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The Impact of Internal Management on Organizational Performance
(2010-10-12)
This dissertation explores the impact of internal management on the performance
of public organizations. This research descends from the management matters research
agenda and uses the Meier/O'Toole model to present the ...
Design and Fabrication of Nanochannel Devices
(2010-10-12)
Nanochannel devices have been explored over the years with wide applications in bio/chemical analysis. With a dimension comparable to many bio-samples, such as proteins, viruses and DNA, nanochannels can be used as a ...
Essays on Efficiency Analysis
(2010-07-14)
This dissertation consists of four essays which investigate efficiency analysis, especially
when non-discretionary inputs exist. A new approach of the multi-stage Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) for non-discretionary inputs, ...
Challenging the Status Quo: The Rise and Consequences of Anti-Establishment Parties in Western Europe
(2010-07-14)
This dissertation examines two interconnected research questions: What
conditions give rise and lead to the electoral success of anti-establishment parties and
what are the consequences of this electoral success? Literature ...
Writing, Realities, and Developing Ethos: Literacy Narratives in the Composition Classroom
(2010-10-12)
The overall purpose of this study is to analyze how students talk and write
about writing to understand why mainstream students struggle with writing when
they are neither economically nor culturally marginalized. Composition ...
An Environmental Perspective to Decision-making for the Control of Johne's Disease on Beef Ranches
(2010-10-12)
Biosecurity practices for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Mptb),
the etiologic agent for Johne's disease (JD), are predicated on the fact that fecal-oral is
the major route of infection and that Mptb is present ...
A Mechanistic Study of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Changes on Tropical Atlantic Climate
(2010-10-12)
An eddy-permitting 2-1/2-layer Reduced Gravity Ocean (RGO) model is
developed. Compared with the conventional 2-1/2-layer RGO models, the new model
has improvements in subsurface thermodynamics, vertical mixing scheme and ...
Managed Lane Choices by Carpools Comprised of Family Members Compared to Non-family Members
(2011-02-22)
Carpools can be comprised of family members (fampools), non-family members (non-fampools) or a combination of both. Overall, carpool mode share has decreased during the 1980's and 1990's, even as the policies were in place ...
A Hybrid Ensemble Kalman Filter for Nonlinear Dynamics
(2011-02-22)
In this thesis, we propose two novel approaches for hybrid Ensemble Kalman
Filter (EnKF) to overcome limitations of the traditional EnKF. The first approach is to
swap the ensemble mean for the ensemble mode estimation to ...
A Drop in the Bucket: Ten Years of Government Spending on Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in Texas Colonias
(2011-02-22)
Since 1989, the United States Federal Government and the State of Texas have targeted water and wastewater infrastructure development spending in the colonias to improve access to safe, reliable and adequate water supplies ...