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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"past performance"”.
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An Evaluation of Past Performance of the Two-Year Agricultural Technology Program at Virginia Tech as Perceived by Program Graduates
… of this study was to perform an evaluation of past performance of the two-year Agricultural Technology Program at Virginia Tech as perceived by the two-year program graduates. The study focused on two points, a) the graduate's opinions with regards toward the improvement of the program on …
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The Relationships of Gender, Ethnicity, Past Performance, Pedagogy, and Access to a Role Model/mentor With College Student Attitudes Toward Science
The results of this study add to the literature regarding attitudes toward science in freshmen students at a large midwestern university. Additional discussion and research is warranted. Specific recommendations for practice and future research are included in the document.
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CYBER SECURITY @ HOME: The Effect of Home User Perceptions of Personal Security Performance on Household IoT Security Intentions
… user security intentions through the lens of past performance, perceived self-efficacy, and locus of control. While perceived self-efficacy and locus of control are elements in several organizational and individual security models, past performance has been less frequently studied. The …
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Relationship between mutual fund flow and fund performance : a study in China
… the fund flow within one period depends on the past performance of this individual fund, and if there's a relationship, then what the detailed linkage between the past performance and the current period fund flow is. Different models involving regression will be used to exam the significance of …
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A discriminant model for classifying contractor performance on public works projects
… analysis is used to classify contractors' past performance into good and poor groups. The classification model is made up of 5 variables: (i) contractors' plant and equipment resources; (ii) past performance in time on similar projects; (iii) past performance in cost of similar projects; …
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Delegated Portfolio Management - Optimal Portfolio Policies under Compensation, Capital Flow and Price Influence
… under management, capital flow depending on past performance, and influence on prices - can explain the observable investment patterns of portfolio managers. It further evaluates optimal portfolio policies from the primary investor’s perspective.
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Evaluating the sustainability of monitored natural attenuation in groundwater at chlorinated ethene contaminated sites
… and statistically examined to determine past performance of MNA at the sites. A conceptual decision model was developed to be a framework of the statistical tools demonstrated in this thesis. Analyzing MNA sustainability at a site can be separated into two components; past performance of …
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Leadership During Action Team Formation: The Influence of Shared Leadership Among Team Members During the Perioperative Process
… in understanding if the surgeon’s perception of past performance of their team has an impact on the amount of trust the leader has in his/her team and if this in turn, has an impact on the type of leadership utilized during the team’s tenure. As an exemplar environment, we explored these dynamics …
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Sources of self-efficacy in distance runners
… efficacy information throughout the program and past performance experiences increased in their influence as participants gained more running experience. The third study was a qualitative investigation of the sources of self-efficacy for running using a sample of African American distance …
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Predictors of successful outcomes of U.S. Coast Guard construction contracts
… quality, technical capability and demonstrated past performance. While all valid and important comparators, the overall quality and customer satisfaction achieved at the completion of contracts awarded on these bases remains highly variable from contract-to-contract. This thesis examines …
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The performance of equity funds in Thailand, 1992-2000
… aim of this study is to examine Thai equity fund performance during the period 1992-2000. The achievement of the primary aim will involve investigation of fund performance in sub-periods of expansionary and contractionary market environments, the relationship between investment performance and …
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The Relative information content of complementary and supplementary narrative commentary in UK interim reports.
… news, amounts and comparison of current with past performance, reasons for performance and forward-looking). The control variables included financial performance measures of dividend yield, earnings per share and total assets. Event studies based multiple regression models were used to measure …
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Endogenous capability building and start-up advantage In creating new markets
… from existing firms: the stronger link between past performance and resources available for future capability building for startups than for existing firms. Using a simulation model, we show that this reinforcing loop leads entrepreneurial financial markets to quickly focus on more promising …
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The design considerations and development of a simulator for the backtesting of investment strategies
… have performed historically, with a view that past performance may be indicative of future performance.
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Temporal Focus and Analyst Scrutiny: Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls
… discussions to future firm prospects relative to past firm performance. I find a negative association between firms' past performance and the future focus of management presentation. Moreover, the association is less negative for firms with more long-term investors and is more negative for firms …
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Evaluating the impact of PerformanceStat: a case study of the City of Baltimore's CitiStat Program
… a management approach to improving public-sector performance called PerformanceStat. PerformanceStat is a program conducted by a jurisdiction or agency which holds an ongoing series of regular, frequent, periodic, and integrated meetings during which the agency's leadership team and individual …
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"COMPULSORY PILOTAGE" a system in need of reform
… with no option. The shipowners argue that the past performance and training of a pilot should be public knowledge and available to the owner in advance.
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Cross check survey : World Commission on Dams
… Dams (WCD) has completed a global survey of the performance, impacts and decision-making aspects of 125 large dam projects - th Cross-Check Survey. The primary aim of the Survey was to determine broad patterns and trends indicative of past performance, impacts and decision-making aspects of a …
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The impact of Korean performance budgeting on budgetary programmes
… examines the impact of the Korean system of performance budgeting on government spending programmes. It sets out to examine the associations between a programme’s future budget and its past performance and also the impact of performance budgeting on managerial practices. Much of the study …
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The Effect of Maintenance Policy on System Maintenance and System Life-Cycle Cost
… the effect of maintenance policies on system performance and life-cycle cost. The model highlights factors such as learning, aging and the technological upgrades that occur during the life-cycle of a system. The metrics used to measure the effectiveness of maintenance policies are the system …
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