Dissertations / Theses: 'Effectiveness'

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Utech, William G. "Assessing seminary effectiveness." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p030-0157.

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Kumar, D. "Hypersonic control effectiveness." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/4252.

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The present study analyses the effects of a number of geometric parameters on the performance of a trailing edge control flap on a hypersonic body. The tests were conducted in a gun tunnel at Mach 8.2 and Mach 12.3. The study revealed that flap deflection promoted separation lengthscales and boundary layer transition. The latter significantly increased the local aerothermal loads on the flap. For well separated flows, flap heat transfer rates were successfully predicted by reference temperature theory. The promotion of transition caused a progressive reduction in the lengthscales of separated flows. In a free-flight environment, vehicle incidence varies considerably. Incidence was found to promote transition on both flat plates and control flaps. The latter resulted in a considerable increase in flap heat transfer. A modified version of reference temperature theory successfully predicted the aerothermal loads on the flap. For laminar and transitional interactions, the separated flow lengthscale was found to have a complex variation with incidence. A number of relevant flow parameters were identified. The intense heat loads on a vehicle in hypersonic flight dictates the blunting of the leading edge. This strengthens the leading edge shock structure and generates an entropy layer. Bluntness was found to significantly decrease the separation interaction scales on the flap. This was due to a reduction in the pressure recovered on the flap. The latter adverse affects control effectiveness. The aerothermal loads on the control flap was successfully predicted by reference temperature theory. An investigation into the efficiency of an under-expanded transverse jet controls was conducted on an axi-symmetric slender blunt cone. Force measurements found that the interaction augmented the jet reaction force by 70% at zero incidence. This increased to 110% at low incidence. The experiments found that the scale of the interaction region was determined by Poj/pes. Using this parameter, a closed loop algorithm for the shape of the separation front was developed. The latter can be used to predict jet reaction control effectiveness.

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You, Ya. "Social Media Effectiveness." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6040.

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Over the last decade, the advent of social media such as online product reviews (e.g., Amazon.com),blogs and other social networking sites (e.g., Facebook.com) has dramatically changed the way consumers obtain and exchange information about products. This dissertation investigates the impact of various types of social media on product performance and compares the effectiveness of social and traditional media under various conditions. Specifically, the first chapter performs a meta-analysis of consumer-generated WOM elasticity in social media to identify the factors that influence the impact of WOM on product sales and to assess the generalizability of the relationship. The second chapter examines how social media may influence product performance in different product contexts as compared with traditional media, which assists managers in making better media decisions. Taken together, this dissertation evaluates the progress in this field, and then takes a step further by applying past findings to understand how social media may perform at various stages in the product lifecycle.
Ph.D.
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Dean's Office, Business Administration
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Business Administration; Marketing

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Lipp, Allyson. "Developing clinical effectiveness." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494482.

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Inman, Brett Curtis 1959. "Premarital counseling effectiveness." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558208.

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Conte, Carolina <1988&gt. "Sales promotion effectiveness." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1581.

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Arbel, Giora. "Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness evaluation of an advanced artillery weapon system." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA257477.

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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1992.
Thesis Advisor: Boger, D. C. "September 1992." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 22, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90). Also available in print.

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Altun, Ozkan. "The Effectiveness Of Participant." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611301/index.pdf.

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The purposes of this study were to test the effect of four-week PACE©
program in increasing participants&rsquo
physical activity level and stages of change and examine the relationship between physical activity level and stages of change. A controlled trial, experimental design was applied. Physical activity level and stages of change were recorded at baseline and at study conclusion. For the data collection What is Your PACE Score Questionnaire, FADA Questionnaire and Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR&ndash
Q) were used. Descriptive statistics, one way repeated measures of ANOVA and simple linear correlation were used to analyze data. Participants were 182 women Middle East Technical University personnel from different units. Study participants were randomized into intervention and control groups. 87 women received the PACE©
program were compared 95 women in the control group who did not receive PACE©
program. The intervention group received PACE©
program with respect to their stages and a booster phone call or e-mail two weeks later after counseling. After 4 weeks, all participants were reassessed for stages of change and physical activity level. There was a significant difference in measurement of physical activity level and stages of change between intervention and control group before and after intervention. The intervention group&rsquo
physical activity level (p <
.05) and stages of change (p <
.10) increased but the control group decreased. Besides, changes in physical activity level were moderately and positively correlated with stages of change.

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Benivegna, Matthew P. "Disaster response improving effectiveness." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Dec%5FBenivegna.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007.
Thesis Advisor(s): Bruneau, Thomas C. "December 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 18, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-76). Also available in print.

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Mulholland, Stephanie L. "Response to Intervention Effectiveness." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3572655.

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The intersection of No Child Left Behind (2002) and the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004) made it necessary for educators to examine achievement trends within their schools and implement a Response to Intervention (RTI) program. This study examines the achievement trends in one school district since its implementation of a RTI program. To provide a clear perspective, this mixed-methods study includes both quantitative and qualitative data for analysis. The student data and teacher focus group responses indicate that while RTI efforts are having a positive impact on student achievement, it would appear that RTI alone is not sufficient to close the achievement gap in this particular school. An action plan for moving the school district forward in its RTI efforts is provided.

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Fergusson, Dean Anthony. "Effectiveness leukoreduction in neonates." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82868.

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As of September 1999, all donated units of blood in Canada undergo a process known as pre-storage leukoreduction. This process removes a significant proportion of white blood cells from blood at the time of donation. The decision to implement universal leukoreduction was based on fairly strong evidence that leukoreduction was beneficial in some adult populations such as cardiac and colorectal surgical patients. However, very little information exists on its effectiveness in other populations such as the neonatal population. The purpose of this thesis was three fold: (1) to conduct a systematic review of the literature to assess the effectiveness of leukoreduction; (2) to undertake a methods paper outlining the optimal design to study the effectiveness of leukoreduction given its universal nature; and (3) to conduct a study assessing the effectiveness of leukoreduction in the neonatal population.
The results of the systematic review elucidate the paucity of well-conducted, methodologically sound studies evaluating the effectiveness of leukoreduction in the neonatal population. The current evidence suggests that leukoreduction may be effective. However, further studies are needed especially with respect to clinically important outcomes. The lack of convincing data and the significant cost of leukoreduction mandate evaluations to determine its clinical and economic impact.
The methods manuscript describes important methodological issues confronted in the design of the before/after evaluation. Because of the universal application of many transfusion interventions, one has to consider, carefully, the methodological rigor with which these interventions are evaluated. The methodological considerations discussed are: (1) threats to internal validity; (2) precision; and (3) generalizability. Properly conceived, designed, conducted, and analyzed, such a before/after study design can yield informative associations.
The final paper presents the results of the before/after study. The study included a total of 515 infants <1250 grams from three sites across Canada. The effect of leukoreduction on our primary outcome of nosocomial bacteremia was an odds ratio of 0.59 (95%CI: 0.34--1.01). Crude and adjusted rates for all major neonatal morbidities suggest that leukoreduction improved all outcomes. The adjusted odds ratio for a composite measure of any major neonatal morbidity was 0.31 (95%CI: 0.17--.56). Based on the results of this study, it is concluded that the implementation of universal prestorage leukoreduction significantly improved clinical outcomes in premature infants requiring blood transfusions.

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Quinn, Matthew F. "Assessing Israeli military effectiveness." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/44648.

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At face value, one could look at the results achieved by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) over time, dating back from 1967 to present, and make the assumption that the IDF has not been able to consistently sustain the ability to achieve decisive military success as it did during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. If this is the case, is it due to a decline in IDF military effectiveness? If so, what are the factors that led to this development? This thesis argues that the presence or absence of effective combined-arms, maneuver warfare determined whether the IDF achieved military effectiveness during the varying types of conflict in which it has been a participant over the past five decades. This is an important lesson for the United States military as it confronts a similarly uncertain threat environment that may include a range of challenges spanning high-intensity warfare, hybrid warfare, cyber conflict and other low-intensity conflicts. Understanding how a single organization can maintain effectiveness across a range of missions by maintaining combined-arms maneuver warfare at both the operational and tactical levels may prove crucial to understanding how U.S. forces should train and equip for the future.

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Jalles, D'Orey Maria Ana. "Unpacking health aid effectiveness." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48790/.

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This thesis provides an unpacked analysis of health aid effectiveness using Mozambique as a case-study. It comprises of three main papers of independent but related research. The first paper adds to the literature by employing a new model to study the impact of health aid on health outcomes. By taking into account the heterogeneity that exists in the amount of health aid received between Mozambican provinces, a multilevel model is specified. After recognizing significant variation of health outcomes between provinces, I found no statistical evidence that health aid was a cause of those variations. The second paper provides a systematic analysis of donors’ health aid disbursement decisions in-country. Using a game theoretic framework and grounded in qualitative evidence from Mozambique, this paper shows that donors have allocation tactics other than state-to-state aid to pursue their goals which are translated into opting for alternative channels of delivery. Simultaneously, this research acknowledges the non-passive role of the recipient country, i.e., donors’ decisions of how to allocate aid are mediated by the recipient’s response to their actions. This chapter suggests that recipient-donors’ strategic interactions are crucial to understand donors’ allocation behaviour and have direct consequences for aid effectiveness. The last paper explores empirically and theoretically aid coordination efforts of aid agencies. After providing an insight into the implementation of coordination in the health sector in Mozambique, this chapter explores why different agencies differ in their motivations to coordinate, based on the distinction between public and private good properties of coordination. Finally, using a collective action theory framework and aided by Schelling’s (1973) diagrams, this chapter illustrates why it is so hard to coordinate. My results show that individual incentives to coordinate are neither strong nor stable. Furthermore, the success of coordination depends, inter alia, on the number of agencies that perceive coordination as a public versus private good and the role and involvement of the lead donor and the recipient country.

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Brostoff, Alexander. "Improving password system effectiveness." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445330/.

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As computers reach more aspects of our everyday life, so too do the passwords that keep them secure. Coping with these passwords can be a problem for many individuals and organisations who have to deal with the consequences of passwords being forgotten, yet little is known of this issue. This thesis considers the effectiveness of password authentication systems for three groups of stakeholders including users, support staff, and system owners. The initial problem of how to create memorable but secure passwords is reconceptualised as how to improve password system effectiveness. Interview, questionnaire, and system log studies in BT, and experiments at UCL-CS confirm some basic hypotheses about key variables impacting performance, and show that other variables than the memorability of password content are also important which have hitherto not figured in security research and practice. Interventions based on these findings are proposed. Empirical evaluation suggests that the interventions proposed that 'redesign' the user but exclude other parts of the system would fail. Reason's (1990) Generic Error Modelling System (GEMS) is used as a basis for modelling password system performance at the level of individual users. GEMS and the Basic Elements of Production are used generalise these findings, and for the first time to model information security. This new model, "Elevation", is validated by expert review, and a modified version is presented.

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Dode, Albi. "EFFECTIVENESS OF FAULT PREDICTION." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39671.

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The research community in software engineering is trying to find a way on how to achieve the goal of having a fault-free software. The industry that will use a near fault-free software will have it easier to lower the costs of maintenance and the versions of delivered software will be more qualitative. In this case, fault prediction can be used in order to achieve the above objectives. Fully applied fault prediction is not yet achieved on an industrial scale. There is some progress attained in the field during recent years. But knowing and understanding what available tools and algorithms regarding fault prediction can give is yet a goal to be achieved by the industry. In this thesis, two fault prediction algorithms and several metrics combinations are tested in an industrial and open source project. The main goal is to understand how much fault prediction is integrated and effective in a continuous delivery environment using real case scenarios. The manually collected data, from several versions and in different time periods were applied using two already present algorithms: Naive Bayes and Clustering. As a result, while the usage of this prediction depends on the company needs, further research in the field can be extended.

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Anderson, Colin M. "Generalized weapon effectiveness modeling." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Jun%5FAnderson.pdf.

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Weber, Paull C. "Intranet effectiveness and organizational commitment." Thesis, Curtin University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/111.

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The Intranet Pencil and Paper Checklist (Murgolo-Poore et al., 2002) is a new measure developed to gauge the perceptions of organization members as to the effectiveness of the firms Intranet, from an Internal Marketing and Human Resource perspective. Three dimensions of the construct "Intranet Effectiveness " have been distilled from initial scale development research and testing, they are Operations, Facilitation and Culture.The instrument is now applied to a financial services organization with approximately 3000 staff to test its robustness across all layers of a hierarchy. It performed well, particularly in plumbing the perceptions of management towards their Intranet.Several theoretical perspectives were investigated to understand how OC and Intranet effectiveness may be associated, including Transaction Cost Theory, Communication Theory and Social Identity Theory. With this theoretical underpinning the instrument was administered to discern if an effective Intranet, through its power to communicate and involve multiple stakeholders had any correlation with Organizational Commitment.Intranet effectiveness was found to have a significant correlation, which varied in its effect across user groups. It was suggested as a focus for future research that peripheral groups might have benefited from the Intranet in a way that increased OC amongst those cohorts disproportionately. Should such a theory be borne out by empirical investigation, it has potential application for strategic decision making in Intranet design and management.

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Hamilton, Andrew James. "The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a Northern Ireland public access defibrillation project." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527927.

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Goodacre, S. W. "The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Chest Pain Observation Unit versus routine care." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269396.

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Xia, Jintang, and 夏金堂. "Cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic cholecystectomy during the index admission in mild acute gallstone pancreatitis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39724694.

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Arnold, Ronald J. "Performance metrics for the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems 1.0 and 2.0." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FArnold.pdf.

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Dafinone, Daphne. "The effectiveness of audit committees : an analysis of governance mechanisms as surrogates for effectiveness." Thesis, City University London, 2001. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8398/.

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Current recommendations in the UK identify the audit committee as a key component of effective corporate governance. These recommendations emphasise the importance of structure and processes in an effective audit committee. It is therefore important to consider if these structures and processes are effective in promoting corporate accountability and control. This thesis therefore considers the extent to which the composition and structure of the audit committee is associated with the ability of the audit committee to fulfil its roles and objectives effectively in UK listed companies. It is reasonable to assume that an audit committee may be considered effective where it achieves its stated roles. The audit committee is not required to report to the shareholders within the financial statements on the extent to which they have achieved their roles. Thus, actual audit committee effectiveness cannot be externally observed. It is possible to measure audit committee effectiveness indirectly if it is considered that the absence of financial reporting problems indicates an audit committee has been effective in achieving their financial reporting oversight role. I.e. the extent to which the audit committees discharge their functional roles could be used as a surrogate for an external indication of audit committee effectiveness. This thesis therefore considers if the key governance mechanisms thought to impinge on audit committee effectiveness are present in companies in which the audit committee is considered to have failed in their financial reporting oversight role. The key governance mechanisms examined were: • The presence of the joint role of the CEO and the chairman; • Board Balance; • Existence of an audit committee; • Independence of the audit committee; • No. of audit committee members; • Existence of charter/terms of reference; • No. of meetings held by the audit committee per year; • Evidence of Interaction with / existence of Internal audit; • Financial literacy of members; • Technical competency of members; • Additional directorships of members. The results, based on comparing the above governance mechanisms in companies with no financial reporting problems ("CNFRP") to companies that have financial reporting problems (CFRP), indicate that "CNFRP's" have audit committees with significantly higher percentages of financially literate and technically competent members. This thesis provides insight into the effectiveness of governance mechanisms in UK audit committees during the period 1995-1999. This thesis contributes by updating our understanding of the factors that influence the effectiveness of the audit committee. It highlights that current recommendations in the United Kingdom, with their focus on audit committee composition and structure, should also consider the competency of audit committee members and determine a benchmark by which competency may be measured.

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Webster, Leonie. "Team effectiveness in professional cricket." Thesis, Bangor University, 2018. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/team-effectiveness-in-professional-cricket(681ed88e-a71f-4c60-bfc7-84dc1abbee79).html.

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To produce superior team performances members must be able to work well together to exceed the sum of their parts. Despite an extensive body of research in healthcare, business, military, and aviation, there is limited understanding of what effective teams do in sport. In an attempt to address this gap in the literature the present doctoral thesis - commissioned by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - sought to uncover, measure, test, and improve the most important factors for team effectiveness in cricket. The thesis contains three empirical studies which address the following research questions: (i) what factors contribute to the effectiveness of cricket teams? (ii) How can team functioning and effectiveness be measured? (iii) Can factors of team functioning accurately predict effective cricket teams, and what is the relative importance of those factors? (iv) Can team functioning and effectiveness be improved in cricket teams? Chapter 1 of the thesis defines some of the key terms associated with the group-based literature, before critically reviewing the organisational and sport psychology literature on team effectiveness and group dynamics, highlighting limitations that need to be addressed. These include a lack of research attention on teamwork or team functioning in sport, the investigation of group-related variables in sport in isolation, an overreliance on deductive approaches to framework development, a lack of appropriate measures, and the exclusive focus upon the development of cohesion within team building interventions in sport. Chapter 2 is an abductive, qualitative investigation involving 21 cricket experts, which explores the factors most important for team effectiveness in cricket. Based on this elite samples' construal, we propose a parsimonious and novel conceptualisation of team effectiveness in cricket (Essential Team Ingredients model; ETI). Chapter 3 contains two studies concerned with the development and validation of the Inventory of Essential Team Ingredients (IETI), designed to measure each sub-component of the ETI model. The first study adopted a new paradigm of measurement design to validate a multi-construct, single-item based inventory. The second study examined the extent to which factors within the ETI model could accurately predict effective teams in a sample of 32 high performing male and female cricket teams. Through the application of novel pattern recognition analyses, results suggested that certain features could accurately predict an effective team in nearly 90% of instances. Chapter 4 presents an intervention study, whereby a team building intervention based on the IETI was designed, delivered and evaluated, providing an indication that team functioning can be improved over a short period, and preliminary evidence for the utility of the IETI. Finally, Chapter 5 concludes the thesis by discussing some of the theoretical, conceptual, and applied implications of the findings, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the research and potential avenues of future research.

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Crary, Michael A. "Measuring surface combatant fleet effectiveness." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA369783.

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Thesis (M.S. Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1999.
"September 1999". Thesis advisor(s): Linda K. Nozick. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52). Also available online.

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Vollaard, Ben A. "Police effectiveness measurement and incentives /." Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2006. http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgsd%5Fissertations/RGSD200/.

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Beuck, Niels. "Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-77.

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The Thesis analyzes the effecvtiveness of international environmental regimes. A case study of four of the most important river regimes in Germany - the Commissions for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR), Elbe (ICPE), Oder (ICPO) and Lake Constance (IGKB)- was conducted. The first part of the thesis explains the theoretical foundation the thesis rests upon. Neoliberal Institutionalism was the chosen theory, accompanied by aspects of regime and game theory. A definition of effectiveness was generated, taking into account a legal, a historical and a political perspective. The Thesis is a qualitative case study, which uses mainly sources from books, essays, newspapers and few in-depth interviews with people inside the Commissions. In the second part the International Commissions are analyzed. In the end the findings are compared to find out what constitutes an effective regime. All four regimes have made an significant impact though. An effective regime is - according to the findings of this thesis - characterized by different factors: a small number of actors, a strong legal basis for the daily work routines, similar background of the member states, favorable national conditions.

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Welt, Thomas. "Enzymatic deinking effectiveness and mechanisms." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7067.

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Mason, Cecily, and cecily mason@deakin edu au. "I.T. investment effectiveness in education." Swinburne University of Technology, 2001. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20051130.142153.

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Governments and school communities are heavily investing in information technology (IT) assuming that this will prepare their children for the workforce and in future life. This research aimed to establish an IT investment effectiveness model in the educational, domain easily applicable to schools in assessing whether their IT investments were effective. Literature research revealed a dearth of information on IT investment effectiveness in the area of education and it was therefore deemed necessary to implement an interpretive approach. Consequently a qualitative combined research methodology involving literature research, interviews, and a modified Delphi Survey I was undertaken. An initial starting point investigated the extensive business literature in IT effectiveness and IT investment particularly in small business, as most schools due to their size and budget can be categorised as thus. The information gleaned from the literature assisted in establishing a questionnaire for the interviews. Participants were selected from thirteen Victorian State, private and Catholic secondary schools that were perceived as expert in the area of IT. An in-depth three stage analysis of the interview data revealed twenty-four initial key issues. These key issues were then circulated to the participants who were requested to rate each issue using an interval scale. They were also asked to add or delete any issues, giving a rationale for their action. Participants underwent a two round process of highlighting and reassessing the key issues and the Delphi Survey was found to be valid as two new issues not identified from the interview process were raised. Based on their responses ten key issues were derived: the Principal, teachers, curriculum and IT planning, technical support, the students, the actual use of IT, training and personal development, the school council, budget, and the Learning Technologies Committee. These key issues revealed themselves as indicators or determinants of IT investment effectiveness exhibiting organisational or individual perspectives. The analysis of previous research, together with the current research findings enabled the development of a functional Model of IT Investment Effectiveness which can now be used by schools to assess their IT investment effectiveness. Finally the schools surveyed were utilising the best business IT practise and were treating IT as a strategic issue with their IT goals closely aligned and based upon the goals of the school.

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Stephenson, Judy Anne, and n/a. "The effectiveness of library displays." University of Canberra. Communication, 1989. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061109.085234.

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This present study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of two types of school library displays: a display with books only, called Display, and a display with books, posters, models, copy, and realia, called Display +. The effectiveness of these displays was to be measured in two ways: a) through the observation of the attaction power, holding power and viewer participation in a display and b) through measuring the circulation of displayed books. Before commencing the study a literature search was conducted. The result of the literature search yielded four authors, Goldhor (1972; 1981), Aguilar (1983), Watson (1985), and Baker (1986), who had researched the relationship between circulation and displays. Each of these studies used the measurable effect of circulation increasing, decreasing or remaining constant to determine the effect of the display. This present study used a similar methodology and monitored the circulation of books on both types of displays. However, this study sought to go beyond the effect of circulation in determining the effectiveness of displays because the previous studies had not taken into account the library user who is affected by the display but is unable to borrow a book from the display. The literature search turned towards the area of museum exhibits and displays and the methodology employed to evaluate these exhibits and displays. Shettel (1968), Warren (1972), Screven (1976), Linn (1976), Clowes and Wolfe (1980), and Miles (1982) used attraction and holding power as measures of museum exhibit and display effectiveness. Similarly, library users can be attracted and their attention held by library displays. To the variables of attraction and holding power this study added the variable of participation, picking up books or other items in the display not necessarily with the intent of borrowing the books. In order to construct a Display + and control as far as possible the elements in the display a literature search of books and articles relating to the design elements of displays was conducted, and findings applied in the construction of the display. Shettel's (1968) methodology of unobtrusive observation was employed in this study with the added benefit of videotaping the observations. The hypotheses were set out in three groups, those relating to a single display, those comparing the effectiveness of Display and Display +, and those relating to circulation. The results of this study found in general that the attraction power of Display + exceeded the attraction power of Display but the holding power and participation in Display was greater than that of Display + indicating that the designer of library displays should pay particular attention to the purpose of displays in their libraries. The results of the circulation hypothesis confirmed the results of Goldhor (1972;1981), Aguilar (1983), Watson (1985), and Baker (1986) that more books circulated when they were displayed than when they were on the library shelves.

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D'Eramo, Andrew. "Police Effectiveness in Androscoggin County." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2010. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/USM-DeramoA2010.pdf.

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Mandrell, Christy Dee. "Teacher effectiveness in special education /." View online, 1986. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998880884.pdf.

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Weber, Paull Christopher. "Intranet effectiveness and organizational commitment /." Full text available, 2002. http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20030714.094502.

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Henderson, Michael. "Multi-way hash join effectiveness." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44680.

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In database systems most join algorithms are binary and will only operate on two inputs at a time. In order to join more than two input relations a database system will use the results of a binary join of two of the inputs in a second join. This way any number of input relations can be combined into a single output. There is additional cost to having multiple joins as the results of each intermediate join must be cached and processed. Recent research into joins on more than two inputs, called multi-way joins, has shown that the intermediate partitioning steps of a traditional hash join based query plan can be avoided. This decreases the amount of disk based input and output (I/Os) that the join query will require which is desirable since disk I/O is one of the slowest parts of a join. This thesis studies the advantages and disadvantages of implementing and using different multi-way join algorithms and their relative performance compared to traditional hash joins. Specifically, this work compares dynamic hash join with three multi-way join algorithms, Hash Teams, Generalized Hash Teams and SHARP. The results of the experiments show that in some limited cases these multi-way hash joins can provide a significant advantage over the traditional hash join but in many cases they can perform worse. Since the cases where these multi-way joins have better performance is so limited and their algorithms are much more complex, it does not make sense to implement Hash Teams or Generalized Hash Teams in production database management systems. SHARP provides enough of a performance advantage that it makes sense to implement it in a database system used for data warehousing.

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Rosolini, G. "Continuity and effectiveness in topoi." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376948.

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Kugler, Mark P. Jr. "Marine Corps budgetary reprogramming effectiveness." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45211.

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Within the Department of Defense, funds are appropriated and budget authority is issued; resources are then executed accordingly. However, higher priority adjustments occur due to unintended and looming threats and needs. The abilities granted through the use of reprogramming allow for the shifting of funds within and among programs. Thus, service effectiveness in the execution of funding can be enhanced or reduced by the latitude granted to the defense department in its ability to reprogram funds. Several methods of analysis, such as the measures of central tendency and the measures of dispersion, are applied supportive of reprogramming effectiveness. Through these methods this thesis tests the Marine Corps’ effectiveness in its role of budgetary execution through the use of reprogramming activities for a 10-year period from 2005 to 2014. In order to properly compare and contrast reprogramming actions, data encompassing the entire DOD was gathered. Results show that Marine Corpsreprogramming, much like the DOD, is on a downward trend although displaying varying results across major defense appropriations and between the services. Effectiveness traces the same line and remains relative to the overall decline of the budget authority.

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Chan, Fun-ting, and 陳訓廷. "The effectiveness of partition testing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29875110.

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Jones, Penelope Helen. "Constructing effectiveness in collaborative groups." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437745.

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The research study focuses on developing theory to understand influences on effectiveness in multiparty collaborative groups working within the public and nonprofit sectors. It is based in the context of academic theory and research in the field of group effectiveness. The empirical research is based within the interpretivist research paradigm. Research data are based on interviews with members of six multiparty groups which may be seen as partnerships emerging within the context of the UK government's modernisation agenda. The study offers contributions to knowledge in six main ways. First, it suggests difficulties experienced with effectiveness by multiparty groups are both systemic (built in at the start) and dynamic (part of ongoing group processes). Second, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding problems with effectiveness in multiparty groups in public and non-profit contexts. This framework stresses the tensions and ambiguities that are endemic within multiparty group working, and the dynamic relationship between goals, roles and internal and external relational process. Third, the theoretical framework developed is seen to have specific implications for practice in multiparty groups. Fourth, the study suggests that there are specific differences between multiparty groups and groups set in single organization contexts. Fifth, the research suggests that there are systemic and dynamic aspects of multiparty group functioning that mean that groups collude with a modernisation agenda that can be seen as a control agenda rather than one of democracy (community engagement and empowerment). Finally, the theoretical framework is thought to have relevance to contexts other than public and non-profit settings.

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Sellers, Cameron S. "Provincial reconstruction teams improving effectiveness." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3195.

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Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) are currently prominent constructs for stabilization and reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq. PRTs are composed of civil-military teams, including elements from coalition partners and the host-nation, and involve multiple military services and civilian agencies. Their missions are to extend the legitimacy of the central government throughout the country and to use Civil Military Operations (CMO) to counter anti-government forces. PRTs are prominent, but controversial. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) complain that the U.S. military blurs the lines between humanitarian assistance and military operations. Other critics have called PRTs interagency failures because the U.S. Department of State (DOS), the Department of Defense (DoD), and other government agencies have not contributed the personnel, resources, or training required to make PRTs operationally functional. The result is both lack of integration and of effectiveness. The purpose of this thesis is to determine how to make PRTs more effective in the future. While host-nation participation is necessary for success, this thesis will focus only on the controversies involving NGOs and interagency communities. These include humanitarian space, general attributes, and effectiveness of PRTs. The policy prescription for future PRTs is found in the concept of a Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC), which is described in U.S. Army's FM 3-05.40, Civil Affairs Operations. The core tasks of a CMOC, especially those of Civil Information Management (CIM), are designed to accomplish a variety of missions relating to Post-Conflict Reconstruction (PCR). They would serve well as foundational components of a PRT. Also, because of the interagency nature of PRTs, commanders of these teams must have the right character and skill sets to operate in this complex environment.

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Neo, Yong Shern. "Computation of weapons systems effectiveness." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/37686.

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The main objective of the thesis is to develop an unclassified MATLAB-based Weapons Systems Effectiveness program with user-friendly Excel-based Graphical User Interface to evaluate the effectiveness of Air-to-Surface (AS) and Surface-to-Surface (SS) weapons. The program allows users to compute the effectiveness of their weapons based on the initial release/firing condition for both AS and SS weapons. The effectiveness is determined by predicting the probability of success of damaging or incapacitating the target. The program also allows the calculation of the trajectory of unguided AS weapons and the computation of the weapon accuracy of AS weapons. The main functionality provided by the program includes computing the weapon effectiveness of single release of weapons against unitary and area targets, stick deliveries, cluster munitions and projectiles for AS weapons, as well as direct and indirect SS weapons. The entire program is modeled on the theory detailed in M. R. Driels textbook, Weaponeering Conventional Weapon System Effectiveness, published in 2013 by the AIAA.

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Daly, Peter G. "School effectiveness in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296378.

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Karam, Joseph Ghaleb. "Effectiveness analysis of evolving systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15319.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1985.
MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING.
Bibliography: leaf 97.
by Joseph Ghaleb Karam.
M.S.

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van, der Meulen Meine Jochum Peter. "The Effectiveness of Software Diversity." Thesis, City University London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511772.

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Pura, Karolina. "Effectiveness of online marketing tools." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9813.

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Kavanaugh, Anya. "Effectiveness of Digital Response Art." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2020. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/905.

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This study looks at the effectiveness of digital media to create response art and deepen attunement with adolescent clients as well as develop self-awareness in the therapist. An arts- based qualitative heuristic self-study was used to analyze data gathered over a six-week period. The subject was the researcher/therapist and the data was gathered during the second-year practicum while working with adolescents at a non-public school. Data was gathered through a process of creating two post-session response artworks using video, animation, or digital drawing and a written reflection for each artwork. Nine artworks and eight written reflections were created in total. The data was analyzed using a phenomenological lens and a digital art therapy lens. Certain themes, such as use of color, rhythm and pace, self as subject, client process, progression of affect, management of environment, and representation of containment were analyzed. These themes revealed a high probability for digital media to assist in deepening attunement with an adolescent client and a more limited chance of development of self- awareness.

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Cohn, Arthur M. "Effectiveness of nursing home administrators /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487596307358779.

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Murphy, Maura. "Development Effectiveness in Intercollegiate Athletics." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523615911313983.

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Erlichová, Linda. "Foreign aid and its effectiveness." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-17935.

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Purpose of this diploma thesis is to analyze foreign aid as a stabile part of nations expenditures of all developed countries since 60's. But at the same time foreign aid not being important enough for developed countries to manage it more effectively. This diploma thesis analyses among others development of different economic approaches on this topic, financial flows of this sort since the beginning and also an analysis of foreign aid as whole as well as some of its parts. I`m also trying to find reasons why developed nations provide foreign aid and also motives for accepting it by developing nations. Also trade liberalisation is described as the only way of solving foreign aid poor effeciency.

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Lamb, Rick. "Increasing effectiveness in pastoral preaching." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Garner, Charles Larry. "Team building and organizational effectiveness /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Sutherland, Sean P. "Measuring effectiveness in conflict environments." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Sep/09Sep%5FSutherland.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Stabilization and Reconstruction))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.
Thesis Advisor(s): McNab, Robert. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 6, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-72). Also available in print.

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