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Multiple-Element Contingency Screening
… to the full set of results for the double-outage contingency analysis, solved using the dc power flow. The results show that, even using a very limited amount of information about the system, it is possible to predict a very high percentage of the double-outage contingencies that result in …
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Multi-source contingency clustering
… in the form of normalized multidimensional contingency tables in order to recover robust mappings between data points and clusters for each of the individual data sources. We outline a unifying formalism by which one might approach cross-channel clustering problems, and begin by defining an …
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Sport, art and contingency : redescriptions
In today's highly technical and product-oriented world, sport, like many other things, has become a realm of efficiency, records and statistics. While one can certainly appreciate the breathtaking accuracy, speed and strength of the world's elite athletes, seems that there may be more that can and …
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Contingency learning in the nondeprived pigeon
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Contingency learning in the nondeprived pigeon
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A Contingency View of Consolidation Systems
… one set of consolidated financial statements. Contingency theory postulates that organisational sub-systems should be designed in accordance with the contextual variables and that performance will result if a match is achieved between these contextual variables and the characteristics of the …
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Task and contingency planning under uncertainty
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1995.
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Costing Systems and Management Accounting Practices in Syrian Private Industrial Companies: a Contingency Approach: A Contingency Approach
… the study, the researcher has adopted contingency theory (CT) and institutional theory (IT) to identify those contingent and institutional factors having the greatest influence on the costing systems and MAPs used. This research is significant because it is the first empirical study in …
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Litigation contingency disclosures by Canadian public companies
Litigation-type contingencies represent one of the most frequent and most important uncertainties faced in business. Inspired by the Entwistle et al. (1994) study, this study focuses on two aspects of litigation contingencies: the current status of disclosure practices by public firms, and the …
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Toward a contingency model of organizational commitment
<p>This exploratory study examines the relationship between organizational commitment and environmental variability. In an in-depth survey of 65 nurses, three types of organizational commitment-- attitudinal, calculative, and integrative-- are measured. Subsequently, each of these three types is …
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Contingency Management in a Language Development Program
The problem was two-fold. The first part of the problem was the investigation of whether a person with no formal training in speech could successfully administer Gray's (1970) language development program. The second part of the problem was the investigation of whether the two subjects involved …
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Contingency of Work as a Psychological Construct
Organizations have begun to rely on alternate work arrangements (e.g., hours worked per week, hiring source of the employee, permanence of the position in the organization) to a greater degree over the past few decades. However, little is known about the way that individuals view their work …
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Visual-auditory interstimulus contingency effects in saccade programming
… of reflexive visual prosaccades did not show contingency effects. However, in a bimodal go/no-go task the contingency did reach significance indicating shorter latencies in the positively and negatively correlated conditions than in the control condition. It was concluded that these effects …
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Guidelines for the development of strike contingency plans
… develop guidelines for the formulation of strike contingency plans to assist school administrators and boards of school trustees during a teacher strike. The study was designed to secure and evaluate strike contingency plan items currently being utilized by school administrators as well as ideas …
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Relationships in Aging, Cognitive Processes, and Contingency Learning
… associative processes on the acquisition of contingency information. Young and older adults completed positive (+.65) and negative (-.65) contingency tasks that measured their ability to discover the relationship between a symptom (e.g., FEVER) and a fictional disease (e.g., OLYALGIA). Both …
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THE CLASSROOM PASSWORD GROUP CONTINGENCY WITH RANDOMIZED REINFORCERS
… independent, interdependent, and dependent group contingency. Additional components, such as randomization within a group contingency, have been seen to further the effectiveness of behavioral strategies. A novel independent group contingency that has recently been investigated and demonstrated …
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Contingency contracting for the treatment of marital discord
<p>The effectiveness of contingency contracting for treating marital distress was tested using a within couple multiple baseline design across responses. Two distressed couples participated. Both couples experienced marginal improvements as measured by a spouse-tracking procedure, One couple …
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Economic development among First Nations : a contingency perspective
… radical perspectives are rejected. Instead, 'contingency perspective' based on regulation theory, the postimperial perspective and alternative/indigenous development approaches, is developed. To address the third objective, research was conducted in three parts: (i) an investigation of the …
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