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Showing 1 to 20 of 530 for “"Contest"”.
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The Massachusetts state-wide arithmetic contest
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Study on incentive mechanisms of smes crowdsourcing contest innovation.
… SMEs. With the rise of Web 2.0, crowdsourcing contest innovation (CCI) it is now possible for project managers to use online platforms as a way to collaborate with external agents to fill this resource gap and thus improve innovation. This research uses agent-based modelling to prognosticate …
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Corporate governance through the proxy contest: Evidence and implications
… body of empirical research concerning the proxy contest provides little evidence that shareholders have suffered material equity losses. In addition, the inferences derived by prior researchers examine narrow time periods and provide analysis devoid of a long-term perspective of this important …
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“Oh, fair enough!” appraisal analysis of eurovision song contest commentary /
… the British commentary of the Eurovision Song Contest of different time periods in terms of gender, aspects of evaluation and Appraisal analysis. The research used the Appraisal framework developed by Martin & White (2005). The aims of this study are to find out which gender gets more praise or …
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Six-month outcomes of a multi-campus smoking cessation contest
… a motivational, incentive-based cessation contest may be an effective way to assist students to quit. The current study describes 3- and 6-month outcomes experienced by post-secondary student smokers who entered the 'Let's Make A Deal!' contest. Methodology: Contestants from five university …
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Essays on Contest Theory Experiments and Revealed Time Preference Models
… and group size in the sequential multi-battle contest with laboratory experiences (Chapter 2 and Chapter 3). We then develop an empirical method to model perceptual present and time inconsistency (Chapter 4). Chapter 2 examines how the weight and the ordered weights in battles affect the …
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Contest of Civility: Conformity, Dissent, and the Struggle for Religious Liberty
… Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Rhode Island. This contest of civility, moreover, never dissipated. On the contrary, the controversy surfaced repeatedly during the colonial period through the earliest decades of the American republic. The main question pertinent to this contest was the following: …
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THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND THE CONTEST FOR NORTH SUMATRA 1858-1896
… Indonesian parochialism, but as a three-sided contest in which the independent commercial interest of the Straits Settlements played an integral role. The future Netherlands Indian provinces of Atjeh and Oostkust van Sumatra were the last to resist Dutch influence because they were almost …
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An evaluation of short innovation contest implementation in the federal context
… audience is through the use of short innovation contests. The purpose of this thesis is to better understand the application of this strategy as a tool for technology procurement in the context of government. Through a contest, participants approach a well-defined challenge independently, …
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Contest, social valuation and change in American labor-union organizing, 1961-2004
In this thesis I explore the connections between changes to the formal procedures by which American labor unions enroll new members and the subsequent meanings and purposes that potential members and third parties attribute to unions. In the first essay I use a new, multi-stage model of union …
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A stirring of cultures: The contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia
… exegesis, titled ‘A stirring of cultures: the contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia,’ explains through the experiences of migrants, Aboriginal Australians and the homeless the problems and difficulties of those who don’t meet the strict criteria of the core values representing …
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Rival sensations: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, her adapters, and the contest for cultural representation
"In the nineteenth century, British playwrights exploited a loophole in the copyright law to adapt popular novels at will for the stage. This study documents this moment in theater and literary history to reveal the textual multiplicity that resulted when novels competed for audiences with several …
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The contest over the control of the nineteenth-century universities of Scotland and England
This thesis studies the reform of the nineteenth century universities of Scotland and England in terms of the conflict between the aristocracy, the professions and the mercantile section of the middle class. A methodology has been developed that draws on the secondary sources on the universities to …
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IT-enabled innovation contest platforms: an exploration of the impacts and mechanisms of social capital
IT-enabled innovation contest platforms are quickly growing in prominence due their provision of a cost effective, yet far reaching method of allowing organisations to connect with a global network of innovation solvers. Borne of the open innovation movement, this phenomenon and the research …
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Behavioural, microhabitat, and phylogenetic dimensions of intrasexual contest competition in combatant monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini)
… of environmental variation at the level of the contest substrate and the developmental environment, in contributing to microevolution within the monkey beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Hopliini), a taxonomically and phenotypically diverse group of pollinating insects in the Greater Cape …
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