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Huffman, David M. "The promise of righteousness : a fantasy theme analysis of the Promise Keepers." Scholarly Commons, 1999. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/522.
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This thesis investigates the seven promises of the Promise Keepers movement using the rhetorical criticism method of fantasy theme analysis. In order to understand this movement, four research questions guided the study: ( 1) What common themes are embedded in the rhetoric of the Promise Keepers? (2) What is the rhetorical vision promoted by the Promise Keepers movement? (3) What makes the vision of the Promise Keepers movement so persuasive to so many Christian men in America? (4) Based on an examination of the rhetoric of the Promise Keepers movement, what can be ascertained about the motives of the movement?" In order to answer these questions, a rhetorical analysis was conducted on the primary literature of the movement. The analysis indicated that the Promise Keepers are trying to transform America into a Christian nation. The Promise Keepers believe that change can be brought about if men follow the movement's seven promises for Christian living. Through these promises, the movement emphasizes a patriarchal view of men in society. In addition, the analysis of the movement's rhetoric suggests that the Promise Keepers are not interested in political change, but moral change through the lives of individual men.
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Popiden, Jan. "Teddy's Promise." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 1995. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/592.
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Touchette, Gerald Hilaire. "AN ANGEL'S PROMISE." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/TouchetteGH2001.pdf.
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Hackman, Jennifer K. "Can We Promise College? An Evaluation of Placed-Based “Promise” College Scholarship Campaigns." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250707224.
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Ooi, Robert. "The promise of PRTs." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/650075659/viewonline.
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Fadnes, Ellen. "Between promise and fulfilment:." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Geography, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-2284.
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<p>This dissertation addresses the discrepancy between the Colombian national legislation for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the actual realization of rights. Colombia possesses one of the world’s most advanced IDP laws, covering all stages of displacement, and the authorities have developed a complex set of institutions responsible to enforce the law. However, the implementation of the legislation has proven highly complicated. The Colombian government has been able to achieve important improvements in providing emergency humanitarian assistance to the IDP population, but significantly less in terms of prevention, resettlement and return. This thesis argues that the challenge of internal displacement in Colombia is perceived by the IDP regime as a technical rather than a political problem, which detaches the displacement from its structural and underlying causes and complicates prevention and resettlement.</p><p>The causes of the failure of complying with the IDP law are highly complex and must be analysed in relation to political, historical and cultural structures in the Colombian society. The ownership of territory is vital in terms of power and extensive income generating activities, which imply strong interests in access to land, and complicating the prevention of displacement and protection of abandoned land. The relationship between the land owning elite and policy-makers on the one hand and the poor, rural and displaced population on the other hand is characterized by mutual distrust due to historical patterns of oppression and exploitation. The political structures are analysed in light of the current government’s discourse on the political situation, which argues that there is no longer a conflict going on in Colombia, but rather isolated terrorist acts. The government claims to have achieved a complete demobilization of the right-wing paramilitary groups, in spite of continued denouncements from displaced persons demonstrating the existence of these groups. In light of James Ferguson’s thesis of how a development intervention is depoliticized by focusing on technical solutions, is it here argued that the underlying political causes of internal displacement in Colombia are largely overlooked because of the focus on concrete and measurable solutions.</p><p>Liisa Malkki’s theoretical concepts of depoliticizing and dehistoricizing are applied to show how the emphasis on humanitarian assistance portrays the displaced population as a ‘universalized mass of victims’ unable to voice their claims. This further contributes to illustrate how displacement becomes detached from its political and historical context, and hence renders it impossible to grasp the underlying causes of displacement. Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration contributes to explain how these structures limit the possibilities for manoeuvrability, but simultaneously how the same structures may enable a level of power and choice. The actors are furthermore perceived to be capable of influencing the structures, as it is the actors themselves how have defined these structures. Through legal mechanisms ensured by the 1991constitutional reform and increased organization within the displaced population, the IDPs have improved their possibility to voice their claims and create spaces for communicating with the authorities. This thesis argues that small improvements are made because of an increased space for agency among the displaced population, but that the implementation of crucial sections of the IDP law are still highly complicated because of the emphasis on technical measures which removes the focus away from the underlying political causes of displacement.</p>
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Hackman, Jennifer. "Can we promise college? an evaluation of place-based "promise" college scholarship campaigns /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1250707224.
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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.<br>Advisor: Johanna Looye. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Jan. 14, 2010). Includes abstract. Keywords: promise; scholarship; economic development. Includes bibliographical references.
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Coleman, Max. "Anomie: Concept, Theory, Research Promise." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1402101670.
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Earls, Darlene Knies. "The promise comes from faith /." Online version of thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11767.
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Põhjala, Priit. "The Promise and its Ethics." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Filmová a televizní fakulta. Knihovna, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-263159.
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Zvolil jsem si téma etiky ve filmu Slib (1996) tvůrců Jeana-Pierra Dardennea a Luca Dardennea jakožto příkladovou studii užití filozofie, v tomto případě filozofie francouzského filozofa Emmanuela Levinase (1906–1995), a jak jeho filozofie ovlivňuje všechny aspekty vyprávění. Ačkoliv se nejedná o jedinou možnou interpretaci jejich díla, myšlenky Levinase jsou nejvíce relevantní jak pro příběh, tak i pro vyšší intelektuální cíle filmu. Zde je jeho pojem etiky jádrem postav a vyprávění až do bodu, kde se film sám o sobě stává testem pro přijatelnost Levinasovy filozofie, jako myšlenkového experimentu ve filmové podobě. Přijatelnost Levinasovy filozofie zůstává na konci filmu neprokázána. I přes filozofické a vyprávěcí nedostatky je Slib dobrým příkladem užití filozofie ve filmu, v jehož lepších částech se ukazuje síla tohoto přístupu, nicméně v horších částech můžeme vidět nebezpečí, které z tohoto přístupu vychází. V následujících filmech je zřejmé, že se bratři Dardenneové poučili ze svých chyb.
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Miettunen, Juuso V. M. "Prefigurative politics : perils and promise." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/50228/.
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Many recent social movements have been characterised by their commitment to direct democratic decision-making procedures and leaderless, non-hierarchic organizational structures. This political tendency also implies the search for autonomy from existing political institutions and practises. Movements seek instead to embody in the political action itself the social relations, ways of collective decision-making and values that are ultimately desired for the whole society. This prefigurative approach to social change is often criticized for being naiive or marginal. This thesis argues first that this is not the case, but that prefigurative politics is misunderstood due to its differing view on questions of strategy, organisation and ultimately the possibility of fundamental societal change. The dissertation first outlines the often implicit strategy or vision of change underpinning prefigurative politics. It then identifies as the key challenge for prefigurative movements their ability to avoid reproducing oppressive forms of power, ‘power-over.’ This understudied aspect is investigated through extensive ethnographic field research with the unemployed workers movement, MTD Lanús in Buenos Aires, and the Zapatista movement in Mexico. The thesis concludes that it seems impossible to completely avoid reproducing old forms of power. Often key individuals in the movements end up in a paradoxical position whereby, in an effort to ensure the group’s prefigurative nature, these individuals enjoy non-prefigurative influence. The findings imply that the state and corresponding political forms and practise are not the only source of hierarchic pressures. As such, it would be more useful to view prefigurative political action as desirable, yet impossible.
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Sonett, Alexandra. "A Promise is a Promise: The Ethical Implications for CEO’s Acting Socially Responsible within a Corporation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1182.
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The prevalence of corporate social responsibility has been continually increasing over recent years. The debate of whether a business should act in a manner that furthers societal needs or if they should simply focus their efforts on maximizing shareholder value is of popular interest since it affects the fundamental structures of how a business will operate. One of the major influencing theories in favor of social responsibility is the stakeholder theory. The opposing viewpoint is the shareholder theory, which highlights that the sole responsibility for a corporation is to act in a way that maximizes profits. This thesis will outline the stakeholder and shareholder theories to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the debate and then offer a critical and philosophical analysis of shareholder theory to ultimately argue why the moral significance of a promise better promotes maximizing shareholder value.
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Grace-Bridges, Re'Shanda. "Keeping the Promise: Impact of Project Promise on Students’ Persistence from First Year to Second Year." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1557147983409096.
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Lamy-Rested, Elise. "La déconstruction : une philosophie de l'à venir, entre phénoménologie et psychanalyse." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040066/document.
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Notre thèse se propose de montrer que la déconstruction peut être pensée comme le résultat de la jonction de l’intentionnalité husserlienne et de la compulsion de répétition freudienne. En repartant des premières lectures derridiennes de certains textes de Husserl, mais surtout de La voix et le phénomène (1967) vraisemblablement rédigée en même temps que « Freud et la scène de l’écriture » (conférence de 1966), nous y étudions comment Derrida unit la temporalité husserlienne et la temporalité freudienne : le Présent Vivant n’est pas essentiellement différent de l’ « après-coup » (Nachträglichkeit), de même que la répétition de l’idéalité n’est pas essentiellement différente d’une compulsion de répétition aveugle et mécanique.Cet étrange accouplement a selon nous donné naissance à toute la philosophie derridienne, même si celle-ci n’a par la suite cessé de s’enrichir et de se complexifier grâce à l’ « ex-appropriation » d’une<br>The present dissertation aims to show that deconstruction can be conceived of as resulting from the confluence of Husserl’s intentionality and Freud’s repetition compulsion. By going back to Derrida’s first readings of some of Husserl’s texts, but mostly back to Voice and Phenomenon (La voix et le phénomène, 1967), probably written concurrently with ‟Freud and the Scene of Writing” (‟Freud et la scène de l’écriture‟, lecture from 1966), I try to examine how Derrida brings the Husserlian and the Freudian temporalities together : the Living Present is not essentially different from the ‟après-coup” or deferred action (Nachträglichkeit), nor is the repetition of ideality essentially different from a blind mechanical repetition compulsion.Such uncanny coupling is, in my view, what gave birth to the Derridean philosophy as a whole, even if that philosophy did continue to get richer and more complex thanks to the ‟ex-appropriation” from many other authors, whether philosophers, poets, writers and so on
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com, marmcc@bigpond, and Marion McCutcheon. "Is pay TV meeting its promise?" Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070514.112807.
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The broadcasting sector is a subject of continual debate in modern society. One of the
oldest segments of the rapidly-evolving information technology and communications
industry, it is still the most content rich and the most popular. Australians who watch
television spend more time doing so than doing any other leisure activity except those
who fish (ABS 1998). Broadcasting is highly pervasive. Some kind of service is
available and used in every Australian household. Everyone is an expert, everyone has
an opinion. Since the Federal Government decided to allow the introduction of
domestic subscription television in 1992, pay television has been broadly dismissed by
its media rivals as being unpopular, unprofitable and unnecessary. In turn, the
Australian pay television industry considers that it is over-regulated, especially
compared to the free-to-air sector, and that much of this regulation severely constrains
its ability to grow its subscriber base. This thesis examines whether the Australian
subscription television industry has achieved the aims set for it by the legislators in
1992 that is, whether it has met its promise. To achieve this, the thesis first
identifies the promises of an Australian subscription television industry. In assessing
whether the industry has met its promise, the thesis considers various aspects of the
industry, including what the industry has needed to do to make itself profitable and
ensure its longevity and the environment within which the industry operates. The thesis
examines the role that content plays in attracting subscribers and considers whether
minimal content regulation has resulted in a paucity of local content on subscription
television in Australia. The thesis draws on existing academic literature, government
publications, information released by the subscription television industry itself and
interviews conducted in the course of the project with the Australian subscription
television sector. It also uses and builds on ratings data to examine the programs and
channels that are offered by Australian pay television services. In concluding, this
thesis makes an assessment of whether the Australian pay television industry has met its
promise.
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OLIVEIRA, LEONARDO VIEIRA DE. "GRANDE SERTÃO : VEREDAS: PACT AND PROMISE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15771@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>Guimarães Rosa costumava dizer que só se pode falar do sertão por meio do
conto ou da lenda. Considerando Grande Sertão: Veredas um grande conto, defendo
a importância dessa forma como um ensaio que busca a redescoberta da Terra Nova
mediante a fala de um ex-jagunço semiletrado. Se nossa História não foi forte no
sentido de uma contribuição filosófica, a geografia, terra dos contos, anuncia o pensar
enquanto força cujo gesto fundador se baseia no poder de pactuar com o cotidiano o
nascimento da Literatura.<br>Guimarães Rosa used to say that one can only talks about the “sertão” by
means of the tale, or the legend. Considering Grande Sertão: Veredas a big-sized
tale, I defend the importance of this form as an essay that seeks for the rediscovery of
the New Land, by means of an illiterate, former jagunço’s speech. If our History was
not strong in the sense of a philosophical contribution, geography, realm of tales,
announces the thinking as a force, whose founding gesture is based on the power to
make a pact with the quotidian, giving birth to Literature.
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McCutcheon, Marion. "Is pay TV meeting its promise?" Thesis, McCutcheon, Marion (2006) Is pay TV meeting its promise? PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/194/.
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The broadcasting sector is a subject of continual debate in modern society. One of the oldest segments of the rapidly-evolving information technology and communications industry, it is still the most content rich and the most popular. Australians who watch television spend more time doing so than doing any other leisure activity - except those who fish (ABS 1998). Broadcasting is highly pervasive. Some kind of service is available and used in every Australian household. Everyone is an expert, everyone has an opinion. Since the Federal Government decided to allow the introduction of domestic subscription television in 1992, pay television has been broadly dismissed by its media rivals as being unpopular, unprofitable and unnecessary. In turn, the Australian pay television industry considers that it is over-regulated, especially compared to the free-to-air sector, and that much of this regulation severely constrains its ability to grow its subscriber base. This thesis examines whether the Australian subscription television industry has achieved the aims set for it by the legislators in 1992 - that is, whether it has 'met its promise'. To achieve this, the thesis first identifies the 'promises' of an Australian subscription television industry. In assessing whether the industry has met its promise, the thesis considers various aspects of the industry, including what the industry has needed to do to make itself profitable and ensure its longevity and the environment within which the industry operates. The thesis examines the role that content plays in attracting subscribers and considers whether minimal content regulation has resulted in a paucity of local content on subscription television in Australia. The thesis draws on existing academic literature, government publications, information released by the subscription television industry itself and interviews conducted in the course of the project with the Australian subscription television sector. It also uses and builds on ratings data to examine the programs and channels that are offered by Australian pay television services. In concluding, this thesis makes an assessment of whether the Australian pay television industry has met its promise.
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McCutcheon, Marion. "Is pay TV meeting its promise?" McCutcheon, Marion (2006) Is pay TV meeting its promise? PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/194/.
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The broadcasting sector is a subject of continual debate in modern society. One of the oldest segments of the rapidly-evolving information technology and communications industry, it is still the most content rich and the most popular. Australians who watch television spend more time doing so than doing any other leisure activity - except those who fish (ABS 1998). Broadcasting is highly pervasive. Some kind of service is available and used in every Australian household. Everyone is an expert, everyone has an opinion. Since the Federal Government decided to allow the introduction of domestic subscription television in 1992, pay television has been broadly dismissed by its media rivals as being unpopular, unprofitable and unnecessary. In turn, the Australian pay television industry considers that it is over-regulated, especially compared to the free-to-air sector, and that much of this regulation severely constrains its ability to grow its subscriber base. This thesis examines whether the Australian subscription television industry has achieved the aims set for it by the legislators in 1992 - that is, whether it has 'met its promise'. To achieve this, the thesis first identifies the 'promises' of an Australian subscription television industry. In assessing whether the industry has met its promise, the thesis considers various aspects of the industry, including what the industry has needed to do to make itself profitable and ensure its longevity and the environment within which the industry operates. The thesis examines the role that content plays in attracting subscribers and considers whether minimal content regulation has resulted in a paucity of local content on subscription television in Australia. The thesis draws on existing academic literature, government publications, information released by the subscription television industry itself and interviews conducted in the course of the project with the Australian subscription television sector. It also uses and builds on ratings data to examine the programs and channels that are offered by Australian pay television services. In concluding, this thesis makes an assessment of whether the Australian pay television industry has met its promise.
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Eddleman, Libby Jean. "Protecting Patriarchy: an Historical/Critical Analysis of Promise Keepers, an All-Male Social Movement." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278756/.
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The historical survey of social movements in the United States reveals that the movement is a rhetorical ground occupied by groups who have been marginalized by society. Today, however, the distinctions between those who are marginalized and those who are part of the establishment have become difficult to distinguish. This study considers the emergence of Promise Keepers, an all-male social movement, and the rhetorical themes that emerge from the group. This study identifies five rhetorical themes in Promise Keepers. These themes include asserting authority of men in the home and church, the creation of a new male identity, sports and war rhetoric, political rhetoric, and racial reconciliation. The implications of these themes are considered from a critical perspective and areas for future research are provided.
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Krismer, Marianne Zwick. "Attibutes and support systems that promote resilience and achievement for "At Promise" community college students." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1115994536.
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Thesis (Dr. of Education)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.<br>Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Apr. 14, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: at-promise students, ; at-promise community college students; at-risk community college students, ; resilience and community college students, ; achievement and community college students. Includes bibliographical references.
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Khopuangklang, Korrasut. "A critical analysis of promise in Scots law and Thai law." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22831.
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This thesis critically analyses the law of promise. It does so for the purposes of identifying potential solutions to practical and doctrinal problems in the Thai law of promise. Scots law is chosen as the main point of comparison because, inter alia, both jurisdictions are mixed jurisdictions. Scots promissory law was influenced by the Canon Law and was part of the ius commune tradition. Scots law was not influenced by English law in this area. Scots law has developed its own promissory obligation as a free standing legal entity outwith contract. Thai promissory legal principles were derived from both Civilian and English sources. Consequently, promissory language is used both in the sense of a unilateral obligation and a contractual promise. Moreover, the Thai drafters did not acknowledge the different attitude towards a unilateral promise of French law (where a promise must be accepted in order to be binding) and German law (where particular types of unilateral obligations are recognised). This thesis argues that the flaws in promissory provisions under the Thai Code stem from the fact that, inter alia, the drafters did not understand the difference between unilateral and bilateral obligations. This thesis argues that the Scots promissory approach presents a more efficient structure of the law of obligations than the Thai approach. It encounters fewer problems than Thai law because a promise is deemed to be a standalone obligation. This thesis further analyses the practical applications of promise, arguing that a promissory analysis is useful in conceptualising practical circumstances. Adopting a promissory approach is beneficial, making doctrinal analysis clearer in comparison with the offer and acceptance approach. This thesis takes into account the role given to promise in the DCFR. The notion of a unilateral undertaking in the DCFR illustrates that the most recent model rule of European private law recognises the importance of a unilateral obligation. This reflects the fact that the notion of a contract cannot appropriately deal with certain situations in which a person unilaterally intends his/her undertaking to be bound without acceptance. It is concluded that the Scots approach of regarding a promise as an independent obligation separate from contract could be adapted to Thai law. There are certain resemblances between Scots and Thai law in promissory theories and the obligational nature of a promise. Therefore, Thai law is not unfamiliar with the notion that a declaration of wills can unilaterally create an obligation. The proposed approach provides a number of advantages e.g. eradicating an overlap between a promise and an offer; clarifying the legal status of promise; and making the legal status of a promise to make a contract compatible with a promise of reward. In particular, this thesis postulates that promise has a substantive role to play in governing an offer specifying a period of acceptance. This particular observation has, to date, not been made in relation to Thai law.
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Kugle, Georgiana M. "Promise and contradiction in an integrated congregation." Chicago, Ill : McCormick Theological Seminary, 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Theis, Adriane. "Liberal privacy and women a broken promise /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/726.
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Barker, Tonia G. "Penal colonies for Canada promise or anachronism?" Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4592.
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Welch, Dwight. "Conflict and the promise of creative interchange /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1203558111&sid=24&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Paige, Randy. "The promise of hope in pastoral counseling." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0624.
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Kimel, Dori. "Contract as a substitute for a promise." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310509.
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Plummer, Chris, and Rodger Magness. "The Promise of Wireless Interfaces Onboard Spacecraft." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605821.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada<br>Wireless interfaces are becoming ubiquitous in terrestrial applications ranging from local area networking in business and commercial environments to large scale factory automation and process control. The pressure to develop these wireless interfacing techniques has come from the need to reduce cabling, reduce installation costs, and make it easier to extend network infrastructures. Concerns about electromagnetic compatibility, safety, reliability, and security have lead to the development of techniques and protocols that enable such wireless interfaces to be operated in electromagnetically harsh environments, without generating unacceptable interference, and providing reliable, dependable and secure data communications. On the face of it, the use of wireless interfaces onboard spacecraft looks like a good way of reducing the spacecraft harness mass and bulk. However, recent work by the European Space Agency has shown that, while harness reduction will undoubtedly be one benefit of using wireless interfaces, they offer many other benefits that will be more significant in the near future. Amongst these are significant advantages during integration and testing, the ability to retrofit and upgrade facilities, and cable replacement in moving structures such as robotic arms. In this paper we briefly survey the benefits of wireless interface technologies for spacecraft onboard use, and identify the challenges involved in adapting them for flight use. We then look at the considerations that should be taken into account in establishing the financial case for developing wireless interface technologies for flight applications.
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Corlett, David Michael. "Warfare in Colonial America: Prelude and Promise." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626274.
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Omar, S. M. "Boeing dreamliner: the promise of greener flying." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2012. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/26655.
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The Boeing Dreamliner promises to be one of the least polluting aircraft ever used for commercial flights, and should go some way to answer criticisms of aviation's environmental record. Mark Rowe reports.
When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/26655
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Strapatá, Barbora. "Marketingová stratégia nového online produktu Promise-Book." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85386.
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The master thesis addresses the topic of human ability to keep a promise, resolution and deals with this issue in the context of social networks and internet in the form of online platform called Promise-Book. In particular, the thesis contains data and research materials which could be used as references for the product's marketing strategy. The materials include: market analysis based on a questionnaire research as well as a research based on secondary data acquired from public statistics and studies provided by different internet websites, which are summarized in a SWOT analysis. The thesis also shows different options on internet advertisement and marketing strategies and determines the most suitable one for Promise-Book platform. The marketing strategy is performed in a standard way: Segmentation-Targeting-Positioning, Marketing Mix, Budget and Action Plan, Monitoring and evaluation.
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Paige, Charles Randall. "The promise of hope in pastoral counseling." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.068-0624.
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Largent, Emily. "The Promise and Peril of Using the Law to Promote Ethical Outcomes in Health and Healthcare." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493517.
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NOTA: NOT A GOOD ACT FOR TISSUES TO FOLLOW
The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA) articulates the U.S. federal policy for organ transplantation. It seeks to ensure equitable allocation of donor organs and strives to increase the number of organs available for transplant. A trio of ethical concerns—commodification, exploitation, and coercion—motivated passage of NOTA broadly and the prohibition on organ sales in particular. Notably, NOTA does not distinguish between organs and tissues, a devastating oversight given the differences between the two, which include: who can donate; when donation can occur; how donated items are procured, processed, and stored; who receives the donated item and why; and government oversight. Tissues are not like organs in the ways that made NOTA an appropriate legislative solution to commodification, exploitation, and coercion. Rather, NOTA failed to address tissue-specific concerns both ethical and practical in nature. Thus, there is an acute need to develop tissue-specific legislation that enhances informed consent to protect donor autonomy; sets a schedule of payments for donors and intermediaries to promote distributive justice; and improves tracking of donated tissues to address patient safety concerns.
REGULATORY UNCERTAINTY, CONCEPTUAL CONFUSION, AND A PATH FORWARD ON OFFERS OF PAYMENT TO RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS
The practice of offering payment to individuals in exchange for their participation in clinical research is widespread and longstanding. Nevertheless, such payment remains the source of substantial debate, in particular about whether or the extent to which offers of payment coerce and/or unduly induce individuals to participate. Yet, the various laws, regulations, and ethical guidelines that govern the conduct of human subjects research offer relatively little in the way of specific guidance regarding what makes a payment offer ethically acceptable. This paper systematically examines the legal and ethical dimensions of offering payment to research participants. It argues that concerns about offers of payment to research participants can be attributed to the misguided view that such offers ought to be treated differently than offers of payment in other contexts, a form of “research exceptionalism.” We show that rejection of research exceptionalism with respect to payment helps settle open debates about both how best to define coercion and undue influence, and how to understand the relation between these concepts and offers of payment. We argue for adoption of our preferred definitions, ideally by regulatory authorities, and against the conventional conservatism toward payment of research participants. Instead, we draw attention to the rarely asked, even radical, question: are research participants paid enough? We conclude by arguing that we ought to change the default to favor, rather than encourage suspicion of, offers of payment to research participants.
EBOLA & FDA: REVIEWING THE RESPONSE TO FIND LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE
In 2014, West Africa confronted the most severe outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history. At the onset of the outbreak—as now—there were no therapies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for prevention of, post-exposure prophylaxis against, or treatment of EVD. As a result, the outbreak spurred interest in developing novel treatments and vaccines; sparked calls to use experimental interventions in the field; and highlighted challenges to the standard approach to FDA approval of new drugs. Although the outbreak was geographically centered in West Africa, it brought to the fore issues of food and drug law and showcased FDA’s global role in drug development, approval, and access. FDA’s response to EVD highlights the panoply of Agency powers and demonstrates the flexibility of FDA’s regulatory framework. This paper evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of FDA’s response and makes policy recommendations regarding how FDA should respond to new and re-emerging public health threats going forward. The current pandemic of Zika virus infection is but one example of an emerging health threat that will require FDA involvement in order to achieve a successful response.<br>Health Policy
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Sutter, Mary Alanna Adkins Amee. "The promise of restorative justice a hermeneutical analysis /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3087876.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2003.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed October 19, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Amee Adkins (chair), Albert T. Azinger, W. Paul Vogt, Robert Nielsen, Loyd Edward Wells. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-219) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Agyemang, Frank, Ofori Kingsley Asante, and Sunday Jonathan Ofori. "Promise and Performance of ERP (perspective of implementers)." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-505.
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Duah, Frank Agyemang, Kingsley Asante Ofori, and Jonathan Sunday Ugulu. "PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE OF ERP (PERSPECTIVE OF IMPLEMENTERS)." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-632.
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Laoniphon, Patriya, and Wenyi Yu. "Capability to Promise (CTP) Handling Strategy in SAP." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-12906.
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Nowadays, many companies attempt to adapt their production planning and strategy to make order fulfillment more flexible. In manufacturing, the capacity and capability constraints are key factors which need efficient production planning for controlling service level and minimizing inventory cost. This thesis focuses on looking for the economic and efficient strategies for Capability to Promise or CTP handling. This strategy is proposed to work for Low Volume/High Mixed product manufacturing. Moreover, SAP is used as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for steering the CTP handling strategies in order to increase automated order handling regarding cost efficiency. The results of this research are both concepts and implementations on how to set CTP handling by using SAP, regarding the demand uncertainty environment in Make to Order (MTO) fulfillment.
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Yao, Jea-Sheng. "Structured analysis for the job shop promise date." Ohio : Ohio University, 1988. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1182876167.
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Xue, Yan. "Promise and Perils of Foreign Aid to Education." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508681.
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Milne, Richard J. "'No natural home' : placing the promise of biopharming." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.768238.
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Moreira, Helon Bezerra. "Participatory Fortaleza Budget: A Promise to Be Fulfilled." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15572.
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nÃo hÃ<br>This paper brings a reflection on the nature and democratic character of the Collaborative Budgeting experience in the city of Fortaleza between the years 2005 and 2014. A public policy of collaborative administration, characterized by the perspective of articulation between democracies of the participative and representative sorts. A systematic accompaniment of this policy through an investigative effort â initiated in the first decade of the year 2000, in the social science scope â unveils defining features of liberal democracy to limit the collaborative potential of this experience, which raises a central question about the actual manifestation of collaborative democracy at the context in study. The Collaborative Budgeting in Fortaleza began in 2005, during the first term of Luizianne Lins, a mayor affiliated to the PT party. Its continuity until the first half of 2014, during the second year of the following mayor, Roberto ClÃudio, which is affiliated to the PROS party, continues enigmatic. This work investigates the effective participation of the specific public â related to local public policies â, the percentage of the municipal budget that is in fact discussed and deliberated by the population, and the continuity of this experience with the shift of municipal administration, among other phenomena. For such task, this paper rescues conceptions and democratic theories of contemporaneous analysts, such as Santos (2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2013) Coutinho (1979, 1988, 1989, 1994 and 2008) and Wood (1998, 2007, 2011 and 2014). The public policy in question is assessed through an experimental methodological approach that articulates several methodological principles found in the works of Silva e Silva (2008), Guba & Lincoln (2011), Lejano (2012) and Rodrigues (2008, 2011). The field research is completed by interviews with participants and politics coordinators. There are also studies with statistical and documental outlines on Fortalezaâs Collaborative Budgeting involved in the research.<br>Em OrÃamento Participativo de Fortaleza: uma promessa a ser cumprida, à feita uma reflexÃo a incidir sobre a natureza e o carÃter democrÃtico dessa experiÃncia na cidade de Fortaleza entre os anos de 2005 e 2014. PolÃtica pÃblica de gestÃo participativa, marcada pela perspectiva de articulaÃÃo entre democracias do tipo participativa e representativa. O acompanhamento sistemÃtico desta polÃtica mediante um esforÃo investigativo â iniciado na primeira dÃcada dos anos 2000, no Ãmbito da graduaÃÃo em ciÃncias sociais â revela traÃos marcantes da democracia liberal, a limitar o potencial participativo da experiÃncia, levando a um questionamento central sobre a efetividade da democracia participativa no contexto em estudo. O OrÃamento Participativo de Fortaleza surge em 2005, no primeiro mandato petista de Luizianne Lins na cidade. A sua continuidade, atà a primeira metade de 2014, no segundo ano da nova gestÃo de Fortaleza, sob o governo de Roberto ClÃudio do Partido Republicano da Ordem Social (PROS), ainda à uma incÃgnita a ser desvendada. A participaÃÃo efetiva da populaÃÃo usuÃria, pÃblico das polÃticas pÃblicas municipais, o percentual do orÃamento municipal realmente discutido e deliberado pela populaÃÃo, a continuidade dessa experiÃncia com a mudanÃa da gestÃo municipal, dentre outros fenÃmenos, sÃo aqui investigados. Para tanto, resgata-se concepÃÃes e teorias democrÃticas de analistas contemporÃneos, com destaque para Santos (2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012 e 2013) Coutinho (1979, 1988, 1989, 1994 e 2008) e Wood (1998, 2007, 2011 e 2014). A polÃtica pÃblica em questÃo à avaliada sob uma abordagem metodolÃgica experiencial que articula diversos princÃpios metodolÃgicos encontrados em trabalhos de Silva e Silva (2008), Guba & Lincoln (2011), Lejano (2012) e Rodrigues (2008, 2011). A pesquisa de campo se efetiva por meio de entrevistas com participantes e coordenadores da polÃtica. TambÃm sÃo desenvolvidos estudos com aportes estatÃsticos e documentais sobre o OrÃamento Participativo de Fortaleza.
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Richardson, Jason. "Meaning, Functions, and the Promise of Indicator Semantics." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36636.
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In this thesis, I first present Fred Dretske's theory of mental represent- ations, which purports to show how a physical thing could have (non-derived) meaning. In order to illustrate the applicability of the theory to an actual physical system, I discuss the theory in relation to two theories of audio localization (i.e., the capacity to locate the source of sounds in one's environment). Having clarified the theory, I examine two charges laid against it. Lynne Rudder Baker charges the theory with circularity. Her charge is refuted by appealing to the concept of a "standby function." Stephen Stich charges the theory with vagueness. His charge is refuted by appealing to a general analysis of functions. I conclude that a careful use and analysis of the previously unanalyzed term "function" makes possible the refutation of these two charges.<br>Master of Arts
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Lee, Stephanie Jing. "Actualizing the Democratic Promise of American Public Education." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1210279461.
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Mansour, Anna. "La promesse du porte-fort d'exécution." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Montpellier (2022-....), 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UMOND028.
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Célèbre pour une conclusion de contrat, la promesse du porte-fort de ratification trouve grâce à une interprétation doctrinale et une évolution jurisprudentielle sa jumelle : La promesse du porte-fort d'exécution. Selon le concept du porte-fort de ratification le promettant présente donc le cas d'une personne qui conclut le contrat au nom et pour le compte d'un tiers, sans avoir aucun pouvoir tout en se portant fort d'obtenir à posteriori l'habilitation qui lui fait défaut, sous forme de ratification. Mais aujourd’hui, la définition de la promesse de porte-fort d’exécution provient principalement d'une inspiration doctrinale suite à la lecture approfondie de l'article 1120 du Code civil Français qui énonce : « On peut se porter fort pour un tiers, en promettant le fait de celui-ci ; sauf l'indemnité contre celui qui s'est porté fort ou qui a promis de faire ratifier, si le tiers refuse de tenir l'engagement ». Sur les termes de cet article une partie considérable de la doctrine considère que l'exécution d'un contrat étant « un fait », la promesse du porte-fort d'exécution doit voir la lumière et que dans cette promesse le porte-fort peut promettre que le tiers exécutera des obligations. Cela nous permet de relever que le porte-fort peur promettre "le fait d'un tiers" mais que ce fait n'est pas nécessairement une ratification, ce fait peut être aussi l'exécution d'un engagement valablement pris par le tiers. Le "fait du tiers" peut ainsi être un fait matériel pour lequel on se porte fort , ou un engagement juridique qui devra être passé par le tiers, ou une ratification de l'acte réalisé par le porte-fort pour le compte du tiers, ou l'exécution d'une obligation qui incombe au tiers<br>The “porte-fort” is an obligation for the purpose of satisfying the creditor independently of any obligation of behavior in respect of the original debtor. It is an obligation of satisfaction outcome because if someone promises the execution of a debtor, he will be engaged definitively that the creditor receives the expected level of satisfaction.The difference between the promise of the porte-fort of the execution and the promise of the porte-fort of ratification was accomplished especially that in the important judgment of 13 December 2005 which has distinguished the promise of the porte-fort of the execution from the promise of the porte-fort of ratification which the Commercial Chamber has lent to the porte-fort of execution. The definition of the caution in stating that "the person who is a porte-fort to a third party by promising the ratification by the latter of a commitment is required of an autonomous obligation who is unloaded as soon as the ratification by the third party is accomplished while the person who is porte-fort of the execution of a commitment by a third party is committed in default to the main commitment subscribed to by the third party to meet the requirements if the third party does not executed himself." However, the promise of the porte-fort of execution deserves thorough study in his own legal nature to be able to release its legal regime, and this will be done by studying all the problems that relate to this concept, all doctrinal currents which are opposed to the qualifications data to this promise , all judgments rendered and whose subject was the subject of a promise of porte-fort of execution with all the doctrinal criticism corresponding even all the articles relating from near and far to the notion of promise of porte-fort of execution and this will be talked in a long research
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Glendenning, Travis Reid. "Presidential campaigns and environmental policy linking promise and performance /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1155570547.
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Morgan, Nancy Mary Jane. "Peril and promise : legal aid and securitized asylum policies." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31681.
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Recent developments in governmental guarantees for legal aid for asylum claimants have corresponded to increased state security measures that restrict refugee claims. This thesis examines the intersection between legal aid, refugee claimants, and securitized and criminalized asylum policies in western states, with a particular focus on the Canadian context. As legal aid becomes a standardized policy response to refugee claimants, its functions are not only of significance to individual nation states, but also to the processes of global migration, and in particular, to international systems of refugee asylum. My argument is that the operation of legal aid for refugee claimants exists on several levels, a duality of purposes that are complexly related and contradictory. On one level, refugee legal aid operates to ensure procedural protection and increase positive outcomes for refugee claimants. On another level, legal aid functions to support developments that seek to control accepted refugee claims. As manifest in migration laws and policies of refugee-receiving nations, these developments are part of the "securitization" and "criminalization" of migration. I argue that legal aid supports the securitization of refugee asylum through its power as a source of legitimacy. As a powerful assertion of state commitments to liberal values and refugee protection, a system of refugee legal aid acts as a legitimacy counterbalance to policies that neglect these commitments in favour of state and societal security. To illustrate my argument that legal aid functions as a support to securitized asylum polices, my primary focus is on legal aid's relationship to the specific asylum polices of Canada, but I also discuss the operation of legal aid in the international sphere, and its use in media reports. As part of the duality of legal aid's operation, I also detail the concrete effects legal aid has on refugee determination tribunal proceedings, in terms of a strong correlation between positive outcomes and legal representation.<br>Law, Peter A. Allard School of<br>Graduate
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Gander, Lois E. "The radical promise of public legal education in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/MQ47126.pdf.
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MacIntyre, Mark Duncan. "Unfulfilled promise, the failure of Canada's hydrofoil warship project." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ47284.pdf.
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Thomas, Ian Q. R. "The promise of alliance : conceptions of NATO, 1948-1994." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320440.
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Punjaisri, Khanyapuss. "Brand promise delivery from the customer-interface : employees' perspective." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2008. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21937.
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Internal branding has recently been introduced to the literature as an enabler of the organisation's success in ensuring the delivery of the brand promise by their employees, particularly the customer-interface employees. Relatively few studies have been carried out to understand the internal branding concept from the viewpoint of employees, despite its importance. Moreover, there is only an assumption that when employees are identified with, committed and loyal to the brand, they would behave in ways that support the brand reality. Therefore, this research's aim was to explore the employees' perceptions regarding their role in the promise delivery process because they are as important as those of management and researchers. Furthermore, this study provided empirical evidence to support the link between internal branding and employees' brand attitudes and brand behaviours. Following a case study strategy using the hotel industry in Thailand as a single unit of study with mixed methodologies, the author could perform data triangulation by incorporating the literature review with the findings from the qualitative and the quantitative phase. This thesis revealed the important role of employees and their perceptions of the relevant internal branding mechanisms, including internal communications and training. Importantly, this thesis empirically supported the contention that internal branding affects employees' brand identification, commitment, and loyalty. It also provided empirical evidence supporting the previously assumed link between internal branding and employees' brand behaviour. Furthermore, it added to the existing knowledge that these attitudes, particularly brand identification and loyalty, need to be positively influenced because of their mediating roles. Finally, it revealed the moderating factors in the internal branding process that were identified by the internal audience. As such, this thesis sends an overriding message to management that the coordination between marketing and human resource departments with support and understanding from management is necessary to optimise the success of any internal branding campaigns in aligning employees with the brand.