Affordable housing has been a predominant issue in New Orleans. The demand of affordable housing units in the city far exceeds the supply available. HousingNOLA established the demand of 33,600 of affordable housing opportunities in New Orleans. There are various challenges to increasing the supply of affordable housing from project scale, design and construction, complexity of financing, building regulations, and land use policies. Moreover, funding available for affordable housing at the federal and state level have negatively impacted developer's willingness to pursue this project while forcing the developer to create more with less. These challenges manifest themselves in additional costs and time. In partnership with HousingNOLA, the investigation revolves on how construction costs in affordable development could be reduced to increase the supply to meet the demand. First, the investigation focused on clarifying if construction costs were high in the City of New Orleans. In addition, it identified factor that increased construction costs within New Orleans. Thirdly, through the study of new building technologies, provide alternative construction methodology with the potential to create more affordable housing units. Lastly, propose recommendations for next steps in the creation of affordable housing in New Orleans to HousingNOLA. / 0 / SPK / specialcollections@tulane.edu

Tracing the history back to the 17th century, Taiwan had already started trade with other countries then due to excellent location and convenient marine transportation in the oceans. Such great qualifications stress Taiwan's importance in the international regime. This thesis includes 6 chapters. Besides the introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 is the description of data sources and gives a picture of the then background. Chapter 3 describes the importance of China's trade market from Taiwan's point of view. This chapter covers Taiwan's trade dependence, export dependence and import dependence on China. Also exports-imports ratio of Taiwan's trade with China is also addressed. It displays the rise and fall of China's share of Taiwan's exports, imports or total trade volume. When Taiwan just opened its ports in 1860, China was Taiwan's most important export market. However, the volume of Taiwan's exports to China shrank dramatically in 1902 during Japanese colonial rule and Taiwan's main export markets switched from China to Japan. After the recovery of Taiwan, China and Taiwan maintained a close trade relationship under the Nationalist Government administration. After then, the two sides were separate for almost 40 years. When both of them opened to each other, Taiwan's exports to China have multiplied. China became Taiwan's largest export market in 2002. As for Taiwan's imports from China, it hardly fluctuated. Even in 2005, China's share of Taiwan's imports was still only around 10%. Chapter 4 and 5 address the changes in the trade commodities between China and Taiwan. They display the rise and fall of the trade items and following the description give a general picture of that after 1988. Tea and sugar covered over 90% of Taiwan's exports in late 19th century. The main export market was China. In Japanese colonial rule, sugar and rice was the most important goods. They occupied almost 70% percent of Taiwan's exports and the export destination was Japan. Other export goods such as sub-agricultural products, fishery products, textile products and industrial products were not as important as tea, sugar and rice. In Chapter 4, changes of Taiwan's economic structure were also discussed. As for the imports, agricultural products, fertilizer, industrial products, textile products and other daily living products accounted for around 40%~50% of the total imports. The import goods are more various than export goods. In the last section of Chapter 5, policy evolution of the two sides is also addressed. Chapter 6 is the conclusion of the tables and figures. Future perspectives are also given in this part.

<p>Using a social exchange perspective I develop a relationship typology based upon an organizational member’s psychological investments, or “side bets,” in his or her organization. This study thus examines, for the first time in the employee-organization exchange relationship (EOR) literature, the combined impact of perceptions that organizational members have with respect to their perceived social and economic investments in their organization. Specifically, outcomes of four unique EOR profiles are examined: “loyalist” (high social, high economic); “altruist” (high social, low economic); “captive” (low social, high economic); “mercenary” (low social, low economic). In a matched sample of 334 working professionals (167 employees matched with their corresponding supervisors), the hypotheses of this study are largely supported. Altruists are highest in their perceptions of organizational support, followed in descending order by the loyalists, mercenaries, and captives. Also as predicted, altruists are highest in affective commitment, followed in descending order by the loyalists, captives, and mercenaries. In terms of continuance commitment, contrary to prediction, loyalists have the highest levels of continuance commitment; however, as predicted, captives have higher levels than altruists and mercenaries. Altruists, as predicted, have the highest level of OCB, followed in descending order by loyalists, mercenaries, and captives. Finally, as predicted, mercenaries have the highest level of task performance followed in descending order by altruists, loyalists, and captives. Theoretical and practical considerations of these findings are discussed.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)