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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Freedom of Choice"”.
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An Exploration of the Existential Orientation to Coaching
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the basic concepts of existentialism and from this identify activities applicable to the coaching engagement. Basic concepts of existentialism including: isolation; freedom of choice; meaninglessness; and death are examined. These concepts are revisited in …
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Three essays on the criteria to be used in welfare economics
This dissertation consists of three essays devoted to the general problem of combining various criteria for evaluating the collective desirability of social states. The first essay discusses the problem of combining a quasi-ordering of some set of alternatives (interpreted as a criterion for an …
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Remote service provision for connected homes.
… to establish a holistic view on the requirements of remote service provision to connected home environments. A reference architecture for remote service provision based on the proposed views has been devised, which provides built-in support for an “On-Demand” operating model and facilitate …
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Troubled Times: Desegregation of Public Schools In Chesterfield, South Carolina, 1965-1971
<p>This study traces the story of how one rural county in South Carolina transitioned from a segregated school system to a unitary one. Using archival and oral history sources, the study focuses on the troubled times experienced by citizens of Chesterfield County between 1965 and 1971. This case …
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Player-Response: On the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature
… that require input and interaction on behalf of the player. This level of agency likens video games to a kind of modern hypertext, networking and weaving various narrative threads together, something which traditional modes of media lack. When examined from the lens of reader-response …
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Political Party organisation in East Asia : towards a new framework for the analysis of party formation and change
… present, progressive theory‐building in the area of political party organisation is being hampered by the controversy over how much freedom of choice decision‐makers within a party enjoy in relation to their environment. This piece of research will therefore develop an analytical framework that …
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Redesigning Choice Architecture for the College Selection and Application Process for High School Juniors
Choice architecture, a term coined in the 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by behavioral scientist Richard H. Thaler and professor of law Cass R. Sunstein, is the belief that no choice can be neutral because the way in which a choice is presented influences …
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The substantive representation of women in the Tanzanian parliament
The thesis investigates if the use of a reserve seat system of parliamentary quotas that has produced a substantial descriptive increase in the number of women in the Tanzanian parliament has translated into substantive representation for women in terms of either process or outcome. It utilized the …
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Generalizações da integral de Choquet como método de combinação em comitês de classificadores
Ensembles of classifiers is an method in machine learning that consists in a collection of classifiers that process the same information and their output is combined in some manner. The process of classification is done in two main steps: the classification step and the combination step. In the …
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A Case Study in the Desegregation of George Washington High School and Langston High School in Danville, Virginia during the 1970-1971 School Year
This paper provides a historical analysis of the desegregation of George Washington High School and Langston High School in Danville, Virginia in 1970. The author focuses on the related desegregation litigation on a national, state, and local level as well as the historical context for …
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Lee M. Waid: An Oral Historical Case Study of Students from an All-Black Rural Virginian School between 1963 and 1970
… researcher's aim to capture the oral histories of students who attended Lee M. Waid, an all-Black rural Virginian school, between 1963 and 1970. This purpose lies in the researcher's attempt to thoroughly and accurately capture a time in history after desegregation was mandated, Freedom of …
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The child's ability to form a proper balance between a pedagogic freedom and pedagogic authority constitutes an authentic pedagogic task for the pre-primary school education
Education is one of the most important human activities of all nations all over the world. Adults, that is, parents, teachers and adult members of the society educate young children in order to assist and guide them to become proper adults. Pre-primary school education has become the necessity for …
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Ethical dilemmas experienced by Health Care Professionals working in Intensive Care Unit Tshilidzini Hospital, Vhembe district in Limpopo Province
… by ICU nurses and doctors include amongst other: freedom of choice, truth telling, distribution of resources and confidentiality. Purpose: The study sought to explore the ethical dilemmas experienced by healthcare professionals working in ICU, Vhembe district in Limpopo province. Setting: The …
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Virtual reality as a therapy option for patients with severe mental disorders focusing on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
… to improve the symptoms and overall quality of life of people diagnosed with a severe mental disorder, in particular schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. These serious and chronic mental illnesses significantly impact patients’ quality of life and, since healthcare is in short supply when it …
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Nudging Retail Investors towards Sustainable and Responsible Mutual Funds: A Study of Financial Advisors and Retail Investors in Hong Kong
… to a more circular economy. Hong Kong, as one of the leading international financial centres, trails its global peers in terms of SRI market development despite some efforts paid by the government. Hong Kong retail investors also exhibited a seemingly lukewarm response towards sustainable and …
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Yeats, Eliot, and Apocalyptic Poetry
… different visions. These particular works of Yeats and Eliot are appropriate because they represent two widely varying viewpoints on the causes, nature and desirability of what each author felt would be the coming apocalypse. Therefore, more can be learned by comparing the very different …
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Music Streaming Platforms Are Artists Getting Paid What They Deserve
… quality, convenience, unrestricted mobility, freedom of choice and personal fulfilment (Ovedele and Simpson, 2018; Sinclair and Tinson, 2017). Streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music offer consumers convenience and choice, while promising artists global exposure (Baym, 2018; …
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Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian form of flowfield dependent variation (ALE-ADV) method for moving boundary problems
… to solve complex flow problems through the use of so-called implicitness parameters. These parameters determine the implicitness of FDV method by evaluating local gradients of physical flow parameters, hence vary across the computational domain. The method has been used successfully in solving …
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The Constitutionality of Dress Code and Uniform Policies
… criteria for determining the constitutionality of public school dress codes based on an examination of relevant case law. The study addresses the following underlying questions: (1) Do students have a constitutional right to freedom of choice regarding their personal dress and grooming in public …
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Aims of Education in the Writings of Ellen White
… philosophy and its application to the aims of education have not been systematically or thoroughly addressed within the parameters and demands of a graduate thesis. The present dissertation explores the aims of education, especially the ultimate aims of education, in the writings of Ellen G. …
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