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Ada News - 09/21/2015, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Factors Affecting Dimensional Precision Of Consumer 3d Printing, David D. Hernandez

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

This paper investigates the factors affecting dimensional precision of consumer-grade 3D printing, attempting to isolate and mitigate sources of error. The focus is on creating engineering prototypes of, tooling for, or finalized instances of mechanical devices. A specific fused deposition modeling printer – the Ultimaker 2 – is analyzed in terms of meeting precise physical dimensions, consistent shapes, and predictable surface finish. Extensive trial and error resulted in removal of several sources of bias, with square test articles exhibiting a lower-than-anticipated mean percentage error of -0.387% (SD = 0.559), a value comparable to other modern manufacturing techniques. A full …

Examining Social Desirability Bias In Measures Of Financial Behavior, Nicole L. Kelly

Theses and Dissertations

Surveys that investigate the financial lives of consumers consist of direct questions about financial behavior, with college students being a heavily surveyed and convenient sample (Gutter 2013). However, the subjective nature of survey data is not bias-free, indicated by the presence of disparities between the respondents' reported and actual behavior. Due to the fact that many students begin to acquire loans, establish credit, and initiate saving behaviors in college, it is important that we have a complete understanding the financial behavior of college students.

The goal of this study was to investigate the role of socially desirable responding (SDR) in …

Change Is Always Constant, Anthony Jackson

Anthony J Jackson Prof

Are you keeping up with companies who despite the economic downturn are still making a profit or are you making excuses like once the economy get's better we'll change, and when the economy gets better you say we just got back on our feet and now is not the time to change, and once you start doing better financially you say we have so many things to catch up on first before we change, and when you catch up on things the economy slips a bit and you can't change, and guess what my friends this is where you started.

Optimal Configuration Of Remanufacturing Supply Network With Return Quality Decision, Mohannad Radhi, Guoqing Zhang

Mechanical, Automotive & Materials Engineering Publications

No abstract provided.

Insights From Global Project Managers: Career Advice For Successful International Assignments, Tracey M. Richardson, James Marion, Stephen Onu

Publications

Qualitative analysis techniques were used to identify recurring themes from project manager interview summaries undertaken by 120 project management students. The themes and the resulting conceptual framework provide evidence for the factors that support the development of successful global project managers. Such factors were found to include taking the initiative to acquire an in-depth understand the local environment and to develop culture and language competence.

Adopting Change Initiatives During Economic Downturns, Anthony J. Jackson Prof

Anthony J Jackson Prof

Change initiatives is a popular approach to eliminate waste and increase profits with a more efficient approach to productivity. Developed by Motorola it now has spread world wide with the more popular Toyota Production System (TPS) to Trumpf with its Synchro Production System, Healthcare, and Small Business Enterprises (SME’s). Many companies have claimed benefits from change initiative implementation with some failures. This paper reviews the critical success factors and change projects and what the companies did to be successful..

State Of Georgia Order On Defendants Alan Yeager And Aes Claims Partners, Llc's Motion To Stay Proceedings And Compel Arbitration, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Visual Identity Program Guidelines, Kim Nelson

Academic Leadership Academy

The focus of this project is to pull together individuals from across campus who are responsible for visual communication and form a Designers on Campus group. During 2014 and 2015, this group has met to discuss a variety of design topics, share ideas and show completed work. The group has provided valuable input into revising WMU’s Visual Identity Program guidelines. This ongoing project will result in a new release of the guidelines in early January, 2016.

Project Management Systems Thinking Departamental Upgrade, Madeleine Lakatos Fojtik

Academic Leadership Academy

Student Affairs Marketing Communications provides support services Assessment Results for several Western Michigan University departments. In addition to a strong online Web presence, printed materials continue to be a popular medium for Dining Services, Residence Life, Student Affairs and Children’s Place Learning Center, a primary list of Student Affairs departments marketing does work for. Promotional materials are developed for both new students recruitment and retention of students. Throughout the year, the marketing department develops and designs a variety of projects in print, digital media and for the Web—in fact over 400 per year. The marketing team consists of a marketing …

2015-09-17 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for September 17, 2015.

Ua12/2/1 Healthy Living Guide, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special healthy living edition of the College Heights Herald.

• Moore, Brittiny. Sustainability Committee to Create a Healthier Campus Environment
• Matthews, Carly. WKU Addresses Food Waste in Beneficial Methods – Sustainability, Dining Services
• Sullivan, Tommy. Students Explore Different Ways to Get Up the Hill
• Mayo, Marcel. Students on SNAP: Hilltoppers Offer Insight Into Healthy Diet On a Budget – Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
• Davis, Sydney. Group X Classes Offer a Nontraditional Workout – Physical Fitness
• Pettway, Shantel. Popular Versus Unpopular Foods on Campus – Dining Services, Restaurants
• Moore, Mollie. Where to Find the Best Vegan Food on Campus – Dining Services, …

2015-09-17 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Newsletter for September 17, 2015.

How To Make Business Processes "Socialize"?, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Ejub Kajan, Sherif Sakr, Mohamed Boukhebouze, Ahmed Barnawi

All Works

This paper presents an approach that builds upon social computing principles to make business processes; "socialize". First the approach identifies the main components of a business process that are task, person, and; machine. A task is a work unit that forms with other tasks a business process and that a person and/ormachine; execute. Afterwards the approach enriches a business process with details captured from the (execution; and social) relations that connect tasks together, persons together, and machines together. While execution; relations are widely reported in the literature, there is a growing interest in studying the role of social; relations in …

Organisational Effectiveness: The Role And Benefits Of Human Resources Auditing, Chris Andrews Dr

Dr Chris Andrews

No abstract provided.

Does The Format Of Internal Control Disclosures Matter? An Experimental Investigation Of Nonprofessional Investor Behavior, Amanuel Fekade Tadesse

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates whether the current lack of structure of internal control weakness disclosures (a narrative about the reliability of the financial reporting system) leads nonprofessional investors to make differential investment decisions. Using the non-accelerated filer (smaller public company) setting, where nonprofessional investors are likely to consume unaudited internal control reports in their investing judgments and decisions, I examine two facets of internal control disclosure formats: presentation salience and disaggregation of material weaknesses. A 2 x 2 between-participants behavioral experiment was conducted with internal control presentation salience (bulleted vs. in-text) and disaggregation level (a single material weakness vs. a combination …

Information Technology & Sustainability: An Empirical Study Of The Value Of The Building Automation System, Daphne Marie Simmonds

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the environmental and economic effects of green information technology (IT). Green IT describes two sets of IT innovations: one set includes innovations that are implemented to reduce the environmental impact of IT services in organizations; and the other IT to reduce the environmental impact of other organizational processes. The two sets respond to the call for more environmentally friendly or “greener” organizational processes.

I developed and tested a preliminary model. The model applied the resource based view (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfelt 1984) the stakeholder theory (Freeman 1984) and included four constructs: (1) BAS implementation; environmental …

Essays On The Impact Of Ceo Gender On Corporate Policies And Outcomes, Nilesh Sah

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the first essay I examine the cash policies of female-led firms. Recent research finds that female CEOs eschew riskier corporate policies, but it makes contradicting claims whether this is due to risk aversion. Benchmarking risk aversion by the management of firms’ cash, I find that female CEOs are risk averse relative to male CEOs. Specifically, they hold significantly (18%) more cash, even for the same level of dividend payout as male CEOs. Further, they have significantly higher speed of adjustment for cash deficits, are more likely to use excess cash to increase dividends, but are equally likely to use …

Outline For Talk To Delta One Group, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

This document is a brief outline of a talk Pollard gave at the 2016 Delta Group Meeting in Nashville, TN. In it Pollard covers everything from business growth to the relationship between leadership and belief.

In the original documents, Pollard attached Brian Oxley's poem "Life's Tracks" to the outline. It can be found here: http://oxvisionmedia.com/index.php?p=blog/lifes-tracks

Chapman, John (Fa 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 816. This collection “Mining and The Company Store,” describes essential phases of mining coal and the companies miners worked for in the Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky. The narrative is in an interview format and illustrated with photos; a small portion of the narrative features information about company stores. This information was collected by Western KentuckyUniversity student John Chapman, for credit in a folklore class.