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Showing 1 to 20 of 334 for “"Primacy"”.
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The primacy of microchips in the security design of embedded devices
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Investigating invention : a challenge to the primacy of the written text
This paper investigates different ways of writing as creative invention for the writer/director/deviser. Three forms of writing are examined: the playwright as author of the dramatic text, the devising group as author of the dramatic and/or performance text, and the director as author of the mise …
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Germany, the European Union, and the Euro: the primacy of politics in treasure
The Federal Republic of Germany has arisen to take a leadership position in the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. This quasi depression has highlighted the economic interdependence of the Eurozone member states and has exposed the fundamental weakness of the lack of a political union between members …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
… Damasus I demonstrated in the expansion of papal primacy and exaltation of the Roman See. Damasus reigned as bishop of Rome from A.D. 366 until 384. To answer this question, the research for this thesis focuses on involvement, of Damasus in contemporary theological disputes, his appropriation of …
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Computing with matter, shapes, and forces : toward material and structural primacy in architecture
… with material and structural primacy - to feel the forces in shapes. Although this methodological proposal does not extend to realizing complete designs, the rules are established with equilibrium constraints which offers a means of working that only produces build-able …
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The Contribution Of Respondent Computer Experience On Primacy Effect And Satisficing In Internet Surveys
… the contribution of computer experience on primacy effect and satisficing in online survey formats. Although regression analysis found that survey format can predict primacy effect, computer experience did not add to the explanation of the variance in primacy effect. Similarly, survey format …
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Wounded Hegemon: The 2003 Iraq War and George W. Bush's Grand Strategy of Primacy
… that entailed the need to reaffirm American primacy in the international system. The US under George W. Bush saw itself as a wounded hegemon that needed to both tame its external security environment and re-establish its place in the world. In this respect, September 11 shed a new light on …
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The Primacy of the Individual: Its Affirmation in the Declaration of Independence and in the American Scholar
By the very nature of its subject-matter, the present study is both historical and literary.|Historians and political philosophers without number have examined The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and discussed endlessly the principles which it contains. Innumerable educators and …
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A critical reflection on the judgement of the federal constitutional court of Germany on the European central bank's public sector purchase programme: ultra vires review and the primacy of European Law
… defiance of the European institutions and the primacy of EU Law. This paper analyses the two judgements with a focus on the issues of the ultra vires review as well as the primacy of EU law. By scrutinising the FCC's case law on the issue, the author argues that the FCC's judgement is …
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Accountability of Corporate Management: Analysing the Fiduciary Duty in Corporate Law
… shareholders. This is known as the shareholder primacy model. This thesis counters such criticism and argues for the emergence of an interdisciplinary model, in which shareholder primacy is relegated in favour of team production theory. This thesis dispels the theory that the business judgment …
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THE EFFECTS OF ORDER AND DIFFERENTIATING INFORMATION IN DECISION MAKING
A condition under which both primacy and recency effects occur is demonstrated. Primacy and recency are observed in decisions among alternatives that do not have differentiating information. Decision makers, however, need to base their decisions on differentiating information; individuals search …
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Judgment on the sword : the US Supreme Court's jurisprudence on presidential war powers.
… the literature which defends either presidential primacy or congressional primacy over war, the Court's jurisprudence offers an alternative approach to constitutional war powers that recognizes discretion for the president to conduct war but also constitutional restrictions that moderate the …
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US Grand Strategy and Its Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region
… more than 50 years has pursued some elements of primacy as a grand strategy both globally and regionally. In the post-9/11 era, however, the United States appears to have adopted some elements of offshore balancing in the Asia-Pacific region; it has tried to deal with international and regional …
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The Interactive Effects of Caffeine and Estrogen on Memory for Word Lists
… <p>The proportion of words recalled from the primacy, middle, and recency portion of each list was computed. A 3(Caffeine) x 2(Pill) x 2(Phase of Cycle) x 3(Practice) x 4(Presentation Rate) x 3(Serial Position) ANOVA was performed. A dose x serial position interaction indicated that caffeine …
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Singing Nature, Dancing Buddha: Zen, Language, and the Groundlessness of Silence
… koan, zazen, music, and suizen. In doing so, a primacy of listening is found in Zen - a listening without a listener. Given this primacy of listening, silence comes to the forefront of the investigation. An analysis of John Cage's 4'33" provides this thesis with justification of the …
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Alcoholism and family relations
… amounts of hierarchy reversal, nonmarital primacy, and nonaverage contact with family of origin. When compared to norm group scores on the PAFS-Q, alcoholic subjects and their spouses indicated more nuclear family triangulation, intergenerational fusion, and intergenerational triangulation. …
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COVID-19 brought the perils of 'short-termism' back to the fore : how will corporate governance respond?
… of the prevalent & well-established shareholder primacy model of corporate governance. This dissertation strives to establish whether the criticism of shareholder primacy, by virtue of its propensity to bring about ‘short-termism’, holds water. The research delves into the perception of …
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What Is the Purpose of a Company?
… characteristics support the idea of shareholder primacy. The traditional idea of the purpose of a company has been for a long time to maximize the shareholders’ wealth ie shareholder primacy but in the recent years there has been discussions whether that is actually the right purpose or not. Due …
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Cultural Relativism in the Age of Modernity: Are Human Rights Still up for Debate?
… in international relations moving away from the primacy of more traditional units such as the clergy, family, etc. Given this shift, the protections offered by these traditional units for individuals have shifted to the responsibility of the state. However, these protections are not a given. …
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