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Self-Organization, Hierarchy, And Task Structure In Workgroups: An Empirical Study Of Complexity Theory, Matthew G. Paldy

Open Access Dissertations

Complexity theorists argue that an optimal organizational form results from the interactions of individual agents in the absence of an imposed management hierarchy (Anderson, 1999; Begun, 1994; Berreby, 1998; Coveney & Highfield, 1995; Guastello, 2002). There have been few empirical studies to support this claim. This research investigated the effects of self-organization and task interdependence types on group effectiveness and member satisfaction. Results show that groups allowed to self-organize had greater member satisfaction in sequential and reciprocal task structures, shorter task completion times in sequential task structures, and lower satisfaction in pooled task structures versus comparable groups with hierarchy imposed. …

The Embedded Writing Institute: A Study Of Professional Development, Beverly A. Paesano

Open Access Dissertations

In this ethnographic inquiry, I examined the experiences of twenty-one teachers who engaged in a job-embedded model of professional development in the teaching and learning of writing. This initiative, which became known as the Embedded Institute, draws from the National Writing Project model of teacher development that is commonly referred to in Writing Project sites across the country as the Summer Institute. The Embedded Institute reflected a nation-wide shift in the principles that inform practices of teacher development and of teaching and learning writing. Such a shift from product to process-oriented and from teacher to learner-centered practices both in teacher …

Spc For Quality And Risk: Monitoring Processes With Cross-Sectional And Serial Interdependence, And Higher Moments, Xia Pan

Open Access Dissertations

This study attempts to improve the statistical process control (SPC) methods for quality control and improvement and introduce SPC methods into risk control. With systematic viewpoints, the quality and risk control in business organizations is an issue of the control of cross-sectional and serial interdependent processes. Quality and risk are also determined by not only the first and second moments but also the higher moments of the probabilistic process. Several contributions were made in this study. A correct bias correction coefficient with unequal sample sizes for Shewhart chart was given. The concordance of Shewhart mean and variability pair charts was …

Observations Of The Wind-Wave Spectrum And Steep Wave Statistics In Open Ocean Waters, Nicholas Vicente Scott

Open Access Dissertations

The experimental data from the Southern Ocean Waves Experiment (SOWEX) and the Duck, North Carolina experiment (DNC) is used to investigate validity of the Hara-Belcher equilibrium spectrum for wind-waves under open ocean conditions. Wavenumber spectral calculations admit saturation spectra which when scaled by [special characters omitted] reveal that the spectra fall within the bounds of the Hara-Belcher model. These spectral calculations are also consistent with the Phillips model of the equilibrium spectrum of wind-waves leaving the discrimination between the two models as unclear. As an initial step in the direction of understanding the nonlinear phenomenon of wave breaking, a steep …

Gilded Age Spaces, Actual And Imagined: Edith Wharton As A Spatial Activist And Analyst, Renee Dara Somers

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation seeks to alter the reductive classification of Edith Wharton as "the upper class, Old New York, author of fiction" by re-imagining her place in American literature and culture. Viewing Wharton as a spatial activist accomplishes this task; she devoted much of her life to exploring the relationships that exist between people and their built environments. Wharton's spatial activism can be found in her interior design, her architecture, her landscape artistry and her life in general as much as they can be located in her literary texts. Her theories of space are practiced and materially executed, in addition to …

The Effect Of Slavery On Southern Farmland Values In The Antebellum And Postbellum Era, Brandon Devlin

Honors Theses

In the past 30 years, the legacy of African-American slavery has experienced a transformation in historical perspective. Morality aside, several historians have suggested that the accepted views regarding slavery need revision, particularly in an economic sense. Utilizing cliometrics, census records, diaries, and first-hand accounts of slavery in the South, economic historians such as Robert Fogel and Stanley Engennan have made a compelling case for the viability and profitability of slavery by exposing the nuances of the system that historical generalities often ignore. Of course, words like "viable" and ''profitable" do not necessarily mean "virtuous"or even "preferable", but it does imply …

Review Of Ruthless Democracy, By Timothy B. Powell, Matthew Wolf-Myer

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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An Unfortunate Reversal Of Fortune: The Supreme Court's Narrowing Of The Americans With Disabilities Act, Barry C. Taylor

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Blanket Clemency For Illinois Death Row Inmates, Kevin J. Mccloskey

Public Interest Law Reporter

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New Jersey Supreme Court To Consider Controversial Family Cap Welfare Provision, Jessica Hunter

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Representative Conyers Proposes National Health Insurance Act, Amber Nesbitt

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Fcc's Media Ownership Plan Axed: Deregulation And The Debate Over Democracy, Alice Nam

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Chicago Police Install Controversial Surveillance Cameras, Gavin Mhley

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Review Of "The Zinzendorf-Muhlenberg Encounter: A Controversy In Search Of Understanding" By W. H. Wagner, J. William Frost

Religion Faculty Works

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"Stuff You Really Want To Read:" Pleasure And Negotiation In Teen Magazine Reading, Margaret E. Troyer

Honors Papers

The first half of my paper closely examines teen magazines, with three major thematic areas of focus. Because the constructed ideal is such a fundamental part of teen magazines' pleasure, I look at editors' rhetorical strategies for establishing their expectations of their audience. Teen magazines depend so heavily on advertising revenue that they must necessarily construct the ideal teen as materialistic. In my next section, I consider some effects of magazines' focus on commodities. Finally, I look at the ways in which the special discourse of teen magazines shapes the constructed ideal and affects readers' pleasure. I focus on the …

Cavell And Hölderlin On Human Immigrancy, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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2003 Annual Historic Preservation Conference: "Preserving Our Texas Heritage.", George C. Wright

President Emeritus George C. Wright Speeches

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Mind And Heart 2003, Whitworth University

Mind and Heart Newsletter

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Washington University Magazine, Winter 2003

Washington University Magazine

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Respecting Litigants' Privacy And Public Needs: Striking Middle Ground In An Approach To Secret Settlements, Emily Fiftal

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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The Responsibility To Protect: A Beaver Without A Dam Review Of The Responsibility To Protect: Reprot Of The International Commission On Intervention And State Sovereignty, Jeremy I. Levitt

Journal Publications

The beaver's dam is comparable to protective intervention for at-risk populations.' Beavers need dams to enlarge the underwater habitat that will be open to them in winter, by creating a pond deep enough so that the bottom will not freeze. Humanitarian corridors and safe havens serve parallel functions for displaced civilians during times of conflict. Deep water, whether it is due to a beaver dam or not, provides storage for winter food and year-round underwater access to the den secure from predators. The shelter and safety deep water provides can be likened to the physical protection needed to safeguard civilians …

Multiple Solutions For An Inhomogeneous Semilinear Elliptic Equation In Rn, Yinbin Deng, Yi Li, Xuejin Zhao

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

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Strategic Planning, Hypercompetition, And Knowledge Management, Syed H. Akhter

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

When both product and
resource markets are turbulent
and disruptive, competitive
advantage has to be continually
renewed. But a firm can do this only
by managing its knowledge. Using two
elements of strategic planning—scenario
building and internal situation analysis—
managers can map and integrate knowledge to
gain a sustainable competitive edge in today’s
hypercompetitive markets.

Activation Of Jnk By Vanadate Induces A Fas-Associated Death Domain (Fadd)-Dependent Death Of Cerebellar Granule Progenitors In Vitro, Jia Luo, Yanbo Sun, Hong Lin, Yong Qian, Zheng Li, Stephen S. Leonard, Chuanshu Huang, Xianglin Shi

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

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Shar's Cars, Llc, A Utah Limited Liability Company And Jeffrey D. Birschbach V. Deloy Elder : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the Final Judgment by the Third Judicial District Court for Salt Lake County, State of Utah The Honorable Judge Glenn K. Iwasaki.

Problem Behavior Theory In An Ethnically Diverse Female Prison Sample, Kristen J. Quinlan

Open Access Master's Theses

Research on female inmates has shown that this population engages in a variety of risky behaviors, like alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and risky sexual activities, and that these problem behaviors seem to share high positive intercorrelations. Problem Behavior Theory (PBT) explains these positive intercorrelations by viewing problem behaviors like alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and risky sexual activities as a single factor, or a single behavioral syndrome. Although the presence of this syndrome has been demonstrated in a variety of ethnically diverse adolescent samples, little work has been done to evaluate its presence in a sample of adults. Adult female inmantes …

Scale Validation Of High School Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Inclusion Of Students With Disabilities, Catherine Ernst

Open Access Master's Theses

Research has shown that teacher attitudes influence their expectations of students and the way in which they interact with them (Brophy & Good, 1972; Brownwell & Pajares, 1999; Bryan 1974; Cook 2001; Harris, Snodgrass, & Rosenthal, 1986; Jordan & Stanovich, 2001; Kuklinski & Weinstein, 2001; Rosenthal, 2002). Ajzen and Fishbein (1969) developed the Theory of Reasoned Action, which proposes that people's behavior is determined by intention and that these intentions are represented in people's attitudes toward the behavior and the perceived norm of that behavior. Beginning with the passage of Public Law 94-142 and the IDEA reauthorization, regular education teachers …

Optimization Of Artificial Neural Networks In Satellite Remote Sensing Da Ta Analysis, Tiegeng Ren

Open Access Master's Theses

Satellite remote sensing data have been broadly applied in extraction of thematic land cover information. The multi-spectral classification is the mostly used method. Traditional supervised classification algorithms are in the category of statistical pattern recognition. Due to the limitations of spatial and spectral resolutions of remotely sensed data, traditional classification has always been challenged in thematic accuracy of land cover mapping. To improve the performance, new technical approaches are in demand.

Artificial Neural Network is one of the emerging approaches in multi-spectral remote sensing and multi-source spatial data handling. However, none-optimized method always met difficulties to get an ideal result. …

Ronald Kent Kunz And Roseann Jean Rockwell V. Stephen W. Rupp : Reply Brief, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

CERTIFTED ISSUE FROM JOINT ORDER OF THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH, THE HONORABLE GLEN E. CLARK AND WILLIAM T. THURMAN PRESIDING

Janalee Tobias And Judy Feld V. Anderson Development Co. Lc. : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

ON CONSOLIDATED APPEAL OF THE FOLLOWING TWO INTERLOCUTORY APPEALS: Granting Plaintiffs Motion for Partial Summary Judgment over Defendants' SLAPP Counterclaim and Granting Plaintiffs Motion to Dismiss Defendants' Counterclaims for Emotional Distress, Abuse of Process and Punitive Damages. Denying Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment over Plaintiffs Intentional Interference with Existing Contractual Relations and Prospective Economic Relations Claims.