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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"McMahan."”.
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Michael Walzer on the Moral Legitimacy of States and the Morality of Killing in War
… the morality of killing in war developed by Jeff McMahan that is based on an analogy with the morality of killing in domestic society and argue that this account is more plausible than Walzer's account of the morality of killing in war. I also suggest a way that McMahan's account could be improved.
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The ethics of war, protest, and South African state-sanctioned violence
… War by philosophers such as Michael Walzer, Jeff McMahan and Thaddeus Metz. I raise an objection of applicability to McMahan’s revisionist theory and similarly raise three problems for Metz’s African Relational Just War Theory in its application to a single case of intrastate violence in South …
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The Perceptions of the Transition Process by Ohio Students With Intellectual Disabilities
… on the Ohio Longitudinal Study (Baer, Daviso, & McMahan Queen, 2009). The study took data upon exiting an Ohio high school, and with one, andthree and, five year intervals. The following questions were explored: • What critical courses of study or experiences do students with intellectual …
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Teacher Perceptions of Bring Your Own Technology Classrooms
… learning theory. (Bandura, 1969; Friere, 1968; McMahan, 1997; Schunk, 2000; Sharples, 2006; Siemens, 2005; Vgotsky, 1978) to provide lenses for understanding the essence of meaning that exists among teachers experiencing the unique phenomenon of Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) learning …
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Bestiaries the animal and the human in Mila Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
… complexities of mourning the death of what Jeff McMahan has deemed "beings on the margins of life", which includes both humans and animals. In my analysis of these novels, I have borrowed from different, seemingly disconnected, critical discourses. In some cases, this has meant "inserting" the …
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A "stupendous attraction" : materialising a Tibetan Buddhist contact zone in rural Australia
… ideals of “Buddhist modernism” (McMahan 2008) but appears to depart from it in its pronounced emphasis on merit-making and holy objects. However, the project’s proponents consider the stupa a method for enacting their enlightenment aspirations. I attribute the stupa project’s …
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Perceptions of Sex Trafficking Legislation By Sex Workers
In April of 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act/Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA) package. This set of bipartisan legislation was billed as a way of combatting sex trafficking by holding websites responsible for …
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Topics in Heterogeneous Group Testing
<p>DISS_abstract> Since the early 1940s, group testing has been widely used to reduce costs in a variety of applications, including infectious disease screening, drug discovery, and genetics. Statistical research in group testing generally splits into two areas: classification and estimation. …
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The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Job Persistence of Female Faculty in Higher Education
<p>The purpose of this quantitative study was to understand facets of job satisfaction and levels of burnout and to determine the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment of female faculty across various career stages at a regional Kentucky university. Due to increasing …
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Environments Of Risk In A Dynamic Social Landscape: Hurricanes And Disaster On The United States Gulf Coast
Hurricanes pose a challenge for residents and communities of the United States Gulf Coast. The people that live in the region must adapt and respond to these storms, as do the social institutions that provide support during disasters and their aftermath. This is complicated by the longstanding and …
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Cognitive Complexity and Nonverbal Communication in Impression Formation
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:40:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7511846.PDF: 3075146 bytes, checksum: c57609355c3769266df2baeb864abf94 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Exploring and Evaluating Task Sequences for System Control Interfaces in Immersive Virtual Environments
System control—the issuing of commands—is a critical, but largely unexplored task in 3D user interfaces (3DUIs) for immersive virtual environments (IVEs). System control techniques are normally encompassed by complex interfaces that define how these interaction techniques fit together, which we …
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Exploring the Effects of Higher-Fidelity Display and Interaction for Virtual Reality Games
In recent years, consumers have witnessed a technological revolution that has delivered more-realistic experiences in their own homes. Expanding technologies have provided larger displays with higher resolutions, faster refresh rates, and stereoscopic capabilities. These advances have increased the …
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Measurement Error in Designed Experiments for Second Order Models
Measurement error (ME) in the factor levels of designed experiments is often overlooked in the planning and analysis of experimental designs. A familiar model for this type of ME, called the Berkson error model, is discussed at length. Previous research has examined the effect of Berkson error on …
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Strategic human resource management and organisational performance : a study of the university administrators in Cyprus
… (Allen and Wright, 2006). As Wright and McMahan (2011) state, today an organisation’s human resources have become more important than ever to their success. Consequently, a better understanding is needed of the role of HRM in creating better organisational performance. Although, human …
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Combatant moral equality in historical and practical context.
Enemy soldiers in war are permitted to kill one another without moral blame. This permission, though, is limited by rules specifically constructed for war. These rules apply symmetrically to both sides of war and independently of the justice of their causes. This feature of the morality of war is …
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An Exploratory Study of Strategic Human Resource Management High Performance Work Practices for Unit Level Managers, in the Casual Segment of the Us Restaurant
… such as, Cappelli & Singh (1992),Wright & McMahan (1992), Pfeffer (1994), Lado & Wison (1995), Huselid (1995), Jackson & Schuler (1995),Becker & Gerhart (1996), Delany & Huselid (1996), Boxall (1998), Pfeffer (1998), Schuler & Jackson (2000), Ulrich & Beatty (2001), Lepak & Snell (2002), …
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Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood
One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I consider the personhood of the human embryo. If the human embryo is a person, we are morally obligated to permit the practice of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save human …