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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"network position"”.
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Dimensions of Social Network Position As Predictors of Employee Performance.
Research of social networks has revealed that certain components of network position can have an impact on organizational effectiveness, yet relatively little research has been conducted on network position and individual performance. This study sought to determine if a relationship exists between …
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Essays On The Applications Of Network Analysis To The Reinsurance Market
… Chapter 1 The Microstructure of the Reinsurance Network among US Property-Casualty Insurers and Its Effect on Insurers' Performance models the connectivity within the US property-casualty (P/C) reinsurance market as a network. It provides the first detailed empirical analysis of the …
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A mechanistic framework for understanding prairie stream fish distributions
… the spatial scale of investigation, longitudinal network position, and type of functional strategy. Second, I quantified community-environment relationships across thirteen sub-basins, nested within the three major basins within Kansas to evaluate the consistency (i.e., generality) in predictive …
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Measuring performance in supply chain networks
… formation of increasingly complex supply chain networks sets new demands for performance analysis. Performance analysis needs to look beyond the narrow perspective of the focal firm and measure performance not only from a financial perspective. This thesis illustrates how the network position of …
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Identification of Network-Based Risk Factors Associated with Gonorrhea
… and disease control strategies. Sexual Network Analysis (NA), a novel research technique used to further understand sexually transmitted infections, was used to identify network-based risk factors in a defined region in Ontario, Canada experiencing an increase in the incidence of …
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Law Enforcement Innovation and Diffusion: A Network Analysis of Police Accreditation
<p>This study seeks to identify network structures capable of predicting innovation uptake among law enforcement organizations. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, diffusion is studied through the lens of a single innovation, state law enforcement accreditation. Quantitative data culled from a …
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Applications of risk pooling for the optimization of spare parts with stochastic demand within large scale networks
… every day through its Fulfillment Center (FC) network that is powered by miles of material handling equipment (MHE) such as conveyor belts. Unfortunately, this reliance on MHE means that failures could cripple an entire FC. The exceptionally high stock-out cost associated with equipment failure …
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Coping isn't for the Faint of Heart: An Investigation into the Development of Coping Strategies for Incoming Police Recruits
… on the job. The research analyzes how the network position of recruits influences their adoption of the police subculture and how this, in turn, affects their development of coping strategies. Recruits were surveyed three times during their academy training to examine the transitioning and …
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Optimizing sensorimotor behaviors through information integration and mental simulation
… information. By building a convolutional neural network, position and speed of the animals can be directly decoded from raw microendoscopic data. Critically, saliency maps of the model reveal emergence of video-decomposition, and identify neural clusters representing distinct behavioral aspects …
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Know your place - Social network analysis in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
… and benefits for individuals based on their position in group social structure. Social network analysis has become an important tool for understanding causes and consequences of individual positions in such social structures. In this thesis I used social network analysis to understand the …
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Know your place - Social network analysis in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
… and benefits for individuals based on their position in group social structure. Social network analysis has become an important tool for understanding causes and consequences of individual positions in such social structures. In this thesis I used social network analysis to understand the …
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Dominance, social organisation and cooperation in the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius)
… 3, experimental manipulation supports my proposition of a status signalling function of the bib. In Chapter 4, I investigate the benefits of achieving high social status and whether these are shared with relatives through nepotism. Both dominants and their offspring gain enhanced access to …
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Exploring a Disaster Management Network in the Caribbean: Structure, Member Relations, Member Roles, and Leadership Styles
… It sought to provide a better understanding of network structure, functions, and member relations, which provided a foundation for understanding member roles and leadership styles. This dissertation's primary research question was: How do members participate in the national disaster management …
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Spatializing social networks: making space for theory in spatial analysis
… in space while simultaneously capturing their position within a social network of gang rivalries. Several models are constructed and compared and the model that seems to best fit the observed geography of violence is one in which both the territorial geography and the social geography of the …
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Enhancing DNS data exfiltration protection through SDN data plane programming
… this thesis, the advantages of software-defined networking (SDN) and data plane programming are identified and leveraged to detect DNS-based data exfiltration attacks, including DNS-over-HTTPS. A DNS traffic analysis tool has been created for the SDN controller utilising its logically centralised …
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Essays in Experimental Economics
… subjects interact in groups of 5 on a fixed network. We find that both the network position and the disease contagiousness matter for social distancing. Furthermore, fines for non-adherence to social distancing are effective at promoting this behaviour, whereas informational nudges have a …
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THE DIFFUSION OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY IN GLOBAL SUPPLY NETWORKS: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES
… organizations, and became globally dispersed networks of independent buyers and suppliers, where each of these firms performs specific value-adding activities that will ultimately result in that value chain’s final output. As concerns over the negative social and environmental impacts caused …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
This thesis provides a series of essays on network theory and political economy. The work on networks is largely focused on social interactions within communities, and how they impact consumption of status goods, and provision of public goods. The two chapters on political economy provide novel …
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Essays on Organizational Network Communities and Firm Innovation Performance
… and an overview of the organizational networks and innovation literature. The chapter introduces the core issues and theoretical debates at the intersection of organizational networks and innovation. It argues that in today’s ever changing and knowledge intensive business landscape, …
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