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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Gradualism"”.
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Monetary policy, gradualism, and the term structure of interest rates
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Artificial evolution with Binary Decision Diagrams: a study in evolvability in neutral spaces
… and interplay between neutrality, modularity, gradualism, robustness and diversity. Evolvability is found to emerge under gradual evolution as a biased distribution of functionality within the genotype-phenotype map, which serves to direct phenotypic variation. Neutrality facilitates …
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Reform in the land of Serf and Slave, 1825-1861
… to reforming liberalism, a preference for gradualism as the vehicle of change, and a shared intellectual framework based upon new theories of political economy, the Russian and southerners' histories highlight a transatlantic intellectual community in which southern reformers were full …
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BRICS Currency and Dollar Hegemony: Passing of the Torch?
… of the Euro as it relates to the impact of gradualism on the currency’s staying power and the perpetually fraught politics of economic power sharing. The author concludes that though the BRICS currency is unlikely to be realized due to gaps in geopolitical goals, asymmetrical powers across …
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China’s Escape from the “Big Bang”: The 1980s Price Reform Debate in Historical Perspective
… core. In contrast, a policy of experimentalist gradualism manifested in the dual track price system (DTPS) laid the foundations for China’s economic success. But the Chinese reform approach was highly contested in the 1980s and China came close to implementing a big bang. My dissertation sheds …
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Investigating the relationship between religious motives and rhetorical activism : an ethnographic study of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.
… presence, storytelling, collaboration, and gradualism. This study concludes by considering possibilities for the study's findings in the university writing classroom. The study's findings reveal that religious commitments can and do motivate social action and that religiously-animated values …
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Investigating the views and experiences of Fetal Medicine Practitioners offering late termination of pregnancy in the Western Cape
… that the CTOPA is based on the principle of gradualism and that while women have reproductive choice, TOP becomes progressively restricted as gestation advances to protect the fetus. However, they felt that the specified cut-offs in the CTOPA are arbitrary and open to interpretation and …
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Microevolutionary patterns in some Jurassic bivalves of the Oxford Clay, England
… in the fossil record. The model proposes gradualism during narrowly fluctuating, relatively stable environments, and in contrast, net stasis in more unstable environments. The model also predicts for more gradualistic evolution on land in the tropics and in the deep sea, and for more …
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Modelo de aplicación y gestión de recursos financieros para el desarrollo regional en México
… and 9) effectiveness. The principle of gradualism appears in the center of these principles because it pervades all. The basic elements proposed in the model of implementation and management of financial resources to implement these principles are: 1) the definition of regional policy, …