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Economics Of Quebec Separatism, J. Scott Attenborough

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The status of the economies in various regions of Canada is continually a key concern for the nation's political leaders. Historically disparities have existed between regions as the nation developed over time. The fact that the regions have not developed equally has been highlighted by the Premiers of each province bringing their plight before Canada's parliament.

One region that has recently lagged behind the economic development of most other regions is the province of Quebec. Although quite competitive with the overall Canadian economy until 1960, the Quebec economy now lags behind overall national economic performance. Quebec's unemployment rate remains high …

The Feasibility Of Using Hedonic Pricing Models To Predict The Cost To The Air Force Of Aircraft Engines, Richard Albert Hyde Ii

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The objective of this paper is to determine the feasibility of using hedonic pricing models to predict the cost to the Air Force of aircraft engines purchased under government contracts. A hedonic pricing model is constructed using an ordinary least square regression format. The distinguishing factor is that cost is always the dependent variable in a hedonic pricing model. The word hedonic means pertaining to pleasure. Economists relate pleasure to value. Therefore, the predicted coefficients of variables produced by the hedonic model, represent marginal values of each variable. The coefficients also show how the variables impact cost. A good hedonic …

Management Of California Oak Woodlands: Uncertainties And Modeling, Jay E. Noel, Richard P. Thompson

Agribusiness

A mathematical policy model of oak woodlands is presented. The model illustrates the policy uncertainties that exist in the management of oak woodlands. These uncertainties include: (1) selection of a policy criterion function, (2) woodland dynamics, (3) initial and final state of the woodland stock. The paper provides a review of each of the uncertainty issues. The final section of the paper describes a modeling approach that can be developed to assist policy makers in evaluating alternative oak woodland policy actions.

An International Survey Of Free Banking Periods: Us, California, France, Australia, Switzerland, And Scotland, Frank Doti, David Cassell

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

This article studies free banking periods worlwide.

Women's Basketball Media Guide 1997-1998, Indiana State University

Intercollegiate Athletics

No abstract provided.

Teacher Pay And Teacher Quality, Dale Ballou, Michael Podgursky

Upjohn Press

Ballou and Podgursky offer solid economic analysis on issues surrounding the debate over whether increasing salaries for teachers leads to a more qualified teaching workforce. The authors find little evidence to support the link between increased salaries and teacher quality, then address two questions: (1) What went wrong? and (2) Which reforms are likely to meet with increased success?

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 38 No. 2, Donald Wayne Viney, John E. Atwell, Matthew K. Samra, John Howard Wilson, Avise Nissen, Janice L. Nerger, Wayne Viney, Robert G. Riedel Ii, William Aiken, Michael Carey, Philip Dacey, Ivy Dempsey, Constance Egemo, Ted Genoways, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Gray Jacobik, Nicole Orr, Jack Martin, Michael Pegausch, Barry Sternlieb, Steve Wilson, Bonnie Young, Charles Cagle, Richard Holinger, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

DONALD WAYNE VINEY offers convincing examples that far from being the dour, unsmiling figure often presented of Christ, He exhibited a full range of emotions, including humor upon occasion. Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University, Viney is author of Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God (1985), A Philosopher Looks at the Bible (1992), and several articles in the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He is also a member of Midwest Quarterly's Board of Editors.

JOHN E. ATWELL examines the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer and finds his views on women more complex than the common portrayal of the …

Public Policy And "Rural Sprawl": Lessons From Northeast Ohio, Patricia Burgess, Thomas Bier

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Managerial Behavior In The Restaurant Industry: The Effects Of Consideration And Structure On Job Satisfaction, Gerald J. Lemoine Jr

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

1997 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for January of 1997.

Moderating Effects Of Tolerance For Ambiguity And Risktaking Propensity On The Role Conflict-Perceived Performance Relationship: Evidence From Singapore Entrepreneurs, Hai Yap Teoh, See Liang Foo

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This study investigates the effects of tolerance for ambiguity and risktaking propensity in mediating the relationships between role conflict and perceived performance among 70 entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses in Singapore. Entrepreneurial activity has been widely recognized as a major factor driving Singapore's economic development. Further insights therefore can be gained by this study, which addresses the above issues from the perspective of Singaporean entrepreneurs. As founders of their enterprises, entrepreneurs are often involved with many aspects of activities that create a high potential for conflict, having to play multiple roles, coping with competing and conflicting demands, and overcoming …

A Survey Of Health Care Personnel's Perceptions Toward Diversity In The Workplace, Jacqueline Elaine Sharpe

Health Services Research Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the diversity climate in a large teaching military hospital by assessing the perceptions of employees regarding the organizational climate, including aspects of the climate related to ethnicity, gender, age, physical ability, sexual orientation, and job level. All 3,176 eligible employees based in the medical center were invited to participate, 1,252 did so (RR = 40%). Participants were 37% minority, 57% females, 25% officer, 30% enlisted, and 45% civilian. Twenty-four percent were at the managerial level. Perceptions of the diversity climate were measured using the Diversity Survey Instrument (the reliability and validity of …

Cost Measurement, Roger A. Lohmann, Nancy Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This article, which originally appeared in the 1997 Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Social Work is an overview and introduction to cost concepts as they are used in social work and human services. A few important ideas and concepts that have come into the picture since the original publication have been added to this version.

Managed Care: The Questionable Triumph Of Financial Management, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Managed Care is a generic term for a broad and constantly changing mix of health insurance, assistance and payment programs which seek to retain quality and access while controlling the cost of physical and mental health services. The introduction of managed care fundamentally transforms the traditional “agency” relationships on which modern social work was built. Little research on its impact on social services is currently available. The managed care model, with its distinctive external patterns of accountability, raises serious questions about the continuing viability of the “social agency” model of practice to which social work has been committed for most …

The Need To Revitalise And Re-Establish A Short Sea Shipping In Mozambique : Its Implications For Maritime Sector Development, Training And Employment, Plínio Ângelo Tsevete

World Maritime University Dissertations

The dissertation is a study of the present shipping situation in Mozambique, focusing on the coastal shipping company as an operating unit, and the industry as a whole. A short overview is given at the shipping industry and its environment. The environment includes such things as the characteristics of the market or markets within the coastal shipping company, Navique. Its operations and the amount and type of competition it faces within these markets are investigated. Other environmental factors are the political and economic changes, which are affecting the operating procedures, the government policies and regulations. Further, the cargo carrying capacity …

Bowling On The Girdiron: The Name Game, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Already some of the big ones are behind us like the Las Vegas Bowl which attracted very little attention from the major industry in that city and the Jeep Eagle Aloha Bowl which featured neither the bird nor the vehicle.

Last Minute Christmas Gifts For The Sports Fan, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Attention K©mart Shoppers. Today I will offer some last minute Christmas items for the Sports Fan on your gift list.

Pete Roselle, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Some called him the Pope of the National Football League. Others saw him as a minor deity of the mid-twentieth century's religious devotion to sport. Whatever the perspective, it is clear that Alvin "Pete" Rozelle is among the most significant figures in the history of Sport in America and the world in the Twentieth Century.

Thinking Styles And Financial Characteristics Of Selected Canadian Farm Managers, Wayne W. Howard, George L. Brinkman, Remy Lambert

Agribusiness

The thinking styles of selected Canadian farm managers are identified using the life styles inventory (LSI). The farmers'LSI scores are compared with those of a base sample of nonfarmers, and correlations between the farmers'LSI scores and financial indicators are examined. Results indicate that farmers do thinking differently than nonfarmers and that there are significant correlations between thinking styles and financial measures.

Jerry Reinsdorf's Smoking Gun And Baseball Labor Settlement, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

They called him The Old Roman. In 1919 Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox so angered his players with low salaries and his cheapskate ways that they turned on him and fixed the World Series. In 1996 White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf so angered his fellow owners by his high salaries and wild spending that they turned on him, reversed their vote of the previous three weeks, and approved the new baseball collective bargaining agreement. Maybe they should call Reinsdorf, the New Roman, or Roman Nouveau.

Central Bank Of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin, December 1996, Central Bank Of Nigeria

CBN Statistical Bulletin

Financial data is compiled from documents like balance sheets and financial statements to meet legal and administrative requirements, rather than economic analysis. The Finance and Accounts Department prepares the CBN accounting balance sheet data for the Research Department, while the Financial Statistics Office compiles the analytical CBN balance sheet. Monetary authorities and deposit money banks consolidate accounts to produce monetary survey accounts. Monthly interest rate returns compute weighted average lending and deposit interest rates, and deposit rates are computed for various maturities. Clearing house statistics show the number and value of cheques cleared within the commercial banking system, reflecting the …

Sow Preference For Types Of Flooring In Farrowing Crates, P. A. Phillips, D. Fraser, B. K. Thompson

Housing and Confinement of Farm Animals Collection

A preference-testing apparatus was used to provide sows with continuous access to three identical farrowing crates, each with a different type of flooring. The crates radiated from a central hub area sufficiently large for sows to enter or leave any crate freely. In exp. 1, nine sows from a concrete-floored gestation room were offered crates over concrete, plastic-coated rod, and galvanized metal rod. In exp. 2, sows were pre-exposed for a period of 1 wk to one of the three floors before entry into the preference testing apparatus. Video recording was used to determine sow position from 3 d before …

Corporate Governance: Corporate Governance Worldwide, K R S Murthy

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

Whatever Happened To The Stock Markets, R Vaidyanathan

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

Reflections Of An Executive Turned Entrepreneur: Interview With R. Subramaniam, S Venkatesh

IIMB Management Review

Interview with R. Subramaniam, one of the founder and vice chairman of Sterling Holiday Resorts

Managing Job Change, G T Jejurikar

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

Business Communication Today By Sushil Bahl. Response Books, New Delhi. A Division Of Sage Publications., C N Kumar

IIMB Management Review

Ihe book under review, as the author says in the preface, has been mainly targeted at new entrants and students in communication- related fields such as advertising, public relations and media. The book starts with the subject of what business communication is about, and covers aspects of written, verbal and non-verbal communication and how to make them effective. This could serve as a useful hand book for beginners as well as other more experienced practitioners and “executives on-run”.

Managerial Implications Of Postmodernism, K Unnikrishnan Nair

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

Writers On Organizations By D. S. Pugh And D. J. Hickson. Sage Publications, 1996., Abhoy K Ojha

IIMB Management Review

Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson, the authors of the fifth edition ,both very prominent contributors to the field in their own right, have presented, very lucidly, the current state of knowledge on organisations. They have included new topics (and writers) that have grown in importance since the last edition was published in 1989, updated some old topics and excluded those that in their opinion, have become less relevant to current debates on organisations.

Smallholder Dairying Under Transactions Costs In East Africa, Steven Staal, Christopher L. Delgado, Charles F. Nicholson

Agribusiness

It is argued that dairying is vital to future viability of many small farms in East Africa and that high transactions costs for dairy production and marketing limit participation by asset-and information-poor smallholders. Case studies from Kenya and Ethiopia illustrate the role of dairy cooperatives in reducing transactions costs. Analysis of the determinants of producer prices received by a sample of dairy producers near Addis Ababa suggests that different levels of access to infrastructure, assets, and information explain why different households contemporaneously accept widely different producer prices for fluid milk.