Determinants of joint venture success in Russia
Joint venture formation between Russians and Westerners increased from 1,109 in 1989 to approximately 3,000 by mid-1991. Although empirical evidence indicates high failure in this area, up to this...
View ArticleA violation of sanctities: The interrogation of the popular press in the...
With the 1881 publication of William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, American realism began a critical interrogation of the mass-produced sensational daily...
View ArticleUnderstanding forces that influence role construction and enactment: A study...
This study explores the forces that influence role construction and enactment through the experiences of two mid-level managers in student affairs at Paradox University, a large, public, research...
View ArticleInfluence of network structure and social support on black smokers' intention...
Understanding the role of social and cultural factors play in promoting smoking and helping smokers to stop is a challenge that has major implications for health of black and other minority...
View ArticleThe development of versatile substituent placement in the polyelectrolyte...
The synthesis and physical characterization of various poly(1,4-phenylene vinylene) (PPVs) derivatives with electron withdrawing substituents on the phenyl rings and some additional PPV analogues are...
View ArticleAn explorative study of socioeconomic characteristics and needs of Hispanic...
This study describes the socioeconomic characteristics, assesses the basic information about special education the Hispanic parents are interested in knowing about through educational workshops and...
View ArticleNuclear quadrupole double resonance investigation of the anomalous...
This thesis was directed at learning more about the unusual electronic environment near hydrogen within strong hydrogen bonds. "Strong" hydrogen bonds are unique in that the hydrogen atom is...
View ArticleThe rabbit model for HTLV-I infection
Rabbit HTLV-I transformed cell lines possessing diverse biological properties were derived in vitro from peripheral blood lymphocytes of New Zealand White rabbits. Two of the cell lines caused fatal...
View ArticleA qualitative study of how eight teachers moved toward whole language
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into and knowledge about the perceptions and practices of teachers who have moved toward a whole language, literature-based, process approach to the...
View ArticleLearning to solve Markovian decision processes
This dissertation is about building learning control architectures for agents embedded in finite, stationary, and Markovian environments. Such architectures give embedded agents the ability to improve...
View ArticleSample path analysis and control of finite capacity queueing systems
Sample path techniques are commonly used to explore control aspects of queueing systems. Using these techniques, one is primarily interested in comparing the performance of different systems by...
View ArticleThe retrospective narratives of young women's experience of parental divorce
This study examined the relationship between the long-term effects of parental divorce on children and the meaning of the divorce. Specifically, this study focused on the role meaning played in...
View ArticleFeminine leadership as a response to new challenges in higher education: Myth...
This study explored the question of whether the literature on women's leadership is relevant to the ways in which a select group of female community college presidents lead their institutions. Three...
View ArticleArbitration in the Boston Schools
The study of arbitration in the Boston Schools is an analysis of teacher grievance arbitration cases during the period 1980-1989. The research comes from the case files of the Boston Schools, the...
View ArticleDisruptive behavior in the classroom in an urban, restructured middle school:...
Many restructured public middle schools assign their classroom teachers to interdisciplinary teams (math, English, etc.) with common planning time scheduled weekly. Students are then assigned to one...
View ArticlePollen selection under acid rain stress
To investigate whether acid rain stress induces pollen selection in nature, three different approaches were used, based on the assumption that the response of pollen grains to acid rain is controlled...
View ArticleEvoking men's creativity to address the challenges of new fatherhood: A model...
The purpose of this study was to design and test-out a workshop to help fathers of special needs children with their transition to fatherhood. The workshop was evaluated to ascertain how effective it...
View ArticleAn undistorted picture: Broadcasting, journalism and the state, 1920-1941
This dissertation investigates the development of radio news broadcasting in the years between the First and Second World Wars. Historians have long acknowledged that radio's coverage of the outbreak...
View ArticleSelf-perceived leadership styles of collegiate athletic directors: A gender...
The concept of leadership has intrigued the interest of researchers over the decades. As more and more studies have been performed in various organizational environments using a variety of different...
View ArticleA case study of Northeastern Late Archaic mortuary behavior: Turner Farm, Maine
The preservation of osseous material at the Turner Farm site, Maine provides us with an opportunity to examine more closely some of the variability in Northeastern Late Archaic mortuary practices,...
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