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Showing 1 to 20 of 671 for “"Diminishing"”.
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Diminishing Returns: An Anthropological Study of Iraqis in the UK
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Iraqi diasporic community in the UK. It is based on two years of fieldwork research I conducted there between 2006-2008. I approach the formation of the diasporic community in light of utopian visions of a past colored by colonial struggle and high …
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FocalSpace : enhancing users' focus on foreground through diminishing the background
… that helps users focus on the foreground by diminishing the background through synthetic blur effects. The system can dynamically recognize the relevant and important activities and objects through depth sensors and various cues such as voices, gestures, proximity to drawing surfaces, and …
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Two-phase two-fluid model solver based on a high-resolution total variation diminishing scheme
… an innovative high-resolution, Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme. The new scheme is derived first for scalar hyperbolic problems using the method of flux limiters, then extended to the two-phase two-fluid model. A hybridization of the monotone 1st-order upwind scheme and the Quadratic …
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Revitalizing and reinventing of the diminishing public sphere : the Namdaemun Market District in Seoul, Korea
This thesis begins from the premise that public spheres are currently disappearing and losing their social role in the city; it focuses on traditional marketplaces in Seoul, Korea. Its aim is to explore the possibilities for re-designing traditional marketplaces, so that they can better serve not …
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Homosexual Representation Diversity in Media: The Role of Associative Interference in Diminishing Stereotypes and Improving Attitudes
… levels. Implications of such findings for diminishing stereotypes, facilitating positive attitude change, and effectiveness of implicit measures are discussed.
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I’M COMING UP ON THE ROUGH SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN: RACISM, RACIAL IDENTITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE HYPOTHESIS OF DIMINISHING RETURNS IN HEALTH DISPARITY
… educational attainment. Referred to as the diminishing return hypothesis, evidence has suggested that increasing levels of educational attainment for minorities do not incur similar health returns as those noted in Whites. Using Powers and Faden’s concept of well-being, I speculate how …
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Africa and the taxation of permanent establishments: Is the definition of "permanent establishment" as used in the double tax agreements of selected 'fishing rich' African countries sufficient to protect the taxing rights on those diminishing natural resources?
This thesis tests the sufficiency of the definition of permanent establishments (PE), as contained in the Double Tax Agreements (DTAs) of selected "fishing rich" African countries, in protecting their taxing rights over profits made by non-residents from fishing in the waters of their states. The …
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Trade liberalization and the structure of production in Tanzania
… from econometric analysis shows the existence of diminishing returns to land in the agricultural sector. On the other hand, the impact of trade liberalization on land productivity is mixed; while in some traditional exports its impact is negative and significant, in others the impact is positive …
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Digital Curvature Estimation: An Operator Theoretic Approach
… of piecewise smooth curves using variation diminishing splines. The variation diminishing property combined with the ability to reconstruct linear functions leads to a convexity preserving approximation that is crucial if additional sign changes in the curvature estimation have to be …
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Three essays in applied econometrics
… aid in developing countries, emphasising the diminishing returns, and Chapter 4 offers evidence on the interest rate threshold effect on housing prices in 17 advanced economies from 1870 to 2013. Chapter 2 investigates the impact of bank credit on economic growth using the dynamic threshold …
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Trade patterns and determinants in selected trade deficit categories in Australia: 1990-2006
… increasing debt levels in the future has been diminishing since the increasing debt levels in Australia have been predominantly used for Consumption (C) rather than for gross capital formation. The diminishing ability to service the increasing debt levels in Australia is due to the fact that …
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Algebraic Grid Generation Using Tensor Product B-Splines
… that the splines produce Schoenberg's variation diminishing spline approximation to the boundary. Interior coefficients are initially chosen to give a variation diminishing approximation to the transfinite bilinear interpolant of the function mapping the boundary of the unit square onto the …
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Dispatching emergency reserves
… current generation mix needs to be met. With a diminishing reserve margin and increase in demand yearly this challenge increases. The South African scenario is reported in this paper. As demand grows the ability to meet that demand remains a focus; a responsibility that remains a priority for …
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A Continuum Thermomechanical Model for Energetic Materials
… essentially non-oscillatory and total variation diminishing methods. The solutions reveal extremely rich behavior, including complex wave phenomena, strain localization phenomena, and changes of material phase.
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To Acquire or Not to Acquire? That is a Question of Ownership Language and Dispositional Greed
… of dispositional greed on the experience of diminishing marginal utility. Essay 1 investigates the impact of ownership language (e.g., this is my car) on prospective buyers' item evaluation. Results show that using ownership language has a negative effect on both tangible and intangible item …
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Perception of natural recreation resources at Inanda
… watersport areas. Recreation supply is gradually diminishing and demand for recreation space is increasing. Seemingly, that is due to urban encroachment that is rapidly affecting the area.
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The Rheology and Microstructure of Dense Bimodal Mixtures of Colloidal Particles With Long-Range, Soft Interactions
… compared to monodisperse suspensions, sharply diminishing the processing window of these suspensions.
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The contemporary role of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship.
… the question, Has the importance of guanxi been diminishing in Chinese entrepreneurship? In order to deepen the understanding of guanxi, its nature, characteristics, benefits, advantages, disadvantages, process and applications are explored. Furthermore, as there are many commonalities between …
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Complexity within the Air Force acquisition system gaining insight from a theory of collapse
… between increasing system complexity and diminishing marginal returns is highlighted as especially relevant to the performance of the Air Force aircraft acquisition enterprise. Using Tainter's theory as a framework, evidence is gathered leading to the conclusions that the Air Force …
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