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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Normative Model"”.
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A Normative Model For Strategic Planning
Abstract The thesis proposes a normative model for strategic planning using stakeholder theory as the primary theoretical framework. Development of the normative model is achieved by analysis of the literature and corroborative engagement with local government practitioners. Strategic planning …
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The Rubik’s Cube of democratic development a normative model of statebuilding
The dissertation built on the belief that each model and theory on state failure and statebuilding has useful elements which were incorporated in the alternative model proposed in the dissertation. Consequently, the real added value of the dissertation was the creation of the new theoretic schema …
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A normative model for the railroad freight car acquisition planning process.
Thesis: Civ. E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1976
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Imagining a NeoFreudian Mind Interface: A Normative Model of Medical Humanities Research
This thesis argues for a new theory of medical humanities practice and research, known as Mind Interface Theory. It begins with the claim that Sigmund Freud expanded medical metaphysics considerably in "A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis," and that this expansion affords the possibility of …
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A normative model of advertising communication strategy for an entertainment service industry
This thesis developed a normative model for designing advertising communications for entertainers in particular fields. Models in four major areas of advertising communication (segmentation, positioning, strategy and creative decisions) were reviewed and a model was developed that was tailored to …
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The Development of a Normative Model of Social Support for Women Living With HIV
HIV and AIDS affect a growing number of women. Although they have received some attention in the literature, more needs to be learned about their social experiences of women living with HIV. Research has shown that social support is a valuable resource for those battling HIV or AIDS. In particular, …
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Integrated project delivery: a normative model for value creation in complex military medical projects
… Integrated Project Delivery logically provides a normative model to optimize the collaborative processes to account for the different stakeholder perceptions and provide maximum benefit of all. The research and Delphi panel of experts is centered on the U.S. Army's Integrated Design-Bid-Build …
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Validating the Vroom-Yetton normative model of leader behavior in field sales force management and measuring the training effect of Telos on the leader behavior of district managers
… focuses upon validating the Vroom-Yetton Normative Model of Leader Behavior in this area and upon measuring the training effect of Telos which is a leadership training program built around this model. Methodology A purposive sample of forty district managers was taken from two companies. …
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Optimal Trade Policy for a Country With Market Power: The Case of Brazil's Coffee
… The second objective is to build a dynamic normative model for the Brazilian coffee policy.
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Non-Concave Programming and Differential Games in Dynamic Resource Allocation Models (Nash Equilibrium, Economic Growth)
… Non-Classical Optimal Growth," considers a normative model of an aggregated economy where the objective of the central planner is the maximization of the (infinite-horizon) sum of discounted utilities subject to a convex-concave production function. The second essay, entitled "A Complete …
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Representing plans under uncertainty: A logic of time, chance, and action
… of rational behavior. Decision Theory provides a normative model of choice under uncertainty such that recommended choices can be said to be rational under a well-defined notion of rationality. But traditional decision-theoretic representations are limited in their ability to structure knowledge …
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Divergent Discourses: Development Knowledge and Malian Family Planning
… family planning in order to elucidate the female normative model for whom initiative programs are constructed. This norm is contrasted with the lived experiences of Malian women in order to determine if the ideology dictating family planning structures is suitable for the local population. When …
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Discursos institucionales y manuales de texto de la <i>American Association of Teachers of Spanish</i> (1912–1944): Un estudio de la historia política de la enseñanza del español en Estados Unidos
… of Teachers of Spanish – </em>AATS (1926) as a normative agent,<em> </em>along with key linguistic instruments created by its well-known members, this research examines its role in the creation and shaping of a new academic field in which two ideological processes were key in the configuration …
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Selection of an optimal set of assembly part delivery dates in a stochastic assembly system
… times. But in developing the descriptive model for a system, a true representation can only be attained if the variability of these elements is considered. Here we present the development of a normative model based on a new type of descriptive model which considers the element of …
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An exploration of first-generation college students' experiences of classism, belonging, and academic resilience
… study I used the Community Cultural Wealth Model (CCWM; Garriott, 2020), a strengths-based, population-specific model, to examine relationships among the following constructs – financial hardship (e.g., financial stress, class-based marginalization) campus cultural fit, academic capital, and …
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The Development and Validation of a Neural Model of Affective States
… purposes likely entails the development of (a) a normative model of emotion processing to provide feedback for individuals with emotion processing difficulties; and (b) best practices concerning how these types of group models are designed and translated for use in a rt-fMRI environment (Ruiz, …
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Pilietinės visuomenės ir politinės sferos santykis: NVO plėtros įstatymo priėmimo atvejis /
… and A. Arato in order to demonstrate an ideal normative model of civil society – state relationship that helps to encourage the development of democratic political culture. Studying civil society – state relationship in the process of law-making presupposes great importance of argumentation and …
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Quality in All Levels: A Model Defining and Measuring Quality in Bioethics Education
… education, this dissertation aimed to propose a normative model, Quality in All Levels (QAL), to define and measure quality in bioethics education. The QAL model described quality in bioethics education as conformance to the goals and determined these goals as<strong> </strong>(1) increasing …
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"""I thought of you in her place"": representations of black womanhood in American literary realism, 1868-1900"
… I analyze is that they offer alternatives to a normative model of upper-class white womanhood they deem, for various reasons, limiting, stale and outdated. Instead of claiming middle-class whiteness as normative womanhood, many of these texts suggest that white women are only understandable …
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Public sector facility management at military unit level: an exploratory study
… at military unit level, and compare it to a normative model. The principles of applied research are used in a single exploratory and instrumental case study with a mixed-method approach of data gathering. The literature review studied secondary data to create context, and open-ended and …
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