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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"CoPS"”.
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COPS: A Framework for Consumer Oriented Proportional-share Scheduling
… may belong to the same application or user. The COPS framework uses the idea of consumer sets to group processes. Its design guarantees system usage per consumer, based on relative weights. We have added a share management layer on top of a proportional share scheduler to ease the administrative …
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"There's A Man With A Gun Over There": Cops And The Counterculture
By 1960, television advertisers recognized the economic potential of American youth, and producers were expected to develop programs to attract them, while still maintaining appeal for the older audience members. This task was to prove difficult as the decade wore on. While continuing to link the …
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An assessment of the effectiveness of the POW plus TREE and COPS writing strategies
… Organization, Punctuation, and Spelling (COPS)</em>, an editing strategy. Harris, Graham, and Mason (2002) note that writing is a highly complex, demanding process. The purpose of writing is to communicate a message. Writers need a strategy or plan to communicate ideas clearly. To be …
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Cops, councils and crime and disorder : a critical review of three community safety partnerships
This dissertation critically reviews three community safety partnerships. It contributes to learning by using new data to examine some of the enduring challenges faced by the partnerships as they respond to the changing socio-political context. These multi-agency bodies primarily involve the police …
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Cops, consultants, and technology : an examination of innovation in the Boston Police Department : 1962-1974
Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Investigating the role of informal online communities of practice (CoPs) in professional learning: the experience of second/foreign language teachers
… in informal online Communities of Practice (CoPs) as an alternative means of professional learning. Findings from samples in Canada and Ukraine indicate opportunities for, and some challenges to, professional learning within virtual (online, Web-based) communities. In addition to traditional …
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Compliant ortho-planar spring behavior under complex loads
… of applying compliant-ortho-planar springs (COPS) to rotational applications. The primary motivation of this research is the application of COPS to a continuously variable transmission (CVT). The design space limitations, loading conditions, stresses, stress concentrations, and limitations of …
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Meio ambiente, cultura e mídia: uma análise do posicionamento discursivo da Folha de São Paulo sobre as cops 21, 26 e 27
… the selection of the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) 21, 26 and 27 was made due to the significant political milestones that occurred in the corresponding years. In 2015, during COP 21, Brazil was facing the political crisis of the Dilma Rousseff government. In 2021, during COP 26, the country …
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THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE WITHIN A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION
… and growth of communities of practice (CoPs), (b) how the organizational members identify the existence of CoPs, and (d) what value the organization recognizes as a result of the knowledge shared. This is important not only to add to the literature concerning small, faith-based …
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Communities of Practice as a Knowledge Translation and Exchange Strategy: A Qualitative Secondary Ethnographic Analysis
… success factors of two Communities of Practice (CoPs). The CoPs, housed by the Seniors Health Knowledge Network (SHKN), worked in wound care and complex care resolution for older adults. Five themes emerged through data analysis: 1) Hope and Desire to Cause Real, Effective Change, 2) Appreciation …
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Impact of IT on the Role of a Community of Practice Moderator in the Coalescing Stage of Development
… in its Coalescing stage of development. Ten CoPs were studied.</p> <p>While each of these CoPs is in a different stage of development, the analysis focuses on the Coalescing stage because it is considered the most critical. A detailed case study of each CoP, including a survey of moderators …
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Cops in Court: Assessing the Criminal Prosecutions of Police in Six Major Scandals in the New York City Police Department from 1894 to 1994
… of cases resulted in convictions. The number of cops prosecuted increased with the involvement of more prosecutorial agencies, particularly as federal prosecutors picked up their pursuit of police cases and when New York State experimented with a special corruption prosecutor in the 1970s.</p> …
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A Differential Evolution Algorithm for Generic Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are well-known NP-hard realistic ones. Due to the drawbacks of existing approaches, many researchers proposed different evolutionary algorithms (EAs) for solving them. Differential evolution (DE) is primarily used to solve continuous-based optimization …
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Enabling a community of practice: participatory practices in building a water-sensitive catchment
… fostering landscapes of communities of practice (CoPs), governments can enable more effective cooperation, interrelationships, and datadriven feedback loops between public authorities and communities that leads to effective policy- and decision-making. In CoPs theory, the notion of a ‘community' …
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
… American Road Trip (2009/2012), and Navajo Cops (2012). Situated at the intersection of Media Studies, American Indian Studies, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, this dissertation explores the ways in which Navajo identities are constructed by the shows’ white/non-Navajo hosts and …
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COHERENT DETECTION OF SCATTERED LIGHT BY SUBMICROMETER AEROSOLS.
… the Coherent Optical Particle Spectrometer (COPS) has been developed for measuring particles in aerosol systems. It optically counts and sizes single particles one at a time as they pass through an optically defined inspection region so particle size distributions can be directly measured. …
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Communities for liberation.
… Communities Organized For Public Service (COPS), founded in 1973 in San Antonia, Texas, is the largest and most successful of these groups. COPS recruits and educates mainly lower class, hispanic people in Alinsky style confrontational tactics and utilizes the literature of Latin American …
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