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Journal articles on the topic "Instrumental values"
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Chesher, Andrew. "Instrumental values." Journal of Econometrics 139, no. 1 (July 2007): 15–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2006.06.003.
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See, Sin Ching, Shaikh Fairul Edros Ahmad Shaikh, Wanggi Jaung, and L. Roman Carrasco. "Are relational values different in practice to instrumental values?" Ecosystem Services 44 (August 2020): 101132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101132.
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Abraham, Rebecca. "Instrumental values: a five‐nation comparative study." Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal 5, no. 1/2 (March 1998): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13527609810796862.
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Ostlund, Sean B., and Bernard W. Balleine. "The disunity of Pavlovian and instrumental values." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31, no. 4 (July 29, 2008): 456–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x08004925.
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AbstractA central theme of the unified framework for addiction advanced by Redish et al. is that there exists a common value or incentive process controlling Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning. Here we briefly review evidence from a variety of sources demonstrating that these incentive processes are in fact independent. Clearly the influence of Pavlovian predictors and goal values on choice offer distinct potential targets for pathologies of decision-making.
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Goldreich, Oded. "On intellectual and instrumental values in science." ACM SIGACT News 43, no. 2 (June 11, 2012): 45–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2261417.2261431.
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Tuulik, Krista, Tauno Õunapuu, Karin Kuimet, and Eneken Titov. "Rokeach’s instrumental and terminal values as descriptors of modern organisation values." International Journal of Organizational Leadership 5, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.33844/ijol.2016.60252.
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Kwok, Cathy, Jessica R. Grisham, and Melissa M. Norberg. "Object attachment: Humanness increases sentimental and instrumental values." Journal of Behavioral Addictions 7, no. 4 (December 2018): 1132–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.98.
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Smith, Ralph A. "The Harvard REAP Study: Inherent “versus” Instrumental Values." Arts Education Policy Review 102, no. 5 (May 2001): 11–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10632910109600010.
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Huo, Meng-Long, and Peter Boxall. "Instrumental work values and responses to HR practices." Personnel Review 47, no. 1 (February 5, 2018): 60–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-01-2017-0015.
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Purpose Grounded in the theory of person-organisation fit, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which instrumental work values influence the relationship between HR practices and employee well-being (measured by job satisfaction) in a sample of Chinese workers. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaire data for this cross-sectional, quantitative study were collected from 371 front-line workers in a Chinese manufacturer. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses. Findings The results show that work instrumentalism significantly reduces the positive effect of training on job satisfaction while boosting the positive effect of remuneration on job satisfaction. In contrast, there is no evidence for an interaction between instrumentalism and employee involvement. Practical implications The results imply that the degree to which HR practices are effective in promoting job satisfaction among these Chinese workers depends both on their work-value orientations and on the implications of the particular HR practice. Managers concerned about job satisfaction in China need to consider the impact of work values and the goals of particular HR practices. Originality/value China makes an enormously important contribution to world manufacturing output but the authors need a better understanding of how Chinese workers are likely to interpret and respond to HR practices if employee well-being in Chinese enterprises is to be fostered.
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Martin, Emeline, and Sonia Capelli. "Place brand communities: from terminal to instrumental values." Journal of Product & Brand Management 27, no. 7 (November 19, 2018): 793–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpbm-10-2017-1654.
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Purpose This study aims to understand the values around which stakeholders of a place brand within a community can align. Design/methodology/approach A content analysis of websites provided a description of region brands. In-depth interview data from representatives of two communal region brands provide a foundation for investigating the attitudes and behaviors of 20 place brand managers depending on their value orientation. Findings Two categories of communal region brands are found, of which one reflects terminal values whereas the other is based on instrumental values. Instrumental values appear more efficient for promoting the place through stakeholders than terminal values. Research limitations/implications This exploratory research highlights some particularities of place brand communities and adds instrumental value to the classic terminal value identified within commercial brand communities. Practical implications Place brand managers gain insights into the values around which they can align stakeholders of their brand. Originality/value Brand community literature focuses mostly on specialty or convenience product-oriented communities. By investigating a place as a different type of “product”, this study demonstrates that place brands draw on communal arguments to function like master brands. Furthermore, terminal values can be replaced by more instrumental values in the context of place branding, because agreement on broad terminal values by individual members of the community is unlikely to be achieved whereas specific instrumental values can serve their individual interests.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Instrumental values"
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Andersson, Fredrik. "Young people´s ranking of ten instrumental values." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36586.
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Syftet med mitt examensarbete är att ge ett bidrag till analysen av ungdomars grundläggande värderingar, genom att undersöka hur elever rangordnar och diskuterar tio instrumentella värden. Undersökningen är utförd med flermetodsforskning, där både en kvantitativ och kvalitativ metod använts, enkät och fokusgrupp. En pilotstudie används för att säkerställa god validitet och reliabilitet. Undersökningen gjordes på 20 ungdomar, tio pojkar och tio flickor, fördelade i tre åttondeklasser i samma skola. Resultatet i undersökningen visar att ungdomar mellan 14 till 15 år anser att familjen, tillsammans med frihet och rättvisa är viktigast av de tio värdena jag undersökt och att det skett vissa förändringar i jämförelse vilka värden som är viktiga idag hos ungdomar jämfört med från SOM undersökningsserie (1986-2000)
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Giraldi, Janaina de Moura Engracia. "A influência dos valores pessoais dos consumidores no efeito país de origem: um estudo com eletrodomésticos chineses." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-30012007-190717/.
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Os estereótipos que as pessoas tendem a desenvolver com relação a outras pessoas e países e, conseqüentemente, aos produtos fabricados nesses países, podem transcender as avaliações de marcas ou produtos específicos e determinar, até certo ponto, as suas intenções de compra e o seu comportamento. Este é o chamado efeito país de origem. Os trabalhos efetuados sobre o tema indicam que o efeito país de origem pode ser moderado por uma variedade de informações intrínsecas e extrínsecas sobre o produto, e por fatores ambientais e culturais. Como existem poucas pesquisas acadêmicas sobre a influência dos valores pessoais nas avaliações de diferentes países e de produtos estrangeiros, torna-se relevante um estudo que investigue esta relação. Neste contexto, a presente tese aborda o seguinte problema de pesquisa: quais valores pessoais afetam as avaliações dos consumidores sobre produtos estrangeiros, com base na imagem dos países de origem desses produtos? Especificamente, procurou-se verificar se existem diferenças na referida relação, dependendo de características demográficas dos consumidores, como sexo, idade, familiaridade com o país e formação educacional. A pesquisa empírica caracterizou-se como sendo predominantemente exploratória, utilizando o método transversal simples para a coleta dos dados. A população-alvo foi definida como sendo os alunos e ex-alunos de cursos de pós-graduação de três instituições localizadas no estado de São Paulo, representando potenciais compradores dos produtos estrangeiros. Os produtos analisados foram eletrodomésticos chineses. Como resultado, cabe destacar que os valores pessoais são um construto multidimensional, com cada dimensão exercendo uma influência diferente nas avaliações dos produtos estrangeiros. Os valores pessoais que mais afetam a avaliação de produtos estrangeiros são aqueles relacionados à dimensão Civilidade (Amoroso, Animado, Asseado, Responsável, Polido, Prestativo e Honesto). Em seguida, vêm os valores da dimensão Auto-direção (Lógico, Intelectual, Capaz, Imaginativo, Independente, Corajoso, Liberal e Ambicioso). Por último, têm-se os valores da dimensão Conformidade (Obediente, Auto-controlado e Tolerante). Concluiu-se, também, que os valores pessoais dos consumidores afetam de forma diferente a avaliação de produtos estrangeiros, dependendo de características demográficas dos consumidores, como idade, sexo, familiaridade com o país de origem e formação educacional. Previa-se que, nos consumidores mais jovens, haveria uma influência mais favorável dos valores pessoais no efeito país de origem do que nos consumidores mais velhos. No entanto, esta hipótese não foi confirmada. Outra hipótese era de que, nos consumidores do sexo masculino, haveria também uma influência mais favorável dos valores pessoais no efeito país de origem do que nos consumidores do sexo feminino. Contudo, tal hipótese também não foi confirmada. Foram também verificadas diferenças com relação aos valores pessoais que mais influenciam o efeito país de origem, dependendo do nível de familiaridade dos respondentes com a China, e da área de formação educacional (Ciências Exatas, Humanas ou Biológicas). Os resultados encontrados fornecem uma compreensão adicional sobre as influências sofridas pelo consumidor em um processo de decisão de compra. Considera-se, portanto, que foi realizado um avanço no estado da arte nas pesquisas sobre o tema efeito país de origem, uma vez que foram investigados aspectos não mensurados em outras pesquisas. A partir dos resultados da presente tese, acredita-se que profissionais e teóricos de marketing podem melhor gerenciar o uso do país de origem de um produto como uma ferramenta de marketing. Além disso, os achados desta pesquisa podem ajudar as agências governamentais responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento da imagem de um país a ajustar as estratégias de marca aos diferentes grupos de indivíduos no mundo, de acordo com os valores pessoais predominantes em cada grupo.Stereotypes people tend to develop towards other people and countries and, consequently, towards the products made in these countries, can transcend specific brand or products evaluations and determine, to some extent, their purchase intentions and behavior. This is the so-called country-of-origin effect. The researches done on this subject indicate that the country-of-origin effect can be moderated by a variety of intrinsic and extrinsic information about the product, and also by environmental and cultural factors. Since there are few academic papers on the influence that personal values exert on the evaluations of different countries and foreign products, a study that focuses this relation becomes relevant. In this context, the present thesis approaches the following research problem: what are the personal values that affect the consumers? evaluations of foreign products, based on these products? countries image? Specifically, it was verified if there were differences in the referred relation, depending on demographic characteristics such as gender, age, familiarity with the country and education background. The empirical research was predominantly exploratory, using the survey method for collecting the data. The target population was defined as post-graduation students and former students from three institutions located at São Paulo state, representing potential buyers of foreign products. The products under analysis were Chinese household appliances. As a result, it is worth mentioning that personal values are a multi-dimensional construct, with each dimension exerting a different influence on foreign products evaluation. The personal values that most affect foreign products evaluation are those related to the Civility dimension (Loving, Cheerful, Clean, Responsible, Polite, Helpful and Honest). Next, come the values from the Self-direction dimension (Logical, Intellectual, Capable, Imaginative, Independent, Courageous, Broad-minded and Ambitious). Last, there are the values from the Conformity dimension (Obedient, Self-controlled and Forgiving). It was concluded, moreover, that consumers? personal values differently affect the evaluation of foreign products, depending on consumers? demographic characteristics such as age, gender, familiarity with the country and education background. It was foreseen that, in younger consumers, there would be a more favorable influence of personal values in the country-of-origin effect than in the older ones. However, this hypothesis was not confirmed. Other hypothesis was that in male consumers, there would also be a more favorable influence of personal values in the country-of-origin effect than in the female ones. Nevertheless, such hypothesis was not confirmed either. There were also verified differences concerning the personal values that most influence the country-of-origin effect, depending on respondents? familiarity level with China and education background (Exact, Humanity and Biological Sciences). The results provide an additional understanding with regards to the influences consumers suffer during a purchase decision process. Therefore, it is considered that it was made an advance in the state of the art of researches about the country of origin theme, since aspects not measured in other works were investigated. With the results obtained, it is believed that marketing professionals and researchers can better manage the use of a products? country of origin as a marketing tool. Additionally, these research findings can help governmental agencies that are responsible for developing a country?s image to adjust the branding strategies to different groups of people in the world, depending on the personal values that predominate in each group.
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Yoon, O.-Kyung. "Intrinsic and instrumental rationales in UK cultural policy : negotiating cultural values in the climate of neoliberalism." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7103.
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Intrinsic and instrumental cultural values have represented core rationales for public cultural policies in the UK. However, the increasing dominance of neoliberal logic in recent decades has increased the tension between these policy rationales, making the question of how to negotiate and define intrinsic cultural values a key concern for cultural practitioners. This thesis investigates the intellectual, historical and sociological basis of intrinsic and instrumental cultural values, encompassing the times of classical Greece to the present day. The role of cultural values in the emergence of UK post-war cultural policy is explored. This aims to reconnect implicit cultural policy assumptions with their conceptual roots, and offer a theoretical perspective from which to appraise contemporary cultural policy developments. The analysis of liberal humanist ideas is complemented with an assessment of the network of discourses informing instrumental policies, in particular, social inclusion and urban regeneration. The thesis suggests that the contemporary instrumental cultural policy approach represents a misappropriation of the liberal humanist cultural discourse. In the neoliberal policy framework cultural and social concerns are usurped by entrepreneurial, managerial and consumerist imperatives, as cultural policies become a social and economic panacea. The neoliberal instrumental framework undermines key principles of public provision, with detrimental effects on social equality, local communities and cultural programming. The theoretical part of this project is complemented by qualitative field research, which is based on semi-structured interviews with 25 cultural managers from across the UK cultural sector. The key finding of this study suggests that cultural managers deflect the tension between intrinsic and instrumental policy rationales by proposing a synthesis between intrinsic and social instrumental cultural values. This recognition allows cultural managers to incorporate competing cultural policy assumptions into a broad cultural political framework. Cultural managers justified cultural policy making by resorting to enlightenment reasoning, public responsibility, cultural democracy and funder's demands. The critique of instrumentalism was deflected in to an opposition to impact-driven and commercial values.
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Ribas, Fabio Teodoro Tolfo. "Somos fruto da nossa socialização: a influência das crenças pessoais no comprometimento organizacional." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2010. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/4566.
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Often, organizations are will with problems that can be either internal or external, which can cause multiple consequences. By studying the relationship of personal values on organizational commitment is proposed to identify and understand the types of beliefs that are
related to specific types of linkages prevailing in a sample of employees from various companies in the city of South Boxes The study presents a predominantly quantitative
approach, descriptive in nature. The instrument used for data collection was composed of three parts. The first part aimed to identify the profile of the sample investigated, the second part, based on Monday, Porter and Steers (1979) and also Meyer, Allen and Smith (1991)
tried to verify aspects related to organizational commitment and the third part, developed from the study of Gouveia (2003) aimed at identifying the human values. Data analysis tests were performed descriptive statistics, correlations between personal values and constructs of
organizational commitment and application of regression models, including analysis of the mean, median and standard deviation, was also performed internal consistency of the subsystems of values and personal constructs of organizational commitment, and reliability of
these from the Cronbach's Alphas. The relevance of this issue is guided by previous research demonstrating the importance of personal values as a mechanism for explanation of various socio-psychological phenomena, so we attempted to find relationships in the workplace
between individual beliefs (personal values) on the different types of links ( organizational
commitment) with the organization. The results showed that the models obtained nnhum despite meet the statistical assumptions, showed a high degree of explanation, indicating that the values studied did not contribute significantly to the understanding of the commitment of
employees.Não raro, as organizações são acometidas de problemas, que podem ser de natureza interna ou externa, o que podem causar múltiplas conseqüências. Por meio do estudo da relação dos valores pessoais sobre o comprometimento organizacional propõe-se identificar a relação dos valores humanos sobre o comprometimento organizacional de uma amostra de colaboradores de diversas empresas da cidade de Caixas do Sul. O estudo apresenta uma abordagem predominantemente quantitativa, de natureza descritiva. O instrumento utilizado para a coleta de dados foi composto por três partes. A parte inicial objetivou identificar o perfil da amostra investigada, a segunda parte, baseada em Meyer, Allen e Smith (1991) buscou verificar aspectos referentes ao comprometimento organizacional e a terceira parte, desenvolvida a partir do estudo de Gouveia (2003) visou identificar os valores humanos. Para análise dos dados foram realizados testes de estatísticas descritivas, numa amostra de 411 colaboradores dos setores da indústria, comércio e serviços da cidade de Caxias do Sul, e assim foram realizadas correlações entre os valores pessoais e os construtos do comprometimento organizacional e aplicação de modelos de regressão, inclusive análise da média, da mediana e do desvio padrão, também foi realizada a consistência interna dos subsistemas dos valores pessoais e dos construtos do comprometimento organizacional, e da confiabilidade destes a partir dos alphas de cronbach. A relevância do assunto está pautada em pesquisas anteriores que demonstram a importância dos valores pessoais como mecanismo de explicação de diversos fenômenos sociopsicológicos, assim buscou-se encontrar relações no ambiente de trabalho entre as crenças individuais (valores pessoais) sobre os diversos tipos de vínculos (comprometimento organizacional) com a organização. Os resultados apontaram que nenhum dos modelos obtidos, apesar de atenderem aos pressupostos estatísticos, apresentou alto grau de explicação, indicando que os valores estudados não contribuem expressivamente para o entendimento do comprometimento dos trabalhadores.
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Wieczorek, Irene. "The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law: what roles for normative and instrumental justifications." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/239390.
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The aim of this thesis is to analyse the EU approach to the question of the legitimacy of criminal law. In particular, it enquires into what theoretical justifications does the EU legal order acknowledges as legitimating the resort to harmonized criminal law as a regulatory instrument. Moreover, it enquires if the selected approach is consistent with the identity the EU has set for itself, as a ‘fundamental rights sensitive’ kind of supranational organization, as established at Article 2 TEU, which includes the respect of fundamental rights as one of EU founding values. This research aims at complementing the existing literature theorising on harmonisation of substantive criminal law as a strategy for integration, which has to date primarily focused on the extent of the EU competences, and on the relation between harmonisation and other strategies of integration, such as mutual recognition. The aspect of the impact of the exercise of these EU competences on individuals and of what are the envisaged justifications for that has been to date underexplored. This thesis aims at filling this gap. In doing so it aims at contributing to the systemic understanding of EU criminal law testing its developments against a EU constitutional law benchmark. In terms of methodology, the thesis relies on a criminal legal theory framework, which distinguishes between a normative, value-based approach to the justifications for criminal law, and an instrumental, mainly enforcement-based approach. It tailors these concepts to the supranational level, by combining criminalisation theory concepts with theories on harmonisation. In terms of sources, when enquiring the EU approach to the criminal law, the thesis looks at EU primary law (principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, and EU competences to harmonise substantive criminal law); EU policy documents (multi-annual programs and ad hoc EU criminalisation policy documents) and EU secondary law (especially the Racism and Xenophobia Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia and on the 2014 Market Abuse Directive).In terms of structure, the thesis devotes the first two chapters to the delineation of the theoretical framework, discussing criminal legal theories on the subject of of the legitimacy of criminal law, and theories on harmonisation of criminal norms. This part is aimed at identifying the analytical tools through which EU primary law, EU secondary law and EU policy documents are analysed in the following 5 chapters. A final chapter draws the relevant conclusions as to the consistency of the EU approach to the legitimacy of criminal law with the EU constitutional law framework. The findings of the thesis illustrate how the EU has not been consistent in its approach to the legitimacy of EU criminal law and it identifies a number of micro-ruptures between the approach in different historical phases; but also between different layers (EU primary and secondary law as well as policy documents) during the same period; and between different policy areas (e.g. EU criminal law was used to protect the security of EU citizens, and when to secure the achievement of EU policies). The thesis nonetheless identifies a macro-synchrony, which sees an historical progressive acknowledgement of a normative approach in a previously pre-existing instrumental context. This progress was positively evaluated as it contributed to increase the coherence of EU criminal law with EU constitutional law benchmarks.Doctorat en Sciences juridiques
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Sánchez, Royo Begoña. "AN APPROACH TOWARDS HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/12269.
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This thesis uses the case study of the Fallas festival in the city of Valencia (Spain), to
assess the value of intangible cultural heritage. Within this framework the thesis
explores a number of different issues: for example how social agents frame different
qualities and benefits of cultural heritage in order to describe the value and claims for
funding the arts. It finds that value assessment for claiming funds presents many
challenges such as: identifying the values of the heritage in question; describing them;
and ranking them according to their contribution to the public welfare. It examines the
methodological techniques for assessing heritage values and goes on to discuss a
number of tools that are, or could be, used for assessment.
The thesis also explores how public bodies legitimise cultural funding. It examines the
role of non-government arts organisations in supporting the arts. It proposes the
analysis of donor decisions through a multi-attribute technique where donors state their
importance to donor situations under specific conditions or attributes. Finally, it
describes how the stakeholder approach can be applied for searching new ways of
funding festivals. It also considers how intangible cultural heritage goods can be
assessed within the process of cost-benefit evaluation. It also analyses how public
bodies, as the principal supporters of culture, deal with the problem of valuing
intangibles on social investments.
The study uses the Fallas festival to test the research hypothesis. It uses a number of
economic and statistical techniques to evaluate the Fallas Festival, these include
Contingent Valuation, Choice Experiment and Descriptive and Multiatribute Statistics.
The statistical techniques reveal that historical benefits are intrinsically valuable in the
Fallas festival. The historical value that the members of the neighbourhood
associations place on the Fallas festival justify that local social agents should support
this festival.Sánchez Royo, B. (2011). AN APPROACH TOWARDS HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/12269
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Dubickienė, Ina. "Fizinio aktyvumo įtaka vyresniojo mokyklinio amžiaus mokinių vertybinėms orientacijoms." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080901_110627-93187.
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Paskutiniais dešimtmečiais vyko žymūs pokyčiai visose socialinio gyvenimo sferose. Tai paskatino žmones orientuotis į naujas vertybes. Ypatingai daug galimybių pasirinkimui atsirado jaunai besivystančiai asmenybei. Sporto vieta visuomenės gyvenime užima vis reikšmingesnę vietą. Tai kartu kaip laisvalaikio praleidimo priemonė ar savo tikslų realizavimo forma. Aktyvia fizine veikla, kryptingu sportu, kai pradedama sistemingai siekti sportinių rezultatų, pradedama užsiėminėti paauglystės laikotarpiu, todėl susidomėjimą šiuo moksliniu tyrimu paskatino problema, kad fizinis aktyvumas nepakankamai išnaudojamas vertybių formavimuisi vyresniajame mokykliniame amžiuje. Tyrimo objektas – ryšys tarp fizinio aktyvumo ir vyresniojo mokyklinio amžiaus mokinių vertybinių orientacijų.
Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti fizinio aktyvumo poveikį vyresniojo mokyklinio amžiaus mokinių vertybinėms orientacijoms. Tyrimo uždaviniai:
Išskirti veiksnius, įtakojančius vertybinių orientacijų formavimąsi.
Nustatyti ryšį tarp fizinio aktyvumo ir vyresniojo mokyklinio amžiaus mokinių vertybinių orientacijų.
Išryškinti skirtingo fizinio aktyvumo mokinių vertybines orientacijas lyties skirtumų aspektu.
Tyrimo metodai: teorinė analizė ir apibendrinimas (mokslinės literatūros šaltinių apžvalga), anketinė apklausa, matematinė statistika.
Tyrimo hipotezės: 1) fizinis aktyvumas turi nevienodą poveikį skirtingos lyties mokinių vertybinėms orientacijoms; 2) fiziškai aktyvūs, t. y. sportuojantys mokiniai labiau... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Significant changes have being continuing in all social life spheres during latest decades. This has encouraged people to orient to new values. Especially lots of possibilities to choose appeared to the young developing person. Sport is covering over and over the more meaningful place in the life of society. Sport is both the way of leisure and the form of anyone’s ambitions realization. At the teenagers’ age it is started to go in for sports as in the active physical work, focused sport when it is started systematically to reach results in sport. Because of this the problem that physical activeness is used incompletely to values’ formation in senior school age induced the interest in this scientific inquiry. The object of this work is the connection between physical activeness and senior school age students’ values’ orientations. The aim of the survey is to disclose the impact of physical activeness on the senior students’ values’ orientations. The tasks are as follows: To set apart factors which influence the formation of values’ orientations. To establish the connection between physical activeness and senior students’ values’ orientations. To distinguish the students’ of different physical activity values’ orientations from the sex differences’ aspect. The methods of survey: the theoretical analysis and conclusion finding (the survey of nonfiction), questionnaire, mathematical statistics. The hypotheses of the survey: 1) physical activeness has different impact... [to full text]
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Leonardo, Helena Isabel de Sá. "Valores sociais dos estudantes da Universidade do Minho e respectivos progenitores." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/604.
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Dissertação de mestrado em Psicopatologia e Psicologia ClínicaEsta tese faz parte de um trabalho mais vasto de um grupo de Mestrado em Psicopatologia e Psicologia Clínica, liderado pelo Prof. Eurico Figueiredo, que se constitui com o objectivo de estudar os Valores Socais dos jovens universitários e seus progenitores nas diferentes regiões do país, por um lado e , por outro, realizar um estudo a nível nacional. Assim, este trabalho incidiu sobre a região do Minho, em que se procurou identificar os Valores Sociais dos Jovens da Universidade do Minho e seus progenitores, a partir de um inquérito elaborado para esse fim, aplicado durante a frequência das aulas na Universidade e em que era fornecido aos estudantes mais dois questionários para entregar aos respectivos progenitores. A análise de resultados permitiu a observação de diferenças significativas entre filhos e pais, nomeadamente a nível da concepção da família e da sexualidade, da concepção do trabalho profissional e do trabalho feminino. Os jovens apresentam uma visão mais moderna de família em que, no casamento, homem e mulher possuem papéis equivalentes e em que o trabalho feminino é valorizado da mesma forma que o do homem. Verificou-se que os jovens investem mais valores pós-materialistas do que os seus progenitores, embora persistam ainda nesta juventude valores materialistas, sendo esta, provavelmente, uma geração de transição entre materialismo e pós-materialismo. Observaram-se ainda diferenças entre sexos, em que as raparigas parecem estar na linha da frente em termos de mudança, e entre as amostras regional e nacional (sendo as diferenças mais significativas nos jovens do que nos progenitores). Assim, por um lado, a concepção de família e de sexualidade é mais moderna nos jovens do Minho (acontecendo o inverso em relação aos progenitores) e, por outro, a transição para o pós-materialismo parece estar a processar-se de modo diferente nos jovens da Universidade do Minho e nos das Universidades de todo o país - isto é, surgem diferentes pesos de materialismo e pós-materialismo em áreas distintas.
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Ellis-Braithwaite, Richard. "Modelling the instrumental value of software requirements." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/21803.
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Numerous studies have concluded that roughly half of all implemented software requirements are never or rarely used in practice, and that failure to realise expected benefits is a major cause of software project failure. This thesis presents an exploration of these concepts, claims, and causes. It evaluates the literature s proposed solutions to them, and then presents a unified framework that covers additional concerns not previously considered. The value of a requirement is assessed often during the requirements engineering (RE) process, e.g., in requirement prioritisation, release planning, and trade-off analysis. In order to support these activities, and hence to support the decisions that lead to the aforementioned waste, this thesis proposes a framework built on the modelling languages of Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE), and on the principles of Value Based Software Engineering (VBSE). The framework guides the elicitation of a requirement s value using philosophy and business theory, and aims to quantitatively model chains of instrumental value that are expected to be generated for a system s stakeholders by a proposed software capability. The framework enriches the description of the individual links comprising these chains with descriptions of probabilistic degrees of causation, non-linear dose-response and utility functions, and credibility and confidence. A software tool to support the framework s implementation is presented, employing novel features such as automated visualisation, and information retrieval and machine learning (recommendation system) techniques. These software capabilities provide more than just usability improvements to the framework. For example, they enable visual comprehension of the implications of what-if? questions, and enable re-use of previous models in order to suggest modifications to a project s requirements set, and reduce uncertainty in its value propositions. Two case studies in real-world industry contexts are presented, which explore the problem and the viability of the proposed framework for alleviating it. The thesis research questions are answered by various methods, including practitioner surveys, interviews, expert opinion, real-world examples and proofs of concept, as well as less-common methods such as natural language processing analysis of real requirements specifications (e.g., using TF-IDF to measure the proportion of software requirement traceability links that do not describe the requirement s value or problem-to-be-solved). The thesis found that in general, there is a disconnect between the state of best practice as proposed by the literature, and current industry practice in requirements engineering. The surveyed practitioners supported the notion that the aforementioned value realisation problems do exist in current practice, that they would be treatable by better requirements engineering practice, and that this thesis proposed framework would be useful and usable in projects whose complexity warrants the overhead of requirements modelling (e.g., for projects with many stakeholders, competing desires, or having high costs of deploying incorrect increments of software functionality).
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Lopes, Ana Isabel Nunes Afonso. "Capital psicológico e valores: Existe uma relação?" Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/606.
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Dissertação de mestrado em Comportamento OrganizacionalÉ consensual que as Capacidades Psicológicas Positivas, quando eficazmente geridas, têm impacto no desempenho dos colaboradores. Os valores são individuais mas também organizacionais. Se ambos estiverem alinhados, será facilitada a obtenção dos objectivos organizacionais. Este trabalho procura contribuir para a compreensão da relação entre o PsyCap e os valores. Neste sentido, pretende-se verificar a existência de relação entre as Capacidades Psicológicas Positivas (esperança, optimismo, resiliência e auto-eficácia) e os Valores, tendo por base a estrutura de valores de Schwartz. Neste estudo recolhemos uma amostra de 103 estudantes universitários. Os resultados revelam que existe uma relação entre PsyCap e algumas dimensões de Valores propostas na escala utilizada. Sugerem-se propostas de incrementar as Capacidades Psicológicas Positivas de forma a obtermos impactos positivos nos valores e fomenta-se a gestão dos Valores, através da socialização e da própria cultura organizacional, tendo em vista maximizar as Capacidades Psicológicas Positivas.
Books on the topic "Instrumental values"
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Kuitenbrouwer, Joost. Entre el terror y la ternura: Racionalidad instrumental, educación e interculturalidad. Santiago, Chile: ISS-CEAAL, 1992.
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Stanley, Philip E. A rule concordance and value guide. 2nd ed. [s.l.]: Astragal Press, 2004.
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Juicio ejecutivo cambiario: Letras de cambio, vales, conformes o pagarés, cheques. Montevideo: Ediciones Idea, 1986.
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Staub, Zeno. Management komplexer Zinsrisiken mit derivativen Instrumenten: Eine Anwendung des Value-at-risk-Konzeptes. Bern: P. Haupt, 1997.
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Hewson, John E. Process instrumentation manifolds: Their selection and use : a handbook. Research Triangle Park, N.C: Instrument Society of America, 1985.
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Antique brass wind instruments: Identification and value guide. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998.
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Deutsch, Gary M. Fair value reporting: Accounting for bank financial instruments. Austin, Tex: Sheshunoff, 1993.
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Ashenfelter, Orley. Estimating the value of a statistical life: The importance of omitted variables and publication bias. Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004.
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Ashenfelter, Orley. Estimating the value of a statistical life: The importance of omitted variables and publication bias. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004.
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Bedi, Gurjendra S. Guidelines for inservice testing at nuclear power plants: Inservice testing of pumps and valves and inservice examination and testing of dynamic restraints (snubbers) at nuclear power plants : final report. Washington, D.C: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 2013.
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Breuer, Henning, and Florian Lüdeke-Freund. "Values-based instrumental innovation in processes, products, and services." In Values-Based Innovation Management, 89–119. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51662-6_4.
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Martin, Emeline, and Sonia Capelli. "Place Brand Communities: From Terminal to Instrumental Values: An Abstract." In Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science, 253–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99181-8_80.
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van der Wal, Zeger. "Singapore’s Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau: Guardian of Public Integrity." In Guardians of Public Value, 63–86. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51701-4_3.
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AbstractSingapore’s famous anti-corruption agency, the Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau (CPIB) has been instrumental in rooting out endemic corruption in Singapore within a few decades. It has become a source of inspiration for governments in Asia and beyond. The institutionalization of the CPIB is closely intertwined with Singapore’s success as a nation. It is hard to imagine Singapore’s phenomenal economic growth would have been possible without the work of the CPIB. But how is it possible that this agency has won such extensive powers to fight corruption? This chapter shows that the agency is more than just an organization. It has become an institution. The agency has trumpeted and enforced values like fairness, meritocracy, and the rule of law, guarding them amidst turbulence for more than half a century.
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Stewart, Jenny. "Values and Policy Instruments." In Public Policy Values, 87–107. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230240759_6.
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Koch, T., and S. Seidler. "Instrumented Hardness Values – introduction." In Polymer Solids and Polymer Melts–Mechanical and Thermomechanical Properties of Polymers, 445–49. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55166-6_73.
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Koch, T., and S. Seidler. "Instrumented Hardness Values – data." In Polymer Solids and Polymer Melts–Mechanical and Thermomechanical Properties of Polymers, 450–52. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55166-6_74.
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Zimmermann, Kai, and Frank Pensel. "Instrumente der Steuerung." In Deep Customer Value, 23–44. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17972-4_2.
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Henn, Harald. "Instrumente der Implementierung." In Customer-Value-Implementierung, 219–79. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-08323-8_6.
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Tool, Marc R. "Instrumental Policy." In Value Theory and Economic Progress: The Institutional Economics of J. Fagg Foster, 185–213. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3998-4_9.
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Voß, Winrich, and Jörn Bannert. "Reference land values in Germany." In Instruments of Land Policy, 35–48. 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Urban planning and environment: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315511658-4.
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Hincu, Ionela. "Musical-interpretative skills and their role in teacher music education training." In Condiții pedagogice de optimizare a învățării în post criză pandemică prin prisma dezvoltării gândirii științifice. "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46728/c.18-06-2021.p274-277.
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This article reflects the professional and moral values of the Music Education teacher: abilities, skills, aptitudes, organisational skills, and abilities, etc. that have a special place in the formation of pedagogical mastery. Performing activity reinforces the teacher’s authority as a propagandist musician of all that is best, transforming him or her into a genuine teacher of the 21st century. Thus, in the training of the Music Education teacher, the mutual relationship between the vocal, instrumental, vocal-instrumental performance and musical-theoretical knowledge is of great importance.
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Yao, Liuyi, Sheng Li, Yaliang Li, Hongfei Xue, Jing Gao, and Aidong Zhang. "On the Estimation of Treatment Effect with Text Covariates." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/570.
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Estimating the treatment effect benefits decision making in various domains as it can provide the potential outcomes of different choices. Existing work mainly focuses on covariates with numerical values, while how to handle covariates with textual information for treatment effect estimation is still an open question. One major challenge is how to filter out the nearly instrumental variables which are the variables more predictive to the treatment than the outcome. Conditioning on those variables to estimate the treatment effect would amplify the estimation bias. To address this challenge, we propose a conditional treatment-adversarial learning based matching method (CTAM). CTAM incorporates the treatment-adversarial learning to filter out the information related to nearly instrumental variables when learning the representations, and then it performs matching among the learned representations to estimate the treatment effects. The conditional treatment-adversarial learning helps reduce the bias of treatment effect estimation, which is demonstrated by our experimental results on both semi-synthetic and real-world datasets.
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Li, Chengwen, Li Jia, Tiantian Zhang, and Xing Li. "Experimental Investigation of Nitrogen Flow in Long Microtubes." In ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2009-88408.
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Nitrogen flow characteristics in Polyetheretherketone microtubes with inner diameters (D) ranging from 0.255mm to 0.553mm were experimentally investigated. It is indicated that most of the experimental points in laminar region are coincided with the conventional theoretical predicted value, but several plots caused by instrumental errors are lower than predicted values at small Re. In turbulent region, the friction factors for D = 0.255mm microtubes with L = 0.800m and 1.591m are slightly lower than conventional values; the experimental data for D = 0.553mm microtube with L = 0.800m is lower than that in D = 0.255mm pipes. The entrance effect obviously influences friction factor even if the L/D of microtubes is more than 60, where it can always be neglected in macro-scale. Due to the enhancement of compressibility effect as diameter decrease (Kn increase), friction constant is larger in smaller-size microtubes. The transition Reynolds number in current experiment (except for L = 0.200mm and D = 0.553mm) ranges from1600–2000, while a little early transition phenomenon is found in L = 0.200m, D = 0.553mm tube.
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Anufriyev, Y. A. "PROFESSIONALLY-PERFORMING RESOURCES OF MODERN MUSICIAN IN THE PROCESS OF MASTERING OF VALUES OF RUSSIAN ARTISTIC CULTURE (ON THE MATERIAL OF MUSICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL TRADITIONS)." In XIV International Social Congress. Russian State Social University, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15216/rgsu-xiv-38.
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McGee, Ryan, and David Rogers. "Musification of Seismic Data." In The 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display. Arlington, Virginia: The International Community for Auditory Display, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2016.021.
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Seismic events are physical vibrations induced in the earth’s crust which follow the general wave equation, making seismic data naturally conducive to audification. Simply increasing the playback rates of seismic recordings and rescaling the amplitude values to match those of digital audio samples (straight audification) can produce eerily realistic door slamming and explosion sounds. While others have produced a plethora of sucha udifications for international seismic events (i.e. earthquakes), the resulting sounds, while distinct to the trained auditory scientist, often lack enough variety to produce multiple instrumental timbres for the creation of engaging music for the public. This paper discusses approaches of sonification processing towards eventual musification of seismic data, beginning with straight audification and resulting in several musical compositions and new-media installations containing a variety of seismically derived timbres.
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Nangpal, Ashok. "CIP Systems: Design and Functions." In ASME 2000 Citrus Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/cec2000-4606.
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Centralization of production facilities to increase productivity has led to plants with astronomical capacities. This development poses difficult tasks of respecting sanitary production and cleaning procedures. Cleaning Systems form an integrated part of modern production plants and are key elements to increase productivity. Automated CIP Systems deliver solutions at consistent flow rates, temperatures and at the appropriate concentration to a specific part of the plant. Total CIP effectiveness cannot be attributed solely to these parameters, as the plant design characteristics plays a vital role. Choice of components used, piping design and cleaning procedures implemented contribute to the overall performance of a cleaning process and are instrumental in reducing the quantity, COD and BOD values of waste-water generated. The following presentation outlines modern principles of CIP systems and the influence of plant design characteristics to improve the overall cleaning efficiency and increase productivity. Paper published with permission.
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Gonchikova, Medegma Ts. "Buddist cult musical instruments." In Eurasian paradigm of Russia: values, ideas and experience. Buryat State University Publishing Department, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18101/978-5-9793-0814-2-135-138.
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Ohnsorg, R. W., M. O. Ten Eyck, W. D. Friedman, P. Engler, G. J. Havrilla, and E. E. Armstrong. "Injection Molding Development of Ceramic Turbine Components." In ASME 1989 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/89-gt-170.
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Ceramic fabrication development of large static components has been an integral part of the U.S. Government sponsored gas turbine development programs. Carborundum has produced sintered alpha silicon carbide transition ducts which have been successfully tested in Garrett’s AGT 101 engine having a turbine inlet temperature of 2500°F. Injection molding as opposed to isopressing/green machining was chosen for the development project because of its near net shape capability and high volume potential. Mold design is important to minimize internal flaws and provide uniform green density. Injection molding control variables also influence external surface quality as determined by knit lines and blisters. Statistically designed three level experiments were instrumental in isolating the control variables which influence part quality and to determine their optimum values. Flow modeling was used to verify field trials and optimize specific molding variables to minimize pressure, shear rate and shear stress gradients within the part as well as suggest gating options. Destructive and nondestructive evaluation was then used to evaluate the quality of ducts at various processing steps. Dual energy tomography and X-ray fluorescence are being developed as techniques for measuring the density and composition of molded parts.
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Salahshoor, M., and Y. B. Guo. "Surface Modification of Biodegradable Magnesium-Calcium Implants by Burnishing." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-63730.
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Magnesium-Calcium (MgCa) alloys have shown very promising potential to make biodegradable metallic orthopedic implants. Biodegradable metallic implants relieve the need for second surgery and avoid stress shielding common with permanent metallic implants. Moreover, they provide enough strength in load carrying orthopedic applications as opposed to polymeric counterparts. High degradation rate of these alloys is the pressing issue resulting in subcutaneous hydrogen bubbles and high pH values and ultimately imbalance in physiological reactions. Surface modification techniques has been implemented to enhance the biocompatibility of these alloys by matching their corrosion rate with bone healing rate and absorption rate of corrosion by-products. Low plasticity burnishing (LPB) is a novel technique that makes wide range of surface integrity characteristics and consequently corrosion rates attainable. This is instrumental in developing proper degradation rates with respect to local healing and absorptions rates present in each application. Besides, LPB can be applied on already available CNC machining centers and in that sense is very flexible. Hence, studying the effects of LPB process parameters on surface integrity is important. In this paper, effects of burnishing passes and their pattern on surface topography, surface roughness, surface/subsurface microhardness, microstructure, and surface residual stresses of MgCa0.8 (wt%) implants are investigated.
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Ferioli, Marco. "Compressor Performance Verification: Measuring Tolerances and Guaranteed Power Consumption." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-62032.
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When evaluating the power consumption of a compressor on a test bed, it is important to evaluate the inaccuracies caused by instruments measuring tolerances. Compressor vendors need to estimate such tolerances when announcing power guarantee figures, while customers need to verify if the machine meets such performance guarantees or not. A method is proposed to assess the resulting uncertainty of the total power consumption of a centrifugal compressor, based on the instruments measuring tolerances for inter-stage pressures, inter-stage temperatures and mass flow. The calculations are based on a Monte Carlo type simulation which generates random sets of inlet/outlet pressures and temperatures for the different compressor stages. Such numbers are generated in order to lie within the range of the expected value ± instrument tolerances. The same technique is used for the mass flow. A numerical example is given, in order to show how single instruments tolerances are cumulated; results may indicate which instrument to select (or discard) in order to obtain reasonable tolerances on the calculated power consumption.
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Bertoni, Eleonora, Gregory Elacqua, Carolina Méndez, and Humberto Santos. Teacher Hiring Instruments and Teacher Value Added: Evidence from Peru. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003123.
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In this article, we explore whether the evaluation instruments used to recruit teachers in the national teacher hiring process in Peru are good predictors of teacher effectiveness. To this end, we estimate teacher value-added (TVA) measures for public primary school teachers in 2018 and test for their correlation with the results of the 2015 and 2017 national evaluations. Our findings indicate that among the three sub-tests that comprise the first, centralized stage of the process, the curricular and pedagogical knowledge component has the strongest (and significant) correlation with the TVA measure, while the weakest correlation is found with the reading comprehension component. At the second, decentralized stage, we find no significant correlation with our measures of TVA for math, as well as non-robust correlations for the professional experience and classroom observation evaluation instruments. A positive and significant correlation is found between the classroom observation component and TVA for reading. Moreover, we find correlations between our measure of TVA and several teacher characteristics: TVA is higher for female teachers and for those at higher salary levels while it is lower for teachers with temporary contracts (compared to those with permanent positions).
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Koedel, Cory, and Julian Betts. Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14778.
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Ermold, B., CJ Flynn, and J. Barnard. Aerosol Optical Depth Value-Added Product for the SAS-He Instrument. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), November 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1226568.
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Werry, E. V., and S. Somasundaram. Regulatory instrument review: Aging management of LWR cables, containment and basemat, reactor coolant pumps, and motor-operated valves. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), September 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/110791.
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McCormack, Caitilin, Steve Jennings, and Linda Kenni. Gender and LGBTQI+ Policy and Programming in Vanuatu: Opportunities, challenges, capacity, and tools for change. Oxfam, September 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2020.6508.
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In 2016 the government of Vanuatu introduced a National Gender Equality Policy. A second phase of the policy will be implemented in 2020–2024. Insights from key informants working on gender in Vanuatu reveal that there have been some positive developments in the first policy phase. A number of challenges remain, however, including limited capacity in a number of key institutions, and resistance to progress caused by prevailing conservative and patriarchal values and beliefs in Vanuatu. In the absence of other legal instruments for LGBTQI+/SOGI equality, perspectives vary on whether this aspect of gender equality should be included in the revised policy.
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León, Carlos. The dawn of a mobile payment scheme: The case of Movii. Banco de la República, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/be.1157.
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Mobile wallets replicate physical wallets on a mobile device, in which users can store different payment instruments (e.g., cards, transfers) to make mobile payments. As the mobile wallet is adopted, a mobile payment scheme emerges, with its users as elements in a network of transfers. In this article, I study the mobile payment scheme of Movii— the first fintech firm in Colombia operating under a financial non-banking license for electronic deposits and payments. Based on a unique dataset of bilateral transfers between Movii’s mobile wallet users, I build, visualize and analyze Movii’s network, daily from November 18, 2017, to November 25, 2020. Besides the anticipated increase in the number of users and the value of transfers, the visual and quantitative complexity of the network of transfers increases over time. This increase in complexity is likely to be linked to the adoption of Movii’s mobile wallet, which results in users finding new ways to use mobile payments beyond person-to-person transfers, including person-to-business and business-to-business. Also, results suggest the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the evolution of Movii’s mobile payments scheme.
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Pedersen, Gjertrud. Symphonies Reframed. Norges Musikkhøgskole, August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.481294.
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Symphonies Reframed recreates symphonies as chamber music. The project aims to capture the features that are unique for chamber music, at the juncture between the “soloistic small” and the “orchestral large”. A new ensemble model, the “triharmonic ensemble” with 7-9 musicians, has been created to serve this purpose. By choosing this size range, we are looking to facilitate group interplay without the need of a conductor. We also want to facilitate a richness of sound colours by involving piano, strings and winds. The exact combination of instruments is chosen in accordance with the features of the original score. The ensemble setup may take two forms: nonet with piano, wind quartet and string quartet (with double bass) or septet with piano, wind trio and string trio. As a group, these instruments have a rich tonal range with continuous and partly overlapping registers. This paper will illuminate three core questions: What artistic features emerge when changing from large orchestral structures to mid-sized chamber groups? How do the performers reflect on their musical roles in the chamber ensemble? What educational value might the reframing unfold? Since its inception in 2014, the project has evolved to include works with vocal, choral and soloistic parts, as well as sonata literature. Ensembles of students and professors have rehearsed, interpreted and performed our transcriptions of works by Brahms, Schumann and Mozart. We have also carried out interviews and critical discussions with the students, on their experiences of the concrete projects and on their reflections on own learning processes in general. Chamber ensembles and orchestras are exponents of different original repertoire. The difference in artistic output thus hinges upon both ensemble structure and the composition at hand. Symphonies Reframed seeks to enable an assessment of the qualities that are specific to the performing corpus and not beholden to any particular piece of music. Our transcriptions have enabled comparisons and reflections, using original compositions as a reference point. Some of our ensemble musicians have had first-hand experience with performing the original works as well. Others have encountered the works for the first time through our productions. This has enabled a multi-angled approach to the three central themes of our research. This text is produced in 2018.
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Kelly, Luke. Lessons Learned on Cultural Heritage Protection in Conflict and Protracted Crisis. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.068.
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This rapid review examines evidence on the lessons learned from initiatives aimed at embedding better understanding of cultural heritage protection within international monitoring, reporting and response efforts in conflict and protracted crisis. The report uses the terms cultural property and cultural heritage interchangeably. Since the signing of the Hague Treaty in 1954, there has bee a shift from 'cultural property' to 'cultural heritage'. Culture is seen less as 'property' and more in terms of 'ways of life'. However, in much of the literature and for the purposes of this review, cultural property and cultural heritage are used interchangeably. Tangible and intangible cultural heritage incorporates many things, from buildings of globally recognised aesthetic and historic value to places or practices important to a particular community or group. Heritage protection can be supported through a number of frameworks international humanitarian law, human rights law, and peacebuilding, in addition to being supported through networks of the cultural and heritage professions. The report briefly outlines some of the main international legal instruments and approaches involved in cultural heritage protection in section 2. Cultural heritage protection is carried out by national cultural heritage professionals, international bodies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as well as citizens. States and intergovernmental organisations may support cultural heritage protection, either bilaterally or by supporting international organisations. The armed forces may also include the protection of cultural heritage in some operations in line with their obligations under international law. In the third section, this report outlines broad lessons on the institutional capacity and politics underpinning cultural protection work (e.g. the strength of legal protections; institutional mandates; production and deployment of knowledge; networks of interested parties); the different approaches were taken; the efficacy of different approaches; and the interface between international and local approaches to heritage protection.
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Vargas-Herrera, Hernando, Pamela Andrea Cardozo-Ortiz, Clara Lía Machado-Franco, Carlos Alberto Cadena-Silva, Freddy Hernán Cepeda-López, Aura María Ciceri-Lozano, Carlos Eduardo León-Rincón, et al. Reporte de Sistemas de Pago - Junio de 2021. Banco de la República de Colombia, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/rept-sist-pag.2021.
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El Banco de la República, con el Reporte de Sistemas de Pago, entrega un panorama completo de la infraestructura financiera local, siendo este un producto importante de la labor de seguimiento a dicha infraestructura. Las cifras contenidas en este reporte corresponden al año 2020, período de pandemia durante el cual las medidas de confinamiento para aliviar la tensión sobre el sistema de salud generaron para Colombia, al igual que en la mayoría de los países, una fuerte reducción de la actividad económica y el consumo. Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, la Junta Directiva del Banco de la República adoptó las decisiones necesarias para otorgar al mercado amplia liquidez en pesos y dólares, garantizar la estabilidad de los mercados, proteger el sistema de pagos y preservar la oferta de crédito. El pronunciado crecimiento de los agregados monetarios reflejó la mayor preferencia por liquidez, la cual fue atendida oportunamente por el Banco de la República. Las decisiones adoptadas se realizaron mediante diferentes operaciones, las cuales fueron compensadas y liquidadas en la infraestructura financiera. Después de la introducción, la segunda sección del presente reporte de pagos analiza la evolución y el desempeño de las diferentes infraestructuras financieras. Se destaca que el sistema de pagos de alto valor CUD registró en 2020 un mayor dinamismo que el año anterior, principalmente por el aumento de los depósitos remunerados que en promedio diario realizó la Dirección General de Crédito Público y del Tesoro Nacional (DGCPTN) con el Banco de República, así como una mayor actividad del mercado de simultáneas de deuda pública. Consecuentemente con el crecimiento de la actividad en el CUD, el Depósito Central de Valores (DCV) registró una mayor actividad por el aumento del mercado monetario de deuda pública y por las colocaciones por parte del Gobierno Nacional en el mercado primario. El valor de las operaciones compensadas y liquidadas por intermedio de la Cámara de Riesgo Central de Contraparte (CRCC) continúa creciendo, jalonado principalmente por los contratos non delivery forward (NDF) peso/dólar. Con respecto a la CRCC, es oportuno mencionar que a partir de finales del año pasado esta cámara se encarga de administrar los riesgos y de compensar y liquidar las operaciones del mercado de contado peso/dólar, debido a la fusión con la Cámara de Compensación de Divisas de Colombia (CCDC). Así mismo, a partir del último trimestre del año 2020 la CRCC se encarga de compensar y liquidar el mercado de renta variable, labor que venía desempeñando la Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC). En la sección tres se entrega una visión integral de los pagos en el mercado de bienes y servicios, es decir, de las transacciones efectuadas en el circuito de personas naturales y empresas no financieras. Durante la pandemia las transferencias electrónicas inter e intrabancarias, que en su mayoría son originadas por empresas, registraron un incremento tanto en número como en valor de operaciones frente a 2019. Por su parte, los pagos con tarjetas débito y crédito originados principalmente por personas naturales mostraron un comportamiento decreciente con respecto a 2019. Los pagos realizados con cheques siguen disminuyendo, presentando una tendencia a la baja muy pronunciada en el último año. Como complemento a la información sobre transferencias electrónicas, el reporte incluye en esta sección un sombreado sobre la caracterización de la población con cuenta de ahorro y corriente, empleando los datos de la encuesta del Banco de la República sobre percepción de uso de los instrumentos de pago en 2019. Se incluye también un recuadro sobre la evolución transaccional de una billetera móvil provista por una sociedad especializada en depósitos y pagos electrónicos (Sedpe), mostrando que desde su creación a finales del año 2017 ha incremento en el número de usuarios y el valor de las transacciones, con especial velocidad durante la pandemia. Adicionalmente, se presenta un diagnóstico sobre los efectos de la pandemia en los patrones de pago de la población, fundamentado en datos sobre el uso del efectivo en circulación, sobre los pagos con instrumentos electrónicos, y sobre el consumo y la confianza del consumidor. Se concluye que el desplome en el índice de confianza del consumidor y la caída en el consumo privado dieron lugar a cambios en los patrones de pago de las personas. Las compras con tarjetas de crédito y débito disminuyeron, mientras que los pagos por bienes y servicios mediante transferencia electrónica aumentaron. Estos resultados, junto con el considerable aumento del efectivo en circulación, podrían proveer indicios a favor de un posible atesoramiento del papel moneda con motivo precaución por parte de las personas y de un mayor uso del efectivo como instrumento de pago. Se incluye, además, un recuadro que presenta los principales cambios que se introdujeron en la regulación del sistema de pagos de bajo valor en el país mediante la expedición del Decreto 1692 de diciembre de 2020. La cuarta sección se refiere a las importantes innovaciones y cambios tecnológicos que se han observado en el sistema de pagos al por menor. Se destacan cuatro temas en esta línea. El primero se constituye en un punto clave para la construcción de la infraestructura financiera de pagos inmediatos. Consiste en el diseño e implementación de los llamados esquemas superpuestos, los cuales son un desarrollo tecnológico que permite una comunicación abierta entre los diferentes agentes de la cadena de pagos, logrando una alta interoperabilidad entre diferentes proveedores de servicios de pago. El segundo tema explora los avances en el debate internacional sobre la emisión de moneda digital por parte de los bancos centrales (CBDC por su sigla en inglés), con el fin de entender su posible impacto en el sistema de pagos de bajo valor y en el uso del efectivo. El tercer tema está relacionado con nuevas formas de iniciación de pagos, tales como los códigos QR, la biometría o la tecnología de comunicación de campos cercanos (NCF por su sigla en inglés). Estos cambios, aparentemente pequeños, pueden tener efectos importantes en la experiencia del usuario con el sistema de pagos de bajo valor. El cuarto tema, finalmente, es el crecimiento de los pagos vinculados con la telefonía móvil y el internet. El reporte finaliza en la sección cinco con una reseña de dos trabajos de investigación aplicada realizados en el Banco de la República en el año 2020. El primero analiza el nivel patrimonial de la CRCC, reconociendo el rol relevante que esta infraestructura ha adquirido en la compensación y liquidación de varios mercados financieros en el país. Se exploran los requerimientos de capital para las entidades de contrapartida central establecidos en algunas jurisdicciones, se identifican los riesgos que se busca cubrir desde la perspectiva del servicio que este tipo de entidades ofrece al mercado y aquellos asociados a su actividad corporativa. Se analizan los niveles patrimoniales de la CRCC a partir de lo observado en la regulación de la Unión Europea y se concluye que la CRCC cuenta con un esquema de anillos de seguridad muy similar al observado en la experiencia internacional y que su nivel patrimonial es superior al exigido por la regulación colombiana, siendo suficiente para cubrir otros riesgos. El segundo trabajo de investigación identifica y cuantifica las fuentes que utilizan las entidades participantes en el CUD para cumplir con sus obligaciones diarias contraídas en el mercado financiero local, y con su uso como herramienta de monitoreo de la liquidez intradía en condiciones normales. Leonardo Villar Gómez Gerente General
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Kyllönen, Katriina, Karri Saarnio, Ulla Makkonen, and Heidi Hellén. Verification of the validity of air quality measurements related to the Directive 2004/107/EC in 2019-2020 (DIRME2019). Finnish Meteorological Institute, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35614/isbn.9789523361256.
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This project summarizes the results from 2000–2020and evaluates the trueness andthequality control (QC) procedures of the ongoing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)and trace element measurements in Finlandrelating to Air Quality (AQ) Directive 2004/107/EC. The evaluation was focused on benzo(a)pyrene and other PAH compounds as well as arsenic, cadmium and nickel in PM10and deposition. Additionally, it included lead and other metals in PM10and deposition, gaseous mercury and mercury deposition, andbriefly other specificAQ measurements such as volatile organic compounds (VOC)and PM2.5chemical composition. This project was conducted by the National Reference Laboratory on air quality and thiswas the first time these measurements were assessed. A major part of the project was field and laboratory audits of the ongoing PAH and metal measurements. Other measurements were briefly evaluated through interviews and available literature. In addition, the national AQ database, the expertise of local measurement networks and related publications were utilised. In total, all theseven measurement networks performing PAH and metal measurements in 2019–2020took part in the audits. Eleven stations were audited while these measurements are performed at 22 AQ stations in Finland. For the large networks, one station was chosen to represent the performance of the network. The audits included also six laboratories performing the analysis of the collected samples. The audits revealed the compliance of the measurements with the AQ Decree 113/2017, Directive 2004/107/EC and Standards of the European Committee for Standardization(CEN). In addition, general information of the measurements, instruments and quality control procedures were gained. The results of the laboratory audits were confidential,but this report includes general findings, and the measurement networks were informed on the audit results with the permission of the participating laboratories. As a conclusion, the measurementmethodsusedwere mainly reference methods. Currently, all sampling methods were reference methods; however, before 2018 three networks used other methods that may have underestimated concentrations. Regarding these measurements, it should be noted the results are notcomparable with the reference method. Laboratory methods were reference methods excluding two cases, where the first was considered an acceptable equivalent method. For the other, a change to a reference method was strongly recommended and this realized in 2020. For some new measurements, the ongoing QC procedures were not yet fully established, and advice were given. Some networks used consultant for calibration and maintenance, and thus theywere not fully aware of the QC procedures. EN Standards were mostly followed. Main concerns were related to the checks of flow and calculation of measurement uncertainty, and suggestions for improvement were given. When the measurement networks implement the recommendations given inthe audits, it can be concluded that the EN Standards are adequately followed in the networks. In the ongoing sampling, clear factors risking the trueness of the result were not found. This applies also for the laboratory analyses in 2020. One network had concentrations above the target value, and theindicative measurementsshould be updated to fixed measurements.