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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"U.S. Government"”.
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Do Externally-Hired Managers Increase Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Government
Although the U.S. government spends nearly $40 billion on intramural research and development, little is known about its own scientists’ innovative output and the managers who are responsible for their performance. Using individual-level data from 2000 to 2013, I investigate the impact of …
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The term structure of interest rates: U.S. government bonds, 1955-1989
… of the term structure of interest rates in government bonds parallels that of the behavior in high-grade corporate bonds. Previous studies have demonstrated that there are synchronous changes in different maturities in high-grade corporate bonds. Results of statistical tests and measurements …
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The ability of surveillance capitalist technology firms to resist U.S. government surveillance
… U.S.-based technology firms to resist U.S. government surveillance. A political science adaptation of Affordance Theory was used to separate methods used to resist surveillance into four affordances: legal, political, technical, and market. Review of each firms’ actions provided a more …
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The PowerPoint Society: The Influence of PowerPoint in the U.S. Government and Bureaucracy
… military and political establishments of the US government is through the projection of data in bullet-style and/or graphical formats onto an illuminated screen, using some sort of first analogue, or now, digital media. Since the late 1990s, the most common and expected form of presentation is …
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AN AGENCY’S PATH TO INDEPENDENCE: HOW TO GAIN ADMINISTRATIVE AUTONOMY AS A U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY
U.S. government administrative agencies that are subject to political polarization may find it difficult to fulfill their long-term missions while addressing short-term political needs, lacking sufficient autonomy to do their jobs. This thesis asks what U.S. government agencies can do to foster …
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Improving the Retention of United States (U.S.) Government Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Employees
<p>The U.S. government workforce has been consistently shrinking since a peak in the 1990s. At the same time, the need for technologically-savvy government workers has dramatically risen in this same period. This divergence in the demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) …
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A system dynamics analysis of the interaction between the U.S. government and the defense aerospace industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996.
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The U.S. Government and the Privatized Military Industry: Obscuring the Line Between Public and Private Sector Roles
… United States have worked closely with the U.S. government serving as an extension of U.S. foreign policy in regions of the world where the government was reluctant to become directly involved. Although such organizations cannot take the place of traditional armed forces, PMCs can fill the void …
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Expatriate Leadership: A Phenomenological Study on How Females in the U.S. Government Experienced Leadership in Overseas Multicultural Organizations
… study was to describe how female U.S. government employees experienced their leadership overseas in multinational organizations. The interviewed participants each served overseas in a multinational organization, had at least 15 years of experience in the U.S. government, and were in a …
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Language of Exclusion: A Mixed Method Evaluation of Text Complexity on Comprehension Within Selected U.S. Government Food Assistance Application Materials
… 60 years of plain writing advocacy calling for government agencies to increase the clarity of official communication, the Plain Writing Act (PWA) of 2010 codified the incorporation of plain language in any federal government document for pubic use. However, no extensive evaluation of government …
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Defense Industry Offsets: The President's Hands on Policy
… compete internationally without them. The U.S. Government relies on the arms trade as a critical foreign policy tool, but rare U.S. Government support for offsets is handled inconspicuously. Rather than acknowledge government practice, government agencies, offset specialists, and scholarly …
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The Choices and Uses of Technological Tools in High School Government Classes
The purpose of this study was to examine how government teachers make decisions regarding the type of technological tools they incorporate in their instruction. As a case study of two teachers, this work was oriented by the question: How are U.S. Government teachers' beliefs and perspectives about …
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From empire to hegemony : the dynamics of U.S. relations with Cuba and Mexico, 1930-1940
… the earlier and later periods was that the U.S. government decided to change the nature and practice of its relationship with Latin America in response to domestic American pressure and anti-American resentment in the region. The U.S. government ended its policy of political interference and …
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Neoliberal social policy in the United States before Reagan
… groups, with extensive connections to the U.S. government and transnational corporations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, played crucial roles in pushing neoliberal policies at the government level. The development of unrestricted trade and the open flow …
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Building flexibility in the volatile aftermarket parts : supply chains of the defense aerospace industry
… the newest contracts between Boeing and the U.S. Government created such a supply partnership at the Army Rotorcraft Repair Depot in Corpus Christi, Texas. At this depot, all Army helicopters, including Boeing's AH-64 Apache Attack helicopter and CH-47 Chinook Cargo helicopter undergo major repair …
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U.S. Governmental and Native Voices in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric in the Removal and Allotment of American Indians
… Specifically, the project argues that both U.S. governmental and American Indian voices contributed to the policies of U.S.-Native relations throughout the removal and allotment eras. Simultaneously, these discourses co-constructed the identities of both the U.S. government and American Indian …
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Strategic sealift: decisions today to ensure tomorrow.
… two fleets, one owned and operated by the U.S. government, the other owned and operated by commercial companies and often chartered by the U.S. government. The most recent studies on the status of strategic sealift in the United States, have all indicated that our present capabilities, both …
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Radical Islam in Afghanistan: The Case of Al Qaeda
… the country. Despite these setbacks in the U.S. government's mission, the U.S. military will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011. The U.S. government's success in Afghanistan is directly related to its ability to minimize Islamic extremism. The U.S. government will fail unless it …
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Military housing privatization & the promise of design innovation
… preserve long term partnerships with the U.S. Government. Consideration is given to the ways in which the Army has streamlined the privatization solicitation process to foster private sector innovation and what impacts these efforts have had on both design drivers and customer satisfaction …
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Essays on Labor Market Frictions and Institutions
The U.S. government makes unemployment insurance (UI) more generous during recessions. In this thesis I study the interaction between unemployment insurance policies and labor market dynamics in a macroeconomic context. The first chapter examines government commitment and its role in shaping the …
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