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The Investiture of Dr. Sandra Woodley
Get PDFEvent Program of formal confirmation of Dr. Sandra Woodley as The University of Texas Permian Basin. It includes: a biography of Dr. Sandra Woodley, Alma Mater song lyrics, fight song lyrics, list of delegates, strategic vision, mission, pillars, belief values, University history timeline, investiture statement, medallion description,university maces description, regalia description, engineering building artist rendering, D. Kirk Edwards Family Human Performance Center artist rendering, list of leadership, list of deans, list of development board, and special thanks.https://falconcommons.utpb.edu/utpb-admin/1001/thumbnail.jp
The Competitive Environment of Community Banking: Impact on Microenterprise access to Bank Financing
No full textCurrently, community banks hold only 14% of bank assets in the US; nonetheless, they play an important role in the US economy because they continue to provide the majority of funding to small businesses. This study finds that over 83% of bank failures occurred in metropolitan areas despite the distribution of community banks being almost equal at 49.5% rural and 50.5% metropolitan. The higher failure rates or metropolitan community banks provides support for the competition-fragility view that increased competition in banking leads to more bank failures. The nationwide survey in this study indicates that metropolitan community bankers perceive the competitive environment to be more intense and that their marketing capabilities are inferior to the large nationwide and regional banks that they compete against. Community bankers perceive that the merger and acquisition activity will continue and that it is driven by the need to achieve economies of scale in technology and regulatory compliance. Based on previous research that larger banks extend less credit to small businesses, this will further restrict the availability of bank credit to new businesses and existing microenterprises. Given that microenterprises employ the majority of people and contribute to new job creation, there are serious economic implications
Toward a spirituality mode of firm sustainability strategic planning processes
No full textThis paper aims to develop a spirituality mode of firm strategic planning processes that incorporate four basic firm spirituality elements, namely, transcendence, an inexhaustible source of will, a basic and supreme power and interconnectedness and oneness, used for promoting corporate and community sustainability
Strategic Academic Program Prioritization: In Theory and Practice
No full textNot every college or university can offer every degree program. Whether it is times of abundant resources or times, similar to the last decade, when higher education has faced severe budget reduction, higher education leaders must decide which programs to add to their institutions and which programs to close. In the last decade many colleges, universities, and university systems have undergone formal programs of assessing academic degrees under the banner of program prioritization, right sizing , program quality review, and/or low-producing program reviews. This study examines the models proposed for university program prioritization found in the academic literature with those in actual use over the last decade. The objective of this study is to determine which approaches did universities actually use compared to models prescribed in the literature in the hope of providing insight to higher education administrators considering this form of planning tool
Numeracy Abilities of Children in Grades 4 to 6 with Mild Intellectual Disability in Singapore
No full textMathematics is an important aspect of daily life. Basic numeracy skills are needed to accomplish everyday tasks. However, research regarding the relationship between cognitive ability, mental age, and basic numeracy skills for children with intellectual disability (ID) is scarce. This research study investigated the correlation between intellectual ability and the development of number sense and arithmetic abilities in individuals with ID. Thirty-two students from a special school for individuals with ID in Singapore participated in this research study. Based on the results, basic numeracy is more closely correlated to the mental ages of the students than their intelligence quotient. This finding will be discussed and suggestions for future research will be provided
Spirituality and social responsibility performance
No full textThis paper aims to discuss how religiously and non-religiously affiliated individuals may view the three core workplace spiritual values: transcendence, existence of a higher power and interconnectedness. Additionally, this paper studies how the contrasts between the views of religiously and non-religiously affiliated individuals about the three core spiritual values affect their performance of social responsibility initiatives
The Current Practice of Performance-Based Budgeting in The Largest U.S. Cities: An Innovation Theory Perspective
No full textThis article provides new insights into our understanding of the adoption and implementation of performance-based budgeting (PBB) in the largest U.S. cities. Addressing PBB from an innovation theory perspective, the article conceives of PBB as an innovative budgetary tool that was initially proposed in the late 1950s as an attempt to rationalize the government’s budgetary decision-making process. While interest in PBB waned in the 1970s and 1980s, it gained renewed interest under the New Public Management reforms in the past few decades. Scholars have observed that although performance measures have been widely developed and introduced into budget presentations, budget allocations are still not made on the basis of performance information. The article examines the extent to which this observation holds true for states with performance budgeting laws, assuming that large cities located in states with performance laws, such as Texas, are more likely than others to fully implement PBB by basing their budget allocation decisions on performance information. The article takes Texas as a leading example of such states, and empirically tests this assumption using a mixed-methods approach of survey and content analysis data
A regression model for estimation of dew point pressure from down-hole fluid analyzer data
No full textAccurate knowledge of dew point pressure is important in understanding and managing gas condensate reservoirs. Without a correct assessment of dew point pressure, an accurate description of phase changes and phase behavior cannot be achieved. Numerous models for predicting gas condensate dew point pressure from surface fluid data have been proposed in the literature. Some of these require knowledge of the full composition of the reservoir fluid (based on laboratory experiments), while others only need field parameters that are relatively easy to obtain. This paper presents a new model for predicting the dew point pressure from down-hole fluid analyzer data. Such data are now measured (usually in real time) while obtaining down-hole fluid samples. The new model predictions give a quick estimation of dew point pressure for wet gas and gas condensate reservoirs. Since it relies only on down-hole measured data, the model provides an estimate of dew point pressure without the need for laboratory analyses. During down-hole fluid sampling, the model can be used to ensure whether the sample is still in single phase, or whether the dew point was crossed during the sampling operation. An early estimate of dew point pressure is also valuable in designing further tests for gas condensate wells. The new model, constructed using a fluid database of nearly 700 gas condensate samples, was devised using sophisticated statistical/machine learning methods, and attained a mean absolute relative error value of 2% for predicting the logarithm of pressure. In comparison with other dew point estimation models (that use surface fluid data), the chosen model was found to attain a similar level of accuracy whe
Desire for Visual Aesthetics (DVA) in the Store Environment: Concept and Measurement
No full textThe article describes the development, purification, and validation of a reliable self-report scale designed to measure the Desire for Visual Aesthetics (DVA) in the store environment. There is limited literature on the subject and a measurement scale has eluded both academicians and practitioners that could help measure the need for aesthetics in the retailing environment and help marketers decide on the level and type of aesthetics for the different segments in the target market/s and also the different type of retail stores. We used 3 focus groups, 8 individual interviews, and 891 surveys to develop, purify, and validate the 9-item Likert type scale. We also provide evidence for dimensionality, reliability, and validity. The scale could be used by academicians and practitioners alike, and could replace single items to measure the concept