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Showing 1 to 20 of 2466 for “"Gaining"”.
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Retaining students: is it for gaining or restraining?
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate students in Grades 6-8 who were retained in Elementary School and tracked their academic progress since the retention. This study was conducted to determine whether retaining students benefits or hinders their chances of academic success. Once the …
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Compliance-Gaining in Multicultural Groups: an Exploratory Study
… of multicultural groups engage in compliance-gaining messages. While studies have focused on cross-cultural comparisons to draw conclusions about cultural patterns in small groups, these conclusions are necessarily speculative because few studies have examined how culturally-based patterns of …
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Gaining an operational edge : piece-picking process optimization
Order-picking is an integral operation in warehouses and distribution centers (DC), consuming considerable operating resources and expenses. Numerous studies have attempted to optimize the efficiency and reduce the cost of order-picking. In working with a partner company, this thesis evaluates a …
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Gaining New Insights into Spatiotemporal Chaos with Numerics
An important phenomenon of systems driven far-from-equilibrium is spatiotemporal chaos where the dynamics are aperiodic in both time and space. We explored this numerically for three systems: the Lorenz-96 model, the Swift-Hohenberg equation, and Rayleigh-Bénard convection. The Lorenz-96 model is a …
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Network Infiltration: Gaining Utility Acceptance of Alternative Energy Systems
Our American electric system doggedly follows the central station model developed in the late 1800s. Thomas Hughes says the system gained momentum by adding more alliances with educators, politicians, and other industries until the social network was so intertwined with the technology that …
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Gaining the competitive advantage: Ontario universities and the global economy
Using a radical political economy approach, this thesis examines how changing global economic and political pressures have forced the Ontario government to reconsider their policies toward higher education. Specifically, this thesis describes and analyses provincial government initiatives toward …
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Gaining Perspective with an Evolutionary Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent Agents
This thesis targets the boundary surrounding the creation of strong AI using AutoML (Automatic Machine Learning) through the development of a general cognitive architecture called Brain Evolver. To do this, the notion of what intelligence is in the context of machines and how it can practically be …
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Gaining a competitive advantage through market research into home buyer preferences
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Gaining from giving: The benefits for midwives of working with student midwives
Asking any midwife what she remembers of being a student midwife brings tales of nervousness and anxiety, balanced with stories of kindly wise midwives whose words you still hear to this day. Midwives can usually easily conjure their own student memories, but probably very few have paused to think …
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Toward Gaining Knowledge of Young Adult Black Males' Perceptions of Political Activism
There is a gap in our knowledge and understanding of perceptions of political activities, including the influence of education policies, by young adult Black males. There is a gap in our understanding of the formation of perceptions and attitudes. The purpose of this study is to gain a perspective …
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Gaining Attention and Encouraging a Response: My Criteria for Successful Graphic Design.
<p>As a graphic designer, my goal is to clearly express my clients' message to their intended audience. Based on the diversity of my clients and their products and services, finding a consistent style in my projects might be difficult, although there are usually some typical traits. With examples …
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Gaining competitive advantage through collaboration : options for minority architecture and engineering firms
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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The effectiveness of Aebersold play-along recordings for gaining proficiency in jazz improvisation
The purpose of this study was to determine whether an Aebersold play-along recording is an effective tool for becoming a more proficient jazz improviser. Participants (N=35) were undergraduate and graduate trumpet, trombone, and saxophone students enrolled in the jazz program at a mid-sized …
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Sustainability of Parent Involvement in Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs
Results of this study show parent involvement is recognized as an important component of comprehensive intervention that helps students from underserved backgrounds. Parent involvement is not an easy component to implement, yet administrators participating in this study believe that parent …
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Tantalum wire product development strategy : gaining a competitive advantage in a commodity market
… a product development process, with the goal of gaining a competitive advantage and sustaining it, thus increasing profitability over time. For this purpose a decision support model was developed to analyze the economical and operational feasibility of a new product. All aspects of launching a …
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The effects of gender, self-esteem, age, and relationship on compliance-gaining strategy selection
… self-esteem, age, and relationship on compliancegaining strategy selection. Two hypotheses and three research ·questions were addressed in this study. Hypothesis One predicted males would be more likely to select anti-social compliance-gaining strategies in a social setting when trying to …
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