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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Anarchy"”.
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Social Anarchy in the Works of Byron
… the Norman Conquest, become the favorite poet of anarchy and rebellion and of men in revolt against the religious and the moral and the social standards of God and man.
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Price of anarchy in a Bertrand oligopoly market
The price of anarchy quantifies the inefficiency that occurs in the total system objective in the user optimization as compared to the system optimization setting. It is well known that this inefficiency occurs due to lack of coordination among the competitors in the system. In this thesis, we …
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Crises Transformed: The Motivations Behind Engagement in Anarchy
… those who do, what occurs during engagement in anarchy? By collecting the oral histories of anarchistic activists, this study indicates how crises, personal and collective, is a not only a motivating factor for why individuals join and engage in anarchistic movements and spaces, but how crises …
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Anarchy in Critical Dystopias: An Anatomy of Rebellion
… the end, I hope to broaden an understanding of Anarchy and Anarchism: not an understanding that congeals and grows more rigid, but rather an understanding that expands and flows, nearing a point of superfluidity. The primary focal points of analysis are Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The …
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Inoperative Poetics: Lyric And Anarchy In The Era Of Financialization
My dissertation approaches longstanding debates about the sociality of poetry and the current status of the lyric genre by looking closely at how poetry and anarchist praxis have reimagined questions of subjectivity and identity over the latter half of the past century. While poetry, especially the …
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Price of anarchy in supply chains, congested systems and joint ventures
This thesis studies the price of anarchy in supply chains, congested systems and joint ventures. It consists of three main parts. In the first part, we investigate the impact of imperfect competition with nonlinear demand. We focus on a distribution channel with a single supplier and multiple …
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The Price of Dissent: Freedom of Speech and Arkansas Criminal Anarchy Arrests
… fanatical patriotism and an alleged threat of anarchy that gripped a nation with fear. Paranoia about communists, Socialists, and anarchists divided the country and resulted in many states, including Arkansas, passing criminal anarchy laws. Since a majority of those accused of anti-American …
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More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
The year had opened with bright expectations, but 1914 quickly tumbled into disillusionment and violence. For John Purroy Mitchel, New York City's new "boy mayor," the trouble started in January, when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow and dozens of the city's homeless froze to …
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Community control and neighborhood development : anarchy pluralism, and supports as models for analysis
… development. The existing theories of anarchy, pluralism and supports, as found in the literature, form the groundwork for the thesis argument. The theories are used to construct conceptual models of community control applicable to urban neighborhoods in the current United States …
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Emergent problems and optimal solutions : a critique of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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The political culture of order and anarchy : remembrance and imaginative power in Central America
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1994.
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An anarchy of man: Cartesian and post-Cartesian representations of the self in selected Western literature
… of Arts thesis is in two parts: a novel, An Anarchy of Man, and an exegesis which places the novel in relation to philosophical concerns about the self and the way those concerns are portrayed in selected works of Western literature. The novel is set in Canberra and Sydney and tells the story …
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On the role of signaling in mitigation of road-traffic congestion: The price of anarchy of signaling-based strategies in stochastic networks
… we revisit Roughgarden's celebrated Price of Anarchy (PoA) in uncertain networks. Unexpectedly, no upper bound on the PoA holds if drivers are kept uninformed in the presence of vagaries, while fully informed drivers perform regularly. On the other hand, uninformed drivers might outperform …
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A College Athletic Department - An Example of a High Performance System Existing in an Organized Anarchy Known as a University-Higher Education Organization
… because of the ability of an organized anarchy and a loosely coupled system to tolerate novel solutions, local accommodations, and a great deal of ambiguity while still maintaining its own unique identity. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)
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Network flow problems and congestion games : complexity and approximation results
… We then investigate existence and the price of anarchy of pure Nash equilibria in k-splittable congestion games with linear costs. A k-splittable congestion game is one in which each player may split its flow on at most k different paths. We identify conditions for the existence of equilibria by …
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The Form of Nonconformity: Architecture & The Punk Rock Aesthetic
Punk rock is about music, rebellion, anarchy, and style. How can this be translated into architecture? Can a building possess these qualities? What would a "rebellious" building look like? How will it change our conceptions of "beauty?"
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