abstract: In this study, I sought to learn how members of college women’s choirs feel about their choir and women’s choirs in general. Singers from 19 institutions in the American Choral Directors Association Southern division participated. From the potential survey population (n=986), 302 respondents participated (response rate = 28%). These research questions guided this study: 1. How do current members of college women’s choirs feel their choir is perceived compared to other types of choirs at their college or university and in their community? 2. How do current members of college women’s choirs feel about singing in this group? About women’s choirs in general? A researcher-developed survey instrument was used to gather demographic information and other data related to the research questions. After a pilot study, the survey was edited for clarity. The director of choral activities and the director of the women’s choir at each institution was contacted via email. The schools that agreed to participate received the link to the survey and an email script to send to students. Two weeks later, a follow-up email was sent with the same materials. Two weeks after that, the survey window closed. The data were collected and analyzed for frequency and percentage. While analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests found no significant differences, the analysis of some of the independent variables, especially those having to do with the age and experience of the singers, were highly suggestive. In this study, women’s choir members responded positively to statements about the value of their choir within their institutions and communities. While respondents often indicate that women’s choirs are seen as inferior to mixed choirs, they nevertheless enjoy the repertoire they sing and like being challenged. Respondents answered affirmatively in Likert-scale questions about their women’s choirs and women’s choirs in general, but answered more critically in open-ended response questions about the same topics. The survey results echo the findings of earlier studies, amplified by the choir members’ own opinions. The data in this study offer clear means to ensure that all students in all choirs are proud of their work and feel equally valued. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2020

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As the increase of house renters who working in other cities and also the decrease of the number of household washing machine within high price, more and more people choose not to do the laundry at home. For this reason, launderettes have became popular since laundry-helping stores charge considerably more than self-service laundry shops and most customers are not willing to have their underwear washed by others. The demand for launderettes has been dramatically increase for the consideration of the economical expense of doing laundry in the launderette than paying someone else to do the laundry. Therefore, a good location of a launderette would certainly make huge profit under the circumstances. This research aims to assist the potential launderette franchisees to identify correct locations to run the business. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is mainly adapted in this research which classifies the hierarchy as four evaluation factors including business benefit, competition level, base of operation and transportation. Furthermore, twelve guidelines of address selecting deriving from each four evaluation factors which are analyzed and sorted by experts with the weights, scores and alternatives to categorize four districts consisting of residential area, industrial area, school area and commercial area. Once the proper area is determined by first Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the precise address in the proper one is able to be predicted by second Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Hence, the launderette locating exact shop address in the certain area would be evaluated the natural conditions. After Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was implemented in the first time, four options and the weight between every hierarchy could be clearly known. This outcome makes potential franchisees understand the proper location they may identify to make more profit in the circumstances. Then, the potential launderette franchisees are able to choose the exact address of their shops in the selected location to increase their revenue after the second Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is conducted. The result of this research provides potential launderette franchisees with a guide to evaluate whether the launderette locates in an appropriate place and a distinct resolution of decision making for launderette location.

While facing the globalization and Iinternet trend in the fickle environment, enterprise has no choices but to innovate continuously, in order to sustain a leading position and for business prosperities. Project is an exceptional method to deal with the Business objective, which cannot be achieved by routine procedure. By the characteristic of project-specialization, systematization and integration, it could help enterprise to improve the quality of product/service, and to sustain a competitive ability in the world. This thesis is to study the key successful factors of managing a project of Basic Oxygen Furnace(BOF) slag revitalization ¡V the resource recycling devision of C corporation in the resource recycling industry. By way of orginizing project management body of knowledge(PMBOK) to establish the framework of project management. Then researchs the influence of key successful factors of project management that would lead to excellent outcome of BOF slag revitalization. And proposes a systematic approach of project management to facilitate companies to manage the resource recycling and new product development process. The conclusion is that: 1.BOF slag revitalization project is a synthetically proposal, which combines new product development, engineering construction and process improvement. In the process group of the project management for BOF slag revitalization pro. Executing Process Group would be the most effective process for managing a successful project. 2.Through the whole Project Life Cycle, Project Time Management of the PMBOK is the most important key successful factor for BOF slag revitalization project management, and then is Project Risk and Quality Management.

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Recently, a multi-resolution, hierarchical version of the hexagon mesh was introduced. In order for computers to display this mesh of hexagons, it must be triangulated. This thesis describes an algorithm to triangulate the multi-resolution, hierarchical hexagon mesh. The triangulation provides good triangle strips, which result in efficient rendering of the hexagon mesh, and well-proportioned triangles, which avoid rendering artifacts. This algorithm was designed for the rendering of hexagon meshes on the globe, though it currently does not support the pentagons of the truncated icosahedron. / Thesis (Master, Computing) -- Queen's University, 2009-01-21 12:11:02.532

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Thesis (M.S.C.I.T.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2005. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 5, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.