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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"multiyear"”.
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Multiyear Cat Bonds and Investor Behavior
… avenues, including long term insurance and multiyear cat bonds, which hedge against long term liability exposure. An empirical examination of cat bond issuance volume over the past decade reveals that long term, multiyear cat bonds with tenors of more than 3 years pale in liquidity versus …
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Farmer participation in government commodity programs: A multiyear risk management analysis
… in government programs in a stochastic, multiyear planning environment. It also determines how producer behavior might change if certain proposals for the 1995 Farm Bill are adopted.
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Elementary School Size and Differences in Student Progess: A Texas Statewide, Multiyear Investigation
The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the degree to which student enrollment (i.e., school size) at elementary schools was related to student progress on the Texas state-mandated assessments for reading and for mathematics. In the first journal article, the effect of …
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Differences in Mathematics and Reading College Readiness by Student Language Status and Economic Status: A Multiyear Statewide Investigation
Purpose The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the degree to which differences were present for Emergent Bilingual students and non-EmergentBilingual students in their performance on the Algebra I and English I End-of-Course exams and the degree to which Emergent Bilingual …
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Reversibility of Sea Ice and Climate under Global Change
… investigate how the properties of first-year and multiyear ice regulate sea ice area and volume. Using an autoregressive model of sea ice and numerical simulation with a global dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model that traces first-year and multiyear, we show that the sea ice mean state, …
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Modelling the evolution of Arctic melt ponds
… that represent either �first-year or multiyear sea ice, which are reconstructed from SHEBA ice thickness data using standard statistical methods. The roughness and thickness of the ice and snow surfaces were altered and the sensitivity of the model to the initial data was tested. …
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Spatiotemporal patterns in the distribution and abundance of the introduced Redbreast Sunfish (Lepomis auritus) and native Longear Sunfish (L. megalotis; Centrarchidae) in reservoirs of the Tennessee River drainage
… L. megalotis populations in the TRD based on a multiyear analysis of historical and contemporary fish assemblage datasets (percent abundance, density, biomass). Results indicate that L. megalotis abundance declined in reservoirs where L. auritus was found in high or increasing abundances. Also, …
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Surface combatant planning since the end of the Cold War
… ships, slowing shipbuilding rates, shifting to multiyear contracts, and focusing on life cycle expenses. The next scheduled surface combatant program, DD-21, will compete against other shipbuilding programs due to projections of relatively flat Defense budgets. The shift to littoral warfare has …
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Assessing the level of service for shipments originating or terminating on short line railroads
… Two short lines have also provided their own multiyear data on car movements. The significant result of this thesis is that there is an average time from shipper to customer of 8.3 days per load, with a standard deviation of 4.3 days. There is an average 2-day percentage, or highest percentage …
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Principal Leadership in Building a Culture of Disciplinary Literacy
… all content areas. Change of this magnitude is a multiyear shift with student learning at the center of all instructional decisions. The complex task of leading instructional change requires a principal to learn about disciplinary literacy. If schools want equitable education for all students, …
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A Collaborative & Systematic Approach To Implementing An Effective Standards-Based Grading And Reporting System: A Change Leadership Plan
… and timely (SMART) goal. In addition, a multiyear action plan was cocreated to streamline the process (DuFour, 2006). This change/action plan was codesigned to examine how to implement an effective standards-based grading and reporting system that is appropriate and reasonable for MWHS …
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Incremental power : the nexus between information technologies and community development
… in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The goal of this multiyear partnership is to design, implement, and evaluate a neighborhood information system (NIS) as a strategy for empowering residents and supporting community development efforts in Lawrence. The approach of the thesis is to provide a …
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Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro
… urban space, and security, and does so through a multiyear ethnographic study of Rocinha, Brazil’s largest <em>favela</em> (slum/squatter community).</p> <p>Since 2007 unprecedented resources have been devoted towards improving Rio de Janeiro’s <em>favelas</em> (slums), mainly in the form of …
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The Effect of Evapotranspiration on the Groundwater Dome and Past Drought Conditions at Cape Henry, Virginia
… at Cape Henry along with less frequent multiyear drought periods.</p>
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Long-Term Lab Scale Studies of Simulated Reclaimed Water Distribution: Effects of Disinfectants, Biofiltration, Temperature and Rig Design
… chlorine and chloramine SRWDSs. Reflecting on multiyear experiences operating two different SRWDSs reactor designs, including thin tubes (0.32-cm diameter) and pipe reactors (10.2-cm), illustrated strengths and weaknesses of both approaches in recreating key aspects of biochemical changes in …
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The physiology, mapping, and prediction of stable carbon isotopes: a proxy trait for water-use efficiency in maize
… measurements for real-world applications, large multiyear trials were planned with elite germplasm. These experiments showed moderate levels of heritability which facilitate characterizing the genetic architecture of this trait. Prior mapping attempts found regions correlated to δ13C, while …
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Understanding Subway Vibrancy in Live-Work-Play: A Case Study from and for Santiago, Chile
… of neighborhoods across the city. Using multiyear information on subway new developments, data on amenities and jobs distributed in Santiago, real estate transactions in the city, and transit data in GTFS format, the results from the Differences-in-Difference model show that new subway …
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Drought tolerance and implications for vegetation-climate interactions in the Amazon forest
… of water stress, such as those imposed during a multiyear rainfall exclusion experiment or during interannual drought, trees prevent water loss by closing their stomata. We examine forest response to drought in an ecosystem model (SiB3 - the Simple Biosphere model) compared to two rainfall …
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Baldcypress Growth in South Carolina and Georgia: Lapses in its Correlation with Spring Precipitation
<p>There are apparent multiyear periods of breakdown in the relationship between growth indices and local spring precipitation, stream flow and drought data for the Baldcypress chronologies on the Georgia/South Carolina (GA/SC) coastal plain. The correlations of Baldcypress tree ring growth with …
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A Descriptive Study of Loopers in Four Schools
The concerns society has expressed regarding the education of children have prompted educators to relentlessly search for instructional methodologies and organizational designs to maximize student achievement. One instructional organizational design that has surfaced is looping. Looping is the …
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