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Showing 1 to 20 of 2482 for “"generations"”.
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Equilibria in overlapping generations models
… Capturing this dynamic feature, the overlapping generations model is particularly suitable to address the interest rate problem, as has been shown by Paul Samuelson, David Gale and Costas Azariadis. This thesis reviews their contribution to the theory of interest: with his consumption-loan model, …
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Three Generations, One Future: A Systematic Analysis on Nicotine's Effect across generations in C. elegans.
… but are also inherited to the subsequent generations. With respect to nicotine, a wealth of studies have investigated the dose and time-dependent effects of this chemical on multiple systems including cell lines and model organisms. However, the transgenerational effect of nicotine exposed …
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HIV/AIDS Prevention: Educating Future Generations
<p>The purpose of this study was to discover if implementing more educational interventions on HIV/AIDS would lead to lower incidents of HIV/AIDS among youth. A quantitative research design was used to determine the level of knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes of high school students in regard to …
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Sandwich Generation Caregivers: Ethical Legacies Throughout Generations
… may affect one's view of family life across generations. The research participants in this study were adults situated between young children and dependent elders, who are also termed the "sandwich generation" (Brody 1981; Soldo 1996). By reexamining notions of self and others through …
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Generations in the Workplace: Similarities and Differences.
<p>Occurrences of four generations working side by side are not unusual. The four generations include Traditionalist, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. Members of each generation have views and opinions about their work ethic and their definition of loyalty to the …
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Managing conflict across generations in the workplace
… workplace is made up of members of four distinct generations: "Veterans" (born between 1922-1943), "Boomers" (born between 1943-1960), "Generation X" (born between 1960 - 1980), and "Generation Y" (born between 1980 and 2000). Members of each generation bring to the workplace very distinct …
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Electron Generations and Transportation in Fast Ignition Experiments
This thesis described the generation and transportation of hot electron in fast ignition experiments. A brief review of the background and the theory of inertial confinement fusion process are discussed. This thesis explains different schemes of fast ignition alongside the various relevant electron …
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Marketing to the New Generations of LGBTQ+ Tourists
… tourism communities who wish to expand to newer generations of LGBTQ+ travelers market to them successfully?” Mixed research methods include an exploration of city tourism websites, interviews with tourism professionals, and focus groups with LGBTQ+ Millennials and Gen Z. From the findings and …
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Depression across the generations : intergenerational stories, meanings and resilience
… and stories held by families with multiple generations of depression. Two families with three different generations in each were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. The chosen method of data analysis was interpretative phenomenological approach and findings were interpreted …
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Masculinities, generations and health: Men's sexual health in Bangladesh
… gap, insights from Mannheim’s work on social generations, Connell’s theory of masculinity, Butler’s theory of gender performativity, and Alldred and Fox’s work on the sexuality-assemblage, were utilised to offer a better understanding of the implications of masculinities for men’s sexual …
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Family Talk: Irish Women Across Generations Negotiate Single Motherhood
… This thesis examines the ways in which three generations of women in Irish families talked about single motherhood. Interviews were conducted with seven intergenerational families of women in family groups. Follow up interviews were carried out with each woman individually after the family …
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The theoria and praxis of obligations to future generations
… generation may have a profound impact on future generations. That possibility calls into question the nature and extent to which the present generation has obligations to future generations. The dissertation starts with the notion of whether there is an obligation to have future generations. It …
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Paying the Price: Twelve Generations Fight for America's Freedom
Biography/memoir
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Electronic Books: An Overview of the First Two Generations.
… texts while retaining their strengths. Two generations of these devices, and the companies that created them, have reached the marketplace.</p> <p>This thesis provides a short history of electronic text readers and gives an overview of the first and second generations. The issues that will …
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Population ageing, longevity and migration: an overlapping generations approach
… analysis is developed using Overlapping Generations Models (OLG). The thesis is divided in the following four chapters: 1) “A Model for Determining Consumption and Social Assistance Demand in Uncertainty Conditions”, focuses on the relation between demographic impact and social insurance …
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Adolescent Offending: How Growing Up Disadvantaged Matters Across Immigrant Generations
… affects adolescent offending across immigrant generations. Structural equation modeling assesses these two potential roles. Findings from the first two papers suggest different forms of disadvantage have distinct indirect consequences and those consequences vary by immigrant status (i.e., …
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