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Parrish, Skip-Thomas. "Too Few Voices, Too Many Distractions, Too Little Concern, Too Little Understanding: the American Media during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6000.
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Upwards of one million people died during the Genocide, Civil War, and Refugee Crisis in Rwanda and surrounding nations, during one of the fastest Genocides to occur in modern history. Even though the United Nations and its member states had a legal mandate to intervene in cases of Genocide due to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, the world chose not to. While there were a myriad of reasons for this the media played a part in this situation.
Using the coverage of US print magazine articles, this thesis argues that the media missed the point and the signs of what was happening on the ground due to a fundamental lack of understanding of Rwanda, the African Great Lakes region, and Africa itself. Borrowing concepts of the creation of the “other,” lack of understanding of Africa, imperial language, and first world views of the third world from Edward Said and Curtis A. Keim this master's thesis shows that there were intellectual disconnects happening within the American press that made intervention nearly impossible. Once the Genocide was nearly complete and a more prosaic refugee crisis started America jumped at the chance to aid the refugees, a large number of them perpetrators of the Genocide, and the media showed reinvigorated interest in Rwanda.
What misconceptions about Rwanda caused the media to miss the point? Did the print media help perpetuate those misconceptions, knowingly or unknowingly? With a death toll from the Genocide alone of roughly 8,000 people per day and the vast majority of them dying within the first several weeks of the Genocide, many lives may have been saved if Rwanda was made a priority by the media. Instead, while the media reported stories about chthonic hatred, the world was more concerned about a much slower Genocide in Eastern Europe. While attention was focused on other global and national stories, a racist regime intent on exterminating the Tutsi was allowed to stay in power in Rwanda.<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>History<br>Arts and Humanities<br>History
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Evensen, Kari Anne Indredavik. "Born too soon or too small:Motor problems in adolescence." Doctoral thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for laboratoriemedisin, barne- og kvinnesykdommer, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-11823.
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Children born too soon (preterm) and/or too small (small for gestational age suggesting intrauterine growth restriction) have a higher risk of mortality and morbidity than children born at term with appropriate birth weight. Cerebral palsy is the most severe motor sequelae. However, minor motor problems are also frequently reported, particularly in children born preterm. Among children born small for gestational age, motor outcome is less documented and studies have shown inconsistent results. Few studies have examined motor skills in these children in adolescence. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of motor problems in adolescents born preterm with very low birth weight (VLBW) and in adolescents born small for gestational age (SGA) at term. Furthermore, we wanted to study whether visual impairments influenced their motor problems, and whether integration of vision and proprioception was reduced. Finally, we wanted to examine if early motor evaluations could identify children with motor problems in adolescence. We found that a higher proportion of VLBW and SGA adolescents had motor problems compared with controls, assessed by the Movement Assessment Battery for Children. While both VLBW boys and girls had general motor problems in terms of manual dexterity, ball skills and balance, the motor problems in the SGA group were mainly found among boys in manual dexterity. A substantial part of the motor problems in the VLBW group was influenced by visual impairments; however, this was not the case in the SGA group. The VLBW adolescents performed poorer in a task of inter- and intra-sensory integration compared with controls. However, the unfavourable results were mainly due to adolescents with cerebral palsy or low estimated intelligence quotient. The SGA adolescents performed as well as controls on this task, but had relatively poorer performance with their non-preferred hand compared with their preferred hand. Most of the VLBW adolescents with motor problems were identified already at one year, using the motor scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. However, this test did not identify SGA children who had motor problems at age 14, whereas half of them were identified at five years of age using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales. The results of this study suggest that motor problems in the VLBW group are due to a general brain damage following preterm birth, whereas motor problems in the SGA group may be caused by subtle brain dysfunctions following intrauterine growth restriction.
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Huq, Rupa. "Too much too young : British youth culture in the 1990s." Thesis, University of East London, 1999. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1287/.
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The study of youth culture in Britain, after a fertile period in the 1 970s, underwent a fallow stretch in the 1980s. By the 1990s it was being claimed from some quarters that youth culture had ceased to exist. This thesis presents the results of a study of various aspects of contemporary youth culture undertaken in Britain and France with the mixed methodologies of textual secondary source analysis, ethnographic participant observation, semi-structured interviewing and quantitative survey techniques. The central aim was to determine whether and in what forms youth culture exists in contemporary times and to redress some of the earlier imbalances in research on this subject in doing so. There are nine main findings. The first three are concerned with matters of theory and method, the remainder with the empirical work presented in the thesis: 1. It is more useful to draw on several theoretical approaches rather than constrict oneself to singular explanations of 'grand theory.' 2. Furthermore, 'theory' alone is not enough: ethnography is a key instrument for examining youth culture. 3. The exclusively class-based explanations offered by existing British subcultural studies are increasingly untenable given the transient, non-linear youth cultural forms of today. 4. Second generation hybridic British Asian youth cultures, long ignored by subculturalists, are a crucial expanding area. 5. Youth are not simply an 'urban species'; a rich under-researched suburban youth culture also exists, and is worthy of serious study. 6. Our considerations of youth culture should look beyond British shores to parallels with other countries, with whom British youth have many similarities. The expressive postcolonial cultures of French youth are one example, through which we can see both parallels with the British experience, and that there is some evidence for an emergent 'pan European youth culture'. 7. The above developments unfold despite governments' attempts at preserving 'national culture.' 8. Pop music can no longer be seen as a synonym for youth culture. 9. Reports of youth culture's death have been greatly exaggerated. It may not exist as previously conceptualised but it is taking on multiple, shifting meanings in an ageing world.
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Hansen, Steffen Foss. "Regulation and risk assessment of nanomaterials : Too little, too late?" Kgs. Lyngby : Technical University of Denmark, Department of Environmental Engineering, 2009. http://www.er.dtu.dk/publications/fulltext/2009/ENV2009-069.pdf.
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Singer, Katherine Anne. "Too many Kates." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1357.
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Vlugter, Roberta. "Too little, too late? : parenting orders as a form of crime prevention." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/326354.
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The development of Youth Justice in the UK since the early 1990s has been informed by the belief that the family plays a key role in youth offending. In 1998 the parenting order was introduced, based on the assumption that interventions to improve parenting will have a positive effect upon offending. The availability of the order was extended in 2005, reflecting the view that parents who do not undertake parenting support are being wilfully negligent of their responsibilities and must be made to take the help offered. In this thesis the assumptions justifying the parenting order and its extensions are questioned. Evidence suggests that although parenting is influential, it is one of many factors associated with the onset of or desistence from offending. Furthermore, as this thesis highlights, parents likely to receive parenting orders are often experiencing several personal and environmental 'stressors', creating high levels of need. These situational pressures and high level of need, this thesis argues, are likely to make it difficult for them to be effective in their role, or to gain long term benefit from attending a parenting programme. Furthermore, many parents have histories of unsuccessfully seeking assistance from 'helping agencies', refuting the assumption of wilful neglect. This thesis considers the advantages and limitations of parenting work as a form of crime prevention and specifically looks at the use of the parenting order. An argument is presented for a wider, more holistic approach to parenting work than that offered by the parenting order as a form of crime prevention and for providing assistance to families earlier.
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Lindqvist, Siri. "GIRLFAGS AND GUYDYKES - Too queer for straights, and too straight for queers." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26619.
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Aim. To highlight how girlfags and guydykes describe their identities and their experience and interpretation of the identity labels. Background and previous studies. The sexual minority identity of girlfags and guydykes are sometimes perceived as provocative in their contradictory labels. There is little to no previous research on the identities and what is known is mostly presented on internet blogs and forums. The identities seemingly involve aspects on sexual orientation, gender and sexual practice. Research related to sexual minorities, non-normative sex, LGBT and the risk of ill-health with identifying as a sexual minority is presented. Method. Semi-structured interviews in a method of choice was applied to this study so as to ease contact with a sexual minority group. Participants were sought through a Facebook © forum, with a total of eleven interviews with two guydykes and nine girlfags, through video call (2), phone call (1), in person (1), email (6), email with sound files (1). The data was analysed with content analysis. Results and analysis. The results were extensive and had to be delimited. The results were analysed in a sexual constructionist setting using the concept of the heterosexual matrix (Butler, 1990) and the concepts of gender/sex sexuality and nurturance and eroticism presented in van Anders’ (2015) Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT). Three main categories were presented; A play on gender, Sexuality and Orientation, and Identity. Conclusions. There is pride portrayed in the girlfag and guydykes identities. The identity breaks norms regarding gender and sexuality and even sexual orientation within an LGBT context. The results indicate that further research on transgender issues and relational and social aspects of the identities is needed. Keywords: autoandrophilia, gender identity, genderqueer, girlfag, guydyke, homosexuality, LGBT, non-normative, sexual minorities, lesbian man, queer.
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Ardavan, Sam, Röhnisch Hanna Eriksson, Jenny Gustafsson, Carl Hemminsson, Anna Maria Pettersson, and Jens Westerinen. "Me-too läkemedel, Indinavir." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-159832.
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Syntesdesign AB is an academic company that is supposed to enter the HIV drug market by manufacturing a "me-too"-drug with indinavir as the starting substance. Our task is to find 100 potential indinaviranalogues. Our further task is to suggest how to perform a bondingassay to test the affinity for all these analogues. We will present a method, required equipment and calculated costs for the assay.
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Selbee, Amber. "Activated charcoal; too abrasive?" The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1619127299234152.
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Gasparetto, Gianluca <1990>. "Too Big to Fail." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6015.
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This thesis is about the Too Big To Fail problem, that is the financial firms that have been defined too large and that are so big that their failure could create problems for the whole economy. These too-big-to-fail institutions operated under an implicit government undertaking that, although it is a private business, in case of failure of their existence is guaranteed by the taxpayer through the Government who bailouts them.
After a short introduction to the problem and the history of where they come from (both American and European side), it will be presented the intellectual debate, which connects different views of this problem, in particular why they did it, in relation to a moral hazard problem.
Ignoring the colossal potential of creating conflicts of interest, regulators allowed the mega -banks to emerge because of industry’s insistence necessary that they were under new market conditions of global market integration and financial innovation. The supporters of conglomeration submitted that financial conglomerates created better returns for shareholders, due to economies of scale and efficiencies and diversification. Therefore, according to this view, consolidation strengthened the stability of financial institutions and thus the stability of the financial system.
The crisis has demonstrated the falsity of these reasons.
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Dillon, Andrew. "Cultural analysis and what designers need to know - A Case of sometimes too much, sometimes too little, and always too late." New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105113.
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This item is an invited response to Bader and Nyce (1998) Theory and Practice in the Development Community: Is there room for cultural analysis? It is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon, A. (1998) Cultural Analysis And What Designers Need To Know - A Case of Sometimes Too Much, Sometimes Too Little, and Always Too Late. ACM Journal of Computer Documentation, 22,1, 13-17.
Bader and Nyce's article raises intriguing issues that have concerned researchers in HCI and user-centered systems design for much of the last decade: to what extent can a deep social science methodology influence the process of technology design usefully. Their conclusion, that cultural analysis yields knowledge perceived to be of little value by system designers, is in my view, largely correct. However, while I share their conclusion, I do not accept their rationale. In the present paper I will attempt to demonstrate that the root of the problem lies less with the system designers than the inappropriate application of the specific social science methods Bader and Nyce invoke, which itself can be traced to their overly narrow view of the design process and their assumption that cultural analysis is the most useful social scientific method.
It appears to me that Bader and Nyce's analysis rests firmly on one key point: developers make epistemological errors. These errors thus systematically bias designers' output and hence color their designs. The authors describe two such error types. The first is that classic problem of designers assuming that users are somewhat like them, and hence the designers' judgments of what constitutes good design will logically be shared by the intended users. The second type of error reflects the designers' views of social life being describable in terms of rules, albeit complex rules, which enable interaction to be predicted.
This key point of epistemology needs to be examined critically since much of what follows in the Bader and Nyce article, and my response, flows from it.
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Wilberding, David J. "The Army's readiness crisis: the cost of doing too much with too little." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/7989.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>To improve its declining combat readiness the Army is requesting a significant budget increase. The Army plans to use the increase for primarily improving quality of. life issues. This thesis argues that this plan is inadequate and will result in only marginal readiness gains. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the underlying causes of the readiness crisis and to offer an alternative framework for reversing the decline. This thesis begins by defining readiness from the perspectives of operational and structural readiness. It then explores the critical readiness questions of: What should be ready? What should it be ready for? and When should it be ready? The thesis also examines the impact of the drawdown and commitments to peace operations (POs) on Army readiness. To illustrate the influence of these variables on readiness, this thesis develops a readiness threshold model that measures the capacity of a given force to participate in POs before its readiness deteriorates. By using the model to analyze the current size of the force in relation to its PO commitments, this thesis finds that the cost of doing too much with too little is a reduction in the Army's combat readiness. The thesis concludes by examining both policy implications and prescriptions derived from this study.
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Avotri, Joyce Yaa. ""Thinking too much" and "worrying too much" : Ghanaian women's accounts of their health problems /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ30068.pdf.
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Lajoie, Brooke L. "Never too old, never too young? : exploring stereotypes in the mixed-age college classroom." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1447.
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Cloud, Dawn. "Eyes That Seen Too Much." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/60.
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This thesis is compiled of four short stories and is an excerpt from a story cycle that I’ve been working on for the last four years entitled Eyes That Seen Too Much. These stories follow the challenges faced by the Labossierre women. Although most fiction writing does address challenges and/or how characters face their particular challenges, this story cycle is slightly different due to the unconventional backgrounds of the characters. Katherine and her sister Raquel grew up as Prostitutes in Louisiana, where their mother, Bit (Lil’ Bit) was also a Prostitute. The sister’s daughters, Kennedy and Marie become Exotic Dancers in adulthood, and the reader witnesses some of the challenges that they face as children and the social constraints of being daughters of former prostitutes and exotic dancers.
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Corveleyn, Jozef. "About counterttansference: ¿Obstacle or too!?" Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/100458.
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This paper discusses the different perspectives that exist in psychoanalysis about the status of the countertransference in the therapeutic process. On the one hand, for those who follow the classical tendency this should be radically repressed to protect the ideal of an aseptic neutrality. On the other hand, for those who follow the humanistic tendency, this should be incorporated to consolidate the externa! and real aspects of the therapeutic alliance. Together with the classical work uf Theodor Reik and the modero work of Harold Searles, the author proposes that countertransference feelings and reactions could be used as legitime tools to monitor both the relationship with the patient, as well as the interpretation phase.<br>El artículo discute las distintas perspectivas que dentro del mismo psicoanálisis existen sobre el estatuto de la contratransferencia en el proceso terapéutico. Mientras que para unos (la tendencia clásica) ésta debe ser radicalmente reprimida para salvaguardar el ideal de una neutralidad aséptica, para otros (la tendencia humanista) ésta puede ser incorporada para consolidar los aspectos externos y reales de la alianza terapéutica. Junto con la postura clásica de Theodor Reik y la más moderna de Harold Searles, el autor plantea que los sentimientos y reacciones contratransferenciales pueden ser usados como un instrumento legítimo que oriente tanto la relación con el paciente como la labor interpretativa.
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Brower, Cheyna Katherine. "Too Long and Too Boring: The Effects of Survey Length and Interest on Careless Responding." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1524614764948287.
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Murray, Andrew. "Too much power? : Unions or capital /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm981.pdf.
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Harrison, Jeff. "Boys Can Be Socially Aggressive, Too." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622087.
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Hornik, Kurt. "Are There Too Many R Packages?" Austrian Statistical Society, c/o Bundesanstalt Statistik Austria, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3814/1/121Hornik.pdf.
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The number of R extension packages available from the CRAN
repository has tremendously grown over the past 10 years. We look at this
phenomenon in more detail, and discuss some of its consequences. In particular,
we argue that the statistical computing community needs a more common
understanding of software quality, and better domain-specific semantic
resources.
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Garibaldi, Lino Paúl, and Lino Paúl Garibaldi. "You Too Can Be a Rebel." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625321.
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The blurred lines between the domains of art, education and art education create tensions that impact how art educators negotiate their identities (Baxter, Ortega López, Serig & Sullivan, 2008) within themselves and through a myriad of complex relationships with society and the natural world. I reflect upon the profound transformations of my theoretical and methodological framework of pedagogy emerging from my academic, artistic and professional experiences, particularly my exposure to twentieth century philosophy, post-modernism, critical pedagogy, democratic education, feminist theory and queer studies, each through the lens of social justice. I draw from the ideas of thinkers—Goodman, Lorde, Deleuze, Freire and Zolla, amongst many—who, in one way or another, embraced an integrative dialectic of difference rather than fearing or rejecting conflict, opposites and contradictions. In the twenty-first century, this exploration of the interspace has resulted in arts-based theoretical and methodological approaches to inquiry (Rolling, 2013) such as studio art as research practice (Sullivan, 2004), a/r/tography (Springgay, Irwin & Kind, 2005), and productive ambiguity (Shipe, 2015).
This thesis is an arts-based autoethnography, intended to embody the dual nature of the identities and practices of artists/teachers through the creation of an artistic product. Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner pointed to the three axes of autoethnography: the self (auto), culture (ethno) and the research process (graphy); modes of autoethnography fall along different places within these continua (Ellis & Bochner, 2000). While I place the strongest focus on my experience and culture, I also stress the relevance and rigor of the research process. Drawing inspiration from the amazing work of Nick Sousanis and Rachel Branham, I include extensive notes and references at the end of the thesis. The prologue is formatted as an illustrated novel—a blueprint for a full graphic novel version of this thesis. The rest of the manuscript is a literary autoethnography, by which I assume the identity of an autobiographical writer foremost.
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Liu, Yang. "The sources of debt matter, too /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8798.
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Campbell, Kathy, and Leslie Adebonojo. "Nontraditional Students Need Academic Libraries Too." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/372.
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Tiepolo, Linda <1989>. "Certificates: too complicated for retail clients?" Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7206.
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The aim of this thesis is to understand if there is a correspondence between complexity and riskiness in certificates, and to examine whether these financial products, so-called complex products, are suitable for retail investors or not.
In the first part, the main characteristics of certificates are shown and the markets in which they are traded. Subsequently, there is a detailed analysis of the structure of the main types of certificates that are currently proposed by the main financial intermediaries in this field.
The thesis then analyses the opinions issued in 2014 and in 2015 by ESMA and then by Consob in order to regulate the sale of complex products, in which certificates are included.
In conclusion, the thesis investigates the fact that the legislator associates product complexity to riskiness. Complexity is a relative term that depends on the characteristics of the product and its risk-return profile. In fact, there may be financial products in the market with a high level of complexity, but with a low risk level, or vice versa.
Misunderstandings in the comprehension of these terms may limit the sale of complex products to a wider audience. This thesis hopes to clarify the levels of complexity and riskiness of certificates, and to show that if there is transparency on the part of financial intermediaries, these products can be sold to retail customers according to their risk aversion and their knowledge of financial markets.
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Ho, Rachel L. M. "Self-controlled learning and differential goals| Does "too easy" and "too difficult" affect the self-control paradigm?" Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10239730.
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<p> In the learning and cognitive fields it has been well established that a two-way interaction between instructor and participant is more beneficial for learning. Within Motor Control and Learning, this process comes to fruition through what is known as self-controlled practice. The purpose of this study is to determine how goals influence the process of self-controlled practice. It was hypothesized that there will be a difference in learning between the self-controlled group (SC) and a yoked group (Y) as well as a difference in learning between the SC groups with respect to timing goal. One hundred and twenty young adults participated in this experiment. Participants in the self-control group were provided control over the amount of practice trials they completed during practice while participants in the yoked group received the same amount of practice trials as the individuals in the self-control group. Additionally, self-control participants were grouped according to timing goals. Error score measures were collected to assess changes in performance. Results indicated partial confirmation of differences due to stringency of the timing goal, as well as, no differences between self-control and yoked groups.</p>
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Murphy, Anthea Lea. "This too, too solid flesh : the representation of Ono no Komachi as an old woman in Noh plays." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36996.
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Ono no Komachi, the ninth century Heian poet, features in five Noh plays from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that are still in the repertory, the most of any woman, as her reputation for skill in poetry and the many legends about her made her an excellent choice for a main character. Most of the plays overtly feature poetry as a main theme, while often depicting her as an old woman. These plays pick up on themes which were already common in the legends about Komachi, including her destitution in old age and her use as a symbol of mujō, or impermanence. However, the ways they deal with these themes differ considerably from their precedents. This thesis examines three plays, Sotoba Komachi, Sekidera Komachi, and Ōmu Komachi, that deal with Komachi as an old woman and the ways in which they construct the relationship between women’s bodies, their poetry, and medieval Japanese Buddhism. Far from being celebrations of Komachi’s skill, the plays in fact control, degrade, and otherwise marginalize Komachi’s poetry through constructing her body as vulnerable, powerless and incapable, and controlling her relationship to areas and people of poetic power, particularly Tamatsushima shrine, the capital, and Sotoori-hime. By examining the revisions and changes made by the playwrights to the sources used in the plays, the thesis suggests that these three plays create a Komachi who acts as symbol of the impermanence of women’s poetry and of poetry-based social mobility for women.
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Steiber, Nadia, and Barbara Haas. "Too much or too little work? Couples' actual and preferred employment patterns and work hours mismatches in Europe." Staatsinstitut für Familienforschung an der Universität Bamberg (ifb), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/zff.v30i3.03.
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The most widely cited European data on work hours mismatches at the couple level date back to the 1990s. The general gist of analyses of these data was that "overworked" dual-earner couples frequently preferred work hours reductions, especially those with childcare responsibilities. This study uses more recent data from the European Social Survey (2010-12) to update the available evidence on actual and preferred breadwinner models and on the occurrence and determinants of work hours mismatches among couples in Europe. The focus is on differences between demographic groups and countries in the degree to which cohabiting couples are either underemployed (working fewer hours than desired) or overemployed (working more hours than desired). Our analyses show that about one third of couples are underemployed, while only one in ten report being overemployed. We identify low education and the presence of children below school age as risk factors for underemployment, whereas highly educated women and fathers of teenagers tend to be overemployed. In a comparison of 16 European countries, we find couples in Greece, Ireland, Slovenia, and Spain to be most at risk of experiencing underemployment - in the countries that were most strongly affected by the recession. The effects of children on the experience of hours mismatches are found to vary across Europe - a particularly strong association of children below school age with parental underemployment is observed in Central and Eastern Europe, Finland, and Germany and a particularly weak one in Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, and Sweden.
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Glahn, Jason C. "Is hard positivism too hard to swallow? /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1426061.
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Fuhringer, Colleen Ann. "When more is more becomes too much." Thesis, Montana State University, 2012. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2012/fuhringer/FuhringerC0512.pdf.
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Though we live in an age of uncertainty, we are constantly surrounded by what is predictable and routine. What happens when the comfort of our understanding is questioned? This body of work developed out of my experimental curiosity and desire to merge the familiar with the unexpected. Incorporating furniture and found objects brings a level of familiarity to the viewer, but manipulating the usual and adding strange elements causes inquiry. All of the components are set up into narrative tableaus and every part is considerably important to the whole. The installation explores humor and fear related to the grotesque and the uncanny, exploring contradictory elements such as: anthropomorphic and foreign, vibrant and static, seductive and repulsive. Each scene reveals no answers but poses only questions, inviting the viewer to fully experience their surroundings and come up with their own conclusions. We often exist between the margins of the known and the unknown but our understanding of this existence is purely individual.
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Allen, Craig Haddon. "Too short to waste reflections on Qohelet /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Song, Eunkyung, Ranjit Philip, Sandeep Chilakala, Demetrio Macariola, and Gayatri Jaishankar. "Respiratory Infections - How Many Is Too Many?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8860.
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Hamdy, Ronald C., J. V. Lewis, Amber Kinser, et al. "Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2741.
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Choices are often difficult to make by patients with Alzheimer Dementia. They often become acutely confused when faced with too many options because they are not able to retain in their working memory enough information about the various individual choices available. In this case study, we describe how an essentially simple benign task (choosing a dress to wear) can rapidly escalate and result in a catastrophic outcome. We examine what went wrong in the patient/caregiver interaction and how that potentially catastrophic situation could have been avoided or defused.
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Hamdy, R. C., J. V. Lewis, Amber Kinser, et al. "Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1231.
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Choices are often difficult to make by patients with Alzheimer Dementia. They often become acutely confused when faced with too many options because they are not able to retain in their working memory enough information about the various individual choices available. In this case study, we describe how an essentially simple benign task (choosing a dress to wear) can rapidly escalate and result in a catastrophic outcome. We examine what went wrong in the patient/caregiver interaction and how that potentially catastrophic situation could have been avoided or defused.
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Scheibehenne, Benjamin. "The effect of having too much choice." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15740.
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Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem so genannten „Effekt zu großer Auswahl“. Der Effekt besagt, dass ein Überangebot von Auswahlalternativen negative Konsequenzen hat, in dem es beispielsweise die Motivation verringert, überhaupt eine Entscheidung zu treffen oder in dem es die subjektive Zufriedenheit mit der letztlich gewählten Alternative verringert. Die theoretischen Erklärung es Effektes sind jedoch bisher nur unzureichend präzisiert. Der Effekt steht im Widerspruch zu Axiomen der klassischen rationalen Entscheidungstheorie. Ein sicherer Nachweis des Effektes hätte daher Konsequenzen für die Theorienbildung in der Psychologie. Außerdem hätte der Effekt praktische Relevanz in angewandten Bereichen wie zum Beispiel im Konsumgütermarketing oder in der Politik. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird zunächst der Versuch unternommen, bereits publizierte Studien zu replizieren, in denen große Effektstärken gefunden wurden. In einer Serie von insgesamt drei Replikationen mit insgesamt 850 Versuchsteilnehmern ließ sich jedoch der Effekt zu großer Auswahl nicht replizieren. Der Effekt scheint demnach weniger generalisierbar als bisher angenommen und sein Auftreten hängt vermutlich von spezifischen Randbedingungen ab. Die Arbeit widmet sich im weiteren der Frage wann, wieso und unter welchen Randbedingungen ein Effekt zu großer Auswahl zu erwarten ist. Dabei eine Reihe potenzieller Randbedingungen theoretisch begründet und in sechs weiteren Experimententen mit insgesamt 595 Teilnehmern getestet. Im Ergebnis können die meisten der getesteten Randbedingungen als Erklärung für das Auftreten des Effektes ausgeschlossen werden. Eine sich daran anschließende Meta-Analyse zeigt jedoch, dass der Unterschied zwischen Studien die einen Effekt nachweisen und solchen, in denen kein Effekt auftritt, vermutlich nicht allein durch Zufallsprozesse erklärbar ist. Demnach ist eine Suche nach weiteren Randbedingungen in zukünftiger Forschung gerechtfertigt.teste diese in sechs weiteren Experimententen mit insgesamt 595 Teilnehmern. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen dieser Experimente können die meisten der getesteten Randbedingungen als Erklärung für das Auftreten des Effektes ausgeschlossen werden. Die Ergebnisse einer sich daran anschließenden Meta-Analyse veröffentlichter und unveröffentlichter Daten zeigt jedoch, dass der Unterschied zwischen Studien die einen Effekt nachweisen und solchen, in denen kein Effekt auftritt, vermutlich nicht allein durch Zufallsprozesse erklärbar ist. Demnach ist eine Suche nach weiteren Randbedingungen in zukünftiger Forschung gerechtfertigt.<br>This dissertation explores the so-called too-much-choice effect, according to which an overabundance of options eventually leads to negative consequences, such as a diminished motivation to choose any of them or a decreased satisfaction with the finally chosen alternative. While strong instances of this effect have been found in a small number of studies in the past, its theoretical underpinnings are still unspecific. Because the effect challenges basic axioms of rational choice theory and it also has important implications for applied fields such as marketing and public policy making, it is important to get a better understanding of the mechanisms that lead to the effect. As a starting point to test these mechanisms, an experimental paradigm is needed in which the effect reliably occurs. Therefore, I first strived to replicate previous experiments that reported large effect sizes. Yet in a series of three replications in the field and in the lab with a total of 850 participants, I did not find an effect of too much choice, suggesting that the effect is less robust than previously thought and that it depends on certain boundary conditions instead. To find out which specific conditions are necessary to reliably elicit it, I subsequently examined several boundary conditions in a series of six laboratory experiments. Based on the results of these experiments with a total of 595 participants, most of the tested boundary conditions could be ruled out as explanations of why and when the effect of too much choice occurs. The results of a meta-analysis of published and unpublished data including my own suggest that the effect of too much choice is smaller than previously thought and that the differences between the studies that found the effect and those that did not cannot be explained by mere chance. As a consequence, a further search for moderator variables in future research seems justified.
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Strobl, Philipp. ""Too Little to Live and Too Much to Die" The Burgenländers' Immigration to the United States During the Interwar Period." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1247.
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This paper explores the history of a group of immigrants that came to the United States from the small rural Austrian region of the Burgenland between World War One and World War Two. By examining several biographical life stories of contemporaries it wants explain why the emigrants decided to leave their country, how they managed their passage, how they assimilated to their adoptedâ€home, and how they integrated themselves into the new society.
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Paton-Walsh, Margaret. "Our war too : American women against the Axis /." Lawrence, Kan : University Press of Kansas, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002002976.html.
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Wiemann, Dirk. "Too Poor for Debt: Deleuze’s First-World Problems." Universität Leipzig, 2020. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A72857.
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Deleuze launches his description/prediction of the emergence and imminent consolidation of the society of control as a postscript. The text thus announces itself as an afterthought, a supplement appended to some complete larger textual body, from which it is, however, unmoored as it is launched as an independent self-standing text that, moreover, does not indicate to what it is an addendum but instead, on what it speaks. By this token, the Postscript unhinges the conventional notion according to which a supplement signals “the addition of something to an already complete entity” (Attridge 1992: 77). By marking his text as the adjunct to an absent main body, Deleuze appears to concede and at the same time emphatically embrace the necessary incompleteness of this short précis on the post-disciplinary regime. My argument in the following will be that the supplementary status of the Postscript does not so much signal some subversive or dissident gesture in the name of the minor or the molecular (even though it does that, too); instead, it primarily serves to keep at bay and contain an exteriority that it aims to ‘confine by exclusion’1; and that exteriority, I will argue, is the Third World.
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Donakey, Elizabeth Helen. "Surrealism and Postmodernism in Gregory Abbott's Remlack Too." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7407.
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This thesis explores Gregory Abbott's Remlack Too, particularly in its fusion of surrealism and postmodernism. It addresses the ways in which Remlack Too highlights the artist's experience with sleep apnea, but acknowledges that this is only one level of understanding the painting. Other layers are realized through a study of surrealism and postmodernism. This research analyzes the ways in which surrealism and postmodernism work together, including through their lack of style, fluidity in definition, incorporation of semiotics, distrust in science, reliance on psychoanalysis, and especially through postmodernism's appropriating of earlier artistic movements. This thesis reviews the previously overlooked elements of postmodernism in Abbott's oeuvre. By exploring some of the binary pairs found in Remlack Too, such as life and death, sleep and wake, and logic and irrational, Abbott reveals his hopes for a more open-minded and accepting society.
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Jouhaud, Jean. "Amélioration de la représentation des nuages bas dans le modèle de circulation générale LMDz." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2018. https://theses.hal.science/tel-02066819.
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Dans cette thèse on tente de réduire le biais “Too Few, Too Bright” partagé par la plupart des GCMs qui tendent à sous-estimer la couverture des nuages bas et à sur-estimer leur épaisseur optique. On travaille ainsi sur deux aspects de la représentation des nuages bas dans LMDz6. Sous-maille : On introduit une paramétrisation pour distinguer les fractions nuageuses volumiques CFvol et surfaciques CFsurf au sein des mailles du GCM, tout en recalibrant le calcul de l’eau condensée qc en prenant en compte l’épaisseur des mailles jusqu’alors négligée. Cette étape permet : -de diminuer l’épaisseur optique des nuages bas par la prise en compte de l’épaisseur des mailles dans le calcul de qc -d’augmenter la fraction nuageuse vue par le schéma de rayonnement qui reçoit CFsurf au lieu de CFvol Inter-maille : On propose une nouvelle paramétrisation de la longueur de décorrélation du schéma de recouvrement exponentiel-aléatoire, permettant d'évaluer la manière dont se recouvrent les nuages indépendamment dans chaque colonne atmosphérique, tout en prenant en compte le cisaillement de vent et en s’adaptant à des choix de modélisation comme la résolution verticale du GCM. On évalue les impacts radiatifs de ces paramétrisations avec le simulateur COSP2 dans lequel nous implémentons le cloud-generator du code radiatif ECRad. Sur nos diagnostiques, on observe : -une diminution des zones peu couvertes et très réfléchissantes -une augmentation des zones peu couvertes et peu réfléchissantes -une augmentation des zones à couverture et réflectance intermédiaire Ces nouvelles paramétrisations ont ainsi tendance à réduire le biais “Too Few, Too Bright” au dessus des océans tropicaux dans LMDz6<br>In this thesis we intent to reduce the "Too Few, Too Bright" bias shared by most GCMs, that tend to underestimate the low-cloud cover and overestimate its optical depth. We work on two aspects of the low-clouds representation in LMDz6. Sub-grid Scale: We introduce a parametrisation to distinguish cloud fractions by volume CFvol and by surface CFsurf inside GCM grid boxes, and we recalibrate the calculation of condensed water by taking into account the depth of the grid boxes that use to be neglected. This step allows: -to reduce the optical depth of clouds by taking into account the depth of grid boxes in the calculation of qc -to increase the cloud fraction seen by the radiation scheme, that receive CFsurf instead of CFvol Inter-grid Scale: We propose a new parametrisation of the decorrelation length of the exponential-random overlap scheme, that allows evaluating the overlap of clouds independently in each atmospheric column, while taking into account wind shear and being adaptive to modelling choices such as the vertical resolution of the GCM. We evaluate the radiative impacts of these parametrisations with the COSP2 simulator package in which we implement the cloud-generator of the radiative code ECRad. Our diagnostics show: -a reduction of the low-covered and highly-reflective areas -an increase of the low-covered and low-reflective areas -and increase of the mid-covered and mid-reflective areas These new parametrisations then tend to reduce the "Too Few, Too Bright" bias over tropical ocean in LMDz6
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Kistner, Anna. "Born too small or too early : effects on blood pressure, renal function and retinal vascularization in adulthood : experimental and clinical studies /." Stockholm, 2004. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2004/91-7140-154-7/.
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Lindblad, Emma. "Looking vanlig; neither too much nor too little : A study of consumption of clothing among mainstream youth in a Swedish small town." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131047.
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This thesis studies consumption among young people who identify as mainstreamers in a Swedish small town. In order to map patterns of clothing consumption and to understand what was central in the young people’s self-identification, the research was conducted using a mix of ethnographic methods and wardrobe studies. This is an inverted study of the subcultural, that problematizes the assumption that the majority (the mainstream) and the minority (the countercultural) are opposites when it comes to identity creation. The central concepts used here are ordinary (vanlig), mainstream, and subculture. One of the main findings is that the youth studied self-identify as ordinary. This finding is used to problematize not only the traditional markers of masculinity and femininity as they present themselves in this context, but also what is characterized as new patterns of consumption. There are two main conclusions. First, being mainstream and ordinary was not a static identity position, as the literature would have it; instead, being an ordinary mainstreamer required constant work in order to stay within certain culturally negotiated boundaries. Second, the ethnographic findings contribute in the field of subcultural studies by questioning the convention of portraying the mainstream and the subcultural as polar opposites: contrary to the literature, it is argued that neither is so very different from the other, making it an unhelpful dichotomy in understanding young people today.
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Li, Ying. "Too Many Theories Or Too Many Skills? The Perceived Impact Of Theoretical Knowledge Of Mass Communication Among Journalists And Public Relations Practitioners." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1878966091&sid=13&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009.<br>"College of Mass Communication and Media Arts." Keywords: Journalism, Journalism education, Journalist, Mass communication theory, Public relations, Public relations practitioner. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-188). Also available online.
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Adestam, Carina, Sofia Gunnmo, and Anne Hedberg. "CleanTech - a sector too risky for Swedish venture capital." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Accounting and Finance, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1146.
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<p>CleanTech is the sector where technologies intended to reduce the harmful effect that our current lifestyle has on the environment are found. In Sweden the companies developing these technologies has not yet managed to get their deserved part of Swedish venture capital. A number of venture capitalists do invest in CleanTech, however the majority is hesitant. The hesitation is to a large extent said to be born in the many risks associated to a CleanTech investment. This thesis attempts to address this issue by describing and analyzing how venture capitalists reduce risks when investing in a CleanTech company. An abductive approach has been used to conduct the study, mainly based on primary, qualitative data. The data was gathered through six face-to-face interviews with Swedish venture capitalists active within the CleanTech sector.</p><p>The different risks expected to be found in a CleanTech investment are first presented grouped into three broad risks groups; Agency risk, Business risk and Innovation risk. This is followed by a framework covering methods and tools that can be applied by venture capitalists in an attempt to reduce risks in their investments. These being; Convertible equity, Syndication, Information system, Monitoring, Milestones, Bonding, Share options, Stage financing and Intellectual property rights.</p><p>The respondents do not view the risks associated to CleanTech as high as generally perceived. They acknowledge that the risks exists but not to any larger extent than in any other investment. When reducing risk in their investment the respondents make use of commonly known and generally used methods and tools. These are not deliberately chosen in order to reduce a specific risk but rather to safeguard the investment as a whole. It is not just the tools in themselves that leads to a successful reduction of risk, but rather when combined with the respondent’s as well as the entrepreneurs skills and experiences.</p>
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Hamada, Yuko. "Global Governance and International Migration: A Bridge Too Far?" Gadjah Mada University Press, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15886.
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Reumann, Andreas, and Friedrich Thießen. "Why are employment figures in airport studies too high?" Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-153384.
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Luftverkehrsprognosen stellen ein wichtiges Instrument dar, die Luftverkehrsinfrastruktur zu beeinflussen. Hinter vielen der Projekte, die von Luftverkehrsprognosen begleitet werden, stehen Interessen. Dies gilt insbesondere für Ausbauvorhaben von Flughäfen, die von eindeutigen Zielen und Wünschen getragen werden. Die Gutachter, die im Rahmen solcher Ausbauvorhaben tätig werden, sind der Gefahr ausgesetzt, beeinflusste Prognosen zu erstellen. Die Art und Intensität dieser Beeinflussung sowie die Methodik dieser Analysen sind Gegenstand dieses Aufsatzes. Zunächst wurden neuere Ergebnisse der OECD und EU erarbeitet und denen der Flughafenstudien gegenübergestellt. Nachfolgend wurde die Intensität der Beeinflussung auf Grundlage einer eigenen Untersuchung analysiert. Dabei wurden politische Entscheidungsträger im Rhein-Main-Gebiet nach Ihrer Verwendung von Studien und deren Ergebnisse befragt. Die Impact Study, als häufigste Forschungsmethodik, wurde in ihre Bestandteile zerlegt und mit der Full Cost-Benefit-Analyse, welche die durch die FAA empfohlene Methode ist, verglichen. Grundsätzlich sind solche Gutachten meist externe Analysen aus privatwirtschaftlicher Hand, die einerseits im Auftrag von regionalen Entscheidungsträgern, aber andererseits auch im Auftrag von Flughafen- und Fluggesellschaften angefertigt wurden. Die Unabhängigkeit der Prognosen ist damit gefährdet. Auf Grundlage der (neutralen) OECD- und EU-Ergebnisse zeigte sich, dass etwaige regionale Wirtschaftsimpulse und damit einhergehendes Beschäftigungswachstum durch erhöhten Flugverkehr nicht zu finden sind. Die kritische Analyse von „bezahlten Studien“ ist demnach von Bedeutung. Die Mehrzahl der politischen Amts- und Entscheidungsträger in Deutschland trifft allerdings Entscheidungen auf Basis keiner oder ausschließlich nicht-neutraler, bezahlter Auftragsstudien. Historisch betrachtet ist dies kein Novum. Bereits in den 60er Jahren kann man solche Studien und Entscheidungen nachweisen. Bezüglich des Forschungsdesign zeigte sich, dass Impact-Studien kaum für zur Beurteilung des Luftverkehrs geeignet sind. Sie beziehen die relevanten Effekte nur teilweise in ihre Berechnungen ein. Es wurde eine Reihe von systematischen Fehlern identifiziert. Die FAA-Richtlinien in den USA für methodisch korrekte Studien greifen nur wenig. Für weitere Forschung sehen wir die wichtige Aufgabe, die Methodik der Full Cost-Benefit-Analyse für die Prognose möglicher Effekte zur Anwendung zu bringen<br>Aviation traffic forecasts and airport analyses are important instruments which influence decisions on aviation related infrastructure. Behind many of such infrastructure projects, which are supported by forecast analyses, one finds political interests. This is especially the case for aviation projects, such as infrastructure enlargement projects of airports, which are motivated by distinct goals and desires. Referees who act within this framework are exposed to the risk of producing biased results. The form and degree of intensity of such influence and manipulation, as well as the methodology of such forecast analyses, are the subject of this working paper. To begin with, newer research results by the OECD and the EU have been formulated and further compared to results of studies commissioned by airport operators. Subsequently, the degree of intensity of such influence has been analysed on the basis of our own research. A survey was thereby produced, investigating the application of neutral and non-neutral studies in the decision-making processes of the public administration in the Rhein-Main-area. Impact studies, which are currently the most used method, have been segmented and compared with studies using full cost-benefit-analysis, the recommended method by the FAA. With regard to these results, it can be argued that most forecast analyses are produced by private consultancies, by order of public entities but also by order of airport operators. The independence of such research and its results is therefore endangered. Recent OECD and EU research results have shown that eventual effects, such as regional economic stimulus and employment growth, are absent. Thus, care in the application of study results in this field is necessary. However, the majority of policy makers (in Germany) unfortunately base their decisions mostly on non-neutral studies. Historically seen, this is not a novelty. Regarding the research design, impact studies are hardly suitable for airport studies. Further, it can be shown that impact studies incorporate mostly only non-negative items in their cash flow calculations, compared to full cost-benefit-analyses which incorporate all relevant items. A number of systematic flaws are further identified. The regulation-guidelines by the FAA, which demand to incorporate all items, have had little impact on the research design of airport studies in the US so far. The promotion and fostering of full cost-benefit-analyses is necessary to lift the quality of airport studies
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Hazleden, Rebecca Louise. "Women who read too much : relationship manuals and subjectivity." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403080.
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Lookabaugh, Brian Scott. "Too Important to Democratize: Lessons from the Arab Spring." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703364/.
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While the Arab Spring has resulted in numerous different political outcomes across the Arab world, conventional theories of democratization are lacking in explaining these divergent outcomes. Developing a theory of democratization, strategic importance and external intervention, I examine the relationship between national strategic importance and democratization. I argue that strategically important states will be targeted by external actors in attempts to stifle or thwart democracy because democracy may upset the status quo that foreign actors benefit from. I do not find support for the hypothesis that strategic importance and democratization share a general negative relationship, however, I find moderate support that strategic importance is related to the timing of regime breakdown, democratic breakdown and democratic transition. Furthermore, in examining the cases of Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, I highlight key moments of external intervention and influence that impacted the democratization attempts of each case.
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Pinnegar, Simon (Simon Michael) Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Men, masculinities and feminist theory: having a gender too." Ottawa, 1995.
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Tramp, Iris Anne. "This too is writing: Writing in the holistic classroom." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/921.
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Mulligan, Kerry-Jane. "A distance too far away : a novel and exegesis." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61025/1/Kerry_Mulligan_Thesis.pdf.
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This practice-led research examines the generative function of loss in fiction that explores themes of grief and longing. This research considers how loss may be understood as a structuring mechanism through which characters evaluate time, resolve loss and affect future change.
The creative work is a work of literary fiction titled A Distance Too Far Away. Aubrey, the story’s protagonist, is a woman in her twenties living in Brisbane in the early 1980s, carving out an independent life for herself away from her family. Through a flashback narrative sequence, told from the perspective of the twelve year narrator, Aubrey retraces a significant point of rupture in her life following a series of family tragedies. A Distance Too Far Away explores the tension between belonging and freedom, and considers how the past provides a malleable space for illuminating desire in order to traverse the gap between the world as it is and the world as we want it to be.
The exegetical component of this research considers an alternative critical frame for interpreting the work of American author Anne Tyler, a writer who has had a significant influence on my own practice. Frequently criticised for creating sentimental and inert characters, many critics observe that nothing happens in Tyler’s circular plots. This research challenges these assertions, and through a contextual analysis of Tyler’s Ladder of Years (1995) investigates how Tyler engages with memory and nostalgia in order to move across time and resolve loss.