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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Benford"”.
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Confronting the West: Social Movement Frames in 20th Century Iran
… the late 19th through the 20th century. Snow and Benford (1992) have proposed that cycles of protest are associated with the development of a movement master frame. This frame is a broad collective orientation that enables people to interpret an event in a more or less uniform manner. This study …
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Investigating the impact of beliefs, norms, and culture on teachers in both a comprehensive middle school and STEM-focused middle school
… RTOP (Sawada, Pibum, Judson, Turley, Falconer, Benford,, & Bloom, 2002). Interview data suggests that both teachers had similar perceptions of effective STEM education, yet their classroom practice was very different. While teacher's perceptions were similar, the school culture as portrayed by …
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Experiential Commensurability and Identity Correspondence: Examining Deaf Culture Movement Collective Identity in the United States
… on the part of elite social movement organizers (Benford 1997). Thus, this research takes for granted the variability of how collective identities and ideologies are understood, adopted, and resonate at the micro level. Through routine observation of various DCM activities and in-depth interviews …
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Marksistinių ir čiabuvių perspektyvų santykis zapatistų politiniame diskurse /
… developed by David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford. Theory helps successfully study social movements, as well as ideologies. In the context of this work, it also helped to explain the complex identity constructed by the Zapatistas from the two specific ideological prisms of Zapatismo and …
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How progressives took advantage of moderate discontent: political opportunity, framing and mobilization at the local level
… that is reasonable to potential participants (Benford and Snow 2000, Gamson and Modigliani 1989). I have taken an Action Research approach to understand what developments led to the organization’s formation and which theory best described why the movement formed in 2005. Through 31 in-depth …
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Informação geográfica, sustentabilidade e Amazônia: geointeligência aplicada à avaliação de manejos florestais sustentáveis no Sul do Amazonas
… que o modelo matemático proposto pela Lei de Benford já há muito utilizado para a detecção de fraudes econômicas e financeiras, pode se revelar útil, também, à detecção de possíveis fraudes em inventários florestais.
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Popular idioms in select organ works of Naji Hakim, Jon Laukvik, and Wolf-Günter Leidel
While a great deal has been written on the topic of musical borrowing in general, there is a significant gap in the literature discussing its implications in works for the pipe organ. This document will explore the ways in which three contemporary composers borrow various stylistic elements to …
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Local trade union responses in the context of public healthcare service privatisation
… framing and prognostic framing (Snow and Benford 2000), allowing for a more in depth look at the mechanisms which shape trade union responses to privatisation. This research adopts a cross-national comparative case study design to explore national and local dynamics. A total of six cases …
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Getting from managerial framing to employee action in strategic change: a case study of a sales automation and transformation programme
… movement participation (Snow et al., 1986; Benford, 1993; Benford and Snow,2000; Reber and Berger, 2005), little progress has been made using such micro-level analysis in understanding mobilizing strategic change in sales organisation in a theoretically informed and empirically grounded …
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The role of expert systems in supervisory control applications
The development of control systems that incorporate aspects of Artificial Intelligence into their strategy has become a reality for engineering and manufacturing companies. Expert systems, as a branch of AI technology have attained a foothold in real-time control and in doing so have established …
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Student teachers need a shot in the arm: a study of librarian/teacher collaboration through teacher preparation programs
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine pre-service teacher training and/or exposure to the potential collaborative role of the teacher-librarian. The study used a short written survey questioning pre-service teachers about any instances of collaboration with a school library media specialist, …
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The geology and fracturing of the Spraberry Formation in Midland, Glasscock, Upton, and Reagan Counties, West Texas
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology, 1953.
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A study of detergents and detergent-sanitizers used in in-place cleaning and sanitizing of milk pipe lines on dairy farms
The use of cleaned-in-place milk pipe lines has been increasing for the past several years, particularly in conjunction with the farm bulk tank. It offers an opportunity for increasing operating efficiency by reducing the amount of labor needed for the milking operations. For many dairymen who have …
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Benford's law and humanly generated prices in auction houses and buyout systems of virtual worlds
… buy the item. Since the establishment of Benford's Law, it has been supported that data generated by humans typically does not follow Benford's Law, proving to be a beneficial tool in detecting fraudulent accounting data. However, this study shows that the leading significant digits of …