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Institutional capabilities and entrepreneurial advantage: Bridging the gap between regulatory management and opportunity
(2014-07)
Firms are increasingly using tactics to manipulate their regulatory constraints, while at the same time regulatory environments are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic. Although scholars have described many of the ...
Socio-behavioral response of survivors to campus active shooter events
(2015-05)
This research uses available secondary data from two incidents on college campuses to analyze survivor behavior in response to campus-based active shooter events. The study employs a qualitative inductive design using ...
Interference mitigation effects on synthetic aperture radar coherent data products
(2015-07)
Both radio frequency interference from sources external to the synthetic aperture radar system and techniques to mitigate radio frequency interference can degrade the quality of the image products. Often it is the second ...
Third Culture Kids: Transition and persistence when repatriating to attend university
(2011-08)
Scope and Method of Study: This qualitative study used heuristic phenomenology and involved 20 interviews at 3 different sites, 2 focus groups, formal and informal observations, and the analysis of various artifacts including ...
Twisters in Two Cities: Structural Ritualization Theory and Disasters
(2019-05-01)
The sociological study of disaster has increased in methodological and conceptual complexity since its inception, but despite this progress there persists a need for further theoretical development in order to advance ...
Bayesian analysis for sparse functional data
(2018-05)
This dissertation mainly presents a novel Bayesian method for sparse functional data. Specifically, two models are proposed, one of which models all individual functions with a common smoothness and the other groups ...
Description of the anthropometric and physiological profile of tactical officers
(2011-07)
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Assessing student behaviors and motivation for actively learning biology
(2017-05)
Vision and Change states that one of the major changes in the way we design biology courses should be a switch in approach from teacher-centered learning to student-centered learning and identifies active learning as a ...
Online community rituals
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this research is to investigate online community rituals and the role that ritual experiences play in building and sustaining online communities. Specifically I explore: (1) What ...
Frontier apart: Identity, loyalty, and the coming of the Civil War on the Pacific Coast
(2014-07)
The development of a Western identity, derivative and evolved from Northern, Midwestern, and Southern identities, played a significant role in determining the loyalty of the Pacific States on the eve of the Civil War. ...