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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"structural equations"”.
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Ethnicity and Clothing Expenditures of U.S. Households: A Structural Equations Model with Latent Quality Variables
… Model, which is a special case of the general Structural Equations Model, was used to estimate separate Engel equations for 15 expenditure shares for women's clothing categories, for four different ethnic groups. The results of the study showed that household characteristics had a significant …
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Effects of parental involvement on Mexican-American eighth grade students' academic achievement: a structural equations analysis
Mexican-American children are educationally disadvantaged, are at-risk for academic failure, and have not demonstrated the academic achievement that other immigrant groups have, even after they have lived in the U.S. for many generations. Today, parental involvement is being touted by government …
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Trade and welfare effects of unilateral environmental regulation: The case of Malaysian palm oil
… vertically integrated model. The model includes structural equations for the supply of and demand for the output and input taking account of the price and quantity effects from the world market. The structural equations are grouped into three blocks representing three integrated sectors in the …
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Numerical investigation of time-integration schemes applicable to fluid-structure interaction
… methods. In the current work, the fluid and structural equations both utilize the same multistep or multistage schemes for temporal advancement. This requires the structural equations to be recast in state-space form. The implicit time-marching schemes studied in this thesis are limited to …
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Measuring the Efficient Utilization of Medical Personnel at Navy Military Treatment Facilities
… to be more technologically efficient. The structural equations for personnel are calculated from the data of those hospitals that have above-average efficiency by means of a three-stage least squares procedure. First, physician requirements are determined from workload and beneficiary …
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Causation and evidence
… relationship between events in a causal loop? Structural equations accounts of causation seem to provide a good basis for discovering causal relationships through observation. But these accounts can sometimes give the wrong verdict in cases that are structurally similar to cases that they do …
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Effects of Online Brand Community on Value Creation Practices and Brand Loyalty: Mediating Effects of Community Loyalty
… brand communities. Data were analyzed through structural equations modeling using AMOS 20.
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Eterogeneità delle preferenze in ambito energetico-ambientale. Modelli di scelta e Posterior Analysis
… Posterior Analysis with correlations and Structural Equations Model allow to test the coherence of individual choices and the validity of choice theories like the Value-Belief-Norm Theory. The second case study explores the potential of relatively simple econometric models associated with …
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Steady and Unsteady Thermo-Strucural Simulation of Thermally Actuated Micro- and Nano-Structures
This dissertation provides a thermo-structural simulation for nano-scale and micro-scale structures with pinned and fixed boundary conditions which are either thermally positioned, buckled, or actuated. The study begins with simulating a pinned-pinned beam in micro-scale and nano-scale. The steady …
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A causal model of the determinants of job satisfaction in the public sector
… with more caution on measurement problems. The structural equations model with latent variables is the approach used to estimate the model. The data were from the Federal Employee Attitude Survey. These data were analyzed by using a computer program called LISREL. The results confirm the …
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Empowered work groups: Conceptual framework and empirical assessment of empowerment processes and outcomes in organizations
… administered to employees of two organizations. Structural equations modeling was used to assess the fit of the model. Generally, the data supported the model's hypotheses. However, the analyses showed that the role of organizational characteristics in empowering work groups is broader and larger …
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The college dropout: The relative contribution of individual, structural, and institutional factors to the withdrawal of male and female, black and white students from 4-year colleges
… and (d) can it be assumed that the forms of structural equations of persistence be invariant over groups by sex and by race?
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Social skills, personality, occupational interests, and job performance: A multivariate structural analysis
… were obtained from supervisors and coworkers. Structural equations modeling was used to assess the fit of the model. The data offered marginal support for the models of job-related social skills, but no support for the global model of job performance. This paper identifies several factors that …
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Tell Me About Your Experience: How Consumer Narratives Persuade
… in this process. In the second essay, I adopt a structural equations approach to examine the process through which consumers are persuaded by online consumer reviews, a common form of consumer narrative. A review that reads like a narrative (story) is likely to evoke transportation into that …
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Effects of parental involvement on mathematics achievement at eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades
… and second follow-up were analyzed using latent structural equations analyses. The results suggest that parental involvement in students' academic lives is indeed a powerful influence on student mathematics achievement at eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade. Findings also suggest that conscious …
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CORPORATE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL STRUCTURES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM CONTROL POTENTIAL, AGENCY, AND CONTROL DOMINANCE-CONTESTABILITY PERSPECTIVES ON UK LISTED FIRMS
… structures and firm performance using the structural equations framework in the control dominance-contestability perspective. Finally, the Thesis closes with a Conclusion. In summary, the Theses of this empirical research study suggest the followings. Firstly, there is the prevalence of …
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Creativity and innovation performance through employees’ empowerment in uae smart government
… confirmatory factor analysis technique, namely, structural equations modeling, with the data collected from 597 employees of four e-Government organisations in the UAE. The findings suggest that transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership has significant positive impact on …
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The influence of prior knowledge on specific reading competencies in assessment: Their interrelations and influence on comprehension
… (e.g., item response theory and linear structural equations) were utilized to address the research questions of this study. Specifically, item-response theory was used to develop parameter estimates for scaling prior knowledge and reading comprehension test performances and to evaluate …
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Continuum Analytical Shape Sensitivity Analysis of 1-D Elastic Bar
… of an elastic bar. The governing differential equations and boundary conditions for the elastic bar are differentiated with respect to the shape design parameter to derive the continuum sensitivity equations. The continuum sensitivity equations are linear ordinary differential equations in …
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