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Accessibility In Theme Parks: How Well Are Theme Parks Across America Accommodating Individuals With Disabilities?, Audrey J. Snow-Brine

Selected Honors Theses

Tourism for people with disabilities can be difficult, which is why theme parks need to provide the proper accommodations for their guests. A literature review on topics such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), exclusion, and tourism accessibility will be provided. The accessibilities and accommodations available at theme parks in the United States, including Walt Disney World, Disneyland, LEGOLAND Florida Resort, LEGOLAND California Resort, Universal Orlando Resort, and Universal Studios Hollywood, will be discussed. The website pages regarding accessibilities for people with disabilities will be examined, and the accommodation for each theme park will be compared. While there has …

Imsa360: Fall 2018, Imsa Fund

IMSA Fund Reports

Buoyed from the energy and success of hosting the 14th Annual International Student Science Fair (ISSF) this past summer and outside recognition by niche.com as the #1 Public High School, the 2018-2019 Academic year is moving at a robust pace.

Excerpt: From the President

02. Psychodynamics, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

CORE

This module will facilitate various psychological models and review the six bases of power. Students will examine conformity to consensus and to authority. Students will gain a clearer understanding of their own psychological preferences and the concept of “acting for the greater good”. The module will also address self-awareness and how it relates to psychodynamics as well as leadership.

10. Education, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

CORE

As constituents of academia, our students are surrounded by educational systems and models. This module seeks to broaden their horizons regarding educational systems and the process of learning, ranging from individual to societal to global levels. Two leadership theories (transformational and situational) are observed in this module as well as how education and leadership can combine in an effective manner.

04. Leadership In Social Movements, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

CORE

This module serves to teach students to think critically and objectively about Social Movements. Social movements have been a prominent piece of history in the United States and several other countries. They are media of expression for people to create change, resist policy, or revolutionize a society. Social movements have been and will continue to be an ongoing activity in human life, making them relevant to students’ lives.

A Correlational Analysis Of A Leadership Development Model And Church Growth, Thomas D. Mullins

PhD in Organizational Leadership

Organizational growth and vision can outpace leadership development, which ultimately creates frustration and decline in leadership, followership, and teamwork. To counter regression, organizations must determine the factors that hinder leadership development while creating pathways towards organizational success. Research indicates that church attendance in America is in decline, but there are exceptions to this national trend. A case study of one of the fastest growing churches in America reveals a correlation between intentionally fostering a culture of leadership development and one’s ability to continue seizing available growth opportunities. This parallel hypothesized by the researcher in this study was validated through the …

Experiential Organizing: Pursuing Relational And Bureaucratic Goals Through Symbolically And Experientially Oriented Work, Keimei Sugiyama, John Paul Stephens

Faculty Scholarship

Current scholarship on organizational practices that foster a sense of care and collaboration in work relationships has yet to fully account for the potential misalignment between the goals of a given practice and how it is actually experienced. To address this issue, we develop a theoretical framework of experiential organizing, which we define as an iterative process through which positive relational and bureaucratic goals of a practice are pursued via symbolically and experientially oriented work. We offer theory to explain how organizations move through the experiential organizing process, what different types of work are required, and how the different parts …

The Continuing Epidemic Of Hepatitis C In The United States: The Case Of West Virginia, David P. Paul Iii, Neha Botre, Maggie Phillips, Jumana Abboud, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the most significant public health problems currently facing the U.S. If it is left untreated, the likelihood of sustaining a treatment response decreases. While early identification has been identified as a critical focus in trying to obtain better health outcomes, new drug treatments appear quite promising.

State Appropriations And Allocation Ratios To Predict Financial Condition At Public Higher Education Institutions, Cassandra Bennett

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The higher education industry has faced increased competition in recent years from new institutions and learning platforms entering the marketplace. Public higher education institutions, in particular, have been forced to develop strategic plans due to limited state funding in recent years. These colleges and universities face the challenge of allocating their limited financial resources in a manner that will optimize financial strength and ensure long-term sustainability. Institutions classify their operating expenses into several different functional expense categories, including instruction, academic support, student services and operations and maintenance of plant. This paper analyzed the relationship between changes in state appropriations, allocation …

Community Bank Leaders' Perception On Maintaining Values In Decision Making, Jennifer H. Matheny

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This qualitative study explored community bank leaders’ perception of conflicts between their personal values and core corporate values when negotiating critical decisions. At this stage in the research, the negotiating of decisions were generally defined as resolving conflicts between personal and organizational values. Results provide an understanding of how values-based leadership affects executive level decisions in community banks. A purposeful sample of community bank leaders participated in qualitative interviews. These leaders were selected based on their responsibility to make decisions that influenced their corporate culture and/or had a significant impact on their company. Based on the study, there was a …

2018 Support Resources For Student Success, Morehead State University. Office Of First Year Programs.

Faculty Senate Records

A booklet titled Support Resources for Student Success published by the Office of First Year Programs in the fall of 2018.

Changing Donor-Ngo Relations Thorough Viable Alternatives To Conventional Grantmaking, Kio Okawa

Capstone Collection

The purpose of this research is to explore ways in which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can become more sustainable in light of a crucial challenge facing them today: that of financial instability. In the charitable sector in the U.S, NGOs, especially small-scale NGOs, have struggled with securing daily operating revenue rather than revenue for long-term program operations, in spite of the continuing needs of their beneficiaries (Janus, 2018; Le, 2017; Meehan & Jonker, 2017). Fundraising has come to involve relationships between NGOs and institutional donors such as foundations, government agencies and corporations. Competition among NGOs and rampant power asymmetry between donors …

Dental Practice Success Vol. 5 No. 3, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

Dental Practice Success

No abstract provided.

08. Culture In Leadership, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

CORE

This module will be an exploration in cultural theory, practical issues in culture, and many of their implications in leadership. We first give students the necessary vernacular to engage in intelligent discourse on the subject, then move to the higher level content. The module then looks at multiculturalism, pluralism, and assimilation through real world examples. This is followed with a simulation that will make students question their core beliefs through the introduction of cultural relativism. The module will then make explicit leadership connections through empirical evidence with GLOBE studies, and finish with conversation on the highly relevant topic of IMSA …

01. Evolution Of Leadership, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

CORE

This module serves as an introduction to the academic study of leadership and leadership theory, encouraging students to dissect leadership concepts through an objective and subjective lenses. With a general understanding of how leadership has changed through time and how it is classified today, students can explore where they fit into the definition itself.

09. Group Dynamics, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

CORE

The Group Dynamics module focuses on informing students about inter/intra group interactions, while also demonstrating the role of an individual within a group. As individuals become a part of a group, they lose a certain distinction between their personal identity and their group personality, or prototype. Individuals become part of a social categorization and comparison, and require the skills of empathy and relations to successfully communicate with not only their ingroup, but also their outgroup. An absence of awareness of the feelings around them can develop the negative effects of groupthink, as individual ideas are unheard. As fitting into the …

07. Gender In Leadership, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

CORE

This module encompasses the controversy and broadness of gender. Students begin with recognizing their subconscious gender biases, followed by a providing them with a vernacular of culture to help students better understand and differentiate terms. Then the students will explore the fluidity of gender through discussion on gender X and transgender. Furthermore, there will be an activity about the origin of gender roles, and how that shaped gender roles today. The students will also be able to apply their learnings to the real world by learning how to resolve conflict regarding gender and sexuality.

Coordination Of Inpatient And Outpatient Care For Neurology Patients Undergoing Epilepsy Monitoring, Sara Schrock, Michelle Beane, Kathryn Cope, Mark Parker, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks, Brendan Lilley

Operations Transformation

ORGANIZING A SYSTEM TO CONSOLIDATE EPILEPSY REFERRALS TO AN OUTPATIENT NEUROLOGY PRACTICE

An outpatient neurology practice was experiencing delayed or lost referrals for epilepsy monitoring. This delay was leading many patients to suffer unnecessary and unmanaged seizures and, in some cases, frequent trips to the emergency department.

As a result, a team consisting of the neurology practice and neuro-navigators used baseline metrics to demonstrate the current state of the problem and conducted a root cause analysis that outlined several causes. A number of countermeasures were initiated with the goal of decreasing referral misses.

Post the initiation of two KPIs, a …

The Depaul Mba Turns 70

Business Exchange

Interviews with alumni, faculty, and students from DePaul's MBA program show how the program has changed and grown with the times since its debut in 1948.

Faculty Perspectives: The Future Of The Mba

Business Exchange

Two DePaul business school professors predict the future of the MBA degree, forecasting that the degree will have to prepare students for immediate career-readiness, critical thinking, data analytics expertise, and work together with "stackable" degree programs to meet business needs.

Gender Performativity And Hegemonic Masculinity In Investment Management, Corina Sheerin, Prof. Margaret Linehan

Applied Social Studies

Purpose

Through an examination of the everyday organisational and social practices, this paper aims to consider gender performativity and hegemonic masculinity within front office investment management. At the core of this research is the need to understand the interactions between gender, power and patriarchy.

Design/methodology/approach

An interpretivist philosophical stance underpins the study. A theory-building approach using 19 semi-structured interviews with investment management employees based in Ireland was undertaken.

Findings

The findings highlight a sector in which gender is performed in line with sectoral expectations, which place men in positions of dominance with hegemonic masculinity inherent. The organisational structures and daily …

Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Strengthen Peer Effects On Investments?, Jiawei Wang

Theses and Dissertations

The paper demonstrates that firms are more likely to follow their peers when they face economic policy uncertainty. Using a newly developed economic policy uncertainty index and the financial data from COMPUSTAT of US firms, I find evidence that economic policy uncertainty strengthens peer effects on investments. In this paper, I propose a reputation-based theory and information-based theory to support the findings. Peer effects are stronger for less successful firms and financial constrained firms during periods when economic policy uncertainty is notable. Accordingly, I use four standards (i.e. firm profitability, financially constrained status, growth rate and market to book ratio) …

Depaul Mba Milestones

Business Exchange

A timeline of major milestones in DePaul's MBA program from 1948 to 2018.

Effects Of Mismanaged Condensed Project Life Cycles In The U.S. Consumer Ready Meat Industry, John E. Johnson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Projects have been undertaken by the United States (U.S.) consumer ready meat industry to advance strategic objectives and provide consumers with desired food products. The management of the projects’ industry life cycles was impacted by diverse consumer groups’ continual demands for new and varied products. The problem addressed was the inefficient management of projects’ costs, scopes, and deliverables because of the shortened projects’ life cycles for consumer ready processing lines in the U.S. meat industry. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects inefficient management of condensed project life cycles had on stakeholders and deliverables. This study used …

التمويل الزراعي واثره على الناتج المحلي الاجمالي في العراق للمدة (1998-2012), ليلى بدوي مطوطك

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يستهدف البحث تسليط الضوء على التمويل الزراعي وقياس دوره في التأثير على الناتج المحلي الاجمالي في العراق خلال المدة 1998-2012، بالاعتماد على القروض الممنوحة للقطاع الزراعي من المصارف وكذلك القروض الممنوحة من برنامج المبادرة الزراعية وباستخدام اسلوب التحليل القياسي، فقد تم اختبار استقراريه البيانات ومن ثم تقدير النتائج من خلال نموذج الانحدار البسيط، وقد اجتاز النموذج الاختبارات الاحصائية والقياسية، وقد ظهر التأثير الايجابي للتمويل الزراعي على الناتج المحلي الاجمالي اذ ان زيادة التمويل الزراعي بمقدار 1% يؤدي الى زيادة الناتج بمقدار (0.325%).

القياس والافصاح المحاسبي عن رأس المال الهيكلي واثرهما في القيمة الدفترية للسهم دراسة تطبيقية في عينة من الشركات الصناعية العراقية, ماجد غازي حسن

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى القياس والافصاح المحاسبي عن رأس المال الهيكلي في القوائم المالية للشركات الصناعية العراقية وبما يسهم في اظهار المركز المالي الحقيقي لها وتقديم المعلومات الشفافة للمستخدمين الخارجيين ، فضلا عن معرفة اثر الافصاح عن رأس المال الهيكلي في القيمة الدفترية للاسهم .ومن اجل تحقيق هدف البحث تم الاستعانة بالمنهج الاستقرائي في تغطية الجانب النظري وبالمنهج التجريبي والتحليلي لتغطية الجانب العملي في عينة من الشركات الصناعية العراقية في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية المتمثلة بـ(شركة بغداد لصناعة مواد التغليف ، شركة بغداد للمشروبات الغازية ، شركة الكندي لإنتاج اللقاحات ، شركة المنصور للصناعات الدوائية) خلال السنوات المالية (2012-2013) ، فضلا …

تطبيق بعض تقنيات التصنيع الرشيق لتخفيض الكلف والضياع وتحسين اداء العمليات الانتاجية بحث تطبيقي في شركة اور العامة للصناعات الكهربائية, محمد محمد سمير دهيرب

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى اظهار اهمية التصنيع الرشيق وبعض تقنياته باعتباره احد النظم الحديثة والمعاصرة, وما يعكسه هذا النظام من جوانب هامة ونافعة للشركة متمثلة بتخفيض الكلف والضياع أو الهدر أو الفاقد وإضافة قيمة للمنتجات والتخلص من المخزون الفائض, وذلك من خلال تطبيق بعض تقنياته مثل ادارة الجودة الشاملة وسلسلة التجهيز وتمكين ألعاملين ونظام تجنب الاخطاء المهملة. ومن هنا ظهرت مشكلة البحث المتمثلة بعدم انتهاج وتبني الشركات وخاصة المحلية منها للنظم المعاصرة ومنها نظام التصنيع الرشيق والذي يهدف الى تحقيق مجموعة من الاهداف منها التشغيلية والاستراتيجية والتي سيتطرق اليها البحث عبر مفاهيمه وتقنياته التي تمتاز بخلق مزايا تنافسية لمواجهة التحديات والتهديدات …

دراسة تحليلية لمخاطر الائتمان باستخدام كشف التدفقات النقدية وبيان أثرها على كفاية راس المال للمدة من 2010-2015 – دراسة تطبيقية في المصرف الزراعي, علي كريم محمد كبة

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف الدراسة الى بيان تحليل مؤشرات كشف التدفق النقدي للمصرف الزراعي ومعرفة مدى إمكانية توفير السيولة المالية وبيان تأثير الائتمان الممنوح من قبل المصرف الزراعي في مؤشرات كشف التدفق النقدي للمدة من 2010 الى 2015 بالاعتماد على الموازنة المالية العامة وقد حدّدت هذه المتغيرات بيان الأهمية لقائمة كشف التدفق والتحليل المالي والائتماني من وجهة النظر المصرفية ، ومفهوم التدفق النقدي والاهمية وكفاية راس المال المصرفي وتم استخدام البرنامج الاحصائي spss لبيان علاقة أثر الائتمان المصرفي في كشف التدفق النقدي واثر القروض الكلية على راس المال الثابت للمصرف لغرض تقدير أنموذج الانحدار المتعدد والبسيط ، ومن خلال ما أظهره التحليل تبين …

الابعاد التكاملية لمصفوفة الحيود السداسية مع مناظير التقنية المتوازنة لتعظيم الاداء في ظل اقتصاد السوق رؤية استراتيجية مقترحة, فائزة براهيم محمود الغبان

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تتسارع منشآت بيئة الأعمال المعاصرة نحو تبني الاستراتيجيات التي تحتاجها في خلق رؤى تنشد التنمية المستدامة في ظل مناخ مؤسسي قائم على نيل رضا الزبائن من خلال تلبية طلباتهم في ظل سوق عمل ينشد الاقتصاد المعرفي. ويحاول البحث الحالي بناء هيكلية لرؤية تكاملية بين الحيود السداسية والتقنية للأداء المتزن بقصد تحقيق اهداف منشاة الأعمال المتعددة وتضمن لها الاستمرار في تعزيز الإدارة على مشاركة الموارد البشرية في بلوغ قياسات الاداء المستهدفة . وخلص البحث على ان الاسترشاد بعناصر ومبادئ اداء الحيود السداسية ذات الصلة بالقيادة والربحية ، الادارة والتحسين المبيعات والتوزيع ، الخدمة والنمو ، الابتكار، التميز التشغيلي وادارة المشتريات والموردين …

اثر التدفقات النقدية على اداء المصارف دراسة تطبيقية في عينة من المصارف المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, جليلة عيدان الذهبي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى توضيح اهمية استعمال مقاييس التدفقات النقدية للوصول الى مقياس يفيد في تقييم اداء المصارف. ولتحقيق ذلك فقد تم اختيار عينة من المصارف التجارية المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية للمدة من 2006 الى 2015 وهي ثمان مصارف وباستعمال مجموعة من وسائل التحليل المالي والتحليل الاحصائي . تمثلت مشكلة البحث بأن هناك فجوة بين مقاييس التدفقات النقدية والتي يتم الوصول اليها من خلال اتباع الاساس النقدي وان الاعتماد على هذه المقاييس لا يعطي الصورة الواضحة للوصول الى اداء المصارف . وان فرضية البحث التي اخضعت للاختبار هي انه توجد علاقة معنوية للتدفقات النقدية على اداء المصارف. وانطلاقاً على …