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Integrating Time Into Family Business Research: Using Random Coefficient Modeling to Examine Temporal Influences on Family Firm Ambidexterity
(Family Business Review, 2014-03-01)
Organizational ambidexterity refers to a firm’s ability to pursue both exploitation and exploration orientations. Despite research that suggests ambidexterity is a critical phenomenon in family firms, few studies directly ...
Interactions Between Coherent Structures and the Urban Canopy Layer
(2014-12-12)
The focus of this dissertation research is to gain further insight into the interaction of coherent structures and the urban canopy layer (CS-UCL interactions). There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that periods ...
Historical and Musical Comparison of Cello Works by David Stanley Smith and the Fourth Violin Sonata by Charles Ives
(2014-05-09)
David Stanley Smith is overlooked among American composers of the early twentieth century. Overshadowed by the career and magnetism of his Yale colleague and contemporary, Charles Ives, Smith was an illustrious composer ...
WIND TURBINE CLUTTER IN WEATHER RADAR: CHARACTERIZATION AND MITIGATION
(2014-05)
With the rapid growth of the wind power industry, many commercial utility-scale wind turbines have been built across the country. These extremely large man-made structures are reported to have negative impact on nearby ...
Complexity of Modules over Lie Superalgebras
(2014)
In this dissertation, a fair amount of work is dedicated to computing the complexity of modules over a classical Lie superalgebra $\fg=\fg_{\0}\oplus \fg_{\1}$ over the complex numbers $\C$. We will consider the category ...
Representation of Radar Image’s Timestamp in the Cockpit
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2014-09-01)
Data-linked mosaic NEXRAD images can be more than 14 minutes old by the time they reach the cockpit for use by pilots (Elgin & Thomas, 2004; Novacek et al., 2001; Yuchnovicz et al., 2001). Unfortunately, research has ...
NANOPARTICLES ADSORBED AT THE OIL/WATER INTERFACE: INSIGHTS FROM DISSIPATIVE DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
(2014)
Nanoparticles (NPs) can stabilize the so-called Pickering emulsions. These emulsions are used in many applications, including biofuel upgrading, material synthesis, food preservations and pharmaceutical processes. The ...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Student Achievement
(2014-05)
The relationship between school spending and student achievement has been studied for years, beginning in earnest with the Coleman Report (Coleman, Campbell, Hobson, McPartland, Mood, Weinfield, York, 1966). The authors ...
Virtue, Practical Wisdom and Character in Teaching
(2014-06)
Recent reflection on the professional knowledge of teachers has been marked by a shift away from more reductive competence and skill-focused models of teaching towards a view of teacher expertise as involving complex ...
Why Wage War? Global Education in the Middle School Classroom
(2014-12-12)
As the 21st Century unfolds, there is increasing need for globally knowledgeable citizens, and social studies is a natural domain for global education to take place. Unfortunately, multiple studies show a lack of global ...