neglected, arena within the field of tourism studies is the role of tourism scholars as consultants in the development process. For individuals within this field of ‘expert knowledge’ participation in consultancy projects often places them at the heart of complex and competing interests at local, national and international level. Such complexity necessitates ethically info...

The National Park Service funded a study to determine the impact of water released from the Glen Canyon Dam on sandbars downriver through Grand Canyon National Park. The project involved considerable amounts of messy and missing data. Some of the challenges faced and lessons learned during this project are described.