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Showing 1 to 20 of 247 for “"Quinn"”.
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The implementation dynamics of continuous improvement throughout the corporate hierarchy based on lean six sigma at DTE energy by Timothy David Quinn.
This dissertation comprises a case study and formal simulation model of DTE Energy's Lean Six Sigma continuous-improvement (CI) program from its inception in 1998 through the end of 2009. The case history is based on qualitative fieldwork involving interviews, direct observation, and collection of …
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Análise da estrutura e da estratégia : o caso AGCO do Brasil
… de caso utilizouse os modelos de MINTZBERG e QUINN (2001), para a estrutura e MILES e SNOW (1978), para a estratégia. Buscou-se através desta pesquisa analisar a evolução da estrutura e da estratégia e como estas se relacionam, na AGCO do Brasil. Através das variáveis pesquisadas pôde-se …
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"""Accent"" 1940-1960: The history of a little magazine"
… founded in Urbana, Illinois, in 1940 by Kerker Quinn, a graduate student in the English department at the University of Illinois. It appeared regularly from 1940 to 1960, eventually numbering eighty issues. Consciously avoiding any one particular literary or political stance, Accent offered an …
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Curious astringent joy : an exploration of major Nietzschean echoes in the writing of William Butler Yeats
… His friend and patron, the New York lawyer John Quinn, had sent Yeats a modest volume of Nietzsche with the imposing title of Nietzsche as Critic, PhiZosopher, Poet and 'Prophet, containing 'Choice Selections from His Works' compiled by Thomas Common, who was to become a major contributor to the …
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Surgery spaces of crystallographic groups
… of certain sheaf homology groups defined by F. Quinn, when Γ has no 2-torsion. The main theorem is : Theorem : If a crystallographic group Γ has no 2-torsion, there is a natural isomorphism a : H<sub>*</sub>(R<sup>n</sup> /Γ; L(p)) → L<sub>*</sub><sup>-∞</sup>(Γ).
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Statistical Spectral Parameter Estimation of Acoustic Signals with Applications to Byzantine Music
… (3) Levinson-Durbin algorithm,(4) YIN, (5) Quinn & Fernandes Estimator, (6) Pisarenko Frequency Estimator, (7) MUltiple SIgnal Characterization (MUSIC) algorithm, (8) Periodogram method, (9) Quinn & Fernandes Filtered Periodogram, (10) Rife & Vincent Estimator, and (11) the Fourier …
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Form as meter: metric forms through Fourier space
… Lewin, is an analytical tool developed by Ian Quinn, and later expanded by theorists such as Jason Yust, William Sethares, and Andrew Milne. Though it was originally designed for pitch-class spaces, Emmanuel Amiot has explored the DFT’s implementation into the rhythmic domain, and has recently …
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The Revengers: A Novel
… thesis is a novel about two boys named Chad Quinn and Leo Bishop and their adventures as the “Revengers,” a pair of semi-superheroic vigilantes. I started writing the book during the summer of 2009 and have the spent the last two years rewriting and revising. This novel is my first and is not …
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The influence of organisational culture on job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention : a study on the banking sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… thesis are: (1) to examine the applicability of Quinn and Rohrbaugh's Competing Values Framework of organisational culture to a Saudi Arabian context; (2) to plot the cultural profile of Saudi banks by identifying their dominant organisational culture types; (3) to determine the extent to which …
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Comparison of TAGteach Error-Correction Procedures to Teach Beginner Yoga Poses to Novice Adult Practitioners
… in sports (Fogel et al., 2010), dance (Quinn, Miltenberger, & Fogel, 2015), surgical techniques (Levy, Pryor, & McKeon, 2016), and walking (Persicke, Jackson, & Adams, 2014). An adapted alternating treatments design was used to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of the standard …
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Turning the page setting the stage : school culture's profound impact on school turnaround initiatives.
… Edgar Schein's organizational culture theory and Quinn & Cameron’s competing values framework (CVF), this study explores how the alignment or misalignment of values, beliefs, and assumptions among teachers and principals influences the type of organizational culture and school improvement efforts. …
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Co-production and values in museums: with special reference to the production of temporary exhibitions in Britain
… Values Framework, was developed from the work of Quinn and others (Quinn and Rohrbaugh 1981), used to interrogate the data further, and trialed in the field. This study offers new knowledge on the nature and variety of co-production in museums and highlights the importance of individual, group and …
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Low energy consequences of some non-standard Higgs models
… This principle is shown to lead to a Peccei-Quinn type symmetry which naturally suppresses phenomenologically dangerous flavour changing neutral currents. Quasi-fixed points of the renormalization group are then used to derive predictions for the Higgs masses and couplings.
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Social Work Values And Hospital Culture: An Examination From A Competing Values Framework
… trust. The Competing Values Framework (Cameron & Quinn, 1999) provided a method to distinguish co-existing competing values within an organization. The research findings indicated that 65% of the professional social workers who participated in the study perceived that the core values of their …
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Investigating Stereotype Threat as a Source of Black/White Differential Item Functioning
… problem-solving, think aloud protocols (i.e. Quinn and Spencer 2001) were administered to augment the results of the experiment. The results confirmed the hypothesis that stereotype threat influenced high-achieving Black student's test performance on DIF mathematics test-items. In addition, it …
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Job Satisfaction and the Perceived Organizational Culture of U. S. Military and Military Affiliated Personnel
… Instrument OCAI developed by Cameron & Quinn (1999b). Descriptive characteristics, eta cross tabulations and Spearman's Rho bivariate correlations were executed on the data and statistically significant differences were found. The study provided evidence to validate the existence of …
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Crisis Preparedness
… students, support staff and community members (Quinn et al., 1998).</p><p>The purpose of this study was to determine the status of school crisis preparedness and to identify any collaboration related to preparing for crises in schools. An analysis was conducted to evaluate any collaboration …
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Threatening the Heart and Mind of Gender Stereotypes: Can Imagined Contact Influence the Physiology of Stereotype Threat?
… was not made salient (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999). Current models of stereotype threat show that increased physiological arousal and reduced working memory capacity partially explain this decrement in performance (Ben-Zeev, Fein, & Inzlicht, 2005; Schmader, Johns, & Forbes, 2008). …
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Leadership Skills of First-Year Students
… (Braxton, Smart, & Thieke, 1991; Erwin, 1991; Quinn, 2004). Numerous skills have been identified as important to employers, including leadership skills (Gale, 2002; Gerber, 2003; Kerka, 1990; Stronge, 1998; Santosus, 2003). As a result, institutions have introduced programs designed to train …
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Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, Montana, USA from 1992-2011
… terrestrial and aquatic ecological diversity (Quinn and Broberg 2007). Specifically, development pressures on private lands surrounding federally protected lands, are intensifying and thus threatening core habitat of native species and connectivity of forested areas. By characterizing the …
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