Archaeological study of Indigenous pasts has been characterized by a focus on objects over people. This study attempts to humanize the past by illuminating human agency in the human-dog relationship through a case study of dog health and diet during the Late Ceramic period (ca. …
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While servant leadership has become a widely adopted leadership style by many greatleaders throughout history, there is limited empirical evidence to support the trueorganizational relationship between servant leader factors and cultural intelligence. Theresearch was conducted u…
As coleções científicas, reunindo uma enorme quantidade e diversidade de objetos e os dados que lhes estão associados, constituem um valioso património histórico, científico e cultural. Estas coleções estão, geralmente, sob a responsabilidade dos museus e dos seus respetivos cur…
This dissertation contains three essays. In the first essay, I document that disclosure of financially immaterial environmental and social (E&S) information has material effects on firms’ investment and financing decisions using the staggered introduction of 87 country-level…
The application of reinforcement learning (RL) to algorithmic trading is, in many ways, a perfect match. Trading is fundamentally a problem of making decisions under uncertainty, and reinforcement learning is a family of methods for solving such problems. Indeed, many researcher…
As the need for nonprofits to deliver social services for our most vulnerable communities increases due to systemic inequities, challenges of addressing gender and racial inequities arise both in nonprofit leadership and in Sacramento’s homeless population. This thesis examines …
O narcisismo é um dos conceitos mais antigos e críticos da história da psicologia, e tem crescido sob a superintendência das teorias da psicodinâmica. Nos últimos anos, o narcisismo tornou-se um tema mais interessante com uma vasta gama de resultados para os investigadores que t…
The common practices for planning and management of Water Resources Systems (WSSs) are challenged in the last decades by global climate change processes which are observed around the world in increasing frequencies. Climate change is manifested by climate variability, temperatur…
Em 2016, as áreas florestais baldias celebraram 40 anos de gestão comunitária. Estas, na sua maioria, foram plantadas durante a ocupação dos terrenos comunitários (vulgo baldios) pelo Estado Novo e durante o desenvolvimento do Regime Florestal através do Plano de Povoamento Flor…
Project management continues to evolve as types of projects increase, advancement of technologies available, as well as tools for project management grow in sophistication. A successful project is defined as being completed on schedule, on budget, and delivering the requirements…
The eastern basin acid mine drainage treatment plant was launched in February 2017. The short-term treatment (STT) of acid mine drainage (AMD) involves a high-density sludge management system and the purpose of the treatment is to discharge improved (neutralised) quality of wate…
This study reflects the construction workforce shortages and the possible solution to fulfill the labor gaps. The problem addressed in this study was the lack of women recruited for employment in midwestern U.S. construction companies. This problem affects the managers within th…
While many opine the criticality of leader Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (Goleman et al., 2004; Goleman, 2005; Boyatzis et al. 2011; Boyatzis et al. 2017; Hess & Bacigalupo, 2013; Galen, 2012), this research identified empathy as the sine qua non for leader EQ. Elders serve as…
The behavioral healthcare (BH) community provides essential health care services to its clients. Employee turnover has a long history dating back as far as 30 years. Turnover continues to be a growing topic in the behavioral health care community. The success of services rendere…
Poverty and food insecurity are two on-going issues in the world today. The objectives of the study were to analyze and prepare a profile of household poverty and food insecurity; and to explore and analyze factors affecting household food insecurity in Tennessee. One of the mor…
Driven by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act(HITECH), and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), integrated healthcare systems have implemented electronic medical records (EMR) and other technologies capable of capturing and storing discrete data elem…
Belonging is a critical human need that has historically been fulfilled through family, religion, and community. Today, however, people now look to the workplace to nurture their sense of belonging. Companies strive to create a sense of belonging in the workplace because employe…
In this thesis, we consider two-stage newsvendor problem where the decision maker selling a seasonal product only uses the historical demand information in her decisions. In our setting, there are two decisions to be made: the order quantity, and a marked-down price. We decide o…
This research focuses on cross-border acquisitions of emerging market multinationals (EM MNEs). Opposing theoretical perspectives of colonial ties (i.e., country ties between the acquiring and target firm countries, with the former being a colonized country and the latter being …