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Good Game, Greyory Blake
Good Game, Greyory Blake
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This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic …
Comparison Of Hiring Strategies Of Orthodontic Private Practitioners, Steven C. Petritz
Comparison Of Hiring Strategies Of Orthodontic Private Practitioners, Steven C. Petritz
Theses and Dissertations
COMPARISON OF HIRING STRATEGIES OF ORTHODONTIC PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS
By Steven C. Petritz, D.D.S.
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Dentistry at Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2018
Thesis Director: Bhavna Shroff, D.D.S., M.Dent.Sc., M.P.A.
Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Orthodontics Program Director
Purpose: Evaluate factors that influence hiring outcomes of clinical and non-clinical staff in orthodontic private practices.
Methods: Orthodontists (n=1968) were surveyed regarding their hiring methods and outcomes. Responses were summarized using descriptive statistics. Chi-square tests were used to compare between hiring strategies and outcomes. …