The development of new robust optimization models is motivated by the need for risk-based decision making in health care operations. Surgery scheduling has attracted a great deal of attention due to its importance in health ...

The group faultline model (Lau & Murnighan, 1998, 2005) suggests that strong faultline groups, in which individuals within a group share several diversity characteristics with one another and not with other members, will ...

Notes Rose Warfield made while talking with John Warfield about the history and development of Interpretive Structural Modeling and its accompanying software. Covers the period 1970-1982 when John Warfield was employed ...

This dissertation examines the sustainability efforts of thirty-eight U.S. Army installations. In 2000, Army installations began to develop goals in order to become more environmentally sustainable. This research used ...

This research project develops new knowledge of how U.S. national security and homeland security practitioners and policymakers understand, define, and could yield value from the concept of environmental security to meet ...

By combining the case study approach with in-depth historical and political analyses, this study examined U.S. intervention in multi-ethnic Ethiopia. Most studies of U.S. intervention in Ethiopia and the Horn have exclusively ...

This dissertation examines the role of modern art as a strategic tool of national defense during an unprecedented moment in U.S. history in which the U.S. State and the private sector converged to develop an economic and ...