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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Greed"”.
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Oaths and Greed in Tacitus' Histories
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2017-08-10 without embargo terms
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Greed, hedging, and acceleration in convex optimization
This thesis revisits the well-studied and practically motivated problem of minimizing a strongly convex, smooth function with first-order information. The first main message of the thesis is that, surprisingly, algorithms which are individually suboptimal can be combined to achieve accelerated …
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Hysteria, Greed, and the Public Purse: The Litigation Impacting a Local Governmental Agency
… group: the hysteria of the neighborhood, the greed of the lawyers, and the vulnerability of the public sector to litigation. I postulate that the plaintiffs' lawyers, originally retained to assist the neighborhood in their fight for closure of the landfill, became motivated by greed to expand …
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Leading without greed: A Vedantic lens on wholeness toward cultivating spiritual intelligence in leadership
… injustice and environmental crises through greed, be examined. Greed was theorised in the literature as arising from a material ‘incomplete self' predicament of constant want. Vedānta posits such never-ending desiring to be consequential of a lack of spiritual intelligence. Systematic …
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To Acquire or Not to Acquire? That is a Question of Ownership Language and Dispositional Greed
… and (2) the influence of dispositional greed on the experience of diminishing marginal utility. Essay 1 investigates the impact of ownership language (e.g., this is my car) on prospective buyers' item evaluation. Results show that using ownership language has a negative effect on both …
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A critical evaluation of the 'greed versus grievance' theory in the analysis of civil wars - - the case of Angola
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-75)
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Working for the Glory of God: The Distinction Between Greed and Self-Interest in the Life and Letters of the Apostle Paul
… discern a distinction between self-interest and greed. The review of literature in chapter 1 reveals that definitions of greed often rely on such terms as “excessive” and “inordinate,” without defining the terms. Chapter 2 shows Paul’s expectation that believers work usefully in the church, home, …
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Greed or grievance : why is South African youth crime so violent in nature? : First world taste on a third world budget or simply marginalised from centre-stage?
How can criminological theory assist in making sense of the youth subcultures that are involved in criminal activity of a violent nature in the contemporary South African context? - T.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-219).
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Ethnic Tensions in the Western Balkans and the Experience of Ethnic Minorities
… will first revisit research which has shaped the greed versus grievance debate on ethnic tensions. Then, I will review the geopolitical and social environment of the three multi-ethnic states to discover factors institutionalized that resulted in outcomes of ethnic tensions. The second part of the …
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Demon's Run (Part 1)
<p>Forces of greed and corruption thrust two people into a sprawling struggle over the fate of their home in Part 1 of this fantasy novel.</p>
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Competitive prefetching and buffer management for parallel I/O systems
… access patterns. Two algorithms, PHASE and GREED, which match the lower bounds are presented. A randomized version of GREED that performs the minimal expected number of I/Os is designed and applied to the problems of external sorting and video retrieval. Finally the problem of designing …
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The House that Jack Built
… selfdetermination, and the effects of greed on the independent spirit.
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Fall of the Titans, a study of the financial behemoths that crumbled in 2008
… age old financial institutions, and their greed. This study goes back to that tumultuous period of 2007-2009, when some of the world's biggest names in finance, the players that were considered "too big to fail", failed. Through careful studies of international and American economics, …
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Návrh automatizovaného systému pro obchodování s kryptoměnami
… využitých k řešení byly vybrány Fear and greed index a RSI, podle jejichž úrovní algoritmus nakupuje a prodává bitcoin tak, aby dosahoval lepších výsledku než akumulační strategie DCA. Výsledky zpětných testů jsou porovnány mezi sebou a výsledkem je, že konečné řešení může být …
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Regulating exploration in multi-armed bandit problems with time patterns and dying arms
… account. In the corrected methods, exploitation (greed) is regulated over time, so that more exploitation occurs during higher reward periods, and more exploration occurs in periods of low reward. In order to understand why regret is reduced with the corrected methods, a set of bounds on the …
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The Sacred Hoop: The Hero and Community in Selected Works of Mari Sandoz
… are a result of the overwhelming forces of greed and power represented by the fragmented white community which seeks individual rather than communal gratification.</p> <p>In Sandoz's four novels, Slogum House, Capital City, The Tom-Walker, and Miss Morissa, she illustrates how greed and …
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