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Showing 1 to 20 of 177 for “"Proportionality"”.
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Facets of proportionality
… decision-making. In the first part, we examine proportionality in multiwinner voting. In this setting, voters submit preferences over candidates, based on which we must select a subset of these candidates. We strengthen existing proportionality axioms for a general class of preferences to be …
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Promoting Proportionate Justice: A Study of Case Management and Proportionality
This work examines the principles of proportionality and active case management that were introduced by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (the ‘CPR’). The aim is to consider precisely what ‘proportionality’ means in a case management context, how it has been applied to date, and whether there is any …
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Opening the Doré to Proportionality: Discretionary Administrative Decisions and the Charter
… administrative law approach focused on proportionality, one that asks whether the decision-maker has properly balanced the relevant Charter values and statutory objectives at issue. This thesis will explore several problematic aspects of Dore's reasoning and implications, and dispute the …
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Concepts of proportionality in investment protection of patents and access to health resources
… arbitral tribunals have applied (ii)judicial proportionality to determine if judicial proportionality can mitigate the disproportionate protection of patented health resources as an investment. This thesis further reveals midlevel proportionality in newly concluded IIAs where the purpose is to …
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Federal Drug Sentencing: An Evaluation of the Consistency, Proportionality, and Fairness within Cases
National drug policy has contributed to prison population growth in the United States. Blacks and Hispanics are minorities in the population, but are overrepresented as defendants in criminal courts and as inmates in prison. The purpose of this research is to evaluate fairness in federal drug …
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The householder defence in Canada and England and Wales: between proportionality and penal populism
… investigates the householder defence’s proportionality of force through both theoretical and penal policy lenses. The householder defence deals with a dwelling-house defender’s use of force against an invading aggressor to their own home. The householder defence can be used to shield a …
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The semantics of Russian indefinite pronouns : scope, domain widening, specificity, and proportionality and their interaction
… the addressee). They also induce the effect of proportionality (and refer to a part of a given set). As such, they can be analyzed as unambiguously choice-functional proportional indefinites. Indefinites with the suffix -to are usually analyzed as scopally (but not epistemically) specific. The …
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The problem with harmony : constructs of proportionality, music and the Modulor in the 1950's
Throughout the late 1940's and early 1950's the re-popularization of the relationship between architecture and music took on several forms of expression. This relationship was to be verified through the notion of harmony that would in turn reflect not only a resurfacing of Humanist ideals and …
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The Proportionality of Non-Consensual Adoption in England and Wales under s52(1)(b) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002
This thesis conducts a conceptual analysis of the proportionality of non-consensual adoptions in England and Wales. It does so by examining the English legislation and case law on adoption and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This thesis considers and applies rights …
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Coupled Rate and Transport Equations Modeling Light Yield, Pulse Shape, and Proportionality to Energy in Electron Tracks: A Study of CsI and CsI:Tl Scintillators
… give the predicted electron energy response or proportionality curve as a function of initial electron energy, for comparison to Compton-coincidence and K-dip experiments. This has been done in the present work for CsI at 295 K and 100K, and for CsI:Tl at 295 K.
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Metrics, Models and Methodologies for Energy-Proportional Computing
… the inability of the servers to exhibit energy proportionality which diminishes the overall energy efficiency of the data center. Therefore in this dissertation, we investigate whether it is possible to achieve energy proportionality at the server- and cluster-level by efficient power and …
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Il sindacato di legittimità costituzionale sulla misura delle pene detentive: un'indagine comparata The constitutional review of excessive prison terms: a comparative study
… jurisprudential development of the concept of proportionality of punishment in the Italian and american systems. The most important decisions dealing with such a issue, both of the Italian constitutional court and the SCOTUS are analyzed in detail. There is also an in depth analysis of lower …
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Comparison of Anthropometric Measures of Competitive Bodybuilders to Judges' Scores and a Comparison of Judges' Scores
… in this study were bodyfat, fat-free weight, and proportionality of muscle. Three groups of judges ranked male and female athletes in the Open, Novice, Collegiate, and Masters divisions. The measurements of proportionality of muscle, bodyfat, girths, and fat-free weight were analyzed using simple …
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SUB-NATIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND MINORITY PARTIES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
… and rules affect the opportunities for, and proportionality of, the representation of certain far right and regionalist at various sub-national levels in key European Community member states. The thesis employs data provided in a unique data base at the University of Plymouth. This data …
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EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF NONLINEAR QUENCHING IN MATERIALS USED AS RADIATION DETECTORS
… that limit intrinsic energy resolution. Nonproportionality between electron energy response and the initial energy of a stopping electron is a significant cause of the degradation of energy resolution. The physical origin of nonproportional response is generally regarded to start with …
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Just Deserts: The Moral Foundations of Antagonistic Personality in Social Aggression
… (N = 301). Two moral foundations (i.e., care and proportionality) were correlated with social aggression. Next, this study examined whether these foundations provided incremental utility in predicting social aggression beyond psychopathy and trait moral disengagement while taking social …
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Os desafios e expectativas do ensino do raciocínio proporcional no ensino fundamental.
… the proposed development of the content of proportionality in the textbooks of the 6 th to 9 th year of elementary school, the collection more widely adopted in my city - Conde, PB. The book is an important working materials for teachers and students for consultation, we seek through this …
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