This thesis examines the nature and the extent of American economic power and influence in the 1960s in the context of the Anglo-American economic relationship. It also seeks to provide an insight into the workings of 'special relationship' between Britain and the United States in the economic realm. Finally, this examination attempts to establish the veracity of new more positive historical interpretations of the foreign policy of President Lyndon Johnson. The study argues that American economic power was not waning, as was previously suggested by some historians. It reveals that the Johnson Administration was able to use its financial assistance for sterling to extract significant concessions from the British government in its domestic economic policies. Indeed, the thesis demonstrates that the United States played a significant role in the formulation of British economic policy. The existence of transgovernmental networks between actors and agencies were instrumental in enabling the Johnson Administration to influence the policies of the British government. Moreover, this study contends that many of the most important decisions of the Labour government relating to monetary policy and the sterling exchange rate were influenced by considerations for the views of the United States. It concludes that the 'special relationship' was determined not by sentiment or shared culture, but largely by community of interest. Finally, the thesis concurs in and further develops the emerging positive revisionist interpretation of the European policy of President Johnson.

A critical component needed to maintain National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) mission will be Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) ability to build off previous space program’s lessons learned by utilizing knowledge management (KM) activities and practices. Currently, at the local level of NASA JSC, employees lack cultural enablers that can stimulate behaviors that promote knowledge management practices that within the organization. Through surveys conducted with current NASA civil servant employees, this thesis investigates current involvement and attitudes in knowledge management activities/programs and practices of NASA JSC employees at the local level. By understanding the local employee’s involvement and attitudes of knowledge management, recommendations can be made on how to create a culture change that stimulates behaviors that promote knowledge management within the local level’s of NASA JSC. / text

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Recording in her diary her last interview with Samuel Johnson, Fanny Burney relates that the Doctor spoke "with as much fire, spirit, wit, and truth of criticis and judgement, as ever yet I have heard him," and that he declared, "'Genius is nothing more than knowing the use of tools, but there must be tools for it to use.'" Throughout his literary career, Johnson had frequently pondered over the components of genius, but never before had he given it so succinct a definition. Three immediate questions come to mind. What are the tools of genius? On what materials should they be used? To what ultimate purpose should the genius work? [...]

The central topic of the thesis is the relationship between logic and the cognitive psychology of reasoning. This topic is treated in large part through a detailed examination of the recent work of P. N. Johnson-Laird, who has elaborated a widely-read and influential theory in the field. The thesis is divided into two parts, of which the first is a more general and philosophical coverage of some of the most central issues to be faced in relating psychology to logic, while the second draws upon this as introductory material for a critique of Johnson-Laird's `Mental Model' theory, particularly as it applies to syllogistic reasoning. An approach similar to Johnson-Laird's is taken to cognitive psychology, which centrally involves the notion of computation. On this view, a cognitive model presupposes an algorithm which can be seen as specifying the behaviour of a system in ideal conditions. Such behaviour is closely related to the notion of `competence' in reasoning, and this in turn is often described in terms of logic. Insofar as a logic is taken to specify the competence of reasoners in some domain, it forms a set of conditions on the 'input-output' behaviour of the system, to be accounted for by the algorithm. Cognitive models, however, must also be subjected to empirical test, and indeed are commonly built in a highly empirical manner. A strain can therefore develop between the empirical and the logical pressures on a theory of reasoning. Cognitive theories thus become entangled in a web of recently much-discussed issues concerning the rationality of human reasoners and the justification of a logic as a normative system. There has been an increased interest in the view that logic is subject to revision and development, in which there is a recognised place for the influence of psychological investigation. It is held, in this thesis, that logic and psychology are revealed by these considerations to be interdetermining in interesting ways, under the general a priori requirement that people are in an important and particular sense rational. Johnson-Laird's theory is a paradigm case of the sort of cognitive theory dealt with here. It is especially significant in view of the strong claims he makes about its relation to logic, and the role the latter plays in its justification and in its interpretation. The theory is claimed to be revealing about fundamental issues in semantics, and the nature of rationality. These claims are examined in detail, and several crucial ones refuted. Johnson- Laird's models are found to be wanting in the level of empirical support provided, and in their ability to found the considerable structure of explanation they are required to bear. They fail, most importantly, to be distinguishable from certain other kinds of models, at a level of theory where the putative differences are critical. The conclusion to be drawn is that the difficulties in this field are not yet properly appreciated. Psychological explantion requires a complexity which is hard to reconcile with the clarity and simplicity required for logical insights.

Thesis (MFA)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1989. / "Based on 'Harold's Circus' by Crockett Johnson." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-55).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007. / Thesis directed by Mary Catherine Hilkert for the Department of Theology. "July 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-200).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-201).

Thesis--Western Reserve University. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references.