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Agglomeration Effects And Strategic Orientations: Evidence From The U.S. Lodging Industry, Linda Canina, Cathy A. Enz, Jeffrey S. Harrison

Management Faculty Publications

This study provides evidence regarding the strategic dynamics of competitive clusters. Firms that agglomerate (co-locate) may benefit from the differentiation of competitors without making similar differentiating investments themselves. Alternatively, co-locating with a high percentage of firms with low-cost strategic orientations reduces performance for firms pursuing high levels of differentiation. Further, the lowest-cost providers with the greatest strategic distance from the norm of the competitive cluster reap the greatest benefit from co-location with differentiated firms. We find empirical support for these ideas using a sample of 14,995 U.S. lodging establishments, and controlling for a number of key demand-shaping factors.

An Hr Planning Model For Outsourcing, Shilpa Khanna, J. Randolph New

Management Faculty Publications

To assist leaders and planners, the researchers provide a new human resource planning model and suggest best practices for planning and implementing an outsourcing engagement. Based on dynamic HR planning theory, and research into current outsourcing cases and approaches, the researchers provide a roadmap to confront the challenges of outsourcing. The researchers also suggest directions for further research on the contemporary outsourcing issues. First and foremost, HR planning should not be outsourced during the outsourcing process. Companies rushing into outsourcing sometimes depend so much on consultants and potential vendors for advice that the critical job of determining the new organization …

Reflections On Diversity, William Murray Tabb

Faculty Articles

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The Confidentiality And Privacy Implications Of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Stacey A. Tovino

Faculty Articles

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Tribes And Tribulations: Beyond Sovereign Immunity And Toward Reparation And Reconciliation For The Estelusti, Carla Pratt

Faculty Articles

This Article advocates a form of micro-reparations for a limited class of African Americans--the Estelusti (black Indians). The Article seeks reparations in the form of racial healing not only from the United States Government, but also from one particular participant in African American slavery--Native American Indian Tribes. The Article begins by defining the theory of micro-reparations and providing the historical foundation which serves as the factual predicate to the claim that black Indians have for reparation. This part of the article establishes how the rule of hypo-descent or the "one drop rule" has served historically and presently to exclude black …

Stakeholders, Michael Johnson-Cramer, Robert A. Phillips

Management Faculty Publications

The stakeholder concept derives from a simple premise: organizations and technologies exist in constellations of relationships. Organizations operate in a network of market and nonmarket relationships with other organizations, groups, and individuals. Likewise technologies emerge and exist in a network of suppliers, end users, and others who bear the impact of the technology. Generally with reference to both organizations and technologies, these related parties are termed stakeholders, meaning that they hold a stake in the outcomes of the organization or technology.

In Teachers' Hands: Effective Literacy Teaching Practices In The Early Years Of Schooling, William Louden, Mary Rohl, Caroline Barratt Pugh, Claire Brown, Trevor Cairney, Jess Elderfield, Helen House, Marion Meiers, Judith Rivalland, Ken Rowe

Monitoring Learning

This project investigated the link between children’s growth in English literacy in the early years of schooling and their teachers’ classroom teaching practices. Using the LLANS literacy assessment tasks, 2000 children from every state and territory were assessed at the beginning and end of their first or second year at school. The teaching practices used by teachers whose students made most progress were explored. The effective teachers used a wide repertoire and demonstrated key teaching practices with greater consistency, skill and subtlety.

Ignorance Was Bliss: Lynne Truss, You Opened Our Eyes ... And May Have Ruined Our Lives, Jan Miller, Bryce Cameron, Andrea Gottschalk, Brandy Stone, Melanie Yard

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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Back Matter

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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You Can Help Keep Western Australia Free Of Pest Animals, Marion Massam

Bulletins 4000 -

Quite apart from their economic and environmental impacts, the sheer nuisance value that certain pest animals can create for people - even in the shelter of our own backyards - is reason enough to want to keep them out of Western Australia.

Currently our State is free from numerous pest animals that, interstate or overseas, damage crops, spread exotic diseases, endanger the survival of native animals and disturb habitats.

You can help in maintaining this freedom, by being on the lookout for the animals featured on the following pages. As yet, they are either absent from Western Australia or confined …

Toward More Effective Judicial Implementation Of Treaty-Based Rights, John Quigley

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article argues that the approach to treaties taken early in the history of the Republic is more consistent with the intended meaning of the Supremacy Clause than the approach reflected in recent judicial practice.

Stages Of Evil: Occultism In Western Theater And Drama, Robert Lima

Studies in Romance Languages Series

“The evil that men do” has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. In Stages of Evil, Robert Lima explores the sociohistorical implications of Christian and pagan representations of evil and the theatrical creativity that occultism has engendered. By examining examples of alchemy, astronomy, demonology, exorcism, fairies, vampires, witchcraft, hauntings, and voodoo in prominent plays, Stages of Evil explores American and European perceptions of occultism from medieval times to the modern age.

Audio Time-Scale Modification, David Dorran

Doctoral

Audio time-scale modification is an audio effect that alters the duration of an audio signal without affecting its perceived local pitch and timbral characteristics. There are two broad categories of time-scale modifications algorithms, time-domain and frequency-domain. The computationally efficient time-domain techniques produce high quality results for single pitched signals such as speech, but do not cope well with more complex signals such as polyphonic music. The less efficient frequency-domain techniques have proven to be more robust and produce high quality results for a variety of signals; however they introduce a reverberant artefact into the output. This dissertation focuses on incorporating …

Frontier Missionary: Felix De Andreis, 1778-1820: Correspondence And Historical Writings, Felix De Andreis, John E. Rybolt, C.M., Nathaniel Michaud

Vincentian Digital Books

A chronicle of the life and journey of the Vincentian missionary Felix De Andreis, in his own words. From his native Italy to the far reaches of frontier America. …this volume documents in detail the arrival of the Vincentians in the United States and paints a vivid picture of a country from its infancy.

Securing The Spectacular City: The Politics Of Revitalization And Homelessness In Downtown Seattle And The Prince Of Providence [Book Review], Stephen J. Mcgovern

Political Science Faculty Scholarship

Review of Securing the Spectacular City: The Politics of Revitalization and Homelessness in Downtown Seattle by Timothy A. Gibson and The Prince of Providence by Mike Stanton.

Congress, Religion, And The Cold War Consensus From 1952-1956, Alexandra Clark Layfield

Honors Theses

The Congress of the 1950s unanimously passed seven different pieces of legislations related to religious faith from 1952 to 1956. The fact that these congressional actions passed with little or no dissent and the fact that the congressmen supporting the legislation offered similar rationales (e.g. the Cold War) told much about the early fifties. The fifties were a decade stereotyped as conservative and conformist during which citizens held family and religion above all else. I conducted research over about a twelve month span which overlapped with the eight month period in which I was writing the body of the thesis. …

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 12 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-2014)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 13 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-2014)

No abstract provided.

Holy See: Appointments

Vincentiana

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To The Members Of The Congregation Of The Mission (Rome, January 4, 2005), Gregory Gay C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

To The Visitors Of The Congregation Of The Mission (Rome, January 7, 2005), Gregory Gay C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Internacional Vincentian Family (Paris, January 30, 2005)

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Lent 2005, Gregory Gay C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

To The Visitors Of The Congregation Of The Mission (Rome, February 11, 2005), Gregory Gay C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

The Central Place Of The Eucharist In The Vincentian Vocation, Erminio Antonello C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Eucharist, Mission And Evangelization, Andres Motto C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Celebrating The Eucharist In Japan, Victoriano C. Torres C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Theology Of Adoration, John H. Mckenna C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Eucharist, Charity And Social Justice, Gilson Cezar De Camargo C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Saint-Siège

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.