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Showing 1 to 20 of 1894 for “"Transparency"”.
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Transparency
This project is an investigation into issues surrounding the placing of a building into the context of a site. The study manifests itself through the design of a museum for Phoenician sailing ships and their artifacts.
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Extreme optomechanically induced transparency
… implementation optomechanically induced transparency utilizing ultra low loss mechanical oscillators and high laser power to achieve extremely strong optical induced transparency effects. This system modifies the light transmission properties of the optical cavity reducing the …
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Corporate environmental transparency in China
… increasing attention to corporate environmental transparency (CET). One obvious manifestation of this interest is that they require companies to present openness and disclose various information related to the environment. As an influential stakeholder group, policy-makers have also attached …
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Three essays on market transparency
This is an empirical study of the market transparency on the U.S. equity market. The dissertation is composed of three essays. Using two unique data sets on NASDAQ stocks, the first essay studies the influence and informational role of hidden orders in the U.S. equity markets. I find that as much …
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Electromagnetically induced transparency by NMR
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) is a quantum nonlinear optical interference effect in which light at a certain frequency makes normally opaque atomic systems transparent to light at another frequency. Recent experiments in Atomic Molecular and Optical (AMO) physics demonstrated how …
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Progress towards cavity induced transparency
Inspired by electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), cavity induced transparency (CIT) uses a cavity rather than a laser to couple a ground state with the excited state of a three-level system. In this thesis, I discuss the theory behind CIT and present the progress in our current experiment …
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Transparency and Movement in Architecture
This project investigates transparency and movement as the main measured elements that define space. These elements seek to articulate distinct and memorable places throughout the building, acknowledging its unique setting along the Potomac River in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Architecture and …
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Central Bank Transparency and Price Stability
The thesis investigates the central bank transparency employing the Monetary Policy Transparency Index. The main objective is to investigate recent trends in the central bank transparency. First, the level of monetary policy transparency is investigated from various aspects, as, for instance, time …
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Information Asymmetries, Transparency, and Monetary Policy
… the question of the socially optimal degree of transparency in monetary policy. We review the rapidly growing literature on this topic. Then we present three models for evaluating whether the publication of the voting records of the central bank council is socially beneficial, when central …
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Digital transparency applied to interactive mapping
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Compression and release, enclosure and transparency
A philosophical standpoint that directly informs the design method: concern to invoke genius loci, to make a specific place, to give appropriate expression to architectural form. There is an attempt to remain in touch with what, in another age, would be described as romantic: the emotional appeal …
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Shape Estimation under General Reflectance and Transparency
In recent years there has been significant progress in increasing the scope, accuracy and flexibility of 3D photography methods. However there are still significant open problems where complex optical properties of mirroring or transparent objects cause many assumptions of traditional algorithms to …
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Social Media, Transparency and Freedom of Expression
… investigates social media’s contribution to transparency and freedom of expression. Its main aim is to establish if online platforms contribute to the prerequisites of good governance, especially in countries where laws and regulations are restrictive. With a focus on the United Republic of …
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Organizational transparency: Stakeholder relationships and internal dynamics
This study examines the notion of organizational transparency through the lenses of stakeholder theory and focuses on the interaction between management and internal stakeholders. A theory-driven measure of transparency is developed and dened along three dimensions: informative, participative, and …
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Nudging, transparency and rationality: An experimental investigation
… In the third chapter, “The Marginal Cost of Transparency: Do honest nudges work?”, I conduct another experiment, this time to determine the effect that transparency has on the efficacy of a nudge. I introduce the term Marginal Cost of Transparency, MCoT, defined as the difference in treatment …
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Institutions, fiscal transparency and fiscal policy outcomes
… of debt and a deficit that is a proxy for fiscal transparency. We discover that while the adoption diminishes debt in the developed countries, it expands them in the less developed ones. These effects become strong in highly-indebted countries. The adoption improves balance in the developed …
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How Things Seem: Arbitrariness, Transparency, and Representation
… heart of this dissertation are Arbitrariness and Transparency. A representation is arbitrary with respect to content to the extent that the vehicle of representation (brain states, phenomenal experiences, pen marks, soundwaves, etc.) could have represented different content. A representation is …
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Beyond transparency : collective engagement in sustainable design
… our social and physical resources. Supply chain transparency makes it possible to map resource flows and ensure dependable production while avoiding social and environmental problems. Open channels of communications can support a collective effort to account for the impacts of supply chains and …
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Balancing Confidentiality and Transparency in International Commercial Arbitration
… of arbitration, with the increasing demand for transparency? As international arbitration continues to evolve in response to globalization and legal reform initiatives, the need to reassess established practices becomes urgent. By conducting a comparative analysis of the ICC Arbitration Rules …
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Through The Looking Glass: Transparency in the WTO
This thesis discusses transparency as a principle in the World Trade Organization. Transparency is used in many contexts within the organization in order to describe phenomena ranging from Agreement provisions to soft law or general principle and from the obligation of member states to publish …
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