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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Rationalizing"”.
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Rationalizing Mechanism Preference in Independent Private Value Auctions
<p>In this thesis we conduct a laboratory experiment to examine the preferences of sellers and buyers for the reserve price mechanism and test their rationalizability. We use a stylized independent private value environment, a second price auction institution and a first price auction institution …
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Rationalizing everyday life in late nineteenth century Istanbul c. 1900
This dissertation explores the rationalizing process of everyday life in late nineteenth century Istanbul, within the framework of the modernization agendas that swept the Ottoman Empire from the 1830s on. Starting with the period known as Tanzimat (literally 'the reforms'), the study covers the …
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Rationalizing Ethically Questionable Intentions: An Investigation of Marketing Practices in the USA.
In this research, a model for ethically questionable decision-making is developed by amalgamating several decision-making theories. The variables of interest are the techniques of neutralization, perceived moral intensity, Machiavellianism, unethical intentions, and ethical judgment. Using a sample …
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Rationalizing urban land utilization : guidelines for housing developments in greater Khartoum, Sudan
The housing crisis in Greater Khartoum manifests itself in a very high demand for housing and a deficient supply mechanism. This unsatisfied demand is reflected in high rents and land prices, high occupancy rates, and sprawling squatter areas. Due to the low priority of the housing sector vis-a-vis …
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MECHCORE: rationalizing the design and construction installation of the single family dwelling's mechanical systems
This thesis develops a transitional approach for moving the design and construction installation of the mechanical systems of the single family dwelling from its custom construction to industrialized products and construction. The approach is referred to as the MECHCORE Approach. Research of the …
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Rationalizing the Decision to Cheat: An Empirical Analysis to Determine Whether Social Rational Orientation can Predict Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty is a wide-spread issue that plagues educational institutions, including those in higher education. The purpose of higher education is to increase knowledge and foster learning within students who are willing to put forth the effort necessary to earn a degree. However, students …
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Evaluating Violence and (Non)violence: A Critical, Practical Theology of Social Change
… of violence. The qualitative data exposes the rationalizing mechanisms of the dominant culture's violence: the denial of violence; the reversal of the perpetrators of violence, and; the entitlements of privileged social location. When Christian (non)violence emerges from a dominant social …
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Three essays in economic development and growth
… firms productivity. The second chapter concerns rationalizing Brazil's uneven development path over the postwar period through the lens of a Neoclassical growth model and its transitional dynamics. In the third chapter, a class of models of resource curse that can disentangle price and quantity …
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Internet Dwelling, Cyborgs, and the Matrix of Modernity: An Empirical Inquiry with Critical-Hermeneutic Features
… method enables exploration of the broad rationalizing historical narrative and the localized play of virtual discursive practices impacting human meaning construction, selfhood, and social practice. A third and fourth tier of inquiry occasions integration of "psychological" meanings found …
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Microfoundations Approach to Risk and Uncertainty in the Uppsala Internationalization Process
… continuum, to offer greater predictability for rationalizing strategic choices. Accordingly, political ideology proved a significant predictor for explaining the circumstances in which CEOs elect high-risk locations based on their political ideology’s degree of liberalism. Additionally, its …
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Racionalização da gerência na construção civil utilizando redes de petri: um estudo de caso
… that the model under study propitiates when rationalizing the construction. The conclusions for Petri-timed Networks are presented based on the case study, highlighting their advantages when used for discrete (civil construction) and shared resource models, where PERT nets find their greatest …
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The hydrodynamics of water-walking insects and spiders
… meniscus-climbing. Special attention is given to rationalizing the propulsion mechanisms of water-walking insects through consideration of the transfer of forces, momentum and energy between the creature and its environment.
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Asset sharing and stakeholder arrangements : human capital investments, the distribution of powers, and the role of property rights and economic institutions
… in human capital, have become salient in rationalizing the adoption of firm asset-sharing and employee stakeholder arrangements, such as Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Yet, mechanisms such as bargaining power have also been a key part of the literature on employee and firm bargaining …
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Forging a Punishing State: The Punitive Turn in U.S. Criminal and Social Policy, 1968--1980
… battles served a productive cultural role in rationalizing new economic conditions, demarcating membership in the polity, and redefining state legitimacy and responsibility."
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Forging a punishing state: The punitive turn in U.S. criminal and social policy, 1968-1980
… battles served a productive cultural role in rationalizing new economic conditions, demarcating membership in the polity, and redefining state legitimacy and responsibility.
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Stereoisomerization of Hexacoordinate Sulfur and Tellurium
… and 3 are described together with a PMO argument rationalizing the observed order of bond lengths.
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Localization of deformation in thin shells under indentation
… us to gain invaluable physical insight towards rationalizing this geometrically nonlinear process.
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Rocking and rolling down an incline : the dynamics of nested cylinders on a ramp
… of gravity. Particular attention is given to rationalizing the distinct modes of motion observed. We performed a series of experiments in which the inner cylinder density and the fluid viscosity were varied. Three distinct types of behavior were observed. First, in what we shall call the …
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An Irreversible Thermodynamic Formalism of the Electronic Contribution to the Entropy in Metals
… the utility in our proposed approach by rationalizing the entropy of phase transitions in metal-insulator, order-disorder, and allotropic transitions with current models of the vibrational and configurational entropy. Measurements of the electronic transport properties in Cu-Ni, Fe-Ni, …
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