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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"adjustment strategies"”.
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Fair adjustment strategies for airline revenue management and reservation systems
… yield passengers. This thesis describes Fare Adjustment, a technique developed for network RM systems, which acts at the booking limit optimizer level as it takes into account the sell-up potential of passengers (the probability that a passenger is willing to buy a higher-fare ticket if his …
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Role of Trauma in Social-Cognitive Adjustment Strategies and Moral Disengagement among African-American Urban Youth
… study was to explore the effects of trauma and adjustment strategies among African American urban youth and how moral disengagement can be averted via mediation by the use of social problem solving skills. Bandura's theory of Moral Disengagement (Bandura, 1990) was used as a conceptual model to …
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Labour Investment: A Managers’ Decision-Making Perspective
… to business downturns and how different labour adjustment practices influence firms’ financial performance. I classify firms into two groups: those with more stable labour adjustment strategies (most sticky in labour) and those with more flexible labour adjustment strategies (least sticky in …
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Valuing Cultural Diversity: the academic adjustment experiences of undergraduate Chinese international Business students at Victoria University
… from the students' perspective, the academic adjustment experiences of undergraduate international Business students from Chinese Confucian heritage cultural backgrounds at Victoria University, Australia. A qualitative methodology, using principles of grounded theory, was used for the study. …
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Understanding the Adjustment of Chinese Business Expatriates: A Grounded Theory Study
… little attention has been paid to them and their adjustment experiences in academic circle. Currently, the majority of research of expatriate adjustment is western-specific, and almost all theories and models in this field are developed from western perspective and naturally lack a consideration …
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Strategies for optimising TB-HIV co-treatment in children and adolescents with drug-susceptible tuberculosis on rifampicin-based standard regimens
… interact with many ART classes, necessitating adjustments to one or both therapies. In African and other low-resource settings, modifications typically involve ART regimens due to constrained drug options. This thesis presents four pharmacokinetics and one clinical study evaluating strategies …
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Under Pressure: Target Governments’ Domestic and Foreign Policy Responses to Economic Sanctions
… and, more specifically, on target governments’ strategies for mitigating the costs of sanctions. I argue that once sanctions are imposed, the target government becomes inward-looking and focuses on adapting its domestic and foreign policies to survive sanctions. Each chapter examines specific …
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How Urban Nature Shapes Health: Unravelling the Spatial Complexity of Nature-Health Systems
… geostatistical exploration, and confounding-adjustment strategies to operationalise spatial complexity in practice. Empirically, the analysis demonstrates that health benefits of urban nature follow diminishing returns and threshold patterns, are moderated by ecological quality, and vary …
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The Economics of Tobacco Production and Feasible Alternatives in Uganda
… leaf production. This study focuses on the adjustment strategies open to tobacco-growing households particularly on Article 17 of the FCTC which is a strategic policy guideline that supports economically viable alternatives to the production of tobacco. The central hypothesis of the study is …
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Natural, Efficient Walking for Compliant Humanoid Robots
… the ground reaction forces and perform step adjustment for walking stabilization using a mixed-integer quadratic program. This represents the first model predictive controller to include step rotation in the optimization and leverage the capabilities of the time-varying divergent component of …
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Using articulatory adjustment to compensate for hypernasality - a modeling study based on measures of electromagnetic articulography (EMA)
… approach that uses speech-dependent articulatory adjustments to reduce hypernasality caused by excessive velopharyngeal opening. A preliminary study has been done to derive such articulatory adjustments for hypernasal /i/ vowels based on the simulation of an articulatorymodel (Speech Processing …
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Genomic Association Screening Methodology for High-Dimensional and Complex Data Structures: Detecting n-Order Interactions
… during epistasis screening, using different adjustment strategies for SNPs in the functional SNP-SNP interaction pair, and/or for additional important SNPs. Since, in this thesis, we restrict attention to 2-locus interactions only, adjustment for lower-order effects always (and only) implies …