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(Texas A&M University, 1996)That the elderly population is the fastest growing cohort in the United States is now widely recognized. Interestingly, people are now retiring earlier with larger amounts of discretionary income than has been the case in ...
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An empirical investigation of salespeople's behavior, effort and performance during sales contests (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of task-goal attributes on salespeople during a sales contest. The attributes of goal difficulty, goal clarity, and goal acceptance were examined as predictor ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Defining monetary aggregates that are stable functions of a few economic variables, such as income and interest rates, is desirable for policy purposes. Defining weighted aggregates has proven useful for this purpose. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)This study analyzes the financial characteristics of United States acquisition targets acquired by United States and United Kingdom firms. It seeks to determine whether United Kingdom firms are taking advantage of accounting ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The purpose of this research effort was to empirically examine various relationships in the conflict behavior process existing in the franchise channel of distribution for real estate brokerage services. Specifically, the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Critics of the accounting profession have not spared the self-regulatory program of accounting firms. Some of these criticisms suggest that the profession's present self-regulatory program is so unsatisfactory that another ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)This dissertation investigated the impact of the personality of a supervisor on the relationship between participation and performance. The following research questions were addressed in this study: (1) Is a supervisor's ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)The objectives of the study were to: (1) investigate the ways in which decision makers adapt their information search strategies in response to increases in the supply of information; and (2) assess whether the personality ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)The main objective of this dissertation was to identify those internal factors (or variables) that were common to those manufacturing firms which had established effective product elimination programs and those firms which ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This dissertation investigated the impact of personality type on supervisor-subordinate relationships within a budgetary setting. The study investigated the effects of both the individual and the dyadic personality type ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The purposes of this study were to extend the body of research relating to the use of multiple discriminant analysis in bakruptcy prediction models, the relationship between bankruptcy and troubled debt restructuring, and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )The primary objective of this dissertation is an empirical evaluation of sociology's paradigmatic structure. The research was conceptually organized in terms of Thomas S. Kuhn's (1962) model of scientific development and ...
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An empirical investigation of the price linkages between wholesale beef and slaughter cattle prices (Texas A&M University, 1987)Not available
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The first purpose of this investigation was to present a conceptual framework for systematically classifying interview studies according to their degree of structure. This framework was based on the premise that interview ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)This study has investigated the usefulness of the Lovelock service typology in distinguishing between broad groups of consumer services based on the degree of loyalty they are accorded. The object of the service and the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)Recently, automatic speech recognition systems have shown the potential of becoming a useful means of data entry and control. The most successful of these speech recognition systems accept an isolated utterance as input ...
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(2014-08-12)Travel time and travel time reliability are two fundamental factors influencing travel behavior and demand. The concept of the value of time (VOT) has been extensively studied, and estimates of VOT have been obtained from ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1994)An empirical model has been developed to predict the mean-velocity profile of a turbulent boundary layer under the influence of surface curvature. The model proposed is able to determine the profiles for both a convex and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)An approximately spherical implosive wave is developed by the abutting and ignition of two shaped charge explosive cones. The spherical implosive wave impinges on a spherical powdered metal specimen compressing the powdered ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)In many cases, it is important to predict water production performance of oil wells early in, or maybe before, their production life. In as much as oil field water is important for pressure maintenance purposes and ...