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Showing 1 to 20 of 953 for “"Promises"”.
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Rainbow Promises, Uneven Promises: Framing LGBTQIA+ Educational Policy and Possibility in Education
<p>Despite the expansion of LGBTQIA+ inclusive policies in K-12 education, disparities in students’ experiences with safety and belonging persist. This qualitative case study examines how such policies are interpreted and enacted within a high school and district in Southern California, and how …
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The structure of promises in quantum speedups
… thesis, we examine certain types of symmetric promises, and show that they also cannot give rise to super-polynomial quantum speedups. We conclude that exponential quantum speedups only occur given "structured" promises on the input. Specifically, we show that there is a polynomial relationship …
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Broken Promises: Rape, Race, and the Union Army
Through the use of Union courts-martial records, this paper will examine the ways in which black women who had been assaulted by white men were denied justice in military courts. Although the Union Army was often perceived of as an army representing freedom and higher moral purpose, the court …
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Unfulfilled Promises: How Promise Scholarships Impact Small Private Colleges
Development and implementation of promise scholarship programs has risen over the last 15 years, yet research into their effects on the higher education landscape has been relatively scarce. While researchers have mostly examined how these programs impact students and communities, they have …
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The Promises and Pitfalls of the Competitive Bidding Process
The specter of increased taxes casts a dark shadow upon the American landscape. At the same time public satisfaction with schools, public housing, crime, and infrastructure is on the down turn. The negative perception of public agencies as bureaucratic, inefficient, and wasteful is all the more …
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Renewed promises conservation for development in the Kaza, Angola
… has paid attention to these TFCAs because of the promises made by supporters of these initiatives on the one hand, and reports and experiences on the ground that suggests that there are political and economic interests in TFCAs, on the other hand. Critical literature has highlighted the effects of …
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Cable television and neighborhood health centers : promises and realities
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Promises and costs of gentrification : the case of Dikmen Valley
This thesis explores the class impact of gentrification, contributing to a deeper insight into multiple experiences of gentrification. Centring on an ethnographic study of gentrification in Dikmen Valley in Ankara, it is concerned with the relations among the multiple actors involved in the …
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Sustainable development: Why is it not delivering on its promises?
At the Rio Conference in 1992, the sustainable development agenda promised a new era for natural resource management, where the wellbeing of human society would be enhanced through a more sustainable use of natural resources. Several decades on, economic growth continues unabated at the expense of …
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Air trade : promises -- and pitfalls -- in the coming carbon market
Market mechanisms for controlling pollution and other environmental problems, once considered experimental, have recently become favored tools for regulation, both in the U.S. and abroad. In the last several years, a $64 billion global market for carbon dioxide permits and offsets has emerged out …
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Promises and pitfalls of architectural strategy in the printer industry
The xerographic printing and copying industry has become extremely competitive. Xerox market share has gradually declined since the 1960s as the market share of corporations like Canon, Hewlett Packard and Ricoh has increased. In response to rising competition, various product architecture …
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Redesigning a teacher education program: hopes, motivations, promises, and realities
Like a significant number of teacher Education Programs, Pinetree College encountered difficulty meeting new, more rigorous standards put into place in 1988 by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). As a result of failing to meet some standards in the spring of 1989, …
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Green Promises, Grey Realities: The Politics of Park Provision in Sydney
This doctoral research investigates the provision of parks in Sydney, Australia, amid shifting urban density and land uses. As the city intensifies through both brownfield and greenfield development, the ability of planning systems to deliver accessible, functional open space is under increasing …
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Golden promises, empty realities? : trust, commitment and control in the workplace
… stress and disenchantment with managerial promises about more worker autonomy and a more humane workplace. It is concluded that there remain a number of issues that may hinder a genuine cooperative relationship between management and labour.
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Early childhood programs and the Arizona public schools: Promises and practices
… of Education and compared practices to the promises set forth in the Guidelines for Comprehensive Early Childhood Programs as reported by the Early Childhood Advisory Council to the Arizona State Board of Education (1990). The study examined program quality of twelve preschool programs …
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Differential privacy in the era of generative AI: promises and challenges
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Increasing cross-domain call batching using promises and batched control structures
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Full of empty promises? Exploring what drug use achieves for the individual
This qualitative study begins with the research question - What does drug use achieve for the individual? For many years now, research into drug using behaviour has tended to focus on developing theories to explain why individuals use drugs, yet directly asking an individual why they participate in …
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