Composition Of Departments Research Articles

Organizational structure of software development companies located in the city of San Francisco de Campeche

This research presents the results of the diagnosis of the current situation of the software industry in the City of San Francisco de Campeche, as well as the context in which it is at a national level. In March 2022, a survey was made to 83% of the software development companies in the city, with the use of the software called "Virtual Observatory" where an instrument consisting of 65 specific, observable and measurable indicators, classified in 3 categories referring to the organizational structure: Composition of Departments, Human Resources, Research, Innovation, Development and Technology. The indicators in turn were organized in 20 questions of closed format, which allowed to know the characteristics of the personnel, as well as the technologies that request to be mastered, and the different areas with which the companies operate. In this way, we contribute to the state of the art of the software industry in the community and thus detect areas of opportunity that detonate the economic development of the community.

Convergence or polarisation? The impact of research assessment exercises in the Italian case

Two research assessments with an impact on university funding have taken place in Italy, covering the periods 2004–2010 and 2011–2014. After correcting grading schemes in order to grant comparability across the two exercises, we show that university final scores exhibit some convergence. We find that convergence is largely due to changes in the relative productivity of researchers who participated to both exercises as well as to hiring and promotions occurred between the two exercises. Results are confirmed even when we equalise the number of products across the two exercises. When we consider departments within universities, we still find convergence, though the structure and composition of departments is not strictly comparable, because mapping researchers involves some arbitrariness. These results suggest that convergence reflect genuine changes in the behaviour of researchers and in the strategies of assessed institutions, induced by incentives created by the national research assessment exercises.

Crossing the hurdle: the determinants of individual scientific performance

An original cross sectional dataset referring to a medium sized Italian university is implemented in order to analyze the determinants of scientific research production at individual level. The dataset includes 942 permanent researchers of various scientific sectors for a three year time span (2008 - 2010). Three different indicators - based on the number of publications or citations - are considered as response variables. The corresponding distributions are highly skewed and display an excess of zero - valued observations. In this setting, the goodness of fit of several Poisson mixture regression models are explored by assuming an extensive set of explanatory variables. As to the personal observable characteristics of the researchers, the results emphasize the age effect and the gender productivity gap, as previously documented by existing studies. Analogously, the analysis confirm that productivity is strongly affected by the publication and citation practices adopted in different scientific disciplines. The empirical evidence on the connection between teaching and research activities suggests that no univocal substitution or complementarity thesis can be claimed: a major teaching load does not affect the odds to be a non-active researcher and does not significantly reduce the number of publications for active researchers. In addition, new evidence emerges on the effect of researchers administrative tasks, which seem to be negatively related with researcher's productivity, and on the composition of departments. Researchers' productivity is apparently enhanced by operating in department filled with more administrative and technical staff, and it is not significantly affected by the composition of the department in terms of senior or junior researchers.

The Impact of Gender Characteristics on Mentoring in Graduate Departments of Sociology

There has been much research on gender inequality in graduate education and the benefits of mentoring. However, most of this research focuses on how mentoring addresses female graduate students’ experiences of gender inequality instead of how the gender characteristics of departments impact the level of mentoring they offer. In particular, I examine how the gender composition of departments in terms of faculty and administration as well as faculty awareness of gender inequality or feminist issues influences the types of mentoring structures found in graduate departments of sociology. Bivariate correlations indicated that these characteristics (gender characteristics in particular) had significant relationships with mentoring structures in departments. This study concludes with a discussion of these relationships, an overview of policy implications, and suggestions for future research.

Integrating emerging disciplines.

The dynamics of medicine force us to continually update the content of residency curricula. Before selecting the material to be added or withdrawn from the curricula, goals for the desired product must be established. Further, the potential effects of emerging disciplines on the structure and composition of departments and residencies must be carefully considered. The Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM) is the principal instrument for forcing the integration of emerging disciplines into clinical education. Several questions must be considered when deciding how best to integrate these new disciplines. Should selected internists be designated to teach them? What are the most appropriate training sites? Which disciplines should be linked for pedagogic efficiency and relevance? How do we separate the educational pathways for generalists and subspecialists? The strategy of requiring additional training for a second certificate from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has served internal medicine well for 50 years. Innovations in science and technology, however, are occurring at an accelerated pace. One solution may be to separate standardized residency training into multiple 4-year tracks that produce variously skilled graduates.

Academic manpower survey of 1990: I. Descriptors of departments of pathology in the United States (from the joint task force on pathology manpower ASCP/CAP/APC)

A survey of chairmen of United States departments of pathology (97% response rate) augmented with data from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows that roughly two thirds (65%) of departmental faculty are physicians, the great majority of whom are pathologists. Most of the remainder are persons with solely the PhD degree (26.4% of faculty). The composition of departments of pathology in terms of age, gender, ethnic origin, academic rank, and tenure status is also reported. In contrast to a comparable survey performed 5 years previously, the present report shows that in 1989, departments of pathology contained (1) 20.6% more faculty positions, (2) a greater proportion of faculty members with a PhD degree, (3) greater numbers of open positions, and (4) a probable increase in the proportion of faculty that are female and that are of an ethnic minority.

設計組織における設計チーム形成について : 設計主体形成に関する研究

The purpose of this article is to clarify the system of making teams in design organizations. In a sense design work is a connection in many different staffs. So, there are problems of human factor. The results of this study are as follows; 1) Typology of design teams: Design teams are classified into 10 types from five aspects. Each type of design team has a different purpose and characteristic features. Such as, combined or separated in equipment and structure planning staffs, specialized or generalized in building use, project oriented or team oriented, continuous or partial in design process, independent or subordinate in decision-making. 2) Characteristics of organization structure I Designers organizations are characterized from three aspects, composition of departments, a team unit size in a design organizations and control system of design process and decision making. 3) Design team types and organization structure: A type of design team is determined by the combination of these characteristics of organization structure.

Development of a division of general medicine in a department of internal medicine

Complex social and economic pressures have initiated a perceptible shift in the composition of departments of medicine, which are now required to provide a more balanced faculty effort in the areas of patient care, teaching, and research. This report describes the development and diverse roles of a Division of General Medicine in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The division members are academically oriented general internists adhering to the principles of scholarship found in traditional subspecialty divisions. The division members play key roles in the organization of the student and resident teaching programs in general internal medicine. Patient care and research activities, fiscal organization, and plans and problems in the area of promotion and tenure are discussed. Since divisions of general medicine seem destined to become integral parts of most, if not all, departments of medicine, the division described in this report may serve as a model for other institutions.