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Dynamic and risk measurement perspectives on Bowman's risk-return paradox for strategic management : an empirical study
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Determination of the Electromechanical Coupling Coefficient of an Inter-Digitally Poled Transducer on a Piezoelectric Ceramic
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Previous issue date: 1973-04Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 76266
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Previous issue date: 1973-04Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 101117
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Reason: Restricted to UIUC communityRestricted to UIUC communityJoint Services Electronics Program / DAAB-07-72-C-0259U of I OnlyCoordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems Laborator
Creating the Nashville Sound: A Case Study in Commercial Culture Production (Tennessee)
No full textThe thesis is an interpretive analysis of country music production in the 1950s and early 60s. It explains the change in the music during the period as the result of symbolic negotiation within the country music industry. The Nashville Sound is seen as the resolution of a struggle to construct a form of music that was considered country, but was acceptable to a wider audience. The analysis is based in a developed "interpretive approach" to commercial culture production. It examines the history and nature of country music, the changing radio/record relationship in the 1950s, the tension in Nashville between the values of the Grand Ole Opry and those of the developing Music Row. It uses Patsy Cline's recording career to illustrate how the music served as an arena in which values and beliefs were negotiated. It concludes with an analysis of how change in a cultural form affects the ability of symbolic material to articulate a social group.Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:38:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1984Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 78486
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Using Item Response Theory to Bridge the Measurement Gap Between Normal Personality and Psychopathy
No full textThe focus of the present studies is on whether psychopathy is an extreme variant of normal personality or whether it is a qualitatively distinct disorder. Typical measures of normal personality focus on adaptive variants of traits, whereas measures of psychopathy were designed to assess maladaptive variants. Presumably neither type of measure provides information for the entire range of the continuum, from normal to abnormal. As a result, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to determine whether normal personality traits and psychopathy lie on the same continuum. In the present studies, I used Item Response Theory to demonstrate that measures of both normal personality and psychopathy are indeed restricted in their measurement bandwidth. Furthermore, I demonstrated that such measurement restriction has implications for taxometric analyses such that erroneous detection of taxa can occur. Specifically, in a simulation study I generated data sets with known underlying structures, either with or without restricted measurement range. When the range was restricted, a taxon was detected even when the known underlying structure was dimensional. Next, in the first of two empirical studies, which included a sample of undergraduate students (N = 459), I confirmed my expectation that measures of psychopathy are indeed restricted in their measurement bandwidth and contain only highly difficult items. Contrary to my expectations, the measure of normal personality also contained a disproportionate number of highly difficult items. A subsequent taxometric analysis indicated that, contrary to prior findings, psychopaths do not represent a discrete taxon. In Study 2, which included a combined sample of undergraduate students and individuals receiving treatment in a substance abuse recovery center (N = 272), I added items to an existing measure of psychopathy to provide better coverage across the latent trait. Again, two different taxometric procedures indicated that psychopaths do not represent a discrete taxon. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:39:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2005Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 83381
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Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsU of I Only114 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
The Transition From LPN to RN: Perceptions of LPNs Considering the Transition
No full textThe research indicated it is important for nurse educators and administrators to address perceived barriers of LPNs who wish to continue their education and to strengthen factors that are perceived as facilitating the transition. The following recommendations were offered: flexible work, clinical, and class schedules, acknowledging LPNs considering returning to school, offering on-site childcare facilities, discussing the perception of barriers and facilitators, classes and clinicals located in or close to work sites, and curriculum tailored to grant credit for previous LPN education, allow for testing out of courses, and accelerate programs for LPNs.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T19:53:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2002Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 80974
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Heat and Mass Transfer Performance and Flow Characteristics of an Offset -Strip Array at Reynolds Numbers Up to 100,000
No full textPressure drop, anemometry, particle image velocimetry, mass transfer, and heat transfer experiments are performed to investigate the performance of an offset-strip fin array in the range 10,000 < Re < 100,000. Flow diagnostics show the flow in the offset-strip fin array exhibits vortex shedding at two frequencies, depending on the location from which the vortices are being shed. The associated Strouhal numbers are approximately 0.15 and 0.20. The PIV experiments reveal the flow to be in a turbulent, vortex shedding regime. The friction factor, Sherwood number, and Nusselt number are determined by experiment to be approximately twice that predicted using the best currently available correlations and models for offset-strip fin arrays. Curve fits are provided for these data. The validity and proper use of the heat and mass transfer analogy for this geometry in this turbulent regime are discussed.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T21:12:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2006Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 85146
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Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsU of I Only117 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
Environmental Applications of Ultrasound
No full textAs previously reported, molybdenum carbonyl and tungsten carbonyl were decomposed sonochemically in hexadecane to form porous aggregates of 2--3 nm high surface area Mo2C and W2C particles. The activity of these materials was studied for the catalytic hydrodehalogenation of aliphatic and aromatic halocarbons at low temperatures (T = 200--300°C). Both catalysts were selective, active, and stable for all substrates tested. The HDH of substrates bearing aliphatic C-Cl bonds occurs faster than those with aryl C-Cl bonds. Characterization of post catalytic materials with x-ray diffraction and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed no change in the bulk structure of the catalyst and chlorination of the surface metal species, respectively.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:12:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2003Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 85385
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Transition Metal Organosilicon Compounds, Activation of Si-H and Si-C Bonds by Organometallic Complexes
No full textAlkylation of W(OMe)3Cl3 with LiEt followed by addition of N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine (tmed) gives the tungsten ethene/hydride complex [Li(tmed)]3[WH(C 2H4)4].Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:14:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1999Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 85718
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Efficient on -Demand Operations in Large-Scale Infrastructures
No full textThis dissertation discusses several on-demand operations, challenges associated with them, and system designs that meet these challenges. Specifically, we design and implement techniques for (1) on-demand group monitoring that allows users and administrators of an infrastructure to query and aggregate the up-to-date state of the machines (e.g., CPU utilization) in one or multiple groups, (2) on-demand storage for intermediate data generated by dataflow programming paradigms running in clouds, (3) on-demand Grid scheduling that makes worker-centric scheduling decisions based on the current availability of compute nodes, and (4) on-demand key/value pair lookup that is overlay-independent and perturbation-resistant. We evaluate these on-demand operations using large-scale simulations with traces gathered from real systems, as well as via deployments over real testbeds such as Emulab and PlanetLab.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:20:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2009Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 83141
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Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsU of I Only120 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
Investigations of the physical properties of photoemission polarized electron sources for accelerator applications
No full textThis experiment measured the polarization and quantum efficiency as a function of wavelength for the chalcopyrite semiconductor Zn(Ge\rm\sb{0.7}Si\sb{0.3})As\sb2. Also, the onset of space charge growth of a 100 keV electron beam passing through the Illinois/CEBAF polarized electron injection system was studied by measuring the beam emittance as a function of current. Finally, the thermal properties of GaAs were investigated by measuring the beam emittance as functions of the excitation laser wavelength and the laser spot size.The experiments were performed at the University of Illinois Nuclear Physics Laboratory using a 100 keV photoemission polarized electron gun, a electron spin manipulation system of a novel design, a Mott polarimeter, and an emittance measuring system. The design and performance of the entire system is described.The maximum polarization of Zn(Ge\rm \sb{0.7}Si\sb{0.3})As\sb2 was measured to be 19%, much lower than the expected 100%. Also, the expected transition of the polarization through zero was not observed. The beam emittance as a function of current was measured and the onset of space charge effects was found to be 0.5 mA, much lower than predicted by the electron gun design program scEGUN. Finally, the effective transverse thermal energy of the electrons emitted from GaAs at 100 keV as a function of excitation wavelength was measured by a new method for low beam currents. The electron thermal energy for wavelengths between 840 and 633 nm was found to be 33 meV, a factor of 3 lower than for a thermionic electron gun. It was also found to increase sharply for photon wavelengths less than 633 nm.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:10:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1993Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T14:51:17Z
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