Covering the energy demand by using environmentally friendly resources is a major challenge of the present. Gas turbines take a central role in accomplishing this objective, as they allow for bridging periods of a deficit in available renewable energy sources. The application of…
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As entrepreneurial funding supports the growth of entrepreneurial firms, it can be viewed as the fuel that enhances the creation, development, and growth of new technologies, industries, and markets. However, investing in entrepreneurial firms is highly risky. For example, Ventu…
Forecasting the success of megaprojects is a very difficult and important task because of the complexity of such projects, as well as the large capital investment that is required for the completion of these projects. One could argue that forecasting is not needed in this contex…
Agile methods are being adopted in the software development industry increasingly and even beyond this sector. Outsourcing software development from developing countries in the Global South is increasing in the industry. With Lebanon being the hub for outsourcing software for th…
As restrições financeiras têm sido um tópico de pesquisa constante na literatura. Para micro e pequenas empresas o seu impacto é particularmente importante, considerando a sua dependência de crédito para sobreviver. Estas empresas são responsáveis por grande parte do dinamismo d…
A educação, no Brasil, é um direito constitucional e a consolidação desse direito no contexto da educação profissional e tecnológica implica promover a democratização do acesso e condições objetivas para a permanência e o êxito dos estudantes. Para isso, algumas condições objeti…
Non-native plant pests and pathogens threaten biodiversity, ecosystem function, food security, and economic livelihoods. Preventing, minimizing, and mitigating damage from invasive non-native plant pests involve dynamic, multiscale strategies that are agile enough to respond to …
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue to contribute irrefutable value to higher education. The individuals leading HBCUs for over 180 years have endured many obstacles and setbacks. However, the men and women who assume the role of president commit to con…
This thesis presents a new perspective on the study of past farm success and failure; it builds on the concepts of resilience and vulnerability to construct a theoretical framework which integrates environmental, historical and ethnographical data. The basic framework establishe…
This study extends previous research on career success prediction by using multiple conceptualizations of person-job (PJ) and person-organization (PO) fit. Specifically, I relate demands-abilities (DA) PJ and PO fit to objective career outcomes such as promotion and salary level…
In this study, I examine the characteristics of the reception of Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire’s critical literacy by Building Resources Across Communities in Bangladesh (BRAC) from 1972 to 1981.The central questions of this study are: (1) how Dr. Fazle Hasan Abed, founding m…
The business of globalized education has become increasingly competitive and increasingly complex. As the international campus develops students to meet the demands of the modern global workforce, organizations can choose between varying business models that emphasize different …
This thesis explores the effects of: 1) traditional values, 2) parental involvement, and 3) poverty on student performance. Instead of regarding tradition and poverty as obstacles, this paper argues that they can play a positive role in improving the educational quality. This th…
Information technology (IT) plays an important role in contemporary organisations and this role continues to expand in scope and complexity and affects business operations dramatically. Advances in the IT industry have caused major changes in every industry sector. The banking i…
The subject of this dissertation is the Lun Bawang language (also called Lundayeh, and formerly also Murut), and in particular the Kemaloh dialect thereof, spoken principally in highland Borneo in the area near, and on all sides of, the borders dividing Malaysia’s Sarawak and Sa…
Randomized trials are the gold standard for assessing causal relationships between an intervention and a clinical outcome. The challenge with randomized trials is that they are very expensive to perform, often take place at different times and locations, take many years to compl…
Interest in improving children’s executive function (EF) skills through interventions is increasing and several approaches have been tested (Takacs & Kassai, 2019). However, there is a need to further focus on specific populations of students, such as young students. The foc…
Labor unions are a controversial and relatively little understood species of organization. While empirical research on the effects of unions on various labor market outcomes proliferated in the 1970s and 80s, theoretical understanding of the behavior of unions remains at its ear…
This research paper provides an analysis of Variations on Balkan Themes, Op . 60, one of Amy Beach’s most significant solo piano works. Variations on Balkan Themes exists in four different versions: the 1906 original solo piano version, a 1936 revised solo piano version, a 1942 …