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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Social system"”.
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The Social System of the Round-Eared Sengi(Macroscelides proboscideus)
In the present study, I investigated the social system of the round-eared sengi (Macroscelides proboscideus), a small crepuscular mammal that lives in deserts and semi-deserts in Southern Africa. For studying the evolution of monogamy in this species, I determined the social organisation and male …
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Effective social system design : using the systems approach for organisational development
… the answer and finally a practical Evaluation. System Thinking and its methods. I test the model by applying it to a complex problem o
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Reality hedging : social system approach for understanding economic and financial dynamics
… driven approaches and tools from Computational Social Science for understanding, monitoring and designing economic and financial systems. The center idea in this approach is to treat economic and financial systems as systems of connected people. We are entering a new age where many aspects of …
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Administrative Organization as a Social System: An Introduction to Theories of Organization
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:26:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5900529.pdf: 16878085 bytes, checksum: 03c7ddf5f1d5a20e386232d9c707f7b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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The University as a social system: Niklas Luhmann on the problem of self-descriptions
… It begins with a close examination of Luhmann's "Social Systems" which is used to conceptualize the university itself as a social system.
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Cultural capital and cultural repertoires among the black middle-class: race, class, and culture in the racialised social system
In this thesis, I ask ‘Do racism and anti-racism affect black middle-class cultural lives?’ I answer this question through interviews with thirty-two black Brits in professional occupations, and ethnographic work across middle-class spaces in London. I argue there are three black middle-class …
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Savivaldybių potencialo raiška kuriant sumaniąją socialinę sistemą /
… organizing public sector activities, to address social and economic problems quickly and effectively, and to achieve their operational objectives. In this context emerges concept of smartness. The author of the master's thesis, adapting the definitions used in academic research, provides the …
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Redistribution of land among the communities of Ngotshe District in Vryheid : problems and challenges
… the foundation of the South African Society's social system over years. Order in the society meant the ability to sustain a status quo of the social system. Land has,in all respects, been the borne of contention. It is arguable that land has had a determinant role in the nature of the South …
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THE SEASONALITY OF PATHOLOGY: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
… seasonal periodicity of a number of different social pathologies, including suicide, mortality resulting from disease, the onset of physical illness, and criminal behavior. Using time-series data from the United States, for 132 consecutive months between 1965-1975, it is found that virtually …
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Feedback loops in educational environments using web-based survey tools : new technology development and three implementation case studies
… development of an on-line, web-based feedback system and preliminary analysis of the socio-technical interactions associated with the specification, design and use of this system. The system has been designed to facilitate many forms of feedback in educational environments. Novel technical …
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ΤΑ ΔΙΚΑΙΩΜΑΤΑ ΤΟΥ ΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΩΝ ΕΝΕΡΓΕΙΑΚΩΝ ΠΗΓΩΝ ΚΑΙ Η ΑΣΚΗΣΗ ΤΟΥΣ
- THE ENERGY AS ELEMENT OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM, AND THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE ENERGY SYSTEMS. - THE STATE'S RIGHTS ON THE SPECIFIC ENERGY RESOURCES. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF THESE RIGHTS. - THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF ENERGY. SYSTEMS OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION AND PUBLIC CONTROL OF …
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ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΕΣ ΕΞΕΛΙΞΕΙΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΡΩΤΗ ΤΟΥΡΚΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ (1924-1961)
… TIME OF THIS RESEARCH IS THE ANALOGUES POLITICAL SOCIAL SYSTEM, WHOSE ELEMENTS ARE: A) THE SOCIAL SYNTHESIS B) THE MILITARY BEAUROCRACY C) THE IDEOLOGICAL AND REPRESSIVE MECHANISMS OF THE STATE D) THE EXTERNAL FACTOR E) THE ETHNIC-NATIONAL STRATEGIES. (SHORTENED)
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Autonomy : behavior change in nurses after continuing professional education program
… the nature of the proposed change, and (d) the social system in which the professional must implement the behavior change" (Cervero, 1985, p.87). Qualitative data were collected using open-ended statements to ascertain how the content of the CPE program was useful in practice. Nurse managers …
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Understanding performance measurement from a social systems perspective
Performance measurement (PM) systems fail to predict organisational outcomes reliably because organisations face futures so inherently unknowable that it is impossible to comprehend the full range of potential outcomes open to them. Organisations are complex, adaptive, social systems whose …
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The Influence of Neighborhood, Family, School, and Student Dimensions of Social Capital on Academic Achievement: An Integrated Theoretical Framework
… of students with schools while ignoring other social factors that might influence the educational outcomes of students. Students are part of a complex social system that both enable and constrain their development and behavior. If we are to look at ways to improve academic programs, it is …
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The Influence of Neighborhood, Family, School, and Student Dimensions of Social Capital on Academic Achievement: An Integrated Theoretical Framework
… of students with schools while ignoring other social factors that might influence the educational outcomes of students. Students are part of a complex social system that both enable and constrain their development and behavior. If we are to look at ways to improve academic programs, it is …
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The Diffusion of Conservation Technology: A Dyad Analysis of Innovators and Their Neighbors
… A corollary to this goal is to assess systematic differences and similarities in the socioeconomic characteristics of innovators, those individuals in a social system who, relative to their peers, are among the very first to adopt an innovation. The problem addressed is a lack of recent …
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Politics and society in Virginia, 1960-1969: new course for the Old Dominion
… assumed to be both active and responsive to the social system which includes individual, dyadic, familial, social, community, and cultural levels of analysis. A feminist perspective emphasizes reflexivity, collaboration, emotionality, and accessibility in the process of research and focuses …
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Reflexive conversations with bereaved mothers: a feminist and contextual perspective
… assumed to be both active and responsive to the social system which includes individual, dyadic, familial, social, community, and cultural levels of analysis. A feminist perspective emphasizes reflexivity, collaboration, emotionality, and accessibility in the process of research and focuses …
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