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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"post office"”.
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The Post Office in Ireland 1638-1840
This thesis explores how the development of the Post Office in Ireland was, from its inception, intertwined with and profoundly impacted by the evolution of the early modern British ‘composite state’2 in its various iterations, highlighting how Ireland’s status as a kingdom within that composite …
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The post office and state formation in modern China, 1896-1949
… explores the myriad ways the Imperial/Chinese Post Office contributed to the formation of the modern Chinese state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular, this is a study of how the nineteenth and twentieth century internal and external crises in China began a process …
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Human resource management, employee attitudes and business performance in Post Office Ltd
… This research was based on a sample of 136 Post Office branches in the UK and investigated the role of HR implementation, employee attitudes and competitive environment. The study revealed that HR implementation, a climate for service, job satisfaction and effective organisational commitment …
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“Painting Section” or Painting Texas?: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in the Texas New Deal Post Office Murals
This dissertation addresses the Texas New Deal Post Office murals, which were commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts as part of a national New Deal arts program meant to decorate newly constructed Post Offices. I analyze the Texas murals from local, state, regional and national perspectives to …
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An investigation into the effects of reward practices on job satisfaction and employee performance in Namibia Post Office
… and employee performance in the Namibia Post Office (NamPost). More specifically, the study aims to determine whether employees are motivated and satisfied with current reward practices. The company has failed to keep up with new rewards systems and the company also has a high labour …
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An investigation into the effects of reward practices on job satisfaction and employee performance in Namibia Post Office
… and employee performance in the Namibia Post Office (NamPost). More specifically, the study aims to determine whether employees are motivated and satisfied with current reward practices. The company has failed to keep up with new Namibia Post Office (NamPost)s and the company also has a …
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Direito administrativo disciplinar: estudo de caso sobre o controle disciplinar na Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos
… Disciplinary Process, investigating how the post office, public company under private law, and the legal status of its staff the Consolidation of Labor Laws and respective complementary legislation establishes its procedures on internal rules for the Disciplinary Control. The administrative …
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Computer simulation applied to parcel conveyors
… by this thesis concerns the operation of Post Office parcel conveyors. It evaluates the behaviour of straight belt conveyors using different parcel loadings. Empirical parcel data supplied by the Post Office is used for the development of a computer-based simulation model. An important …
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A compact piecewise-linear Voronoi diagram for convex sites in the plane, or, Simple paths in a complex world
In the plane, the post-office problem, which asks for the closest site to a query site, and retraction motion planning, which asks for a one-dimensional retract of the free space of a robot, are both classically solved by computing a Voronoi diagram. When the sites are k disjoint convex sets, we …
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Managing knowledge in times of organizational re-structuring
… due to the movement of people to different posts or their departure from the organisation. Consequently the importance of the research for the Post Office was established in the first phase of the research. The research was based on interviews with managers in the Post Office and other …
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Reinvention through reuse : strategies for the adaptive reuse of large-scale buildings
… tackles a specific reuse problem in the Old Post Office in Chicago, Illinois. The Post Office was selected because of its heavily planned context, its historical and cultural significance, the real interest that has been expressed in its reuse, and its size.
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The fall and rise of Pennsylvania Station : changing attitudes toward historic preservation in New York City
… government to construct the adjacent Farley Post Office as an architectural and functional complement to Penn Station. By 1963, changing economic conditions and the evolving nature of passenger transportation prompted the Pennsylvania Railroad to announce plans to sell development rights on …
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From Military Express to Free Delivery: the Postal History of Des Moines, Iowa
The problem. The role of postal history on the urban frontier has not been adequately explored by urban historians. The inauguration of postal service in fledging Midwestern towns served to not only unite separated family and friends, to legitimize place names, and to introduce politics into …
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Theoretical and practical considerations in the design of special-purpose keyboards and operator training procedures
… carried out in support of two contracts from the Post Office and had two main objectives: first, to provide information needed for the selection of a new keyboard design for use on foreign destination coding desks and second, to evaluate one component of a computerbased training system for …
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Enhanced Anisotropic Bounding Surface Model: Implementation and Simulation of Excavation in Soft Cohesive Soils
… City (TNEC and WTC sites) and Boston City (Post Office Square site). The case studies have demonstrated satisfactory agreement between the simulations and field measurements, especially for the TNEC and Post Office Square sites, while there is a less satisfactory agreement for the WTC site. …
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Hiding in Plain Sites: The Role of Implied Descriptive Norms on Littering Behavior
… of litter in an environment, the effects of posted anti-littering messages, and whether individuals perceive the influence of the descriptive norm. The dissertation is a series of three studies designed to replicate and extend prior research on the influence of descriptive social norms on …
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Risk management in the application of the systems development life cycle
… is to make a contribution to the South African Post Office Technology division. This is achieved by starting with a number of fundamental theoretical principles in related disciplines. Risk management is proposed to the management in an attempt to increase the success rate of information …
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The documentation and preservation of art-in-architecture of Michigan: The section of fine arts projects
… forgotten. This project focuses on The Section’s post office art installations in Michigan. The Section of Fine Arts, one of FDR’s New Deal programs of the Depression era, operated under the auspices of the Treasury Department. The program utilized symbols of the common man to tie together a …
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The public relations aspects of municipality wind energy development: a case study of wind energy in Ocean Gate, NJ
… convenience sample found outside the Ocean Gate Post Office. The researcher conducted a content analysis of news headlines comprising three months before through three months after Ocean Gate's wind turbine began operation and three months before and three months after each of two wind turbines …
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