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Showing 1 to 20 of 703 for “"WIN"”.
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Win-Win-Win? Evaluating the Climate, Health, and Equity Benefits of Retrofitting Low Income Housing in the US
Large scale energy efficiency and electrification of the US residential sector are needed to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming below two degrees Celsius. Energy efficiency retrofits can also provide significant health and economic benefits, especially for low-income residents. These …
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"Win the City, Win the World": The Urban Missiology of Roger S. Greenway
This dissertation examines the urban missiology of Roger S. Greenway. The thesis is the urban missiology of Greenway should inform the ministries of urban missiologists today. This dissertation answers four questions: How has Greenway's life and theology shaped his urban missiology? What is …
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Is international service-learning win-win? A case study of an engineering partnership
Given the tormented history of development projects around the globe and the fact that global service learning and engineering-for-development often engages students in development interventions, it is critically important to explore the impact of global service learning projects and partnerships …
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The discourse and reality of "win-win" interventions for forests and people in the Peruvian Amazon
… popular. Yet, despite widespread claims of “win-win” success, there is growing evidence of significant trade-offs. My doctoral research examines three globally widespread strategies to achieve “win-win” outcomes by both conserving forests and improving the well-being of local people: 1) …
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO WiN GPS
… market, however I chose to design and implement WiN GPS, short for Walking GPS, because it will allow the possibility of a personalized GPS for the school and for users should they choose to use it.</p> <p>In order to develop Win GPS it was necessary to research the available tools and to become …
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How to win friends and influence people
… work developed out of a specific book: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. The book is one of the best-selling self-help books of all time. Every part of the book was material for my project: The words. The author. The style. The physical object. I also use myself, the …
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Unresponsive customers : acquisition, retargeting and win-back
… customer: acquisition, retargeting, and win-back. Included is an examination into recent technological advancements that provide a new layer of visibility into the behavior and emotion of the unresponsive customer. We also discuss how Emotional Value, which is described as the economic …
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Calculation of win-loss disributions for blackjack
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985.
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Applying Additional Self Service Methodologies to Commercial Aviation Baggage Handling: Is A Potential “Win-Win” Being Left on the Table?
This project looks at the possibility that airlines are overlooking an opportunity to save money and at the same time provide a better service to their customers. On certain regional-jet flights, airlines handle carry-on baggage in a way that avoids many of the pitfalls that drive mishandled …
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The endangered European native oyster Ostrea edulis (L) and creation of Marine Conservation Zones: a win – win scenario for fisheries and conservation?
The abundance and distribution of Ostrea edulis and O. edulis beds have been contracting for many hundreds of years as a result of anthropogenic factors, leaving behind the legacy we observe today of a fragmented and severely impacted habitat. In 1995, O. edulis (and their associated beds) was …
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You Have to Play to Win: Value Capture in Open Innovation
<p>Despite the extensive research on open innovation, debate remains on the relationship between open innovation and firm performance. No consensus exists on the measures of performance and the mechanisms that enable value capture remain largely unexplored. This dissertation addresses these issues …
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Activists who win: the effect of activist identity on shareholder voting
This thesis examines the effect of shareholder activist identity on voting outcomes within the context of shareholder proposals and what explains that effect. The extant literature broadly assumes shareholder homogeneity and has focused on the relationship between activists and target firms. In …
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Can everybody win? : downtown low-income communities under pressure in Kingston
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Choosing to win: how SOF can better select partners for capacity building
The U.S. government relies heavily on security cooperation and security assistance programs to build partner-nation capacity as a means of furthering U.S. national security interests. Special Operations Forces (SOF) have contributed to this effort, particularly in the training and advising of …
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Let’s Win Madrid: Radical Democracy and Prefigurative Constitutionality in the New Municipalism
… the formation that would ultimately contest and win Madrid’s 2015 municipal election. Reading Ganemos’ asambleario constitutionality through the work of Antonio Negri, and Podemos’ populist constitutionality through the work of Ernesto Laclau, reveals novel constitutional models as well as …
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"If the people vote, the people win!": The radical right in France
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Playing to win : democratic deliberation, planning, and politics in Toronto's civic lottery
Government institutions across the world are currently experimenting with randomized household-selection engagement methods designed to maximize the diversity and representativeness of their sampled citizen participants. Varieties of "mini-publics" have been asked to deliberate on topics as …
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An Exploratory Study on Methods for Interpolating and Extrapolating Baseball Win-Loss Percentage
… is a Fourier series model that fits the teams’ win-loss percentage (W-L%). We hypothesize that a team’s W-L% can be modeled by a sum of cosine and sine curves as every team has winning seasons and losing seasons. The second model we suggest is a cubic spline model, which connects two adjacent …
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Aim High, Win Big: Optimizing the OR Nurse's Skills to Improve Surgical Outcomes
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p> Operating room nurses are constantly challenged with new surgical procedures and technology that affect the delivery of safe patient care. A deficiency in skill sets was identified among 50% of OR nurses in this microsystem. A structured scrub training program …
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Running to win: The utility of the ticket-splitter theory in presidential elections
Theory suggests that ticket-splitters often are the balance of power in elections, and constitute at least one-fourth of the American electorate. Ticket-splitting is not, however, motivated by party identification. Instead the voter's evaluation of the candidate, pertinent issues, and party …
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