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Showing 1 to 20 of 278 for “"compare and contrast"”.
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An Exploratory Study of Three Budget Processes to Determine Financial Analysis Effectiveness
The problem of this study was to compare and contrast the three budget processes to determine which process was more effective in conducting a financial analysis of a leisure program.
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A survey of mathematical models of Dengue fever
<p>In this paper, we compare and contrast five models of Dengue fever. We evaluate each model using different scenarios and identify the strenghts and wecknesses of each of the model</p>
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The Celt and Shelley : a study of certain contrasts and resemblances between Welsh literature and Shelley's poetry
… ends to be attained; there will be an attempt to compare and contrast the outstanding Shelleyan qualities which have been quite generally accepted with those of the Cymric Celts. But it is quite evident by the very limitation of time and space at our disposal, that the present treatment of style …
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Economic Efficiency in the Production of Low-Volume Rural Roads: An Application of Radial Measures of Efficiency
… public good in an economically efficient manner, and the second was to compare and contrast alternative empirical methods used to obtain efficiency measures. The principle policy option examined was jurisdictional consolidation as a method to enhance production efficiency and reduce long-run costs.
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Relational analysis of terminology found in the business and social sciences simulation and gaming literature
The primary focus of this study is to analyze, compare, and contrast the terminology used when authors refer to business and social science simulations, especially within the context of currently existing classification schemes of simulations. Additionally, emphasis is placed on identifying and …
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The Relationship of a Hospital Merger to Elicited Moods and Feelings of the Merging and Merged Professional Nursing Staff
… the merger of their institution.<br> 3. To compare and contrast the elicited moods of the merged and merging nurses four years following the merger of their two hospitals.</p>
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The Eutrophic Status of Ten Central Iowa Lakes
… eutrophic status of ten central Iowa lakes; (2) compare and contrast any differences between the lakes located within the Wisconsin Glacial drift and those lakes located outside of this area; and (3) compare and contrast any differences between natural and man-make lakes. Procedure. During the …
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Eastern European Cinema vs. Hollywood: Bosnia War Films
… country after the fall of the Iron Curtain and break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast the films from the Hollywood and Eastern European arenas. This study will specifically examine the Hollywood blockbuster Behind Enemy Lines and the …
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A Comparative Investigation of the Affects of Parental Cooperation and No Known Parental Cooperation in Children’s Reading Skills
… contributed to their growth in reading skills and interests in the primary grades. This experiment was devised as a means to study reading difficulties in children from a low socioeconomic area, while, at the same time, parents were used to help overcome those problems. The main purpose of this …
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Mill, Gladstone, and Liberal politics, 1865--1873
Though many writers have described Mill and Gladstone as the two giants of mid-Victorian Liberalism, there has been no attempt systematically to compare and contrast their approaches to Liberalism and thereby clarify various shades of Liberalism as represented in Liberal politics. Mill's later life …
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A Study of the Processes and Outcomes of Parental Cooperation Affecting Children’s Reading Ability
… in children who come from a low socio-economic and cultural background and, at the same time, involving their parents in the reading instructional program. Weekly sessions, involving informal reading activities, were attended by the parents and their children. Those who participated regularly …
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Isolation and physiochemical characterization of dissolved organic matter across limnic and oceanic systems
The included studies compare and contrast dissolved organic matter (DOM) from different limnic and oceanic systems in the United States, as well as a sample from Pony Lake, Antarctica. Twenty-seven samples of DOM were isolated via coupled reverse osmosis/ electrodialysis from both the Altamaha and …
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Classifications and Designations of Metric Modulation in the Music of Elliott Carter
… a staple in Elliott Carter's rhythmic language and compositional process, being found in most of his compositions thereafter. Though most scholars share a general understanding of metric modulation, the different processes that achieve it and its functions are not documented. This thesis will …
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The interchange of State and Religion Relationship, and the Corresponding Impact on Conforming with Freedom of Religion under the United Nations’ Jurisprudence: A Comparison between the French, the United States, and the Saudi Arabian legal systems.
<p>This dissertation compares freedom of religion in France, the United States, and Saudi Arabia to the United Nations’ jurisprudence. It studies the question of how the relationship between state and religion in these three countries influences how their policies towards freedom of religion …
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State Of Mississippi Crisis Communications: Examining MSWIN Preparedness
… Mississippi Wireless Information Network (MSWIN) and its level of preparedness to avert the communication problems for the State of Mississippi that were seen during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, in the event of a similar crisis. It explores the technical workings of the network and the makeup of the …
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Elementary Principals' and PTA Parent Representatives' Perceptions about the Effects of Parental Involvement on Student Achievement in Georgia Title I Schools
… explore the perceptions of elementary principals and PTA parent representatives about the effects of parental involvement on student achievement in three Georgia Title I schools. This particular study evolved from firsthand experiences while working with less fortunate students in a Title I school …
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The Effects of Cultural Orientation and Bilingualism on Inferential Comprehension
… culture on the process of drawing inferences and (2) to compare and contrast inferencing ability of Iranian students with American students with similar academic background. A secondary purpose of the study was to examine if reading in a second language impedes the process of inferencing. To …
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Information theoretic measure of complexity and stock market analysis : using the JSE as a case study
… of complexity (ICOMP) for model selection. In contrast to Akaike's [1] information criterion (AIC) and other AIC type criteria that are traditionally used for regression analysis, ICOMP takes into account the interdependencies of the parameter estimates. This paper is divided into two parts. In …
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Structure and evolution of communication networks in organizations
… of communication data--emails, phone calls, and meetings-in a modern IT firm. Using network descriptive statistics, we show how communication networks in an organization differ from random networks and other social networks. We also compare and contrast the three types of communication …
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Modeling user network transitions : various approaches
… resending packets. We used various approaches and techniques to model the user's behavior, including probabilistic programming, regression, neural nets, and clustering algorithms. We compare and contrast how models differ in their prediction accuracy, speed of convergence, and algorithmic …
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