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An Ear to the Ground: The Role of the Voice of The Consumer in Firm Survival for Startups
(2011)Many high tech knowledge intensive entrepreneurial firms tend to focus on their technological capabilities and to develop products that are typically taken to the market using a “push” strategy. In doing so, the firm and ... -
Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, valve gape behavior under diel‑cycling hypoxia
(Springer-Verlag, 2016)Hypoxia and anoxia in many estuaries worldwide can cause a wide range of negative effects on animals that are directly exposed or indirectly influenced by food web interactions. Typically, experimental studies focus on ... -
Eclipse
(Prairie Schooner, 2007)On the first day of autumn, in the rear courtyard of the Léger estate, Yvette Mongrain was scrubbing down the glass tables and wrought iron chairs that had been trucked in from Paris the morning before and arranged across ... -
Ecology of life history variation in the sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna) in impounded mangrove marsh of the Indian River Lagoon, Florida
(2004)Effects of environmental change can be very complex and multifaceted, and as a result, the greatest challenge facing ecologists today is the prediction of the effects of these changes on populations of organisms. This ... -
Education through games and simulations
(2010-03)Through an examination of the underserved urban population, this paper takes a look at how the use of games and simulations may provide a means of closing a gap in education which has lingered for several decades. Discussion ... -
The Effect of Earnings Announcement Timing on Liquidity
(People and Global Business Association, 2013)The proportion of after-market-close (AMC) earnings announcements has recently increased to more than 40% of the total number of earnings announcements (Berkman & Truong, 2009). Doyle and Magilke (2009) conclude that ... -
Effect of Emotion on Marketing Landing Page Conversion
(2016-12)Web users make decisions to click or not to click, to buy or not to buy, every day. The emotional impact of an invitation plays a key role in these decisions. When business goals align with the potential customer’s ... -
Effect of Low Literacy on Password Formation Strategy as Impediment to Participation in Modern Life: Evaluation and Intervention Tutorial
(2019)Despite widespread acknowledgement that they are an imperfect compromise, text passwords remain the most common method of authenticating user access to digital resources. Responsible stewardship of those resources, both ... -
Effect of oysters Crassostrea virginica and bottom shear velocity on benthic–pelagic coupling and estuarine water quality
(Inter-Research, 2004)Increasing the biomass of bivalve suspensions feeders has been proposed as a means to improve water quality in eutrophic estuaries such as the Chesapeake Bay. However, water quality impacts are likely to be determined by ... -
The effect of resuspension on the fate of total mercury and methyl mercury in a shallow estuarine ecosystem: a mesocosm study
(Elsevier, 2004)Sediments are the major repository of mercury in estuaries and could be a significant source of Hg to the overlying water column via release from the solid phase during resuspension. There is, however, little information ... -
Effect of Sediment Manipulation on the Biogeochemistry of Experimental Sediment Systems
(Alliance Communications Group, 2006)Before biological or biogeochemical experimentation, sediments are often manipulated and defaunated with the use of many different approaches and only modest consideration of treatment effects on sediment biogeochemistry ... -
Effect of tidal resuspension on benthic–pelagic coupling in an experimental ecosystem study
(Inter-Research, 2010)To test the effect of sediment resuspension on the nutrient and ecosystem dynamics we performed a 4 wk experiment in three 1000 l shear-turbulence-resuspension-mesocosm (STURM) resuspension (R) tanks and three 1000 l ... -
Effective mobile web design and development for JHU APL external website
(2012-05)Due to a global increase in smartphone ownership and an exploding use of wireless services, mobile phones have become an important means of Internet access. However, the constraints (e.g. small screen, weak network ... -
Effective performance measurement of state and local inspectors general: a multi-methods analysis of current operations and a scorecard for future application
(2016-01-28)Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs) have been a part of American government since the 1700s but these organizations have evolved a great deal over the years. The first military models gave way to the federal-level models, ... -
Effects of budgetary priorities on state fiscal stability during times of boom and bust
(2015-12)This dissertation examines various budgetary priorities of 50 states in the U.S. in order to determine how the priorities influence fiscal stability during times of boom and bust. The research presented investigates the ... -
Effects of Chat-based Interface on User Engagement
(2017-06-29)Chat-based User Interfaces (UI) have become popular in transactional applications such as in the finance and news industry. Although this trend has been noted, the effects this has on user engagement have not been well ... -
The Effects of Corporate Governance Attributes on Credit Ratings and Bond Yields
(2008)This study examines the empirical relations between the governance structure of public corporations in the United States and the credit ratings and pricing of their debt securities. We study an unbalanced panel of 775 ... -
The Effects of Generalized Trust and Civic Cooperation on the Big N Presence and Audit Fees Across the Globe
(SSRN, 2016)We examine the impact of informal cultural attributes, such as generalized trust in a society (hereafter “trust”) and civic cooperation, on audit fees and Big N presence in countryspecific audit markets. The relation ... -
The effects of humor and laughter on perceived intelligence and dating success
(NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society, 2015)