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The High Cost of Leadership: Equipping Leaders for Loss
ABSTRACT THE HIGH COST OF LEADERSHIP: EQUIPPING LEADERS FOR LOSS Scott Michael Lehr, D.Min. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016 Faculty Supervisor: Eric B. Geiger Chapter 1 describes the high cost of leadership and the difficulty of ministry through both quantitative and qualitative …
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Decision-making and Strategic Management as Sources of Sustained Competitive Advantage in a High Cost Private Multi-campus University in México
Higher education institutions (from now on HEI) are facing a tremendous and complex environment nowadays, due to the changes that this sector has experimented in the last years. Strategy in HEI is dynamic and there are several variables to consider when developing a strategy that can achieve …
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Finding ontological security in a world of precarity : a sociological study of the use of high cost credit by people on low incomes
People on very low incomes can often pay the highest rates of interest for credit. This research aims to explore the experiences of people on low incomes who use high-cost credit to understand why people with the fewest financial resources are prepared to pay so much for credit. This thesis is …
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The Impact of Target Sex Typicality on Participant's Willingness To Engage in Prosocial Behaviors
… from a social target, deciding how behavior with high-cost and low-cost options. The male or female social target was manipulated to vary in sex typicality (i.e., masculinized versus feminized). Men and women did not report greater interest in prosocial behavior toward an opposite-sex target with …
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Volunteer Spotlighting: Costly Signaling to Promote Volunteerism
… behaviors, because they are initially costly and do not guarantee a direct benefit to the actor, can nonetheless increase social status by signaling a willingness to incur cost on behalf of another. Given this signal value, nonprofit organizations may be able to leverage this knowledge …
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Solar energy as an alternative energy source for lighting: the case of George, Lusaka.
… This is due to; low income (average K750), high cost of solar devices and insufficient policy support. Variables of solar energy that promote adoption include: having relative advantage (98 percent) over candles and electricity, being; environmentally friendly (94 percent), compatible (92 …
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Solar energy as an alternative energy source for lighting: the case of George, Lusaka.
… This is due to; low income (average K750), high cost of solar devices and insufficient policy support. Variables of solar energy that promote adoption include: having relative advantage (98 percent) over candles and electricity, being; environmentally friendly (94 percent), compatible (92 …
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Rheological Properties of Soybean and Soybean-Solute Systems
In developing countries, the high cost of cows milk protein and lack of refrigeration are two problems which contribute to protein deficiencies among the young. Concentrated intermediate moisture soybean beverages, if successfully developed, would represent a partial solution to both the above …
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Design and Manufacturing of the Filament Collection and Diameter Measurement Systems of Fiber Extrusion Device for Educational Purposes
… variants of FrED based on the price point (low cost to high cost). The existing FrED has issues like poor portability, high cost, and poor manufacturability. There is a need to make it cost efficient, portable, and, thus, accessible to remote learners. In this project, the TecMIT team …
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Fabrication of Silicon Photovoltaic Micro-Particles for Low-Cost Solar Energy Generation
<p>The relatively high cost of the high quality semiconductor materials (typically silicon) and complex conventional techniques for the fabrication of solar cells result in the overall high cost of the commercially available solar cells. Although, research in the field of solar technologies has …
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Successful strategies for the private development of workforce housing in New York City
… and income on housing and/or transportation. The high cost of land, labor and materials are further exacerbated by zoning regulations and entitlement review processes to result in a prohibitively high cost of housing production. Governments across the US and in New York have developed various …
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Evaluation of using web 2.0 technologies in diabetes education for adolescent and young patients
… chronic disease with multi-organ involvement and high-cost implications. Although it has been demonstrated that structured education can control the risk of developing these complications, there is a substantial room for improvement in the educational services for these patients. E-learning can be …
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Cobalamin-Enhanced Anaerobic Biotransformation of Carbon Tetrachloride
… of cobalamins improves biotransformation of high concentrations of CT by increasing the rate and minimizing the accumulation of hazardous products. Relatively low adsorption of CN-Cbl in sand indicated that adding cobalamins to groundwater for in situ bioremediation may be a feasible option. …
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Aminoxyl Catalyzed Electrochemical Ethanol Detection: Development of a New Breathalyzer Using Molecular Catalysis
… concentration detection, they are limited by high cost or the need for frequent recalibration. The first chapter of this thesis discusses the instrumentation used currently for alcohol detection, as well as the few recent attempts to improve the current methods of alcohol detection by adopting …
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A formal framework for specification-based embedded real-time system engineering
… present novel challenges when engineering high-integrity artifacts within aggressive budgetary constraints. Among these challenges, ensuring confidence in the engineered system, through validation and verification activities, represents the high cost item on many projects. The expensive …
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Essays on entrepreneurship, venture capital and innovation
… outcomes depend on luck and ability, and the cost of capital for failed entrepreneurs is determined by the market's expectations about their ability. In the conservative equilibrium failed entrepreneurs face a high cost of capital and thus good entrepreneurs are reluctant to terminate a …
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Synthesis and characterisation of proton conducting membranes for direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) applications
… be a good methanol barrier. In addition to the high methanol permeability achieved by these membranes, they are very expensive and contribute greatly to theoverall cost of fuel cell set up. The high cost of the DMFC components is one of the main issues preventing its commercialization. The main …
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Plant production and immunogenic characterisation of Human papillomavirus chimaeric vaccines
… infection and associated disease. However, the high cost of the vaccines has limited their widespread application, and cytological screening programmes are still required to detect malignant lesions associated with the non-vaccine types, particularly in HIV-infected populations.
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MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AS A PREDICTOR OF HOSPITAL UTILIZATION AND READMISSIONS
… impairment (MCI) as a potential contributor to high cost utilization. This study explored whether a) older adults classified with MCI experience increased rates of index hospitalization compared to those with normal cognition; b) those with MCI are at greater risk of 30-day readmission to the …
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CATALYTIC C-O BOND CLEAVAGE TO SELECTIVELY PRODUCE VALUABLE CHEMICALS FROM BIOMASS-DERIVED FURANIC COMPOUNDS USING NI-BASED CATALYSTS
… biomass–derived heterocyclic compounds into high value chemicals. It is of great importance to develop catalytic systems for C-O hydrogenolysis based on non-noble metals due to the high cost and depleting resources of noble metals. In this thesis, we investigated different catalytic systems …
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