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Process Design For Hoist Wire Rope Measurement And Adjustment 設計快速量度及調教鋼絲繩的方法, Yiu Wing Tsang

IxA (2017)

A rubber tyred gantry crane (RTGC) is a mobile gantry crane that is used by Hongkong International Terminals Limited (HIT). The crane has eight wheels and four gearboxes that operate on four of the wheels. The RTGC has a trolley on top, which moves a spreader to different lines to pick up or set down containers...

輪胎式龍門架吊機（RTGC）是用於香港國際貨櫃碼頭的流動龍門架 吊機，4 副車輪共配備8 條輪胎和4 個變速箱，吊機頂部設有滑輪 起重小車，負責將移動吊具移至不同線路，以此吊起或放下貨櫃...

Award: Gold
奬項: 金奬

The Optimization Of Conditions In Gold Nanoparticles Assisted Multiplex Pcr 優化納米金粒子所輔助的聚合酶連鎖反應, Chor Ki Hung, Ka Yi Kwan, Tsz Yan, Jeanne Lo

IxA (2017)

...This project focuses on developing a new protocol of duplex PCR that uses optimised AuNPs-assisted conditions. A series of PCR conditions are tested, and the effects of AuNPs on the performance of duplex PCR are evaluated in terms of efficiency and specificity...

...本項目旨在開發一套以優化金納米粒子為輔助條件的全新雙重PCR協定，過程中測試了一系列PCR 條件，並精確衡量了雙重PCR 在效能與特異性方面的表現...

Award: Gold
奬項: 金奬

Innovation Brick Cutting Machine 創新切磚機械, Man Chong Siu, Chor Kiu Yeung, Shun Ting Wong

IxA (2017)

...The ‘innovative brick cutting machine’ operates automatically, provides bricks that are accurately cut to specified sizes, and gives with additional protection for machine operators. The machine reduces the manual labour involved and yields a more accurate product in terms of brick size.

「創新切磚機械」屬全自動運作，能把磚塊準確切割成指定大小，並為操作人員提供額外保護。這部機械能夠減少作業所需人力，並製成大小規格更統一、更準確的磚塊。

Award: Silver
奬項: 銀奬

Office Rents, Mixed-Use Developments, And Agglomeration Economies: Apanel Data Analysis, Ervi Liusman, Daniel Chi Wing Ho, Hiu Ching Lo, Daniel Yet Fhang Lo

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between office rents and mixed-use development in the context of agglomeration economies.

Ua1f Wku Spirit & Symbols, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Bibliography of sources related to WKU Spirit, symbols, mascots, logos and school colors.

Sino-Forest Corporation: The Case Of The Standing Timber, Gail B. Wright, Charles Cullinan

Accounting Department Faculty Journal Articles

The Sino-Forest Case provides a real-world example of financial misstatement and audit failure.2 The case encompasses related parties, auditing procedures for tangible assets, and internal controls. Sino-Forest Corporation was engaged primarily in the purchase and sale of standing timber in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The principal executive office was in Hong Kong and its securities were traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange until 2011. The management of Sino-Forest created a complex web of subsidiaries and related entities whereby it controlled the purchase and sale of standing timber in widely dispersed regions of the PRC. Sino-Forest personnel created false …

Consumer Self-Construals: Development And Validation Of The Csc Scale, Ahmet Koksal

Wayne State University Dissertations

The role of the individual in relation to a collective has been an influential research topic in various scientific fields, including psychology, sociology, marketing, and international business. Despite this popularity, scholars have not yet reached consensus regarding how (unidimensional, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional) or at what level (individual level or culture level) this relationship should be studied. Resting on this epistemological debate, the goal of this dissertation is to provide scholars and practitioners in the marketing and international business fields with a valid and reliable research instrument that will allow the study of this relationship in consumption settings. Specifically in this …

Banking On It: Investment Banks As The Next Step For Impact Investing, Mitchell Laferriere

Social Space

For their size, investment banks have comparatively little to do with the rising practice of impact investing: They make up only nine per cent of all the assets under management (AUM) in the impact investment industry. That totals about US$1 trillion in investments in an US$11 trillion market.

Sofi 101: Understanding Social Finance, Christian Petroske, Florian Parzhuber, Haneol Jeong, John Kinsella, Maaya Murakami, Mitchell Laferriere, Remi Cordelle

Social Space

What is social finance? Rachel Kalbfleisch of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) defines it as a collection of approaches to managing money that create value for society or the environment, often while producing a financial return,1 while the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing calls it “an approach to managing money to solve societal challenges”.2 In other words, social finance is a movement that covers various ways of using finance—via socially responsible investments, micro-loans, community investments, and so on—to achieve a social or environmental impact. Who is involved in this process? While charities, socially driven businesses and governments all work …

Strategies For Enhancing Small Business Owners' Success Rates, Susan Turner, Al Endres

International Journal of Applied Management and Technology

Small-business owners represent 99.9% of all U.S. employer firms, employ 48% of the private sector employees, and provide 41.2% of the total U.S. private payroll. However, 50% of new small-business startups fail within the first 5 years of operation. The purpose of this multiple-case study was to explore strategies three small-business coffee shop owners in Duval County, Florida, used to succeed in business beyond 5 years. Three themes emerged from semistructured interviews and methodological triangulation via websites, social media, and site visits: (a) owner networking and designing the business site as a customer networking venue, (b) business plan effectiveness in …

High Performance Work Systems: A Necessity For Startups, Josh Bendickson, Jeffery Muldoon, Eric Liguori, Chelsea Midgett

Rohrer College of Business Departmental Research

New businesses are an important part of any economy, yet the key elements to achieve startup success are often unclear or up for debate. Attracting, selecting, and training employees are often critical activities for most startups. Research suggests that high performance work systems (i.e., a bundle of human resource practices) enhance organizational performance. However, we posit that most startups lack these systems at the onset, yet with minimal effort can establish a system to improve their likelihood of meeting their goals, enhancing capabilities, and ensuring long-term survival.

Annual Report 2017, Lumpkin College Of Business And Applied Sciences

Lumpkin College Annual Reports

This 2017 Annual Report records the achievements, outreach activities, and student honors work of the Eastern Illinois University's Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences. It also includes reports from the School of Business, the School of Family and Consumer Science, the School of Technology, and the department of Military Science.

Creating Spaces For Innovation In The Workplace, Michael Rodriguez

Published Works

When libraries create innovative spaces—or spaces for innovation—they are mostly public-facing spaces. They might be learning commons, makerspaces, collaboration rooms, digital production labs, 3D printing stations, innovation studios, kiosks, incubators, and other buzzwords for physical spaces designed to foster creative productivity through technology and collaboration. At the same time, these transformations have the effect of framing library innovation as heavily public-facing and presenting innovation in terms of technology adoption. Spaces that foster intraorganizational, entrepreneurial innovation by library workers are no less essential yet are largely overlooked in the literature and in practice. This chapter draws on studies, concepts, and models …

Exploring Factors That Affect Adoption Of Computer Security Practices Among College Students, Amani Alqarni

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Cyber-attacks threaten the security of computer users’ information, networks, machines, and privacy. Studies of computer security education, awareness, and training among ordinary computer users, college students, non-IT-oriented user groups, and non-technically trained citizens are limited. Most research has focused on computer security standards and guidelines in organizational contexts. Few studies have analyzed the predictors of college students’ adoption of computer security practices. Based on a comprehensive literature review, researchers have relied heavily on well-established behavioral theories, such as the technology acceptance model (TAM), theory of planned behavior (TPB), and protection motivation theory (PMT) to explain the variation in adoption of …

To Punish First And Reward Second: Values Determine How Reward And Punishment Affect Risk-Taking Behavior, V Sagar Athota, P O'Connor, R Roberts

Business Papers and Journal Articles

The current study investigated whether manipulating participants’ pre-exposure to reward and punishment affects the extent to which sensation seeking and values predict risk-taking behavior. Participants (n = 195) were randomly allocated to one of two conditions, defined by the order at which they were rewarded or punished for risk-taking behavior. Risk-taking behavior was measured in both conditions using the Balloon Analogue Risk Test, however this was set-up such that participants in group 1 were rewarded for risk-taking behavior prior to being punished, whereas participants in group 2 were punished for risk-taking behavior prior to being rewarded. Participants also completed questionnaires …

For The King, Mary Maeve Mcgeorge

Canterbury Scholars

No abstract provided.

Auditors’ Use Of Specialists In Audit Engagements: Implications For Audit Quality, Candice T. Hux

2017

The importance and role of specialists on audit engagements has recently increased. My dissertation comprises three studies that examine whether and how the use of specialists in audit engagements is associated with audit quality.

The first study synthesizes prior research on auditors’ use of valuation, tax, IT, and forensic specialists. I organize the literature by: (1) determinants of specialist use (including the nature, timing, and extent of use); (2) the process of using a specialist; and (3) outcomes of specialist involvement, and propose several directions for future study.

The second study reports findings from interviews with experienced auditors and tax …

Medicare And The Affordable Care Act: Fraud Control Efforts And Results, Sarah Clemente, Ronald Mcgrady, Rob Repass, David P. Paul Iii, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

Medicare fraud and abuse costs are estimated at 3%-10% of overall Medicare spending, which is expected to expand considerably until 2024 and as such the amount of fraud dollars would be expected to increase proportionally. The purpose of this research was to determine how recent reforms, especially the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act, may affect Medicare fraud and abuse and to uncover the best strategies to combat Medicare fraud. The breadth of fraud and abuse within Medicare as well as recent reforms to fight fraud including legislative reforms, delivery system reforms, and other reforms including the formation of HEAT …

Ada News Convention Daily - 2017 Day 1, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Detecting Discrimination In Small Business Lending, Sterling A. Bone, Glenn L. Christensen, Jerome D. Williams, Stella Adams, Anneliese Lederer, Paul C. Lubin

Management Faculty Publications

With limited financial sophistication, entrepreneurial consumers approach the financial marketplace more like retail financial consumers than business customers. However, the assumption of both legislators and regulators is that business-borrowers are more financially savvy than consumer-borrowers, and thus do not require as broad-reaching protections. This gap between marketplace policy protections and the lived reality of the vast majority of small business entrepreneurs sets the stage for entrepreneurial consumers to fall through the regulatory cracks and sets the stage for possible exploitation and abuse. This situation is potentially exacerbated for minority entrepreneurs who belong to protected classes that are generally more vulnerable …

Fisheries Management Paper No.283 - Abalone Resource Of Western Australia Harvest Strategy 2106 - 2021, Department Of Fisheries Western Australia

Fisheries Management Papers

Harvest strategies for aquatic resources managed by the Western Australian Department of Fisheries (the Department) are formal documents prepared to support the decision-making processes required to ensure the management of these resources are consistent with the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD). The objectives of ESD are reflected in the objects of the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (FRMA) and Section 9 of the Aquatic Resources Management Act, which will replace the FRMA once proclaimed.

The publication of these strategies is intended to make the decision-making considerations and processes for the management of specified aquatic resources publicly transparent and provide …

More Accounting Changes: Financial Reporting Through The Age Of Crisis And Globalization, Robert Bloom

2017 Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Audit Fee Discounting In The Post-Sox Environment, Albert Nagy, Benjamin W. Hoffman

2017 Faculty Bibliography

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether the expected implementation of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX 404(b)) (the integrated audit requirement) caused auditors to discount their audit fees for non-accelerated filers in anticipation of expected increased future economic rents (DeAngelo, 1981) from those clients.

Design/methodology/approach – This paper predicts that auditors charged their non-accelerated filer clients lower audit fees during the years 2005-2007 (in anticipation of increased expected future economic rents from the implementation of the SOX 404(b) requirement) compared with the years 2010- 2012 (when it had been determined that non-accelerated filers were permanently exempt from …

Can Investors Benefit From Using Morningstar's Stewardship Grades?, Scott B. Moore, Gary E. Porter

2017 Faculty Bibliography

Interest in governance led Morningstar to develop a summary measure for mutual fund governance. In contrast to previous work in this area, we focus on whether and how individual investors can use the Stewardship Grade Overall to improve mutual fund selection. We find that regardless of fee structure, top overall governance grade funds impose lower costs on investors regardless of fund investment style. We also find some evidence that choosing funds with the highest stewardship grade may earn positive risk adjusted returns. Stewardship Grade overall may therefore help less sophisticated investors identify better-performing mutual funds.

The Median Employee To Ceo Pay Ratio Disclosure Requirement, Robert Bloom

2017 Faculty Bibliography

In recent years, especially in national political campaigns, there has been much discussion about who is in the top 1% of American wealth, how they landed in this category, and what special income tax provisions perpetuate their status. As a reaction to this debate in this category, the Dodd Frank Act and the Consumer Protection Act of 2010 have mandated disclosure by publicly registered companies to disclose the median employee to CEO pay ratio. The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued specific guidance on this requirement. That is the subject of this article.

Positive Projections And Health: An Initial Validation Of The Implicit Psychological Capital Health Measure, P. D. Harms, Adam J. Vanhove, Fred Luthans

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

In this set of studies, we conduct an initial validation of the Implicit Psychological Capital Questionnaire-Health (IPCQ-H), a short, easy to administer and score measure of psychological capital designed to reflect implicit schemas or cognitions surrounding one’s health. The results of two studies demonstrate that the implicit measure of IPCQ-H is correlated with an explicit PsyCap-Health measure (PCQ-H), but has very little construct overlap with measures of personality. Moreover, scores of the IPCQ-H were stable over time. Study 2 documents the predictive validity of the IPCQ-H with a number of physical and mental health outcomes. Implications for theory and practice …

Tls Newsletter, January, 2017, Unf Transportation And Logistics Society

Transportation & Logistics Society Newsletter

Inside the Newsletter: UNF Transportation and Logistics Society Boathouse Bash January 26. Upcoming Events. President's Corner. T & L Flagship Program Facility Tour to Henry Schein. Transportation and Logistics Career Day on Friday February 24, 2017.

Examining The Impact That The Locus Of Control, Emotional Intelligence, And Narcissism Have On Internet Addiction And Information Disclosure Among College Students, Antonio Avant

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Red Alert, Jake Breunig, Priyadashini Chandrashekhar, Trey Gilliland, Landon Hammons, Jeff Mollman, Emma Topp

GSP at Murray State University

Red Alert is an app using voice recogni3on so people can call for help. The app is similar to “Hey Siri” present in iPhones and the Cortana feature in Androids. When a person uses his or her first preset keyword, the phone’s voice recogniton software accesses the app, which starts an audio recording, and when the second keyword is used, the app alerts the police. The primary consumer for Red Alert is high school to middle-aged women, with a secondary focus on those who live in urban areas. The technology exists, so the only needed recourse is programming. The risks …

Feasibility Analysis For The New Venture Nonprofit Enterprise, Gregory R. Berry

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

This article explores the value of feasibility analysis for the pre-launch nonprofit enterprise. Similarities and differences between for-profit entrepreneurial ventures and nonprofit entrepreneurial ventures are outlined, and then the traditional format of feasibility analysis used by the entrepreneurial for-profit start-up is reviewed and analyzed. This four-stage analysis is then adapted to the needs of the nonprofit new venture enterprise. The benefits of doing a feasibility analysis for the nonprofit enterprise start-up are identified, and guidelines are suggested. An underpopulated research stream is identified and explained in this article for the start-up and early developmental phases of the nonprofit enterprise.