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Introduction to A research agenda for environmental management - through transdisciplinary, social science-rich environmental governance research / Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Jessie L. Knowlton, Chelsea Schelly, Robert M. Handler and Erin C. Pischke -- Governing sustainability and environmental management: what, why, and how? / Erin C. Pischke, Robert M. Handler and Jessie L. Knowlton -- Power within and beyond the state: understanding how power relations shape environmental management / Jesse Abrams, Diana Córdoba, Roman V. Sidortsov, Chelsea Schelly and Hugh S. Gorman -- Integrating across sectors and disciplines: transdisciplinary teamwork challenges and strategies / Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Jessie L. Knowlton, Robert M. Handler, Chelsea Schelly and Erin C. Pischke -- Transdisciplinary research teams: broadening the scope of who participates in research / Erin C. Pischke, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba, Lily House-Peters, Amarella Eastmond, Lucía Pérez Volkow, Mayra del Carmen Fragoso Medina and Marcella Ohira -- Administrative roles in environmental governance research: scientists incorporating policy makers / Robert A. LaFave and Jennifer L. Dunn -- Incorporating community: opportunities and challenges in community-engaged research / Abhilash Kantamneni, Richelle L. Winkler and Kirby Calvert -- Crossing boundaries: cross-national, transdisciplinary research and teamwork / Erin C. Pischke, Amarella Eastmond and Gabriela Alonso-Yanez -- Policy, science, and transdisciplinary research: when will it be safe to eat as much fish as desired? / Hugh S. Gorman, Valoree S. Gagnon, Amanda Giang, Judith A. Perlinger and Noel R. Urban -- Lessons from the transdisciplinary, international BIOPIRE project / Jennifer L. Dunn, Jessie L. Knowlton, Robert M. Handler, Erin C. Pischke, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado, Theresa L. Selfa, David J. Flaspohler, Julian Licata, Ena E. Mata-Zayas, Rodrigo Medeiros, Cassandra Moseley, Erik A. Nielsen, Valentin D Picasso Risso, Julio C. Sacramento-Rivero, Tatiana de Souza, Cesar J. Vazquez Navarrete and Nathan Basiliko -- Applying transdisciplinary research to enhance low-to-moderate income households' access to community solar / Brad Barnett, Emily W. Prehoda, Abhilash Kantamneni, Richelle L. Winkler and Chelsea Schelly -- In search for common ground: energy justice perspectives in global fossil fuel extraction / Roman V. Sidortsov, Raphael J. Heffron, Tedd Moya Mose, Chelsea Schelly and Bethel Tarekegne -- Understanding household conservation, climate change, and the food-energy-water nexus from a transdisciplinary perspective / David Watkins, Rachael Shwom, Chelsea Schelly, Datu B. Agusdinata, Kristin Floress and Kathleen E. Halvorsen -- A role-playing game development for supporting interventions to reduce household greenhouse gas emissions: transdisciplinary pathways and challenges / Datu B. Agusdinata, Muhammad A. Hanif, Heide K. Lukosch, and Excel Ortega -- Community implementation of potable reuse of treated wastewater / Ali Mirchi, Josiah Heyman, George Tchobanoglous, Daisuke Minakata, Shane Walker, Maryam Samimi, R. Brian Guerrero, Diego Sanchez, Robert M. Handler.

Research design and types -- Research methods -- Research problems and hypotheses -- Univariate data analysis -- Bivariate and multivariate data analysis -- Attribute data analysis -- Experimental design -- Survey sampling -- Data to knowledge

It is challenging to standardize data; yet, the capabilities to draw upon data across information systems hold huge potential for improving defense acquisition and procurement. Acquisition planning and management involves many decision-making and action-taking processes that cover a complex environment including actual acquisition, contracting, fiscal, legal, personnel, and regulatory requirements. A sound decision-making process has to rely on data;high quality data. Often the available data is dirty, outdated, incomplete, or insufficient for the expert to make a decision. On the other hand, there are enormous amounts of data on the web that can be utilized to crystalize the needed information. These data repositories are often publicly accessible and from a variety of sources including websites, government reports, news, wikis, blogs, online forums, and social media. This paper investigates how to leverage the information in public data sources to complement the internal data in order to support effective acquisition planning and management. This research is based on publicly available government acquisition databases at usaspending.gov and fpds.gov. It takes a data science approach for analyzing acquisition databases and focuses on two major tasks: (1) research on leveraging the web data for quality assessment and improvement of federal acquisition data and (2) research on appropriate data analytic techniques to discover useful information that can potentially help federal acquisition management and planning process. ; Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program

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Traditional modes of researching health service practice and policy have been criticised in terms of timeliness and relevance by potential users, and of poor uptake by researchers themselves. Newer models, based on principles of collaboration and integration, are being used in some healthcare settings, and there is evidence that these approaches help to bridge the gap that exists between 'research' and 'practice'. This article describes the work of a small research team within the former NHS Modernisation Agency, appropriately named Research into Practice, and reflects on its experience of using collaborative and integrative approaches to its work.

Larger-scale projects are becoming more common throughout the social sciences and humanities, housed in centres, institutes and programmes. Talented researchers find themselves faced with new challenges to act as managers and leaders rather than as individual scholars. They are responsible for the careers and professional development of others, and for managing interactions with university administrations and external stakeholders. Although many scientific and technological disciplines have long been organized in this way, few resources have been created to help leaders understand their roles and responsibilities and to reflect on their practice. This handbook has been created by the combined experience of a leading social scientist and a chief executive of a major international research development institution and funder.