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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"The Intermediary"”.
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What is Christian Anarchist Art? Leo Tolstoy and the Literature of The Intermediary, 1885-1890
This dissertation investigates the Christian anarchist dimensions of Leo Tolstoy’s publishing house The Intermediary between the years 1885 and 1890. It argues that publications for The Intermediary form a corpus of politically radical literature that intertwines religious morality, anti‑state, …
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Autonomous interactive intermediaries : social intelligence for mobile communication agents
… cellphones are passive communication portals. They are neither aware of our conversational settings, nor of the relationship between caller and callee, and often interrupt us at inappropriate times. This thesis is about adding elements of human style social intelligence to our mobile …
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Changes in plasma inorganic phosphate associated with endocrine activity in Xenopus laevis
The plasma inorganic phosphate level may be influenced by (1) factors affecting the intermediary metabolism of phosphorus, (2) alternation in the degree of absorption of phosphorus, (3) alteration in the degree of excretion of phosphorus. In the introduction, the intermediary metabolism of …
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Three essays on economics of rehypothecation
In the first chapter of my thesis, I develop a theoretical model of rehypothecation,a practice in which financial institutions re-use or re-pledge collateral pledged by their clients for their own purposes. I show that rehypothecation has trade-off effects; it enhances provision of funding …
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In service, on common ground: finding commonality between user, architecture and landscape through the ritual of dining
… service situated on a site that brings together people of all walks of life, i.e. on common ground. By intervening at this level there is an opportunity to adapt the current situation whilst simultaneously encouraging cultural cohesion or perhaps at the very least instigatedialogue. One can …
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"Strategies and structures of mediation: The go-between from Roman comedy to ""Celestina"""
… of medieval literature. My analysis focuses on the paradigm of mediation exemplified by the figure of the go-between. The study proposes to examine how the mediation of erotic and cultural codes receives concrete expression in the literature of the Middle Ages by means of the figure of the …
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Essays on Asset Pricing
… studies asset pricing from three perspectives. The first chapter takes the view of a long-run buy-and-hold investor, and offers an an explanation to prominent cross-sectional return anomalies. A commonality shared by these anomalies is that their returns are negatively correlated with the …
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Promoting Sustainability in Africa’s Small Industries: An Exploratory Study of Intermediary Performance Drivers
… increasingly sought to promote sustainability in the small-scale industries of developing countries. Available evidence however, suggests sustainability promotion programmes may be yielding only limited success. In this study, performance drivers of the intermediaries delivering the programmes is …
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Social capital in Jordan: the impact of wasta on employee selection in banks operating in Jordan
This thesis explores the practice of intercessory wasta; the strong family and tribal-based connections secured in networks in the Arab world. In doing so the social capital lens, particularly bonding and bridging social capital, is adopted as the main lens to investigate HRM, recruitment and …
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The Influence of Physical Activity and Television on the Intention and Self-Efficacy to Engage in Health-Enhancing Behaviors
Cancer and heart disease account for the largest proportion of morbidity and mortality among all adult diseases in the United States. Research has focused on identifying causal risk factors among adolescents. However, theories of health behavior change also stress the intermediary factors of …
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The passage
… a narrow space which leads from one place to another. It is the intermediary zone between two defined programmes. It is a moment of transition, where the ambiguity of its claim facilitates for multiple crossings which lead to unexpected interactions and transactions. This thesis explores the …
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Strongly orthotropic continuum mechanics
The principal contribution of this dissertation is a theory of Strongly Orthotropic Continuum Mechanics that is derived entirely from an assertion of geometric strain indeterminacy. Implementable into the finite element method, it can resolve widespread kinematic misrepresentations and offer unique …
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The Value of The Search Request Form in The Negotiation Process Between Requester and Librarian
The present study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of the search request form in the negotiation process between requester and librarian in the online setting. The formal hypothesis was: users who complete the search request form before talking to an information specialist will get …
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Social interaction in a local physical setting : towards social integration in city making
A concept of community has greatly influenced the planning ideas of residential areas. Yet, often it has brought a normative view, regarding a local area as some kind of entity. This normative view is intensified by the hierarchy concept of urban structure. This study argues that this normative and …
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Essays on frictions in financial institutions
In this thesis, I explore the consequences of frictions in financial intermediation. I theoretically analyse two financial contracts commonly found in the modern shadow banking system-rehypothecation and securitisation. Rehypothecation is the direct repledging of the collateral received in a debt …
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Joint analysis during vault lowering of the Officer Sean Collier Memorial
The unique geometry and indeterminacy of the Collier Memorial make it a highly complex structure to analyze. During the critical vault-lowering phase of the construction of the memorial, joints were monitored to understand where and how the memorial deformed. Joint displacements are aggregated into …
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Understanding the influence of livelihood features on cassava value chains
… on cassava farming and processing as part of their livelihood activities. The study sought to identify the actors in the cassava value chains, how their livelihood features influence upgrading in the value chains and also, factors that farmers consider in deciding whether to sell fresh cassava …
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Essays on banking and corporate finance
The first essay provides evidence that banks are liquidity constrained and hold private information about borrowers that hinders substitution of financing sources. Using loan level data from a public credit bureau and exploiting an exogenous shock to bank liquidity, I show that adverse selection …
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Misinformation, Persuasion, and News Media on Social Networks
… content, or attend to online publishers for the latest news. However, the recent proliferation of misinformation has affected people’s perception of the veracity of online information and, in turn, their social behavior. In this environment of real and false information, this dissertation …
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