Chapter 1: I find that firms provide incentives that encourage CEOs towards product differentiation when facing grater foreign competition. Firms respond to competitive shocks by decreasing the similarity between rival-CEOs’ performance goals. Subsequently, firms decrease their …
A relational model of spirituality and transformation (Shults & Sandage, 2006); Sandage & Brown, 2018) based on the dialectic experience of differentiation of self (Bowen, 1978; Kerr & Bowen, 1988) and communion with God (Knabb & Wang, 2019) was tested in a sample of Christian g…
This thesis is constructed around two distinct topics. The first is the formation history of the Earth and the Moon. The hafnium/tungsten (Hf/W) isotopic system can act as a chronometer for planets forming in the early solar system. To study possible planetary formation scenario…
Students attending high-needs schools experience greater pressure to increase their academic aptitude in math and English, often at the expense of quality instruction in other core subjects such as science, social science, and history. Multilingual learners require differentiate…
The differentiation of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) strains is important to the turkey industry in order to determine epidemilogic aspects of MG infections. Two methods of analyzing MG DNA were investigated for their suitability to differentiate MG isolates in a diagnostic envi…