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Showing 1 to 20 of 898 for “"Commitments"”.
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Unilateral Commitments
… 1) Binary symmetric games. 2) Quality unilateral commitments. 3) Essentializing equilibrium concepts.
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Classical Commitments to Quantum States
We define the notion of a classical commitment to quantum state scheme, which allows a quantum prover to compute a classical commitment to a quantum state and later open each qubit of the state in either the standard or Hadamard basis, while limiting communication with the verifier to a classical …
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The religious commitments of J. D. Salinger.
J. D. Salinger's short stories "Teddy," "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period," "Franny," "Zooey," "Hapworth 16,1924," "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," "Seymour--An Introduction," and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" contain influences of religion which are predominantly Eastern. The major …
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From deterrence to emboldening: unveiling alliance commitments dynamics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Optimizing Demand Re-Allocation under Fixed Capacity Commitments
… concept and design phases, fixing capacity commitments years ahead of time based on highly inaccurate demand fore- casts. Companies struggle with demand variation and the inability of the supply-chain to react, with suppliers having limited ability to respond to updated demand signals and …
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Internalizing externalities: Roles of networks, clubs and policy commitments
… explores the roles of networks, clubs and policy commitments in the internalization of externalities and thus in the generation of efficient outcomes. The first essay examines how network-based social incentives would affect the provision of public goods in endogenous networks. The second essay …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… broad question, "How do biological and cultural commitments interact with economic incentives to shape day-to-day choices?" Social welfare functions should take into account how bio-cultural commitments may rescale the marginal benefit of an act; a rational economic actor is seeking to satisfy …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… broad question, "How do biological and cultural commitments interact with economic incentives to shape day-to-day choices?" Social welfare functions should take into account how bio-cultural commitments may rescale the marginal benefit of an act; a rational economic actor is seeking to satisfy …
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Long-term commitments, dynamic optimization, and the business cycle.
Thesis (Ph. D)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1979.
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Energy commitments of women counselors in schools, colleges and agencies
… main purpose of this study was to compare energy commitments of counselors working in elementary and secondary schools, colleges or universities and agencies. The underlying assumption inherent in the comparisons is that counselors have similar goals but are differentiated by setting and type of …
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Communicating violence risk: judicial decision making in involuntary civil commitments
Beginning in the 1990s, researchers in the field of violence risk assessment recognized that even the most accurate and valid risk assessment could not assist fact-finders if violence risk was not communicated in a clear, precise, and complete manner (Monahan & Steadman, 1996; Schopp, 1996). Due to …
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Conflicts, contradictions and commitments : men speak about sexualisation of culture
In the past two decades sexualisation has ascended as a focus for academic, social policy and public debate: central to these debates is concern for children and young people and the significance of sexualised cultural landscapes to feminist politics and women’s social positions. A striking feature …
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Prior Commitments: Multiply Affiliated Women Writers and Modernism's Shifting Boundaries
… of other ""marginal"" groups often had multiple commitments to modernist and nonmodernist circles, both by choice and of necessity. This dissertation considers how modernist impulses combine with an array of other commitments and strategies in the work of three women writers---Mina Loy, Edna St. …
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Attributes of Undergraduates Majoring in Scientific and Technological Disciplines: Perseverance and Commitments
The purpose of this study was first to determine the characteristics that distinguished persisters from nonpersisters in the fields of science and technology; second, to determine the effects of sex, college choice, parental income, parental educational background, GPA, and academic and social …
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Developing Learning Analytics for Epistemic Commitments in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment
… a recasting of epistemic cognition as ‘epistemic commitments’ in collaborative information tasks drawing a novel alignment between information seeking and multiple document processing (MDP) models, with empirical and theoretical grounding given for a focus on collaboration and dialogue in such …
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It’s Electric – The Impact of Voluntary Firm Electrical Sustainability Commitments on Firm Value
Firms pursue voluntary sustainability commitments that exceed the requirements of regulation, typically in response to requests from various stakeholders including external parties like employees or customers. Under the commonly held view of shareholder supremacy within the firm, such voluntary …
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Minimum wages in Uganda : an analysis of Uganda’s domestic, regional and international commitments
… effect to the Constitution and also satisfy the commitments to its people, regional partners and the international community.
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How to keep a secret and share a public key (using polynomial commitments)
… evaluation proofs in constant-sized polynomial commitments. Specifically, we show how to decrease the time to compute n proofs for a degree-bound n polynomial from O(n²) to O(n log n), at the cost of increasing proof size from O(1) to O(log n). Our techniques could be of independent interest, as …
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Improving lead time setting and on-time delivery commitments under uncertain supply conditions
… to generate accurate lead times for customers commitments. Previous research on the topic on lead time setting has focused predominately on buffering and measuring uncertainty in supply chains, which detail the benefits of having appropriate levels of safety stock and flexibility. However, …
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