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Mcmaster, L K, VX46894
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/404171Surname: MCMASTER. Given Name(s) or Initials: L K. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX46894. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 5986.240413
Item: [2016.0049.36463] "Mcmaster, L K, VX46894
Performance of the McMaster rheumatoid arthritis measurement questionnaire in Brazilian patients
No full textMCMASTER UNIV,DEPT CLIN EPIDEMIOL & BIOSTAT,HAMILTON L8S 4L8,ONTARIO,CANADAWeb of Scienc
[Letter to Governor Henry McMaster]
No full textThis letter from State Forester Scott L. Phillips to Governor Henry McMaster describes the damage done to forests in South Carolina by Hurricane Helene
An Investigation of the McMaster Commuter Distribution
No full text The purpose of this study is to investigate the McMaster commuter distribution. The total analysis is carried out in two subanalyses. The first analysis examines the effect that different
variables have on the mean trip length of various commuter groups. The variables examined in the first analysis are: residential tenure, occupation, duration of service or study, parking permit ownership and part-time versus full-time status of students. In general the first analysis is concerned with the mean trip length of on campus Faculty, Staff, and Students. The first analysis verified that residential tenure is an important variable in that students who commute from the homes of parents average a considerably greater mean trip length than
students who commute from rented accommodation. The second analysis employs a disaggregate singly-constrained spatial interaction model to distribute trips between McMaster and student residential locations. The second analysis shows that: (i) the production-constrained model fits considerably better with observed data when the sample is partitioned into student renter and stay at home groups than when the sample is not partitioned. The attractiveness factors were varied between the two groups. Renters were considered to be
attracted to renter occupied dwellings in a zone while students commuting from the homes of parents were considered to be attracted to the number of owner occupied dwellings in a zone. (ii) straight line distance as a surrogate for travel cost yields a better fit for the renter group while automobile travel-time facilitates a better fit for the stay at home group. Auto travel time yields a better fit for peripheral trips because of the tendency for these trips to be made by car. Given the understanding that student renters are predominantly bus users who have chosen to locate close to the campus, euclidean distance is apparently more reflective of the travel impedance experienced by this group. Future research should attempt to qualitatively link measures of travel cost with the client group they are attempting to model.ThesisBachelor of Arts (BA
Gauging language growth in sentence-level writing (Reno & McMaster, 2024)
No full textPurpose: Picture–word writing curriculum-based measures (PW CBM-Ws) are technically sound, formative measures of descriptive, sentence-level writing but cannot estimate underlying linguistic skills. The purpose of this exploratory alternative scoring investigation was to apply metrics from language sample analysis (LSA) to PW CBM-Ws as a complementary measure of underlying language skills in beginning writers’ sentence-level writing.Method: LSA metrics were applied to 104 typically developing first through third graders’ PW CBM-W samples across fall and spring semesters. Factorial analyses of variance with post hoc Bonferroni pairwise comparisons were applied after obtaining alternate-form reliability and criterion-related validity estimates.Results: Analyses revealed reliable discrimination between grades and significant growth between fall and spring semesters for three LSA metrics: mean length of T-unit in words, mean length of T-unit in morphemes, and number of different words. While mean length of T-unit in words and morphemes demonstrated evidence of discrimination and growth in first grade only, number of different words showed evidence of reliable discrimination and growth in first and third grades.Conclusions: Mean length of T-unit in words, mean length of T-unit in morphemes, and number of different words showed evidence of adequate criterion-related validity, discrimination among grades, and sensitivity to growth when calculated using PW CBM-W samples to gauge underlying linguistic skills in first- and third-grade students. Implications and future directions for research are discussed.Supplemental Material S1. PW CBM-W items.Supplemental Material S2. Excerpt from a student PW CMB-W sample.Reno, E. A., & McMaster, K. L. (2024). Measuring linguistic growth in sentence-level writing curriculum-based measures: Exploring complementary scoring methods. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_LSHSS-23-00056</p
Baby Boomers' changing values: strategic implications for the small business
No full text25 leaves, [2] leaves : ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 22-24). ; "July, 1990".Many small businesses can take advantage of a forecasting technique used by l arge organizations and corporations. This study examines survey data on the changing personal values of U. S. Baby Boomers to offer small businesses a means of forecasting the demand for broad classes of products and services designed for an aging generation of Baby Boomers. This method of strategic planning lets the small business anticipate how the market for consumer products is likely to change in the next five to ten years, due to projected changes in the values of an aging Baby-Boom group currently numbering 76 million. Because their values are changing, the Baby-Boomer customers of tomorrow will likely be looking for specific qualities in the products they buy, the services they indulge in, and the causes they support.</p
Cordination of pricing, advertising, production and work-force level decisions in a functionally decentralized firm
No full text20 leaves : ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 19-20). ;An optimal control model of a marketing-production system is formulated. The Marketing subsystem in the model is represented by the Nerlove -Arrow model of advertising and the production subsystem by the HMMS model of production planning. Using the proposed model as a reference point, a decentralized procedure is designed for coordinating pricing, advertising, production and work-force level related decisions in a firm. Attention is especially devoted to the case when the demand for the product is highly seasonal. An example is presented to illustrate the procedure.</p
Decentralized planning with an interdependent marketing-production system
No full text24, 4 leaves ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 22-24). ;An interdependent marketing-production planning model is developed based on control theory. The overall model is a composition of the Vidale-Wolfe model relating advertising rates to sales rates, and the HMMS production/ inventory planning model. Using the overall model as a reference point, it is shown that in certain circumstances a decentralized (separate) marketing production planning process can yield near optimal results. A transfer pricing mechanism provides the best results and several examples are presented to illustrate the cases in which decentralized planning does and does not work well.</p
Two articles: The future of cancer therapy and The function of lipin in obesity and lipodystrophy
No full textThe future of cancer therapy, Erica L. Lowthers American Association of Cancer Research meeting notes, Washington, April 2006The function of lipin in obesity and lipodystrophy, Christopher R. McMaster Experimental Biology meeting notes, San Francisco, April 2006
An optimal control approach to marketing: production planning
No full text27, 4 leaves ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 26-27). ;The problem of finding an optimal advertising and production policy in a firm is analyzed u sing a recently proposed model of a marketing-production system. First it is shown that the optimal control problem underlying the proposed model is a partially singular control prob lem. Then, using a reverse time parametric approach, a solution procedure is designed to determine the optimal advertising and production policy for the proposed model. Finally, it is shown that the results deriving from the new model are applicable to problems of capacity expansion in a firm.</p
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