Education, employment, housing, and substance abuse pose significant problems to the successful reentry of individuals released from prison. The current research project utilized a natural experiment, an oil boom in a Midwestern state, to examine changes in offender reentry and recidivism outcomes overtime. The first part of the study compared a sample of offenders released from prison prior to the oil boom to a sample of offenders released from prison during the highest peak of the oil boom. Comparisons were made on variables known in the literature to be predictive of recidivism during the reentry process; these include risk, education, employment, housing, substance abuse, and treatment. Recidivism was measured as a new conviction, technical violation, and re-incarceration. The follow-up period for both samples was two years. The second part of the study incorporated the perspectives of probation and parole officers. All officers in the Midwestern state were surveyed on their perception of offender reentry and how it may have changed as a result of oil boom influences. Officer attitudes, philosophies, and supervision strategies were analyzed in relation to their perceptions on offender reentry and the oil boom.

This study examined whether three reserve-based quantity replacement measures and three reserve-based value replacement measures have incremental information content beyond that of historical earnings and its cash and accrual components. This study also examined whether the cash and accrual components of earnings have incremental information content beyond that of earnings.

This study examined the impact of the ceiling test write-off on the stock prices of affected full cost (FC) oil and gas firms.

Three petroleum futures contracts are examined over a ten-year period from 1986 to 1996. Intertemporal changes in futures prices and the net open interest positions of three trader types are compared to determine what, if any, market timing ability the traders have. Seasonal variation is considered and a simple trading rule is adopted to determine the dollar-return potential for market participation and shed light on issues of market efficiency.

This dissertation explores the relationship between foreign oil capital, transnational infrastructures, and power in the Middle East through an examination of the history of the trans-border pipeline system that exported Iraq’s oil to Europe via the Mediterranean. Built in 1935 by the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), an international oil consortium jointly owned by a group of Western oil companies, the Iraq-Mediterranean pipelines ran from northern Iraq to two points on the Mediterranean coast, crossing the borders of five states. The Iraq-Mediterranean pipelines were the product of large capital investment and were constructed during a period of European imperial rule. They could not be easily moved or diverted once built. This dissertation asks, in what ways did trans-border flows of oil shape and were shaped by processes of decolonization and the emergence of independent nation states? Existing studies of Middle East oil development rarely consider the fact that oil infrastructures extended beyond the territorial boundaries of the nation-state, focusing instead on the effects of oil revenues on the political economy of oil-producing states. Rather than reading oil as a stand-in for something else, such as revenues, geopolitics, or modernity, this dissertation examines the material structures and technical organization of the oil industry itself. Drawing on extensive research in oil company archives, government archives and published materials in English, Arabic, and French, this dissertation argues that the Iraq-Mediterranean pipelines shaped temporally and spatially uneven and overlapping forms of corporate and state power during successive phases of planning, construction, and operation from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.

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[pt] A PETROBRAS, maior empresa brasileira e uma das doze maiores empresas de petróleo do mundo, está ampliando a sua presença na área internacional, como forma de atender aos objetivos estabelecidos em seu Plano Estratégico. Atuando em países ricos em recursos minerais, porém, alguns deles, sem dispor da necessária tecnologia e mão-de-obra especializada, a empresa vêm utilizando a sua expertise de mais de 50 anos na indústria do petróleo, para garantir um alto padrão de eficiência, rentabilidade, rapidez e segurança em suas operações. O perfeito funcionamento e integração de todos os elos que constituem a sua complexa cadeia de atividades, que abrange desde a exploração da jazida de petróleo até a entrega do combustível ao consumidor final, requer uma elevada competência em termos tecnológicos e logísticos. De modo a permitir que os gerentes da Área Internacional da PETROBRAS possam exercer um sistemático monitoramento das operações realizadas pelas Unidades de Negócio da empresa localizadas no exterior, é necessário que se desenvolvam adequados mecanismos de controle e de avaliação de desempenho. A presente dissertação pretende buscar fundamentação teórica, estudar a aplicabilidade dos modelos de avaliação de desempenho existentes, e propor a utilização de indicadores de desempenho que possibilitem avaliar, sob uma ótica logística, a atuação internacional da referida empresa. / [en] PETROBRAS, the greatest brazilian company and one of the twelve world´s biggest oil companies, is extending its presence in the international area, as a way to pursue the objectives established in its strategical plan. Acting in countries rich in mineral resources, some of them, however, lacking the necessary technology and specialized man power, Petrobras uses its expertise of more than 50 years in the oil industry, to guarantee a high standard of efficiency, yield, rapidity and security in its operations. The perfect functioning and integration of all the links that constitute its complex chain of activities, that encloses from the exploration of the oil deposit to the delivery of the fuel to the final consumer, require a high ability in technological and logistics terms. In order to allow the managers of Petrobras´s International Area, to exert a systematic control of the operations carried through for the Business Units of the company located abroad, are necessary to develop adequate mechanisms of control and performance evaluation. This work intends to search theoretical basis to study the applicability of the existing performance evaluation models, and to consider the use of performance indicators, that would make possible to evaluate, under a logistics concept, the international performance of the mentioned company.