School attendance is perceived as a critical issue in today’s primary and secondary educational systems. This manuscript reviews literature that speaks to the complexity of issues related to truancy and then posits that many of the interventions typically recommended to address truancy are ones that school counselors already provide or...
Problem areas identified are: The needs a) to develop curve
fitting procedures to estimate flood flow distributions; b) to
incorporate precipitation data into frequency analysis procedures;
and c) to better define flood potentials for ungauged streams.
Closely related to the above, it is noted that variables commonly
used to estimate...
America is said to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. With the unfair treatment of people of color in this country, however, one would believe that somewhere in the fine print, they were excluded from that phrase. The very foundation of this country was...
During the depression era, millions of Americans listened to the weekly radio
addresses given by Father Charles Edward Coughlin. He devoted his career to
speaking out against the evils of America and felt it his duty to warn Americans
against the perpetrators of this evil. But after 1934, the tone...
A new experimental technique for the study of
atom-surface interactions is obtained by passing an atomic
beam containing high-Rydberg states through a fine mesh
target. The technique is demonstrated to be a sensitive
probe of the electric fields of adsorbed dipole layers in
transmission experiments in which a time-dependent beam...
This paper is divided in two parts: the first details technological and institutional developments in the shipping and port industry. The second part is a theoretical work which explores alternative ways to induce demand in the Honduras port system so as to increase the volume of cargo handled through its...
A machine capable of demonstrating and solving queueing
problems is useful to any systems engineer. This paper describes
a successful queueing simulator constructed from readily available
materials. The machine is easy to operate, portable, and simple
enough to be built in any well equipped machine shop.
The educational values of...
This dissertation focuses on the behavior of security returns around certain events that occurred in the Saudi stock market. In the first study, we measure and analyze the reaction of security returns around a major horizontal merger that occurred in the banking industry in Saudi Arabia. The objective of this...
This dissertation addresses issues concerning the behavior of firms, which has significant effects on performance. In the first study, we empirically investigate the effect of the reduction in number of firms on price competition in the U.S. macro-brewing industry. The number of macro brewing firms decreased from 766 in 1935...