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Showing 1 to 20 of 4884 for “"choices"”.
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Choices, choices, choices : the nature of children’s agency within a forest school context
… appears to relate predominantly to choices children are able to make about what they do within specified periods of ‘child-led’ time; children reported a wide range of self-initiated activities and some opportunities to direct and shape their own FS experience. However, both adults …
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Portfolio choices with taxes
I analyze the intertemporal portfolio problem of an investor who has access to both taxable and tax-deferred (retirement) accounts. In a complete-market setting, through a tax-arbitrage argument, I show that tax-deferred accounts have only a wealth effect on overall portfolio decisions through the …
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DECISION MAKING IN LIFE CHOICES
The project stems from the desire to better understand how decisions are made in “real life contexts”, with the aim of focusing on health and mainly on how cancer patients and survivors decide to participate in psychological interventions that aim to improve the quality of life. Three studies have …
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Reconciling nondeterministic and probabilistic choices
Contains fulltext : 27561.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Governance Choices During Speculative Exuberance
… impact of speculative exuberance on governance choices of firms is very much an open question. This dissertation is an attempt to address gaps in the literature by probing more deeply into the question of how firm governance practices are influenced by economic speculation. It explores the …
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IT portfolio characteristics and choices
The overall IT investments made by a firm can be viewed as a portfolio. One challenging decision thus is the selection of a superior IT portfolio. The main proposal of this dissertation is that the characteristics of IT project investment could influence the quality of IT portfolio choice. The …
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Choices on Top of Choices: A Case Illustrating the Dialectic Impact of User Technology Choice
… study of the dialectic impact of user technology choices on systems where users have high autonomy - more ability to choose technologies. The high autonomy context of the case study is humanitarian relief, specifically one humanitarian NGO, Local Hope. Local Hope users are like other users, …
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Paths in education: how students make qualification choices at Level 3 and what influences these choices
… is an investigation into how young people make choices between the ages of sixteen to eighteen about the qualifications they study at Level 3 and the impact these choices have on further progression. Often, the reasons for their choices tend to be obvious and straightforward and are career …
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Career choices for foreign-educated dentists
<p>Attracting and retaining strong faculty members in dental schools have long been challenges in the United States. Faced with an emerging crisis in the availability and quality of dental educators, many researchers have focused on analyzing data and trends related to this subject. Even though …
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Healthy Eating Information and Food Choices
The obesity rate amongst American university students has become an item of concern for many colleges and universities across the country. College students are heavily exposed to many unhealthy dietary trends, being reliant on the taste attributes of food for their food decisions, and have a lack …
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Beliefs underlying treatment choices in osteoarthritis
Contains fulltext : 175289.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Self-Control Choices Using Running Reinforcement
… duration regardless of the distribution of choices made by the subject. The results demonstrate that the use of a wheel-running reinforcer results in a significant self-control choice bias. This suggests that the use of a wheel-running reinforcer can be used alongside food and water …
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Self-Control Choices Using Running Reinforcement
… duration regardless of the distribution of choices made by the subject. The results demonstrate that the use of a wheel-running reinforcer results in a significant self-control choice bias. This suggests that the use of a wheel-running reinforcer can be used alongside food and water …
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Childcare Choices and Early Cognitive Development
… estimate jointly the discrete household choices related to the employment status of the mother and the use of a paid care mode, the demand functions for quantity and quality of childcare, the production function for cognitive outcomes, the wage process for the mother, and childcare price …
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IT portfolio attributes and investment choices
… prioritization and selection of IT investment choices (i.e., IT initiatives). Since IT Portfolio Management (ITPM) involves making applicable decisions to achieve a firm’s strategic objectives by fine-tuning budgeted costs and returns as business conditions change, my dissertation examines an …
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Equilibrium Quality Choices in Nursing Homes
This dissertation examines the resulting equilibrium quality for nursing homes from changes in the Medicaid reimbursement rate. The first chapter summarizes and evaluates the current literature on nursing homes. The second chapter builds upon the model in the present literature by allowing Medicaid …
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Application Choices to Gender-typed Jobs
While most research explaining the persistence of gender inequality has focused on evaluator biases, a growing body of work points to mechanisms that may arise before the hiring process starts. Job seekers decide to apply to particular areas and job levels based on their mental models. Anticipated …
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Socio-psychological dimensions related to transport choices
… dimensions influencing urban transport choices, with a specific focus on sustainable mobility, including active and integrated modes. Through a multidisciplinary approach combining systematic literature review and experimental studies, the work explored how individual perceptions, social …
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INTERNAL CUSTOMER VALUE CREATION AND COMMUNICATION CHOICES
… behaviors as value exchanges. Communication choices were hypothesized to be based on the perceived values of available communication options, deriving influence from both employee internal characteristics and situational variations in the decision context. This framework was applied and …
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