Cosmic string catalysis of skyrmion decay

The Callan-Witten picture is developed for monopole catalyzed skyrmion decay in order to analyze the corresponding cosmic string scenario. It is discovered that cosmic strings (both ordinary and superconducting) can catalyze proton decay, but that this catalysis only occurs on the scale of the core of the string. In order to do this we have to develop a vortex model for the superconducting string. An argument is also given for the difference in the enhancement factors for monopoles and strings

Home Economics on Display

Did you ever attend Veishea at Iowa State College and not have the privilege of enjoying one of the individual cherry pies for which the Home Economics Division is so display in this exhibit will show a well appointed buffet luncheon ready to be served

(A) survey course in English and American literature, with emphasis on historical and social backgrounds;

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1931. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

The Role of Logistics Service Quality in Creating Customer Loyalty

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the loyalty phenomenon and to understand the role of logistics service in creating customer loyalty. The main objective is to help companies assess the impact of logistics service in creating loyalty. Logistics service quality is purported to consist of two separate constructs – relational LSQ and operational LSQ. These elements of LSQ drive satisfaction. This research also explores the loyalty phenomenon, which is conceptualized as a causal relationship between affective commitment and purchasing behavior. The strength of this relationship is proposed to be moderated by calculative commitment, which involves the calculation of costs and benefits and the assessment of the investments made in the relationship, along with the availability of alternatives. Further, satisfaction influences the loyalty relationship differently. This research contends that satisfaction has a linear relationship to affective commitment, but its relationship to purchase behavior is nonlinear, being more significant at the extremes. These constructs are defined and operationalized, and by testing its components, along with calculative commitment and satisfaction, different loyalty types should be identified. Understanding that firms have a portfolio of different customer relationships, the research should ascertain what conditions drive various types of customer relationships. This nomological model should also provide managerial insight to the proposition that there are different loyalty types that would have different strategic implications. Top firms recognize the differences in the needs and desires of major customers and design offerings according to those needs (Zhao, Droge and Stank 1996). Because an important goal for firms is to grow a larger share of the profitable revenue available (Bowersox, Closs and Stank 2000), managers must realize that not all customers are the same. This research should help distinguish different customer segments based on their loyalty profiles. If the loyalty relationship can be better understood, then managers will have more clarity about how to determine what level of logistics service (as well as other services) to provide to different customer groups

Advancing nursing jurisdiction in diabetes care

Nursing has its own unique contribution to make to diabetes care, but that impact is rarely quantified, measured or conceptualised. The thesis makes this contribution in the form of three published research projects and proposes an adaptation to Abbott’s conceptual framework on the division of expert labour. The first research project demonstrates the value of the hospital based diabetes specialist nurse using a randomised controlled trial; the second delineates the competences of different levels of nurses in diabetes care using a nominal group technique and the third project provides a baseline of the state of nursing in relation to the initiation of insulin therapy using a survey approach. Each project is followed by a personal reflection and discussion of the implications in the light of Abbott’s framework. Abbott’s thesis is that the development of professions is determined by a series of jurisdictional disputes rather than by a grand plan of the professions themselves. While this assertion does not always hold true in diabetes care the studies do concur with Abbott in other ways, particularly that the profession can be taken forward by taking responsibility for appropriate educational preparation, extending the boundaries of knowledge and the nursing role where appropriate. The discussion cautions against setting up professional edifices that become self-serving and stifle development, either by rigid enforcement of competences or by fossilising the nursing contribution to diabetes care. In terms of the care of the person with diabetes, nursing remains most effective within the umbrella of a multi-disciplinary team while demonstrating its own contribution. Nursing should show professionalism by continually striving for excellence, developing new knowledge and pushing role boundaries when it is in the best interests of the patient. The original contribution to knowledge is shown in the research projects’ contribution to the evolution of diabetes nursing in the United Kingdom and the proposal that Abbott’s framework be modified to put more emphasis on the task of work to achieve optimum patient outcomes than on the jostling of professions; acknowledging the growth in multi-disciplinary team-working and rise in the power of organisations at the expense of the power of individual professions since his work was first published

Housing in the United States

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University, 193

VEISHEA 1928

It is not likely that the ingenious student who first conceived the idea of coining the word Veishea from the initial letters of each of Iowa State\u27s five divisions ever visualized the significance this word would come to have upon our campus

Increasing retention of women engineering students

This paper reports the results of a study carried out over several years to determine the factors predicting success for women engineering students at Santa Clara University. We examined psychosocial factors, such as commitment to engineering and confidence in engineering abilities, as well as the effect of a specific intervention on the retention rate of young women engineering students