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Showing 1 to 20 of 559 for “"Motive"”.
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Utility Stock Splits: Signaling Motive Versus Liquidity Motive
… by industrial firms when examining managerial motives for splitting their stock. I examine the liquidity-marketability hypothesis, which states that stock splits enhance the attractiveness of shares to individual investors and increase trading volume by adjusting prices to an optimum trading …
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The Achievement Motive : A Sociological Analysis
<p>David McClelland's theory of n Achievement (n Ach.) and Max Weber's theory of achievement implicit in THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM are experimentally analyzed and compared with Theodore Kemper's theory of reference groups in an attempt to determine the relative importance of …
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Städtetourismus in Regensburg. Images, Motive und Verhaltensweisen von Altstadttouristen
… nachgehen, welche Angebotsfaktoren, Images und Motive im Städtetourismus existieren, welche Rolle Destinationsmarketing und Reisemedien dabei spielen und wie sich dies im Verhalten der Touristen äußert. Die Wahl des Fallbeispiels fiel auf Regensburg, da die Stadt zu den großen Gewinnern des …
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Adhesion Between Rails and Wheels of Railway Motive Power
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T19:15:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5805396.pdf: 3228910 bytes, checksum: 8cad83e6e3b2a0b8b09e6f6a9b72cb84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Prosecuting the Syrian Threat to Israel: Motive, Means, and Opportunity
… Just as a courtroom prosecutor establishes motive, means, and opportunity to prove the guilt of the accused, this paper likewise prosecutes the charge that Syria's intentions toward Israel will likely remain insidious. This paper establishes Syrian motive, means, and opportunity to take …
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Bioinformatik-Strategien zur Analyse regulatorischer RNA-Motive und ihre experimentelle Validierung
Regulatorische Motive in untranslatierten Regionen spielen eine entscheidende Rolle bei der posttranskriptionellen Genregulation von mRNAs. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden bioinformatische Strategien zur Vorhersage und Validierung potentiell regulatorischer RNA-Motive entwickelt. Die Berechnung …
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Motive für nachhaltiges Handeln von Mitarbeitern und Führungskräften in Schweizer KMU
This thesis explores the motives and action logics for sustainable action in small and medium-sized Swiss companies. Using a qualitative case study research approach and data from 27 interviews from four different practical cases (SMEs), sustainable actions in companies are investigated and the …
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Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge—An Inquiry into the Uncertain Agent
… of getting there. When we come to know our motives, we move from a state of ignorance or uncertainty to a state of self-knowledge. This process is what I call ‘self-inquiry’. Yet, many philosophers subscribe to a model of self-knowledge which gives no substantial role to such self-inquiry …
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Motive and form in Lowell Liebermann's four Sonatas for violoncello and piano
… Liebermann’s use of sectional forms and simple motives in the sonatas. I will also explore the marked difference between the atonal first sonata and the tonal, lyrical later ones that reflect a much more mature composer, able to fuse highly sectional forms with his own unique sense of style. As …
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A prophet unwelcome : motive magazine, the Methodist Student Movement, and midcentury Methodism.
motive magazine (1941-1972) was the official magazine of the Methodist Student Movement and, for several of its final years, for the University Christian Movement as well. Controversial from the beginning, motive stood apart from contemporary campus ministry publications with its featuring of …
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Integrating technological and organizational perspectives : an approach to improve rail motive power management
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1983.
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior- Individual or Organizational Citizenship Behavior- Organization: Does the Underlying Motive Matter?
… also suggested that there are three different motives behind OCB, impression management, prosocial values, and organizational concern. This study examines the relationship between the motives and the type of OCB that is performed. The results failed to indicate that motives matter in …
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Exploring young children’s participation and motive orientation in the classroom and at forest school
… ethnographic approach to explore children’s motive-oriented activity in the reception year classroom and at Forest School. The research considers the experiences of a group of linguistically and culturally diverse 4- and 5-year-olds, in order to conceptualise the child’s situation of …
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Ability to Identify Emotion and Infer Motive in Evaluative Interactions: a Function of Expertise?
… to accurately idenitfy emotions and deduce motives from those emotions may have important implications, both for the observers required to evaluate or serve others, and for the targets of evaluations. In this paper, the ability to infer motive from emotive responses in a weak situation would …
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The Effect of Motive and Coworker Liking on the Intention to Perform Organizational Citizenship Behavior
… have posited that there are three different motives behind OCB: impression management, prosocial values, and organizational concern. Additionally, researchers have recognized the importance of coworker relationships within organizations and have suggested that the degree to which one likes …
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Zur Bedeutung der polyTC-Motive in den Promotoren und 5‘-UTR-Bereichen konstitutiv exprimierter Pflanzengene
… und der 5’UTR je eine Polypyrimidinbox. Solche Motive aus sich häufenden TC-Alternierungen sind in pflanzlichen Promotoren und 5’UTRs ein häufig auftretendes Motiv mit bislang weitgehend ungeklärter Funktion. Am Beispiel des Promotors Y11037 des konstitutiv exprimierten V-ATPase c1 Gens wurden …
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Does the Motive Matter? The Role of Intended Effects in Characterizing Actions and Inferring Personality Traits
A functional model is proposed to explain the process by which perceivers characterize an action as trait-relevant (e.g., that is a kind action), and infer a trait based on this action (e.g., that is a kind person). The primary purpose of this model is to explore the possibility that actions are …
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The Relationship of the Sensation Seeking Personality Motive to Burnout, Injury and Job Satisfaction among Firefighters
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships among sensation seeking, burnout, injury, and job satisfaction among firefighters. Participants included 93 firefighters from a southeastern fire department. Each participant was asked to fill out a packet of self-report surveys including …
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Motive Selection and Lying Aversion in a Coin Flip Game: An Experimental Approach to Preference Switching
<p>This paper studies how people behave when honesty, fairness, equality, and self-interest intersect. In a series of coin-flip reporting tasks, participants can misreport a privately observed outcome to change payoffs for themselves and an anonymous partner. Building on prior work on lying …
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