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Interdependent Impacts of Disruption Management Strategies: Risk-Based Applications to Port Closures, Natural Disasters, and Oil Spills
(2012)
Recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disabled production facilities, created supply shortages, disrupted business operations, and altered ...
UNDERSTANDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AS A PROFESSIONAL FIELD
(2012)
This dissertation is based on an exploratory study of GIS as it has evolved as a professional field. This study is relevant because it provides a fundamentally different approach to study professionals within a particular ...
FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA INVOLVED IN THE CATALYSIS AT THE WATER-OIL INTERFACE OF NANOHYBRID-STABILIZED EMULSIONS
(2012)
The development of reactive-separation processes in which products are separated from the reaction media (i.e. reactants and catalysts) in a single reaction unit is prized by energy and chemicals industries for its simplicity ...
Reproducing (Dis)Advantage: The Role of Family-based, School-based, and Cumulative-based Processes
(2012)
Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural and social reproduction (Bourdieu 1973; Bourdieu and Passeron 1977) offers a model that can be used to explain the existence of persistent educational stratification in the United States, ...
Global civil society and a structural analysis of international NGOs's virtual networks
(2012)
This dissertation sought to examine the virtual structure of global civil society via three theoretical frameworks: World System Theory, World Polity Theory and the current discussion of Network Society. Virtual interactions ...
Social Studies Teachers' Attitudes Concerning Convtroversial Public Issues Instruction and State Mandated Tests
(2012)
This transcendental phenomenological qualitative study examines attitudes toward Controversial Public Issue instruction by teachers who used mandated standards and state tests. After the interviews of 11 social studies ...
Learning to Lead: How Leaders in Higher Education Learn to Lead
(2012)
Learning leadership in higher education has historically not been a structured process. The purpose of this research is to understand how leaders in higher education learn to lead and the influence experience, professional ...
A Multilevel Investigation of the Social Aspects of Self-Regulation in the Context of Collaborative Ill-Structured Problem Solving
(2012)
This study investigated the effect of the social aspects of self-regulation on students' ill-structured problem-solving performance in a collaborative learning environment. Specifically, two components of the social aspects ...
Millennials in Sports: Is Generation Y Changing the Coach-Athlete Dynamic?
(2012)
The purpose of this research is to compare the Millennial generation, born between 1982 and 2002 (Howe & Strauss, 2003; Howe & Strauss, 2007, Huntley, 2006) to the generation immediately before them, Generation X, born ...
Climate Change and Human Rights: Creating Norms to Govern Earth's Atmosphere
(2012)
Global climate change is one of the most pressing threats to humanity in the 21st century. Not only is evidence of this warming unequivocal, scientific consensus holds that it is the result of human activity. If left ...