i iii Acknowledgment My deepest gratitude goes to my advisor, Ira Gessel, without whom this work would not be possible; I would like to thank him for his generosity in sharing his insight and time with me, and his constant patience and encouragement. It was and will always be my pleasure to work with him.

Why did Finland experience in 1991-93 the deepest recession observed in an industrialized country since the 1930s? Using a dynamic general equilibrium model with labor frictions, we argue that the collapse of the Soviet-Finnish trade was a major contributor to the contraction. Finland’s experience mirrors that of the transition economies of Eastern Europe, which suffered similar deep recessions...

Functional connectivity and responses to chemoreceptor stimulation of medullary ventrolateral respiratory column neurons" (2010). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. love and encouragement have successfully guided me along life's path. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my mentors, Dr. their patience and support in the completion of this research. I am extremely gra...

Three investigative realms with widely divergent methodologies arrive at uncannily similar conclusions about the vital role of positive affective phenomena in optimal adaptation, resilience, affect regulation, cardiac health, and subjective well-being: research on resilience and human flourishing; Indo-Tibetan practices and the emergent yogic sciences; and the practice of AEDP (Accelerated Expe...

for their love and support. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my advisor Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote for his guidance and support during the course of this thesis research. Without his trust, encouragement, and patience, I would be unable to finish this thesis. I extend my deep appreciation to Dr. advanced knowledge of dynamics and vibrations, which was very helpful...

Due to huge amount of investment and collective efforts to implement and run ERP system , the primary question to ERP systems business value has been a key concern. The present case study reports the effect of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and its impact on the performance of organization. The SAP-LAP has been employed to better understanding of the integration of the system. The single in...

Acknowledgement I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the thesis. My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to my beloved family and my relatives by marriage for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. Without their constant support and encouragement, this thesis could not have succeeded. Second, I would like to express...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to take this opportunity to thank my Mother who has been most supportive and has been my source of inspiration whenever I needed direction. I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Iyengar for his invaluable guidance throughout my Ph.D. studies at LSU. I learnt the importance of honesty, integrity, creativity, critical-thinking, and hard work as a researcher throug...

“Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.” — Niels Bohr, 1923 “There must be quite definite and clear grounds, why you repeatedly declare that one must interpret observations classically, which lie absolutely in their essence. . . . It must belong to your deepest conviction—and I cannot understand on what you b...

Mexico has undergone a dramatic market liberalization since facing major debt problems in the early 1980s. The restructuring has coincided with a decline in unionization and, surprisingly, a steady increase after 1989 in the union-nonunion wage gap. I conduct an analysis using cross-sectional data from 1984 to 1998 to show that these trends are attributable to unions rather than changes in the ...