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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"Multi-Year"”.
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First multi-year muography of Etna Volcano
… of Alvarez. The same thing happened almost fifty years later, in 2017, after that a secret chamber was discovered inside the 4500 years old Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, by means of muon radiography. But in the last fifteen years, we are witnessing the return of muon-based imaging and the plethora …
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Does Virtual Haptic Dissection Improve Student Learning? : A Multi-Year Comparative Study
… views. The study ran over five successive years and was split into three discreet phases. Phase one compared the results of PG students across control, non-haptic and haptic groups. Phase two compared the results of UG students between control and haptic groups. Phase three compared the …
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Predicting adequacy of supplier responses for multi-year government contracts based on supplier performance metrics
… and minimize risk, both parties have embraced a multi-year contracting model in which productions agreements are signed for up to five-year periods. This allows for significant cost savings over single-year contracts while allowing for predictable production levels for ACX and its suppliers. At …
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Is organic beekeeping possible? A multi-year study of pesticide contamination and landscape effects in the Northeast US
Background: Honey bee colonies in the U.S. are widely contaminated with pesticides that harm colony health. A potential mitigation strategy is organic management, but formal apiculture standards have not been adopted. Draft guidelines require up to a 6.4 km pesticide-free foraging zone for …
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A Multi-Year Investigation of Alcohol Consumption among University Students: Innovations in Assessing and Intervening to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harm
… codes were created to track participants across multiple nights of participation. In total, 12,432 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) readings were collected from 10,225 unique individuals. Study 1 examined general epidemiology across all nights. The average BAC of drinking participants was .100 …
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Collegiate Academic Enhancement Programs: The Benefits of Multi-Year Programs Compared to the Benefits of One-Year Programs for Traditionally Underrepresented Students
… designed to aid those students in the subsequent years that follow freshman year.</p> <p>The purpose of this research project was to determine if there are significant differences in the success of those students who participate in a multi-year program as opposed to those who participate in a …
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An Examination of the Relationship Between High School Seniors and High School Seniors Participating in a Multi-Year, Looping, School-Based Mentoring Program
… of this study was to determine to what extent a multi-year, looping, school-based mentoring program has on the attendance data, behavioral data, achievement data, and graduation rate of high school seniors at a rural high school in west Georgia. The researcher conducted a mixed methods study to …
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Looping: the Impact of a Multi-Year Program on the Academic Progress, Retention, and Special Education Placements of Students in Two South Central Pennsylvania Schools
… would have attended the districts between the years of 1999-2005. PSSA scaled scores in Math and Reading were analyzed for the fifth and eighth grade years. Gender, socio-economic background, retention rates, and special education placements were analyzed as factors, which may have been …
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An analysis of key macroeconomic variables and underlying basic assumptions contained in loan capital commitments on the financial sustainability of electric power distribution companies (DisCos) in the Nigerian electricity supply industry (NESI) under the Multi-year (MYT) framework
… under the established pricing methodology, the Multi-Year Tariff (MYT) framework. The financial liquidity crisis experienced is allegedly exacerbated by the inability of the Electricity Power Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) to meet their …
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Reducing government proposal procurement process complexity
… Complex Equipment to the US Government through multi-year contracts. According to the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA), such government defense contracts require cost and pricing data as well as supporting documentation, known as material substantiation, to justify pricing and supplier …
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Cross-frontal exchange at the US Northeast shelfbreak
… For this task, I take advantage of unprecedented multi-year observations from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Coastal Pioneer Array (2014-2022). On seasonal timescales, the buoyancy-driven shelfbreak front is persistently trapped at the shelfbreak, which supports theoretical predictions …
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Evaluating Methods for Optimizing Classification Success From Otolith Tracers for Spotted Seatrout (<i>Cynoscion nebulosus</i>) in the Chesapeake Bay
… dynamics. Adult recruits are often sourced from multiple nursery areas, with good quality locations contributing disproportionately more fish to the adult stock. Because population persistence is strongly influenced by nursery habitat, methods that correctly identify the source of recruits are …
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Cross-Frontal Exchange at the US Northeast Shelfbreak
… For this task, I take advantage of unprecedented multi-year observations from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Coastal Pioneer Array (2014-2022). On seasonal timescales, the buoyancy-driven shelfbreak front is persistently trapped at the shelfbreak, which supports theoretical predictions …
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Integrating Groundwater Conservation and Risk Mitigation under Uncertainty: Strategies for Sustainable Aquifers and Agriculture
… conservation initiative that implements multi-year pumping restrictions. Employing a multi-method approach—including stochastic optimization, mixed-integer programming, and agent-based modeling—this study comprehensively evaluates how farmers respond to regulatory constraints, uncertain …
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Three Essays on Managerial Compensation
"The third chapter examines multi-year dynamic response of CEO compensation to firm performance. Multi-period agency theories posit that the CEO's current performance can be compensated both today and tomorrow. This study investigates the dynamic view of CEO pay and firm performance by using …
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Decarbonization of Power Systems, Multi-Stage Decision-Making with Policy and Technology Uncertainty
… change mitigation efforts. Nevertheless, given multi-decadal time horizons, planning for decarbonization must contend with uncertainty regarding technologies costs, new technologies characteristics and availability, and policies and incentives for reducing CO2 emissions in the multi-year …
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Effect of Alternative Management Practices and the Fungal Endophyte (Epichloë festucae var. lolii) on Improving the Longevity of Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) in Minnesota
… and plant growth regulator applications, for multi-year seed production of perennial ryegrass. Our findings suggest that fall residue management, including both field burning and mechanical residue removal, was critical to maintaining seed yield. A second research project studied the effect of …
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Using Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing to improve the management of kelp resources in South Africa
… to integrate past and current analysis of multi-year kelp data from commercial harvesting, biomass and kelp bed extent while allowing for the integration of future surveys within the inventories.
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