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Eatman, Timothy Allen. "Student Variables Contributing to Program Completion in Career School Sector For-Profit Schools." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9106/.
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The general purpose of the study was to compile current descriptive information for recent graduates from career school sector institutions that reveals the significant factors which contributed to their program completion. The research project focused upon career school program completers. The scope of the study was directed to recent program completers at two career schools in Texas which offer a cross-section of programs designed to provide students specific skills for immediate employment. Based upon an extensive review of literature and the input of a focus group of experienced career school administrators and faculty members, seven variables were determined to be worthy of a focused study of their possible contributions to career school program completion. The variables were ability to accept responsibility for completion, academic preparedness, family or friends support system, self-esteem, life skills preparedness, sense of being goal-oriented, and sense of connectedness to the school. It was determined that each of the seven variables existed prominently in the majority of these recent graduates. The researcher concludes that there is a tremendous need for continued study that is focused on career school sector students. The paper offers the suggestion of a specific retention program that can be employed by career school administrators to emphasize the 7 variables and implement specific interventions designed to increase student retention and program completion.
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Hidema, Takafumi. "Competitive strategy for the proposed Texas High Speed Rail Project : a system dynamics/ CLIOS process approach." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111246.
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Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Technology and Policy Program, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202).
The Texas High-Speed Rail (HSR) is an unprecedented US project proposed by a private company. This project has many uncertainties because it will be funded only by the private sectors and it is the first US HSR project using foreign technology. The HSRs are huge and complex systems involving political, economic and sociotechnical issues that are affected by and affect various stakeholders. Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the "whole picture" of the project to plan effective strategies to make it successful. The objective of this thesis is to identify how we can improve the system performance and propose recommendations to guide the project toward success. The CLIOS Process is applied to identify the current circumstances surrounding the project. Comparative study of HSR with other transportation modes and market analysis are conducted to identify competitive advantages of the HSR system and how to utilize these advantages to compete with other transportation modes. After these qualitative analyses, pricing strategy, capacity management and accessibility management are identified as the three "key factors for success." Based on the results, the System Dynamics (SD) approach is applied. Conceptualization of the HSR system by causal loop diagrams (CLDs) clarifies several feedback interactions between key variables, such as ridership, load factor, total travel time and fares. Then, the numerical SD model is created to conduct quantitative analysis over time. Sensitivity analysis for each policy parameter suggests how the HSR operator could improve system performance by implementing different strategies in the short to long run.
by Takafumi Hidema.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
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Murra, John. "LOCKHART, James, The Men of Cajamarca: A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru, Institute of Latín American Studies, University of Texas; University of Texas Press, Austin-London, 1972, XVI + 496 págs." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/122015.
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Hughes, Martha. "The History of the Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic Development of the Dallas County Community College District." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277652/.
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The Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic Development is an entity created in the Dallas County Community College District to serve the community in workforce and economic development. The history of the Priest Institute over the last ten years parallels and illustrates the commitment of community colleges nationally to workforce and economic development. The history also reflects similar goals and trends within the state of Texas and, particularly, in the city of Dallas. The Priest Institute is made up of three distinct entities. One entity is the Edmund J. Kahn Job Training Center; another is the Business and Professional Institute, which provides consulting and training services to business clients. The final service area is the complex made up of the regional North Texas Small Business Development Center and its several related local service operations. This study provides an analytical history of each of these components and the process by which they came together in a model facility in Dallas. This study also describes perceptions of persons within the Institute regarding its present mission and purposes and the efficacy of the current organizational structure both internally and within the district operation as an appropriate structure enabling the Institute to meet its goals.
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Anderson, David Roy. "John Graves and the Pastoral Tradition." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2919/.
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John Graves's creative non-fiction has earned him respect in Texas letters as a seminal writer but scarce critical commentary of his work outside the region. Ecological criticism examines how language, culture and the land interact, providing a context in which to discuss Graves in relation to the southwestern literary tradition of J. Frank Dobie, Walter P. Webb, and Roy Bedichek, to southern pastoral in the Virgilian mode, and to American nature writing. Graves's rhetorical strategies, including his appropriation of form, his non-polemical voice, his experimentation with narrative persona, and his utilization of traditional tropes of metaphor, metonymy, and irony, establish him as a conservative and Romantic writer of place concerned with the friction between traditional agrarian values and the demands of late-twentieth-century urban/technological existence. Sequentially, Graves's three main booksGoodbye to a River (1960), Hard Scrabble (1974), and From a Limestone Ledge (1980)represent a movement from the pastoral mode of the outward journey and return to the more domestic world of georgic, from the mode of leisure and contemplation to the demands and rewards of hard work and ownership. As such they represent not only progression or maturation in the arc of the narrator's life but a desire to reconcile ideological poles first examined so long ago in Virgil: leisure and work, freedom and responsibility, rural and urban values.
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Gerlach, Jeanne Marcum 1946. "An Analysis of Business Partnerships in Higher Education." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332577/.
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The major purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the business and higher education partnership program in one Texas community college. Secondary purposes were to describe and analyze (a) the premise of business and higher education partnerships; (b) the planning, organization, and administrative structure in a selected community college; (c) the educational benefits received by both businesses and their employees who are involved in cooperative partnerships in general and at this community college; (d) the future challenges and opportunities for partnerships at other levels of American higher education; and (e) the needed research to evaluate business and higher education partnerships. The five chapters comprising the study include an introduction, a review of literature, the methods and procedures, a presentation and analysis of data, and the summary, conclusions, interpretation, and recommendations of the study.
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Baughman, Leslie C. (Leslie Claire). "Self-Efficacy and Selected Variables as Predictors of Persistence for First Quarter Students at a Proprietary Institution." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278626/.
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Proprietary colleges are uniquely different from two or four year colleges due to the emphasis on the student establishing a definite career path prior to enrollment. Because of this career track emphasis, Bandura's (1977) postulation that self-efficacy is a significant variable influencing task completion may offer insight into the challenge of student retention at a proprietary college. The study's purpose was to determine if career self-efficacy, demographic factors, and academic preparedness measures in first quarter students could predict student persistence, class attendance, and academic performance. The statistical technique of multinomial logistic regression was applied to data files of 725 first quarter students who attended The Art Institute of Dallas from Summer 1996 through Winter 1997. The predictor variables included a measure of career self-efficacy, ASSET scores (American College Testing Program, 1994), ethnicity, age, gender, full-time/part-time attendance, high school grade point average, parents' educational level, socioeconomic status, and developmental course placement. Criterion variables were completion, class attendance, and cumulative grade point average.
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Barthelme, Marion Knox. "Women in the Texas Populist movement: Their letters to the "Southern Mercury"." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13812.
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Many rural Texas women joined the Farmers' Alliance and Populist Party, components of the agrarian reform movement in America in the 1880's and 1890's. Some expressed their interest in the movement by writing letters to the Southern Mercury, a Dallas-based newspaper that became the official organ of the Farmers' State Alliance and Populist Party. These letters, over one hundred in number, give some idea of the concerns, thoughts and daily lives of ordinary women in the movement. They provide a view of women's perceptions of their domestic sphere and their hopes and expectations for the Alliance and Populist Party. They suggest that many women found community, mutuality and a stronger sense of self through participation in the movement and in writing and reading each others' letters to the Southern Mercury.
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Bhakta, Viharkumar Satish. "Production of the Alpha-Particle Emitting Radionuclide Astatine-211 at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9862.
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The need of a stable production of At-211 is necessary to continue research in alpha-particle targeted radionuclide therapy. Our objectives were to establish the production of Astatine-211 at Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute, optimize the production methods to reduce the generation of contaminants and maximize At-211 production, and assess the radiological safety aspects of At-211 production. The production of the alpha-particle emitting radionuclide At-211 was performed at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute using the K500 superconducting cyclotron following the production reaction Bi-209(α, 2n)At-211 using a thick bismuth target of 500 μm. We carried out two irradiation experiments where the initial energy of the alpha-particle beam, 80 MeV, was degraded using multiple copper and aluminum foils to 27.8 and 25.3 MeV, respectively. The end of beam time was 4 hours for both experiments.
The resulting At-211 yields were 36.0 and 12.4 MBq/μA-h, respectively. Several impurities were produced using the 27.8 MeV, which included At-210 and Po-210. However, when the 25.3 MeV beam was used, the impurities At-210 and Po-210 were resolved and other contaminants were minimized to less than 0.8% of At-211 yield. The production yields were in accordance to previous published results.
From the success of these initial experiments, additional steps were taken to produce At-211 in excess quantities for distillation purposes. In order to obtain viable quantities of At-211, the gross yield needed to be increased due to losses that are incurred during distillation and radioactive decay. The ability to produce high yields of this isotope required a redesign of the target and use of the K150 cyclotron using a higher beam intensity.
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Voorberg, Lorraine, and John D. Suk. "Perspective vol. 40 no. 3 (Dec 2006)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251170.
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Voorberg, Lorraine, and John D. Suk. "Perspective vol. 40 no. 3 (Dec 2006)." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277519.
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Roberts, Barbara L. "Developmental education as a component of persistence in a postsecondary proprietary institution." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/33827.
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Persistence has been identified as an issue at all levels of higher education,
and numerous strategies have been attempted to stem the flow of students who leave
an institution before completing their programs of study. Persistence research
abounds at the community college, four-year college and university levels, but little
research on the subject is available at the postsecondary proprietary level. The
purpose of this qualitative case study was to research and describe the developmental
program recently undertaken at The Art Institute of Dallas (AID), and to compare the
findings to the literature on community colleges.
Objectives were to 1) examine the forces which caused AID to implement a
developmental program; 2) examine how the program was perceived to be working;
3) compare the description of the program at AID to descriptions of those in
community colleges, as described in the literature; 4) examine individual
perceptions of benefits or drawbacks to the school as a direct result of the new
program; and 5) determine if the key informants saw the developmental program as a
vehicle to raise persistence and enhance student success.
Originally, AID was an open admissions school, offering basic skills help
only in tutorial situations. With the addition of General Education courses to the
various curricula, the need for an Academic Improvement Center was discerned.
Eventually, the school also saw the need to establish admissions standards, coupled
with placement testing, to identify and serve underprepared students. Persistence
became an issue, along with the state mandate of The Texas Academic Skills
Program (TASP), and both contributed to the establishment of a comprehensive
developmental education program.
Results indicated the need for a student better prepared in numeracy and
literacy skills, reflected in the requirements of employers needing employees with
abilities to read technical documents, to write reports, to work in teams, and to solve
problems. The findings of this study suggest the addition of a comprehensive
developmental education program at AID positively affected student persistence.
Just as the research on community college developmental studies history,
development, and progress unfolded, so also went this postsecondary proprietary
school.Graduation date: 1998
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Suk, John D., Sophie Vandenberg, and Calvin Seerveld. "Perspective vol. 42 no. 1 (Feb 2008)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251167.
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Suk, John D., Sophie Vandenberg, and Calvin Seerveld. "Perspective vol. 42 no. 1 (Feb 2008)." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277516.
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Vandenberg, Sophie, Ronald Alexander Kuipers, and Nicholas John Ansell. "Perspective vol. 42 no. 2 (Sep 2008)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251201.
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Vandenberg, Sophie, Ronald A. Kuipers, and Nicholas John Ansell. "Perspective vol. 42 no. 2 (Sep 2008)." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277690.
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Smith, Valoris Reid. "From DNA bases to ultracold atoms : probing ensembles using supersonic beams." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/29674.
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This thesis discusses two ensembles, the study of which was dependent upon the controllable production of cold gas-phase samples using supersonic beams. The experiments on DNA bases and base clusters were carried out in Germany at the Max Born Institute. The experiments anticipating the construction of a molecular beam slower were carried out in the United States at the University of Texas at Austin. Femtosecond pump-probe techniques were employed to study the dynamics and electronic character of DNA bases, pairs and clusters in the gas phase. Experiments on DNA base monomers confirmed the dominance of a particular relaxation pathway, the nπ* state. Competition between this state and another proposed relaxation pathway was demonstrated through observations of the DNA base pairs and base-water clusters, settling a recent controversy. Further, it was determined that the excited state dynamics in base pairs is due to intramolecular processes rather than intermolecular processes. Finally, results from base-water clusters confirm that microsolvation permits comparison with biologically relevant liquid phase experiments and with ab initio calculations, bridging a long-standing gap. A purely mechanical technique that does not rely upon quantum or electronic properties to produce very cold, very slow atoms and molecules would be more generally applicable than current approaches. The approach described here uses supersonic beam methods to produce a very cold beam of particles and a rotating paddle-wheel, or rotor, to slow the cold beam. Initial experiments testing the possibility of elastic scattering from a single crystal surface were conducted and the implications of these experiments are discussed.text