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AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS: THE ROLE OF NETWORK STRUCTURES AND BOUNDARY SPANNER BEHAVIORS AS RELATED TO COLLABORATION IN INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS
(2011)
Using data collected as part of a grant project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF# 0538924), an exploratory analysis of the latent organizational structures and boundary spanner behaviors that impact perceived ...
POROVISCOELASTICITY AND ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS OF SELECTED PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING
(2011)
This study provides newly-derived analytical poroviscoelastic solutions for a number of practical and important engineering problems with various levels of material anisotropy: laboratory and field testing of cylinders ...
Cosmology of the PQMSSM
(2011)
This work presents the main implications of simultaneously considering the Peccei-Quinn solution
LOS ALMANAQUES DE CARLOS DE SIGÜENZA Y GÓNGORA: ASPECTOS LITERARIOS Y HERRAMIENTA PARA ANALIZAR INFORTUNIOS DE ALONSO RAMÍREZ Y PARAYSO OCCIDENTAL
(2011)
The heart of this work is the corpus of holographic almanacs of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700). Sigüenza y Góngora was one of New Spain's most notable scholars, a man who wrote on topics ranging from astronomy ...
Gothic Modernisms: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture
(2011)
I analyze the persistence of Gothic conventions in the works of four major British modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H Lawrence. These writers depict cultural, political, and aesthetic ...
AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT CONCURRENCY CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK DATABASES
(2011)
With the rapid growth of the wireless networking technology and mobile computing devices, there is an increasing demand for processing mobile database transactions in mission-critical applications such as disaster rescue ...
STUDIES OF COSMIC RAYS AND MINIMUM BIAS MEASUREMENTS IN PROTON-PROTON COLLISIONS AT (s)^1/2 = 0.9 and 7 TeV WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR AT THE LHC
(2011)
The first measurement of lower momentum charged particle multiplicities made by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are presented. The charged particle multiplicities are measured as a function of transverse momentum, ...
The Contributions of Jane Smisor Bastien to Piano Teaching
(2011)
The impact of Jane Smisor Bastien (b. 1936) on the field of piano teaching is investigated in this document, both in terms of her teaching materials and with respect to her effectiveness as an independent teacher. Bastien ...
The British Image of Empire in the Victorian Novel
(2011)
In my dissertation, I analyze six novels from five British authors, beginning with William Makepeace Thackeray's <Vanity Fair> (1847) and moving on to Charlotte Bronte's <Jane Eyre>, Emily Bronte's <Wuthering Heights>, ...
Essays in Corporate Finance and Bond Interest Rate Volatility
(2011)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays in corporate finance and bond interest rate volatility. Chapter 1 investigates the impact of TARP preferred stock on two different types of outstanding preferred stock. The ...