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Impact of Creating Critical Mass Classrooms for Females by Lloyd, Natalie, Szymakowski, J.

“…In addition, extensive “research and evaluation by the STEM education community underscore that building a critical mass matters.” (Malcom and Malcom-Piqueux, 2013, 178)…”
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Networking for Critical Mass: The West Coast Aboriginal Network (WestCAN) Case Study by Fernando, D., Wyld, F., Gibbs, J., Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay

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Optimal critical mass for the two-dimensional Keller–Segel model with rotational flux terms by Espejo, Elio, Wu, Hao

Subjects: “…chemotaxis; rotational flux; critical mass; blow-up; global existence; dissipative energy structure.…”
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Predicting the diffusion pattern of internet-based communication applications using bass model parameter estimates for email by Wong, David, Yap, K., Turner, Bradley, Rexha, Nexhmi

“…In the case of Twitter, for example, which was launched in September 2006, critical mass is predicted to occur in early-2012.…”
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Program pascasiswazah by Berita Harian, Basir Ibrahim

“…Suatu ketika dulu banyak pihak beranggapan dengan hanya memilik kelayakan akademik peringkat sijl, diploma mahupun Ijazah sarjana muda sudah mencukupi untuk memohon pekerjaan, namun sejak negara beralih kepada ekonomi berasaskan pengetahuan (K-Ekonomi) semilan tahun lalu, tanggapan itu perlu dikikis bagi menambah jumlah 'critical mass' negara.…”
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University spin-off policies and economic development in less successful regions: Learning from two decades of policy practice by Benneworth, P., Charles, David

“…Although there is great interest in the new knowledge economy, less favoured regions seem permanently disadvantaged because they lack a critical mass of knowledge capital to initiate accumulation, growth and economic development processes. …”
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Board Gender Diversity and Firm Performance: Evidence from big companies in China by XIE, Yi

“…The results of this dissertation show that female directors’ number has no relationship with ROA, but positively correlated with Tobin's Q, which also verifies the critical mass theory that, when the boardroom has two female directors, it will positively influence firm performance. …”
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Understanding the equilibrium dynamics of European broadband diffusion by Suenaga, Hiroaki, Madden, Gary

“…Our empirical analysis of European countries reveals that although the demand for broadband services exhibits strong network effects they are not ‘strong enough’ to archive critical mass in these markets. Furthermore, the systems equilibrium dynamics show that even though the technology is introduced at very high prices initially, the expansion of suppliers’ infrastructure investment reduces the equilibrium prices rapidly in the first few years. …”
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Whither Gender Studies in Sarawak? by Hew, Cheng Sim

“…Third, the future of gender studies in Sarawak in the field of anthropology and sociology is challenging, as there is no critical mass of researchers and academics in this specific field for capacity building among students and young scholars.…”
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Gender diversity and firm performance: evidence from technology and industrial companies by Zhang, Xinran

“…These results could support the agency theory, critical mass theory, resource dependency theory, and social identity theory. …”
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On the onset of incipient fluidization by Tan, Ka Kheng, Tan, Yee Wan, Tey, Beng Ti, Look, Kar Yang

“…The critical momentum force is provided by the critical superficial gas velocity Uc in the form of critical mass flux of diffusion. It is found that the first movement of particles may be predicted by a critical transient Rayleigh number determined by a critical superficial velocity equals to the minimum fluidization velocity, Umf. …”
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Investigating The Underlying Components in Business Incubation Process in Malaysian ICT Incubators by Abdul Khalid, Fararishah

“…Malaysia is an example of a developing nation that has implemented its business incubation programmes in its effort to generate a critical mass of technology-based entrepreneurs.This paper examines the underlying components in the business incubation process in the Malaysian ICT incubators. …”
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Intellectual property license contracts: reflections on a prospective UNCITRAL project by Tosato, Andrea

“…Though Member States have battled lingering reservations, support has been increasing steadily among practitioners and academics, and is verging on achieving critical mass. This paper provides the necessary theoretical infrastructure for this initiative by expounding its possible scope, content and form. …”
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Mapping strategic thought and action in developing disruptive software technology: advanced case study research on how the firm crafts shared vision by Pattinson, Hugh, Woodside, Arch

“…Trilogy's management team's decision-making was heavily influenced by a strong perception that the organization needed to take risks to achieve "critical mass" in anticipation of a convergence of "back-office" and "front-office" applications into one market. …”
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Industrial deepening in Malaysia: policy lessons for developing countries by Tham, Siew-Yean, Loke, Wai Heng

“…However, efforts to deepen manufacturing development have not succeeded in nurturing a critical mass of domestic entrepreneurs with indigenous innovative capacities as industrialization continues to be dependent on imported technology and capital. …”
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Enculturation of lifelong learning : perspectives from the New Economics Model by Guan, Eng Chan, Latifah Abdol Latif, Ramli Bahroom

“…For the country to become a high-income nation by 2020, Malaysia needs to have a critical mass of skilled and knowledge-based workers for higher productivity and economic growth.The projected national population for age-group cohort 15 years old and above are approximately 34.2 million by year 2020 and they constitute the working population of Malaysia. …”
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Social impacts of events and the role of anti-social behaviour by Deery, Margaret, Jago, L.

“…Purpose – The research focusing on the social impacts of events on communities has reached a level of critical mass and this paper aims to synthesise the literature, including the research methods used and analytical techniques that have been employed in order to provide a platform for future research in this important area. …”
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Deciding to stay or go: Understanding the career intentions of women in the Australian mining industry by Nowak, Margaret, Marinelli, Mellisa, Lord, Linley, Bonner, D.

“…An important objective in seeking increased retention rates is to build a critical mass of women who can become role models for women who follow (Stout et al., 2011). …”
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Corporate culture and health care organization by I Izamin, M Jamsiah, I Aniza

“…Among the issues in implementing corporate culture within healthcare organizations are middle managers dilemma, cultural diversity and subcultures within the organization, size of healthcare organization and critical mass.…”
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An Ontology-Driven Methodology To Derive Cases From Structured And Unstructured Sources by Manickam, Selvakumar

“…Populating and subsequently maintaining a critical mass of cases in a CB is a tedious manual activity demanding vast human and operational resources. …”
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