Dissertations / Theses: 'Gonds'

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Mann, Preeti. "Implications of displacement and resettlement for the Gonds of central India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416653.

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Yadav, Smita. "Informal labour and livelihood diversification : dignity and agency among the Gonds in central India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61911/.

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In India, the efforts by the welfare state to aid the poor and improve their lives focus on formal, quantifiable, and bureaucratic policies in the form of housing, education, and employment. Yet, little is known about the less formal and experiential aspects of their lives and livelihoods. The Gonds, living in a Central Indian district of Panna in the state of Madhya Pradesh, are one group that has rarely partaken of the above welfare state policies designed to aid them, yet are surviving in the face of continuous threats to their traditional ways of forest-based livelihoods. The Gonds are an indigenous group of people, also known as adivasis, that are categorized as a scheduled tribes (STs). They lack basic literacy and possess no material assets like land. How then are Gonds creating their own forms of social welfare and economic security? Having worked on the Gonds' lives in their labouring roles as majdoors (labourers), and having understood how they experienced hardships has lead me to reflect on how they aspire to live dignified lives and exercise agency within the informal economy. A life-course perspective of Gonds' livelihood practices show that the informal economy works for Gonds because they exercise their agency in various ways, including by demanding desired wages and forms of work that are unavailable through formal welfare state schemes. The Gonds in fact experience dignity as they use the informal economy to stay debt-free, avoid starvation, and create formidable and reliable forms of care for their families. Thus, the thesis contributes to the literature on informal and precarious forms of work in India by showing, through the example of the Gonds, how even though the poor may feel vulnerable and disconnected from formal welfare schemes, they may still experience dignity through livelihood diversification and their exercise of agency and access to social capital. The thesis also presents empirical findings on labour contracts, the informal economy, and poverty.

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Langlet, David. "Prior informed consent and hazardous trade : regulating trade in hazardous goods at the intersection of sovereignty, free trade and environmental protection /." Stockholm : Juridiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7164.

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Sigmon, Matt. "Consumer Goods?" Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/44.

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The purpose of this thesis is to extrapolate through research the conceptual underpinnings of a body of artwork created by Matt Sigmon. The thesis explains the work in relation to art historical references to readymade art and the dilemmas that arise when fine art is compared to consumer commodities.

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Johnson, Grant. "Otherworldly goods." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2361.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 2002.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 32 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes sound file in the mp3 audio format. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 29).

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Fethers, A. V., and n/a. "Valuing public goods." University of Canberra. Management, 1991. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060710.105721.

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There are three broad areas of public administration that require valuation for public goods. One of these areas is concerned with value for cost benefit analysis. The concept here is quantitative, in money terms, and the purpose is to aid decision making. Planners and economists either calculate, or estimate total costs and total benefits of programs or projects as an aid to decision making. The second broad area involves justifying, or allocating public resources. Benefits bestowed by intangibles such as the arts, or questions that affect the environment are difficult to quantify as value may involve concepts the beneficiaries find difficult to identify or describe. The concept of value involves total costs, but also may involve perceptions of the community about value. Valuation costs may be calculated from the aggregate demand, but estimating demand can be difficult. The third broad area involves estimating demand for government services such as those provided by the Bureau of Statistics, and the Department of Administrative Services, as well as many others, who are being required to charge fees for services previously provided without direct charge. This development is part of the trend called corporatisation now occurring in many countries, including Australia. Economists and planners have a range of approaches available to assist them in the estimation of value, whether it be for the purpose of comparing costs with benefits, or for estimating the demand for tangible or intangible items like the arts or statistics. Surveys have been used for many years to assist a wide range of decisions by private enterprise. The use of surveys by government in Australia has been limited, but is increasing. US and European governments have used surveys to value both more and less tangible public goods since 1970. Surveys have also proved useful to assist many other decisions, including policy making, developing the means for implementing policies, monitoring and adjusting programs, and evaluation. This paper is primarily concerned with surveys. A particular type of survey, known as contingent valuation (CV), has been developed to assist the estimation of value for intangible public goods. Also discussed are other applications of surveys for government decision making, and other ways of imputing or estimating values, largely developed by economists and planners to assist cost benefit analysis. Three examples of surveys used to estimate values are discussed. These include a survey of Sydney households to help estimate the value of clean water; an Australia wide survey to help estimate the value of the arts; and a survey of Australians to help estimate the value of Coronation Hill without mining development. While the paper suggests that surveys have potential to assist a range of government decisions, examples also demonstrate the care required to obtain results that are reasonably precise and reliable.

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Nilsson, Lisa, Viktor Höjman, and Patrick Elfqvist. "Customers Sustainability Demand : A comparison between convenience goods and shopping goods." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-26813.

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In pace with a growing awareness among customers, so does the demand for sustainable products increase in various markets. Sustainability is even referred to become a mega-trend (Lubin & Esty, 2010). Although, extensive research can be found on sustainability and its three pillars; environment, social and economic, little is known whether there is a general customer demand for sustainability for any type of good. Therefore, this study’s purpose has been to compare sustainability demand for convenience goods and shopping goods, with the research question ‘Is the customer’s sustainability demand different between different types of goods? And if so, what are the differences?’ By using a deductive approach, hypotheses has been drawn by examining existing research in the fields of consumer behaviour, customer behaviour and sustainability in general but also for the food and apparel industry respectively.With a quantitative method using a questionnaire, primary data has been collected of customers’ sustainability demand within the food and the apparel industries as representatives for convenience goods and shopping goods respectively. The questionnaire was designed to capture customers’ sustainability demand based on their perceived importance of the three pillars of sustainability. A comparison between the industries resulted in significant mean answers of 3,97 for food and 3,17 for apparel, on a six-point scale. Further,a marginally equal level was demanded for the three pillars within food whereas the environmental pillar was considerably less ranked within apparel. The study further compares the sustainable attitude against sustainable behaviour. Actual buying of sustainable goods within all three pillars was shown to be lower than demand for both types of goods. Lastly, an exploratory research was conducted on the two types of goods in combination with demographic factors, resulting in indications of what factors companies should take into consideration. The final conclusion of the research question was that there is a difference in customers’ sustainability demand for different types of goods.

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Burghart, Daniel Robert. "Demand for public goods /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421618221&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-115). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Misner, Scottie, and Carol Curtis. "Package Dating of Goods." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146437.

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The dates on packages of food are guidelines to help the consumer use food at its peak quality and before spoilage occurs. This article teaches readers how to interpret the dating information on food packages.

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Interis, Matthew G. "Norms, Image, and Private Contributions to Public Goods: Implications for Public Goods Policy." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243966667.

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Hirvonen, Irene. "Gods Gone Wild : En queerteoretisk undersökning av Neil Gaimans American Gods." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för litteratursociologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-189789.

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Huang, Ce. "Directed search for differentiated goods." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40415.

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In three directed search models with horizontal differentiation, this thesis characterizes the unique symmetric equilibrium for each model and studies the welfare property of equilibrium allocations. In Chapter 2, horizontal differentiation is modeled as buyers' valuations being independent. In equilibrium, sellers use a mixed strategy with the support consisting of a countable number of prices. Equilibrium price dispersion exists and equilibrium allocation is constrained inefficient due to price dispersion. Chapter 3 extends the model in Chapter 2 by allowing different degrees of horizontal differentiation. With large degrees of horizontal differentiation, sellers use a mixed strategy qualitatively similar to the equilibrium in Chapter 2. With small degrees of differentiation, sellers use a pure strategy. Chapter 4 extends the model in Chapter 2 by allowing differentiation to be endogenous. Initially buyers are equally uncertain about the characteristics of sellers' goods and no differentiation exists. Then sellers choose prices together with the amounts of information disclosed to buyers about the characteristics of sellers' goods. Information disclosure leads to differentiation after buyers receive the information. It is shown that a seller's profit by disclosing full information is higher than that by disclosing partial information. In equilibrium both sellers disclose full information and use a pricing strategy that is identical to the equilibrium in Chapter 2.

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Staal, Klaas. "Voting, public goods and violence." [Amsterdam : Rotterdam : Thela Thesis] ; Erasmus University [Host], 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/6775.

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Roijen, D. M. van. "Grave goods of Virginia Indians." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371760.

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林錦泉 and Kam-chuen Kenneth Lam. "Forecasting revenue from dutiable goods." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3197739X.

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Marty, Fridolin Eugen. "Credence goods in regulated markets /." Berlin : dissertation.de Verlag im Internet, 2001. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.

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Yuan, Kuo-chih. "Essays on local public goods." Thesis, University of Essex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411271.

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Lam, Kam-chuen Kenneth. "Forecasting revenue from dutiable goods." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13787524.

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Jongh, Maurits de. "The primacy of public goods." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019IEPP0007.

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Cette thèse utilise le concept de bien public comme fil conducteur herméneutique permettant d’explorer la théorie et l’histoire de l’économie politique. Située à l'intersection de la philosophie politique et de l'histoire de la pensée économique moderne, cette thèse examine la question de recherche suivante: quels sont le rôle et le potentiel que peuvent avoir les biens publics pour favoriser plutôt qu’empêcher la capacité d’action individuelle et collective en politique et dans la vie sociale ? En réponse à cette question, la thèse soutient la primauté des biens publics de deux manières. Premièrement, puisque les biens publics pluriels constituent l’infrastructure essentielle de la vie sociale et des relations humaines, ils sont prioritaires par rapport aux deux autres modes, privé et commun, d’approvisionnement et de jouissance des biens. Deuxièmement, dans la mesure où ils reposent sur la coordination et la contrainte gouvernementales au sein de relations d’autorité politique inévitables et inéluctables, les biens publics priment également sur le bien commun conçu dans son acceptation moniste
This dissertation takes up the concept of public goods as a hermeneutical thread with which to explore the theory and history of political economy. Situated at the intersection between political philosophy and the history of modern economic thought, this dissertation examines the following main research question: what is the role and potential of public goods to foster rather than disable individual and collective agency in politics and social life? In response to this question, the dissertation articulates the primacy of public goods in two senses: first, since plural public goods constitute the indispensable infrastructure of social life and human relationships, they have primacy over both private and common modes of providing and enjoying goods. Second, since they rely on governmental coordination and compulsion in inescapable and ineluctable relationships of political authority, public goods also have primacy over the common good in its monist conception

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Golovatova, Alona, and Jinshan Zhou. "Optimization of Goods Incoming Process." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Ingenjörshögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20222.

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Increasing interest to optimization of goods incoming process has paralleled the rise of product diversity and advanced warehouse management based on logistics support systems. Nowadays, companies are universally faced with the requirements to reengineer their business processes starting with goods incoming operation, aiming to significantly reduce total operating costs and quickly respond to ultimate consumer. Previous academic research has provided many alternatives to attain the expected results. Nevertheless, an enormous gap still exists between theoretical research and practical operations. The purpose of this paper is to bridge this gap from operation level.We introduced a theoretical framework which was organized around earlier studies, latest findings and established literatures associated with overview of goods incoming process, flows management, seven wastes, logistics support systems etc. Meanwhile, an online fashion retailer, Nelly.com goods incoming process has been mapped from goods receiving, packing and sorting, warehousing to data input. As a result, intermittent material flows and information flows has been realized. Later on, a sensitivity analysis was performed to observe all wastes in the process through precise timing of each detailed activity. As the weaknesses and opportunities have been identified within Nelly’s goods incoming process, some heuristic solutions were proposed in the paper.Generally, flows should be smoothed and accelerated, particularly material flows and information flows related with goods incoming process. The interruption and miscommunication should be avoided to streamline the whole operation. Whilst, we inferred that all wastes within every sub-process have to be aware of. Consequently, some techniques such as scheduled delivery, cross-docking, goods classification, improved logistics support systems were proposed to eliminate wastes. Further on, the prevailed business process reengineering should be conducted as the next step to reallocate some resources or operations.Lastly, we simulated an expected goods incoming process based on Nelly’s status quo and heuristic suggestions. And some future research issues have been presented at the end to extend the vision to relevant domains.

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Tang, Tina Y. "Strategies to Grow Network Goods." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:25752960.

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A network good is a product or service which becomes inherently more valuable as its adoption increases. The mechanism driving this value varies by context: for example, a software ecosystem produces more software as the “installed base” of its consumers and developers grows; the quality of content improves as a information aggregator collects information from more users; and the liquidity of an exchange-traded product increases as more investors trade the product. I begin my thesis with a puzzle: why are new network goods more likely to succeed in some markets than others? I show, both via a formal model and empirical analyses, that the likelihood of a network good's success depends on structural features of the innovation and its market. Tailoring entry and growth strategies to fit these features present new opportunities for established firms and entrepreneurs.

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Jevinger, Åse. "Intelligent Goods : Characteristics and Architectures." Licentiate thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00537.

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The transports of goods are continuously increasing in many regions, for instance within Europe. Often goods travel through many different countries, using several transport modes and involving a number of different actors. As a result, the traffic load on the transport network is increasing, on the roads in particular, and the logistics chains become more and more complex. Implementing some level of intelligence on the goods, which provide them with the capabilities to assist in the logistical activities, is one of the instruments that can be used to make transports and the handling of goods more efficient and controllable. The concept of intelligent goods both opens up for new types of services and may be used to improve currently available services. Our research is mainly focused on the characteristics and possible architectures of intelligent goods systems. In this context, an intelligent goods system refers to a number of interacting components (on-board units (OBU), back-office, RFID tags, etc.), including intelligent goods, which together provide services. The architecture studies are focused on which information and data processing are needed, where they should be stored and which communication links are required. By identifying architectures corresponding to different service solutions, intelligent goods can be valued against other types of solutions, for instance more centralized configurations. In particular, different situations and services put different requirements on a system and the benefits of using intelligent goods vary. We present a framework which can be used to describe intelligent goods systems, including the capabilities of the goods, necessary information entities related to the goods as well as the surrounding entities, primitive functions and the environment around the goods. Additionally, we identify a number of primitive, potential intelligent goods level services which can be used as building blocks when creating more advanced intelligent goods services. The functional and information requirements of these services are also investigated. Based on these findings, a new approach for how to identify and evaluate different architectural solutions for potential intelligent goods services is suggested. Furthermore, a new service description framework is proposed, which can be used to, amongst others, define a service and to perform composition/decomposition analyses. Finally, an investigation of how agent technology can be used to model intelligent goods systems is also presented.

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Tse, Tsz Kwan. "Strategy Analysis of Infinitely Repeated Public Goods Game and Infinitely Repeated Transboundary Public Goods Game." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/245306.

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付記する学位プログラム名: グローバル生存学大学院連携プログラム
Kyoto University (京都大学)
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新制・課程博士
博士(経済学)
甲第22111号
経博第604号
新制||経||291(附属図書館)
京都大学大学院経済学研究科経済学専攻
(主査)教授依田高典, 教授岡敏弘, 講師五十川大也
学位規則第4条第1項該当

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Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto. "Food of the Gods." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26715.

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The thesis is a short novel, Food of the Gods, followed by a critical afterward and bibliography.
In Food, four graduate students, all to varying degrees perverse, come together in a cabalistic union. Bored and desperate, they begin to transgress a series of taboos, eventually performing communal acts of aggression, murder, and even cannibalism. Frank West, one of the students, is the novel's narrator and questionable moral center. It is through his confession that the four's "monstrous deeds" are filtered through.
Thematically, Food examines the potential for evil in individuals, as well as the group dynamics which encourage such acts of violence to erupt.
The required critical afterward looks at cannibalism as a literary trope in Food and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, discussing how the athropophagous act can be read as a symbolic one, simultaneously creating and destroying boundaries between various dichotomies (such as eater/eaten or self/other) related to notions of identity.

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Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto. "Food of the Gods." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29522.pdf.

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Kowalzig, Barbara. "Singing for the gods." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270429.

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Foka, Anna. "Gods, Humans and Beasts." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507186.

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Grubbs, Cortney Michelle. "Where the Gods live." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004781.

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Bourgeois, Michel 1954. "The carriage of goods in space /." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65371.

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Frot, Emmanuel. "Cultural transmission, public goods, and institutions." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1975/.

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This thesis discusses the consequences of different institutional forms in various settings, with a particular focus on the interactions between institutions, cultural transmission, and public goods. Chapter 1 introduces the main ideas, motivation, and results of the subsequent chapters. It provides a detailed summary of the thesis. Chapter 2 considers how institutions that modify behaviors affect the transmission of cultural traits. It argues that they create an environment that crowds out the behavior they were trying to promote. When applied to a model of public good provisions it illustrates how institutions that reduce free riding may decrease the level of public good in the long run. Chapter 3 extends this framework to make institutions endogenous. Individuals vote for their preferred institutional arrangement and the outcome is determined by majority voting. The crowding out of behaviors imply that agents have an incentive to affect strategically the transmission of preferences through collective socialization. Institutions can induce the formation of additional institutions such as schools in order to guarantee their sustainability. Chapter 4 considers that children acquire preferences through the choice of friends in the population, and that parents try to influence this choice. It shows how this creates a game between parents where their efforts to socialize their children to a particular cultural trait constitutes a public good. It studies the consequences for cultural groups of being intolerant and how they can survive cultural transmission. Chapter 5 uses the important example of commons as an institutional failure. It examines the case for privatization in an environment with different resources that may not be all privatized. It shows that labor reallocation reduces the gains of privatization, potentially to the point of reducing welfare. First best institutions may fail in a second best environment.

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Price, Shannon Marie. "Using tontines to finance public goods." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/234.

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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Eilat, Assaf. "Packaging of services with base goods /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Crawford, Alan. "Dynamic demand estimation for storable goods." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10050094/.

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The market for storable goods is worth more than £1 trillion and accounts for a large portion of household grocery expenditures. Their defining characteristics are that they can be stored for future consumption and are often sold using promotions. Both create inter-temporal links in consumer demand. Measuring both intra and inter-temporal substitution patterns is therefore central to understanding consumer behaviour for this large class of industries. Quantification of substitution patterns is made more challenging because choice sets facing consumers tend to be large (i.e. 100 products). Therefore, demand is inherently dynamic and high-dimensional. As a result, dynamic demand models suffer from the curse of dimensionality and are computationally intensive to estimate and solve. In this thesis I develop two complementary approaches to the estimation of demand models for storable goods that incorporate demand dynamics and apply them to the UK laundry detergent industry. The first is a computationally light approach that can be easily implemented within a policy making timeframe and only requires data routinely collected in antitrust investigations. It shows how accounting margins can be combined with a static demand model to estimate a set of price elasticities that are consistent with dynamic demand responses to price changes. I show how these can be input into empirical tools used by firms and policy makers. The second paper develops a high-dimensional dynamic discrete-continuous demand model for storable fast moving consumer goods. Assumptions of existing dynamic demand models are relaxed while retaining computational tractability. As a result, the model captures rich inter- and intra-temporal substitution patterns, allows for a detailed understanding of dynamic consumer behaviour, and provides a framework with wide applicability. To estimate and solve the dynamic demand model, I use techniques from approximate dynamic programming, large-scale dynamic programming in economics, machine learning, and statistical computing.

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Pirazadeh, Nima, and Laleh Pirazadeh. "RFID based Smart goods and infrastructure." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Ingenjörshögskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19649.

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This report mainly focuses on RFID based smart goods and their effect on supply chainintelligence and local decision making. In today’s supply chain for making any decision, it isrequired to make a connection to central data bank system. Among some vertical transactionsbetween a special supply chain level and central part, decision is made. As it will be discussedin the report this structure has many disadvantages. The report tries to introduce a smartinfrastructure that is based on decentralized decision making enabled with smart goods.In this report several ways of distributing intelligence and providing smart logistic system withthe help of different technologies will be discussed and compared according to theiradvantages and disadvantages. The report introduces a smart infrastructure containing smartgoods, RFID tags and readers that supports local decision making idea and intelligencedistribution concept. Also smart freight benefits and possibilities in supply chain are discussedin the report.

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Bartels, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Murphy). "Strategic goods provision in Hezbollah's resistance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62466.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2010.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-42).
The provision of goods and services is thought to be a key way that groups are able to gain political power. However, current work has offered a highly fragmentary view of what specific gains can be made with what type of goods provision, and what potential interaction between strategies might exist. This paper integrates key rational actor and electoral models, and tests the resulting predictions against empirical data on Hezbollah's provision of goods and services. Two basic types of models link success in violent contestation to the provision of goods to a restricted community and success in electoral contestation to provision of broadly accessible goods and services. However, across several major types of goods and services Hezbollah consistently provided easily accessible good far before they considered participating in elections, provided more accessible goods relative to restricted goods then can be explained by the importance of electoral and violent contestation, and expanded or contracted the scope of provision at points in time that do not correspond to strategic shifts. As an alternative, I suggest that goods may be geographically rather than temporally strategic, a need to create compliance among the population, and the need to create a sense of agency within the Shia population to increase proactive support for the resistance may be greater drivers of goods provision then has been explored.
by Elizabeth M. Bartels.
S.M.

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Cipriano, Pedro Miguel Ribeiro. "Numerical simulations of public goods games." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2656.

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Mestrado em Física
Foram simulados numericamente jogos de recursos públicos em redes usando algoritmo de Monte Carlo. Foram usadas redes regulares unidimensionais em anel, redes regulares bidimensionais (rede quadrada) e redes scale-free. São apresentados os métodos seguidos, a teoria e os algoritmos usados. Estes jogos apresentam uma transição de fase entre uma fase dominada por oportunistas de uma fase dominada por cooperadores em função de um parâmetro de rendimento das contribuições. Foi encontrado um intervalo, dependente do número médio de vizinhos, para o qual a fracção de configurações sobreviventes tende para 1 quando o tamanho da rede aumenta. Foi também encontrada uma dependência no valor de parâmetro crítico de transição no número médio de vizinhos para as configurações sobreviventes. Esses efeitos foram observados em todos os tipos de rede estudados neste trabalho. ABSTRACT: Public goods games were numerically simulated in networks using Monte Carlo Algorithm. Regular one-dimensional ring networks, regular two-dimensional lattice networks and scale-free networks had been used. The methods followed, the theory and the algorithms used are presented. This games have a phase transition between one phase dominated by defectors from one dominated by cooperators in function of the value of efficiency from the contributions. It was found an interval, dependent on the average number of neighbors, where the fraction of surviving configurations tens to 1 when the size of the network increases. It was found dependence in the critical value of transition value with the average number of neighbors. Both effects were observed in all types of networks studied in this work.

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Serventi, Luca. "Development of saponin-rich baked goods." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299264786.

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Taylor, Isaac. "Distributive justice and global public goods." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e392d33e-bb7c-44f5-9a63-c9bd154d36c5.

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Public goods are goods that are non-rival and non-excludable. One person enjoying the benefits of a public good will not reduce the value of the good for others. And nobody within a particular population can be excluded from enjoying those benefits. While we often think of the relevant population being co-citizens of a state - national defence is taken to be the archetypal public good - in recent years the importance of public goods that benefit individuals across different countries has increasingly been recognised. We can refer to these as "global public goods". When global public goods are supplied, various costs and benefits are generated, and these costs and benefits can be shared among countries in different ways. This thesis explores how justice requires us to share them; I develop a theory of distributive justice for global public goods. I begin by developing two principles for assigning the costs and benefits of supplying public goods within a state, and then argue that these should, for the most part, also govern the distribution of costs and benefits arising from global public good production. Finally, I assess how certain private goods that the supply of public goods make possible should be shared among states. The fact that these goods rely for their production on the supply of global public goods, I argue, will affect the principles of distributive justice that should govern these.

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Flodman, Mikael. "Building a Sporting Goods Recommendation System." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-169711.

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This thesis report describes an attempt to build a recommender system for recommending sporting goods in an e-commerce setting, using the customer purchase history as the input dataset. Two input datasets were considered, the item purchases dataset and the item-category dataset. Both the datasets are implicit, that is not explicitly rated by the customer. The data is also very sparse that very few users have purchased more than a handful of the items featured in the dataset. The report describes a method for dealing with both the implicit datasets as well as addressing the problem of sparsity. The report introduces SVD (Single Value Decomposition) with matrix factorization as a implementation for recommendation systems. Specifically implementations in the Apache Mahout machine learning framework.
Denna rapport beskriver ett tillvägagångssätt för att med kundernas köphistorik bygga ett rekommendationssystem för rekommendation av sportprodukter på en e-handelsplats. Två olika datamängder behandlas, köphistorik per produkt och kund, samt köpfrekvensen per produktkategori per kund i köphistoriken. Båda är implicita datamängder, vilket betyder att kunderna inte har explicit uttryckt en åsikt för eller emot produkten, utan implicit uttrycker preferens genom sitt köp. Datan är även mycket gles, vilket betyder att den enskilda kunden generellt bara köpt en liten del av den totala mängden av sålda varor. Rapporten behandlar en metod som behandlar både den implicita karaktären av data och gleshets problemet. Rapporten introducerar SVD (Single Value Decomposition) med matrisfaktorisering som en metod för att implementera rekommendationssystem. Specifikt implementerat med hjälp av maskininlärningsbiblioteket Apache Mahout.

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Menon, Ajay. "An Exploratory Examination of the Profitability Impact of Quality Dimensions for Consumer Goods and Industrial Capital Goods." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332691/.

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The issue of dimensions of quality has received very little attention in the marketing literature. This dissertation studies the impact selected individual dimensions of quality has on firm performance. The study examined the relation between product, service and image based dimensions of quality and firm performance. The performance measure utilized in this study was a firm's return on investment (ROI). Sample for the study included Strategic Business Units (SBUs) involved in the manufacture of consumer goods and industrial capital goods. A theoretical framework that details performance effects of selected variables was developed. Drawing upon previous research in Marketing, Management, Economics, and Strategic Planning, propositions and hypotheses were developed. The data required to test the hypotheses was obtained from the PIMS data base of the Strategic Planning Institute. Several GLM procedures including ANOVA, ANCOVA, and Multiple Comparison tests, such as SNK, Tukey and Bonferroni, were employed to test the various operational hypothesis. The results show that product and image based dimensions of quality impact RoT differentially for consumer goods and industrial capital goods. The extent of the difference depends on the order of market entry and the product's stage in the product life cycle. On the other hand, service based dimensions of quality did not impact ROI differentially for pioneers and non-pioneers. Similar results was found across stages of the product life cycle.

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No, Keesung. "Pricing and output of congestible public goods by the elected government and public bureaus." Connect to resource, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261421147.

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Malanitchev, Serguei. "East-West investment goods trade and the role of Western investment goods in the Eastern economies 1980-1987 /." Genève : Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371610527.

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Jessop, Maia Kerr. "Unwrapping gods: encounters with gods and missionaries in Tahiti and the Austral Islands 1797-1830." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490367.

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The notion of tapu in eighteenth century Polynesia was all-pervasive: a system of fluid boundaries and thresholds in the landscape pertaining to islands, bodies and objects. The thesis aims to isolate a body of Austral god images from within the London Missionary Society collection and think through this corpus in terms of its materiality - complex assemblages of whalebone and ivory, wood, feathers, hair, tapa and sinnet bindings. Approaching these god images as tapu vessels which trap potency and confer mana, an analysis oftheir assembly and use by ritual' experts or tahu 'a, allows us to explore the way in which they were specifically designed to breach thresholds during ritual procedure. The collection is also significant as amaterial index of the dramatic sociopolitical and cultural shifts which followed the establishment of the London Missionary Society in the region. Critical analysis of missionary sources within the archive allows us to recover aspects of the complex encounters between islanders and missionaries which were often fraught, tense and certainly volatile. Details ofthe acquisition of these god images by London missionaries in the first two decades ofthe nineteenth century allows us to reconfigure the parameters of a series of accepted assumptions about idolatry and iconoclasm in central Polynesia and contests the notion that the conversion of the Austral Islands in particular was a straightforward transition to Christianity. Having established a set ofhistorical and contemporary frameworks for understanding these objects, the thesis finally explores the series of distinct thresholds through which these objects have moved since they were collected and sent to England and thinks about how contemporary display can be used as a critical means of recovery. In this way objects, their histories and display become a means ofre-addressing the missionary encounter in all its rich complexity allowing us to re-assess its resonance for Polynesians and Europeans today.

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Cha, Inkyung. "Essays on the provision of public goods." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/199.

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In Chapter 2, we present a model that allows us to study the effect of increased competition among charities for donations, and show that it will result in a lower provision of public goods. When charities get donations, they must pay two fundraising costs: a travel cost and an extra cost, a "premium" in our terminology. This premium arises from the extra time, effort, or incentives a charity must provide to garner a contribution from a donor who is solicited by other charities. Increased competition raises this premium, which leads to deadweight loss, so that revenue net of fundraising costs falls after a new firm enters into the market. A problem with public goods markets is asymmetric information between charities and donors, such that donors do not know which charities will cheat. In Chapter 3, we show that honest charities can get more donations than dishonest charities by investing in a capital stock. We study a two-period model under two assumptions, one where first-period investment does not affect the provision of public goods in the second period, and one where first-period investment does affect the provision of public goods in the second period. In the first case, we prove the existence of a separating equilibrium where honest charities make an investment and dishonest charities invest nothing. Thus, donors will donate more to charities that make investments, even if the investment is not used to produce public goods. In the second case, honest charities may invest the efficient amount, overinvest, or underinvest, depending on the donors' beliefs. In Chapter 4, we borrow parts of the models in the previous two chapters in order to see what effect the signaling cost has on the number of firms and average revenue. In our model, donor utility increases when they give to a charity that matches their ideology. We are interested in the long-run equilibrium, so unlike in Chapter 2, we assume there is free entry in the market. The two important results are that the number of firms decreases and average revenue increases if the required signaling cost increases.

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Nordström, Anna. "Damaged Goods : Med fokus på emotionell kommunikation." Thesis, Konstfack, Ädellab/Metallformgivning, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3349.

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How can the object based art help us, as viewers and as makers, to access a supplanted emotional state? One way of positioning yourself within the corpus-field is to step outside the traditional borders of the field and aim for other values within the objects, such as a visible working process, a storytelling or an emotional relationship to the object. It is a way of taking a step from the traditional silversmithing towards some kind of free undefined corpus-art. To reach for suppressed feelings is one way to find an importance within the artistic work, to give it a purpose. By investigating the concept of the sublime and the surrealist movement I try to find examples on how you, both as a viewer and as a maker, can put yourself in an emotional/intuitive state. Through interviews with Jewellery and corpus artists I get a maker’s perspective which I compare with my own reactions to their work. Works of art can be used as a catalyst to reach, and maybe also to process, unattended feelings. This creates a strong emotional connection to the work. As a maker you can, for example, do this by working with it as a theme, or by using an intuitive working method. But also as a viewer you can be triggered to expose these feelings. Although, it must be said, that the viewer’s experience of artwork is always subjective. I see the focus of emotional communication as a way of verifying the importance of artistic work within the corpus-field.

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Andersen, Lars. "Stowage of goods in international Maritime transport." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22689.

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The paper presents and discusses the carrier's stowage duties under the Hague and Hague/Visby Rules and contrasts them with similar duties created in the Hamburg Rules. Particular attention is paid to stowage responsibilities in relation to the carriage of dangerous goods. A subsidiary examination considers the extent to which international stowage regulations adopted to protect safety and the environment may affect what constitutes proper stowage under the contract of carriage.

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Schläpfer, Felix. "The contingent valuation of public goods revisited /." Zürich, 2007. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?sys=000253366.

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Tätting, Gandalf. "Prototypes of Consumer Goods in Transition Societies." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Department of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-8753.

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The aim of this study was to find a connection between changes in societies and changes in semantic prototypes by examining the prototypes of ‘fruit’ and ‘car’ among Slovenes that reached adulthood in Yugoslavia and Slovenes that that reached adulthood in the Republic of Slovenia and to compare those results with a control group of native English speakers. The results of the study suggests that in some aspects, the prototypes of ‘fruit’ and ‘car’ amongyounger Slovenes have moved closer to what they are in cultures that have a long history of capitalism and consumerism. The opinions about how good an example of a ‘fruit’ a banana is, is the best example of this. Younger Slovenes and the control group see it as a very good example, while older Slovenes rated it lower. The older Slovenes were also slightly more accepting of a very small car model being a good example of a ‘car’, than both younger Slovenes and the control group were.

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Bekkali, Mukhtar Askaruli. "The economics of protection of cultural goods." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2006.

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Kluge, Philipp Nikolaus [Verfasser]. "Marketing Luxury Goods Online / Philipp Nikolaus Kluge." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1140368125/34.

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