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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"general will"”.
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The General Will and the Problem of Self-Love: An Analysis of Rousseau's Theory of Citizenship
… an interpretation of Rousseau's theory of the general will informed by his treatment of the problem of self-love. The central claim of the dissertation is that standard accounts of the general will have neglected both the role and the problematic character of Rousseau's conception of self-love …
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An analysis of the Impacts of climate change on winter sports in British Columbia : a case study of Whistler and Revelstoke, British Columbia
… It is forecasted that climate change will contribute to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in Canada including flooding, wildfires, avalanches, heatwaves and drought. It is anticipated that the winter sport industry and the tourism industry, in …
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Dorybės samprata šiuolaikinės demokratijos teorijoje: alternatyva A.MacIntyre pozicijai /
… that Rousseau’s concept of sovereign as the general will can provide an alternative understanding of the moral and ethical basis of contemporary democracy. The idea of general will also allows to re-evaluate the key problems of virtue ethics in contemporary theories, raised by MacIntyre, such …
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The role of socialist competition in establishing labour discipline in the Soviet working class, 1928-1934
… in the shortest possible time scale, a general will for industrialisation and, having established that will and destroyed opposition to it, channel the energies thus generated into the desired directions. The distinctive element in this blend is identified as socialist competition, which …
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The taxation of trusts in South Africa
… concerns the taxation of Trusts in South Africa, will be focused on the income tax treatment of trusts as opposed to the various other types of trust taxation such as donations tax, estate and transfer duty, which exist. The taxation of trust income in general will be traversed with specific …
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Best practices in user needs/requirements generation
… research indicate that military organizations in general will need to reevaluate the current practices in the front-end and the application of process enablers within their organizations. Further, military organizations should reexamine if the current process structure for system development in …
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Joint probability distribution of rainfall intensity and duration
… on a fixed time window width (which in general will not coincide with the rainfall event duration) from a continuous record to perform a frequency analysis in terms of the marginal distribution. The digitized database contains annual maximum intensities for selected discrete durations. …
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Comparative Study of Synchronous Remote and Traditional In-Lab Usability Evaluation Methods
… usability of software user interfaces (Andre, Williges, & Hartson, 2000). However, traditional in lab evaluation has its drawbacks such as availability of representative end users, high cost of testing and lack of true representation of a user's actual work environment. To counteract these …
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Enforcement of the law in the People's Republic of China - with focus on international civil litigation and arbitration
… the jurisdiction and the arbitration system will be briefly discussed. Thereafter, the study focuses on the recognition and enforcement of civil judgements and arbitral awards in the PRC. The organization of the enforcement and its procedure, laws and regulations in general will be addressed …
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Hold up : machine delay in architectural design
… architectural designers--and human beings, in general-- will not have to anticipate what happens next. MDFab is an alternative to this future: it offers a way to interact with digital fabrication machines that enables architectural designers to advance the material thinking, improvisation, and …
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La simulazione in architettura per il controllo dei consumi energetici e del territorio negli appalti pubblici (verdi)
… are important to make we able to appreciate what will be the best efficient actions for that buildings, based on real priority and on more concrete specific plans. We are speaking about simulation model as Bayesian networks, that can be used for each kind of public building, to manage the energy …
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Identification of liberation heritage sites at Lamontville and its linkage to the KwaZulu-Natal Liberation Heritage Route
… of Lamontville is discussed. It is the general introduction of the research topic where the following topics form part of the research proposal. These include: introduction, statement of research problem, purpose of the study, delimitation of the study, research methodology, …
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Compensating for On-Body Placement Effects in Activity Recognition
… (e.g. in an industrial setting), users, in general, will have a hard time coping with these limitations. If one needs to remember to carry dedicated sensors and to adjust their orientation from time to time, the activity recognition system is more distracting than helpful. How can we deal …
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Literary naturalism 1865-1940: its history, influences and legacy
… The conclusion argues that Progressivism and the general will for reform were catalysts for the success of American literary Naturalism, and that the romantic language of naturalism lent itself to a national literature which dealt with such issues. Naturalistic techniques and perspectives were …
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Nonparametric detection of signals causing arbitrary changes in the accompanying noise backgrounds
… deals with signals and noise of known form, will be denoted as parametric detection (2). In some detection problems the information required by the detectors may be available. However, in other situations there may be much less information; for example, the statistical form of the noise may …
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Commitment and organisational citizenship behaviours in the Libyan banking sector : insights from managerial and non-managerial employees : an interpretivist exploration
… productivity of the banking sector. This in general will help in improving the current situation in the banking sector, consistent with the recent political and social change in the country.
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Emancipating the Many: A practice led investigation into emergent paradigms of immediate political action
… the swelling discontent with a system which is generally assumed to work effectively and to benefit all has led me to the assumption that we have entered a stage where the concept of representational democracy is seriously compromised. The sheer scale or projected growth rates of urban …
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Hubungan antara kelebihan beban kerja dengan job burnout pada karyawan
… Increasing the productivity of the company will certainly impact the performance of employees. Employees will work harder in order to achieve the target of the company. Therefore, the burden of their work in general is also increasing. High workload in general will affect employees. One …