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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Other Social Sciences"”.
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A Theory of Buyer-Seller Negotiation and Its Test in the Private Home Market
… as studies in negotiation, both in marketing and other social sciences, are reviewed to provide the foundation on which a theory of buyer-seller negotiation is developed.
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PERFECTION, WRETCHED, NORMAL, AND NOWHERE: A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN TELEVISION SETTINGS
… numerous place image studies in geography and other social sciences, this dissertation examines the senses of place and regional identity shaped by more than seven hundred American television series that aired from 1947 to 2007. Each state's relative share of these programs is described. The …
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Defying boundaries : the challenge of transnational religion to international relations.
… of constructivism, though primarily based in the other social sciences, offers an alternative and promising framework for the study of religion in international relations. I outline each school's deficiencies in their approach to transnational religion and identify important areas of potential …
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Understanding the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the "Heroic Nazi"
… is an inability of historians to fully engage other social sciences to offer a more comprehensive explanation as to why so many Germans engaged in what we would consider an “evil†enterprise. In that regard, I offer the work of Ernest Becker, a social anthropologist, whose work provides a …
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The role of the psychologist in South African society : in search of an appropriate community psychology
… proposals an understanding of the South African social context and the location of psychology in that context was sought. In addition it was considered necessary to gain an overview of the community psychology approach in other contexts. Thereafter an exploration of the views of various people on …
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METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN MONETARY ECONOMICS
… of the rational expectations hypothesis. On the other hand, macroeconomic theories, whether Keynesian or monetarist, display a situational determinism only at the level of the policy-maker. The separation of economics from the other social sciences leads to a situational logic which enables the …
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FEMINIZM4ALL : a framework for feminist technology intervention
… studies from psychology with research from other social sciences to determine that the primary reason for the gender imbalance in technological spaces is based in hostile work environments and not in the fact that women are disinterested as recent psychological research claims. This lack of …
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Market Challenges to Democracy: The Political Economy of Hyman P. Minsky
… to financial crisis, as well as the resulting social crisis of everyday life, using the political economy of Hyman P. Minsky. As an academic field, political economy is in a strange kind of limbo. The separation of politics and economics is easy enough to see, and even within economics, there …
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Presenting archaeological sites to the public in Scotland
… an approach that, although well recognised in other social sciences, has been little-used in archaeology. For this project, semi-structured recorded interviews were undertaken with participants at the sites, which were subsequently transcribed and analysed using QSR NVivo software. This …
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Semiparametric analysis of multivariate longitudinal data
… widely in fields such as agriculture and life sciences, business and industry, demography and other social sciences, medicine and public health. In longitudinal studies, individuals are measured repeatedly over time and multivariate longitudinal data occur when subjects are measured repeatedly …
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Ritualization - Hybridization - Fragmentation : The Mutability of Roman Vessels in Germania Magna AD 1–400
… by theoretical studies within anthropology and other social sciences, particularly the theories of practice and structuration, this thesis explores what happens when a category of foreign objects is appropriated by a society, what happens in the encounter between local traditions and new social …
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Marginal and Virtual Water for Sustainable Water Resources Management in Syria
… can help to balance projected water scarcity for other basins.
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Chemical Management Services from a Product Service System perspective: Experiences of fluid management services from Volvo Group metalworking plants
This thesis analyses fluid management services (FMS) in metalworking industry and determines environmental and economic outcomes of FMS as compared to traditional, in-house, fluid management. Fluid management services, or as it is often called chemical management services (CMS), mean that the …
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Finding a balance: Placing Farmers' Markets in the context of sustainability in modern society
… growing phenomena in Sweden, as well as in many other developed countries across Europe and the Americas and many other developed countries. Farmers’ Markets are about consumers and producers reconnecting and re-establishing the relationships of trust and transparency that are lacking in today’s …
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Assaulting childhood : an ethnographic study of children resident in a Western Cape migrant hostel complex
… primarily by the participation of parents and other significant adults in labour migration. Consequently, the children's histories are characterised by high levels of mobility, where children themselves have migrated, by frequent separation from parents, and by high incidences of …
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'Thinking-through-Complicity' with Te Iwi o Ngāti Hauiti: Towards a Critical Use of Participatory Video for Research
… relationships between place, identity and social cohesion within ‘remote’ rural communities. It involved about 15 members of the Potaka whānau of Te Iwi o Ngāti Hauiti in the central Rangitīkei district of the North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. A small group of iwi members, myself and an …
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Exploring Disaster Recovery: Stakeholder Interfaces, Goals and Interdependencies
Disaster risk management has seen the importance of coordination at various levels of planning and implementation, ranging from preparedness to disaster response, and in planning for long term recovery and sustainable development. This thesis aims to develop a deeper and analytical understanding of …
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Destination Unknown? The Emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility for Sustainable Development of Tourism
… sustainable tourism development and corporate social responsibility (CSR). It addresses the scope for CSR to promote sustainable tourism in an international development context. This objective was pursued by exploring three sub-questions: what tools have been used to stimulate social …
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Markets for Energy Efficiency - Exploring the new horizons of tradable certificate schemes
… (iii) the investigation of trading patterns and other flexibilities used to achieve cost-effective compliance, (iv) the level of energy-saving effectiveness under TWC schemes, (v) the use of cost-benefit analysis, and (vi) the application of multi-criteria evaluation. The findings help answer …
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Building Energy Efficiency - Policy, learning and technology change
… for technology change. Transaction costs, on the other hand, can significantly hinder energy efficiency improvements. Transaction costs of single technologies implemented in passive house renovations can be 200% higher than the transaction costs of conventional technologies. These costs, however, …
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