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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Challengers"”.
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Incumbentes vs. challengers na indústria automóvel: o caso Volkswagen
A indústria automóvel tradicional enfrenta o dilema da cada vez maior popularidade dos veículos elétricos, forçando a uma transição generalizada por parte das incumbentes. Sendo inevitável responder às necessidades dos mercados, assim como de atingir as metas ambientais definidas por múltiplos …
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Challengers posed by electronic commerce to certain traditional concept in international tax law
There has been much focus and discussion in the past few years regarding the potential impact which electronic commerce could have on the existing fiscal regimes, both from a domestic and an international perspective. It is against this background that I elected to research and present a …
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Propuesta de contenidos audiovisuales infantiles: producción y dirección del piloto "Challengers TV" para la plataforma YouTube
El presente trabajo comprende el desarrollo de un video piloto perteneciente a un canal de YouTube dirigido a un público infantil, desde el proceso de creación y desarrollo de la idea hasta su producción y realización. El presente documento acuña antecedentes a manera de referencia para el …
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A candidate's use of aggressive communication and the electorates' response: Predicting presidential election outcomes
… of verbal aggression in Presidential debates. Challengers use significantly more verbal aggression than incumbents while five of the nine elections had the winner using less verbally aggressive messages than the loser. Results of this study support the theory that challengers are forced to go …
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Intellectual Freedom of Academic Scientists: Cases of Political Challenges Involving Federally Sponsored Research on National Environmental Policies
… of five research claims: First, the government challengers may try - sometimes successfully - to exercise their influence over indirect participants in the federally funded research in an attempt to control the dissemination of the federally sponsored research findings. Second, the government …
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What Causes Power Transition Conflicts?: Evidence from Interactions between International and Domestic Politics
<p>Major conflicts between ascending challengers and dominant powers, competing for leadership in the international community, have profoundly altered the international structure. Political scientists’ efforts to propose generalizable theories about the causes of major conflicts often overlook …
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Social change in the West Sumatran village : 1908-1945
… between the tradltional leadership and its challengers continued to be heightened towards the end of Dutch rule. During the Japanese occupation, the economy was further pushed to subsistence economy and the lineage heads became the key figures for increasing rice and delivering it to the …
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Women Political Candidates and the Paradoxes of Rhetorical Style: The Effects of Gender and Status on the Rhetorical Style of Barbara Boxer's, Carol Moseley -Braun's, and Patty Murray's 1992 and 1998 Senate Campaigns
… rhetorically to their status as incumbents and challengers across election cycles, and within election campaigns as their standings in the polls fluctuated. The implications of these results are threefold: rhetorical style is individual and dynamic; narrow conceptions of style focused on single …
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Mapping and audit of information and communication technologies in Library and Information Science education in Sub-Saharan Africa
… education. The study revealed that there are challengers regarding management of Technology curriculum and resources to implement the learning. The study also revealed that in spite of barriers to successful implementation school principals have devised measures to implement and manage the …
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Managing the curriculum with specific reference to technology as a learning area
… education. The study revealed that there are challengers regarding management of Technology curriculum and resources to implement the learning. The study also revealed that in spite of barriers to successful implementation school principals have devised measures to implement and manage the …
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Political Disaffection and the Decline of the Centre: Quantitative Text Analysis Approaches
… traits and policy positions from rising challengers; and observers have pointed to anxiety-invoking cross-party campaigns in the past decade in Britain. In response, this dissertation applies relatively novel tools for processing large amounts of unstructured data. Text data from United …
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Second Order Logic and Logical Form
… a logic usually involve assessing the merits of challengers to first order logic. In some of these rival systems various first order logical truths do not hold. The failure of the Law of the Excluded Middle in intuitionistic systems is the most common example. The other alternatives to first …
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Patterns of innovation in service industries
… into new markets or help defend against emerging challengers. Most of the studies to date, however, have been based on research in manufactured product industries, while relatively little has been done to understand technology and innovation in service industries. The initial motivation behind …
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Systems architecture perspective on digital transformation for financial services
… closer to the expectations of the market. The challengers mainly the FinTechs and large Technology companies are looking to get into financial services whether it be through partnerships or subsidiaries. There is significant concern across the industry that a newcomer will take market share …
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Three essays in political economy
… that negative issue campaigning is effective for challengers in significantly reducing the incumbent’s vote, although this effect is not large enough to change the election outcome in lopsided elections. In competitive elections, I find that challenger’s negative issue ads can change the election …
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The Dynamics Of Compression On Presidential Nominations
… a logit analysis gauging the familiarity with challengers that front-runner supporters demonstrate in those same contests in the final empirical chapter.
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Changes in Islamic Hermeneutics and Social Evolution: A Comparative Study of Turkey and Algeria
… of the current struggle between religious challengers and the ruling class in Algeria and Turkey, this paper examines why and how Algerians became involved in a civil war which has continued almost six years, and why Turkey was not like Algeria. In order to carry out this investigation, the …
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Trade Associations and the Strategic Framing of Change in Contested Issue Organizational Fields: The Evolution of Sustainability in the Canadian Mining Industry, 1993-2013
… an intermediary position between incumbents and challengers in a fieldengage in the strategic framing of field-level change through interactions with both internal (incumbent) and external (challenger) audiences. Using a variety of data sources including 102 interviews with key actors in the …
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Mapping Ruling Relations Through Homelessness Organizing
… the ways that the City works to delegitimize its challengers and demonstrates the validity of many of the longstanding critiques of the ruling regime. While the City of Toronto has worked to contain homelessness organizing in Toronto, and deployed numerous demobilization tactics to do so, each …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… writers of historical romance also acted as challengers to ideology, exposing those contradictions and fissures. Increasingly, as the hyper-partisanship of the early eighteenth century yielded to the doubts of the mid-century and the disenchantment of the 1790s, historical romance served more …
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