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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"Realignment"”.
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Exchange rate misalignment and realignment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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The United States Military Realignment on Okinawa
… since the end of World War II, debate over the realignment of forces on Okinawa has caused minor, yet growing, rifts in the stable United States-Japanese alliance. Current plans to shift American military forces from Okinawa to locations throughout the Pacific do not take into account the …
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Impacts of managed realignment on low-lying coasts
This thesis is focused on the design of advanced suspension systems (active and semi-active) using time-domain optimal control methods. This work has been strongly motivated by the need to develop an approach to active and semi-active suspensions which was ready to be applied directly in a …
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Sooner is better : covert action to prevent realignment
… action is a rational response to the threat of realignment. Interveners correctly recognize a window of opportunity: Owing to its circumscribed nature, covert action is more likely to be effective before realignment than after. This means that acting sooner is better. I test this argument in …
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Managed realignment in the Humber estuary: factors influencing sedimentation
In September 2003 a managed realignment site was breached on the north bank of the Humber estuary at Paull Holme Strays (PHS). The site was breached as part of the Environment Agency Humber Flood Risk Management Strategy, with the main aims to create intertidal habitat to replace that which has …
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An area realignment survey of Virginia Special Olympics, Inc.
… of several issues and concerns relating to the realignment of their current geographical areas of service. The study was done in two parts. Part one consisted of a survey which was sent to 222 key volunteers and three paid staff members. Of the 218 surveys which were able to be delivered, 170, …
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AUTOMATION AND NATIONALISM: THE MICROFOUNDATIONS OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS POLITICAL REALIGNMENT?
This dissertation provides a microfoundational analysis of automation’s political consequences, particularly focusing on mid-skill routine workers exposed to technological replaceability. Extant literature shows that this group of workers has become a core constituency of the radical right parties, …
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Impacts of coastal realignment on intertidal sediment dynamics: Freiston Shore, the Wash
The impacts of land reclamation and managed realignment on saltmarsh and the adjacent intertidal flats at Freiston Shore (The Wash) are investigated. The hydrodynamic and sediment dynamics over the intertidal flats and a managed realignment site are discussed, with an extensive set of hydrodynamic, …
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Structure-based realignment of non-coding RNAs in multiple whole genome alignments
… this problem with a method for genome-wide realignment of potential ncRNAs according to structural similarity. Doing so reveals thousands of new high-confidence ncRNA predictions with particularly low sequence conservation from an alignment of 12 Drosophila genomes and hundreds from an …
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An analysis of the effect of budget reductions on military force structure realignment
… the result of the deliberations of the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission, the Department of Defense will close or realign over 100 military iitallations, at a cost of over $5.5 billion. This study provides an analysis of the effect of budget reductions on military force structure …
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Relocation & Realignment: How the Great Migration Changed the Face of the Democratic Party
… parties on racial issues. In Relocation and Realignment: How the Great Migration changed the face of the Democratic Party, I argue that increasing competition between the parties for the presidency and the mass movement of Black people out of the South coincided to drive the Democratic …
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The Effect of the Education Realignment on Party Position Taking in the United States
… in the past. I call this reversal the education realignment: the movement of college educated whites from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party; and of non-college educated whites from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. While there has been much work conducted on the causes of …
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Ecological and economic valuation of managed realignment sites, Humber Estuary, UK : benefits for society
… the societal benefits provided by four managed realignment sites on the Humber estuary, UK. Choice experiment and contingent valuation interview surveys were conducted with local residents, eliciting their willingness to pay (WTP) values for both maintenance of their closest site, and access to …
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The dynamics of modern realignments : examining the role of campaign messages in the realignment process
… dissertation studies the dynamics of partisan realignments by tracing the realignments of Evangelical and military officers. The first goal of this study is to understand the realignment process and the second goal of this study is to analyze the role of campaign messages in the realignment …
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Aggregate Electoral Change in United States Presidential Elections, 1828--1992: A Reevaluation of Realignment Theory
Since the time V. O. Key introduced the notion of realignment theory, it has been the dominant conceptual picture for understanding the history of American electoral politics. Recently, however, that dominant picture has come under attack from critics who argue that the theory is predictively …
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Aggregate electoral change in United States presidential elections, 1828--1992: A reevaluation of realignment theory
Since the time V. O. Key introduced the notion of realignment theory, it has been the dominant conceptual picture for understanding the history of American electoral politics. Recently, however, that dominant picture has come under attack from critics who argue that the theory is predictively …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… them. The underlying processes affecting class realignment of the working-class, understood as the reshuffling of partisan loyalties characterising classes at certain periods and places, are addressed through focusing on unpacking the way class formation, meaning the process of shaping the …
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Strategic realignment of the post-contract cost control process in the Nigerian construction industry using kaizen
… maturity model. Overall, the validated strategic realignment of the post-contract cost control process in the Nigerian construction industry can be attained within five (5) to (6) years of implementing the framework.
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Decision-making in higher education and intercollegiate athletics: case study on the Big Ten Conference realignment
… leaders use during the process of conference realignment at the Division I level. Intercollegiate athletics has existed within higher education for well over a century. Conflicting values and objectives have persisted between intercollegiate athletic departments and the institutions of higher …
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