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Showing 1 to 20 of 6637 for “"doing"”.
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Doing Spontaneity
<p>This dissertation considers the rhetorical use of the term “spontaneity” and action affiliated with it from the perspective of ethnomethodology, as a dynamic social practice emergent from concrete interactions among people. I first consider a variety of existing operationalizations of …
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Doing Less Than Best
This thesis is about the moral reasons we have to do less than best. It consists of six chapters. Part I of the thesis proposes, extends, and defends reasons to do less than best. In Chapter One (“The Conditional Obligation”) I outline and reject two recent arguments from Joe Horton and Theron …
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Doing well by doing good? Exploring how corporate social responsibility initiatives impact consumer behavior
Brands now widely implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives to respond to the call for businesses to contribute to societal welfare. The extant marketing research has focused on the economic benefits of brands communicating their efforts in CSR initiatives to consumers. However, …
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Doing time : inducing temporal graphs
We consider the problem of constructing a directed acyclic graph that encodes temporal relations found in a text. The unit of our analysis is a temporal segment, a fragment of text that maintains temporal coherence. The strength of our approach lies in its ability to simultaneously optimize …
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Knowing and doing, well and good
… knowledge an agent can have of what she is doing, how, and why. The second chapter considers how my view about the knowledge-action relationship differs from those advocated by 'shifty epistemologists'-theorists who claim that what you know depends on practical factors like what's at stake …
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Learning-by-doing and infant industries
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1992.
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Photovoltaic Systems, the experience curve, and learning by doing : who is learning and what are they doing?
The photovoltaics industry has been growing at extraordinary rates over the past ten years as a result of increased government support for the technology. Yet supporting the technology is expensive and there is uncertainty over the future rate of technological progress for photovoltaics. Experience …
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A critical analysis of men's constructions of paying for sex: doing gender, doing race in the interview context
Men from all walks of life pay for sex in various contexts every day, yet we know very little about the ways in which men make meaning of their paid sexual encounters, particularly in South Africa, where sex work is both illegal and highly stigmatised. South Africa's apartheid and colonial past, as …
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Learning by Watching and Learning by Doing
When we are babies, we learn how to see by watching how the world changes and by interacting with it. Can we use these same signals to train vision models? In this thesis, we outline several works which use these paradigms as a basis for learning algorithms. First, we explore learning by watching …
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Tell Me Again What I'm Doing Here
A collection of short stories.
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Tell Me Again What I'm Doing Here
A collection of short stories.
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Digital Rhetoric: Doing Things with Words Online
<p>It is through rhetorical principles applied to digital writing that online writers can be heard above the din confronting weary online browsers. The synergy between classical rhetoric and new media practices leads to persuasive and memorable digital writing. Despite the hurried clip and the …
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Re-thinking and doing : content based audio
… project includes an e‐book called Thinking and Doing: content based audio and an audio documentary mini‐series There is a Human Being by the Side of the Road which consists of two parts called Woman and Man. This paper looks into the broad concept that all my submitted work relates to; the audio …
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Technology upgrading, learning-by-doing, and productivity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Doing the impossible : making urban schools excellent
Every 29 seconds a student drops out of high school in the United States and more than one million students stop attending school annually. African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans are disproportionately represented within this statistic: over one-half of them fail to graduate from public …
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Optimal region coloring by doing image chunking
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1990.
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Technical debt : the cost of doing nothing
The Air Force is currently paying a cost for the mismanagement of its software development activities. Software-intensive systems are consistently plagued with cost, schedule, and performance issues, which in the current fiscal environment is unsustainable. There has been much research on the …
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Doing right by students: professional ethics for professors
Academic interest in professional ethics burgeoned during the 1970s and 1980s, subsequent to public awareness of ethical failures in law, medicine, business, and government. Only recently, however, did academics turn their attention to the ethics of the academy itself. New models of academic …
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