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A Chemiresistor Sensor Array for Insect Infestation Detection
(2012-05-03)
Plants emit volatile organic compounds as a defensive mechanism to protect themselves from insects and pathogens. These volatile organic chemicals, also known as phytochemicals, are given off during the early stages of ...
An Exploration of the Impact of Speech Recognition Technologies on Group Efficiency and Effectiveness During an Electronic Idea Generation Scenario
(2008-09-09)
Dynamic, evolving, complex, complicated, fast. All of these words describe today’s business environment. In this atmosphere, making decisions is critical to the success of an organization. To give themselves the best ...
An Examination of the Relationship Between a Realistic Job Preview and Job Applicants' Psychological Contract Perceptions
(2008-09-09)
Psychological contracts have generated considerable interest from organizational scholars and practitioners for the past several decades, largely due to the negative organizational outcomes that arise when these contracts ...
The Role of Perspective Taking in Leader-Member Exchange
(2008-09-09)
A two-part model is proposed to investigate the relationship between dyad-specific perspective taking and leader-member exchange (LMX). In addition, a series of dispositional and situational antecedents of dyad-specific ...
Designing for the Improvement of Operator Situation Awareness In Automation Systems
(2008-09-09)
The enhancement of operator situation awareness (SA) has become a major design goal for automation systems, in a wide variety of fields, including aviation, aerospace, nuclear plants, and advanced manufacturing systems. ...
The Role of Information Technology in Effective Recovery and Aiding Sustainability of Coastal Regions After a Disaster
(2008-09-09)
In 2004 Hurricane Ivan caused an estimated $13 billion of damage in the United States. The economic impact can presumably be reduced by implementing information technology (IT) disaster recovery methods. This dissertation ...
Knowledge Integration in Software Teams: An Analysis of Team, Project, and IT-Related Issues
(2008-09-09)
Contemporary organizations are increasingly depending on team-based structures to strategically consolidate their dispersed knowledge resources. Team members possess diverse knowledge resources, and these have to be combined ...
The Effects of Key Moderators on the Relationship Between Firm-wide IT Capability and Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation of An Integrative Model of IT Business Value
(2008-09-09)
In the competitive and dynamic marketplace of the contemporary organization, IT has become an integral part of the organization’s success or failure. The IT function has been shown to be a valuable resource in creating IT ...
The Relationship Among Character Strengths, Moral Potency, and Individual Performance
(2014-07-09)
Ethical decision making is a critical component of successful leadership. Many individuals struggle with the ability to move from deciding what is ethical to taking ethical action. The so-called decision-action gap causes ...
Exploring Linkages in the Cognitive-Emotional Model within the Context of Organizational Change
(2011-05-02)
To better understand linkages between cognition and emotion within the context of an organizational change, a study of employees was conducted in a public university during the introduction of a technological change. ...