Author: Bryan Anthony Jacoby
Publisher: Dissertation.Com
Keywords: pulsars, recycled
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1581123930
ISBN-13: 9781581123937

Author: Fatima Muhammad Muhaidat
Publisher: Dissertation.Com
Keywords: translation, arabic, cities, tale
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1599422891
ISBN-13: 9781599422893

This study investigates the problems translators encounter when rendering features of Dickens’s style in A Tale of Two Cities into Arabic. Examples of these features are singled out and analyzed. Then, they are compared with their counterparts in published translations of the novel in Arabic. The comparisons depend on back translation to give non-readers of Arabic a clear idea about the similarities and differences between the source text and target one(s). The features under focus are sound effects, figurative language, humor, repetition, and the French element. The discussion dedicated

Author: Emmanuel Kintu
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Keywords: returns, top, total, shareholder, management, american, insurance, north, industry, association, teams, team, education, heterogeneity
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1581121539
ISBN-13: 9781581121537

This study examined the relationship between the education heterogeneity of top management teams and organizational performance measured as long-term total shareholder returns. The subjects were 46 publicly traded North American insurance companies that had been traded for at least five years. I employed two metrics to measure education heterogeneity. One metric assessed the education heterogeneity of top management teams based on the highest education certification and the other metric assessed education heterogeneity of the teams based on all education certifications, and therefore the under

Author: Christian Kahl
Publisher: Dissertation.Com
Keywords: finance, volatility, stochastic, simulation, modelling
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1581123833
ISBN-13: 9781581123838

The famous Black-Scholes model was the starting point of a new financial industry and has been a very important pillar of all options trading since. One of its core assumptions is that the volatility of the underlying asset is constant. It was realised early that one has to specify a dynamic on the volatility itself to get closer to market behaviour. There are mainly two aspects making this fact apparent. Considering historical evolution of volatility by analysing time series data one observes erratic behaviour over time. Secondly, backing out implied volatility from daily traded plain vanilla

Author: Gerd Weissenbach
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Keywords: representative, volume, elements, large, composites, analysis, testing, textile, issues
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1581122454
ISBN-13: 9781581122459

The high degree of heterogeneity of textile composites was found to be the primary problem in analysis and testing. A concept was developed based on a description of the local variation of the material stiffness matrix using a spline interpolation. The role of this stiffness function is to facilitate the calculation of the material stiffness matrix at any given position or for arbitrary domains in the form of finite elements.Based on this approach, two different methods were developed. In the first method the average material stiffness matrix is calculated for a finite element and subsequently

Author: Marcia Woolf Bulach
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Keywords: multivariate, time, correlations, cross, auto, canonical
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1999-04-15
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1581120559
ISBN-13: 9781581120554

Author: Veronica A. Thurmond
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Keywords: future, enroll, web, based, courses, willingness, satisfaction, interaction, variables, predictors, students, examination
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2003-04
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1581121814
ISBN-13: 9781581121810

Pub_AbstractText~: The impetus for this study was the need to gain a better understanding of what interaction activities in the virtual classroom affect student outcomes. The purpose was to determine which perceptions of interactions contributed to predicting student outcomes of satisfaction and future enrollment in Web-based courses, while controlling for student characteristics. The problem is that the interaction that occurs in the Web-based classroom is markedly different than what occurs in the traditional classroom setting. The study was a secondary analysis using data from 388 studen