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- Title
- Impact of best manufacturing engineering practices on software engineering practices.
- Creator
- Akhter, Shahina., Florida Atlantic University, Coulter, Neal S.
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis involves original research in the area of semantic analysis of textual databases (content analysis). The main intention of this study is to examine how software engineering practices can benefit from the best manufacturing practices. There is a deliberate focus and emphasis on competitive effectiveness worldwide. The ultimate goal of the U.S. NAVY's Best Manufacturing Practices Program is to strengthen the U.S. industrial base and reduce the cost of defense systems by solving...
Show moreThis thesis involves original research in the area of semantic analysis of textual databases (content analysis). The main intention of this study is to examine how software engineering practices can benefit from the best manufacturing practices. There is a deliberate focus and emphasis on competitive effectiveness worldwide. The ultimate goal of the U.S. NAVY's Best Manufacturing Practices Program is to strengthen the U.S. industrial base and reduce the cost of defense systems by solving manufacturing problems and improving quality and reliability. Best manufacturing practices can assist software engineering practices in a way that when software companies use these practices they can: (1) Improve both software quality and staff productivity; (2) Determine the current status of the organization's software process; (3) Set goals for process improvement; (4) Create effective plans for reaching those goals; (5) Implement the major elements of the plans.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15445
- Subject Headings
- Software engineering, Production engineering, Production management--Computer softwares
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Content analysis of design practices.
- Creator
- Shah, Prerak Pradyumna., Florida Atlantic University, Coulter, Neal S., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Abstract/Description
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A database based on best manufacturing practices documents is explored relative to the "design" component of such best practices. This content analysis study yields lexical maps of key terms. Maps are categorized depending on their node arrangement in the following main groups: Cyclic maps, Sequential maps, Spoke-patterned maps and Isolated maps. A comparative study of names selected by different naming algorithms helps us in establishing the relation between map patterns and naming...
Show moreA database based on best manufacturing practices documents is explored relative to the "design" component of such best practices. This content analysis study yields lexical maps of key terms. Maps are categorized depending on their node arrangement in the following main groups: Cyclic maps, Sequential maps, Spoke-patterned maps and Isolated maps. A comparative study of names selected by different naming algorithms helps us in establishing the relation between map patterns and naming algorithms. Super network and distributions maps generated from the same database are useful in defining relations among the different maps. This study outlines the overall structure of design process through the maps' names and their interrelations.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15420
- Subject Headings
- Content analysis (Communication), Production management--Databases
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Product cycle theory and the television industry of the United States.
- Creator
- Chen, Wei., Florida Atlantic University, Scott, Gerald E., College of Business, Department of Economics
- Abstract/Description
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Roymond Vernon (1966) and Seev Hirsch (1967) systematically put forth the product cycle approach in an effort to increase understanding of trade theory and introduce dynamics into trade. One of the model's major premises is that a country which has a strong competitive position in a particular industry at a given point in time may well lose this position when the industry enters into a new phase. This approach has been accepted as an established theory though it still remains inadequately...
Show moreRoymond Vernon (1966) and Seev Hirsch (1967) systematically put forth the product cycle approach in an effort to increase understanding of trade theory and introduce dynamics into trade. One of the model's major premises is that a country which has a strong competitive position in a particular industry at a given point in time may well lose this position when the industry enters into a new phase. This approach has been accepted as an established theory though it still remains inadequately tested. The television industry is the largest segment of the consumer electronics industry which has been frequently cited as an evidence to support the product cycle theory. The whole life of monochrome television in the United States was nicely explained by the product cycle theory. But it seems that the development of color television does not tell the same story.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15058
- Subject Headings
- Product life cycle, Television advertising, New products--Marketing, Product management
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Managerial reputation and Non-GAAP earnings disclosures.
- Creator
- Cheng, Yun, Kohlbeck, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, School of Accounting
- Abstract/Description
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I examine how managerial reputation affects the quality of non-GAAP earnings disclosures and how the market reacts to non-GAAP earnings disclosures associated with managerial reputation. Although there was an initial dip in the frequency of non-GAAP earnings disclosures after SOX and Regulation G, the frequency of non-GAAP earnings disclosures has increased in recent years (Brown, Christensen, Elliott and Mergenthaler 2012). Motivated by the efficient contracting theory and managerial...
Show moreI examine how managerial reputation affects the quality of non-GAAP earnings disclosures and how the market reacts to non-GAAP earnings disclosures associated with managerial reputation. Although there was an initial dip in the frequency of non-GAAP earnings disclosures after SOX and Regulation G, the frequency of non-GAAP earnings disclosures has increased in recent years (Brown, Christensen, Elliott and Mergenthaler 2012). Motivated by the efficient contracting theory and managerial reputation incentives, I investigate whether reputable managers are associated with higher quality non-GAAP earnings disclosures. I also investigate whether the market is more responsive to non-GAAP earnings disclosed by reputable managers. Using empirical models modified from prior research, I find that reputable managers are less likely to disclose non-GAAP earnings, which is consistent with the efficient contracting explanation. I also find that reputable managers exclude more recurring items that are related to future operating earnings when they disclose non-GAAP earnings, which is consistent with the rent extraction explanation in prior research. Finally, I find that managerial reputation has an incremental effect on the market reaction and that the market is more responsive to non-GAAP earnings disclosed by reputable managers if the unexpected earnings are positive. The study contributes to both non-GAAP earnings disclosures literature and managerial reputation incentives literature. It also has implications for investors, managers, and regulators.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004185, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004185
- Subject Headings
- Capital productivity -- Measurement, Disclosure in accounting, Industrial management, Investment analysis, Risk management
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Contested spaces: NTFPS, livelihoods, and conservation planning.
- Creator
- Mitchell, Christine M., Esnard, Ann-Margaret, Ivy, Russell L., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
- Abstract/Description
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This research examines tensions between Latino/a farmworkers, who rely on the seasonal harvest of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens [W. Bartram] Small) berries for increased livelihood security, and conservationists and land-managers who view harvesting as detrimental for wildlife. Informal harvesting occurs on public and private lands, sometimes without permission. Berries, though ubiquitous on the landscape, have become a contested resource. The rapid conversion of rural wildlife habitat into...
Show moreThis research examines tensions between Latino/a farmworkers, who rely on the seasonal harvest of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens [W. Bartram] Small) berries for increased livelihood security, and conservationists and land-managers who view harvesting as detrimental for wildlife. Informal harvesting occurs on public and private lands, sometimes without permission. Berries, though ubiquitous on the landscape, have become a contested resource. The rapid conversion of rural wildlife habitat into suburban development has increased State urgency to bring natural areas into protection along the Florida Ecological Greenways Network. Habitat infringement and associated pressures on wildlife by development has led to the promotion of the state-wide Florida Wildlife Corridor, based on the FEGN. This corridor would connect isolated Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) populations and Florida panthers (Puma concolor coryi) with other populations. The scale of the commercial berry industry is unknown, but is estimated at millions of pounds annually. State and wildlife conservationists are increasingly concerned with the perceived scale of the harvest and its possible associated effects on wildlife, particularly Florida black bears.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004308, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004308
- Subject Headings
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects, Agriculture -- Environmental aspects, Biodiversity conservation, Land use -- Environmental aspects, Land use -- Planning, Non timber forest products -- Government policy, Non timber forest products -- Management, Wildlife management
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Optimal positioning of web page banner advertisements: an extension of hemispheric process theory.
- Creator
- Goodrich, Kendall., Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Marketing
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this research is to determine whether optimal ad placement and page context can significantly impact advertising effects, by extending hemispheric processing theory. This study contributes to the marketing literature by 1) addressing theoretical conflicts regarding optimal hemispheric ad placement (more favorable effects with leftward photo ads and rightward text ads; Janiszewski 1988) and page context (matching activation from "priming" of opposing brain hemispheres...
Show moreThe purpose of this research is to determine whether optimal ad placement and page context can significantly impact advertising effects, by extending hemispheric processing theory. This study contributes to the marketing literature by 1) addressing theoretical conflicts regarding optimal hemispheric ad placement (more favorable effects with leftward photo ads and rightward text ads; Janiszewski 1988) and page context (matching activation from "priming" of opposing brain hemispheres Janiszewski 1990), 2) by evaluating multiple advertising effects in relation to mere exposure rather than focusing primarily on attitudes (Janiszewski 1988, 1990), and 3) by addressing an important knowledge gap regarding optimal Web advertising (Dahlen, Rasch and Rosengren 2003). A growing amount of money is being spent on Internet advertising, with revenues totaling $12.5 billion in 2005, up more than 30 percent over 2004 (IAB 2006). However, banner ad click-through rates are low (between .1 and .2 percent for standard ads; DoubleClick 2007) and only 10% of business executives believe that banner advertising is highly effective in generating new business (Forrester 2006). Advertisers continue to use banner ads, perhaps because the "branding" benefits are not limited to clickthroughs (Briggs and Hollis 1997). While numerous ad-related factors have been previously studied (e.g., ad context creative factors, recall/recognition effects, repetition), to the author's knowledge no research has examined the effect of banner ad placement on advertising outcomes such as attention, recognition, brand attitude and purchase intention., A 2 x 2 x 2 between subjects factorial design was implemented, in which the ad type (pictorial or verbal), ad placement (left or right of Web page), and the page type (text or image-oriented) were manipulated in an online environment. While the results only partially support the hypotheses (rank-ordered stimuli groups from "optimal" to "least optimal" effects) matching activation and hemispheric ad placement appeared to differentially affect advertising outcomes. A supplementary data analysis, which directly compared hemispheric ad placement and matching activation, indicates that matching activation has a greater effect on attention, while hemispheric ad placement has a greater effect on purchase intention. The findings suggest that online advertising efforts should be specifically matched with advertising goals. Managerial implications are discussed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77642
- Subject Headings
- Product management, Internet advertising, Economic aspects, Logos (Symbols), Design, Marketing, Psychological aspects, Advertising, Effective frequency
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- An object-oriented model for a manufacturing resource planning system.
- Creator
- Kastritis, Karen Mary., Florida Atlantic University, Han, Chingping (Jim), Fernandez, Eduardo B., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
- Abstract/Description
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Manufacturing Resource Planning systems are functionally complex systems. In providing effective resource management tools, they support the integration of a wide variety of complex functions. These systems also undergo frequent changes as business needs change. For these reasons, analysis techniques which provide methods to create clear, flexible systems must be sought. Object oriented analysis is such a technique. This thesis presents the development of an object oriented model for a...
Show moreManufacturing Resource Planning systems are functionally complex systems. In providing effective resource management tools, they support the integration of a wide variety of complex functions. These systems also undergo frequent changes as business needs change. For these reasons, analysis techniques which provide methods to create clear, flexible systems must be sought. Object oriented analysis is such a technique. This thesis presents the development of an object oriented model for a Manufacturing Resource Planning system (MRPII). It will be shown that the use of objects and object oriented techniques to model complex systems such as MRPII results in system models which are more easily understood and more flexible to change than other more conventional representations. Future research may include the formal design and implementation of the model. The flexibility of the implemented system could then be compared to the level of flexibility of a non-object based system.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15288
- Subject Headings
- Manufacturing processes, Manufacturing resource planning, Production management--Data processing, Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The plan of plenty.
- Creator
- Continental Committee
- Date Issued
- 1934
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/2306109
- Subject Headings
- Income distribution --United States., Distribution [Economic theory], Wealth --Moral and ethical aspects., Communism --United States., Production management --United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Role of Cues in Buyers' Evaluations of Service Innovations.
- Creator
- Ramesan, Jayendra, Florida Atlantic University, Georgoff, David M.
- Abstract/Description
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This dissertation integrates knowledge from consumer behavior, diffusion research, strategy and MIS to investigate the effects of information cues such as price, brand equity, and technology on buyers' service evaluations and behavioral intentions. Specifically, the effects of these information cues on buyers' perceptions of service quality, value and purchase intentions are examined. In addition, this study examines the role of two intervening variables, namely, sacrifice (monetary costs)...
Show moreThis dissertation integrates knowledge from consumer behavior, diffusion research, strategy and MIS to investigate the effects of information cues such as price, brand equity, and technology on buyers' service evaluations and behavioral intentions. Specifically, the effects of these information cues on buyers' perceptions of service quality, value and purchase intentions are examined. In addition, this study examines the role of two intervening variables, namely, sacrifice (monetary costs) and ease of use (non-monetary costs) in buyers' service evaluations. Two interactive services, a home banking service (Citibank & Ameritech) and a home shopping service (Time Warner) were described in a concept test format to subjects in a 4 x 2 x 2 between-subjects factorial design experiment. The sample for the home banking service (281) was composed of undergraduate students drawn from the university while the sample for the home shopping service (409), was composed of individuals living in the South Florida area. The experimental treatments, manipulation checks, dependent and intervening variables were measured using multiple-item seven point Likert-type scales. The data was analyzed using econometric modeling techniques. In both experiments, service quality perceptions were found to be significantly influenced by technology and brand equity perceptions. Brand equity was the main determinant of service quality in both experiments. Service value perceptions were driven by direct effects from service quality, sacrifice and ease of use and indirectly driven by technology and price perceptions. The role of brand equity in value perceptions is ambiguous. Sacrifice was related positively to price perceptions in both studies. Purchase intentions were explained only by value perceptions in both studies. The results suggest that service quality and service value are very different. The value function is more complex than service quality. Service organizations that attempt to create customer value by maximizing service quality ratings at the lowest price need to emphasize other value based determinants such as technology and ease of use. The model suggests a crossfunctional approach should be employed for service design and development in order to maximize service quality and customer value. In addition, this study recommends a substantive pre-launch service concept development and delivery effort by service organizations before introducing new services.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12452
- Subject Headings
- Human Information Processing--Research, Consumer Satisfaction--Evaluation, Marketing--Management, Quality of Products--Evaluation, Technological innovations, Customer services--Quality control
- Format
- Document (PDF)
