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Showing 1 to 20 of 675 for “"Empirical investigation"”.
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Parallel Process: An Empirical Investigation
… purpose of the present study was to conduct an empirical investigation of parallel process. The study used a cross-sectional design in which 30 therapy relationships and the corresponding supervision relationships were studied. The therapist assessed the behavior manifested by the patient during …
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Empirical investigation of underwater blast
Background Most demolition practitioners seem to accept that an explosive charge is placed in direct contact with the target surface. Placing the charge in this way may be very convenient, but from an under water demolition point of view, this may not be the most effective placement. It should be …
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Institutions and uncertainty: An empirical investigation
… changes as institutions change. The thesis is empirically focused. In answering our research questions, we employ, often in combination, tools from the ‘traditional’ econometric literature—in particular, structural vector autoregressions— and tools from the natural language processing …
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Impairment of assets : an empirical investigation
… loss are also evaluated. Other key areas of investigation focus on asset impairment losses being associated with a particular category of asset, business sector, indicator of asset impairment and a change of management.Fair value forms a component of asset impairment loss recognition and this …
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Commonality in Two-Dimensions: An Empirical Investigation
… various liquidity measures. I fill this gap and empirically confirm that the systematic liquidity factor is multi-dimensional and priced multi-dimensionally using the multi-linear PCA (MPCA) method on daily-level data. MPCA allows me to provide a nice explanation of the factor loadings of the …
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Confidence-Interval Financial Statements: An Empirical Investigation
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An Empirical investigation of software project schedule behavior.
… research. Despite the approach taken in this investigation (i. e. the collection of a large volume of evidence and the analyses of a wide variety of factors using a very broad perspective), this investigation has been unable to pinpoint definite causes to explain why a project will or will not …
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An empirical investigation of expertise matching within academia
Many Organizations have realized that effective management of their knowledge assets is important to survival in today s competitive business environment. Consequently an Organizational Memory (OM) is used to store what has been learned from the past in order that it can be reused by current and …
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Network effect and investor’s perceptions: An empirical investigation
Investors’ perceptions, and their understanding related to an investment, are paramount to decision-making in economic and investment settings. Social media is increasingly playing a vital role in influencing investors’ perceptions and investors’ decisions in the financial arena. Social media is a …
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Inventory models and backlog costs : an empirical investigation
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1983.
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Empirical Investigation of Sociotechnical Issues in Engineering Design
To compete in today's global economy, organizations are under pressure to improve their product development processes. The engineering design process is an important component of the overall product development process. This research considers the relationship of both social and technical variables …
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An empirical investigation of issues relating to software immigrants
… review this thesis identifies a lack of empirical literature in Software Maintenance in general and an even more distinct lack of papers examining the role of People in Software Maintenance. Whilst there is existing work examining what maintenance programmers do the vast majority of it is …
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Reverie and research interviews: a theoretical and empirical investigation
… and imagic). The third aspect of the thesis is empirical. The data start from the author's own reverie. Two studies are presented. First, in two face-to-face interviews with adolescents who had received therapy for depression, reverie is shown to help overcome impasse, and instigate hypotheses …
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An Empirical investigation into metrics for object-oriented software
… of validation in terms of measurement theory and empirical study. From this five lessons were derived. The relatively new area of metrics for object-oriented systems is examined to determine whether suggestions for improvement have been widely heeded. The thesis uses an industrial case study and …
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An Empirical investigation into software effort estimation by analogy
… for new software projects. A substantial empirical validation of the approach was made encompassing approximately 250 real historical software projects across eight industrial data sets, using stepwise regression as a benchmark. Significance tests on the results accepted the hypothesis (at …
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