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Ua42 Regional Review: Reaching New Heights In The Region Fall 2017 (Vol.4, No.1), Heather Garcia , Editor

Regional Campuses Publications

Sections include:

Save the date Chat with the Chancellor, Campus News, and Awesome Achievements for each of the three regional campuses.

Perspectives On Language From Street Produce Vendors In Cape Town: An Examination Of Education, Trading, And Development In The Informal Sector, Hannah Oldham

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Language is vital for the functioning of societies, from education to economic interactions. Language of education presents challenges in Africa due to colonial linguistic legacies and the diversity of indigenous African languages. While education trains learners for work in the formal economy, the South African formal cannot absorb all the available labor. The informal economy therefore provides vital work and income to millions of South Africans and immigrants. Language use in the informal sector was studied, including the education and work traders had before working as street produce vendors.

Six interviews were conducted: two near the Cape Town taxi rank, …

Ua12/2/2 2017 Talisman: Power, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

2017 Talisman yearbook.

• Gibson, Helen. Letter from the Editor
• Edwards, Aly. What's Your Superpower?
• Mattison, Reed. Dangerous Heights - George Clark, Mountaineering
• Voorhees, Jessica. Innovative Energy - Wei-Ping Pan
• Voorhees, Jessica. Counterpunch - Rock Steady Boxing
• Barritt, Brooklyn. B.G. Bosses - Small Business
• Frint, Hunter. Cason's Cove: The Power of Family
• Mitchell, McKenna. Picking Up the Mic - Reuben Bynes, Waco Bell
• Mohr, Olivia. Hidden in Plain Sight - Human Trafficking
• Mattingly, Evan. Voice Off - Noah Hancock, Deaf Persons
• Robb, Hayley. Game, Set, Unmatched - Phillip Cole, Tennis
• Good, Hannah. Damage Control - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Gordon, Zora. …

Smu Launches Retail Centre Of Excellence: Singapore’S First Retail Knowledge-Sharing Hub, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases and News

Singapore Management University (SMU) today officially launched the Retail Centre of Excellence (RCoE), the first and only retail insight-sharing hub in Singapore focusing on generating and disseminating actionable knowledge for retailers in Singapore, Asia and beyond. A joint initiative between SMU, SPRING Singapore and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the RCoE aims to empower retailers with the know-how through research and insights, and build an ecosystem (comprising retailers, retail experts, knowledge partners, SMU faculty and student talent) to ride the winds of change. The Centre, helmed by SMU Professor of Marketing, Kapil R. Tuli, is joined by a group …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 58 Number 4, Fall 2017, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

18 - TIME FOR A BIG SHIFT We work and save for decades. And then what? A behavioral finance expert writes about the tough transition many face. By Meir Statman. Illustrations by Hanna Barczyk.

22 - WHAT WE OWE At the very least: stories that capture the contour of a life. A Pulitzer Prize– winning reporter on tales of human strife and resilience. By Tatiana Sanchez ’10.

28 - THE MOST IMPORTANT Lawsuit on the Planet It was first filed against the Obama administration and draws on decades of government records. It seeks no monetary damages. But advocates and critics …

Alumni Giving: A Relationship Between On-Campus Alumni Engagement, Participation And Financial Support, Lori Zabatta

MBA Student Scholarship

The relationship of alumni participation in on-campus activities resulting in alumni giving will be studied. Graduates from a private institution in Providence, RI will be invited to complete an online questionnaire to measure their engagement and giving levels. Using a series of pointed questions and a Likert scale, alumni will rate their attitude towards specific alumni activities in relation to their willingness to give to the institution following each opportunity. This will help to determine which activities produce the highest number of annual donors. All responses will be statistically measured and results analyzed. The study will benefit alumni professionals and …

Ransomware In Healthcare Facilities: The Future Is Now, Nikki Spence, David P. Paul Iii, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

Cybercriminals have begun to target the healthcare industry with a type of malware called ransomware, malware that encrypts an infected device and any attached devices or network drives. After encryption, cybercriminals demand a sum of money, also known as a “ransom,” to release the devices from encryption. Without adequate disaster recovery and backup plans, many businesses are forced to pay the ransom. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of recent ransomware infections in healthcare settings, the risk liabilities and cost associated with such infections, and to determine possible risk mitigation tactics. Financial costs associated with business …

Air Pollution And Life Expectancy, Zoë Kelly

Sacred Heart University Scholar

This article explores the effect of air pollution on life expectancy. While prior studies heavily supported the link between long-term exposure to air pollution and harmful effects on health, most are based on single-country data. The objective of this article is to fill the gap in the literature by conducting a cross-country analysis. It evaluates the effect of average air pollution on life expectancy across 111 countries between 2010 and 2015. The additional country-specific control variables that are used include GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita, percentage of people with access to water, population density, health care expenditure (in terms …

New Dentist News (October 2017), Ada Committee On The New Dentist

New Dentist News

New Dentist News offers timely information on scientific, social, educational, political and economic developments affecting new dentists. This collection is historical and items may not reflect current standards. For up-to-date information contact the ADA. The New Dentist News was alternately titled ADA Lifeline, 1997-June 2001.

Tls Newsletter October 2017, Unf Transportation And Logistics Society

Transportation & Logistics Society Newsletter

In the Newsletter: TLS Alumni Networking Night. President's Corner. T & L Student Travels. What Not to Miss this Fall. Get to Know TLS VP Joshua Powell. Industry Insight: JaX LNG. Life after graduation with Gina Akel.

Videogame Developers Among 'Extreme Workers': Are Death Marches Over?, Marie-Josee Legault, Johanna Weststar

Management and Organizational Studies Publications

Purpose: The videogame industry is a work environment that is emblematic of O’Carroll’s (2015) encompassing model of a 24/7/365 working time model of flexibility. We use O’Carroll’s model to challenge two myths about videogame developers (VGDs): the long hours of work are in fact unpredictable hours, and flextime HR programs do not allow for real control over working hours.

Design/methodology/approach: We use a mixed methods approach (international online survey and 100 Canadian interviews) to analyse the case of VGDs - a different, but similar type of worker to the IT workers analysed by O’Carroll.

Findings: We can generalize O’Carroll’s model …

A Mechanism For Libor, Brian Coulter, Joel Shapiro, Peter Zimmerman

Business Publications

The investigations into LIBOR have highlighted that it is subject to manipulation. We examine a new method for constructing LIBOR that produces an unbiased estimator of the true rate. LIBOR itself is based solely on transactions. We allow for fines when a bank’s transaction is different than a comparison rate, which depends on the set of transactions and non-manipulated rates elicited by a revealed preference mechanism. These non-manipulated rates will always be used in the fines, but transactions may not. We address how this approach applies to other financial benchmarks and how it works even in markets in which there …

Gasoline Price And New Vehicle Fuel Efficiency: Evidence From Canada, Nicholas Rivers, Brandon Schaufele

Business Publications

Using data on all vehicles registered in Canadian provinces from 2000-2010, we estimate the elasticity of the fuel economy of the new vehicle stock with respect to gasoline price. We demonstrate that a 10% increase in gasoline price causes a 0.8% improvement in the fuel economy of new vehicles. We show that consumers in dense urban areas respond more to changes in fuel price than other consumers and that fuel taxes cause a much larger response in vehicle fuel economy than other components of the gasoline price. This finding has important implications for the assessment of market-based policies for reducing …

Isscm, Master Of I.S. Cohort, Fall 2017, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

ISSCM Master Cohort Posters

Poster of the 2017 Cohort from the Master of Information Systems Program.

Imsa360: Fall 2017, Imsa Fund

IMSA Fund Reports

Welcome to the 2017-2018 school year! It’s a special academic year in that we begin the school year with a full budget! Over the past three years, our colleagues in public schools (K-12), who are under the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), began their school year with a full budget while IMSA and the rest of the universities, which are under the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), began and operated most of the past two years without a full budget.

Excerpt: From the President

Interfaces Of Strategic Leaders: A Conceptual Framework, Review, And Research Agenda, Zeki Simsek, Ciaran Heavey, Brian Curtis Fox

Publications

Interfaces are of growing importance for theorizing and testing the influence of strategic leaders on firm behavior and actions. But despite their relevance and ubiquity, the lack of a commonly accepted definition and unifying framework has hindered researchers’ ability to take stock, synthesize, and systematize extant knowledge. We first develop an encompassing definition and organizing framework to review 122 prior studies across three decades. We then chart promising directions for future research around three concepts central to the framework and review: (1) Why do interfaces occur? (2) What happens at these interfaces? and (3) What are the impacts of interfaces? …

Critical Risk Assessment And Management In Pharmaceutical Industry, Abida Zameer

Dissertations and Theses

Background

Proper implementation of principles of project risk management is well known to minimize the impact of threats to any project. However, the determination of critical success factors which threat the success of pharmaceutical projects at baseline are usually uncertain.

Methods

Data was collected using self-administered structured questionnaire generated solely for the purpose of the current research. The questionnaire was administered via e-mail to professionals employed in the pharmaceutical industry located in Boston area using www.surveymonkey.com. The introduction and purpose of the questionnaire was described in the message accompanying the questionnaire.

Results:

Out of the 14 critical success factors listed …

Adapting Agile In Regulated (Pharmaceutical) Environment, Prachiben K. Shah

Dissertations and Theses

Pharmaceutical software industries practice traditional approach for years, and when it comes to a change they are struggling to adapt new software methodologies such as agile; which is most commonly used by IT industries. The most significant factor required for successful agile adaptation is to make sure new practices should be aligned with the pharmaceutical regulations and the process should be validated and properly documented as per the guidelines. Apart from this, there are few challenges that Pharmaceutical companies are facing to adopt new changes. Those challenges mentioned in various research articles are highlighted in this research paper. This research …

Team Performance And Project Success, Ijeoma Okoronkwo

Dissertations and Theses

Project Teamwork is a worthy objective aimed at accomplishing high level cooperation, productivity and success but often times this is not so. The level of performance applied towards a project work has a direct impact on the project success or failure.

Teams are the basic structure of how project activities and tasks are being organized and managed within companies and organizations. Therefore, the success or the failure of a project depends largely on the overall performance of the teams assigned to the project. This increased attention towards teams has forced many organizations to focus on improving the overall performance of …

2017 Annual Report: State Of Nonprofits In San Diego, Laura Deitrick, Jon Durnford, Emily Young

State of Nonprofits and Philanthropy in San Diego

The 2017 State of Nonprofits in San Diego report showcases current statistics on what nonprofits and philanthropy look like in the San Diego region, as well as the critical trends in organizational readiness, workforce development, fundraising, and public policy directly related to the sector’s ability to fulfill their social purpose mission.

2017 The Impact Of Reading Aloud To Children: An Evaluation Of The Words Alive Read Aloud Program, Caster Family Center For Nonprofit And Philanthropic Research, University Of San Diego

Youth, Education, and Literacy

This report, prepared by the Caster Center, is an evaluation of the Words Alive Read Aloud Program. Words Alive is a nonprofit organization focused on creating opportunities for life success by inspiring a commitment to reading.

Beyond Firm-Customer Interactions To Better Customer Experience, Caroline Seow Ling Lim

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This dissertation puts forward a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to study the effects of low control determinants and peer-to-peer interactions on customer experience. Peer-to-peer (P2P) is the exchange between participants of equal power and authority to perform common tasks in a service context. It was made popular by file sharing system like Napster. Some firms have successfully harnessed P2P interactions to advance their competitive position. As an example, online communities for open source software provide collaborative platforms for users to share information, as well as exchange and look for social support. These platforms are often sponsored and hosted …

2017-October-Faculty Member Andrew Scott Ross Receives Ceca Fellowship.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Faculty member Andrew Scott Ross received the Center of Excellence for Creative Art's 2017/18 Tennessee Fellowship. The CECA Tennessee Artist Fellowship was created to celebrate contemporary art and to support the continued creative work of exceptional Tennessee artists. Through support from CECA, the selected artist receives $5,000 to aid in the creation of new artwork and $2,000 for an artist lecture at a future date.

Ross received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He subsequently studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is …

2017-October-01-Annie Malcolm, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Identification Of Reverse Engineering Candidates Utilizing Machine Learning And Aircraft Cannibalization Data, Marc Banghart

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

As military aircraft continue to remain in service and age, cannibalization of parts is increasing. Proactive identification of parts that are at high risk for cannibalization will inform engineering processes such as reverse engineering, thus allowing potentially reducing lead time to develop new parts. The research objective was to develop a causal structure that can be used for prediction of when cannibalization actions may occur. Bayesian networks allow encoding of causality between various descriptive features given a data set. The method utilized a tabu search algorithm, identified the underlying causal structure and the associated node probabilities. The method is then …

Biztech Fall 2017, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter (Retired)

The fall of 2019 of BizTech features holiday tips for spending, an article on the new professors in the business department, ENACTUS, and an article on Southern's Tiny House.

Cilat Janë Sfidat E Mjedisit Të Jashtëm Makroekonomik Në Industrinë E Tregtise Dhe Industrise Një Analizë E Zhvillimeve Bashkëkohore Duke Përdorur Pest Analizën, Muhamed Jashari

Theses and Dissertations

Tema e marrë ne studimë është një cështje shumë e rëndesishmë për të kuptuar qështjen dhe rendësinë qe kane ndikimet e jashtme ne nivelin makroekonomike ne Kosove. Ne kete teme do te shtjelloje disa nga faktorët kyqe qe kane te bëjnë me nivelin e tanishëm Ekonomik ne Kosove dhe do te shtjelloj disa nga faktorët e jashtëm dhe te brendeshem. Kjo teme eshte shtjelluar ne tre kapituj:

1. Nivelin Makroekonomik ne Kosove

2. Ndikimi i akterve te jashtëm ne te berit biznes ne Kosove

3. Si dhe ne kapitullin e trete kam folur rreth aderimit ne CEFTA dhe ndikimit ekonomik …

Ndikimi I Tregtisë Në Rritjen Ekonomike, Emnolina Asllani

Theses and Dissertations

Ekonomia e një vendi shquhet si pasuria kryesore për zhvillim dhe forcim. Stabiliteti dhe qëndrueshmëria ekonomik janë faktorë kyç për të siguruar mirëqenie për banorët e një vendi. Lufta për ngritje ekonomike nuk është aspak e lehtë, shteti duhet të inkurajojnë politika dhe strategji të shumta duke kontraktuar ekspert të fushës për analiza të ndryshme ekonomike- financiare. Shumë vende të zhvilluara kanë arritur të jenë të fuqishme përmes politikave adekuate të përcaktuara nga organet kompetente. Mirëpo edhe shumë vende tjera më pak të zhvilluara janë dëmtuar jashtëzakonisht shumë nga mungesa e njohurive për të shfrytëzuar në mënyrë efektive burimet dhe …

Zhvillimi Financiar Dhe Rritja Ekonomike, Festina Ismajli

Theses and Dissertations

Faktorët financiarë së bashku me rreziqet që i shoqërojnë ato luajnë një rol të rëndësishëm në ecurinë ekonomike të një vendi. Kemi permendur pesë funksionet kyçe të një sistemi financiar. Zhvillimi i sektorit financiar zhvillohet kur instrumentet financiare, tregjet dhe ndërmjetësit punojnë së bashku për të zvogëluar kostot e informacionit, zbatimit dhe transaksioneve. Zhvillimi financiar është tërësia e faktorëve, politikave, institucioneve që sigurojnë ndërmjetësues dhe tregje financiare efektive, ashtu si akses të thellë dhe të gjerë në kapital dhe në shërbime financiare , nxit rritjen ekonomike nëpërmjet akumulimit të kapitalit dhe avancimit teknologjik duke rritur normën e kursimeve, duke dhënë …

Doganat Si Instrument I Politikës Fiskale, Visar Namani

Theses and Dissertations

Sistemi dhe politika fiskale, përkatësisht të hyrat publike, janë të lidhura me funksionimin e shtetit. Shteti për të kryer funksionin e tij kushtetues, përkatësisht për ti plotësuar nevojat e përgjithshme dhe të përbashkëta të qytetarëve të vet, i nevojiten edhe mjete materiale. Shteti përmes instrumenteve të politikës fiskale grumbullon të hyra buxhetore, të cilat i mundësojnë që të kryejë funksionin e tij ekonomik dhe shoqëror. Nga politika fiskale që zbaton një vend varet dhe ngritja e standardit shoqëror dhe individuale e popullsisë. Andaj, “me anën e sistemit fiskal çdo shtet insiston që të plotësojë nevojat shoqërore (kolektive) që kanë karakter …