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Swepson, Pamela Joyce. "Guidelines for good research: either action research or science." Thesis, Griffith University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366200.
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The theoretical literature to support good research practice, either action research or science, appears to lack practical guidelines for conducting systematic inquiry, within the contingencies of a given research context. I suggest this lack is due to some misconceptions about the nature of good research. In order to re-dress this lack and to enhance the practices of both methods of inquiry, I wish to challenge what I believe to be some wrong assumptions about good research. I will base my challenge on the empirical evidence of 22 case studies of acknowledged good research in both action research and agricultural science and on the understanding of knowledge as defined by the philosophical sceptics, ie that the ideal of ‘true and certain knowledge’ is unattainable.
The assumptions about good research that I wish to challenge are:
that there is one scientific or action research method,
that prescriptive theoretical literature provides a basis for sound practice,
that research is a search for truth,
that participation is the defining feature of action research and
that action research and science are incommensurable.
On the basis of my argument that action research and science are not incommensurable, I will suggest guidelines for the practice of rigorous systematic inquiry which are relevant to both methodologies. If those guidelines are acceptable to all researchers, they can provide a basis for collaborative research between action researchers and scientists which can improve the quality of research results for clients. Such collaboration can also improve the practice of the researchers by enabling them to learn methods of systematic inquiry from each other’s processes. I will demonstrate an application of these guidelines with a case study of a collaborative and participative research project conducted by myself and an agricultural scientist colleague.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School of Cognition, Language and Special Education<br>Full Text
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Tanui, Cecilia. "Development of a good practice frameworks in forensic science research." Thesis, Tanui, Cecilia (2019) Development of a good practice frameworks in forensic science research. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2019. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/53899/.
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This paper focuses on the current best practices in the research methodology in the medical/ biomedical and biosciences disciplines and based on their recommendations and practices, developing best practice frameworks in forensic science research. Robust procedures have been identified and tested against several forensic papers that have been recently published to prove if they meet the selected criteria. The study will access the information acquired from previous forensic research papers and express the expectations of ideal forensic research, and this will lead to the development of a forensic framework that can be applied by researchers in different forensic disciplines. The idea that most of the forensic publications lack adequate scientific foundation is a critical issue that needs to be addressed to improve the validity and reliability of conclusions made in forensic science research. The 2009 National Academy of Sciences report Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward pointing out the unscientific state of various forensic subfields has a clear indication of a knowledge gap regarding the reliability of the methods used in the research process(61). The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology(62) report in 2016, has reviewed the matter and made recommendations for further progress in the challenges facing forensic science. The conclusion addresses the importance of developing forensic research culture that follows the selected procedures aimed at improving forensic science research.
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Newman, Andrew Thomas Newman. "The Emergent Good of Public Institutions." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534008861266331.
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Briggle, Adam. "The President's Council on Bioethics: Science, democracy, and the good life." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3239376.
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Deveci, Cem Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "The Good life, science and politics in three early modern Utopias." Ottawa, 1996.
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Atzili, Boaz. "Border fixity : when good fences make bad neighbors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37434.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2006.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-298).<br>Since the end of the Second World War, a norm of "border fixity" - a proscription of foreign conquest and annexation of homeland territory - has become prevalent in world politics. Such practices are no longer acceptable tools of policy. Has the international norm of border fixity made international conflict less frequent? Since research has established that territorial issues have been among the major causes of war, many observers might assume that the norm of "border fixity" has made war less common. This dissertation argues that the opposite conclusion is true as far as socio-politically weak states - states that do not possess a reasonable level of legitimate and effective governmental institutions - are involved. In a world in which it is illegitimate to change international borders by force, and in which socio-politically weak states are widespread, international conflict and instability may actually be more common. The border fixity norm, moreover, perpetuates and exacerbates the weakness of already weak states thus making a significant decrease in conflicts unlikely. This dissertation examines the question of the effects of the international norm of border fixity by studying and comparing four cases.<br>(cont.) Two cases are taken from the era prior to the establishment of the border fixity norm: Brandenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1740, and Argentina from 1810 to 1880. Two cases are taken from a world in which the norm of border fixity is present: Lebanon from 1943 to 2005, and Congo from 1960 to 2005. Despite some variations, the case studies and the comparison between them largely confirm the argument stated above: Border fixity perpetuates state weakness and, in regions in which most states are socio-politically weak, good fences often create bad neighbors.<br>by Boaz Atzili.<br>Ph.D.
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Smith, Gregory William. "If teams are so good.. : science teachers' conceptions of teams and teamwork." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/31734/1/Gregory_Smith_Thesis.pdf.
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The focus of this study is the phenomenon of teams and teamwork. Currently the Professional Standards of Queensland’s teachers state that teams are critical to teachers’ work. This study uses a phenomenographic approach to investigate science teachers’ conceptions of teams and teamwork in the science departments of fifteen Queensland State secondary schools.
The research identifies eight conceptions of teams and teamwork. The research findings suggest that the team represents a collective of science teachers bounded by the Science Department and their current timetabled subject. Collaboration was found in the study to be an activity that occurred between teachers in the same social space. The research recognises a new category of relationship between teachers, designated as ‘ask-and-receive’.
The research identifies a lack of teamwork within the science department and the school. There appears to be no teaming with other subject departments. The research findings highlight the non-supportive team and teamwork policies, procedures and structures in the schools and identify the lack of recognition of the specialised skills of science teachers.
The implications for the schools and science teachers are considerable, as the current Professional Standards of Education Queensland and the Queensland College of Teachers provide benchmarks of knowledge and practice of teams and teamwork for teachers. The research suggests that the professional standards relating to teams and teamwork cannot be achieved in the present school environment.
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Sallaway, Peter J. (Peter James). "Asymptotically good convolutional codes with feedback encoders." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42787.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-49).<br>by Peter J. Sallaway.<br>M.Eng.
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Moore, Kelly. "Doing good while doing science: The origins and consequences of public interest science organizations in America, 1945-1990." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186307.
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Over the past thirty years, public interest science organizations have had significant and varied effects on the course of several contemporary social movements, on public knowledge of science, and on policy ranging from weapons to toxic waste to recombinant DNA. This dissertation considers the origins of these organizations, and their differential ability to survive. Archival, interview, and secondary data analyses of three prominent public interest science organizations: Scientists' Institute for Public Information, Science for the People, and the Union of Concerned Scientists are used to examine these questions. This research shows that these organizations were formed by scientists in the 1950s and 1960s who found that their political commitments were increasingly at odds with scientific demands for objectivity and value-neutrality. The tension arose as a result of three factors: the liberalization of the political climate in the 1950s and 1960s, the development of political protest that charged science with being complicit making war possible and the encouragement, even demand, that Leftists find ways to join their professional and political lives. As a result, some scientists created new organizations that publicly defined scientists as socially responsible. Once created, however, these organizations faced a rapidly changing political, scientific and organizational climate that made their survival difficult. I show how early choices about goals, membership, activities, and division of labor in each group strongly shaped the differential ability of organizations to survive over time. Adaptive survival is shown to be related to the ability of an organization to engage in repeated and routinized exchanges with other individuals and groups, which is in turn dependent on choices organizations make within months of their founding. The last section of the dissertation suggests how public interest science organizations (both individually and collectively) expand the political capacities of scientists and the public, affect the practice and subject matter of science, and shaped the lives of the participants.
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Fineman, Jeremy T. "Provably good race detection that runs in parallel." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34367.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-98).<br>A multithreaded parallel program that is intended to be deterministic may exhibit nondeterminism clue to bugs called determinacy races. A key capability of race detectors is to determine whether one thread executes logically in parallel with another thread or whether the threads must operate in series. This thesis presents two algorithms, one serial and one parallel, to maintain the series-parallel (SP) relationships "on the fly" for fork-join multithreaded programs. For a fork-join program with T1 work and a critical-path length of T[infinity], the serial SP-Maintenance algorithm runs in O(T1) time. The parallel algorithm executes in the nearly optimal O(T1/P + PT[infinity]) time, when run on P processors and using an efficient scheduler. These SP-maintenance algorithms can be incorporated into race detectors to get a provably good race detector that runs in parallel. This thesis describes an efficient parallel race detector I call Nondeterminator-3. For a fork-join program T1 work, critical-path length T[infinity], and v shared memory locations, the Nondeterminator-3 runs in O(T1/P + PT[infinity] lg P + min [(T1 lg P)/P, vT[infinity] Ig P]) expected time, when run on P processors and using an efficient scheduler.<br>by Jeremy T. Fineman.<br>S.M.
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Wong, Hiong Chin. "Managing the paradox of commercialising public good research /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19030.pdf.
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Coca, Annabel. "Embodied Ethics: Difference, Politics, and the Dissolution of Good and Evil." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1290201241.
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Frost, Jennifer. "Is natural good for you? Myths, perceptions and science in advertising, marketing and the media." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21623.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This assignment explores the assumptions and perceptions – both real, and created by the media,
marketers and advertisers – surrounding the word “natural” when applied to health foods,
vitamins, home remedies and medication. It also examines the anti-science stance taken by many
promoters of such products and the appeal that stance holds for targeted consumers. In it an
attempt is made to answer the following questions: What is the source of this apparently “antiscience”
point of view? How have the media contributed to this type of sentiment? Why do socalled
“natural” products hold more appeal to consumers than their synthetic equivalents? Is
there a difference between such products? Is the difference real or perceived? Or, is it merely a
media construct? Does the popularity of these ideas indicate a growing distrust of science and
governments? What effect has the media’s portrayal of science had on peoples’ attitudes to it?
And, above all, what have the media done to advance the idea that “natural” is good for you?<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie werkstuk ondersoek die veronderstellings en persepsies – die werklike sowel as dié wat
deur die media, bemarkers en adverteerders geskep word – met betrekking tot die woord
“natuurlik” wanneer dit toegepas word op gesondheidsvoedsel, vitamiene, boererate en
medikasie. Dit bekyk ook die antiwetenskaplike houding wat baie voorstanders van sodanige
produkte inneem en die trefkrag wat dié houding op die teikenmark uitoefen. In dié studie is ’n
poging aangewend om die volgende vrae te beantwoord: Wat is die oorsprong van hierdie
klaarblyklik “antiwetenskaplike” oogpunt? Hoe het die media bygedra tot dié idee? Hoekom is
die sogenaamd “natuurlike” produkte soveel aantrekliker vir die gebruiker as hulle sintetiese
ekwivalente? Is daar ’n verskil tussen sodanige produkte? Is daar ’n werklike verskil of is dit
slegs ‘n persepsie? Of is dit bloot ’n maaksel van die media? Dui die gewildheid van hierdie
idees op ’n toenemende gebrek aan vertroue in die wetenskap en die owerhede? Watter
uitwerking het die media se voorstelling van die wetenskap op mense se houding ten opsigte
daarvan? En, veral, wat het die media gedoen ter bevordering van die idee dat “natuurlik” goed is
vir jou?
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Blake, Greyory. "Good Game." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5377.
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This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic developments must be framed within the post-Internet sphere.
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Nilsson, Claes. "Good governance in development-aid : making democracy-reforms sustainable." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Social Sciences, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3841.
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<p>February through March, 2005, I conducted a Minor Field Study (MFS) in Lao PDR together with a fellow-student. We were interested in a project in Laos called GPAR Luang Prabang, in which Sida, UNDP and the Lao Government are trying to improve the governance system in Laos. Luang Prabang is the province in the northern parts of Laos where the good governance-project were being implemented.</p><p>The main interest in this study concerns democracy aid in the shape of good governance and local ownership in development aid. Good governance is a highly debated topic in aid-literature, both because of the explosion of good governance projects the last ten or so years and because of the ambiguity that lies in the concept good governance. Different aid-actors give different meanings to good governance. Two definitions stand out: First there is the “narrow” definition that focuses on the economical steering of a country’s resources. The second, or “broad” definition of good governance, focuses on democratic aspects of the concept. Areas like participation, transparency, accountability and rule of law are high-lighted here. Different actors in the aid-society thus have different definitions of the concept.</p><p>Whether democracy aid works and becomes sustainable relies, according to the literature, on how well the partners in an aid-project can foster local ownership. Ownership means that the recipient is in control of the policy process, from highlighting a problem to implementing the solutions. The starting point in this thesis is the question whether the ambiguity in good governance- definitions constrains ownership in the policy process. Also, in democracy aid there is an interesting paradox: How can a project that aims at changing political power-structures be driven by those who have the most to gain from these structures? My study shows that when the partners in an aid-project are unable to settle for one definition of good governance, ownership is hard to reach. If the partners can not reach an agreement at an early stage in the process, ownership will suffer and sustainability will be hard to reach.February through March, 2005, I conducted a Minor Field Study (MFS) in Lao PDR together with a fellow-student. We were interested in a project in Laos called GPAR Luang Prabang, in which Sida, UNDP and the Lao Government are trying to improve the governance system in Laos. Luang Prabang is the province in the northern parts of Laos where the good governance-project were being implemented.The main interest in this study concerns democracy aid in the shape of good governance and local ownership in development aid. Good governance is a highly debated topic in aid-literature, both because of the explosion of good governance projects the last ten or so years and because of the ambiguity that lies in the concept good governance. Different aid-actors give different meanings to good governance. Two definitions stand out: First there is the “narrow” definition that focuses on the economical steering of a country’s resources. The second, or “broad” definition of good governance, focuses on democratic aspects of the concept. Areas like participation, transparency, accountability and rule of law are high-lighted here. Different actors in the aid-society thus have different definitions of the concept. Whether democracy aid works and becomes sustainable relies, according to the literature, on how well the partners in an aid-project can foster local ownership. Ownership means that the recipient is in control of the policy process, from highlighting a problem to implementing the solutions. The starting point in this thesis is the question whether the ambiguity in good governance- definitions constrains ownership in the policy process. Also, in democracy aid there is an interesting paradox: How can a project that aims at changing political power-structures be driven by those who have the most to gain from these structures? My study shows that when the partners in an aid-project are unable to settle for one definition of good governance, ownership is hard to reach. If the partners can not reach an agreement at an early stage in the process, ownership will suffer and sustainability will be hard to reach.</p>
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Tontiplaphol, Don. "Hunting for Happiness: Aristotle and the Good of Action." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11307.
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The starting point of the dissertation is a special kind of intentional action -- Aristotelian praxis, or, in a more metaphysical register, energeia -- a kind whose agent's intention in acting must be expressible as the deliverance of one's prohairesis (``deliberate choice''), action that is the embodiment of one's conception of eupraxia (``acting well''), and, equivalently, of eudaimonia (``happiness''). It is special, since not all that we intentionally do can be intelligibly expressed as the deliverance of our conceptions of acting well. Recognition of the gaps between action in general and intentional action more specifically, and between intentional action and prohairetic action, sets the stage for a reinterpretation, not only of core aspects of Aristotle's Ethics, but also of central features of Aristotle's political recommendations. The interpretation defended here centers on the claim that, for Aristotle, defective political communities are often marked, not so much by an erroneous conception of human virtue, but by defective forms of action, forms in which agents fail to apply certain concepts to what they do. Importantly, such failures do not hang on the different failure to apply concepts correctly: the failure to act prohairetically need not come to the failure to grasp the correct conception of human virtue or of human happiness.<br>Government
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Fait, Stefano. "The true, the good, and the beautiful : the dark side of humanist science : a study in the anthropology of science and social history." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14915.
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How do we systematise our knowledge without undermining mores and beliefs that have thus far guided our conduct? How do we account for free will in a cosmos made of molecules and universal laws? Is a metaphysical rebellion against the absurdity of a universe devoid of ethical significance unavoidable? Is this rebellion inevitably leading to the organization of the world in exclusively human terms? These are the problems that have been tackled among others by Dostoevskij, Kafka, Dickens, and Camus, thinkers who framed questions of paramount importance without finding persuasive answers (Davison 1997; Dodd 1992; Lary 1973). These are the same problems that many bio-scientists have grappled with in the past and I analyze the solutions they have identified. This work of mine could be seen as a follow-up to the qualitative survey carried out by Kerr, Cunningham-Burley, and Amos in 1998 among British scientists and clinicians with a well-established reputation. That investigation looked into the way the latter distance themselves from the dark shadow of eugenics and revealed that die equation of old eugenics and new genetics is deemed irrational because; scientific knowledge has grown by leaps and bounds ever since o the socio-political circumstances are radically different as coercion is unthinkable and the final decision rests with the individual who is protected by the principle of informed choice; o the aims of eugenics simply cannot be technically met; o the new genetics involves therapeutic aims as opposed to eugenics that concentrated on the alteration of the human gene pool; o the application of science is not necessarily one of scientists' main concerns; My contention is that these objections are too facile and unpersuasive. I submit that there is an obvious connection between how the existential and humanistic side of science failed to prove humanitarian, namely benevolent, compassionate and ultimately useful - the good -, the effort by several academicians to ground ethics on scientific evidence - the true -, And our incapacity to confront abnormality - the beautiful. This connection is eugenics. Eugenics is the scientific response to modern existential angst and social predicaments and is here to stay.
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Karunaratna, Tushara C. "Nondeterminator-3 : a provably good data-race detector that runs in parallel." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36790.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-49).<br>This thesis describes the implementation of a provably good data-race detector, called the Nondeterminator-3, which runs efficiently in parallel. A data race occurs in a multithreaded program when two logically parallel threads access the same location while holding no common locks and at least one of the accesses is a write. The Nondeterminator-3 checks for data races in programs coded in Cilk [3, 10], a shared-memory multithreaded programming language. A key capability of data-race detectors is in determining the series-parallel (SP) relationship between two threads. The Nondeterminator-3 is based on a provably good parallel SP-maintenance algorithm known as SP-hybrid [2]. For a program with n threads, T1 work, and critical-path length To, the SP-hybrid algorithm runs in O((T1/P + PTO) lg n) expected time when executed on P processors. A data-race detector must also maintain an access-history, which consists of, for each shared memory location, a representative subset of memory accesses to that location. The Nondeterminator-3 uses an extension of the ALL-SETS [4] access-history algorithm used by its serially running predecessor, the Nondeterminator-2. First, the ALL-SETS algorithm was extended to correctly support the inlet feature of Cilk.<br>(cont.) This extension increases the memory-access cost by only a constant factor. Then, this extended ALL-SETS algorithm was parallelized, so that it can be combined with the SP-hybrid algorithm to obtain a data-race detector. Assuming that the cost of locking the access-history can be ignored, this parallelization also inflates the memory-access cost by only a constant factor. I tested the Nondeterminator-3 on several programs to verify the accuracy of the implementation. I have also observed that the Nondeterminator-3 achieves good speed-up when run on a multiprocessor machine.<br>by Tushara C. Karunaratna.<br>M.Eng.
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Ruano, de la Haza Jonathan C. "The Good Neighbor Policy in a geopolitical context: 1934--1941." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27914.
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Since his first term, Franklin D. Roosevelt presented the Good Neighbor Policy as a remedy for past wrongs (such as military intervention) done to Latin America. After 1935, however, Roosevelt used the Good Neighbor Policy to achieve his internationalist goals in the realm of economic and military cooperation. Part I, dealing with economics, shows that the Roosevelt administration began waging economic warfare in Europe, the Far East and the Americas against the revisionist powers as early as 1934 and that the trade offensive in Latin America was part of a wider policy of economic aggression.
Part II argues that the Roosevelt administration actively sought Latin America's cooperation in military matters after 1935. As this thesis will show, the Roosevelt administration was interested in Latin America's strategic location because of its close proximity to the West African coast and as producer of strategic raw materials. Therefore, Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy sought to establish bases in Latin America to secure supply routes to Africa and to integrate Latin America's primary economy into the U.S. war economy.
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Pascarella, John Antonio. "Friendship, Politics, and the Good in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801900/.
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In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX provide A philosophic examination of friendship. While these Books initially appear to be non sequiturs in the inquiry, a closer examination of the questions raised by the preceding Books and consideration of the discussion of friendship's position between two accounts of pleasure in Books VII and X indicate friendship's central role in the Ethics. In friendship, Aristotle finds a uniquely human capacity that helps readers understand the good is distinct from pleasure by leading them to think seriously about what they can hold in common with their friends throughout their lives without changing who they are. What emerges from Aristotle's account of friendship is a nuanced portrait of human nature that recognizes the authoritative place of the intellect in human beings and how its ability to think about an end and hold its thinking in relation to that end depends upon whether it orders or is ordered by pleasures and pains. Aristotle lays the groundwork for this conclusion throughout the Ethics by gradually disclosing pleasures and pains are not caused solely by things we feel through the senses, but by reasoned arguments and ideas as well. Through this insight, we can begin to understand how Aristotle's Ethics is a work of political philosophy; to fully appreciate the significance of his approach, however, we must contrast his work with that of Thomas Hobbes, his harshest Modern critic. Unlike Aristotle, Hobbes is nearly silent on friendship in his political philosophy, and examining his political works especially Leviathan reveals the absence of friendship is part of his deliberate attempt to advance a politics founded on the moral teaching that pleasure is the good. Aristotle's political philosophy, by way of contrast, aims to preserve the good, and through friendship, he not only disentangles the good from pleasure, but shows a level of human community more suitable for preserving the good than political regimes because these communities have more natural bonds than any regime can hope to create between its citizens.
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Källeskog, Anna. "The "Good" Faces of Faith : Secularism and Counter-Narratives in Religious Peacebuilding." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-416773.
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There is an increasing interest in international relations to engage with religious actors for peacebuilding purposes. This development is an example of what is referred to as a restorative narrative, which responds to a current 'resurgence' of religion in the political sphere by prescribing the restoration of benevolent forms religion in international politics, to counteract 'dangerous' religion. This narrative reinforces secularist dichotomies of 'good' and 'bad religion', or what Elizabeth Shakman Hurd calls 'The Two Faces of Faith' (Hurd 2017, 100). As many peacebuilding efforts take place in the MENA-region, where western secularism and liberalism are often met with suspicion, this thesis aims to investigate how secularist narratives are reproduced and challenged within religious peacebuilding in the region. It does so through discourse analysis of three international and transnational organizations of 'secular' and faith-based character. The result indicates that secularist narratives still set the frames for what role religion is allowed to play in peacebuilding, but also that faith-based actors can challenge secularist narratives in several ways. Furthermore, the result shows that in international discourses, secularist or non-secularist categories are not always clear-cut, and even narratives that challenge secularism might not challenge the liberal peace paradigm at large.
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Towah, William Deiyan. "The Impact of Good Governance and Stability on Sustainable Development in Ghana." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6284.
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Previous studies have lauded Ghana's commitment to sustainable development, but corruption and violence may affect sustainable development policies and initiatives related to poverty reduction, agricultural practices, environmental protection, and human development. The purpose of this holistic, qualitative case study was to identify and describe good governance practices in Ghana and threats to sustainable development. A Marxist conceptual lens guided the thematic analysis of data collected from artifact documents, field notes, and interviews of 20 key informants from various professions and diverse perspectives who were directly involved in the governance of Ghana or implementation of policies. Three primary themes emerged: (a) the importance of active governance proactively anticipating and responding to citizen's needs through democratic processes, independent judiciary, social inclusion, and influence in Africa; (b) an effective governance formulating and implementing specific policies to advance citizens' standard of living in partnership with the private sector focused on human capital, education, health services, farms-to-market infrastructures, and revamping economic priorities; and (c) fair governance and rule of law accountable to the people. Ghana's good governance practices for sustainable development that were identified integrated some Western practices while maintaining and sustaining its own cultural norms and priorities. This may be a durable recipe for other African nations to use to effect positive social change for citizens, private institutions, and therefore, good governance, which is germane for sustainable development.
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Jones, Brianna (Brianna J. ). "Defining "good science" in today's World : a video compilation of perspectives and advice for incoming graduate students." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98599.
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Thesis: S.B. in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2015.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Although graduate science education does an excellent job training students in the technical and career aspects of science, there is too little attention paid to teaching the wisdom of "good" science that encourages riskier path-breaking work over fluff, with the highest goal of research being discovery rather than scholarly publication. In an attempt to help fill this gap, I interviewed fifteen senior life scientists over the past year. These interviews were filmed and edited into four topic videos: The Allure of Science, I-ow to Do Good Science, On Mentorship, and Where Science Is Headed. Geared towards graduate students in the life sciences, these videos are designed to start a conversation between students and their advisors on important but currently ignored aspects of doing good science.<br>by Brianna Jones.<br>S.B. in Science, Technology and Society
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Kuipers, Nicholas. "Planning Against Planning: Friedrich Hayek's Utopian Vision of The Good Society." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1399985965.
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周昭德 and Chiu-tak Chow. "The common good and the state: explorations of Thomas Hill Green's political philosophy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31215166.
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Yomafou, Adje hippolyte. "Face à l'angoisse du mal : propédeutique à une ontologie de la vie." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0098.
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Au fil de notre voyage philosophique dans l'abîme de l'être-là de l'homme, il nous a été donné de constater que l'unique réaction qui a force de vérité et capable de maîtriser l'angoisse humaine devant la manifestation du mal, c'est le réflexe de la révolte. Cette révolte en la matière est une révolte contre la vie et contre l'auteur de cette vie. L'intelligence du mal y conduit inexorablement. Mais à quel prix ? Au prix d'une interdiction formelle demandant à Dieu de ne plus prendre pied avec l'humanité. Mieux faire le deuil de Dieu afin d'affirmer son moi souverain. Ce prix n'est pas négligeable, il est vertigineux pour l'homme. Il le propulse en un au-delà de lui-même. Tout lui semble permis désormais car il est le seul maître à bord du navire cosmique. Rien ne peut l'arrêter. N'étant plus soumis au pouvoir d'un Dieu suprême créateur, il peut faire tout car il a le dernier mot sur tout. Glorieuse liberté de l'homme ! Et pourtant cette liberté, cette puissance autonomique et pharaonique de l'homme aura révélé l'autre face tragique de la révolte. Une révolte qui aura conduit au pire mal absolu : le meurtre de son semblable. La mort a donc perdu de son caractère naturel, elle n'est plus un fait naturel et biologique, mais elle est devenue un fait imposé par l'homme à l'homme. Autrement dit, dans ce combat pour l'affirmation du moi, le plus grand vainqueur, le maître du monde, le maître absolu de demain, c'est la misère du monde. L'homme s'est révolté contre Dieu parce que l'injustice subie était incompatible avec l'idée d'un Dieu tout-puissant et bon ; ce Dieu a été mis de côté voire interdit de séjour sur la terre, mais la misère demeure. À l'évidence cette misère, plus puissante que la volonté même de l'homme, ne laisse aucune issue à l'homme. L'homme ne peut donc s'en tenir à la révolte contre la vie et contre Dieu, il lui faut une révolte contre la résignation face à cette misère. Cela suppose une révolte contre le désespoir. Désespérer contre toute désespérance. Sainte lucidité. Il n'y a pas d'autre moyen pour initier la sagesse humaine à cette révolte contre le désespoir que d'y entrer résolument dans la vie. Avoir confiance en la vie c'est - non pas comme cet optimisme qui voit dans cette misère une beauté et un bien pour l'homme – avoir le courage d'aimer cette vie. Aimer la vie c'est donner sens à son existence et au monde dans lequel se déploie cette vie. Cette attitude est responsabilité. Cette responsabilité est une chance pour l'homme lui-même et pour les autres. Par responsabilité, l'homme reçoit une nature qui fait qu'il diffère des autres étants et donc capable de dire « oui » ou « non ». Autrement dit, par sa responsabilité, l'homme accorde une valeur intrinsèque à la vie et à son existence<br>Throughout our philosophical journey into the depth of the existence of the human, it was given to us to see that the only reaction which has the force of truth and capable of controlling human anguish before the manifestation of evil is the reflex of the revolt . This revolt in this area is a revolt against life and against the author of this life. The intelligence of evil lead inexorably. But at what price? At the cost of a formal prohibition, asking God not to take up with humanity. Better to grieve of God to assert its sovereign me. This price is not negligible, it is breathtaking to human. He propels one beyond himself. How ever it seems possible now because it is the only master on board the cosmic ship. Nothing can stop it. No longer subject to the power of a supreme creator God , he can do anything because he has the last word on everything. Glorious liberty of man! Yet this freedom , this autonomic and pharaonic power of human has revealed another tragic face of the revolt . A revolt that has led to the worst absolute evil : killing one's fellow man. Death has lost its natural character, it is no longer a natural biological fact , but it has become a fact imposed by man to man.In other words, in this struggle for self-assertion , the biggest winner , the master of the world , the absolute master of tomorrow is the world's misery . Man rebelled himself against God because injustice is incompatible with the idea of an all- powerful and good God. That God has been set aside or banned from the earth , but misery remains . Clearly this misery , more powerful than even the will of human , leaves no end to human. The man can not stick to revolt against life and against God , it a revolt against the resignation to the misery it needs. This implies a revolt against despair. Despair against all despair. Holly saintly. There is no other way to initiate human wisdom in this revolt against the hopelessness to enter resolutely in life. Trusting life is - not as the optimism that sees misery as beauty and good for man to have the courage to love this life. Loving life is to give meaning to his life and the world in which this life unfolds . This attitude is responsibility. This responsibility is a chance for the man himself and others . Responsibility for , the man receives a nature that makes it different from other beings and therefore able to say "yes" or "no." In other words, by his responsibility, human gives an intrinsic value to life and existence
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Rhoades, Kevin M. "Bernoulians versus Keplerians is airpower doctrine good enough for employment of space forces? /." CLICK HERE TO VIEW:, 2004. https://research.maxwell.af.mil/papers/ay2004/ari/Rhoades.pdf.
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Parrott, Deborah, and Reneé C. Lyons. "Uncommonly Good: Public Librarians and School Librarians Working Together For Common Core." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2373.
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What do public librarians and school librarians have in common? We all want to serve our patrons as well as contribute to literacy and higher reading rates within our communities. Since the adoption of Common Core Standards in many states, users have called on librarians for assistance with information, resources and knowledge relating to these standards. Public librarians and school librarians can effectively collaborate to help each other reach their goals of user satisfaction and increased reading. Join this session to discover the fundamentals of Common Core and how we can help.
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Marks, Kasey M. "Increasing student achievement in math, communication arts, and science through the implementation of the Student in Good Standing Program." Montana State University, 2012. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2012/marks/MarksK0812.pdf.
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This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of the Student In Good Standing Program (SGSP) and the use of positive incentives as an effective School Wide Improvement Program. The SGSP is a comprehensive school wide approach to motivate students in hopes that they will improve their academic standing and science education, decrease absenteeism, and reduce behavior issues in our school. The effectiveness of the program was measured by comparing the study group's pre-treatment performance during their 7th grade year to that of their 8th grade year. The results indicated that the program was not an effective school wide improvement program.
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Lester, Erin. "Early Language Learning is a Good Model for Studying Early User Interface Learning." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1067.
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To date, the self-revealing interface has been the elusive holy grail of the user interface community. This research advocates the use of early language learning as a model for early user interface learning. This model can be used to reason about how users learn through exploration, and gain ideas as to how to design the implicit, online help needed to make a user interface self-revealing. The idea for this model came from a strong analogy between user interfaces and language. This analogy is based on fundamental similarities, and strengthened both by observations in a case study, and the general user interface literature. A case study of early exploratory user interface learning was done in the hopes of finding similarities between the learning of languages and interfaces. Although the study did reveal many similarities, which support the model, what was most interesting was their differences. Most notably, motherese, an important form of supportive feedback that is universally present in language learning, was missing in the user interface learning. Motherese is a distinct speech variant that is used by experienced language users in conversing with children. It helps to guide children towards an understanding of correct behaviours through acknowledgment, repetition, and correction of their utterances. An experiment was devised to evaluate an analogous type of instruction in the bootstrap learning of a novel user interface technique. The experiment validated the instruction's ability to shorten the initial learning period and ingrain new techniques better than un-aided exploratory learning. Motherese-style instruction meets the requirements for instruction that is self-revealing, and is firmly grounded by the strong analogy between language and user interfaces. The application of it to user interface learning is online and integrated within the actual context of the application. It is also demonstrative and non-verbal, giving users implicit instruction, and therefore does not suffer from the terminology or contextual switching issues that written instruction does. <br /><br /> Although a number of questions remain to be answered about the general applicability of motherese-inspired user interface instruction, the model presented has yielded the first empirically-based idea for designing self-revealing instruction. It is anticipated that future research using this model will help researchers to reason about both self-revealing instruction and new user behaviour.
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Larson, Jennifer Mary. "The Good, the Bad and the Cunning: How Networks Make or Break Cooperation." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10171.
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Groups often find themselves in a position to self-govern: sometimes a formal governing apparatus is weak or nonexistent; sometimes the legal system is underdeveloped, heavily back-logged or inapplicable; and sometimes groups simply have a preference for informal processes. In such cases, contrary to the Hobbesian vision of a self-help nightmare, groups often fare remarkably well both cooperating internally and coexisting with other groups. Diffuse punishment institutions induce cooperation well in tight-knit groups: the theory is well-understood and empirical examples abound. In many realistic settings, though, groups are imperfectly tight-knit, especially when populations are large or sparse or when communications technology is poor (even Facebook networks with very low-cost links are incomplete). Here I relate cooperation to a group's exact structure of communication to identify the role that networks play in making or breaking cooperation. By generalizing the game-theoretic model in Fearon and Laitin (1996), I present a model flexible enough to account for the various ways that a group may be imperfectly tight-knit.<br>Government
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Chow, Chiu-tak. "The common good and the state : explorations of Thomas Hill Green's political philosophy /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19853531.
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Rusner, Marie, Gunilla Carlsson, David Brunt, and Maria Nyström. "A dependence that empowers - the meaning of the conditions that enable a good life with bipolar disorder." Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, HV, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-7112.
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The extensive suffering related to a complex life situation with bipolar disorder and the reported difference between care needs and the needs that are actually met implicates that there are still questions about management of life with bipolar disorder that need to be answered. The present study therefore aims to describe the meaning of the conditions that enable a good life with bipolar disorder. Ten persons, six women and four men, (aged 30 – 61), diagnosed with bipolar disorder were interviewed. A reflective lifeworld perspective based on phenomenological philosophy was used. The findings present the essential meaning of the conditions that enable a good life with bipolar disorder as a dependence that empowers, which is further described by its constituents: “turning the course of life”, “protecting oneself from running out of energy”, “being needed”, “being oneself through reliable others”, “personal landmarks for navigating through life”. A voluntary chosen dependence, as described in the present study, is a new approach of care that enables a good life with bipolar disorder, while enhancing own power, freedom and control. The conditions that enable a good life with bipolar disorder are more than separate supporting measures. Therefore a holistic perspective is preferable while providing care for individuals with bipolar disorder.
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Berry, Jaclyn(Jaclyn Elizabeth Hom). "The good, the bad, and the facts : multimodal representation of medical conversations for patient understanding." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123578.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019<br>Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-136).<br>Medical patients face significant challenges for managing their health information. In particular, cancer patients have a uniquely difficult experience where they must endure the physical and emotional effects of their illness while simultaneously navigating overwhelming amounts of medical information. In this thesis, I focus on the challenge of capturing, reviewing and extracting information from medical appointments for patients enduring serious health conditions such as cancer. First, I propose a novel multimodal-interface to help patients review and understand information they received from conversations with their doctors. This interface captures medical conversations as text and audio, with important positive and negative information highlighted. I conducted 25 user studies where I enacted fictional conversations between a doctor and a patient to evaluate whether this method of representing information would help patients review and understand their appointments. Results from the user studies show that the web interface serves as a useful tool for reviewing the content of the conversations, however its effect on patient understanding cannot yet be determined. Second, I propose a machine learning algorithm to automatically classify the positive and negative information in medical conversations based on analysis of the text and prosody in speech. The model with the highest performance on my dataset achieved an accuracy of 90.6% and Fl-score of 0.888. While I focus on challenges within the medical field, findings from this thesis may be relevant to emotional conversations in any setting such as sportscasting, political debates and more.<br>by Jaclyn Berry.<br>S.M.<br>S.M.<br>S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture<br>S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Varrasso, Theresea. "Hope Springs Eternal: Private Colleges, the State, and the Common Good." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1525705395518837.
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Martell, Sandra Toro. "The good field trip : how elementary students from diverse socio-economic backgrouds learn science, art, and technology at a museum /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7832.
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Burton, Leah Michelle. "Influencing Capitalist Attitudes to Drive More Capital Towards Social Good." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1627048054529815.
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Varzinczak, Ivan. "What Is a Good Domain Description? Evaluating & Revising Action Theories in Dynamic Logic." Phd thesis, Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00319220.
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Traditionally, consistency is the only criterion for the quality of a theory in logic-based approaches to reasoning about actions. This work goes beyond that and contributes to the meta-theory of actions by investigating what other properties a good domain description should satisfy. Having Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) as background, we state some meta-theoretical postulates <br />concerning this sore spot. When all postulates are satisfied, we call the action theory modular. We point out the problems that arise when the postulates about modularity are violated, and propose algorithmic checks that can help the designer of an action theory to overcome them. Besides being easier to understand and more elaboration tolerant in McCarthy's sense, modular theories<br />have interesting computational properties. Moreover, we also propose a framework for updating domain descriptions and show the importance modularity has in action theory change.
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Lofthouse, Jordan K. "How Good Intentions Backfire: Failures and Negative Consequences of Federal Environment Policies." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4746.
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For the past 50 years, Americans have turned to the federal government to solve pressing environmental problems like air and water pollution and climate change. Major environmental policies have helped improve environmental quality to varying degrees, but these policies also have resulted in negative consequences, such as high costs, inefficiency, violations of property rights, or environmental degradation. By applying public choice theory to the evolution of federal environmental policies, we can understand how negative consequences have arisen from seemingly good intentions.
Public choice theory rejects the romantic notion that government officials work solely for the public good. Legislators and bureaucrats are rationally self-interested individuals who try to make themselves better off, like all people. Because legislators are interested in reelection and maximizing their power, they respond to special interest groups and lobbyists who can benefit them. Legislators often codify special benefits for certain companies or industries within environmental legislation and choose winners and losers, regardless of the economic or environmental outcomes. Environmental policies distort markets, altering the price signals that communicate what people value and imposing higher costs on taxpayers and consumers.
Legislators often write environmental laws vaguely, giving bureaucrats wide discretion on how to implement the laws. Bureaucrats often write environmental regulations quickly and without scientific evidence or limited economic considerations, making many of the regulations costly and ineffective in many cases. The number of regulations also grows each year, raising compliance costs while the marginal benefit of these regulations continues to decline.
Major federal environmental policies have had negative consequences, but experts have debated whether these outcomes were or were not intentional. Key politicians and bureaucrats may want to keep the current flawed laws in place because either they or their friends benefit from the status quo. Regardless of the intentionality or unintentionality of these negative consequences, large-scale federal environmental policies have provided decades of evidence that even the most nobly intended laws have significant drawbacks of which the public should be aware.
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Wendland, Jay L. "The Good-For-Nothing Campaign? The Importance of Campaign Visits in Presidential Nominating Contests." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/301537.
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The question of whether or not campaigns have an impact on vote choice and mobilization has been debated by a number of scholars. In this dissertation, I explore this question using data from presidential nomination elections, as I argue this setting allows us to better understand campaign effects than the general election. Due to the intra-party nature of nomination contests, voters are not able to rely on partisanship in making their decision among candidates. Instead voters need to use some other source of information in making their decisions about 1) whether or not to vote and 2) which candidate to vote for. I explore these two decisions in depth in my dissertation, focusing mainly on the effect visits have on both. I have compiled data on both the timing and location of all of the candidate visits throughout the presidential nominating contests of 2008, across both the invisible primary and election year campaigns. Using this unique dataset, I explore the different ways in which state visits affect presidential nomination outcomes. Specifically, I investigate the strategy behind the visits, whether or not visits increase turnout, and how visits affect vote choice. By examining these different aspects of nominating campaigns, I am able to address a number of different literatures and theories, including those focused on candidate strategy, presidential nominations, political communication, and whether or not campaigns matter.
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Riemann, Reina 1975. "Good families of quantum low-density parity-check codes and a geometric framework for the amplitude-damping channel." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64585.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-70).<br>Classical low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes were first introduced by Robert Gallager in the 1960's and have reemerged as one of the most influential coding schemes. We present new families of quantum low-density parity-check error-correcting codes derived from regular tessellations of Platonic 2-manifolds and from embeddings of the Lubotzky-Phillips-Sarnak Ramanujan graphs. These families of quantum error-correcting codes answer a conjecture proposed by MacKay about the existence of good families of quantum low-density parity-check codes with nonzero rate, increasing minimum distance and a practical decoder. For both families of codes, we present a logarithmic lower bound on the shortest noncontractible cycle of the tessellations and therefore on their distance. Note that a logarithmic lower bound is the best known in the theory of regular tessellations of 2-manifolds. We show their asymptotic sparsity and non-zero rate. In addition, we show their decoding performance with simulations using belief propagation. Furthermore, we present a general geometrical model to design non-additive quantum error-correcting codes for the amplitude-damping channel. Non-additive quantum error-correcting codes are more general than stabilizer or additive quantum errorcorrecting codes, and in some cases non-additive quantum codes are more optimal. As an example, we provide an 8-qubit amplitude-damping code, which can encode 1 qubit and correct for 2 errors. This violates the quantum Hamming bound which requires that its length start at 9.<br>by Reina Riemann.<br>Ph.D.
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Johnson, Earl E. "The Adjustment of Hearing Aid Amplification Parameters for Children to Promote Good Outcomes." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1743.
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Arvola, Mattias. "Good to use! : Use quality of multi-user applications in the home." Licentiate thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, MDI - Interaction and Service Design Research Group, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5686.
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<p>Traditional models of usability are not sufficient for software in the home, since they are built with office software in mind. Previous research suggest that social issues among other things, separate software in homes from software in offices. In order to explore that further, the use qualities to design for, in software for use in face-to-face meetings at home were contrasted to such systems at offices. They were studied using a pluralistic model of <em>use quality</em> with roots in socio-cultural theory, cognitive systems engineering, and architecture. The research approach was interpretative design cases. Observations, situated interviews, and workshops were conducted at a Swedish bank, and three interactive television appliances were designed and studied in simulated home environments. It is concluded that the use qualities to design for in infotainment services on interactive television are <em>laidback interaction, togetherness</em> among users, and <em>entertainment</em>. This is quite different from bank office software that usually is characterised by not only traditional usability criteria such as learnability, flexibility, effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction, but also professional <em>face management</em> and <em>ante-use</em>. Ante-use is the events and activities that precedes the actual use that will set the ground for whether the software will have quality in use or not. Furthermore, practices for how to work with <em>use quality values, use quality objectives</em>, and <em>use quality criteria</em> in the interaction design process are suggested. Finally, future research in design of software for several co-present users is proposed.</p><br>Report code: LiU-Tek-Lic-2002:61.
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Plänitz, Erik. "EU Development Aid and Good Governance : An analysis with reference to Zimbabwe." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-3825.
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<p>The European Union is the greatest donor of the world. Until 2002, the south African country Zimbabwe was a recipient of European development aid. Due to major disagreements over key issues, such as human rights and democratic principles, theEuropean Union has partially suspended official development cooperation in 2002. Zimbabwe has not longer fulfilled the criterions of Good Governance, which isdemanded by the European Union. In order to restore the respect for human rights and ademocratic way of governance, the EU has posed sanctions and resolutions. This study provides a study of the outcomes of these repressive measures. Have the sanctions led to a better governance performance in Zimbabwe? Before the terms Governance and Good Governance will be explained into detail, the first part of the thesis is spotting out the European Union as a normative actor.</p>
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Brown, Erin-Marie Burke. "Collaboration for the common good| Examining AmeriCorps programs sponsored by institutions of higher education." Thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3666920.
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<p> The report, <i>A Crucible Moment,</i> published in 2012 by the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement described a crisis in higher education surrounding the lack of civic learning and engagement opportunities for students. This crisis has led to decreased political participation and a general lack of knowledge in civics education (National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, 2012). Educating students for citizenship in America's colleges and universities will assist with sustaining the country's democracy by engendering a sense of civic responsibility in young adults that will last throughout their lifetime. This qualitative case study examined the relationship between two institutions of higher education (IHEs) and AmeriCorps programs to determine how the partnerships operated and whether they addressed the recommendations for higher education cited in <i>A Crucible Moment. </i> </p><p> IHEs are using <i>A Crucible Moment</i> as a guiding document to think about civic learning and democratic engagement. While many are in the process of creating new initiatives and programs to address those issues, this study focuses on two existing programs that may provide a framework for strategically integrating civic engagement into higher education using a readily available government resource—AmeriCorps. With recent budget cuts impacting education, it is difficult for many IHEs to obtain additional funding to support initiatives directly related to student learning. As a result, finding resources to implement civic learning and democratic engagement opportunities that are often perceived as tangential to the education process is nearly impossible. AmeriCorps, now in its 20<sup>th</sup> year of implementation, has had a steady stream of funding and bipartisan support from the government over the years. IHEs that sponsor an AmeriCorps program have the potential to civically engage students and promote mutually beneficial community partnerships. </p><p> Using inteorganizational collaboration theory as a framework, I examined two different models of IHE-AmeriCorps partnerships. Based on the levels of collaboration, I was able to assess the degree to which these types of partnerships could be feasible at distinctly different IHEs given their organizational structure and resources. Although the findings of this research are not generalizable, they provide insights into how IHE-AmeriCorps partnerships operate and demonstrate that, in the cases examined, they do implement the key recommendations of <i> A Crucible Moment.</i> As a result, an IHE-AmeriCorps partnership could be an effective and relatively inexpensive way for an IHE to enhance their civic engagement opportunities.</p>
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Parsons, Caroline Keller. "Fighting the good fight| Ronald Reagan's moral and religious rhetoric and Soviet policy, 1981--1989." Thesis, College of Charleston, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587109.
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<p>This thesis contributes to the historiography on President Ronald Reagan, political rhetoric, U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1980s politics, and religion in foreign policy. It examines the consistency and purpose of Reagan’s religious and moral rhetoric in an attempt to gain an understanding of Reagan’s rhetoric as it pertained to his Soviet policies. It draws largely from speeches, articles, summit meetings, interviews, personal correspondences, radio broadcasts, press conferences, political insider’s memoirs, and Reagan administration documents that laid out foreign policy strategies for dealing with the Soviet Union. </p><p> I argue that throughout his two terms as president, while there was variance over time in some aspects of his rhetoric (i.e., his characterization of the Kremlin), Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric consistently pointed to religion and morality as central aspects of the Cold War and central causes of East-West tensions. He also consistently pointed to the Soviet system as the greatest moral evil facing the world, and his Soviet policies and interactions with Soviet leaders reflected his perception that religion and morality were at the heart of the Cold War and East-West relations. This thesis intends to provide a better understanding of the worldview Reagan presented in his public rhetoric and of the ways his foreign policy actions were, overall, consistent with that worldview. This study defines Reagan’s public rhetoric as a tool of persuasion that sought to reshape public and private perceptions of the East-West relationship, the Cold War, and America’s role in it. </p>
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Goldstein, Joshua D. "Hegel's idea of the good life : from virtue to freedom ; early writings and mature political philosophy /." Dordrecht : Springer, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0663/2006274020-d.html.
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Audretsch, Andreas. "Zur Entstehung von Good Governance : Gründe, Muster und Bedingungen einer afrikanischen Entwicklung ; das Beispiel Ghana." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2010. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4231/.
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Ghana ist ein Musterbeispiel dafür, dass ein Entwicklungsland den Weg zu Good Governance schaffen kann. In vielen Studien wird dem Land im afrikanischen Vergleich heute bescheinigt, hier ein Vorreiter zu sein. Dies ist Ausgangslage der vorliegenden Studie, die der Frage nachgeht „Welche Gründe, Muster und Bedingungen führen zur Entstehung von Good Governance?“. Im Zentrum der vorliegenden Studie steht, wie aus der erkenntnisleitenden Fragestellung hervorgeht, eine empirische Untersuchung zur Entstehung von Good Governance und damit ein Transformationsprozess. Dieser wird bewusst über einen sehr langen Zeitraum (über ein halbes Jahrhundert) untersucht, um auch langfristige Entwicklungen einbeziehen zu können. Die Studie wird mit Hilfe eines „Mixed-Methods-Ansatzes“ sowohl unter Rückgriff auf quantitative als auch auf qualitative Methoden durchgeführt, was sich im Rückblick als sehr ertragreich erwiesen hat. Zunächst wird die Qualität der Governance über den gesamten Zeitraum anhand von sechs Indikatoren gemessen. Danach werden qualitativ die Gründe für die Fort- und Rückschritte analysiert. Dabei lassen sich immer wieder Systematiken herausarbeiten, wie zum Beispiel zirkuläre Entwicklungen, die über viele Jahre den Weg hin zu Good Governance verhinderten, bis jeweils Ausbrüche aus den Kreisläufen geschafft werden konnten. Sowohl in der demokratischen und rechtsstaatlichen Entwicklung als auch bezogen auf die Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit öffentlichen Gütern und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung.
Auch wenn die verschiedenen Bereiche von Good Governance zunächst einzeln untersucht werden, so zeigen sich gleichzeitig deutlich die Wechselwirkungen der Komponenten. Zum Beispiel kristallisiert sich klar heraus, dass Rechtsstaatlichkeit sowohl auf die Stabilität politischer Systeme wirkt, als auch auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung. Ebenso beeinflussen diese wiederum die Korruption. Ähnliche Verknüpfungen lassen sich auch bei allen anderen Bereichen nachvollziehen. Die Entwicklung eines Landes kann also nur unter Berücksichtigung eines komplexen Governance-Systems verstanden und erklärt werden. Dabei können die Wechselwirkungen entweder konstruktiv oder destruktiv sein. Die Verflechtungen der einzelnen Bereiche werden in einem Negativ- und dann in einem Positiv-Szenario festgehalten. Diese Idealtypen-Bildung spitzt die Erkenntnisse der vorliegenden Arbeit zu und dient dem analytischen Verständnis der untersuchten Prozesse.
Die Untersuchung zeigt, wie Good Governance über das Zusammenspiel verschiedener Faktoren entstehen kann und dass es wissenschaftlich sehr ertragreich ist, Transformationsforschung auf ein komplexes Governance-System auszuweiten. Hierbei werden die vielen empirisch erarbeiteten Ergebnisse zu den einzelnen Transformationen zu komplexen, in sich greifenden Gesamtszenarien zusammengeführt. Da es bisher keine explizite Good Governance-Transformationsforschung gab, wurde hiermit ein erster Schritt in diese Richtung getan.
Es wird darüber hinaus deutlich, dass eine Transformation zu Good Governance nicht durch eine kurzfristige Veränderung der Rahmenbedingungen zu erreichen ist. Es geht um kulturelle Veränderungen, um Lernprozesse, um langfristige Entwicklungen, die in der Studie am Beispiel Ghana analysiert werden. In vielen vorangegangenen Transformationsstudien wurde diese zeitliche Komponente vernachlässigt.
Ghana hat bereits viele Schritte getan, um einen Weg in die Zukunft und zu Good Governance zu finden. Die Untersuchung dieser Schritte ist Kern der vorliegenden Arbeit. Der Weg Ghanas ist jedoch noch nicht abgeschlossen.<br>Ghana is a prime example that a developing country can forge the path towards Good Governance. According to various studies Ghana, compared to other African countries, is a front-runner in this respect. This study asks the question “what are the reasons, models and conditions which lead to Good Governance?”. At the heart of this study is an empirical analysis of the emergence of Good Governance in Ghana and the process of transformation. This process is studied over a long period of time (more than fifty years), in order to be able to judge the long-term developments as well as those in the short-term. The survey is conducted using a “Mixed Methods Approach”, both quantitative and qualitative analyses methods are used. In hindsight this approach proved to be very effective.
Initially the quality of Governance is measured over the entire period of time using six different indicators. The improvements and setbacks are then qualitatively analyzed looking for reasons for these developments. This approach uncovered certain consistent systems i.e. circular developments which, for many years, were an obstacle on the road to Good Governance until Ghana was able to break out of the cycle eventually. Democratic change took place, rule of law was improved just as the provision of the population with public goods and the economic development.
Even if the various aspects of Good Governance are studied separately at first, it becomes clear that these aspects are inter-related and influence each other. For example it has been shown, that the rule of law influences the stability of the political as well as the economic system and vice-versa. The development of a country can therefore only be understood and explained using a complex Governance-System. The interactions within this system can either be constructive or destructive. The linkages of the various fields are illustrated first in a negative and then in positive scenario which summarize the findings of this survey. At the same time they contribute to the analytic understanding of the processes analyzed.
The study clearly shows how Good Governance emerges from an interaction between different factors. It also shows that it is scientifically very rewarding to consider a complex Governance-System in transformation research. In the study many different, empirically compiled, results concerning the particular transformations are brought together in comprehensive scenarios. As there are no surveys analyzing comprehensive Good Governance-transformations, this study takes the first step in this direction.
It is clear that transformation towards Good Governance can not be achieved in a short period of time by changing the general framework. Instead, cultural change, learning processes and long-term development are what is important and these have been analyzed in this study using Ghana as an example. In many earlier studies on transformation this temporal aspect was neglected.
Ghana has taken many steps towards Good Governance and the future. The analysis of these steps is core aspect of this survey. The country, however, still has a long way to go.
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Cooper, Ronnie. "Good intentions: Expectations of benefit from technoscience innovation: genetic modification and wind energy in New Zealand." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political Sciences, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8555.
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New developments in science and technology are promoted through projections of anticipated benefit that justify research, help secure funding and institutional, political and public support, and encourage technology diffusion. This thesis explores the strategic influence of constructs of expected benefit through analysis of the claims advanced for two technology fields in New Zealand: genetic modification and wind energy. The ways benefits are framed, and the kinds of returns and outcomes that are promoted, have major implications for technoscience. Some technology pathways and applications are supported and fostered, while others are rejected or marginalised.
The “downstream” impacts and potential risks of scientific innovation have received extensive academic and policy analysis, while the benefits claimed for R&D and new technologies have largely been taken for granted. However, science and technology futures have recently been addressed in an emerging field of international scholarship – the sociology of expectations. This thesis follows technoscience trajectories back “upstream”, to better understand the work of benefit framings in legitimating and valorising innovation in two sectors in New Zealand. Understanding the dynamics of such optimistic projections is crucial for publics, interested groups, practitioners and policy-makers engaging with the challenges of contemporary technoscience.