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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"IGO"”.
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Welcome to the Club: IGO Socialization and Dyadic Arms Transfers
… whether intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) can socialize member states by testing the effect of shared IGO memberships on dyadic arms transfers. IGO socialization is one of many proposed causal mechanisms by which IGO memberships might reduce interstate conflict. This thesis argues …
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Robust chat for airborne command and control
… that we call the Intermittent Global Order (IGO) property. A protocol satisfying the IGO property guarantees global order while network connectivity permits, and sacrifices global order for bounded message delivery latencies while maintaining an intuitive and well-defined ordering on the …
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Who Participates? International Organizations and Non-State Actors in Global Governance
Although all Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) interact with non-state actors (NSAs) in some capacity, the extent to which NSAs are granted participatory roles in the governance of IGOs varies substantially. Why do some intergovernmental organizations - intergovernmental clubs of sovereign …
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Fraud and corruption in the international governmental organisation: identifying the extent to which the investigation function of oversight offices in international organisations may be considered as a policing function and assessing the mechanisms for accountability thereof
Intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) such as the United Nations have long endured the same types of misconduct common to other employers, including fraud, corruption and mismanagement, exemplified by the seemingly ubiquitous Oil for Food programme. This thesis examines those bodies set up as a …
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The role of the United Nations General Assembly in the norm life cycle
… relations. The UNGA is the premier global IGO making it an important and interesting topic of study in terms of global legislation. This research fills a gap in the literature, which does not sufficiently cover the relationship between norms and the UNGA. The case studies here yield …
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Investigation of new semiconductor materials for wide band-gap devices
… oxygenated VIII complexes.Indium-gallium oxide (IGO) alloys were grown with low to high In contents with notable crystallographic phase changes from monoclinic to mixed to cubic as the In content was increased. CL measurements show UV, blue and green luminescence with the spectral intensities …
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Oxidschichtbildung und Materialprobleme metallischer Werkstoffe bei Verbrennungsprozessen mit Heizöl EL
… of the combustion of industrial gas oil (IGO). The Ni-Cr-based alloys 601 (2.4851), 602 (2.4633), 603, 693 and 617 (2.4663) were tested at elevated temperatures between 900°C and 1050°C in a burner rig equipped with a low-NOx recirculation burner by application as material of the burner …
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A gyorsan növekvő kis- és középvállalkozások jellemzői és fejlesztési lehetőségei Magyarországon = The characteristics and development possibilities of fast-growing small and medium-sized companies in Hungary
… napjaink legnagyobb reménysége, a navigációs iGO szoftvert gyártó NavNGo Kft – mind olyan vállalkozások, melyek rendkívül gyorsan nőttek nagyra és ezért csodálatot váltanak ki bennünk. Az ilyen, a közgazdasági szakirodalomban "dinamikusan növekvő", "gyorsan növekvő", valamint "gazella" …
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Three to tango: explaining expansion of militarized interstate disputes
… the same international government organizations (IGOs). This project posits that a potential joiner is constrained in its decision to join an ongoing dispute by its position in network spaces of rivalries, international trade, and IGO affiliations. The hypotheses are tested using data on potential …
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Analysis and performance evaluation of coordinated transaction scheduling
… and the economics of the two interconnected IGOs, as well as their interactions. We provide an analytical underpinning of the procedural steps of CTS, all the while taking considerable care to maintain the unshared information confidentiality as the private information of each IGO. We perform …
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The Effect of Note Taking on the Recall of Information
… notes should be taken on paper or a computer (Igo & Kiewra, 2007; Kobayashi, 2005; Mueller & Oppenheimer, 2014; Urry et al., 2021). Little research, however, investigates what students think about the note taking process. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to determine (1) students’ …
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A reinterpretation of the Yalta Conference with particular emphasis on the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt
We know that World War II did not bring the lasting peace everyone hoped and assumed it would bring. The United States, along with other Western powers, now finds itself in a seeming life and death struggle with the Soviet Union and its satellites, with both sides arming for another possible global …
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Robot-aided neuro-rehabilitation and functional imaging
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1997.
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Global Governance of AIDS : Partnerships with Civil Soviety
… and the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) charged with combatting the epidemic. The central argument is that different understandings emerge depending on which theoretical framework the researcher adopts. Söderholm analyzes AIDS governance using three prototypical frameworks: a …
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The East African community‘s maritime domain: an innovative institutional framework
… The EAC is an Inter-Governmental Organisation (IGO), with the ultimate aim, set out in its 1999 founding Treaty, Article 5(2), of political union. In that regard, it differs profoundly from other supra-national organisations, which are analysed for comparison. The research uses a combination of …
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Understanding The Behavior Of States As Their Nuclear Status Changes
… diplomatic representation/exchange, joint-IGO membership, and formal agreements between states attempting to develop nuclear weapons and other states. </p> <p> The dissertation contains six points of argument about the behavior of states as they move to establish nuclear weapons development …
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Optimized FTR portfolio construction: the speculator's problem
… charges from the independent grid operator (IGO), the speculator who holds FTR for the same node pair simply receives those revenues, because of lack of physical flows. Thus, the identification of congested lines is a key step in the construction methodology. So, rather than focusing on the …
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Improved seismic isolation for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory with hydraulic external pre-isolator system
LIGO hosts the world’s most sensitive GW detectors capable of detecting strain of h=10-22 at 100-200Hz. To maximize the amount of useful scientific results LIGO generates, it is necessary to operate the instrument uninterruptedly. However, for ground-based detectors, this is not possible without …
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Climate Change Displacement and Global Governance: a Case Study of Three Intergovernmental Organizations and the Conflict Between the Member States and Bureaucracy
Climate change is a topic most often broached by environmental scientists and activists and its effects are discussed in terms of animal populations and atmospheric events. However, its direct effect on human life is yet to garner such attention. A changing climate will affect how people are able …
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Avaliação das bactérias isoladas em amostras biológicas em neonatos internados na unidade de terapia intensiva no Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley de João Pessoa
According to ANVISA is nosocomial infection arising from an infectious cause, this being affected in a hospital environment, where they are caused by a variety of microorganisms among which bacteria, are the main causes of these infections. The proper hospital environment as well as procedures …
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