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Showing 1 to 20 of 303 for “"Utilitarian"”.
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Uncertainty and utilitarian moral decision-making
… psychology and neuroscience has explored moral utilitarian research questions, decision mechanisms and behaviour. For example, in the question ‘Is it appropriate for you to sacrifice one workman in order to save five workmen?’ moral utilitarian theorists (consequentialism) would answer with …
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Effects of Hedonic and Utilitarian Shopping Satisfaction on Mall Consumption
… a consumption experience with both hedonic and utilitarian rewards during a single visit to the mall. The orchestrating of both hedonic and utilitarian benefits in one visit challenges mall management and retailers to deliver the maximum shopping experience. This study seeks to reveal …
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Lightweight plywood construction assembly : a lightweight approach to the elegant utilitarian form
What will be the fundamental aspect and concern of today's good design? As global energy reserves deplete over the coming decades, a strategy of reduced consumption will be essential to the production of furniture and architecture, alike. A lightweight design strategy is a way for designers to …
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Analysing consumer product preferences for selected hedonic and utilitarian shopping goods in Durban
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Sciences (Marketing), Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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Utilitarian Approaches for Multi-Metric Optimization in VLSI Circuit Design and Spatial Clustering
… critical. In this dissertation research, several utilitarian methods are investigated for variation aware multi-metric optimization in VLSI circuit design and spatial pattern clustering. A novel algorithm based on the concepts of utility theory and risk minimization is developed for variation …
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Utilitarian and community values in mainstream and alternative health care on Martha's Vineyard
… service scarcities. This ethnography focuses on utilitarian values to explain difficulties that Vineyarders experienced during their efforts to obtain health care and to improve access to health care. Efforts to promote access included the development of health care policies and the formation of …
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Narrative advertising copy with hedonic and utilitarian products: when does narrative persuasion attenuate?
… narrative persuasion. A hedonic product and a utilitarian product, along with strong and weak arguments, were used as independent variables in the present study to test their effects on narrative transportation and persuasion. The study collected a general sample from the US and Canada using an …
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Spatial Publicness of Contemporary Publicly Open Space: Its Utilitarian Possibilities of Urban Planning
The purpose of this dissertation is to gain an understanding of the subjective perceptions and methods of framing used by various entities to understand the concept of the contemporary publicness of the publicly open space. The main research methods of this dissertation include 1) a systematic …
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CONSUMERS' PERCEIVED PRICE FAIRNESS AND UNFAIRNESS TOWARD PRICE INCREASES DURING HEDONIC VS. UTILITARIAN SITUATIONS
… increases due to external events (hedonic and utilitarian situations). External events such as sporting games, local festivals, or weather-related events (e.g., floods, snowstorms) frame consumers’ motivation to stay in a hotel room (hedonic vs. utilitarian motivations), increasing hotel room …
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Utilitarian and Industrial Ceramics of Montana in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This thesis answers the question: What type of utilitarian and industrial ceramics were being produced or brought into Montana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? This question came from correspondences with the Montana Historical Society where the main research took place. This …
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Utilitarian and Industrial Ceramics of Montana in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This thesis answers the question: What type of utilitarian and industrial ceramics were being produced or brought into Montana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? This question came from correspondences with the Montana Historical Society where the main research took place. This …
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Five children and a paradigm: The cultural construction of romantic and utilitarian concepts of childhood
… labelled for ease of reference Romantic and Utilitarian as culturally constructed during the Enlightenment are no longer capable of containing the meaning of childhood within a rapidly changing technological environment. Furthermore, it is argued that the adherents to these two modes …
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A Study of the Form and Function of a Select Group of Minoan Utilitarian Ceramics
<p>This study of Minoan utilitarian ceramics has been undertaken in order to review and re-assess several select vessel types of problematical function. The pieces were chosen on the basis of similarities in form and other characteristics held in common. The. problematical nature of the selected …
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Explaining the technological gender gap: self-efficacy, utilitarian attitudes, and computer use among college students
… among gender, computer self-efficacy, utilitarian attitudes toward computers, and computer use by college students. The analysis includes comparisons of male and female college students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on computer use, on computer self-efficacy and …
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A vehicle of social mobility: utilitarian factors in the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the early Tokugawa period
This dissertation explores the utilitarian aspects of the Neo-Confucianism’s rise in the early Tokugawa period. Neo-Confucianism was an important intellectual foundation for political leaders because it served as the cultural medium of Chinese civilization. Since the Kamakura period, Zen monks had …
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