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Creator:: Ward, Dustin K.
Abstract:: Almost 600,000 people in the United States were treated for End Stage Renal Disease in 2010. A majority of those people received hemodialysis from central medical facilities. It has been reported a better treatment option for these patients would be realized if the patients had more frequent hemodialysis treatments. A...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Haapala and Dr. Marshall for being on my committee. Thank you Daniel Peterson for your daily

Creator:: Edinger, Tonya M.
Abstract:: The objective of this research is to examine capital market determinants and implications associated with voluntary sustainability disclosures and the extent to which the informativeness of disclosure innovations differs based on given attributes of the financial disclosure and overall information environment. In determining the quantity of financial information to disclose,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: N C C O M P E T IT IO N P C A S IZ E B M L E V E R A G E C O N C E R

Creator:: Appasamy, Bharatwaj
Abstract:: Software engineers often need help with discovering and learning how to use APIs. For example, software engineers who are starting to learn Java, and they want to implement a certain feature in a program, they might want to reuse existing APIs in order to save time versus rewriting it themselves...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: )) Considering three tutors A, B, C, with the tutor pair A and C having 100 ratings versus the tutor pair B, C

Creator:: Pei, Yuanli
Abstract:: In the field of machine learning, clustering and classification are two fundamental tasks. Traditionally, clustering is an unsupervised method, where no supervision about the data is available for learning; classification is a supervised task, where fully-labeled data are collected for training a classifier. In some scenarios, however, we may not...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Todorovic and Byron Marshall. Thank you for being patient and helpful during the exams and meetings. I

Creator:: Holliday, John W.
Abstract:: Continuous Improvement (CI) is an integral part of hospital administration. This study examined the relationship between five CI variables against six hospital criterion measures of, wait times to prepare a room, patient costs per day, waiting time for lab results, reportable errors, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction. The research was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Creator:: Self, Stephen
Abstract:: Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the need for a technology acquisition tool to be used in the capital purchasing process in health care organizations. Design Multi-method approach consisting of interviews of ten executives of health care organizations. A written survey was then mailed to Chief Executive...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Appendix A: New Equipment General Specifications...................................... 113 Appendix B

Creator:: Foote, Gabriel G.
Abstract:: This work combines both applied and basic research regarding previously undescribed relationships between two ecologically and economically important insect groups in coniferous forests, bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) and wild bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) communities in Western North America. Across the continent, native bark beetle outbreaks are key drivers of structural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: well as Christopher Marshall for their role as committee members for this thesis. I also express my

Creator:: Brandi-Dohrn, Florian M.
Abstract:: Soil solution samplers have certain inadequacies that limit their range of possible applications. Passive Capillary Samplers (PCAPS), which apply suction to the soil pore-water via a fiber glass wick, have shown promising results in preliminary experiments in regard to collection efficiency of water and of bromide tracers. The objectives of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: financial support of this project. Special thanks to my committee members Dr. Marshall J. English, Dr. Herb

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