The potential for a rapidly growing double-crested cormorant population to negatively impact fish populations and public resources in North America has focused attention on the feeding ecology and management of this federally ...

For a nilpotent orbit O in a complex classical Lie group G, R. Brylinski in [7] constructed a Dixmier Algebra model of its Zariski closure, based on an earlier construction by Kraft and Procesi. On the other hand, Barbasch ...

The maintenance of genomic integrity and cellular homeostasis relies upon the appropriate selection and coordination of signaling and effector pathways in response to damage or perturbations. The DNA damage response (DDR) ...

This dissertation consists of two main parts. First, in Chapters 1-4 I develop a framework for analysis of research on credibility (competence and trustworthiness) in audit settings and review literature by types of examined ...

Does en rollment in entrepren eurship classes actually impact venture creation? Our findings indicate that entrep reneurship classes have not only had a statistically significant impact on new venture creation, but are ...

Many firms that once relied primarily on internal labor markets (ILMs), employment systems primarily governed by a set of organization-specific internal rules and procedures, have shifted to greater use of external markets ...

When firms expand their business they typically hire more labor and in the process generate in­creased returns to the business owners. Similar to the concept of financial leverage, we define the degree of labor leverage ...

With the increased interest from consumers regarding purchasing local foods, there is a growing literature on the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for these goods. I provide a further expansion on the WTP for local food by exploring ...

For young children of 3 years, relational reasoning, as when children are asked to recognize the commonality of a type of spatial configuration between two objects, remains a challenging skill. Children are biased to match ...