ABSTRACT Previous research related to board gender diversity typically focuses on international settings outside of the U.S. In this study, we examine influence boards, executives, and other stakeholders in appointing a female director candidate board, which is voluntary regime dominated by male candidates. Following institutional theory, social identity resource dependence find that investors ...

Scholarship on Alberta's Sexual Sterilization Act (1928-1972) has focused on the high-level politics behind the legislation, its main administrative body, the Eugenics Board, and its legal legacy, overlooking the largely female-dominated professions that were responsible for operating the program outside of the provincial mental health institutions. This paper investigates the relationship betw...

Director’s Message Two years ago, the donor of my chair, Jeffrey Henley, the chairman of the Oracle Corp., sprung the idea that UCSB ought to create an institute for macroeconomics. Our Chancellor, Henry Yang, liked the idea and has supported its creation financially and in other ways. The Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance (LAEF) was established in July 2005. As you’ll see in this ...

background:  despite the introduction of different techniques for meniscal repair, no single procedure is superior in all situations. the new method for meniscal repair named “ modified outside-in technique ” aims to achieve higher primary fixation strength by an alternative suture technique as well as avoid disadvantages of outside-in, inside-out, and all-inside suture procedures. additionally...

We appreciate the helpful commerrts and suggestions of Janic» Beyer, Daniei Brass. Linda Johanson, E)awd Kang, Timothy Pollock, Wiiiiam Swann. D ^ n e Taras, Edward Zajac, and three arronymous ASQ reviewers. We atso thank /^na Maria Peredo and Douglas Vickerson for their lebrary research support. This study examines how the influence of directors who are demographic minorities on corporate boar...

A joint Board of Research for mental disease was recently formed in connection with the city and the University of Birmingham. The chairman is Sir Gilbert Barling, Bart. (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham), and the hon. director, Sir Frederick W. Mott. The co-operation of mental hospital authorities in the Midlands is sought, and a circular has been issued explaining the scheme. T...

I am happy to supervise projects in any area of combinatorics or algebra. This document gives some possible subjects. Most could be adapted to be suitable as either a 3rd year, 4th year or MSc project. Combinatorial game theory. In the game of Domineering the two players are called Horizontal and Vertical. In each turn, Vertical places a domino vertically on the board, and then Horizontal place...

A goal of our profession has been to create a discipline– specific doctoral degree in dental hygiene. Currently there are several dental hygienists with doctoral degrees, many of whom contribute to the JDH Editorial Review Board. However, each of these dental hygienists has been forced to obtain a doctoral degree outside of the dental hygiene discipline because there was simply no other option....

The German research satellite CHAMP, launched on July 15, 2000, features two tracking systems: a GPS Black Jack flight receiver and a Laser Retro Reflector (LRR). For operating the ground station network of the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) orbit predictions are needed. In order to meet the accuracy requirements of the SLR technique orbit predictions for CHAMP are generated at 12-h...