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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Defacto"”.
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A Study of Gender-Role Attitudes Among Contemporary White and African American Couples
… interacting married, 33 White non-interacting defacto) participated in this study. The defacto couples served as a control group.</p> <p>The Bem Sex-Role Inventory, Masculine-Feminine Sex-Roles Survey, and a demographics sheet were given to each couple. Statistical analyses included Pearson …
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eBusiness technologies and trends in the pharmaceutical industry
eBusiness is rapidly becoming the defacto business model of many firms. The pharmaceutical industry will continue to thrive regardless of recession, terrorism, war, or other external forces. Question is: what eBusiness technologies and trends are being currently pursued by pharmaceutical companies …
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Help-Seeking for Depression in Rural Women: A Community Portrait
… community social network was influenced by the DeFacto Services Model of Rural Mental Health, which emphasized the influence of community factors in making decisions to seek mental health care. Findings of the study included the following themes, which related to the nature of depression: 1) …
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Influence of formal techniques and design fixation on idea generation tasks in engineering practice
… technique statistically outperformed the defacto approach on all metrics, whereas the negative effect of design fixation was not seen. From experimental observation it is surmised that the formal approach was superior to the de-facto approach because it reduced social loafing, used time …
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Corporate subsidies in Maine : what Mainers got for their money
… investment was not. Finally, the programs show a defacto strategy of industrial retention, although this goal was not an explicit strategy by the State. While a conventional strategy for economic development, it is important that the goals of the program emerge from public consensus. …
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Demand bubbles and phantom orders in supply chains
… can shift the operation mode of the system to a defacto push system. The shift to a push system decreases the manufacturers' service level and increases demand variability. The analysis suggests that the endogenous customer demand assumption influences the shifts in modes of operation through the …
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POSEIDON: The First Safe and Scalable Persistent Memory Allocator
… overflow. We closely investigate the existing defacto NVMM memory allocators, especially PMDK, to study their vulnerability to metadata corruption and reasons for poor performance and scalability. We propose Poseidon, which is safe, fast and scalable. The premise of Poseidon revolves around …
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Ballistic Missile and Insurgency Threats to Israel: Effects on Security Posture and Implications For Nuclear Weapons
… from Judea, Samaria, and all of Gaza, where a defacto Palestinian Arab state now resides. This truncating of Israel could serve to embolden the Arab states to resolve the Palestine "problem" through force. In such an attack, the Arab states would likely use their chemically-armed ballistic …
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Towards Data-Driven Internet Routing Security
… life. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the defacto global routing protocol, was not designed to cope with untrustworthy parties, making BGP vulnerable to misconfigurations and attacks from anywhere in the network. Recently, unintended large-scale misconfigurations caused significant amount …
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Hiding in plain sight: accounting for rate heterogeneity in trait evolution models
… phylogenetic comparative methods have become the defacto method of analysis for comparative biologists. The availability of high-quality comparative datasets has been matched by an explosion of possible phylogenetic models. In large part, the efforts to increase the realism of phylogenetic …
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Application-Aware Network Design Using Software Defined Networking for Application Performance Optimization for Big Data and Video Streaming
… over the HTTP (MPEG-DASH) is becoming the defacto dominating transport for today’s video applications. It has been implemented in today’s major media carriers such as Youtube and Netflix. It enables new video applications to fully utilize the existing physical IP network infrastructure. For …
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Transboundary Self-Determination: Remedying the Effects of International Borders
… in Chapter 3, the thesis presents examples of defacto and dejure transboundary rights from the Irish Border, Abyei Area, Kashmir, Kurdistan, Chagos Islands, Red Sea Islands, Sami Laplands and North America. These findings suggest that while the enunciation of transboundary self-determination as …
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Towards Effective Tools for Debugging Machine Learning Models
… post hoc explanations, have emerged as the defacto ML model debugging tools. A plethora of approaches currently exist, yet it is unclear whether these approaches are effective. In the first part of this thesis, we introduce a framework to categorize model bugs that can arise as part of the …
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Sustained rents in imperfect labor markets : essays on recruitment, training, and incentives
… skills training may be made defacto-specific by mobility frictions. In the second paper, I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lowerpaying geographically-dispersed occupations due to expectations of future spouses' geographically-clustered …
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Atomic Broadcast in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
… authorities. To uphold this autonomy (as a defacto condition), LANs under different authorities must be able to adopt different ordering criteria for group multicasting. The developed suite assumes an environment in which multicasting groups can have members that belong to different LANs; …
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Factors associated with intimate partner homicide in a West Australian context
… an intimate relationship (for example married, defacto and ex partners; Bryant & Cussen 2015). This study analysed the factors of West Australian (WA) IPHs from 2012-2017 inclusive. The aim was to identify aetiologies of IPH offending across ethnicity and gender to understand causes and …
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Socionormative Influence in Software Adoption and Usage
… in many studies, Subjective Norm has become the "defacto standard" for measuring social influence but this has not resulted in a consistently significant measure of social influence. The goal of this current study is two-fold. The primary goal is to incorporate a validated scale of social …
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Unsettling Nostalgia: The Difficult Journey Home
Contained within the following pages is a narrative inquiry which analyzes the impact of place upon those who have occupied particular rural Southern spaces. This ethnography pays special attention to life forces and attempts to confront issues of gender, race, class, religion, and community by …