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Showing 1 to 20 of 479 for “"ON-State"”.
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The Impact of Blogs on State Politics
"Information is the currency of democracy" -Thomas Jefferson This research offers the first comprehensive study of state-focused political bloggers in the United States. Applying original data from the author’s nationwide survey of state-focused bloggers conducted during the summer of 2007, this …
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On State Complexes and Special Cube Complexes
We find that state complexes are non-positively curved metric spaces, aspherical topological spaces, and have fundamental groups that are subgroups of right-angled Artin groups. In addition, we find that the property state is preserved when taking finite products, as is true in the case of special. …
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Reforming WTO rules on state-owned enterprises
… to make proposals to the World Trade Organization (i.e., the WTO) rules to address the problem of granting advantages to state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOEs tend to receive various advantages, including financial advantages, monopolies and exclusive, regulatory advantages and so on, leading to …
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The Effects of Riots on State Public Policy
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606728.pdf: 6757954 bytes, checksum: c7579494fbed03c628abfd796f7574fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Essays on State Business Tax Incentives and Policy Diffusion
States' use of tax incentives to lure business investment has drawn a lot of attention from policymakers, the public, and academics. Despite mixed assessments of their efficacy in creating net increases in jobs and investment, business tax incentives continue to be highly popular among state …
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The Virginia Commission on State Governmental Management--an assessment
The Commission on State Governmental Management has nearly completed a five-year study of the executive branch of Virginia government and has developed a number of recommendations which have been implemented to varying degrees at this time. The reorganization efforts of this Commission have …
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Restraint influence on state anxiety and personality assessment inventory responding
Standardized test administration is key to a test’s validity, but often thwarted in correctional environments when policy or staff require that examinees wear restraints. Restraints such as handcuffs may impact participants’ state anxiety, stress, frustration, and irritability, as well as the …
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UNDERSTANDING STATE SAVINGS: THREE ESSAYS ON STATE RAINY DAY FUNDS
This dissertation provides three distinct perspectives on state rainy day funds. The first empirical chapter explores the factors that influence a state to access their rainy day fund, and a variety of economic, institutional, and political factors to be important. The influence and effects of …
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Pheasant Use and Waterfowl Production on State and Private Lands
Ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) use on state-owned game production areas was compared to that on privately-owned areas in east-central South Dakota. Four 80-acre and four 160-acre tracts of state lands were paired with private areas of the same size having the same amount of wetland and …
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Do Benchmark Assessments Increase Student Achievement on State Standardized Tests?
… are being promoted by politicians and educational departments throughout many states, this study was needed to determine the correlation between students' scaled scores on 4Sight and state standardized tests (PSSA). This study also uncovered teachers' perceptions of 4Sight and the extent that …
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Are Cyber Operations Having an Impact on State Electoral Processes?
<p>Cyber-attacks have become common occurrences which have an impact on all aspects of life ranging from business transactions to personal communications. Alarmingly, coordinated cyber-attacks are increasingly targeting politicians and their associates, political campaigns, political organizations …
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State Tax Investigations and Their Effects on State Tax Systems
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:04:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6202991.pdf: 8970019 bytes, checksum: c7917482f06f9d6c8abf68ea922274bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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CAREER PATHWAYS’ IMPACT ON STATE ASSESSMENT, GRADUATION RATES AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
… effective, high-quality Career Technical Education (CTE) programs with college and career readiness, needs of the workplace, and the demands of the labor industry (Brown, 2005; DeWitt, 2008; Horne, 2010; Texas Workforce Commission, 2012). Career pathways are a part of CTE and describe a focus …
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The effects of nonnutritive sucking on state regulation in preterm infants
Nonnutritive Sucking (NNS) has long been used to soothe crying infants. Systematic observations of this effect in newborn infants have revealed that NNS reduces arousal in general. Among preterm infants NNS has been used as an effective intervention in the newborn intensive care unit. However, …
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The effects of cry training on state anxiety and expressiveness in males
… purpose of the study was to evaluate the relationship between state-anxiety and affective expressions in written stories, and receiving or withholding a sad movie and receiving permission to cry in appropriate contexts. Subjects consisted of 124 undergraduate males and females, as well as 34 …
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
<p>This study assesses the origins of Arizona’s state-sponsored immigration policy. It attempts to identify the social dynamics within Arizona that contributed to the overwhelming public support for SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact …
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Exploring the Impact of Neighborhood on State-Building in sub-Saharan Africa
Why is state-building more advanced in some sub-Saharan African countries than in others? And, over time, what accounts for the steady gains, steady declines, or gains followed by declines (or vice-versa) observed in the state-building trajectories of Africa's states? This dissertation endeavors to …
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Asymmetry of will : the effect of religious radicalism on state military doctrine
How is a state's military doctrine affected by the presence of radical religious ideology in its military? Using analysis of satellite imagery, recent military exercises, and a series of source interviews, I examine the evolution of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps since the 1979 Islamic …
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The effect of tax and expenditure limits on state and local governments
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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