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Sjödin, Ulrika. "Insiders’ outside/Outsiders’ inside : Rethinking the insider regulation." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, School of Business, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-944.
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<p>Financial speculation has increased dramatically over the last 30 years. This means that a practice that used to be viewed as immoral <i>gambling</i> has become legitimate financial <i>trade</i>. This book explores the<i> genealogy</i> of the coexisting<i> insider trading laws</i>. The insider regulation prohibits trade based on privileged information in order to create equal trading conditions, and in this way uphold confidence in the financial markets among the general public. However, this study shows that the existing view of the insider regulation is <i>misleading</i> and that the regulation is best understood as a <i>game rule</i> aiming to <i>stimulate</i> financial speculation. The protection interest is therefore not primarily the general public, but the financial system as such: the professional market actors sustaining the speculative activities and a growing financial sector. </p><p>The consequence of stimulating financial speculation is that today’s authorities are attempting to make the financial markets into a lotto-like game, rather than a market for long-term investment. To make the financial markets into liquid and volatile public “games” means that the <i>risks</i> involved in the financial speculation are created by the human hand and the economic system<i> itself</i> rather than being naturally given. This places <i>desire</i> rather than rational <i>needs</i> as the fundamental ground of the economy. The concluding question is; why are we making our economy into a game? </p>
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Sjödin, Ulrika. "Insiders' outside/outsiders' inside : rethinking the insider regulation /." Stockholm : School of Business, Stockholm University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-944.
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Clements, Cassie. "Outside inside /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/11100.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 2010.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 42 p. : col. ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 23).
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Plicque, Ann. "Inside, Outside." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1165.
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Delgado, Christina Michelle. "Inside + Outside." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33883.
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A study of public and private space through human scale architectural elements: Window, Material and Path. The project is an urban infill that is very narrow and long, and incorporates an alley that connects one side of the block to another. The program combines a small restaurant with a home above for the family that owns it. Questions of light and privacy immediately arise, and the thesis begins.
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A window is typically a two dimensional object that opens for light and air. Window is a dining room overlooking a garden or a large sill to sit on. Window is not only part of the façade but also breaks through it, bringing small private spaces beyond the building boundaries and defining the interior spaces of the home. Window is also a small skylight facing east, scooping in soft morning light to a bedroom.
The materials of a building are what it is made of: its cladding, waterproofing, walls and floors. Material makes an emotive space through touch and reflection. Concrete is heavy, rough and protective, Concrete is boundary. Contrastingly, Wood is soft, flexible and changing, Wood is home.
<p>An alley is a narrow walkway, an undesirable secondary access point. How can an alley become Path? Path is an invitation to walk and be, Path is not the same from beginning to end. Path belongs to the city, the restaurant, and the pedestrian.<p>
Inside + Outside studies what makes these public and private places at the human scale, and how architecture appeals to intuition rather than definition.<br>Master of Architecture
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Roth, John. "Go Outside." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492791661273655.
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Sorenson, Jacob. "Outside Things." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2479.
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My thesis is a description of the issues encountered during the process of research and construction of the objects leading to, and consisting of, the work shown in Outside Things. The work is my attempt to gain personal insight into the complicated relationship between nature and culture. Through abstract furniture objects, floral patterns, and robots I explore the relationship between actual landscape and the constructed man-made bio-mimicry that convolutes the definition of Nature.
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DeFiore, Dakota D. "Outside of This." Thesis, Mills College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557281.
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<p> Inside the perimeter of Schiefersberg County, Pennsylvania, there are many secrets buried deep within the soil. Generation after generation these roots grow deeper, stronger, and now these small towns and their people have been strangled of their desire to progress. They impose their outdated beliefs and values on their children and grandchildren, and they turn their noses to everyone and everything foreign and new. But 2008 has brought a boom of modern technology and social revolution, leaking progression and liberalism inside this bubble and sparking the interests of Generation Y. Through the stories of five high school graduates, <i>Outside of This</i> brings forth a multi-perspective journey of what it means to discover the personal and the moral behind closed doors in a time of change. What will happens when they leave and go to college? Who will they become outside of this, without each other as a safety net? Death and destruction are blended with acceptance and opportunity as Fiona Ferguson and her circle of friends explore what it means to come of age amongst long lineages of hate and conservatism, and to find the courage to stand against 'history' and create their own.</p>
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Andersen, Steven P. "Inside outside between." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53412.
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Speight, Pamela Jean. "Outside the literal." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303325609.
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Sundvall, Elin. "Reading inside & outside." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231990.
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Peter EIsenman writes in The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the The End; “that the activity of reading architecture, objects and spaces is an activity of recognizing them as a language. Reading, in this sense, makes a level of indication available rather than a level of meaning or expression. Every object, model and drawing, should be made with the awareness that it can be read similar to a text. In other words the objects must have the capacity to reveal themselves as a reading event. The reader is not presumed to know the nature of truth in the object, the reader should be able to use it as a medium.”
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Beaverson, Gregory J. "Going Outside : A Novel." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1365603327.
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Pope, Aurora Maria. "Inside, Outside, In-Between." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1932.
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The artist discusses her Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Inside, Outside, In-Between, held at the Carroll Reece Museum on the campus of East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, from February 26 through March 13, 2008. The works included in this exhibition are a collection of paintings that employ the use of traditional and non-traditional materials to explore the connections between place and memory.
These pieces are investigations into materiality and process, combining local beeswax, sticks, garden soil, charcoal, and ashes together with oil, shellac, oil pastel, pencil, and other traditional artist's materials.
Ideas discussed include materiality, process, composition, cropping, collective and selective memory, landmarks, archaeology, gardening, borders and boundaries, parietal Paleolithic art and the art of the Abstract Expressionists, ritual, alchemy, time, liminality, and the influences of Michelle Stuart, Mary Frank, and Cai Guo-Qiang.
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Pozas, Kerstjens Alejandro. "Quantum information outside quantum information." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667696.
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Quantum theory, as counter-intuitive as a theory can get, has turned out to make predictions of the physical world that match observations so precisely that it has been described as the most accurate physical theory ever devised. Viewing quantum entanglement, superposition and interference not as undesirable necessities but as interesting resources paved the way to the development of quantum information science. This area studies the processing, transmission and storage of information when one accounts that information is physical and subjected to the laws of nature that govern the systems it is encoded in. The development of the consequences of this idea, along with the great advances experienced in the control of individual quantum systems, has led to what is now known as the second quantum revolution, in which quantum information science has emerged as a fully-grown field. As such, ideas and tools developed within the framework of quantum information theory begin to permeate to other fields of research.
This Ph.D. dissertation is devoted to the use of concepts and methods akin to the field of quantum information science in other areas of research. In the same way, it also considers how encoding information in quantum degrees of freedom may allow further development of well-established research fields and industries. This is, this thesis aims to the study of quantum information outside the field of quantum information. Four different areas are visited.
A first question posed is that of the role of quantum information in quantum field theory, with a focus in the quantum vacuum. It is known that the quantum vacuum contains entanglement, but it remains unknown whether it can be accessed and exploited in experiments. We give crucial steps in this direction by studying the extraction of vacuum entanglement in realistic models of light-matter interaction, and by giving strict mathematical conditions of general applicability that must be fulfilled for extraction to be possible at all.
Another field where quantum information methods can offer great insight is in that of quantum thermodynamics, where the idealizations made in macroscopic thermodynamics break down. Making use of a quintessential framework of quantum information and quantum optics, we study the cyclic operation of a microscopic heat engine composed by a single particle reciprocating between two finite-size baths, focusing on the consequences of the removal of the macroscopic idealizations.
One more step down the stairs to applications in society, we analyze the impact that encoding information in quantum systems and processing it in quantum computers may have in the field of machine learning. A great desideratum in this area, largely obstructed by computational power, is that of explainable models which not only make predictions but also provide information about the decision process that triggers them. We develop an algorithm to train neural networks using explainable techniques that exploits entanglement and superposition to execute efficiently in quantum computers, in contrast with classical counterparts. Furthermore, we run it in state-of-the-art quantum computers with the aim of assessing the viability of realistic implementations.
Lastly, and encompassing all the above, we explore the notion of causality in quantum mechanics from an information-theoretic point of view. While it is known since the work of John S. Bell in 1964 that, for a same causal pattern, quantum systems can generate correlations between variables that are impossible to obtain employing only classical systems, there is an important lack of tools to study complex causal effects whenever a quantum behavior is expected. We fill this gap by providing general methods for the characterization of the quantum correlations achievable in complex causal patterns. Closing the circle, we make use of these tools to find phenomena of fundamental and experimental relevance back in quantum information.<br>La teoría cuántica, la más extraña y antiintuitiva de las teorías físicas, es también considerada como la teoría más precisa jamás desarrollada. La interpretación del entrelazamiento, la superposición y la interferencia como interesantes recursos aprovechables cimentó el desarrollo de la teoría cuántica de la información (QIT), que estudia el procesado, transmisión y almacenamiento de información teniendo en cuenta que ésta es física, en tanto a que está sujeta a las leyes de la naturaleza que gobiernan los sistemas en que se codifica. El desarrollo de esta idea, en conjunción con los recientes avances en el control de sistemas cuánticos individuales, ha dado lugar a la conocida como segunda revolución cuántica, en la cual la QIT ha emergido como un área de estudio con denominación propia. A consecuencia de su desarrollo actual, ideas y herramientas creadas en su seno comienzan a permear a otros ámbitos de investigación. Esta tesis doctoral está dedicada a la utilización de conceptos y métodos originales del campo de información cuántica en otras áreas. También considera cómo la codificación de información en grados de libertad cuánticos puede afectar el futuro desarrollo de áreas de investigación e industrias bien establecidas. Es decir, esta tesis tiene como objetivo el estudio de la información cuántica fuera de la información cuántica, haciendo hincapié en cuatro ámbitos diferentes. Una primera cuestión propuesta es la del papel de la información cuántica en la teoría cuántica de campos, con especial énfasis en el vacío cuántico. Es conocido que el vacío cuántico contiene entrelazamiento, pero aún se desconoce éste es accesible para su uso en realizaciones experimentales. En esta tesis se dan pasos cruciales en esta dirección mediante el estudio de la extracción de entrelazamiento en modelos realistas de la interacción materia-radiación, y dando condiciones matemáticas estrictas que deben ser satisfechas para que dicha extracción sea posible. Otro campo en el cual métodos propios de QIT pueden ofrecer nuevos puntos de vista es en termodinámica cuántica. A través del uso de un marco de trabajo ampliamente utilizado en información y óptica cuánticas, estudiamos la operación cíclica de un motor térmico microscópico que alterna entre dos baños térmicos de tamaño finito, prestando especial atención a las consecuencias de la eliminación de las idealizaciones macroscópicas utilizadas en termodinámica macroscópica. Acercándonos a aplicaciones industriales, analizamos el potencial impacto de codificar y procesar información en sistemas cuánticos en el ámbito del aprendizaje automático. Un fin codiciado en esta área, inaccesible debido a su coste computacional, es el de modelos explicativos que realicen predicciones, y además ofrezcan información acerca del proceso de decisión que las genera. Presentamos un algoritmo de entrenamiento de redes neuronales con técnicas explicativas que hace uso del entrelazamiento y la superposición para tener una ejecución eficiente en ordenadores cuánticos, en comparación con homólogos clásicos. Además, ejecutamos el algoritmo en ordenadores cuánticos contemporáneos con el objetivo de evaluar la viabilidad de implementaciones realistas. Finalmente, y englobando todo lo anterior, exploramos la noción de causalidad en mecánica cuántica desde el punto de vista de la teoría de la información. A pesar de que es conocido que para un mismo patrón causal existen sistemas cuánticos que dan lugar a correlaciones imposibles de generar por mediación de sistemas clásicos, existe una notable falta de herramientas para estudiar efectos causales cuánticos complejos. Cubrimos esta falta mediante métodos generales para la caracterización de las correlaciones cuánticas que pueden ser generadas en estructuras causales complejas. Cerrando el círculo, usamos estas herramientas para encontrar fenómenos de relevancia fundamental y experimental en la información cuántica
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May, James L. "A Body Outside the Kremlin." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1938.
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A BODY OUTSIDE THE KREMLIN is a historical mystery novel set in the Northern Camps of Special Significance, a Soviet Russian penal institution based in the Solovetsky Archipelago during the 1920s. The protagonist, working first with the camp authorities, then in spite of their disapproval, solves the murder of a fellow prisoner. In the process he improves his position within the camp, while also becoming hardened to the brutal necessities of camp life. Prior to the establishment of the penal camp, the Solovetsky Archipelago was the site of an important Russian Orthodox monastery, and the mystery proves to involve valuables, particularly icons, seized from the monks by the Soviet secret police. Thus the novel treats themes not only of statist repression, but also religious epiphany and the problems of true perception in a world of symbols.
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Kiraly, Francis. "Employment contracts with outside offers." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496273.
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Carter-White, Richard. "Outside Auschwitz: History, responsibility, witnessing." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506085.
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Jia, Han. "On "Thinking Outside the Box"." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1470.
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This paper examines a computational account about higher-level creativity proposed by Margaret A. Boden, a female psychologist and philosopher. She uses an interesting computational concept the “conceptual space” – known as “the box” in our everyday language – to measure levels of creativeness and to explain how higher-level creativity is achieved.
In this paper, I mainly seek to look into detail and analyze her answers to the following two questions: “What does Boden mean by the ‘conceptual space?” and “How is it possible to think outside of the ‘conceptual space?”
To that end, I have researched papers that commented on Boden’s computational account, and have come up with hypothetical cases to flesh out my arguments and to appeal to the readers’ intuitions.
The conclusion of this paper is that the knowledge of yourself being inside particular boxes and the knowledge of what limits and potential a given conceptual space has are neither sufficient nor necessary for producing the kind of rule-breaking “outside-the-box” ideas, but the idea of a “conceptual space” remains useful in evaluating the quality of ideas after their generation.
The philosophy of creativity is such an intriguing topic to me – we all value creativity as a society and have put “outside-the-box” type of thinking on the pedestal since the age of Plato. Yet when we think more about the idea of “outside-the-box” thinking, much ambiguity arises. This topic greatly sparks my interest in the philosophy of mind, and through research and self-introspection, I have not only learned more about the concept of creativity, but also discovered more about my own thinking style.
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Alton, Borgelin Teresa. "Inside/outside - and all between." Thesis, Konstfack, Ädellab/Metallformgivning, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6809.
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I feel something on the INSIDE of my body, a feeling of nagging worry. It is an emotion equally important as every other emotions we humans have. But the feeling of worry is very complex as it may come in different shapes and sizes, and how much it affects us differs from person to person. For some people thoughts of worry escalates and becomes overwhelming which causes an emotion of anxiety which in turn could lead to a panik attack. In my exam project and my artistic presentation I focus on that emotion of anxiety when you panic and you loose control. The reason for this emotion could be many but I am interested in how expectations and demands both from ourselves, others and society leads to us trying to keep it all together, stay in control and/or wanting to show an OUTSIDE that everything is fine. Through social media, internet and commercials we are all exposed to information which tells us how to achieve ”the perfect life” and images of people having an eventful life. All of this creates expectations. In society today worry and anxiety are emotions that are connected to something negative and is often seen as a weakness. In our attempt to hide the emotion of worry and anxiety we communicate to the people on the outside that everything is fine, by for example using jewelry, make-up and clothes to show a beautiful facade almost like putting on a shield before we go outside to meet the world. Why do we do that? And for whom? I chose the necklace as the traditional piece of jewelry to symbolize beauty, stability and to communicate to people that you have everything under control and that everything is fine. The necklace becomes part of the facade that will stand for beauty, tradition and a measure of prosperity. This is what you show on the outside of the body but on the inside that is where you hide away your worries and anxiety which is built up due to expectations. Expectations which in time will be too many and too much for you to handle, the same as with anxiety. One part of my artistic presentation is to try and visualise how these expectations are put upon you while you are trying to control them and at the same time show off a stable and beautiful outside. But no matter how hard you try to communicate that everything is fine and trying to keep everything together, in the end, what you feel on the inside of the body will seep out to the outside. I am making a attempt to show how this eventually makes you loose control. The beautiful necklace is impossible to sustain which also makes me question my own traditional view of what a necklace is. Another part of my artistic presentation is about value and to make objects that could be used as conversation pieces to start a dialog about worry and anxiety. The materials I am using symbolises the feeling when anxiety takes control of your body and staines the individual. The aim of this exam project is to raise thoughts about a complex emotion, norms in society, and to investigate what a necklace is or could be. Jewelry is a way of communicating with other people and one way to show who you are or whom you want to be. As a contemporary art jeweller I am exploring my topic in a conceptual way.
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Krocak, Makenzie, Sean Ernst, Jinan Allan, et al. "Thinking Outside the Polygon: A Study of Tornado Warning Perception Outside of Warning Polygon Bounds." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7865.
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When the National Weather Service (NWS) issues a tornado warning, the alert is rapidly and widely disseminated to individuals in the general area of the warning. Historically, the assumption has been that a false-negative warning perception (i.e., when someone located within a warning polygon does not believe they have received a tornado warning) carries a higher cost than a false-positive warning perception (i.e., when someone located outside the warning area believes they have received a warning). While many studies investigate tornado warning false alarms (i.e., when the NWS issues a tornado warning, but a tornado does not actually occur), less work focuses on studying individuals outside of the warning polygon bounds who believe they received a warning (i.e., false-positive perceptions). This work attempts to quantify the occurrence of false-positive perceptions and possible factors associated with the rate of occurrence. Following two separate storm events, Oklahomans were asked whether they perceived a tornado warning. Their geolocated responses were then compared to issued warning polygons. Individuals closer to tornado warnings or within a different type of warning (e.g., a severe thunderstorm warning) are more likely to report a false-positive perception than those farther away or outside of other hazard warnings. Further work is needed to understand the rate of false-positive perceptions across different hazards and how this may influence warning response and trust in the National Weather Service.
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Adamuz, Peña Mercedes. "Essays on Bargaining with Outside Options." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4059.
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Los modelos de negociación con opciones exteriores normalmente suponen que los pagos de estas opciones son independientes de las acciones que los negociadores toman durante el proceso negociador. Sin embargo, en muchos contextos, la opción exterior depende de lo que las partes hagan durante la fase negociadora. Uno de estos contextos es el de aquellas negociaciones que se llevan a cabo en presencia de un árbitro. Esta tesis realiza algunas contribuciones a la teoría de la negociación con opciones exteriores, enfatizando aquellas situaciones donde las opciones exteriores aparecen por la intervención de árbitros.<br/>En el capítulo 2 analizo los efectos del arbitraje en las negociaciones cuando su uso es voluntario. Considero un modelo de negociación por concesiones donde las partes tienen la posibilidad de llamar a un árbitro con el consentimiento del oponente. Demuestro que la introducción del arbitraje distorsiona el resultado de la negociación. Esta distorsión depende de los costes relativos de implementar una partición mediante un proceso negociador versus un proceso arbitral. Si los costes del arbitraje son pequeños en relación a los costes de la negociación, entonces la partición negociada se aproxima a la propuesta por el árbitro, y en casos extremos el arbitraje es utilizado en equilibrio. Sin embargo, los jugadores no eligen siempre el método más eficiente de resolver su disputa: a veces negocian cuando es más eficiente acudir al arbitraje. <br/>En el capítulo 3 estudio los efectos de diferentes procedimientos arbitrales en el resultado de una negociación, en un modelo donde los jugadores realizan demandas no crecientes y el árbitro es llamado solo cuando las negociaciones se declaran rotas. Dos procedimientos arbitrales son analizados: el arbitraje convencional, donde el árbitro es libre de elegir su acuerdo y el arbitraje de oferta final, donde el árbitro está obligado a elegir una de las últimas ofertas de los jugadores. Demuestro que si los jugadores son suficientemente pacientes y el árbitro sigue un procedimiento de oferta final, en equilibrio, los jugadores negocian una partición pero toma algún tiempo llegar a ella. Sin embargo, si el árbitro sigue un procedimiento convencional, en equilibrio los jugadores utilizarán esta institución para resolver su disputa. <br/>Finalmente, en el capítulo 4 discuto el papel que juegan las opciones exteriores inciertas en las negociaciones cuando existe información incompleta acerca de su existencia. Examino una guerra de desgaste donde los jugadores disfrutan de información privada acerca de sus posibilidades de dejar la mesa de negociación para tomar una opción exterior. Hay dos tipos de jugadores: los tipos débiles, que no tienen opciones exteriores y prefieren conceder que salirse del juego, y los tipos fuertes que tienen opciones exteriores tales que prefieren salirse que conceder. El principal mensaje que surge del análisis de este juego es que la incertidumbre acerca de la posibilidad de que el oponente se vaya, mejora la eficiencia porque incrementa la probabilidad de concesión. Más precisamente, si la probabilidad de que el oponente sea fuerte es relativamente alta, la negociación acaba con una concesión segura. En el otro extremo, si la probabilidad de que el oponente sea débil es alta, los tipos fuertes dejarán en algún momento el juego con probabilidad igual a 1, dejando a los débiles jugando, desde ese momente en adelante el ineficiente equilibrio de la guerra de desgaste clásica. Incluso en este caso, la probabilidad de concesión a lo largo de la fase de incertidumbre del juego se incrementa.<br>Models of bargaining with outside options usually assume that the payoffs resulting from the outside options are independent of the actions taken by bargainers during the negotiation process. However, in many negotiation contexts, the outside option does depend on what the parties have done during the negotiation phase. One such context is that of negotiations in presence of a third party, an arbitrator. This thesis makes several contributions to the theory of bargaining with outside options, emphasizing situations in which outside options arise by the intervention of arbitrators.<br/>Chapter 2, analyzes the effects of arbitration in negotiations when the use of this institution is voluntary. We consider a bargaining by concessions model where the parties have the possibility of calling an arbitrator with the consent of the other party. I show that introducing arbitration distorts the negotiated outcome. This distortion depends on the relative costs of implementation of the partition obtained by negotiating and the one obtained by arbitrating. If the arbitration cost is small relative to the cost of negotiation then the negotiated partition approximates the one proposed by the arbitrator, and in extreme cases arbitration is used in equilibrium. However players do not always choose the most efficient method to solve their dispute: sometimes they negotiate when it would be more efficient to use arbitration.<br/>Chapter 3 studies the effects of different arbitration procedures on the bargaining outcome and its efficiency, in a bargaining model where players make non-increasing demands and an arbitrator is called if and only if negotiations are declared broken. Two arbitration procedures are analyzed: the conventional arbitration (CA) where the arbitrator is free to choose a settlement and the final-offer arbitration (FOA) where the arbitrator is constrained to pick one of the players' last offers. I show that, if players are sufficiently patient and the arbitrator follows a Final-Offer Arbitration procedure, the equilibrium negotiated outcome may involve some delay. But if he follows a Conventional Arbitration procedure, in equilibrium, players always use the arbitrator to solve the dispute.<br/>Finally, chapter 4 discusses the role played by the outside options in negotiations when there is incomplete information about their existence. I examine a War of Attrition where players enjoy private information about their possibility of leaving the negotiation to take an outside option. There are two types of players: a weak type who has a valueless outside option-she always prefers conceding rather than opting out- and a strong type who has a valuable outside option that she prefers to take rather than conceding. The main message that emerges from the analysis of this game is that uncertainty about the possibility that the opponent opts out improves efficiency, since it increases the equilibrium probability of concession. More precisely, if the probability that the opponent is strong is relatively high, in equilibrium, the negotiation eventually ends with a sure concession. On the other extreme, if the likelihood of a weak opponent is high, strong types will eventually leave the negotiation and opt out with probability 1 leaving weak types to play from that time on the inefficient symmetric equilibrium of the classical War of Attrition. Even in this case, the probability of concession along the uncertainty phase of the equilibrium play increases.
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Nakashima, Izumi. "Evolution of Humans Outside the Genome." Nagoya University School of Medicine, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/5405.
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Andrew, Culp. "Deleuze Beyond Deleuze: Thought Outside Cybernetics." Universität Leipzig, 2020. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A71595.
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MacLeod, Fraser, and Pia Larsson. "Exposure to English outside the Classroom." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31838.
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This study attempts to outline the exposure to English language students between the ages of 14 and 16 experience in Swedish schools. Due to the relatively small scope of our study we have limited our parameters and concentrated on two schools with predominantly Swedish pupils. The aim was to establish the nature of English influence on teenagers in Swedish schools and then to examine whether this naturally occurring acquisition of knowledge is utilized in the more formal language learning environment of the classroom.We used a survey to get an overview of our topic and to help us establish patterns and trends of English language exposure amongst our target students. In order to further analyze our topic we conducted two group interviews.Our research shows that English has a great influence on Swedish children though perhaps not as much as we had first anticipated. While receptive acquisition is high, chances to actively produce the language remain low. It is also noted that while different types of English media is in fact utilized in the classroom, it may not be relevant or interesting to the students.
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Iwaki, Yukinori. "Global justice from outside-the-box." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31146.
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We live in a severely unequal world. Pressing questions are, then, what changes the global advantaged should bring about to improve the situation of the global disadvantaged, and why they should do so in the first place. Chapters 1, 2 and 3 answer the latter question whereas chapters 4 and 5 answer the former. Chapter 1 considers Peter Singer’s ‘non-relationist’ and Thomas Pogge’s ‘relationist’ approaches to global justice. The chapter argues that Pogge’s argument is more compelling than Singer’s, but that it is incomplete. To make a relationist argument more plausible, the chapter draws on two critical social theorists: Alf Hornborg and David Harvey. Based on their analyses, and employing the perspectives of ‘human time’ and ‘ecological space’, the chapter concludes that the advantaged are in violation of a stringent negative duty by being complicit in the harmful global system. The chapter also introduces two kinds of debt – ‘temporal debt’ and ‘ecological debt’ – that the advantaged may owe the disadvantaged. Chapter 2 argues that the global system is not only harmful but severely harmful: it is likely to reproduce ‘absolute harm’ (a harm that infringes upon minimum human well-being). Chapter 3 discusses what positive action the advantaged ought to take because of the negative-duty violation and the problem-solving ability they have. Focusing on two kinds of action – reparation and remedy – the chapter argues that achieving reparation may face practical problems, but that the advantaged should act immediately to provide remedy – in particular, institutional remedy – for the disadvantaged. In doing so, the chapter commends the ‘advantaged remedy’ principle. Chapters 4 and 5 consider remedial institutions which the advantaged should strive to create and uphold. Chapter 4 focuses on one which we already have: the UN Global Compact. The chapter argues that this institution is necessary in the light of present global circumstances and also advances a set of principles appropriate to protect minimum human well-being. But it concludes that this reformist institution may turn out to be insufficient. Based on this conclusion, chapter 5 supports a more radical proposal: a market-socialist proposal offered by Leslie Sklair. Sklair’s account, however, does not explain why it is market socialism, rather than a non-market alternative, that should be pursued. Neither does it show how market-socialist institutions would remedy the global-systemic problems that are likely to afflict the disadvantaged. The chapter offers answers to these questions by drawing on David Miller (for the first question) and David Schweickart (for the second question). The chapter then argues that market socialism, if accompanied by an appropriate ethos, would serve to remedy the situation of the global disadvantaged. Meanwhile, the shift to market socialism would, and should, take time. So, this project concludes by considering a supplementary institution that may need to be implemented in the meantime: an ecological space tax.
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Peterein, Michelle. "Spaces In, Outside Of, and Between." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5850.
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My practice involves leveraging analog and digital techniques from many disciplines, but especially graphic design, craft/material studies, and sculpture. I embrace reproduction and repetition as both tools and means to visualize what is often unseen, and to recognize not only what is made, but what supports making— from the straightforward and immediate to the complex and conceptual.
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Cartmel, Jennifer Leigh. "Outside school hours care and schools." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2007. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/17810/1/Jennifer_Cartmel_Thesis.pdf.
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Outside school hours programs provide recreation, play and leisure-based programs for children aged 5 to 12 years in before- and after-school settings, and in the vacation periods. Over the past ten years, the number of programs has grown rapidly due to women’s increasing participation in the workforce. At the same time, critical changes for the operation and administration of Queensland outside school hours care services were occurring following the introduction of mandatory standards and quality assurance. This study is a critical ethnography investigating the circumstances for two Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) services located on school sites at this time of change. The services were responding to the introduced legislative and accreditation requirements, the burgeoning numbers of students in the programs, and the requirements by parents for care for their school-aged child. The findings of this study show the complexity of the dualities of purpose and the operational administration of OSHC services, an area that has been little identified and discussed to date. This study illuminated not only aspects of OSHC services, it provided an opportunity for the co-ordinators of the two OSHC services to reflect on the operational structures.
As the majority of OSHC services in Queensland (and other Australian states) are located in school sites, a closer examination of the relationship between OSHC and schools provided insights into some issues concerning the sector. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action was used to investigate the state of affairs and analyse the consensual and coercion meaning-making that occurred in the interactions between the stakeholders, specifically between the OSHC coordinators and school principals. Critical ethnographic research techniques, including participant observations and semi-structured interviews, were used to investigate what appears below the surface of social existence in the OSHC settings.
On the surface, the interactions between the coordinators and principals appeared congenial. However, the study found that the vulnerability of the OSHC services for alienation and marginalisation was linked to the lack of legitimacy and reduced sense of social membership endowed by the ambience of the school setting in which the services were located. The study found that the distorted communicative action that took place within the OSHC settings exhibited the pathologies of alienation, withdrawal of legitimation and lack of collective identity. Examining the relationships of the key stakeholders within the outside school hours care services offers conceptual understandings of existing institutional relationships and practices, This critical ethnography pinpoints sources of power and unease contributing to the concerns for the outside school hours sector and recommends ways to develop these programs.
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Cartmel, Jennifer Leigh. "Outside school hours care and schools." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/17810/.
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Outside school hours programs provide recreation, play and leisure-based programs for children aged 5 to 12 years in before- and after-school settings, and in the vacation periods. Over the past ten years, the number of programs has grown rapidly due to women’s increasing participation in the workforce. At the same time, critical changes for the operation and administration of Queensland outside school hours care services were occurring following the introduction of mandatory standards and quality assurance. This study is a critical ethnography investigating the circumstances for two Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) services located on school sites at this time of change. The services were responding to the introduced legislative and accreditation requirements, the burgeoning numbers of students in the programs, and the requirements by parents for care for their school-aged child. The findings of this study show the complexity of the dualities of purpose and the operational administration of OSHC services, an area that has been little identified and discussed to date. This study illuminated not only aspects of OSHC services, it provided an opportunity for the co-ordinators of the two OSHC services to reflect on the operational structures.
As the majority of OSHC services in Queensland (and other Australian states) are located in school sites, a closer examination of the relationship between OSHC and schools provided insights into some issues concerning the sector. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action was used to investigate the state of affairs and analyse the consensual and coercion meaning-making that occurred in the interactions between the stakeholders, specifically between the OSHC coordinators and school principals. Critical ethnographic research techniques, including participant observations and semi-structured interviews, were used to investigate what appears below the surface of social existence in the OSHC settings.
On the surface, the interactions between the coordinators and principals appeared congenial. However, the study found that the vulnerability of the OSHC services for alienation and marginalisation was linked to the lack of legitimacy and reduced sense of social membership endowed by the ambience of the school setting in which the services were located. The study found that the distorted communicative action that took place within the OSHC settings exhibited the pathologies of alienation, withdrawal of legitimation and lack of collective identity. Examining the relationships of the key stakeholders within the outside school hours care services offers conceptual understandings of existing institutional relationships and practices, This critical ethnography pinpoints sources of power and unease contributing to the concerns for the outside school hours sector and recommends ways to develop these programs.
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Allison, Chelsea B. "Teaching Outside the Box: Student and Teacher Perceptions of Flexible Learning Environments Outside the 21st Century Classroom." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157599/.
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The purpose of this study was to ascertain student and teacher perceptions of the environment in which student learning takes place and their perceptions of how it has helped them in the cognitive and social domains. Data collected were through student and teacher perception surveys, student and teacher perception questionnaires, classroom observations, student focus group discussions, and teacher interviews. Themes that emerged from the data sources were student interactions, students' autonomy in personalizing their learning space, teacher perceptions of comfort in the classroom, and student perceptions of comfort in the classroom. The findings of this study point to four recommendations for educational leaders to ensure the effective implementation of new and dynamic learning spaces: (1) consult and support teacher and students, (2) provide professional development, (3) visit campuses and other learning spaces, and (4) add color. In order for real change to take place, teachers need to enquire about and embrace student preferences and allow for the discomfort that will be present when trying something new. Teachers must be willing to relinquish control of the learning experience for the student in order to allow for possibilities in personalized learning on the part of the student. They must risk initial failure in order to allow for greater successes in the long run.
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Moore, Jeffrey Salem. "English Assimilation and Invasion From Outside the Empire: Problems of the Outsider in England in Bram Stoker's Dracula." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1291134372.
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Bennett, Stuart Charles. "Three-dimensional reconstruction outside of the laboratory." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708326.
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Barker, Brian. "Ecological Mediation: Dialectics of Inside and Outside." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275667998.
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Davidson, Allison B. "Breaking Outside: Narratives of Art and Hawaii." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271797/.
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This research examines the personal narratives of two contemporary non-native artists living and working on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Issues related to narratives, power structures, artistic processes, insider/outsider dynamics, Hawaiian culture, island life, surfing, and the researcher's own experiences are woven together to formulate realizations surrounding alternative knowledge systems and the power of multiple or hidden narratives to the practice of art education.
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Browne, Katherine Alice. "Power, performativities & place : living outside heterosexuality." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2002. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3063/.
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This thesis explores the concepts of power, performativity and place and how these act to produce non-heterosexual women's everyday lives through practices of 'othering'. The thesis explores three feminist poststructural tenets: that everyday life is saturated in power; that identities and bodies are (re )formed through reiterated performances (performativity); and that place is fluid and (re )produced through performativity and power. These tenets are used to explore 28 non-heterosexual women's accounts of their everyday lives. These accounts were formed using six focus groups, three coupled interviews, 23 individual interviews, 22 diaries and six sets of auto-photography. The thesis contextualises these research methods within discourses of feminist methodologies which understand accounts of research as partial, performative and as formed in spaces of betweeness. The concepts, tenets, methodologies and accounts that make up the thesis are understood as mutually (in)forming and not as discrete entities. The thesis considers participants' experiences of heterosexism and genderism. Particular focus is placed on everyday processes of othering in food consumption spaces; how women live with these processes; women's experiences of being mistaken for men; and the (re )formation of place through fantasies and imaginings. Through these explorations the thesis deconstructs dualisms, dichotomies and binaries, contending that everyday life is fonned across and between these boundaries whilst hegemonic power relations are simultaneously (re)performed to maintain heterosexuality and normative femininities 'in place'. Relations of power and performativities render place (in terms of both sites and processes) fluid, (in)forming non-heterosexual women's bodies, identities and places as 'other' in relation to dominant (heterosexual) codes and norms. Discourses of power do not have to be named in order to be materially experienced and this thesis discusses the everyday use of the term 'it' in lieu of words, such as heterosexism and genderism. Moreover, hegemonic heterosexual and gendered codes and norms are diversely (re )made through relations of power and performativities. The thesis concludes by contending that whilst power relations can be theorised as fluid over time, everyday life is often lived as though power is a fixed structure.
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McGee, Matthew Adams. "Miracles outside of Christianity are they valid /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Stafford, Brooke Alyson. "Outside England : mobility and early modern Englishness /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9326.
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Cortez, Nancy. "Lifelong Learner: Inside and Outside the Classroom." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/124.
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There are various experiences that shape a teacher, especially during the first year as a teacher. During a twelve month ethnographic study, I set out on the endeavor to answer the question, what makes an effective teacher? The study commences with a personal narrative, introducing who I am and why I chose to become an educator. A vast majority of this ethnography focuses on my experiences as a resident teacher at Freedom Elementary located in the city of South Gate, just Southeast of the city of Los Angeles. Three students from my class served as case studies in which I used an ethnographic methodology to find their assets and needs and create an individualized action plan that addresses their needs. Getting to know my student is just one part of being an effective teacher; another part of being an effective teacher is also knowing my class, the school and the community. This was done by taking an in depth look at my classroom and my class as a whole, becoming a community member and attending school and community events. Following my in depth look into my classroom, school, and community, I was able to reflect on some of my experiences as a first year teacher and how they have helped shape me as a teacher.
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Moore, Ayana Tamar. "Exploring regions outside of the MCAK motor domain /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10548.
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So, Wai-kong. "The unofficial countryside : ecological management outside protected areas /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34739397.
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Houston, Christine B. "Outside the frame, the arts, education and spirituality." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0024/MQ51361.pdf.
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Dorsey, Katherine. "Inside/outside : a critical approach to international theory /." Title page and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ard718.pdf.
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Greaves, James David. "Numerical analysis of the outside vapor deposition process." Ohio : Ohio University, 1990. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1183491109.
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Rosen, Philipp von Heizer Michael. "Michael Heizer : Outside and Inside the White Cube /." München : Schreiber, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0703/2006436579.html.
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Keenan, Andrew Eggleston. "IMAGINGS : designing for a world outside of eden." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23787.
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McGrath, Francis J. "Newman on Revelation and its existence outside Christianity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253826.
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Sonderegger, Silvia. "Principle-agent problems with type-dependent outside options." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1963/.
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The literature on adverse selection has until recently concentrated on the case where the agent's outside option is type-independent, implying that all types of agent receive the same payoff should no trade occur with the principal. Unfortunately, this assumption is not innocuous. If it is relaxed, the properties of the optimal contract can change dramatically. This thesis characterizes the impact of type-dependent outside options in three different settings. First, we explore the notion that a worker's prospects in the labour market may be influenced by his employment history. Under these circumstances, employers may incentivise their employees by randomizing over the probability with which current employees are retained. We identify a set of sufficient conditions for this to be the case in a two-period employment relationship, where the employee's ability is private information and both parties are risk-neutral. Although randomization is seldom observed in the real world, our results suggest that employers may optimally introduce some ambiguity over the conditions that need to be fulfilled in order to be retained. Second, we study competition in price-quality menus within the context of an horizontally differentiated duopoly, where each firm also operates in a local, monopolistic market. It is assumed that the consumer's (unobservable) valuation for quality is determined by the nature of his preferences over horizontal (or brand) product characteristics. We find that, if competition between the two firms is sufficiently fierce: (1) the equilibrium quality schedule exhibits bunching and (2) the equilibrium contract features overprovision of quality for sufficiently low types. Thus, with respect to the monopoly setting, competition may introduce new types of distortions, namely upward distortions. Third, we analyze the conflict of interests that arises between employers and employees with respect to the adoption of innovations that change the nature of the skills relevant for production. If an employer decides to adopt a new technology, he will also replace his specialist workforce. Thus, although a current employee has access to superior information concerning the efficiency of the new technology, he also has an incentive to misreport it. We show that if (1) the employee's expected utility from alternative employment is lower when the new technology is superior and (2) the employer cannot commit to retain the employee if the new technology is adopted, no renegotiation-proof contract exists, which induces the employee to truthfully reveal his information. In the special case where the employee can ex-ante commit to make his information publicly available (commitment to transparency), access to external sources of information can result in the employer's choice of technology being less efficient than otherwise.
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So, Wai-kong, and 蘇偉綱. "The unofficial countryside: ecological management outside protected areas." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45013214.
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Amy, John Victor. "Outside the Hull Electric Propulsion for a submarine." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28436.
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Al-Yaqout, Ghada Q. O. "'Inside, outside, 'app'side down' : defining the picturebook series." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607850.
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Mathis, Neil W. "Inside of an outside in time time| Thoughtitarium." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1603757.
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<p> Since the Devonian Period, 360 million years ago, trees have been foundational for the survival of aerobic life. Today, most humans relate to trees through the idea, material and commodity of wood. This understanding is primarily informed by its use as a building material: the formal attributes of its grain pattern read to assess structural integrity and aesthetic applications. I think of these marks as autonomous and unique natural drawings, documenting time in a scale different from our lifespan. Wood’s composition of cellulose and lignin create patterns that record temporal fluctuations in precipitation and the unique soil compounds of each tree’s growth site as a codex. As an MFA candidate, I used woodworking techniques to explore the relationship between temporality and materiality. Along the way, I became interested in the reductive carving techniques of woodturning as a metaphor for this investigation: cutting through layers of time. Small segments of wood were laminated together in mathematical patterns and turned to reveal parabolic grids on the interior and exterior surface of each object. This study led me to consider the limitations that traditional art display conventions impose on the viewer’s perception of an artwork, and to the realization of the <i>Thoughtitarium; </i> an eight-foot diameter fiberglass hemisphere that hovered above the gallery floor in architectural scale.</p>