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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"decentralizing"”.
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Decentralizing energy generation: policy recommendations for Germany
The next 10-15 years will determine if Germany, one of the world's leading economies and Europe's biggest energy consumer will be able to re-define its energy industry and use the benefits of innovation in order to combine long-term sustainability with current welfare. And chances are that …
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Decentralizing UNIX abstractions in the exokernel architecture
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Decentralizing decision making in modern military organizations
For organizations, the value of information is to improve decision making. In the military in particular, information's role in warfare has always been to affect decisions at all levels -- from strategic to tactical - to put one's forces in a position of advantage. In the information age, the cost …
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Assessing Impacts of Decentralizing Airpower Command and Control
… was to quantitatively assess the impacts of decentralizing the command and control (C2) of airpower under varying operational conditions. The research used the experimental method to test hypotheses regarding decentralization of control. JAEX, a stochastic, attrition-based Blue-versus-Red war …
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Decentralizing Power: Enabling Local Energy Resilience and Equity in Accra
Over 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity. While Ghana is projected to achieve universal access by 2030, this national milestone obscures lived experiences of energy insecurity— particularly in urban centers like Accra. Despite a reported 91% grid connection rate, …
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Decentralizing urbanization : harnessing the potential of small cities in India
Perceived as symbols of national development or degeneration, megacities continue to dominate discourse and action related to urbanization, particularly in developing countries like India. Simultaneously, a large portion of urbanized space continues to be described by small and medium sized cities …
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Reframing citizenship by decentralizing development under India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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The human facter in decentralizing management functions : the case of the University of Zambia
This study investigates the extent of staff preparedness and willingness to participate in the implementation of the decentralized functions at the University of Zambia. It does so by means of questionnaires and interviews administered to teaching and senior non-teaching staff. The study also …
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The human facter in decentralizing management functions : the case of the University of Zambia
This study investigates the extent of staff preparedness and willingness to participate in the implementation of the decentralized functions at the University of Zambia. It does so by means of questionnaires and interviews administered to teaching and senior non-teaching staff. The study also …
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Decentralizing citizen participation in the planning process: a study of the community boards on Staten Island
The study focused on the role and function of the official citizen advisory bodies in New York City known as the community boards. The boards were considered within the framework of recent moves for decentralization of city government and increased opportunities for citizen participation. They were …
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Essays on Economic Aspects of Corruption
… consequences are discussed. Then the effects of decentralizing the privatization process are analyzed. The model indicates that decentralization decreases the total privatization time. Under a given condition, decentralization also decreases corruption and the total revenue, and increases …
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Decentralized Web-based Data Storage for LinkedPipes Applications using Solid
… started by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is focused on decentralizing the World Wide Web and decoupling data from applications on the Internet. The results of the practical work satisfy all defined functional and non-functional requirements stated by the LinkedPipes Applications project. The results of …
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Decentralization and local challenges in environmental resources policy: the Korean cases
… is compelling the central government to continue decentralizing policymaking. Decentralization in environmental resources policy is yet in its infancy, but local governments have gained some functional competencies. Democratization and political decentralization are critical elements at the moment …
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La Diputación provincial de Alicante (1812-1874)
… the conflict between the centralizing and decentralizing tendencies that were present throughout the entire 19th century. Then the research descends upon the praxis, investigating the specific case of the Provincial Council of Alicante. Studying this authority permits not only learning …
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ELECTION VIOLENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY: NIGERIA IN PERSPECTIVE
… duties, strengthening independence through decentralizing appointments, expanding civic education, and enhancing security agencies’ capacity.
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AN AGENCY’S PATH TO INDEPENDENCE: HOW TO GAIN ADMINISTRATIVE AUTONOMY AS A U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY
… clear mission, hiring qualified candidates, and decentralizing authorities provide a certain level of autonomy, as experienced by the EPA, FTC, and FDA.
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Fiscal decentralization and urban public transport
… papers suggest that the reforms aiming at decentralizing power and responsibility for urban public transport management lead to successful outcomes. Yet, there is no literature on the effects of decentralization of tax raising on public transport provision although an increasing number of …
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Democratization and police reform
… question of this paper is: Why are some states decentralizing the democratic control of the police, while others are centralizing it, both with the aim of democratization? The theoretical background of this study are theories about policy diffusion and policy transfer. Therefore this study can …
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Distributed Method to Optimal Profile Descent
… until an optimal solution is achieved thus decentralizing the computation of the optimization problem.
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Intermediaries and Migration in the United States
… immigration process, which occurs as a result of decentralizing, disassembling, reassembling, and recentralizing processes at local, subnational, and national levels. The degree of segmented embeddedness is highly ethnicized and gendered. Second, the dissertation examines whether the typology of …
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