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Influences On Active Family Leisure And Its Relationship To Obesity, Shallie Marlene Taylor

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine how attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control influence adolescents' intent to participate in active family leisure and furthermore to explore the nature of the relationship between active family leisure and body mass index (BMI) among adolescents. Adolescents (N = 472) completed an online questionnaire assessing the theory of planned behavior (TPB) variables, active family leisure, individual active leisure, and BMI. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. Tests of direct paths of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control to intent indicated these variables were significant predictors of intent …

Ua3/9 2010 Spring Semester Midpoint Report, Wku President's Office, Gary Ransdell

WKU Administration Documents

Memo from President Gary Ransdell to the faculty and staff regarding events and announcements for the spring semester 2010.

Risk Assessment Of Catch And Release, Rolf Erik Olsen, Tor Fredrik Næsje, Trygve Poppe, Lynne Sneddon, John Webb

Aquaculture and Fisheries Collection

The report was produced during most of 2009, and gives a state of art overview of current knowledge on the effects of catch and release practices on these fish species’ welfare, using accessible and peer reviewed published literature as basis for the assessment. Anecdotic and non-published reports have been used to a limited extent as they are regarded as untested or containing unverified statements. The Panel on Animal Health and Welfare discussed the full report in a meeting on the 9th of December, and gave its support to the conclusions drawn by the ad hoc-group.

The report has concentrated on …

Important Message From President Evans, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Federal Reserve Board - Federal Reserve's Role In Bank Supervision, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Email sent to members of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board of testimony given by Ben Bernanke to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services.

A Consumer-Based Evaluation Of A Family Camp, Christine Davis Covey

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a family camp's performance from a consumer (parent) perspective. An Importance-Performance Analysis was used. Responses averages were plotted on a grid of importance versus performance with the overall means used as cross-hairs to create an action grid of four quadrants: keep-up-the-good-work (high importance/high performance), concentrate-here (high importance/low performance), possible-overkill (low importance/high performance), and low-priority (low importance/low performance). Findings indicated that parents are in large part receiving good performance on the factors that are important to them. Findings identified factors that were important to parents including some factors that camp directors were not …

Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2205. Payroll book of the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green dressmaking firm, listing names of employees, number of days worked per week, and pay rates. Includes a 1992 letter advising of the death of the donor of the book.

Ada News - 03/15/2010, 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.

استعمال مصفوفة التحليل الاستراتيجي Swot لتقويم الأداء الجامعي, خالد صباح علي, كريمه عباس جعيلو, وعد هادي عبد الحساني

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى ابراز اهمية تقويم اداء الجامعات الحكومية نظرا لما يوفره من معلومات عن الكفاءة والفاعلية وذلك من خلال وضع انموذج مقترح لتقويم اداء الجامعات العراقية باعتماد التحليل الاستراتيجي swot ، وتنبع مشكلة البحث من مشكلة ان تقويم الاداء المستند الى الاجراءات التقليدية لا يعد فعالا مما يؤدي الى الضعف في اعطاء صورة واضحة وشاملة عن أداء المؤسسة التعليمية ما لم يقترن بأدوات اخرى حديثة في تقويم اداء الجامعات الحكومية بشكل خاص من اجل الوقوف على مستوى كفاءة وفاعلية الأداء فيها. وأستند البحث إلى فرضية أساسية مفادها ” الاعتماد على ادوات التحليل الاستراتيجي swot في تقويم اداء الجامعات الحكومية …

اثر الوعي الضريبي في زيادة العوائد الضريبية دراسة تحليلية في الهيئة العامة للضرائب فرع الديوانية, علي غانم شاكر, كرار حاتم عطية

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يعد الوعي ضرورة أساسية في أية قضية فهو عامل إبداع مضاف، واستناداً إلى هذا الفهم فإن مسالة الوعي بأهمية الضريبة ودورها يقود إلى انتقالها من فكرة الجباية المجردة، إلى فكرة جديدة يكون مفادها الالتزام الضريبي اختياراً حراً يمارسه الإفراد بوعي لمدلولاته المختلفة وسيقود في النهاية إلى اعتبار الضريبة واجباً وطنياً يؤول نفعها إلى الجميع بصورة أو بأخرى. ويهدف البحث الى بيان الدور المهم والفاعل الذي يمكن ان تلعبه المؤسسات بمختلف اشكالها في نشر الوعي الضريبي لدى المكلفين لما لهذا الدور من أثر واضح في تقليل حالات التهرب الضريبي وزيادة العوائد الضريبية من خلال إدراكهم أهمية الاسهام في تحمل الأعباء العامة …

ممارسة مجالات المراجعة الخارجية للأداء البيئي في السودان المحددات والمأمول لتغيير الممارسة الحالية, فتح الاله محمد احمد محمد, محمد اسحاق عبد الرحمن عيسى, سالم العجيب سالم العجب

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تناولت الدراسة الممارسة الحالية لمجالات المراجعة الخارجية للأداء البيئي في السودان، حيث هدفت إلى التعرف على العلاقة بين المحددات المتعلقة بالمنشأة، والمحددات المتعلقة بمراجعي الحسابات أنفسهم، والمحددات المتعلقة بالبيئة الخارجية والتشريعات الحكومية وبين مستوى ممارسة مجالات المراجعة الخارجية في بيئة الاعمال السودانية ومن ثم تقديم بعض الإجراءات والممارسات التي يمكن أن تساهم في تطوير عملية مراجعة الأداء البيئي في السودان. ولتحقيق اهداف الدراسة تم اعداد استمارة استبيان وزعت على المراجعين الخارجيين بولاية الخرطوم حيث بلغ حجم العينة (200) مراجع خارجي. توصلت الدراسة إلى أن أبرز المحددات تمثلت في عدم اهتمام منشآت الأعمال بمراجعة الأداء البيئي والافصاح عنه في التقارير والقوائم …

Governor Wants To Slash Funding For Private College Students, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 1477, Adam Nieto

Paso del Norte Entrepreneurship Oral History Project

From the age of 12 until he was 15 years old, Adam Nieto worked a paper route to earn extra money for his family. After high school, Adam left El Paso for Los Angeles for two years to work, however in 1965, the draft system caught up with Adam and at the age of 21, he was drafted by the United States Army into the Vietnam War. In 1967, after his time in the military, Adam enrolled at The University of Texas at El Paso and spent four years working on his B.A. in Education. Adam was able to use …

2010-03-11, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Business In The New Environment, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

I am extremely grateful to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) for inviting me to address this august gathering. I do not remember as to how many times I have addressed the institute organized events but this respect for your profession in my heart has arisen because of the high professional standards you have been able to maintain. It gives me immense pleasure when the employers in UK, Middle East tell me that they would be more than happy to hire Pakistan qualified Chartered Accountants because they are well trained. I commend to other professional bodies in Pakistan …

2010-03-11 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for March 11, 2010.

How We Diversified, Armando Bengochea, Roger Brooks

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

School Of Business Golf Tournament April 30, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

A Linear Programming Approach For Determining Travel Cost Minimizing Ecss Training Locations, Jason S. Boerboom

Theses and Dissertations

The Department of Defense is currently operating in a fiscally constrained environment, and Air Force leaders are pressured to minimize spending while pursuing mission critical objectives. Personnel travel usurps a significant portion of the Air Force’s annual operations and maintenance (O&M) budget each year, but receives little attention with respect to cost saving strategies. During the Air Force’s implementation of the Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS), in which over 250,000 end-users will require training, it is vital that the Department determine the training locations that minimize costs incurred through personnel travel. This thesis seeks to determine which potential ECSS training …

Stealthy River Navigation In Jungle Combat Conditions, Fabio Ayres Cardoso

Theses and Dissertations

One of the biggest challenges for Brazilian military logisticians is to support effective jungle warfare for both real and training operations carried out by their combat forces in the Amazonian region. The jungle's heat, humidity, and dense vegetation put significant demands on the supply chain. Further, because of the difficulties of land or air transportation, water transport is the most reasonable transportation option to sustain these deployed forces. Planners must select from among the available watercourses those whose surroundings provide stealthy navigation to the combat force location where the requested supplies can be safely unloaded. We seek a method of …

Measuring The Effect Of Transportation Uncertainty In The Postponement Strategy, Chang-Sung Kim

Theses and Dissertations

A manufacturing company can postpone production and logistics processes in its supply chain system. The delaying of manufacturing and logistics can eliminate the burden of accurate forecasting of demand and thereby reduce inventory carrying cost. Identical postponement processes cannot be generally implemented because every product has its own characteristics in reference to demand and every company has its own individual production environment. A company needs to find its best postponement strategy to minimize its costs for any certain product. This study applies Pagh and Cooper (1998)’s typology of supply chain postponement/speculation strategies to find the best postponement strategy for a …

Emergency Management Benchmarking Study: Lessons For Increasing Supply Chain Resilience, Jose M. Morais Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

The challenge to manage a business today is bigger than ever, because we cannot think only about our organization, but the intricate network of organizations that form our supply chain. Some organizations cope far better than others with both the prospect and the manifestation of unquantifiable risk -- they share a critical trait: resilience. This study researches emergency management organizations which are required to maintain a state of readiness for immediate reaction, and evaluates best practices in preparedness, detection, response and recovery. Extracting insights from multiple interviews, this research verified that most of the current emergency management best practices do …

Optimizing Aircraft Availability: Where To Spend Your Next O&M Dollar, Frederick G. Fry

Theses and Dissertations

In the current fiscally constrained environment, the Air Force must allocate resources where they are most needed and will be most effectively used. For aircraft, this means spending money on weapon systems in a manner that optimizes aircraft availability rates, thereby maximizing the warfighting capability of the Air Force. With that in mind, this thesis endeavors to improve the analytical capability of the Air Force by demonstrating a definitive link between operations and maintenance (O&M) spending and aircraft availability rates. In order to do that, explanatory regression models are developed that show the relationship between O&M spending and AA rates, …

The Effects Of Opinion Leaders And Change Messages On Organization Member Change Attitudes: A Field Experiment, Ryan L. Leblanc

Theses and Dissertations

The extent to which three change introduction strategies (i.e., opinion leadership, edict, and change message) influenced readiness for change were tested at four locations as part of a quasi-field experiment with three groups receiving an enriched change message and one control group. Readiness was measured before and after change implementation where it was hypothesized that change readiness would be most improved within the groups that heard the most persuasive and rich change messages. These hypotheses were not supported and data indicated that the differing treatments were never received by the majority of the change recipients, rendering the results of the …

Defining The Technology Transition Manager Within The Acquisition Framework Of The Department Of Defense, Ernest Csoma

Theses and Dissertations

One of the main challenges in new product development is maintaining communication and coordination among the various development and product teams supporting the project. This research proposes the establishment of a technology transition manager who acts on the behalf of the program manager as a “deal broker” to facilitate the transition of technology from one organization to another for further development and integration. Specifically, the researcher sought to answer five research questions addressing the required experience, expertise, organizational alignment, job skills, individual characteristics, roles, and responsibilities of technology transition managers. The researcher also examined differing expectations of transition managers among …

Development Of A Concept Maturity Assessment Framework, Robinson C.L. Hughes

Theses and Dissertations

Concept selection is an important investment decision point in product development. The Department of Defense too often selects concepts based on insufficient data, resulting in projects that are over-budget, over-schedule, and not what the customer wants. Decision makers must select for further development only the concepts that are effective and suitable to meet the needs of the users and require mature concepts to make an informed decision. This research proposes a stage-gated framework as a tool to assess and increase the maturity of concepts by creating an information criteria baseline at each decision gate. The framework represents a developmental scale …

Korean Domestic Third Party Logistics Providers: Research For A Global Market, Daewon Kim

Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this thesis is to contribute to the globalization of Korean domestic third party logistics companies. This is accomplished through a benchmarking model for globalization based on a comparative analysis of domestic and global third party logistics provider (3PLs) companies. The research performed a SWOT analysis to identify the capabilities required by Korean domestic 3PLs to become global 3PLs. The research investigated the following areas: 1) global service, 2) infrastructure, 3) supply chain management (SCM) services, and 4) information technology (promptness, visibility). This was accomplished by an extensive literature review, case analysis of logistics companies, and telephone interviews …

Supply Chain Resilience: Assessing Usaf Weapon System Life Cycle, Brian P. Tobin

Theses and Dissertations

The Air Force Global Logistics Support Center (AFGLSC) is responsible for the United States Air Force’s supply chain. One of the AFGLSC’s responsibilities is to improve AF supply chain processes. This thesis investigates the subject of supply chain resilience and its potential impact for improving supply chain management. Through literature a supply chain resilience framework and measurement tool was identified for potential benefit to Air Force supply chain management. Air Force weapon systems were identified and segmented into two phases of the weapon system life cycle. This research analyzes data collected on supply chain resilience factors, vulnerabilities and capabilities, for …

Delivery Time Variance Reduction In The Military Supply Chain, Preston L. Goodrich

Theses and Dissertations

The United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) is currently responsible for the daily shipment of supplies to forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan. Aerial cargo shipments are an important method used to quickly deliver items that are needed immediately. Currently, delivery times vary greatly. This variation causes a decrease in confidence for on-time deliveries. As a result, shipments are demanded early and often, causing bottlenecks in the transportation system and fewer on-time deliveries. This paper analyzes data gathered through the global transportation network to determine shipment characteristics that cause the greatest amount of delivery time variance. A simulation is developed using the …

An Empirical Study Of Re-Sampling Techniques As A Method For Improving Error Estimates In Split-Plot Designs, Benjamin M. Lee

Theses and Dissertations

For any acquisition program, whether Department of Defense (DOD) or industry related, the primary driving factor behind the success of a program is whether or not the program remains within budget, stays on schedule and meets the defined performance requirements. If any of these three criteria are not met, the program manager may need to make challenging decisions. Typically, if the program is expected to not stay within budget or is expected to be delayed for one reason or another, the program manager will tend to limit areas of testing in order to meet these criteria. The result tends to …