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Two essays in finance: Market response to catastrophic losses on the insurance industry and return on investment of a land grant university

Kangas, Ward Randall - 1996

education as an investment versus other alternative investments. While it is true the State makes large expenditures for the …, masters, doctorate, medical professional, and by function of the University. It was found that all levels of education have a …

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Factors affecting job creating and low job creating firms owned by women in Kenya

Gakure, Roselyn Wangui - 1995

management, marketing, access to both general and technical higher education and improving their self-confidence. Additionally …

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Diversity reduction as organizational metamorphosis: A strategic analysis

Davis, Rachel - 1989

Over one-third of the firms that were considered to be unrelated diversifiers did an about-face in the 1980s and announced their decision to reduce their diversity. This dissertation researches differences between those unrelated diversifiers that continued their unrelated strategy (continuers)...

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Perceptions of Illinois district conservationists toward the use of the hydrologic unit approach for natural resource planning and management

Kitchen-Maran, Kay - 1992

This study is concerned with the use of the hydrologic unit (HU) approach as a management strategy employed in the 98 United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service district offices in Illinois. The approach is the management technique or strategy of working with local people...

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A comparative analysis of job design characteristics, organizational structure, and personal characteristics affecting job satisfaction of extension agents in two extension organiz...

Mollel, Naftali Medoti - 1990

The present study was designed to compare two extension organizations in Tanzania: Commodity extension and General extension. Comparisons were made at three levels. First, to determine whether the two organizations differ in levels of job satisfaction; second, to determine whether the two...

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An exploratory study of the diffusion of instructional computing innovation among social work faculty

Pittman, Sharon Weaver - 1994

Instructional computing applications are increasingly being diffused throughout social work higher education. For this …

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Analysis of the interrelationship of employment services and supported employment program outcomes

Trach, John S. - 1989

This study investigated the interrelationship of implemented employment services and selected program outcomes. Employment services were defined by the Degree of Implementation (DOI), a program evaluation instrument. Outcomes selected for this analysis were monthly wages earned, hours worked...

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International education assistance to higher education development in Zambia: Problems, policy implications and future prospects

Sikwibele, Anne Lungowe - 1989

This is a study of international assistance to education from developed to developing countries during the past three … decades. The purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the role of foreign aid to higher education in developing …Pertinent documents were received from donor agencies, government departments and higher education institutions …

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Endogenous growth: Contributions of education to economic development in Korea and policy implications

Jang, Chang Won - 1995

. This paper considers the relation of education to per-capita growth in the medium term in seven East-Asian countries. This … includes in addition to basic education the relation of higher education via secondary education and R&D capital, and the … relation of technology developed through R&D via higher and secondary education, especially to per-capita growth in Korea. This …

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Translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of diffusion of planned lexical innovations: The francophone case

Benhamida, Laurel - 1989

A study was conducted of francophone translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of planned lexical innovations promoted by the French government. The two major research questions were: (a) whether there are relationships between sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and socioprofessional...

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