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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2009. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-97). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1951. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [162]-177).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1957. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 285-289).

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ii ABSTRACT Job expectation and satisfaction are very important to the skilled workforce in the construction industry of South Africa. The industry pays a heavy price for a demotivated worker; the outcome is dissatisfying work, friction on the job, time theft, sub - standard output in terms of quality of productivity and absenteeism. Motivation in the construction industry is a step by step and day by day practical approach in motivating the skilled workforce which helps site managers to run the industry smoothly and increases work output in terms of productivity. Motivation to work well and increased output has a relationship to job expectation and satisfaction. Motivation in the construction industry is concern with why people behave in a certain way, and why they choose a certain course of action in preference to others.

Apoptosis, programmed cell death, is a hot topic in recent research due to the potential applications to various areas by regulating its pathway. In industrial large scale animal cell culture processes, research on how to regulate or predict the apoptotic pathway and understanding what signals the apoptotic cascade has lead to a new opportunity to enhance process robustness, improve final performance including productivity, and eventually, reduce production costs. Current industrial cell culture processes normally involve a high cell density process in a large-scale bioreactor as a suspension culture that proliferates the cells beyond their optimal growth conditions. Under these conditions, apoptosis will be triggered, and consequently, cell viability will be decreased, and the chance for product degradation by the release of intracellular proteases and glycosidases will increase. Therefore, characterizing which culture conditions will induce apoptosis during a particular cell culture process can be a valuable tool to optimize cell viability and possibly productivity. Since the conventional method for cell count and viability measurement does not differentiate the cells in early to mid-stage apoptosis from the normal cells, it would be difficult to understand the effect of early stage apoptosis. This study elucidates the correlation between the culture conditions and apoptosis during a mammalian cell culture process and its effects on the productivity using real-time apoptotic assays for accurate cellular growth and death profiles. Apoptosis induced by low pH, glucose and glutamine limitation, lactate toxicity and Camptothecin has been shown to significantly increase the yield and specific productivity most likely due to release of product during secondary necrosis at the culmination of the apoptosis pathway.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1985.

This thesis is to investigate the relationship between the productivity in the Canadian tourism and hospitality industries and workforce characteristics, human resources management practice, technology change. The productivity analysis is conducted with different measures of productivity, such as labour productivity and total factor productivity. The first chapter is to calculate labour productivity using the Canadian National Tourism Indicator (NTI) and the Canadian Human Resource Module of Tourism Satellite Account (HRM) for six tourism industries during the period 1997-2008 and to estimate an econometric model of labour productivity. Labour productivity is found to increase with the capital labour ratio, the proportion of part-time hours, the share of immigrant workers and by the proportion of the most experienced workers. The second chapter decomposes the total factor productivity growth for the Canadian tourism/hospitality industries with dynamic factor demand models which is estimated with non-linear Full Information Maximum Likelihood (non-linear FIML) estimator. The results show that only a few Canadian tourism/hospitality industries experienced positive total factor productivity growth and had a major gain from technological change during the period 1983-2003. The final chapter is to examine the impact of technology use (ICT), training and labour turnover on labour productivity in the Canadian tourism/hospitality industries, using cross-section time-series firm-level representative data (Canada Workplace and Employee Survey (WES), 1999-2005). The study found that the labour productivity is positively related to the share of workforce using computer and having computer training both on-the-job and in-classroom. / Candian Tourism Human Resource Council