One of the challenges that Caribbean immigrant parents and children face as they settle into their new environment is interacting with teachers using their variety of English. This study seeks to explore the experiences of Caribbean immigrant parents and their children in their interactions with teachers in Toronto and the perceptions that they have about these interactions. The author’s purpose is to bring voice to their language encounters. Qualitative analysis is utilized throughout the general discussion of the study. Using Colaizzi’s (1978) phenomenology approach, data was collected through semi-structured interviews from a sample of six immigrant parents and seven children within Toronto. The central themes that emerge from the data are organized under the four research questions. The results of the research may assist policy makers, educators, teachers, and support staff who plan and implement programs geared towards enhancing the interaction between themselves and Caribbean immigrant students and parents.

Executive discretion, the latitude for executives strategic decisions, is a powerful moderator of strategic decision making. In spite of its potential contribution to strategic management studies, Hambrick and Finkelstein's (1987) socio-political model of executive discretion has received little empirical research effort. Some of the basic propositions of the model, which incorporates industry, firm and individual characteristics as determinants of discretion have not been empirically tested. The restricted research effort is partly attributable to the lack of quantitative measures for industry-level discretion. This thesis initially uses the correlation between industry-level attentional homogeneity, the similarity in foci of attention of executives in an industry, and industry-level discretion to produce 116 new values for industry-level discretion for 23 U.S. 4-digit SIC coded industries for the years 1990 to1997. Predictive validity for the new values is demonstrated using long-term debt data and annual accounts adjustment data. Theil's (1992b) industry variety measure based on information theory is modified to produce strategic variety measures that permit pan-industry comparisons. Strong support is demonstrated for a positive association between variety in long-term strategic positions and industry-level discretion. Some weak evidence suggesting large firms in low discretion industries may compete using behaviours that impact on current accounts is also identified.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 251-264).

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The problem of this study is to determine those factors and characteristics that establish the supper club as a separate entity in the field of commercial food service operations. The policies and practices of the supper club will be contrasted with the policies and practices of restaurants and private clubs. / Typescript. / "June, 1957." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Includes bibliographical references.

Let ΓM be the fundamental group of a knot or link complement M. The discrete faithful representation of ΓM into PSL2(C) has an associated quaternion algebra. We can extend this notation to other representations, which are encoded by the character variety X(ΓM). The generalization is the canonical quaternion algebra and can be used to find unifying features of irreducible representations, such as the splitting behavior of their associated quaternion algebras. Within this dissertation, we will determine properties of the canonical quaternion algebra for the Whitehead link complement and explore how the algebra can descend to quaternion algebras of the Dehn (d, m)-surgeries thereon. / Mathematics

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In his PhD thesis Erik Insko gave the conditions in which the intersection of any Schubert cell with a regular nilpotent Hessenberg variety is smooth. In this thesis we relax the nilpotent condition and aim to extend his method to describe regular Hessenberg varieties without the nilpotent restriction. We conclude that one specific intersection is smooth at the origin. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

We give a description of the moment graph for Bott-Samelson varieties in arbitrary Lie type. We use this, along with curve neighborhoods and explicit moduli space computations, to compute a presentation for the small quantum cohomology ring of a particular Bott-Samelson variety in Type A. / Ph. D. / Since the early 1990’s, the study of quantum cohomology has been a fascinating, and fruitful field of research with connections to physics, representation theory, and combinatorics. The quantum cohomology of a space X encodes enumerative information about how many curves intersect certain subspaces of X; these counts are called Gromov-Witten invariants. For some spaces X, including the class of spaces we consider here, this count is only ”virtual” and negative Gromov-Witten invariants may arise. In this dissertation, we study the quantum cohomology of Bott-Samelson varieties. These spaces arise frequently in applications to representation theory and combinatorics, however their quantum cohomology was previously unexplored. The first of our three main theorems describes the moment graph for Bott-Samelson varieties. This is a description of what all the possible curves, stable under certain symmetries, exist in a Bott-Samelson variety. Our second main theorem is a technical result which enables us to compute some GromovWitten invariants directly. Finally, our third main theorem is a description of the quantum cohomology for a certain three-dimensional Bott-Samelson variety.