Designing and Managing Your Research Project

Designing and Managing Your Research Project
Author: David Robert Thomas
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 184860193X

This book provides information about the key areas needed for a successful project. It includes software skills, developing research objectives, writing proposals, literature reviews, getting ethics approval, seeking funding, managing a project, communicating research findings, and writing reports. There is also a chapter on working as an independent researcher. The book includes numerous examples, checklists, and practical exercises designed to assist the learning of research skills and the completion of crucial project tasks. It covers procedures needed for conducting projects electronically and accessing information from the Internet.

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 82

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 82
Author:
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones for management of crops, livestock, fisheries, forests and other natural resource-based activities represents a new technological frontier and opens up a range of exciting opportunities. The latest issue of ICT Update is dedicated to the use of this technology and associated systems in different parts of the world. This issue - available online and in print format in both English and French has been published in collaboration with Esri. It includes 12 articles, one interview and a section featuring selected online resources on the topic. Articles range from the use of UAVs to design an irrigation scheme in Nigeria, to feeding a locust monitoring scheme, from documenting illegal land occupancy in Panama to assisting smallholder farmers in monitoring their crops in Eastern Africa, and more.

Research Grants Index

Research Grants Index
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1116
Release: 1974
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

Guide to NIH Programs and Awards

Guide to NIH Programs and Awards
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Office of Collaborative Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1976
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

"This publication is a compendium of the scientific programs of the entities which make the National Institutes of Health, and which award such contracts and grants." Arranged under various institutes and divisions of NIH. Each section contains information about areas of research, programs, and awards currently in force. Also gives addresses for requesting applications and additional information.