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Showing 1 to 20 of 850 for “"REQUESTS"”.
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Requests and refusals in English and Chinese
… In the course of the discussion, there occur requests and disagreements (classified as `refusals' in my research), and in the DCTs, subjects are asked to choose from a set of fixed responses, or suggest an alternative of their own. The purpose is to see what differences or similarities there …
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Client status and cooperation with audit requests
… influence clients’ cooperation with audit requests. I investigate (1) whether high-status clients are more cooperative towards auditors, and (2) whether this effect dissipates when auditors make more costly requests. I conduct an abstract experiment in which auditors choose how much costly …
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Justice in the Court of Requests, 1483-1538
… focus is the hitherto little-studied Court of Requests, a committee of the royal Council and household tasked with providing tailored remedies for petitioners facing some legal, social, or economic barrier at the courts of English common law. The thesis charts Requests’ history and …
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Defending networked resources against floods of unwelcome requests
The Internet is afflicted by "unwelcome requests'" defined broadly as spurious claims on scarce resources. For example, the CPU and other resources at a server are targets of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. Another example is spam (i.e., unsolicited bulk email); here, the resource is human …
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Expedite requests in Raytheon's North Texas supply chain
… North Texas plants spent handling expedite requests-requests that someone provide goods or services more quickly than normal. This thesis attempts to summarize the thoughts, learnings, initiatives, and outcomes associated with the ensuing effort. In particular, a large section of the paper …
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Modified output in response to clarification requests and second language
… by one type of implicit feedback, clarification requests. The data were collected from 28 undergraduate students who were learning Japanese as a foreign language. The target linguistic feature was the negation of adjectives in Japanese, and a total of 1,011 negations were elicited and analysed. …
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Scaling up VoIP: Transport Protocols and Controlling Unwanted Communication Requests
… focused on detecting unwanted communication requests, leaving many messages or calls unlabeled since false positives during filtering are unacceptable. Unlike prior work, we explore approaches to identifying a "good" call based on signaling messages rather than content. This is because …
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Degrees of Compliance With Requests for Action: The Social Influence Process
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511831.pdf: 14871226 bytes, checksum: df23e55685ec03c199f2e5a2e541afe0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Projecting new money requests for the Baltimore Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
… the Baltimore FICB in estimating their new money requests two months in advance. New money requests are the difference between new loans made and paydown. New money requests were forecasted by estimating two separate equations, one for new loans made and one for paydown. Ordinary least squares was …
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Tryggur : web system for automated insurance requests in collaboration with Kaktus Kreatives
Tryggur er sjálfvirkt vefkerfi þar sem notendur geta sent út beiðnir í tryggingatilboð á mörg tryggingafélög í einu á fjótlegan og þægilegan máta. Verkefnið var unnið í samstarfi við fyrirtækið Kaktus Kreatives og felur í sér að hanna og þróa vefkerfi með hagsmuni almennra notenda að leiðarljósi. …
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When communication fails: The effect of dementia upon the management of requests
… processing. It was hypothesized that forms of requests requiring multiple processing steps would be more difficult to manage than forms of requests which are processed in one step. A naturalistic experiment, in which individual subjects worked with the experimenter to complete a project in …
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Achieving cross-cultural equivalence in a study of American and Taiwanese requests
This study is an effort to develop a cross-culturally comparable elicitation instrument both to investigate similarities and differences in the realization patterns of request speech acts between native speakers of Taiwanese Mandarin and American English, and to examine the claim of universality in …
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Improving the transparency of government requests for user data from ICT companies
In 1968, the US Congress enacted a detailed list of requirements for transparency reporting of wiretaps but with subsequent surveillance statutes with minimal reporting requirements and rapidly evolving Internet technologies, the gap in surveillance transparency grew. The Snowden disclosures in …
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Assessing Maintenance and Management of Infrastructure Systems Using Citizen Reported Service Requests
… system service disruptions and maintenance requests. Of the 200 or more cities that use 311, New York City's system is the largest, receiving more than 19.5 million citizen requests since 2010. Current citizen service requests made through 311 range from issues about street and sidewalk …
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Variation in the performance of speech acts in Peninsular Spanish: apologies and requests
… to elicit natural responses for apologies and requests. Forty participants from Castile and Andalusia were interviewed, and the data were coded to examine the differences in speech act realizations and the use of specific discourse features. The participants’ responses were classified by …
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Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecutor’s Bail Requests and Downstream Decision Making
… Black defendants were found to have higher bail requests and increased likelihood of indictment, but along with Latino defendants, were found to be less likely to be detained prior to trial as compared to White defendants. The findings for Asian defendants were consistent throughout the decision …
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Utilizing slack time for aperiodic and sporadic requests scheduling in real-time systems
… a mixture of periodic and aperiodic workload. Requests in each periodic task have regular arrival times and hard deadlines. Aperiodic requests, on the other hand, have random arrival times and may have hard or soft deadlines. We called these aperiodic requests with hard deadlines sporadic …
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A Social Psychological Window into How Americans Think About First Amendment Religious Exemption Requests
… politically diverse Americans evaluate exemption requests that are either schema-consistent (e.g., a conservative stance requesting exemption from a liberal law; Study 2; N = 402) or inconsistent (e.g., a liberal stance requesting exemption from a conservative law; Study 3; N = 400). These studies …
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The Role of Expectation in The Comprehension and Recall of Direct and Indirect Requests
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:22:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7821242.pdf: 3414674 bytes, checksum: 36001e6e5fe404314d8271e7f0d51a80 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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