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Firm Governance And Shareholder Value Creation: A Study Of Cross-border Acquisitions By U.S. Acquiring Firms
(Management, 2011-10-11)
Cross-border acquisitions have become an important part of the arsenal of strategies that firms deploy in internationalizing their operations. With the significant resources that are generally involved in such transactions ...
A Micromechanics Model Of Thermal Expansion Coefficient In Fiber Reinforced Composites
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Fiber reinforced composites are widely used for the various applications in the aerospace, automotive, infrastructures and sporting goods industries. The evaluations of its mechanical and thermal properties are needed for ...
Experimental Investigation Of Thermal Behaviour Of Air Foil Bearings
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Micro-turbo machinery demands gas bearings to ensure compactness, lightweight and extreme temperature operation. Gas bearings with large stiffness and damping, and preferably of low cost, will enable successful commercial ...
Study Of The Response Of The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter To Muons Produced In Sqrt(s) = 7 Tev Proton-proton Collisions At The LHC
(Physics, 2011-10-11)
The purpose of this study is to verify the inter-calibration of the cells and uniformity of the Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) detector in the ATLAS experiment at CERN. The response using muons produced in proton-proton ...
Optimization Of Hydrogel System For Complex Wound Healing
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-10-11)
Various conventional therapies and preventive measures have been developed and used for treating complex wounds; however, patients with complex wounds still develop wound infection and consist of delayed wound healing. ...
Performing Masculinity And Reconciling Class In The American West: British Gentlemen Hunters And Their Travel Accounts, 1865-1914
(History, 2011-03-03)
This dissertation investigates accounts by British gentlemen of the upper-middle and upper class, whose hunting narratives in the Western United States in the second half of the nineteenth century reveal their sentiments ...
Comparison Of Dust Generation From Open Cut And Trenchless Technology Methods For Utility Construction
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2011-07-14)
Construction industry has changed many aspects of human life and is still evolving at a rapid pace. New and better technologies which are environmentally friendly and safe are being introduced in this industry. But with ...
Design Optimization Using Augmented Lagrangian Particle Swarm Optimization
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-07-14)
Engineering optimization problems normally include multiple, non-trivial, non-linear constraints. Traditionally gradient based optimization methods were used to solve these types of problems because of their high computational ...
Development Of A Model Of Productivity For Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2011-10-11)
Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is a growing method for installation of pipes in urban areas and where ever trenching is impossible or undesirable; such as in crossing rivers, lakes, and railways, and special areas ...
Improvement In The Performance Of 3G Wireless Communications Systems Using An ICA Based Signal Processing Block
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)
In this thesis, we have implemented a signal processing block in the receiver of a third generation (3G) cellular system to provide improvement in the quality of service. Each block of the cellular system, including the ...