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Showing 1 to 20 of 795 for “"Unintended"”.
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UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF CHARTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
… is comprised of three essays, which study unintended effects of charter school programs. Chapter 1 evaluates the influence of charter schools on housing values. The dynamics between school quality and housing markets contribute to the isolation of disadvantaged students in low performing …
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Unintended Pregnancy Prevention and Active Duty Women
… intervention in reducing the rates of unintended pregnancies have not been studied in military females who are considered as a high risk. The purpose of this quasi-experimental longitudinal study was to implement and evaluate the effects of a reproductive health educational program …
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Consequences of Tobacco Control Policies: Intended and Unintended.
… of Tobacco Control Policies: Intended and Unintended.
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Teenage mothers’ reflections of their unintended, repeat pregnancies
… was focused on teenage girls who had experienced unintended repeat pregnancies. Through the research a deeper understanding of the meanings that female teenagers ascribe to repeat pregnancies, were sought. A sample group of teenage mothers were allowed to take a step back from their experience of …
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The Essays on Unintended Consequences of Public Policy
<p>This dissertation studies three examples of public policies having consequences other than those intended when the policy was passed. They demonstrate that due to the interconnectedness of the economy, the intended effect of a policy is rarely the sole effect.</p> <p>The first essay examines the …
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Unintended Consequences of Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
<p>This study investigates the impact of internal controls over financial reporting requirements (ICFR) enacted as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on the judgment and decision making of corporate tax executives. Prior research indicates that companies with disclosed material weaknesses in …
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Systems Thinking, Mental Representations, and Unintended Consequence Identification
… identify redundant controls' potential unintended consequences. Experimental results suggest that ST components related to understanding circular causality facilitate identification of redundant controls' potential unintended consequences. Results also suggest that ST influences initial …
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Law reform and the problem of unintended consequences
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Unintended consequences of education and housing reform incentives
(cont.) low achieving children.
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Unintended Survivability: Comparative Reactions to Israel's Nuclear Posture
The overarching goal of this study is to conduct an investigation of regional perspectives on the impact of Israel's nuclear monopoly on nuclear decisions in the Middle East. This Dissertation addresses the question as to why regional actors have taken divergent nuclear paths relative to Israel's …
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Understanding the unintended consequences of a capacity building program :
… in a series of unintented consequences. These unintended consequences become legible when viewed as instrumental elements in the resultant constellation of the 'truths' of the developmental discourse that shape these capacity building programmes. This study identifies two unintended …
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Preventing Unintended Data Access: Information Flow Control in eBPF
… by providing a structured mechanism to prevent unintended data access and leakages while maintaining the legitimate use cases of eBPF.
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Detecting and locating electronic devices using their unintended electromagnetic emissions
"Electronically-initiated explosives can have unintended electromagnetic emissions which propagate through walls and sealed containers. These emissions, if properly characterized, enable the prompt and accurate detection of explosive threats. The following dissertation develops and evaluates …
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Teachers' perspectives on the unintended consequences of high stakes testing
A mixed methods design was utilized that was divided into three phases to verify and explore high stakes testing’s effects on teachers’ perceptions regarding classroom practices, pressure, and commitment to the educational profession. Phase I utilized previous surveys and a peer review to create a …
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Corporate Governance Reforms in Pakistan: Institutionalisation, contradictions, and unintended consequences
… of institutionalisation, contradictions and unintended consequences of Corporate Governance (CG) regulations in Pakistan. Prior studies have mostly focused on outcomes of CG regulations. The ‘process’ centred approach adopted in this study contributes to the CG theory and literature by …
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Understanding and mitigating unintended demographic bias in machine learning systems
… machine learning models are very susceptible to unintended bias, resulting in unfair and discriminatory algorithms with the power to adversely impact society. This unintended bias is usually subtle, emanating from many different sources and taking on many forms. This thesis will focus on …
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It Takes Two: Partner Effects on Unintended Pregnancy in Dyads
… half of pregnancies in the United States are unintended. And unintended births are particularly high among married and cohabiting adult women. Though family planning behaviors occur in a dyadic context with potentially joint influences of men and women on contraceptive use and pregnancy, most …
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Exploring Unintended Pregnancy in the United States Military: A Phenomenological Approach
… pregnancies in the United States each year are unintended. The U.S. unintended pregnancy rate is significantly higher than the rate in many other developed countries. By age 45, more than half of all American women will have experienced an unintended pregnancy, and three in ten will have had an …
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From grassroots to global: unintended consequences of a Bolivian quinoa economy
… This research offers insights into the unintended consequences producers experience when export of a regionally consumed food becomes a major economic development strategy to alleviate poverty. I take a historical perspective to analyze how a little known indigenous food from South …
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Split-ticket voting and divided government: Intentional choices or unintended consequences.
Explanations of divided government have focused on the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties as the reason for partisan patterns of divided government. Yet the literature on split-ticket voting emphasizes the declining importance of parties in shaping vote choices. This …
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