Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"focus-2"”.
-
The interplay between technology and politics : a case study analysis of financial reporting practices in Winchester, Massachusetts
… (1) without a long-term governmental accounting focus, (2) without the internal governmental capacity to effectively deploy and maintain information technology-driven asset management tools, and (3) without an understanding of the political logic that drives information technology implementation …
-
Balancing Purpose and Growth: Evaluating Community Land Trusts (CLTs) as an Organizational Model and the Imperative for Strategic Management
… the CLT's vision, mission, and goals to maintain focus; 2) Navigating tradeoffs in organizational setup, housing types, scale, and speed of development; and 3) Aligning leadership capabilities with the CLT's growth stage. The findings highlight that while CLTs share the singular purpose of …
-
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Public School Counselors and their Delivery of Responsive Services
… research question, 10 questions were asked which focused on the participants' relationships with the event and the environment. Taped interviews were transcribed, read, and analyzed via a process of within-case analysis and cross-case analysis (Miles & Huberman ,1994). Five themes emerged: (1) …
-
A qualitative study of the therapeutic alliance during telephone cognitive behavioural therapy: Clinicians’ perspectives
… four major themes: 1) increased treatment focus, 2) shift in power, 3) reduced sense of personhood, and 4) adapting to the telephone. It was also noted that participants demonstrated difficulties in discussing the therapeutic alliance per se. iii Conclusions: Results suggest that the …
-
Enhancement of temporal and spatial resolution of 2-D reflection data: application to Texaco data over Venice Dome in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
… Complex trace analyses, carried out using FOCUS 2-D (Cogniseis) software, elaborate on reflector continuity and hydrocarbon accumulation. Overall, amplitude spectra of pre-stack data are enhanced by a maximum of 14 decibels between 10 and 58 Hz after SAGC and 4 decibels between 17 and 58 Hz …
-
One Rural Elementary School's Experience in Becoming A School of Distinction
… school staff maintains an instructional focus; (2) in a successful school, communication occurs among all stakeholders; (3) collaboration among teachers, parents, and the principal occur often in schools; (4) a successful school has a class size below twenty students; (5) a variety of …
-
A blended learning model in higher education: a comparative study of blended learning in UK and Malaysia
… been enhanced (1) if the technology is the sole focus; (2) if the research effort of “technology enhanced learning” does not gain ground in educational theories and (3) does not recognise the disciplinary differences. Arising out of these findings, I proposed a blended learning model that …
-
Utilizing Response to Intervention (roti) As a Means of Studying Capacity Building and Motivation of Staff by School Leadership Teams
… leadership team, how has a central and singular focus been evidenced in the development and implementation of their RtI model in each high school?</p><p>2) In two Illinois public high schools with positive statewide reputations, according to the perspectives of each RtI leadership team, how has …
-
An exploratory study of the impact of strategy and structure on the organizational performance of restaurant firms
… overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus; 2) to examine the relationship between structural attributes and generic strategy in restaurant firms, these attributes were specialization, formalization, and centralization; 3) to examine the relationship between strategy, structure, and …
-
Transition to a focused factory of the future : a case study of an organization's cultural change
… and describe an organization's transition to a focused factory of the future. This transition entailed broad changes in manufacturing equipment/technology, manufacturing processes, and organizational culture.The findings of the study included:The organization focused one product model rather …
-
Characterisation of Schwertmannite - Geochemical Interactions with Arsenate and Chromate and Significance in Sediments of Lignite Opencast Lakes
… and laboratory-experiments. Thereby this thesis focussed on two consequential questions: The first (1) was if schwertmannite could enrich toxic compounds and therefore act as a sink in natural systems. By means of the anions arsenate and chromate, the uptake capacity by adsorption or substitution …