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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"Levels Of Analysis"”.
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From Psychology to Phylogeny: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Cultural Evolution
… or change in the socially learned behavior of a population over time, is a fascinating phenomenon that is widespread in humans and present in some non-human animals. In this dissertation, I present an array of cultural evolutionary studies that bridge pattern and process in a wide range of …
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Integration and Extension of Leader-Member Exchange and Organizational Justice and Individual- and Group-Levels of Analysis
… justice have commanded a great deal of attention in organizational research. Despite this attention, these two research areas are seldom integrated for examination. This dissertation aimed at helping to integrate these two areas and extend them to a higher level of analysis. Two …
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The Impact of the Internet on Civic and Political Participation in Local Governance: A Mulitilevel Model for Bridging Individual and Group Levels of Analysis
Politically interested individual citizens often use information and communication technology (ICT) to facilitate and augment their civic and political participation. At the local level, ICT plays an important role for communication and information sharing in order for local groups to create …
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Post-Saddam Iraq: Caught Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Strategic Rivalry
… from 2010 to 2014. To capture the complexity of this rivalry, the thesis develops a conceptual framework based on foreign policy analysis, rivalry studies, and international relations theories. Drawing on this framework, it first discusses the determinants of this rivalry at different levels …
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On Different Uses of Abstraction in Models of Developmental Systems
Abstraction is centrally important to the success of models, mathematical and otherwise, in biology. The move beyond traditional reductionist approaches towards a more holistic, system level, understanding of development, has produced a concurrent growth in the types of abstractions used in …
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Methodology to Enhance the Reliability of Drinking Water Pipeline Performance Analysis
… is to collect data and predict the condition of pipelines using models and tools. Water utilities want to be proactive in fixing or replacing the pipes as fixing-when-it-fails ideology leads to increased cost and can affect environmental quality and societal health. There is a number of …
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Explaining Depravity through the Looking Glass: Political Prison Camps, North Korea, and Waltz's Three Images
<p>The political prison camps of North Korea are blatant violations of human rights within the state. They have recently received international attention within the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Security Council. This paper examines these political prison camps through …
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The Social Construction of Organizational Misconduct: A Systemic View
The question of how and why organizations engage in misconduct has long fascinated management scholars and practitioners (Palmer, Smith-Crowe, & Greenwood, 2016a; Treviño, Weaver, & Reynolds, 2006; Vaughan, 1999). Hardly a day goes by without newspapers, NGOs, or regulators calling out …
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Mysteries of Mankind, Secrets of the State, and Complexities of Conflict: A Dynamic, Multi-Level Pre-War Bargaining Model
… fight each other? The quintessential question of the causes of war has drawn prolific scholarly attention ever since Thucydides' dissection of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE). Yet little consensus has been reached. What makes war causes so elusive? One reason, I contend, is that ideographic …
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Exploring mobility and resilience in the context of climatically driven environmental change: a case study of migration in Anhui Province, China
… between mobility and resilience in the context of climatically driven environmental change. Using two villages in Anhui Province, China as a comparative case study, this paper investigates the impact of two types of climatically driven environmental change (a flood and a drought) with a specific …
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Interpreting Alaminos : the cultural context of form
… this thesis examines the interactional role of holism - and its underlying mechanisms - between Pilipino architecture and culture. Given this approach, I base my design of a community center for Alaminos, a medium-sized town in Pangasinan, the Philippines, on three levels of analysis: …
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Adult Attachment as a Predictor of Relationship Functioning Over Time: A Comparison of Attachment Style Questionnaires and the Adult Attachment Interview
… and romantic relationship functioning in sample of dating couples over one year (115 couples at time 1, 57 couples at time 2). Relationship functioning was defined at multiple levels of analysis, through self-perceptions of relationships, observers' ratings of romantic partner interactions, and …
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Politics and society in Virginia, 1960-1969: new course for the Old Dominion
In this study, the experiences and perspectives of 10 bereaved mothers were investigated. The research was guided by a feminist and contextual perspective. A contextual theory of stress supports an examination of the perspectives of individuals in families regarding the impact of stressful …
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Reflexive conversations with bereaved mothers: a feminist and contextual perspective
In this study, the experiences and perspectives of 10 bereaved mothers were investigated. The research was guided by a feminist and contextual perspective. A contextual theory of stress supports an examination of the perspectives of individuals in families regarding the impact of stressful …
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A Perception Based Integrative Theory of Individual Behavior in Organizations
<p>The purpose of this study was to develop an integrative theoretical approach to the study of individuals' behavior in organizations, and to present an application of the approach to understanding the performance of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets. Individuals' perceptions of the …
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Mobilisation of support for the Palestinian cause : A comparative study of political change at the communal, regional and global levels
… states involved in a 'power struggle' in pursuit of their 'national interest', and an emergent approach that includes in the analysis a wider range of political actors and defines the nature of politics very differently.The latter approach sees the central process of world politics as being the …
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Eastern Shona : a comparative dialect study
In this paper, the speech patterns of eleven individuals living in the Eastern half of Rhodesia are described and compared. Each individual was selected as being representative of a number of localities described in the map below. The first part of the paper is concerned with the abstraction of …
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THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT: TRANSFORMING NORTHERN IRELAND
<p>The main goal of this project is to gain a better understanding of the process of conflict transformation. More specifically, I wish to examine what are the circumstances that push Dual Wing Resistance Organizations (DWRO), and particularly, the Irish Provisional Republican Movement to behave in …
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Criminal Sentencing In the Court Communities of South Carolina: An Examination of offender, Judge, and County Characteristics
<p>This study examines the sentencing practices of the court communities of South Carolina. While numerous sentencing studies have examined predictors of sentencing operating at the individual offender level, recent sentencing studies have exhibited a renewed interest in the impact that judges and …
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