Dissertations / Theses: 'United States Engineers. Company A'

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Tao, Yu. "The earnings of Asian computer scientists and engineers in the United States." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29633.

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Thesis (Ph.D)--History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010.
Committee Chair: Pearson, Willie, Jr.; Committee Member: Bauchspies, Wenda; Committee Member: Damarin, Amanda; Committee Member: Shapira, Philip; Committee Member: Wong, Raymong. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

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Batra, Shikha. "Diaspora Philanthropy: Identity and Obligation Among Indian Engineers in the United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407766/.

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Diaspora philanthropy to India has grown rapidly over the past several decades. However, little is known about the motivations of Indians living in the U.S. to donate philanthropically to India. Extant studies have either focused on quantitative analysis of diaspora philanthropy or qualitative research on the receiving of diaspora philanthropy in India. The motivations and strategies of the Indian diaspora in the U.S. have not been explored, particularly, the informal mechanisms and strategies of making philanthropic donations to India and the obligations that underlie the practice of diaspora philanthropy remain neglected in the existing studies on diaspora philanthropy. My research addressed this gap in the existing literature on diaspora philanthropy by conducting qualitative face-to-face in-depth interviews with a snowball sample of 25 Indian engineers in San Diego, California. In my study, it was found that Indians preferred to channel funds for philanthropy in India through friends and family because of lack of trust in formal organizations and greater confidence in the activities of friends and family in India due to familiarity and better accountability. It was also found that Indians felt indebted to Indian society and the Indian nation-state for the free and subsidized education they had received in India, and therefore felt obligated to make philanthropic contributions to India in order to redeem the debt that they owe to India.

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Gille, Matthew G. "Analysis of Company Officer influence on midshipmen service assignment." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FGille.pdf.

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Sobel, Gregory B. (Gregory Borowik). "Alternative dispute resolution in the United States Corps of Engineers : opportunities and barriers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77694.

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Bracey, Karen Elizabeth. "Implications of tort law on professional liability in the design and construction industries." Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03142009-040444/.

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Grönberg, Per-Olof. "Learning and returning : return migration of Swedish engineers from the United States, 1880-1940 /." Umeå : Univ, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-119.

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Chopek, Joseph P. "A qualitative analysis of company officer performance assessment at the United States Naval Academy." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Jun%5FChopek.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.
Thesis advisor(s): Walter Owen, M.A. Trabun. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119). Also available online.

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Cesari, Jill R. "The perceptions of the role of the Company Officer at the United States Naval Academy from the perspective of Senior Officers, Battalion Officers, Company Officers and Senior Enlisted Leaders." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FCesari.pdf.

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Moxey, Tyrel W. "The role of the Company Officer at the United States Naval Academy." access online version, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA395793.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2001.
"June 2001." Includes abstract. DTIC report no.: ADA395793. Author was part of NPS's company officers program, and was stationed at the Naval Academy while doing the research for this thesis. Full text available online from DTIC.

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Landrum, Hollis T. "An Analysis of the Ability of an Instrument to Measure Quality of Library Service and Library Success." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2245/.

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This study consisted of an examination of how service quality should be measured within libraries and how library service quality relates to library success. A modified version of the SERVQUAL instrument was evaluated to determine how effectively it measures library service quality. Instruments designed to measure information center success and information system success were evaluated to determine how effectively they measure library success and how they relate to SERVQUAL. A model of library success was developed to examine how library service quality relates to other variables associated with library success. Responses from 385 end users at two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers libraries were obtained through a mail survey. Results indicate that library service quality is best measured with a performance-based version of SERVQUAL, and that measuring importance may be as critical as measuring expectations for management purposes. Results also indicate that library service quality is an important factor in library success and that library success is best measured with a combination of SERVQUAL and library success instruments. The findings have implications for the development of new instruments to more effectively measure library service quality and library success as well as for the development of new models of library service quality and library success.

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Parker, Chad. "Transports of progress the Arabian American Oil Company and American modernization in Saudi Arabia, 1945-1973 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3324514.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 12, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3290. Adviser: Nick Cullather.

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Stahr, Jeremiah B. "A study on improving United States Air Force space systems engineering and acquisition." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Sep%5FStahr.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Systems Engineering Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.
Thesis Advisor(s): Thomas V. Huynh, Christopher E. Forseth. "September 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-85). Also available in print.

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Gottfried, Corbett S. "U.S. Military Intelligence in Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4960.

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The Military Intelligence Division (MID) was the U.S. Army's intelligence agency that reported to the Chief of Staff within the War Department. During the years 1917- 1927, the MID routinely conducted surveillance of Mexico, including: espionage, mail censorship, radio intercepts, intelligence gathering, and development of plans for the invasion of Mexico. This study utilizes a tripartite model to evaluate the production and analysis of military "intelligence" by the MID in Mexico during the period 1917-1927. First, the organization and development of the Military Intelligence Division from its origins in 1885 through the year 1927 is explored with sections on institutional history and objects of investigation. Second, a quantitative analysis of intelligence documents identifies the focus and priorities of the MID in Mexico. Third, a textual analysis of intelligence documents makes use of a cross-cultural framework to demonstrate the prevailing attitudes, perspectives and world views of the MID toward the Mexican state and its peoples. The thesis question as to whether the U.S. Military Intelligence Division created an accurate and complete picture of "reality" of Mexico is answered in the negative. The MID perspective was colored by cultural bias, ignorance, and misunderstanding. Ultimately, the MID failed to grasp the reality of Mexico because it failed to ask the right questions. It seriously misunderstood the nature of Mexico and its peoples, especially in its relationship with the United States .. The particular model developed for this study lends itself to the possibility of further research in the area of international history and cross-cultural studies. The use of multiple analysis techniques provides a more comprehensive picture of the various factors involved that influence historical events.

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Hinkson, Daniel S. "Supporting Marine Corps Enhanced Company Operations a quantitative analysis /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Jun/10Jun%5FHinkson.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010.
Thesis Advisor(s): Lucas, Thomas W. ; Second Reader: Evans, James A. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 14, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Enhanced Company Operations, ECO, Distributed Operations, DO, Enhanced MAGTF Operations, EMO, MANA, Seabasing, Marine, Logistics, Agent-Based Model, Data Farming, Simulation, Design of Experiments. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-86). Also available in print.

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Dryden, Derek S. "A validity review of the color company competition at the United States Naval Academy." Thesis, access online version, LEAD access online version, DTIC, 2006. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA451275.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2006.
"June 2006." Includes abstract. Author was part of NPS's company officers program and was stationed at the Naval Academy while doing the research for this thesis Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-82). Full text available online from DTIC and USNA LEAD theses database.

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Turner, Nathan L., and Michael D. Wagner. "Requirements analysis and course improvements for EO3502 telecommunications systems engineering." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2260.

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This thesis evaluated the requirement and provides course improvement recommendations forTelecommunications Systems Engineering EO3502 taught at the Naval Postgraduate School Other graduate programs in Information Technology Management were evaluated to determine the standard for telecommunications engineering expected from some of the most respected academic institutions. Graduates of NPS's Information Technology Management (ITM) and Information Systems andOperations (ISO) curriculums were surveyed to determine how important telecommunicationsengineering is for their follow-on assignments. In addition, lesson topic vignettes were developed toprovide fleet/field examples to reinforce the relevance if individual topics. Finally, recommendationswere provided for improving EO3502 and the ITM curriculum in general.
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Cam, Korhan. "Minimization of currency risk exposures by developing foreign currency trading strategies for a multinational United States company." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2601.

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This paper presents a case study of developing foreign currency trading strategies for trading operations for a multi-million dollar company that sells analytical products and services to European countries. The analysis provides a general framework for managing currency risk exposures for U.S. Multinational companies.

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Baggett, Kimberley Anne. "Assessment of Section 404 Wetland Mitigation Compliance and No-Net-Loss in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/844.

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The United States Corps of Engineers is a federal agency responsible for regulating impacts to wetlands. Permit applications requesting authorization to impact wetlands are reviewed using a three step sequence: avoidance, minimization and compensatory mitigation. A national goal of no net loss of wetland acreage and function in compensatory mitigation has been recommended since 1987.Thirty Norfolk District projects requiring compensatory wetland mitigation in the permit years 1996-1998 were randomly selected for field review. The results showed that 10% of the project were never initiated or completed. Another 19% of the projects showed a net loss of acreage. However, many projects exceeded their required mitigation acreage. The mitigation types included creation/restoration (18 permits), commercial mitigation bank (3 permits), and an in-lieu fee trust fund (9 permits). Overall 1.76 acres were mitigated for every acre of wetland impacted. Creation/restoration projects had the highest ratio (2 acres mitigated for every acre impacted and the mitigation bank realized 1.82 acres for every acre impacted. Therefore, this study indicated that the Norfolk District is gaining more than 1 acre of wetland mitigation for every acre impacted, thus meeting the goal of no net loss of wetland acreage.

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Lee, Chang-Uk Charles. "A study of cultural diversity training practices in company-owned franchise restaurants." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06102009-063133/.

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Reinke, Cecil Eugene. "The Relocation of North Bonneville, Washington, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A Policy Implementation Study." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1379.

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This is a policy implementation case study. The case is the relocation of the Town of North Bonneville, Washington, by the U.S. Army Corps of engineers. Three questions are addressed in this study. One, did the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in relocating the Town, accomplish what was intended to be accomplished? Two, how and why were Federal policies applicable to the relocation of this town changed during the implementation process? Three, what can the North Bonneville experience contribute to existent knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of policy implementation? The principal precepts for policy implementation promoted by this study of the relocation of the Town of North Bonneville, Washington, are as follows: (1) Implementing agencies must recognize and consider what they have to do or may have to do to accomplish what they are intended to accomplish,not merely what they want to do or expect to do. Potential impediments to implementation that are unrecognized and unconsidered may fail to develop, but unless addressed problems cannot be solved. (2) Implementing agencies must expeditiously study and understand the policies that they are assigned to implement. Failure of understanding presents the appearance of ambiquity; indeed, even the clearest policy is effectively ambiquous if it is not understood. (3) Implementing agencies must promptly and plainly explain the policies they are charged with implementing to affected and interested persons or groups. Failure to explain leaves affected and interested persons or groups to form their own expectations of what the policy is, which expectations if erroneous may be difficult to dislodge. (4) Implementing agencies must attend that once a policy is stated and explained all subsequent actions are consistent with the policy as stated and that any action that may appear to constitute a deviation is adequately explained. Otherwise the credibility of the agency and of the policy being implemented by the agency is undermined.

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McCartney, Sarah Ellen. "A Blueprint for the Colony: The Virginia Company Charters and the Role of Religion at Jamestown." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539720302.

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Qi, Ma. "A Case Study of L’Oreal/Maybelline Advertising in the United States and China." Marietta College / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1304363651.

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Lippincott, Richard Hysler. "Rookwood architectural faience tile." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/865963.

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The Rookwood Pottery Company was one of the most outstanding American pottery producers in the early 20th century. Rookwood produced a line of significant architectural facing tiles, unlike anything else produced in the Arts and Crafts tile industry. This thesis is an assimilation of all the primary product. Rookwood's catalogues, commissions, and artisans are discussed to illustrate the design and production significance Rookwood's product. The analysis will be valuable for the documentation and identification of tile installations produced by the Rookwood Pottery Company from 1903-1931.
Department of Architecture

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Luckett, Michael D. Oden David M. "Assessment and evaluation of the employment of the Midshipman Information System (MIDS) as a performance measurement tool by company officers at the United States Naval Academy /." access online version, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA396134.

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Hagen, Terry D. Utroska William T. Boone Michael J. "A performance measurement-based company officer management information system prototype for the United States Naval Academy /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA370808.

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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) received by Terry D. Hagen and William T. Utroska, (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development) received by Michael J. Boone, Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
"September 1999". Thesis advisor(s): Douglas E. Brinkley, Walter E. Owen, Daniel R. Dolk. Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-178). Also avaliable online.

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Hagen, Terry D., William T. Utroska, and Michael J. Boone. "A performance measurement-based company officer management information system prototype for the United States Naval Academy." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/13662.

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A company officer at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) is tasked with developing midshipmen morally, mentally, physically, and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor, and loyalty. This task requires increased knowledge on performance measurement and the right tool that will enhance their ability to develop midshipmen into the 21st century. A performance-measurement- based management information system will greatly enhance the company officer's ability to develop, maintain, and use information technology for purposes of performance measurement. Based on user requirements, this research identifies the key result areas and key indicators, designs, and develops a prototype. The Company Officer Management Information System (COMIS) prototype is developed using Microsoft Access 97, an approved Department of the Navy IT-21 compliant software application. The findings in this research strongly support the use of the COMIS prototype at the USNA and indicate that future research and future application development will significantly enhance the development of midshipmen well into the 21st century.

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Shugar, Miles. "From horse to electric power at the Metropolitan Railroad Company Site| Archaeology and the narrative of technological change." Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1566557.

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The Metropolitan Railroad Company Site in Roxbury (Boston), Massachusetts, was first excavated in the late 1970s by staff of the Museum of Afro American History. Researchers recovered nearly 20,000 artifacts related to the site's life as a horsecar street railway station and carriage manufacturer from 1860 to 1891, its subsequent conversion into an electric street railway until around 1920, and finally its modern use as an automobile garage. Using the framework of behavioral archaeology, this project uses GIS-based spatial methods and newly collected documentary evidence to reexamine the site's assemblage of horse accoutrements and carriage manufacturing byproducts. Artifact distribution maps overlaid on detailed historic maps reveal that carriage manufacturing ceased concurrent with street railway electrification, but horse harness craftsmanship continued on to serve in new capacities, highlighting nuances in the narrative of technological change onsite and connecting the life histories of materials to historical actors involved with these transitions.

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Murphy, Tracee M. "The New England Emigrant Aid Company: Its Impact on Territorial Kansas, 1854-1857." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu999030940.

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Pruitt, Crayton. "Water levels effects on overall customer satisfaction a case study of adjacent landowners on the United States Army Corps of Engineers-Lake Hartwell /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1219852162/.

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Moore, Noelle. "A psychobiographical study of Steven Paul Jobs." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021112.

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The study consists of a psychobiography of the American entrepreneur and innovative co-founder of Apple Computers, Steven Paul Jobs (1955 – 2011). The psychobiographical research method qualitatively considers the lived life of an individual in an attempt to understand the psychological development in the context of applied psychological theory. A theoretical integration of Adler‘s Individual Psychology and Antonovsky‘s Sense of Coherence was utilized in the present study. This integrative approach facilitated a dynamic and holistic picture of the individual‘s functioning in illuminating not only personality but also the individual‘s social context, choice making capacity, general resistance resources and the individual‘s ‗meaning making‘ capacity in the strive towards health and superiority. Steven Paul Jobs revolutionised personal computing. Ranked as Forbes‘ seventeenth most powerful person and Man of the Year by The Financial Times in 2010, Jobs‘ contribution to modern technology is widely acknowledged and revered. To ensure the accurate description of the lived life of Steven Paul Jobs, extensive data was examined by utilizing Alexander‘s model of identifying salient themes. The study considered the nature and methodology of psychobiography, the theories of Alfred Adler and Aaron Antonovsky and the life of Steven Paul Jobs that resulted in an integrated psychological description of the subject. The findings of this study indicate that Steven Paul Jobs‘ unique context (environment and constitutional attributes) was valuable in light of the theoretical frameworks that the present study is grounded upon as it illustrated an individual‘s self-determination and capacity to exercise choice in response to life challenges. The study highlighted that the individual is not necessarily a passive bystander to his life events but rather is driven by an internal forward striving. Key concepts: Aaron Antonovsky, Alfred Adler, Apple Computers, Individual Psychology, Psychobiography, Sense of Coherence, Steven Paul Jobs.

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Kyle, Eric R. "Leadership traits and characteristics of effective company officers at the United States Naval Academy : the midshipmen perspective." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA380857.

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Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Thesis advisor(s): Crawford, Alice ; Thomas, Gail Fann. "June 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-93). Also available online.

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Bormann, Carol J. "Effectiveness in Company-sponsored Foundations : A Utilization of the Competing Values Framework." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277615/.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the criteria used by foundation directors in assessing the effectiveness of contribution programs in company sponsored foundations. Quinn and Rohrbaugh's Competing Values Approach of organizational effectiveness was used as the theoretical framework for the study. The Competing Values Approach is an integrative effectiveness model which clusters eight criteria of effectiveness into four theoretical models of organizational effectiveness.

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Popa, Bogdan G. ""Parting company with the opinion of the world"| Shame and political agency in nineteenth century feminist activism." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3617866.

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Liberal feminist theorists such as Martha Nussbaum restrict agency to conventional strategies, but in this dissertation I claim that feminists need to understand the value of other, unconventional performative tactics that can open up feminism to radical interventions. I not only support Judith Butler's claim about the need for "non-state-centered forms of agency and resistance" but also historicize the emergence of nonliberal strategies of political contestation, particularly in Victorian feminist activism. Although Victorian feminists are traditionally associated with liberalism, and figures such as John Stuart Mill and Josephine Butler have been used to criticize post-structuralist theorists, I show that some of their practices and interventions reveal a radical, nonliberal aspect to their feminism that strengthens the post-structuralist call for creative and innovative practices of democratic action. Nineteenth-century activists imagined various types of sexual and affective relationships that undermined the privileged role of the institution of marriage. They also used shaming and humiliating language to challenge traditional gender roles and produce profound social transformations.

Building on the activism of these Victorian feminists, I develop a conception of agency that politicizes tactics such as the use of shame, humiliation, silence, and nonconventional relationships. Because the liberal understanding of shame is insufficient, I offer an alternative queer conception that challenges the perception of shame as destructive. The central element of this conception is that shame not only generates negative feelings and low self-esteem but also has an important capacity to provoke political activism, such as strategies for resignifying political norms that excluded sex and gender marginals.

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De, Angelis Annarita. "One’s company, two’s a crowd: A cultural corpus-based study of loneliness and solitude in the United States." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/17280/.

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The present thesis aims to investigate the cultural profile of the notions of loneliness and solitude in American culture. To do so, the discipline of Cultural linguistics is complemented by corpus linguistics methods, in two different corpus-based studies. The first study investigates the differences and similarities of loneliness and solitude across individualist and collectivist cultures. The second study focuses on the United States only, with the collection of a corpus of advice columns, and research on the emotions connected to the state of being alone.

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Belz, James A. "Performance measurement for the company officer : an examination of current methods used at the United States Naval Academy." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA367774.

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Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development) Naval Postgraduate School, August1999.
"August 1999". Thesis advisor(s): Wally Owen, Keith Snider. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-80). Also avaliable online.

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Larges, Chad M. "Analysis of the Company Officer Management Information System (COMIS) performance measurement software at the United States Naval Academy." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA379477.

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Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Thesis advisors, Owen, Walter E. ; Snider, Keith F. "June 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90). Also available in print.

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Schleifer, Thomas C. "Indicators of construction business financial risk in the closely held construction company operating in the United States of America." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1380.

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MacDonald, Alexander M. "Decorated Vitrolite pigmented structural glass : its development, applications, and methods of production, 1907-1958." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1327783.

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Pigmented structural glass started being produced in the early years of the twentieth century, reached its height in popularity during the 1930's, and was no longer produced by 1960s. Vitrolite was one of the most popular brands of pigmented structural glass, It was first used as a white glass background for decalcomania advertisements and as cladding in areas were sanitation was desired. Several types of applied decoration were developed for Vitrolite that helped to expand it's applications in building beyond sanitary applications. These types of decoration include painted, sand-blasted, inlaid, laminated, agate, and surface textured designs. Decorated Vitrolite was commonly used on store fronts, in signage, and for restaurant interiors and lobbies. All decorated Vitrolite was completed in the Vitrolite factory prior to shipping to customers. The processes of creating the various types of ornamentation, how they developed, and their applications are the focus of this thesis.
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Gilinsky, A. "Comparative measures of growth factors : An investigation into high growth medium-size companies in Britain and the United States 1980-1984." Thesis, Brunel University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233436.

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Fahy, Anna Louise. "Borderland Chinese community identity and cultural change /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1439475.

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King, Kristin Michelle. "The Relationship between Participation in Goal Setting, Company Size and Performance, Commitment, Acceptance and Job Satisfaction in the United States and Macedonia." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2003. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0328103-152747/unrestricted/KingK04292003a.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2003.
Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0328103-152747. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Kim, Hyung Hoon. "The influence of entrepreneurial activities on teaching at Universities in the United States." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24821.

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This study is to investigate the influence of entrepreneurial activities on teaching at universities. Specifically, the study focuses on entrepreneurial activities' effect on professors' time allocation. The dataset analyzed was constructed from the survey conducted by University of Illinois at Chicago in 1998. The sample was drawn from American academic professional associations' members of the four fields: experimental biology, physics, mathematics, and sociology. Based on the data of 133 professors, the study shows that professors with paid consulting work tend to spend less time in teaching when research activities are controlled. Insignificant are the other variables about entrepreneurial activities: patent application, industry funding, and research collaboration with industry. Also, more research time is likely to result in less teaching time. Insignificant are the other research-related variables: research funding at large and collaborative research in general. In terms of personal and institutional conditions, assistant professors tend to invest more time in teaching than senior professors, but they are likely to reduce more time on teaching than their senior counterparts for increasing research time. Finally, biology and sociology professors tend to allocate less time to teaching than physics and mathematics professors. In a word, entrepreneurial activities and research tend to conflict with teaching at the level of individual professors' time allocation.

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Cowin, Erica. "The evolution of U.S. corporate logos a semiotic analysis." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4875.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution of six U.S. corporate logos--Apple, McDonald's, Nike, Pepsi, Shell, and Starbucks--from each logo's inception until the newest version of the graphic emblem today. The objective is to determine the meanings that logos have for a corporation's identity, mission, and relationships, as well as the messages that logos convey to viewers (i.e., mostly customers). By "evolution" of logos here, the researcher means "ongoing transformation" of logos. The semiotic model used in this analysis is Charles Sanders Peirce's (1958(1931)) semiotic framework. Peircean semiotics is made up of a three-part paradigm of signification: the representamen (or the sign itself), the object (or "referent"--what the sign refers to), and the interpretant (the effect on the viewer, or the viewer's interpretation). Based on the semiotic data on logo evolution, the researcher found six main themes that emerged across the analyses of U.S. corporate logos. These themes are (1) Direction toward the Future, (2) Identity with Viewers, (3) Instant Recognition and Distinctiveness, (4) Consistency throughout Evolution, (5) Invocation of Change, and (6) True Representation of Corporate Identity. The ultimate conclusion of this analysis is that the communicative intent of a company, through its logo, tends to take a long time to develop. A successful logo is one that portrays the true objectives and principles of a company. For this reason, the ideal identity of a corporation tends to be built over a long period of time, which makes logo improvement "evolutionary" in nature. In all six cases, communication plays a major part in logo improvement.
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Pelzer, John D. "A merchant's war : the blockade running activities of Fraser, Trenholm and Company during the American Civil War." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/539804.

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The Anglo-Confederate mercantile house of Fraser, Trenholm and Company played an important, even vital role in the Confederate war effort. Recognizing its inferiority to the North in terms of manufacturing facilities, capital, and foreign trade, the Southern Confederacy relied upon British commercial interests and an ideology of free trade to overcome this disadvantage. Fraser, Trenholm and Company was a driving force in the formulation of this unique alliance between the Confederate government and private British business interests. The wartime experience of Fraser, Trenholm and Company illustrates the fundamental flaws in Confederate financial policy. The blockade running trade, the outward manifestation of the Anglo-Confederate alliance, although successful, could not be controlled by the Confederacy, and the free trade ideology prevented reform of the trade until it was too late.
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Goodnight, Ronald Keith. "A major turnaround from massive lay-offs to hiring employees : a company culture proved more accurate than management's predictions." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/546121.

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This in-depth study looked at a major manufacturing company during a year when management projected contract losses and massive lay-offs and terminations. The company's hourly employee culture indicated that the major automotive customers of the company were influential driving forces and would rescue the company from the dire management predictions. The principal major research question was to determine the accuracy of predictions based upon the company's hourly workers' culture versus management's predictions and actions based upon external sources.Another investigation area was the company management's actions to manifest their avowed "our employees are our most valuable resource and asset" belief statement. Similarly, would the Professional and Technician Equal Employment Opportunity job groups have the smallest percent of reduction, since the company's primary strength was purported to lie in its engineering and technical employees?Interviews, data collection and analysis, and monthly task force investigations and communications revealed the company culture was definitely more accurate than the numerous predictions made by management. As the "culture" predicted, the loss of the contracts did not occur. The company concluded the year with increases in total employment. Temporary lay-offs did occur during the year and management took numerous actions to help both retained employees and those being terminated or laid-off. Such actions included outplacement services, stress reduction programs, job placement and resume writing, and instituting communication networks and procedures and a Dispute Resolution Procedure. The company did show that the employees were valuable and important assets.The reduction numbers and percents for the Professionals (engineers) and Technicians were exactly opposite of what management typically avowed. The largest category reduced was the Technicians and the second-largest category was the Professionals.The company continued to be quite viable and the future outlook became optimistic, which coincides with the company culture that the major automotive customers will always be there needing the company's products.The company management took several steps to prevent their predictions from occurring, while hourly employees, using only history which is not a very dependable source for industry today, happened to be correct in this study.The primary conclusion was that the culture of the company's hourly workers was more accurate in predicting the future than management's predictions based on supposed knowledgeable external sources. It was recommended that internal cultural based predictions and externally based information be blended together for the most accurate predictions. This will provide all managements everywhere a better information base for making decisions, particularly strategic planning decisions.
Center for Lifelong Education

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Griffiths, Erin. "Ideology, executive decision-making, and the Colorado coal strike of 1913-1914." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.

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Hunt, Randall M. "Tinkering with Taste: NBC's Prime Time Television Programming 1978-1986." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278292/.

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The thesis explores how Grant Tinker's philosophy of quality programming grew into a working ideology which would serve as the basis for its rise from last place to first place in ratings and profits from 1978 to 1986. This thesis paper explores the prime time history of NBC from 1978 to 1986. The network is examined in terms of its programming history, its economic situation, and the men who presided over the entity, all within the time frame listed above. The thesis focuses on the strategies and philosophies of the three men crucial to the direction the network took during the above time frame: Fred Silverman, President of the network from 1978 to 1981, Grant Tinker, Chairman from 1981 to 1986, and Brandon Tartikoff, Programming Chief from 1980 to 1991.

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Binus, Joshua D. "Bonneville Power Administration and the Creation of the Pacific Intertie, 1958 -1964." PDXScholar, 2008. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1724.

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Construction of the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie (also known as the Pacific Intertie) began in 1964, following the culmination of a series of interrelated negotiations which included: 1) the planning for the construction and operation of the Pacific Intertie; 2) the passage of federal legislation that put limits on the export of electricity from the regions where it was generated; and 3) the full ratification of the Columbia River Treaty between the United States and Canada. By 1970, with construction complete, the Pacific Intertie allowed for the movement of more than 4,000,000 kilowatts of power among the electrical systems of British Columbia and eleven Western states, including 243 rural electrical cooperatives, municipal systems, and other public agencies. It had essentially become the backbone of the largest electrical grid in the Western world. In addition to widening the marketing area available to power producers throughout the grid, the Pacific Intertie also integrated the operations of the nation's largest hydropower system (Bonneville Power Administration), the largest privately owned electrical system (Pacific Gas & Electric), and the largest municipal power system (L.A. Department of Water and Power) in the country.

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Luckett, Michael D., and David M. Oden. "Assessment and evaluation of the employment of the Midshipman Information System (MIDS) as a performance measurement tool by Company Officers at the United States Naval Academy." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10961.

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This research first examines the use of the Midshipmen Information System (MIDS) by faculty, staff and midshipmen as a performance measurement tool at the United States Naval Academy. Specifically, this project examines how Company Officers use MIDS to measure the performance and development of the midshipmen over time, what metrics they believe are important to midshipmen development, how current MIDS functionality meets the needs of end users and recommendations for improvement of the overall system. Research includes interviews of faculty, staff and midshipmen on their use of MIDS, an online survey given to all Company Officers and a detailed analysis of current performance measurement models in use today. Once this data was collected, a system capability analysis of MIDS and the Weblntelligence ad-hoc query software was completed. These results are included in an appendix that can be used by all Company Officers as a training guide to ensure more effective use of their time. The findings of this research allow the United States Naval Academy in general and the Company Officer specifically to more fully understand the importance of performance measurement in continually improving the development of midshipmen.

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Hickerson, Jon D. (Jon David). "The Impact of Corporate Interlocks on Power and Constraint in the Telecommunications Industry." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500891/.

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Using the tools of structural and network analysis developed by Ronald R. Burt and others, this study investigated the communication patterns among corporate officers of American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (A.T. & T.) and United Telecommunications Corporation (Sprint). Data on contacts, efficiency, network density, and constraint indicate that opportunities for power and constraint have remained relatively stable at United Telecommunications between 1980 and 1990. A. A.T. & T., on the other hand, was more affected by the drastic changes in the telecommunication industry. The span of A.T. & T. has grown smaller and the potential for constraining relations among A. T. & T. and financial institutions has increased during the period 1980 and 1990.

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