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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"defection"”.
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The understanding of defection in the 1983 Code of Canon Law.
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A Systemic Analysis of the Defection Process in the Small Parcel Logistic Industry
<p>The study of customer-initiated defection from one provider of services to another has been studied extensively in the business-to-consumer market. The reason to study defection patterns and analytics is to allow businesses to identify and control antecedents to defection that in turn will …
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Collaborating at the Tower of Babel: The Meaning of Cooperation and the Foundations of Long-Term Exchange
… understanding of what actions constitute (vs. defection) in changing and complex environments, thereby making cooperation possible. Achieving cooperation in the face of incentives to defect is essential in organizations and markets. Past research has focused on the payoff structure and the …
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College Dating Couples' use of Conflict Management during a Prisoner's Dilemma Task: An Exploratory Study
… responding including negative escalation (termed defection spirals), cooperation, and repair were examined both quantitatively and qualitatively. In addition to the Prisoner's Dilemma game, participants completed questionnaires regarding personal history, current mood, and information on their …
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College Dating Couples' use of Conflict Management during a Prisoner's Dilemma Task: An Exploratory Study
… responding including negative escalation (termed defection spirals), cooperation, and repair were examined both quantitatively and qualitatively. In addition to the Prisoner's Dilemma game, participants completed questionnaires regarding personal history, current mood, and information on their …
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Why do States Decentralize? The Politics of Decentralization.
… the fear central leaders have about local defection. I argue that central leaders undertake decentralization when information asymmetries that exist between the central leaders and local politicians become politically salient and the chances of local defection are fewer. </p><p>This …
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CAPTIVITY AND CONVERSION: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF SOVIET POWS IN AFGHANISTAN
… of war (POWs) experienced prior to their defection and while in captivity. I discuss several driving factors, such as Soviet propaganda tactics, pre-deployment military training, quality of life in Afghanistan, human rights violations, ethnic conflicts and ritualistic hazing (dedovshchina …
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The Political Origins of Alliances
… provocation, rigidity, entanglement, and defection. I find that asymmetry concerns - the concern that the potential allies do not actually share a mutual threat - were the most significant (coded as high in 9 out of the 14 cases) across successful and failed alliance negotiations, and that …
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Formation and development of middle-class urban culture and politics : Sheffield 1825-1880.
… The claim that 1868 marks the beginning of the defection of the Sheffield middle class to the Tory party is then examined. It is argued that the defection of the elite of the Sheffield middle class began much earlier than this date. The conclusion draws together the main arguments of the thesis …
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Tides of Cooperation: The Ebb and Flow of Regional Cooperation in Latin America
… regional cooperation, why do we see periods of defection within these organizations?</p> <p>Historical cases within the Latin America suggest that regional cooperation suffers under conditions of unequal gains. Asymmetrical distribution of economic gains from cooperation efforts hinder further …
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Soviet Defectors: Sexuality, Gender, and the Family in Cold War Propaganda, 1960-1990
… of gender, sexuality and family to the practice defection, and situating them in the cultural Cold War context.
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An Analytical Investigation of Natural Frequency for a Symmetric Composite Box-Beam with Thermal Effects
… of motion is obtained by means of small defection theory and D'Alembert's method. The Smith and Chopra stiffness matrix is used in the governing equations of motion and an appropriate MATLAB® code has been written to solve for the stiffness matrix elements of the box-beam. The resulting …
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Effects of Variable Payoff Structures on Cooperative Behaviors in a Repeated Prisoners Dilemma Game
… varying amounts of payoffs for cooperation or defection (non-cooperation). A reversal design experiment was conducted completely remotely, with the participants prevented from seeing and communicating with their dyad partners in each trial. Data were analyzed both in terms of group data, as …
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Tubular hydroforming of advanced steel and aluminum alloys : an economic evaluation using technical cost modeling
… of constant load to failure and constant defection are used to derive functional equivalence. Results show that manufacturing costs are most sensitive to the maximum calibration pressure required for hydroforming. While the costs of processing aluminum components are less than those of …
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Using Data To Optimize The Fulfillment And Location Decisions Of An Online Grocery Retailer
… whether fulfillment issues lead to customer defection. Based on our findings, we develop an inventory allocation rule to improve the retailer's performance. We estimate that our inventor allocation rule would increase revenue from affected customer by 2%. In the second chapter, we empirically …
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Attracting and retaining teachers in a changing educational system
… has suggested that the record levels of teacher defection that are currently costing American schools dearly in terms of dollars and talent can be explained by working conditions and teacher organizational commitment. By incorporating educational research into Hackman and Oldham’s (1980) job …
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The group-based binding pledge as a solution to public goods problems
… two choices: maximizing personal interests (defection) or maximizing collective interests (cooperation). It is generally more profitable to defect, but if all do so, all are worse off than if all choose to cooperate. A public goods dilemma is a special case of a social dilemma in which people …
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Social and economic factors influencing the emergence of collective action in a traditional fishery of Oman : an empirical assessment of three coastal fishing towns in south Al-Batinah
… Whereas the predicted outcome of the former is defection, the latter suggests the possibility that the preferred outcome (i.e., cooperation) will occur, because individuals' decisions in the commons are influenced by a complex set of factors, rather than strictly materialistic self-interest. The …
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Apostasy -- A Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Approach
… of religious commitment versus religious defection, and the main factors influencing believers toward apostasy. But it underlines the fact that apostasy is not a hopeless, unsolvable event in one's life. For this reason, some practical suggestions to prevent and to cope with apostasy are …
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Security forces in conflict: Composition, specialisation, and effectiveness in counterinsurgency and peacekeeping operations
… the type of military fragmentation the risk of defection either increases or decreases. Employing Bayesian estimation, the findings in each paper provide corroboration. The third paper provides an extension to peacekeeping operations. My co-author and I argue that peacekeeping troops greatly …
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