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Showing 1 to 20 of 214 for “"Delegation"”.
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Essays on delegation and social norms
… Markets and presents some results on production, delegation and dishonest behaviour. The first study compares how group size interacts with both constrained and un-constrained resource environments, finding that resource limitations diminish production over time and that all the groups learn with …
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Delegation for Multi-Threaded and Rack-Scale Software
Delegation is a concurrency technique where a thread hands off work on a shared object to a single designated owner instead of accessing the object directly. Because only the owner thread ever mutates the object, no locks are needed, other threads interact with it by sending requests. This avoids …
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RN and LPN perceptions of front-line delegation
1 PDF file (VII, 74 pages)
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Leader delegation and trust in global software teams
… This study investigates the effects of leader delegation to sub-teams and trust between sub-teams on global software team members' motivation and job satisfaction. It proposes a research framework based on specific hypotheses regarding these effects. A survey instrument was created and a pilot …
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Simple, Secure, Selective Delegation in Online Identify Systems
… online identity systems that users create ad hoc delegation systems by sharing authentication credentials if no other easy delegation mechanism is available. With the rise of internet-scale relationship-based single sign-on protocols like OpenID, the security risks of password sharing are …
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Category captainship: delegation, participant selection and category extensions
This dissertation is a collection of three essays which study different aspects of category captainship, a new and increasingly popular category management strategy. In this strategy retailers delegate their control of product categories to one of the manufacturers operating within that category, …
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Delegation with Updatable Unambiguous Proofs and PPAD-Hardness
… work, we construct an updatable and unambiguous delegation scheme based on the decisional assumption on bilinear groups introduced by Kalai, Paneth and Yang [STOC 2019]. Using this delegation scheme, we show PPAD-hardness (and hence the hardness of computing Nash equilibria) based on the …
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The entrepreneurial real estate developer's use of delegation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Three essays in economic theory--collusion, delegation, and search
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1990.
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Security Testing of Permission Re-delegation Vulnerabilities in Android Applications
… if it is not implemented properly. Permission re-delegation vulnerability is a kind of privilege escalation that happens when unprivileged apps exploit this integration feature to make privileged apps perform a privileged action on their behalf. Static analysis techniques as well as run-time …
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Towards a deployable framework for delegation of authority in network applications
The Delegation Framework is a collection of programs, network protocols and library interfaces that provide fine-grained delegation of authority to network systems. The design and implementation of the Delegation Framework focus on addressing some of the stumbling blocks that have prevented …
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A Pilot Test of Delegation and Prioritization Skills in New Graduate Nurses Using a Multiple Patient Simulation
… of a multiple patient simulation to determine if delegation and prioritization skills change in new graduate nurses who receive simulation as an intervention. This is a quasi-experimental pre-post test study consisting of a comparison group and a treatment group. The pre-post test was developed …
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Dangerous delegation: explaining the rationales and outcomes of state sponsorship of terrorism through the principal-agent framework
<p>State sponsorship of terrorism, where a government deliberately provides resources and material support to a terrorist organization, is common in the international system. By conceptualizing state sponsorship as a relationship between a principal and agent, I develop a consistent theoretical …
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The importance of non-functional factors in explaining delegation to non-governmental agencies: the case study of radio spectrum
… factors explaining the growth and variation of delegation to independent agencies. The literature argues that delegation is more likely in sectors subject to market opening, like telecommunications or energy. The functional reasons for the creation of independent agencies such as credibility, …
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Local government policy in South Africa 1980-1989 (with specific reference to the Western Cape) : devolution, delegation, deconcentration or centralisation?
This thesis is an examination of the National Party's policy of decentralisation of powers to local authorities in the 1980s. The thesis concentrates primarily on urban local government and its objectives are: 1. To trace the evolution of the south African state's policy of devolution of powers to …
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Actually Existing Democracy and Energy Justice: The Case of the Coalfields Delegation to the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
… sphere through the experiences of the Coalfields Delegation to the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development (UNCSD). In particular, this research examines the differential impacts of energy extraction on local communities, and what the term justice might usefully mean in the context …
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