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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"expediency"”.
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Replacing Workplace Leadership with Political Expediency
… leadership practices for purpose of political expediency. Two fortune 500 companies, three smaller local companies and select Western Kentucky University faculty were surveyed using the MACH V Attitude Inventory for determining Machiavellian tendencies via an online survey site. An examination …
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Furling The South Carolina Confederate Flag: Political Expediency Or Cultural Change?
… lawmakers were motivated more by political expediency than by a commitment to racial equality and social change.
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An Investigation of Elementary School Filing Methods
… with aims to produce: (1) utmost efficiency and expediency in the use of filing and finding of materials, and incorporated into: (2) a recommended system of filing organization and procedure.
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A Study of Thirty Sub-Standard Homes in South Omaha
… not upon any particular norm, but upon mere expediency and the necessarily limited economics, the results of the various standards of living reflect themselves in social life in various ways. Most particularly in cities do we see the reflection of what economists call the various standards of …
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
… this dissertation covers include criticisms of expediency as a motive in technical communication; the changing landscape of instruction manual composition; the role of purpose-completion and stakeholder awareness in visual rhetoric; and the futility of advancing ideology-free technical writing …
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The Conductor as a Compositional Resource: A Categorization and Demonstration of Composer-Specified Functions of the Conductor (Contemporary)
… of performance, governed by tradition and expediency rather than direct compositional choice. The monograph establishes seven categories and eighteen subcategories of composers' explicitly verbalized or notated uses of the conductor as a compositional resource, on the basis of demonstrable …
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Political socialization of youth in post-soviet states
… as theoretical model, this study discusses the expediency of political socialization framework in identifying nation-building techniques. Examination and comparison of youth political socialization policies in Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine revealed the unsuccessful attempts of the first …
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The Anti-Maynooth Campaign: A Study in Anti-Catholicism and Politics in the United Kingdom, 1851-69 (Protestantism, Ireland)
… of conciliation towards Ireland, and political expediency advised the continuation of the grant as a means of pacifying Irish discontent with British rule. The generally moderate nature of the British political State was one which excluded religious militancy from considerations of practical …
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A study of the evaluation of advertising message effectiveness with particular reference to the life assurance industry in South Africa
… systems relevance is forced to yield to expediency. Essentially the method requires that advertising messages are dispatched by direct mail to random samples drawn from a list which effectively represents the total universe of the target market.
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A study of the evaluation of advertising message effectiveness with particular reference to the life assurance industry in South Africa
… systems relevance is forced to yield to expediency. Essentially the method requires that advertising messages are dispatched by direct mail to random samples drawn from a list which effectively represents the total universe of the target market.
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Crafting endurance: Form, time, space, and memory in the construction of a civic urban artefact for Cape Town s east city
… so, architecture becomes more than a product of expediency, but rather a carefully crafted urban artefact which supports the continuity of civic life and imbues the city with meaning and collective memory
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Randomised shuffle and applied misinformation: An enhanced model for contact-based smart-card serial data transfer
… cryptographic functions. Consequently, for expediency, much data may be transferred in plain-text across the vulnerable communications link, further easing an eavesdropper's task. Practitioners in military communications protect transmitted information by varying a link's carrier frequency …
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How was Richard Haldane able to reform the British Army? An historical assessment using a contemporary change management model
… had failed. It considers how political expediency, foreign policy and military strategy influenced Haldane and why his nation in arms concept did not improve the public’s perception of the regular and auxiliary forces. The dissertation concludes that Haldane understood the intellectual …
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Riotous Reform, Staging Complaint, 1561–1595
… of commons complaint may have been fuelled by expediency rather than ideology, but it was instrumental in fostering an interpretive community bound by laughter in an increasingly militant political discourse. This thesis appraises the role of five little-known plays in the formation of commons …
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The effect of different fertilizer treatments on the nitrogen and organic matter content of a soil when cropped to a definite rotation for a period of twenty-four years
… for a period of 24 years. Conclusions as to the expediency of the practices followed have been approached from a purely crop yield basis. This method is serving its purpose in showing exactly how much the land is producing at the present time under a given soil management practice. It is …
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Stochastic Learning Feedback Hybrid Automata for Dynamic Power Management in Embedded Systems
… model. Simulation-based experiments show the expediency of the feedback systems in stationary environments. Further experiments are conducted using real trace data to compare stochastic learning strategies to the outcomes of several former predictive algorithms. These reveal that SLHA attains …
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James Breckinridge
… than a doctrinaire Federalist. He voted with expediency to benefit his state and his agricultural section of Virginia. Genuinely interested in developing education and transportation in Virginia, he served on a James and Kanawha River canal coanission and he worked with Thomas Jefferson in …
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Studio Bench: the DIY Nomad and Noise Selector
… embraces appropriation, remixing, hacking and expediency. The DIY Nomad also appropriates cultures and the research is shaped through DJ practice - remixing and record selecting - noise music, and improvisation.
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Highway cyclaplex : re-appropriating spaces of highway infrastructure for transit
… for human occupation, but rather for vehicular expediency. The radius and the tilt of the turning road, the slope of ramps, and the height at which the overpasses take are all pre-prescribed to mediate traffic. The abundance of existing structure and available space makes interchanges a prime …
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Reforming the Approach to Alternative Dispute Resolution in Kenyan Industrial Disputes: A Comparative Analysis
… methods be promoted for the reasons of expediency and efficiency. Regardless of the advent of such methods of dispute resolution, courts have still exercised some form of control and oversight of the dispute processes, and such oversight can be easily misused to defeat the main intention …
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