Technology Pathways
Technology Pathways

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-10-05

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 0309181720

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In 2003, Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to establish the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) Joint Planning and Development Office (JDPO) to plan the development of an air transportation system capable of meeting potential air traffic demand for 2025. All federal agencies involved in aviation participate in the JDPO providing the opportunity overcome many of the major barriers to developing an effective NGATS. To assist this process, the NRC was asked to examine the first NGATS Integrated Plan prepared by JPDO and submitted to Congress in 2004. This report provides a review of the vision and goals, the operational concepts, and the R&D roadmap developed by the plan; an analysis of the JDPO integrated product teams created to carry out the planning; and an assessment of the implementation process.

Pathways to Transformation
Pathways to Transformation

Author: Carrie J. Boden

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1617358398

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Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship is an edited collection that synthesizes current research on transformative learning and expands the current knowledge-base. This book is timely and significant as it provides a synthesis of some of the most exciting research in two fields: adult education and human services. The objectives of this themed edited collection, Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship, are threefold. First, this collection serves as a space to synthesize current research on transformative learning. Through an extensive literature review, the editors have discerned several important strands of research in the area of transformative learning and solicited chapters dealing with these topics. The second objective of the collection is to expand the current knowledge-base in the area of transformative learning by creating a space for dialog on the subject and bringing together diverse voices. The third objective of the collection is to transcend the field of adult education, with a specific goal to reach an audience in human services (psychology, counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy).

Career Pathways
Career Pathways

Author: Elaine Makas Howard

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780761939719

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Help students be more focused and team-oriented, and become the true drivers of their own learning by centering learning and planning around one of several broad career avenues.

Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech
Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher:

Published: 2022-09-09

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780309268974

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Demand for tech professionals is expected to increase substantially over the next decade, and increasing the number of women of color in tech will be critical to building and maintaining a competitive workforce. Despite years of efforts to increase the diversity of the tech workforce, women of color have remained underrepresented, and the numbers of some groups of women of color have even declined. Even in cases where some groups of women of color may have higher levels of representation, data show that they still face significant systemic challenges in advancing to positions of leadership. Research evidence suggests that structural and social barriers in tech education, the tech workforce, and in venture capital investment disproportionately and negatively affect women of color. Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech uses current research as well as information obtained through four public information-gathering workshops to provide recommendations to a broad set of stakeholders within the tech ecosystem for increasing recruitment, retention, and advancement of women of color. This report identifies gaps in existing research that obscure the nature of challenges faced by women of color in tech, addresses systemic issues that negatively affect outcomes for women of color in tech, and provides guidance for transforming existing systems and implementing evidence-based policies and practices to increase the success of women of color in tech.

Sustainable Freight Transport
Sustainable Freight Transport

Author: Lóri Tavasszy

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2018-12-10

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3038974358

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sustainable Freight Transport" that was published in Sustainability

Analytics and Tech Mining for Engineering Managers
Analytics and Tech Mining for Engineering Managers

Author: Scott W. Cunningham

Publisher: Momentum Press

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1606505114

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This book offers practical tools in Python to students of innovation, as well as competitive intelligence professionals, to track new developments in science, technology, and innovation. The book will appeal to both—tech-mining and data science audiences. For tech-mining audiences, Python presents an appealing, all-in-one language for managing the tech-mining process. The book is a complement to other introductory books on the Python language, providing recipes with which a practitioner can grow a practice of mining text. For data science audiences, this book gives a succinct overview over the most useful techniques of text mining. The book also provides relevant domain knowledge from engineering management; so, an appropriate context for analysis can be created. This is the first book of a two-book series. This first book discusses the mining of text, while the second one describes the analysis of text. This book describes how to extract actionable intelligence from a variety of sources including scientific articles, patents, pdfs, and web pages. There is a variety of tools available within Python for mining text. In particular, we discuss the use of pandas, BeautifulSoup, and pdfminer.