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Showing 1 to 20 of 1836 for “"Priorities"”.
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Representation: preferences, priorities, and tradeoffs
This dissertation investigates whether citizens are willing to make tradeoffs between descriptive and substantive representation. Answering this question is critical to efforts to maximize satisfaction with government for both minorities and members of the majority. This study makes four main …
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Discrete-time queueing models with priorities
This PhD-dissertation contains analyses of several discrete-time two-class priority queueing systems. We analyze non-preemptive, preemptive resume as well as preemptive repeat priority queues. The analyses are heavily based on probability generating functions that allow us to calculate moments and …
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Personal Value Priorities in Autonomous Vehicle Discourse
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have become increasingly prevalent in modern society, with multiple companies pursuing avenues to advance technology. Despite the promises of safer driving, mitigating accidents and reducing stress, mixed opinions exist on the reliability and trustworthiness of the …
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Varying Priorities in Strategic Nuclear Arms Control
… and Washington have entered discussions with priorities to be met, though these differed greatly from one another. There were many driving factors for both world powers in seeking limitations and restrictions of strategic nuclear arms: one of the more pivotal for Washington was ensuring a …
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Setting priorities for conducting and updating systematic reviews
… . Diverse approaches to setting research priorities are used in different countries, regions and organisations. There is no consensus in the literature on the most effective processes with which to set these priorities. However, these decisions define the quality and implications of the …
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Education Law Priorities and Need: A Comparitive Analysis
This descriptive study ascertained the perceptions of Montana public school principals and superintendents, and Montana education law attorneys, regarding school law education for Montana public school principals. The study surveyed 595 individuals: 239 superintendents, 347 principals, and 9 …
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Education Law Priorities and Need: A Comparitive Analysis
This descriptive study ascertained the perceptions of Montana public school principals and superintendents, and Montana education law attorneys, regarding school law education for Montana public school principals. The study surveyed 595 individuals: 239 superintendents, 347 principals, and 9 …
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Strategies for Obtaining Clarification of Priorities in Education
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:44:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7121129.pdf: 9692684 bytes, checksum: 3703f54029cd19aeaec806c8e7e05198 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Streamflow synthesis and water allocation by water right priorities
A computerized streamflow model was developed that allocates water by the doctrine of prior appropriations. The function of the model is to simulate the impacts of physical or legal changes in a stream system managed on the basis of priority of water rights. Given a specified value of streamflow …
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Communication Priorities and Stochastic Measures for Web Services Modeling
… between a fragment of CCS equipped with global priorities and the fragment of COWS relevant for its communication mechanism. We then consider a stochastic approach to model the quantitative aspects of Web Services through SCOWS, a stochastic extension of COWS. We present a prototype tool, named …
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Co-Designing Children’s Playspaces: Evaluating Participant Priorities and Outcomes
… framework to support analysis of children’s priorities emerging through co-design and explores the impact of co-design on child participants. We developed an in-depth understanding of playspace priorities of child participants and gained directional insight into child outcomes. This research …
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Unconscious or unwanted? High School curriculum priorities: leadership perspectives
… leadership perspectives about curriculum priorities in light of current accountability measures are important to study as curriculum leaders are charged with the responsibility of leading and facilitating educational outcomes for schools and districts. This phenomenological study described …
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The setting of health research priorities in South Africa
… is an analysis of the setting of health research priorities, with specific reference to South Africa. Other objectives include describing the technical approaches used for priority setting and developing a suitable framework for analysing and classifying health research. Two other objectives …
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Priorities for the Mexico City International Airport under privatization
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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New priorities for old roads : re-thinking roadway preservation
… of transportation expenditures. As public priorities shift toward favoring sustainable development and transforming out of auto-dependency, road preservation can be either a barrier or an opportunity. This study examines whether and how road preservation investments support these new …
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Publicness, Priorities, and Mega-gifts: Does Money Change Anything?
… are the effects donations have on organizational priorities. This becomes an important question for public administration as philanthropic donations to public agencies seeking additional funding. To better understand the effects of this phenomenon, this research undertook two replicative case …
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