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Showing 1 to 20 of 3978 for “"Actors"”.
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Strategic Third-Party Actors in Economic Sanctions
… or strategic players in the dynamic. Third-party actors, be they other states, corporations, or international institutions, have outsized influences on whether and how economic sanctions are imposed and enforced. This dissertation, a series of three papers, examine the roles of third parties in …
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Do actors or observers make better eyewitnesses?
… like asbestos), an understanding of the factors involved in memories of products is important. This study attempted to further the research on eyewitness memory in product identification by examining differences between witnesses with differing levels of product involvement. The effects of …
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Just war, legitimate authority and non-State actors
… is, however,being challenged by non-state actors engaging in the use of force with more frequency than that of states. Recent just war scholarship has attempted a reconciliation of the authority principle framed by Walzer's political community. These applications have, unfortunately, …
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Dramatic actors and the nature of role taking experiences
… investigation of the experiences of professional actors who have been personally affected by roles they have played. Using a qualitative research design, ten professional actors were interviewed and asked to describe in detail their experiences of being personally affected by dramatic roles. From …
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Uncovering key actors in the marketing-firm value link
… this dissertation is to provide insights on key actors who affect the link between marketing and firm value. The first essay examines financial analysts who provide earnings estimates about firms, thereby connecting firm and the stock market. The author uncovers whether and how financial analysts …
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International Criminal Court complementarity and non-state actors’ proceedings
… concerning proceedings organised by non-State actors: (i) where the actors exercise substantial control over part of territory while vowing to depose a government of the State, (ii) where the actors break away from the territorial State with substantial military support of a foreign State, and …
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The Unholy Matrimony: Russia and Violent Non-State Actors
… contemporary relationship with violent non-state actors has been at the forefront of news due to the conflict in Ukraine. Despite the international shock at this phenomenon, this is an age-old practice for Russia. Since the 17<sup>th</sup> century, the Russian state has developed a strategy of …
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Exploring Irish rural social enterprises as neoendogenous development actors
… from academics and policymakers as significant actors to address some of the complex challenges faced by our societies due to their aim of combining social, economic and/or environmental goals using entrepreneurial/innovative means. Rural areas have demonstrated to be a fertile ground for social …
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Efficient execution of fine-grained actors on multicore processors
… communication between them is expressed using actors and messages. Next, we introduce additional concurrency in Quantum by actorizing all game objects. This results in relatively fine-grained actors. We are able to run a game instance with more than 10,000 game objects, which keeps an 8-core …
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Distributed tensions: managing collaboration across organizational actors and boundaries
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Courtroom characters, architectural actors : a play in several acts
This thesis takes aim at several agendas within architectural discourse. On one hand it is a demonstration of the architectural understanding of mask. The mask, as both an object of formal and figural qualities as well as a participant in performative rituals, becomes the source material with which …
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Actors, coalitions and the framework convention on climate change
This study examines the political processes through which the Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and the initial efforts of the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan to adopt national policies and measures to implement it. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as a …
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SkillBuilder--a motor program design tool for virtual actors
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Computer animation in the world of actors and scripts.
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Automatic, incremental, on-the-fly garbage collection of actors
… on computational objects—are not sufficient for actors. Three algorithms, with varying degrees of efficiency, are presented as solutions to the actor garbage collection problem. The correctness and execution complexity of the algorithms is derived. Implementation methods are explored, and …
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Flow-Acting: Modern Sports Science and the Preparation of Actors
… Coach Sonnon I am developing a system to teach actors the skill of cultivating flow. This work will enhance the actor's presence and ability to handle the stress of performance while developing a strong, supple, and coordinated psychophysical instrument. Video of examples of the exercises can be …
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An exploration of the information literacy of Irish theatre actors.
… exploring the explicitly embodied work of actors. The aim of this research is to investigate the IL of Irish actors working in the theatre. The established rhetorical framework for examining working populations is Workplace Information Literacy (WIL). However, this study suggests that the …
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The Influence Of Facial Attractiveness And Babyfaceness On Actors' Memorability
… memory task in which they attempted to recognize actors they had previously seen displaying emotional expressions who varied in both emotional attractiveness, how attractive actors appear due to changes in facial features associated with displaying emotional expressions, and emotional …
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U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran: structures, actors, and policy communities
… is an in depth study of the structures, actors, and policy communities associated with U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran. Since 2006, the U.S. government has spent more than $200 million for its Iran-related public diplomacy via State Department "democracy promotion" programs, National …
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