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The purpose of this study has been to examine selected issues involved in the growth and development of the steel industry with particular reference to the part played by government. A secondary purpose is a study of the steel industry, itself - its founders, type of organization, and some of its problems.

Redan under hösten 2007 började den finansiella oron sprida sig på finansmarknaden. Detta medförde att den finansiella sektorn fick svårare att finansiera sin verksamhet. Under krisperioden fick staten gå in med likviditetsstöd för att rädda bolaget Carnegie & Co. Carnegie & CO:s situation komplicerades av Finansinspektionens tillbakadragande av tillståndet att bedriva bank. Denna krisperiod i Carnegie & CO gav oss frågan om vi genom årsredovisningen kunde se att dem skulle hamna i kris.Vi har genomfört en fallstudie där vi har haft ett hermeneutiskt förhållningssätt. Vi har använt definierade risker inom det finansiella området som grund för vårt arbete. Vi har även betraktat de redovisningsstandarder och regelverk vi anser vara viktiga i vår studie av Carnegie.Vi har genom empiriska undersökningar valt att använda utvalda nyckeltal för att jämföra med andra banker och för att göra en jämförelse över tiden av Carnegies nyckeltal. Vi har även intervjuat en revisor och en kapitalmarknadschef på en bank för att få svar på frågor som kan ge oss en lösning på vårt ursprungliga syfte. Resultatet av den empiriska undersökningen har vi sammankopplat med vår teori och detta har lett oss till vår slutsats.Efter att ha sammanställt vårt empiriska material och analyserat de olika delarna har vi kommit fram till att vi inte med säkerhet genom årsredovisningen kan få tillräckligt med information om att Carnegie skulle hamna i kris.

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BACKGROUND: Less than two decades into the 21st century, U.S. medical schools are experiencing substantial curricular reform affecting multiple aspects of teaching and learning. The pace of change is rapid when compared to that of the previous century. Little changed in medical education for 100 years after Abraham Flexner’s 1910 recommendations from his evaluation of North American medical schools. Using a case-study approach to examine a single medical school, this dissertation study explores pre-clerkship faculty perspectives of select curricular changes over a ten-year span at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). These changes include the adoption of educational technologies and student-centered pedagogical approaches, as well as curricular content integration designed for foundational science courses. PURPOSE: This study seeks to understand and document faculty experiences with change, factors influencing change, effective and challenging aspects of change, and recommendations for successful future changes. It also explores faculty change adoption tendencies and change leadership styles for those who led groups through a newly integrated curriculum. METHODS: This is a mixed-methods study using qualitative and quantitative inquiry in three phases of data collection with two subject sets. In the first phase, qualitative data was collected from interviews with a subset of 12 subjects to inform creation of a researcher-designed survey, which was used in the second phase collecting responses from a larger pool of 55 subjects. The third phase collected quantitative data from an externally-validated instrument, Change Intelligence (CQ) (Trautlein, 2013), which assessed change leadership styles of the subset of 12 subjects who experienced all changes studied. RESULTS: BUSM faculty members are motivated towards continuous improvement of the curriculum to foster students’ success. Faculty are challenged by compressed time to plan and implement change and when change is mandated without opportunity for pre-decision input. BUSM faculty adopt changes at higher rates than the normal curve defined in Diffusion of Innovations (Rogers, 2003). The subset of 12 subjects assessed for change leadership styles focus on people and process when leading change. CONCLUSION: Medical education change studies on the faculty perspective are limited. This study provides insight and recommendations for future study and successful change.

abstract: This dissertation examines the efforts of the Carnegie Image Tube Committee (CITC), a group created by Vannevar Bush and composed of astronomers and physicists, who sought to develop a photoelectric imaging device, generally called an image tube, to aid astronomical observations. The Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism coordinated the CITC, but the committee included members from observatories and laboratories across the United States. The CITC, which operated from 1954 to 1976, sought to replace direct photography as the primary means of astronomical imaging. Physicists, who gained training in electronics during World War II, led the early push for the development of image tubes in astronomy. Vannevar Bush’s concern for scientific prestige led him to form a committee to investigate image tube technology, and postwar federal funding for the sciences helped the CITC sustain development efforts for a decade. During those development years, the CITC acted as a mediator between the astronomical community and the image tube producers but failed to engage astronomers concerning various development paths, resulting in a user group without real buy-in on the final product. After a decade of development efforts, the CITC designed an image tube, which Radio Corporation of American manufactured, and, with additional funding from the National Science Foundation, the committee distributed to observatories around the world. While excited about the potential of electronic imaging, few astronomers used the Carnegie-developed device regularly. Although the CITC’s efforts did not result in an overwhelming adoption of image tubes by the astronomical community, examining the design, funding, production, and marketing of the Carnegie image tube shows the many and varied processes through which astronomers have acquired new tools. Astronomers’ use of the Carnegie image tube to acquire useful scientific data illustrates factors that contribute to astronomers’ adoption or non-adoption of those new tools. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation History and Philosophy of Science 2019

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-190).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1991. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 1049-1074).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references.