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Showing 1 to 20 of 1139 for “"Tactics"”.
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Street tactics
Spatial inequality is the development of public space that selects and benefits certain constituencies over others, with direct effects on how space is used, and by whom. Over time it can contribute to social and political conflict and unrest. In Cape Town, spatial inequality originated largely …
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Diasporic tactics
This document acts as the written form of an art practice that can be described by making an analogy between the artist and the itinerant migrant worker. This thesis is an elaboration on certain viewpoints, encounters, and case studies that have lead me to do my actual [art] work. In it I attempt …
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Urban Rapprochement Tactics: Stitching Divided Nicosia
This written thesis investigates the capacity of shared spaces to instigate rapprochement between adversarial communities in ethno-nationally induced urban conflicts through an in-depth analysis of the divided city of Nicosia. A much-debated question is whether sharing space has beneficial …
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Human inspiration for autonomous vehicle tactics
… capabilities is to learn, encode, and apply tactics exhibited by human experts. To test the method, five human subjects were given the task of performing an armed reconnaissance mission in a simulation environment over multiple cases with varying terrain and probability of enemy contact. By …
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DRONE SWARMING TACTICS IN A CONTESTED ENVIRONMENT
… force composition, weapon technology, and decoy tactics shape the outcomes of swarm attacks. The model pits a layered defender equipped with a mix of weapon and sensor systems to protect an asset against an attacker who employs suppression drones to degrade defenses, lethal drones to strike the …
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Resiliency Factors Associated with Adaptive Conflict Tactics.
… as a child as a predictor of violent conflict tactics in adult dating relationships. A supportive sibling and a close relationship with the mother were examined as resiliency factors. Participants were 129 men and 256 women enrolled in classes at East Tennessee State University. Participants …
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Maternal investment tactics in cooperative breeding systems
… methods to investigate the influence of maternal tactics on investment rules in cooperative breeding systems, where ‘helpers’ care in addition to parents. In three chapters I model maternal control of offspring quality and offspring number across a cooperative breeding attempt, and investigate how …
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Narrative tactics for making other worlds possible
Be they childhood games of make-believe, sophisticated literary projects, or political inventions (a "Great America") authors have taken advantage of a world-building imagination creating their own worlds, and theorizing what they were doing. From the 1960s onwards, fictional worlds were studied …
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Worker Cooperatives: Strategies and Tactics for Interstitial Transformation
The number of worker cooperatives in the United States has grown substantially in recent decades, as has a robust cooperative movement dedicated to advancing worker-ownership. Many of these individual cooperatives, as well as the movement that incubates and supports them, critique capitalist …
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MARITAL POWER, CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE (NEGOTIATION TACTICS, EGALITARIAN)
… the actual power structure. (2) The negotiation tactics used to settle disputes may mediate the relation between conflict and violence.</p><p>The major findings of this research suggest that unequal marital power structures are the critical factors in explaining the level of conflict and the rate …
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Performing (for) survival: performance tactics of incarcerated women
… inevitably ‘tragic’. The argument considers the tactics women use in order to firstly, survive their incarceration, and sometimes, resist, the institution. The theoretical frame is drawn from feminist criminology and Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’ to examine everyday performances as well as theatrical …
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Tactics to Engender Participation in Collaborative Environmental Management
… challenge in practice. This thesis examines tactics used to engender participation in collaborations. Tactics constitute a strategy for communications with an intended goal and encompass the framing (i.e., wording, imagery) and platform of dissemination. Two complementary studies were …
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Technology in Teachers' Work Lives: Tensions and Tactics
… responses, and (c) conscious planning of tactics. The validity and limits of the Professional Knowledge Landscape framework are also discussed.
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Networked tactics for gender representation in the news
This thesis presents research on gender disparities in online news, followed with three open source designs that attempt to address those disparities. Open Gender Tracker is a platform that applies automated gender analysis to electronic content sources. FollowBias is a behavioral experiment on the …
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Computer analysis and evaluation of stock trading tactics
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1959.
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Strategies and Tactics for the Synthesis of Polycyclic Alkaloids
The myrmicarin family of oligomeric natural products comprises one of the most ornate collections of polycyclic alkaloids known. The structural characterization of their unique scaffolds was accomplished through elegant spectroscopic studies. Furthermore, the synthesis of these alkaloids has …
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Tactics and Tradition in the Poetry of Thomas McGrath
Thomas McGrath (1916-1990) is the kind of literary figure scholars interested in canon revision dream of finding: an arguably major twentieth-century American poet whose work has gone almost unnoticed by academics, and one whose signature poetic concerns and strategies require research into …
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Lean enterprise distribution tactics with customer supply chain integrations
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2003.
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