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Showing 1 to 20 of 496 for “"Abandonment"”.
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Implicit abandonment distress
… schema. Focusing on a relational schema of abandonment, it presents an account of a memory mechanism that can be measured independently of its behavioral manifestations (i.e., symptoms of distress). In Study 1, an implicit memory script measure, psychophysiological data, and video capture of …
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Patent abandonment and subsequent cumulative inventions
… explores how the focal firm’s patent abandonment strategy can facilitate cumulative inventions by external inventors, as well as subsequent cumulative inventions by the focal firm to enable value creation and value capture. To keep a patent in force in the United States, a firm must …
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Deconstructing "Abandonment of Seafarers": A study on the transnationality of abandonment of seafarers: To what extent do private actors/shipping industry stakeholders have an impact on abandonment of seafarers?
… Maritime Labour Convention amendments concerning abandonment of seafarers are expected to come into force in 2017, something long sought by seafarers’ representatives. The Convention is already considered a success, being referred to as a ‘super convention’ or ‘seafarers’ bill of rights’, and the …
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Abandoned chip: Investigating abandonment of commercial wearables
Abandonment of wearable fitness trackers continues to be an ongoing issue. Literature has compiled many reasons; however, the roles of data literacy and data visualization literacy have been underexplored. Two qualitative studies, an online survey and in depth semi-structured interviews …
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Housing abandonment in Mexican metropolitan areas : analyzing planning strategies to reduce housing abandonment in the Metro Area of Guadalajara
… could have in reducing the high rates of housing abandonment the city currently faces. Previous efforts to reduce housing abandonment in the city have not delivered the expected results, and the metropolitan government of Guadalajara has laid out a new Metropolitan Urban Development Plan (POTmet) …
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Patient Abandonment: A Study of States' Boards of Nursing
… state's boards of nursing for the presence of abandonment language, (b) to identify the prevalent types of abandonment language, if present, and (c) to compare abandonment language among states. Nurse practice acts and documents on abandonment were obtained from states. Over half of the states' …
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Queueing System Analysis in Oil and Gas Abandonment Operations
Oil and Gas (O&G) well abandonments are crucial in ensuring environmental and regulatory compliance in the industry. This thesis characterizes an O&G well abandonment system and process using well-plugging regulations from six major hydrocarbon-producing states in the United States. A comprehensive …
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Nuclear “Pork” Revisited: Organizational Imperatives and Nuclear Weapon Program Abandonment
… activities as a matter of policy, making nuclear abandonment the dominant historical tendency. Understanding why countries abandon their nuclear weapon activities holds the promise of allowing policy makers to improve efforts to control the spread of nuclear arms around the world. This …
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The abandonment of landownership: a proposed model for regulated exit
… primary questions must be answered: 1. Is the abandonment of landownership possible in the South African legal framework? 2. Should the abandonment of landownership be permitted, and if so, under what circumstances? The first question is evaluated in light of existing common-law principles, …
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The Use of the Strategic Abandonment Technique in Educational Strategic Planning
The use of the strategic abandonment technique in educational strategic planning was investigated through a qualitative research design that explores the use of a researcher-developed rubric prototype in current educational strategic planning processes. School districts could benefit from a …
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Abandonment Fears in Persons with Alzheimer's at Adult Day Care Centers
In my research, I examined abandonment fears in persons with Alzheimer's disease at the Salem Veterans Affairs adult day care center. I observed fifty hours at the center, and conducted open-ended interviews with two of the participants and their respective caregivers. These two participants (Ellen …
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Modeling the dynamics of user adoption and abandonment for a single product
… model to study the dynamics of user adoption and abandonment for a single product. The model integrates two forms of abandonment: infectious, driven by user interactions, and non-infectious, prompted by external influences. Notably, the infectious abandonment coefficient varies linearly with the …
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Shackleford Banks: Applying Archaeological and Geospatial Approaches to Maritime Settlement and Abandonment
… and shoreline data to explore the settlement and abandonment of Shackleford Banks communities. Examining this evidence, this thesis looks to find the degree to which economic and environmental change led to the establishment of non- Indigenous settlement on Shackleford Banks, how these communities …
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A socio-legal approach to the abandonment of infants in Cape Town.
This dissertation considers the impact of the law in its current form on service providers for abandoned infants in Cape Town. It looks at what works, what does not, and possible solutions. The topic is examined through qualitative empirical research in Cape Town with social workers who work with …
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Many-Server Queues with Time-Varying Arrivals, Customer Abandonment, and non-Exponential Distributions
… also allow the realistic features of customer abandonment and non-exponential probability distributions for the service times and the times customers are willing to wait before abandoning. These features make the overall stochastic model non-Markovian and thus thus very difficult to analyze …
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Neighborhood responses to abandonment & gentrification : a case study of the Lower East Side
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Development of a strategic capital-expenditure decision model incorporating the product abandonment option
… research is bifold. First, the product/process abandonment problem is reformulated from a new perspective which is congruent with the requirements of the new global business environment. And second, a global decision model (GDM) incorporating the product abandonment option into the company’s …
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Abandonment or Inclusion of Race in Higher Education Admissions: A Case Study of Consequences
Admissions practices and academic records were examined for African American students admitted to the University in 1968, 1978, 1985 and 1995. Independent t-tests were conducted on the means for both African Americans and majority students (all freshmen excluding African Americans) across Campus …
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A model for prediction of IT based assistive technology abandonment among people with disability
… the past 30 years (Scherer, 2014). This high AT abandonment rate is not only discouraging for future development of new AT devices but also expensive due to the initial cost of purchasing soon-to-be-discarded products and the time spent on trying them. Historically, one of the most commonly …
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Exploring expressions of abandonment and rejection that emerged from group therapy with fibromyalgia patients
… aim of this study was to explore expressions of abandonment and rejection that emerged from group therapy with eleven fibromyalgia patients at the former Princess Alice Orthopaedic Hospital, Cape Town. It focused on abandonment/rejection by caregivers during childhood, death as a form of …
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