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Comparing Risk Reducing And Incentive Based Reporting Strategies In A Small Business
(Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2011-07-14)
The effects of employee theft can become detrimental when small businesses are their target. Small businesses are prone to employee theft through limitations solely defined by being a small business. The purpose of this ...
Content, Values, And Environment: Applicant Reactions To Job Descriptions
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)
The research on job descriptions is limited and information regarding applicant reactions to job descriptions is even scarcer. The current research hypothesized that after reading job content information, an applicant's ...
Developing Structural Maps Of Sales Research Knowledge: Three Essays
(Marketing, 2011-10-11)
The overall goal of the dissertation is to analyze the accumulated knowledge and explore research gaps in empirical sales research. Therefore, applying a structural map derived from a comprehensive synthesis of empirical ...
Resisting Commodification (with Friends!): Facebook And Consumer Culture
(English, 2011-10-11)
Is participating in the Facebook phenomenon (or can it become) politically resistant - even revolutionary? Or are social networking websites merely another form of commodified capitalist consumerism? In this thesis, I ...
An Identifier-tracking Based Model Reference Adaptive Control Without The Knowledge Of Relative Degree
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)
The purpose of Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) is to create a controller with adjustable parameters to obtain the desired response from a reference model. One of the basic assumptions in MRAC is that the relative ...
Development Of Novel Multilayered Particles For Drug Delivery And Cell Isolation Applications
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
The objective of this work is to develop multilayered nanoparticles for drug delivery and cell isolation applications. These particles principally consist of three layers; biodegradable polymer, thermo sensitive polymer ...
A Framework For Real-time Fault Detection And Response In Multi-agent Teams
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-03-03)
This thesis details the creation of a fault detection and response framework that can be applied to mobile multi-agent teams. This framework unites existing concepts of conditioned based maintenance and real-time machine ...
My Child And My Life: Sacrificial Obligation And Chaucer
(English, 2011-07-14)
Medieval literature demonstrates that Christians of that era took their Bible seriously, particularly the Old Testament account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. For them, the story was both fascinating and perplexing. Not ...
The Complex Gaussian Scale Mixtures Of Complex Wavelet Coefficients And Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)
In this thesis, the complex Gaussian scale mixture (CGSM), which is an extension of the Gaussian scale mixture (GSM) for real-valued random variables to the complex case, is presented to model the complex wavelet coefficients. ...
An Investigation Of Productivity Loss Due To Outdoor Noise Conditions
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2011-07-14)
Most people in day to day life at one time or other get irritated or distracted by surrounding noises. The irritation might have resulted in minor aggravation or may have been dramatic enough to hinder their work. This ...