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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"catching up"”.
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Difficulties of catching-up in Central-Eastern Europe
… of Antràs (2013) methodology for calculating upstreamness and downstreamness index. Aim of the research: Throughout my research, the question that lingered was how Hungary and the Central-Eastern European region are progressing on the trajectory towards catching up (or, conversely, falling …
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La industria vitivinícola argentina y el catching-up con Chile
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Technological capability catching up : follow the normal way or deviate
… in the 6 firms studied is affected by three groups of factors-R&D characteristics, organizational conditions, and environmental conditions, and that these three groups of factors also form a nested relationship. First, technological capability development is directly influenced by R&D …
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Catching up to multiculturalism: Bilingual and cultural competent practices in speech-language pathology
… of the significance of their role in supporting CLD individuals and families and current challenges in offering appropriate services.</p>
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Integrative university collaborations as an innovation strategy for catching-up countries : a case study of the MIT-Portugal Program
… that could serve as a model strategy for other catching-up countries facing similar challenges.
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Made in China : the rise of the Chinese domestic firms in the information industry
… a multi-case analysis approach to study China's catching-up as a late-industrialized economy in the information and communications technology (ICT) industries. The significant contributions of this study are: the staged catching-up theory framework, the findings from the cases, and the policy …
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A neo-Schumpeterian study of the developmental techno-politics of post-socialist Bulgaria and Kazakhstan
… techno-politics in the context of economic catching up. Methodologically, the scholarly inquiry develops a novel, boundary-spanning, multi-dimensional framework for policy assessment in order to provide a comprehensive and systematic inquiry of the dynamic constitution of Science, …
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The failure of altruism: Alternatives to improve the donor rate in organ transplantation
… (ever more successfully utilized)--a factor coupled with the persistently scarce and relatively constant low level of supply. The serious nature of the shortage of compatible organs has prompted medical, ethical, and legal scholars to consider alternatives to altruistic donation. This approach …
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Travel experience, interaction, and memory how does social behavior and interaction influence travel experience?
… changes. Although the travel industry is slowly catching up to travelers' changing needs, individuals are increasingly shaping the industry and bringing to the forefront what matters to them most: the experience achieved through the journey. Nowadays digital technology and social media enable us …
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Improving Reading through Fine Motor Skill Development in First Grade
… in first grade, fall behind, and have difficulty catching up with their peers. Research has shown students who struggle to read in first grade, also struggle to read in later years. The purpose of this study was to determine if an intervention to enhance fine motor skills to a select group of …
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Elastic, Pure, and Invigorating: A Cottage Row for Yellow Sulphur Springs
… Whether drinking the medicinal spring waters or catching up with last summerâ s acquaintances, guests found Yellow Sulphur to be a peaceful and rejuvenating stop on the springs circuit. Currently, the property is privately owned and its owners have expressed interest in renovating the remaining …
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CONVERGENCE IN SECTORAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE
The dissertation examines catching up in labor productivity across countries and across US states. It also studies the role of financial development and inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) on labor productivity and structural change. Chapter one studies unconditional convergence in labor …
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Promoting Resilience in High Risk Students Attending Alternative High School Programs
<p>Young people living in households without the support of caring adults and often subjected to a lifestyle that consists of poverty, violence and substance abuse will sometimes become apathetic, miss class, neglect homework, fail and get behind in credits. They become disheartened about the …
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Benchmarking and productivity analysis in South Africa's automotive industry
… customers. Although South Africa appears to be catching-up to its competitors, it still ranks poorly among auto-producers in emerging markets. Its competitors in the Far East, South America and Eastern Europe enjoy low production costs, rising FDI inflows and proximity to end markets. Policy …
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Distance education for national development: The case of the university of mauritius
… the wealth of nations and access to knowledge, coupled with the ability to disseminate it, have become a major source of competitive advantage: “Higher education can help developing countries use the economic transformation being brought by globalization to leapfrog stages of development.” (Bloom, …
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Academic achievement team - a school within a school program: does specialized remediation increase test scores?
… Proficiency Assessment will help them to catch up and successfully pass the High School Proficiency Assessment. This program will also reduce behavior problems and absenteeism while simultaneously increasing the students' feelings of success and accomplishment. To test these tenets a set of …
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Synthesis, Characterisation and Functionalisation of CdSe Quantum Dots
… crystallite facets, with the facial facets then 'catching-up', restoring the cubic symmetry. Due to the presence of many NMR active species in CdSe TOP/TOPO QDs viz., 113Cd, 77Se, 13C, 31P, 77S and 1H solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (SS-NMR) was used to investigate the …
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Essays in semiparametric and nonparametric estimation with application to growth accounting
… productivity growth into efficiency change (catching up) and technology change (innovation). We test the statistical significance of the estimates using recently developed bootstrap method. We also explore implications for growth of total factor productivity in the OECD and Asia economies.
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It's My Right to Fix the City: Women, Class, and the Postcolonial, Politics of Neoliberal Urbanism in Ibadan, Nigeria
… that African cities are failing and in need of catching up to northern global cities in order to develop. I use an African feminist postcolonial urbanism theoretical framing to suggest that understanding the lived reality and politics of urban space from the viewpoint of women living in Ibadan …
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INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING IN ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN INNOVATION SYSTEMS APPROACH
… with some countries forging ahead, some catching up, while some falling behind from time to time. Grown up in the largest developing country, China, to understand economic growth has always been my passion. The mainstream economic growth theories could not explain the technological change …
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