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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Human value"”.
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Understanding the human value for local wildlife and how a connection with nature can contribute to well-being
… hold for wildlife has been through calculating a value for conservation or preservation practices. These typically focus upon endangered or charismatic species, and to an existence or non-use value which somebody holds for the creature in question. This thesis recognises that our value for …
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Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value
… reading this way will reveal that workers have value beyond the dominant logic of late capitalism and Wall Street. Tragedy becomes an organic narrative device for self-realization for the readers, suggesting in the power of literature and reading responsibly to humanize characters counter to …
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In Terms of an Open Sky: Hans Rookmaaker's Reformed Approach to Art and Culture
… defense of the Christian faith and the inherent value it affords humans created in the image of God. I establish Rookmaaker as a Reformed Christian within the Dutch Calvinist tradition and examine the theological and philosophical commitments that inform his Reformed approach to art. I illustrate …
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Golden Handshakes at Commercial Banks
… are intended to provide insurance for the CEO's human value. Frequently, however, severance packages are increased upon termination by boards of directors at will. These non-contractual severance payments are called discretionary severance pay. This study investigates discretionary severance pay …
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Assessment of the potential for human resource accounting in Venezuelan Navy management decision making.
Human Resource Accounting (HRA) has been developed to provide accurate estimations of human value to organizational entities and useful information to managers in their decision making processes. It is shown that HRA can serve as an internal management tool. In this thesis HRA concepts are …
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Moral Equality: Article of Faith
… we have for the equal moral worth of all human beings are incorrigibly defective. This is a problem because many people hold that equality between persons in the political, legal and social realms depends on and is justified by their equal value in the moral realm. I solve the problem in …
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Catholic reflections on abortion and euthanasia - towards a theology of sacredness of human life
… revolving at the "beginning" and "end" of human life in the modern world. However, something must be said about the question regarding respect for human life vis-�-vis abortion and euthanasia, since they are widely discussed today and since they strike at the very heart of traditional …
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TOWARD A CO-VIVIAL COMMUNITY: HOPES FOUND IN THE FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY LABELS
… I wished to identify broader, multiple, and more humane ways to define competence and human value that could validate people labeled intellectually disabled whose humanity and citizenship are often doubted by dominant standards in industrialized societies. In addition to resisting social standards …
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Existential Risk and the Technological Understanding of Being
… for the study of existential dangers to humanity. Having been introduced by Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom in the early 2000s, existential risk research over the past ca. 15 years has become increasingly popular amongst scientists from a wide variety of academic disciplines and recent …
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Data-driven decision making : an adoption framework
… be tacit decisions that will fully remain within humans, and decisions that are highly data-driven, but still allow for significant human value contribution. Data powers insights, decision and actions, and we are only scratching the surface of the value that can be created, captured and …
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Technology and urban form, Chicago 1830-1972
… as war, economic depression, catastrophies, or human reactions to historical situations, have in some periods suppressed or drastically accelerated the effects of technological development. Such factors have been accounted for in the methods of study and presentation of the thesis, so that …
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Other Grounds for Dignity: Ideas from India in the Philosophies of Twentieth-Century Latin American Writers
… body. Yet other, more holistic systems of value in Latin America, found in some indigenous, leftist Catholic and Asian-influenced thought, afford greater importance to aspects such as emotional sensibility, belonging in community, and cyclical ideas of time that allow for renewal, based in …
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Knowledge Strategies for making Safeguarding decisions in Social Work
… decisions reflects the unpredictable nature of human behaviour. Nevertheless, criticisms persist about the inconsistency and occasional bias in social workers' judgments, often overshadowing their many right decisions. In this study, the central focus is to explore the internal reasoning …
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Leading Change for Transgender and Gender Diverse Healthcare: Assessing Organizational Readiness
… and the degree to which healthcare leaders value the experiences of TGD communities.</p> <p><strong>Study Population: </strong>The study population consisted of healthcare leaders, in varying leadership roles, varying systems of care, and varying geographic locations who completed an online …
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Natural Language Processing in Personality Traits and Basic Human Values Estimation of Social Media Users
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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The nature and value of teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese as a school subject in South Africa: a case study of language and literacy ideologies in a public secondary school in South Africa
… nature of ideologies as ‘ontologies plus values'” (Hall & Cunningham, 2020, p. 4) as the main theore9cal principle informing this study, language and literacy ideologies with respect to Mandarin Chinese and its script are explored in rela9on to both “ontologies” and “values” with the aim …