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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Fact Finding"”.
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Using joint fact-finding to resolve disputes over cleanup of hazardous waste sites
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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The politics behind the establishment of United Nations-mandated fact-finding missions: the case of Myanmar
… Nations resolution which gives effect to a UN factfinding mission to determine the facts on violations, especially in Rakhine State. With a view to challenging conventional explanations and views of United Nations-mandated fact-finding, this research study operationalizes a dynamic view of UN …
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Teacher Dispute Resolution Procedures in Virginia: Demographic Characteristics and Opinions of Neutral Chairpersons, School Division Superintendents, Attorneys, and Teacher Association Leaders
… selected to serve as neutral chairpersons of fact-finding panels, school division superintendents or designees, local teacher association presidents, Virginia Education Association UniServ directors, and attorneys. The history, development, and intent of teacher dispute resolution procedures …
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How does participation in the framing, review, and incorporation of scientific information affect stakeholder perspectives on resource management decisions?
… science used to craft the plan or policy. Joint fact finding is a process by which stakeholders work with scientists and decision-makers to frame, review, and incorporate scientific information into policy decisions. Through literature review and case studies of three approaches to public …
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Metadata Analysis of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's Reference Stream Project Datasets
… metadata structure; and, (2) encouraging joint fact finding processes to be undertaken by the greater cohort of water quality stakeholders in Montana. This study reaffirmed the need for water resource managers to be critical of how water quality data are stored and described, in order to create …
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Metadata Analysis of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's Reference Stream Project Datasets
… metadata structure; and, (2) encouraging joint fact finding processes to be undertaken by the greater cohort of water quality stakeholders in Montana. This study reaffirmed the need for water resource managers to be critical of how water quality data are stored and described, in order to create …
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Truth in the time of tumult: tracing the role of official 'truth-seeking' commissions of inquiry in South Africa, from Sharpeville to Marikana
… a judicial commission of inquiry with a strict fact-finding mandate, yet the official discourse invoked suggests it had additional distinctive aims to achieve 'truth, restoration, and justice', which are functions traditionally associated with Truth Commissions, in the field of Transitional …
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Toward a cultural history of advertising research: A case study of J. Walter Thompson, 1908-1925
… was equated with the accumulation of ""facts."" As such, a number of mechanisms to facilitate fact-finding were installed in the agency. The existence of these mechanisms and their implementation helped to rationalize the advertising process, at the same time legitimizing a reality in …
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LA FUNZIONE CONOSCITIVA DELL¿AMMINISTRAZIONE PUBBLICA DIGITALE: LA CIRCOLAZIONE DEI DATI NELL¿ERA DELLA BIG DATA ANALYTICS
… impact of digital technologies on administrative fact-finding, highlighting how the analysis of large datasets significantly enhances the administration’s capacity to understand complex phenomena and to orient public action according to criteria of greater efficiency, effectiveness, and economy. …
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The effects of NCLB on Whitehall Elementary School
<p>The purpose of this study is to research factual data regarding NCLB that relates to Whitehall Elementary School. The data were collected through many different resources such as internet web sites, books, newspaper articles, NCLB school district applications, and magazine articles. The purpose …
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Knowing Who to Trust and What to Believe in the Presence of Conflicting Information
… may read a document, ask an expert, or locate a fact nearly effortlessly, we lack a ready means to determine whether we should actually believe them. We seek to address this problem with a computational trust system capable of substituting for the user's informed, subjective judgment, with the …
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Phase-noise limitations on nonlinear-optical quantum computing
… of the real world. Previous work addressing this fact - finding that that the proper continuous-time theory introduces fidelity-degrading phase noise that precludes such proposals - was limited in scope to the case of co-propagating pulses with equal group velocities. This left room for criticism …
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Gentrification in JP/Rox : seeking a collaborative local process for a regional problem
… stakeholder groups, engaging in joint fact finding, generating creative trades among parties, implementing agreed-upon goals, and jointly monitoring outcome metrics. This restructured process of public participation would require a more active governmental role in organizing the public …
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Evaluating next-generation environmental policy tools : adaptive management in the Bureau of Land Management
… at risk. The cases have not featured a joint fact finding collaborative structure to provide stakeholders with early and integrated roles in the adaptive management process. I also identify a number of institutional barriers that have prevented BLM from consistently including the critical …
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Collaborative adaptive management in practice : case studies from Arizona and New Mexico
… such as the use of a trained mediator and joint fact-finding, were introduced in the cases to address process deficiencies interfering with the group's ability to collaborate or test management strategies. Factors such as effective long-term leadership, committed and enthusiastic participants, …
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Cyber-physical data distillation in a sensor rich world
… learning and data mining construct called FactFinder. The privacy concerns are addressed by allowing users to share features unusable in inferring the private information, but yet useful for the purpose of data modeling. Finally, an optimized data collection protocol enables prioritizing …
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Structuring public REIT-sponsored private capital fund : the case of US industrial and retail REITs
… to this field, this research can be described a fact-finding study. By studying each of the private capital funds managed by 7 leading REIT managers, I categorize these funds in terms of fund type, inception year, fund life, fund style strategy, investment target, geographical focus, fund terms, …
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A survey of selected teacher spokespersons regarding Indiana Public Law 217
… of this study was to determine the level of satisfaction of selected teacher spokespersons toward Indiana Public Law 217, the collective bargaining law for teachers.A survey instrument consisting of forty-six items in five Likert-response categories was mailed to 125 randomly selected teacher …
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The pedagogy of action learning facilitation – a critique of the role of the facilitator in an organisational leadership programme
… purpose of my research. This enabled planning, fact-finding, taking actions and analysing actions with my co-facilitators as an iterative process to explore the practice of action learning facilitation. Thematic analysis, which involves a 5-step process, was used to collate and investigate the …
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