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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"New Entry"”.
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Review of engineering education and some technical and non-technical expectations of a new entry level structural engineer
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
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Analysis of Entry Point of Pedicle Screw Placement in the Lumbar Spine
Generally accepted conventional entry point of the pedicle screw is in the midline of the transverse process from cephalad to caudal, and slightly up onto the lateral aspect of the superior articular process. But the combined posterior lumbar interbody fusion(PLIF) do not need to expose the …
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Making the cut : the rate and direction of CRISPR innovation
… a scientific field through project selection and new entry. Using proprietary data from the primary distributor of CRISPR to academic scientists, Addgene, the study shows that the relative proportion of scientists focusing on editing mammalian cells after the introduction of CRISPR increased over …
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Pricing and competition in US Airline markets : changes in air travel demand since 2000
… analyses resulted in the following findings. New entry of low-fare airlines resulted in the greatest decline of 31.3% in average fare by 2004.
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Competition, Cost Analytics, and Offsetting Strategies: Pressures and Opportunities on the Fraud Triangle
… products and services, 2) greater threats of new entry, and 3) larger incumbent pools of competitors, and that substitution exceeds every firm-level variable except size in its relevance with fraud risk. Cross-sectionally, I provide evidence that industry-wide non-adoption of advanced cost …
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Integrated entry guidance and control for autonomous reusable launch vehicles
… architecture that can be difficult to adapt to new vehicle designs. A new entry guidance and control technique based on time-invariant linear quadratic regulator theory is presented. This approach integrates the guidance and control functions into a single multivatiable control loop that …
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An Argument for the More Widespread Use of Ground Leases in the United States: How to Align Pertinent Interests and Strategically Implement on an Impactful Scale
… there is significant, scalable opportunity for new entry into the ground lease sector of commercial real estate and further identifies multiple new structural components to be included in the modern ground lease. These new clauses should further align the interests of all property-level …
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An analysis of vertical separation of railways
… to introduce within-rail competition promoting new entry into the market, it leads to separate operational (at least slot-allocation) and financial responsibilities between infrastructure and operation, whereas without an intention to introduce it, coordination problems through vertical …
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Peripheral meanings : constructing a celebration of the Jamaica Plain Lantern Festival
… it connects between Centre Street and the formal entry to Jamaica Pond. Centre Street is a long street that winds through Jamaica Plain (also JP). Along it one finds two main areas of concentrated business activity with a mix of residential, school, non' storefront' commercial, and parking sited …
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Technological breakthroughs, entry, and the direction of scientific progress : evidence from CRISPR/Cas9
… the trajectory of a scientific field through new entry and project selection. Specifically, I examine the impact of the genome editing system CRISPR/Cas9 (CRISPR), called the "biggest game changer to hit biology since PCR" (Ledford 2015). Introduced in 2012, CRISPR/Cas9 enables precise DNA …
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The role of employee value propositions and corporate brand preferences in talent attraction
… an understanding of the relative importance that new entry job seekers and passive job seekers, from different demographic groups or cohorts, place on Employee Value Propositions (EVPs) and an organisation's corporate brand when choosing to pursue different job opportunities. A secondary aim of …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… chapters investigating the effect of firms' entry and exit behavior on market outcomes. Chapters 1 and 2 relate to the recent financial crisis in the auto industry that led to General Motor and Chrysler's bankruptcy filing and their dealer network reconstruction, studying firms and consumers' …
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Employee Departure from Organizations: Three Empirical Essays
… that potential entrepreneurs can use to start new firms. On the other hand, theory suggests that the answer is no - rival failures indicate to potential entrepreneurs that the environment is not munificent enough to support new entry. Using US Census data on the legal services industry, I …
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Two Essays on Competition, Corporate Investments, and Corporate Earnings
… of mergers and acquisitions, and barriers to entry have risen and the rate of new entry has been declining for decades. Taking these findings at face value, we examine empirically whether companies feel less compelled to invest in physical capital and in research and development because they …
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Outcomes of Platform Openness in Complementary Markets
… related to competition dynamics between new entrants and incumbent complements. In the second essay, we explore the impact of platform competing APIs on incumbent capability-like complements. We shed light on the spillover effects of platform competing APIs across complementors’ portfolio …
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Inferior speed capability, yet faster speed: Evidence from entry into liquefied natural gas industry
… previous literature has mostly focused on pre-entry speed capability, which is a focal firm’s speed capability for its recent previous plant construction in the related markets prior to its entry into the focal market. I examine instead post-entry speed capability, which is the focal firm’s …
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Insights from a New Division of the Self-employed: Analysis of Characteristics, Earnings Returns and Labour Market Transitions using the BHPS and UKHLS
… individuals in the UK labour market, creating a new division that differentiates those who sustain by self-employment from those who move between self-employment and employee jobs. The thesis begins with an exploration of the characteristics of the different self-employed groups, compared to …