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An analysis of graduate transportation planning education in the United States
(1993)
Recent federal legislation and policy directives have resulted in significant changes in the transportation planning and decision-making process. The Americans with Disabilities Act, the Clean Air Act Amendments, and the ...
Industry structure, competitive strategy, and firm-specific intangibles as determinants of business unit performance towards an integrative model
(1994)
Determinants of business performance have been a major focus of research in the disciplines of marketing, strategic management and industrial organization economics during the last two decades. An examination of prior ...
The differential effects of incentives and monitoring on earnings management at the time of a CEO change
(1993)
In recent years, chief executive officer (CEO) compensation levels have become increasingly earnings-based. This has provided a potential opportunity for CEOs to manage earnings in order to affect their own compensation ...
Estimating the relationship between dietary intake and food frequency questionnaires
(1992)
In many nutritional studies the probability of obtaining a certain disease is believed to be related to a certain predictor variable. In order to test for the relationship between the predictor variable and the disease it ...
Variables associated with the underrepresentation of women at the rank of director of pharmacy service positions in the Department of Veterans Affairs
(1992)
The purpose of this study was to identify variables associated with the underrepresentation of women in director of pharmacy positions in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A survey instrument was developed and ...
The effect of foreign economic, political, and cultural environment and consumers' socio-demographics on consumers' willingness to buy foreign products
(1978)
The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of foreign economic, political, and cultural environments on American consumers' willingness to buy foreign products. Additionally, the effect of consumers' socio-demographics ...
A yield model for dryland wheat production
(1971)
Seasonal evapotranspiration from dryland and irrigated wheat plots at Goodwell, Oklahoma during a three year period (1964-1967) could not be adequately described, without the inclusion of a drainage model, from data ...
Lyndon B. Johnson and the politics of civil rights, 1935-1960 : the art of moderate leadership
(1978)
Lyndon B. Johnson was a pragmatic politician, possibly the most skilled legislative tactician ever to occupy the White House; he was capable of reversing his position on controversial legislation, and he did weaken progressive ...
The impact of the federal labor relations authority on labor arbitration in the federal sector
(1985)
This research involved an analysis of the arbitration cases appealed to the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) under 5 U.S.C. [section] 7122. In particular, the cases in which the Authority modified, set aside, or ...
Capital market in agriculture : a disaggregated structural model
(1985)
The objective of this study was to develop an econometric simulation model of the U.S. financial sector that emphasizes the linkages between the financial sector and the farm sector. Demand and supply equations for eight ...