OBJECTIVES, MOTIVES, BUSINESS STYLE, AND PERSONAL HISTORY - HOW THEY RELATE TO MANAGERIAL SUCCESS

Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

OPTIMUM LOCATIONS FOR A RURAL FIRE SYSTEM: A STUDY OF MAJOR COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

Public Economics,

PLANNING AMBULANCE SERVICES FOR A RURAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE DISTRICT

Public Economics,

Factor analysis of the market structure of the fluid-milk bottling industry in the north central region

This study concerns sociological, psychological, and economic variables that fluid-milk bottlers (from their knowledge and experience) believe are relevant to the marketing problems they face. Many of these marketing problems arose because the competitive conditions in the processing and distribution of milk have undergone substantial changes in recent years. These changes have affected the marketing operations of fluid-milk bottlers and produced changes in relationships between bottlers and retailers. Data were collected from managers of fluid-milk bottling plants located in the North Central Region on their operations, their problems, changes in their market environment, and adjustments in their operations. These data were subjected to factor analysis. This report is devoted mainly to summarizing results from a factor analysis of 195 questions answered by each of 242 managers of plants who supplied supermarket chains with milk and who answered questions about fluid-milk bargaining cooperatives. Hierarchical factor analysis of these data provided 12 group factors and five general factors. A factor is identified as a basic or fundamental variable statistically independent of other factors and relevant to an understanding of bottler behavior. Answers to each question provide data on one variable. Each variable whose simple correlation with any group factor exceeded 0.14 in absolute value was assigned to the group factor with which it was most highly correlated. Also, if a variable’s simple correlation with any general factor exceeded 0.14 in absolute value, the variable was assigned to the general factor with which it was most highly correlated. Each factor was assigned a name and an economic interpretation by studying the nature of the variables assigned to that factor

Quantification of receptor-ligand interactions on bioengineered autocrine call system : a comparision of theory and experiments

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-182).by Gregory Todd Oehrtman.Ph.D

Time and length scales of autocrine signals in three dimensions

A model of autocrine signaling in cultures of suspended cells is developed on the basis of the effective medium approximation. The fraction of autocrine ligands, the mean and distribution of distances traveled by paracrine ligands before binding, as well as the mean and distribution of the ligand lifetime are derived. Interferon signaling by dendritic immune cells is considered as an illustration.Comment: 15 page

Teaching and Learning of Calculus

This survey focuses on the main trends in the field of calculus education. Despite their variety, the findings reveal a cornerstone issue that is strongly linked to the formalism of calculus concepts and to the difficulties it generates in the learning and teaching process. As a complement to the main text, an extended bibliography with some of the most important references on this topic is included. Since the diversity of the research in the field makes it difficult to produce an exhaustive state-of-the-art summary, the authors discuss recent developments that go beyond this survey and put forward new research questions