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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Differences of Opinion"”.
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A Study of the Personality Characteristics of Patients in Methadone Maintenance Programs
Estimates of the number of heroin addicts in the United States vary between 200,000 and 500,000. Although differences of opinion exist as to the numbers of heroin addicts, there is little argument about the cost of supporting their addiction. Hundreds of millions of dollars are lost each year …
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Two Essays on Asset Prices
This dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter examines the role of growth options on stock return continuation. Growth options are both difficult to value and risky. Daniel, Hirshleifer and Subrahmanyam (1998) argue that higher momentum profits earned by high market-to-book firms …
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The problem of remedial instruction in the elementary schools of California
… during the past several decades in the problem of the normal, slow learning child in education. While educators have been more concerned with the problem during recent years, due in part to the increase in knowledge of the nature and extent of individual differences, there has been much …
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L'intelligibilité de la pratique. Entre Foucault et Sartre
By questioning the logic of practice as the main topic of intellectual life in France in the 1960's, we shall understake a confrontation between the ideas of Foucault and Sartre. Without playing down their differences of opinion, which have often been emphasized by the humanistic dispute, we shall …
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Conformity, Dissent, and the Death of Henry Barrow, 1570-1593
… leading up to and surrounding the executions of London Separatist leaders Henry Barrow and John Greenwood on 6 April, 1593. Occurring after a lengthy prison term punctuated by official examinations conducted by authorities, the executions took place only after the men had been twice reprieved, …
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Essays on Determinants of IPO Liquidity and Price Adjustments to Persistent Information in Option Markets
I examine the determinants of cross-sectional liquidity in the IPO aftermarket during the period of 1995 through 2005. I find that past price performance, the extent of stock visibility, the mass of informed agents, and certain IPO attributes play a role in explaining IPO trading activity. My …
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Defining The Republic
… Science (Political Theory)</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>The “Great Divergence” between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison is one of the most well-known events in the early history of the United States. Together, Hamilton and Madison wrote most of The Federalist, and each was …
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A revised pragma-dialectical approach to political argumentation in the media
… the pragma-dialectical approach to the study of argumentationadvanced by van Eemeren and Grootendorst (1984, 1988, 1992, 2003, 2004) and puts forward a modified version of this framework to provide a better analysis of the specialfeatures of political argumentation. This study develops a more …
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Sciençe Denartment Evaluation With Focus on Quality Basic Education and National Science Teachers Association Criteria
<p>This study is a descriptive investigation of science instructional programs in three senior high schools, reviewed from four different standpoints. Criteria set forth by the Quality Basic Education Act of Georgia (QBE) and recommendations given by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) …
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Media Hegemony: The Portrayal of Rohingya Refugees in the Canadian Print Media
… the Rohingya community, with a secondary goal of contrasting media narratives with the actual experiences of Rohingya migrants in Canada. My research emphasizes prioritizing refugee perspectives both theoretically and methodologically, aiming to engage these voices in dialogue with prevalent …
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A pragma-dialectical approach in television talk show argumentation: A case study of the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation’s one-on-one discourse
… study investigated the argumentative discourse of the Namibian Broadcast Corporation (NBC) One-on-One talk show interviews between the host and a guest. Although the interviews present different guests per sitting, the host is an NBC employee assigned to the interview segment and is couched …
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The perceptions of Christian school administrators and teachers regarding the importance of selected teacher evaluation criteria
… and administrators regarding the importance of selected teacher evaluation criteria. Thirty-nine criteria were included from Christian school literature and from a list suggested by Manatt and Stow. The populations of the study included participants at the 1986 International Institutes for …
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Pragmatic and dialectic conceptions of methodology for inquiries into freedom and their implications for education
<p>Many of the controversies going on in the world today are concerned with the problem of freedom. Issues involving freedom are important in the fields of theology, law, government, labor, philosophy, and education. For example, in assessing the ideological climate of the world, the standard of …
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Succulent and spiny : the Bahamas' quest for a sustainable lobster fishery
The Caribbean spiny lobster fishery is one of the most important industries in the economy of the Bahamas, and in turn it is one of the largest lobster industries in the world. The natural geography of the Bahamas makes its waters into a lobster haven that Bahamian fishermen have successfully …
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Assessing Reliability of Expert Ratings Among Judges Responding to a Survey Instrument Developed to Study the Long Term Efficacy of the ABET Engineering Criteria, EC2000
… it is necessary to analyze the quality of their ratings. The psychometric issues associated with assessment provide the lens through which researchers interpret results and important decisions are made. Therefore, inter-rater agreement (IRA) and inter-rater reliability (IRR) are …
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The interpretation of the Hong Kong basic law by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC): Will it weaken the judicial independence of the courts of the Hong Kong special administrative region?
Hong Kong’s retrocession to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997 necessitated the establishment of a new constitutional order. It promised Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy under the model of ‘One Country Two Systems’. This meant that the HKSAR would enjoy executive, legislative and …
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The effectiveness of foot orthoses as a treatment for plantar ulceration in leprosy : a study of the efficacy, acceptability, appropriateness and implantation of a podiatric regimen
… investigated to demonstrate the effectiveness of orthotic intervention for plantar ulceration affecting leprosy impaired subjects in India. 1. Efficacy Efficacy was demonstrated, primarily, through analysis of data pertaining to a controlled trial. Thirty-seven subjects, presenting with leprosy …
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Exchange rate forecasts and forecasting
… The first half is based on the predictions of almost two hundred forecasters, working in banks, industrial companies, chambers of commerce and specialist forecasting agencies. It demonstrates that individual forecasters interpret commonly available information differently, and that these …
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Artificial Respiration during the Apnea of Cerebral Trauma
<p>Cerebral concussion often results in profound respiratory depression. The earlier workers in the field of experimental concussion concluded that artificial respiration could be a life preserving procedure in 4 many instances. More recently, however, it has been held that this form of …
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Governing the future of a shrinking city: Hoyerswerda, East Germany
The notion of ‘shrinking cities’ emerged in the context of population loss and economic decline in East Germany around the turn of the 21st century. Different practices, policies, academic research and public debates developed, which were mainly concerned with how to deal with this problem. …
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