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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"geographic scope"”.
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Geographic scope, isolating mechanisms, and firm performance: antecedents and consequences of isolating mechanisms
… barriers to imitation, focusing on the role of geographic scope of knowledge acquisition. I address the following four questions concerning the antecedents and consequences of isolating mechanisms with data from the semiconductor industry. The first two questions address antecedents of isolating …
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From Grassroots to Treetops: A Scope-of-Behavior Matrix for Environmental Movement Organizations that Considers Place and Scale
… motivations. They also differ in terms of the geographic areas on behalf of which they take action. Using a mixed-method, case-study approach, this study develops a scope-of-behavior matrix for environmental movement organizations based on four fundamental characteristics: outreach, motivation, …
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Rules for water allocation in a small watershed: A game theoretic approach
… party effects that place practical limits on the geographic scope of a water market. The result will be a market with few eligible participants. A ""thin"" market suffers from strategic manipulation and allocational distortions. Using a game theoretic approach based on multilateral bargaining …
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Applications of Demand Estimation to the Child Care Market
… evidence on the importance of proximity and the geographic scope of child care markets. We present two applications. First, we present a construct for measuring the geographic scope for a policy intervention and analyze how it varies in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Second, we show that …
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Russia's fight against drug trafficking: Challenges in developing local law enforcement capabilities
… state employees, and limits inherent in their geographic scope of activity. Studies conducted on two border programs that operate in post-Soviet states, EUBAM and BOMCA, provide real-world examples of challenges posed by traffickers, as well as challenges that exist in the current policing …
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More buildings about songs and food: A case study of Omaha's Slowdown project.
… successful indie rock business entities. While geographic research has previously analyzed urban redevelopment initiated by fine artists, the event of indie rock music being a catalyst for urban redevelopment has never been considered in a geographic scope. By examining the topics of affordable …
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Completing the Network: Exploring Cyclist Desires and Advocate Priorities for Bicycle Parking
… facility research and projects at a national scope. Two surveys were conducted, the first identifies how advocates prioritize bicycle parking as an advocacy objective and the second determines how cyclists in New Orleans perceive bicycle parking. At the most narrow geographic scope an …
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Uniting States: Narration, Space, and Nation in Four Nineteenth-Century American Travel Novels
… The writers I discuss found in the picaresque's geographic scope, formal expansiveness, and textual fluidity a metaphor for a spatially expanding and socially fluid nation, and the models of narrative and national authority that emerge in their novels signal the local's increasingly diminished …
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Do villages still matter?
… Three case studies were chosen that cover a wide geographic range, selecting two contemporary cases in areas with some of the highest rates of urbanization. The historic case broadens the geographic scope of the study, but also provides historical insights into how each variable influenced success …
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Caso de estudio: análisis y diagnóstico de una empresa del sector agroindustrial peruano, propuesta de un plan estratégico
… interest in the business sector to expand the geographic scope of its products or services. Due to the influence, of prices and demand at international level, mainly, it is imperative to carry out a diagnosis, made in this document, with the aim of making decisions based on the global …
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BLM Land Use Planning in Western Oregon: A Case Study for Integrating Public Participation in Natural Resources Planning
… 3) false expectations for public involvement, 4) geographic scope of the planning area, 5) the plan timeline, 6) federal budgetary pressure, 7) agency culture and individual attitudes towards public participation, and 8) the limitations of leadership
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BLM Land Use Planning in Western Oregon: A Case Study for Integrating Public Participation in Natural Resources Planning
… 3) false expectations for public involvement, 4) geographic scope of the planning area, 5) the plan timeline, 6) federal budgetary pressure, 7) agency culture and individual attitudes towards public participation, and 8) the limitations of leadership
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Yield response of soybean to planting date and row spacing in Illinois
… date and row spacing have been limited in geographic scope, and few of these have included both factors together. Studies combining these factors, and seeding rate, were conducted during 2010 and 2011 at six Illinois locations. Four planting dates and two row spacings were evaluated. …
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How to best redevelop vacant big box retail property in Texas
… property. To accomplish this, statistical, geographical and demographical analysis was done on previously repositioned vacant big boxes. To make this project manageable, the timeline for this study was limited to properties redeveloped within the last ten years and the geographic scope was …
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THE EFFECT OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ON EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AND TRAFFIC CONGESTION
… travel speed and has potential to expand the geographic scope of workers’ labor market. </p> <p>The second paper investigates the effects of subway expansions on passenger miles traveled (PMT) in subways and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on roads in the US. Drawing on a panel dataset that …
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Assessing growth preferences on the rural-urban fringe using a discrete choice model and spatial analysis methods
… research on the rural-urban fringe extends the geographic scope of the choice modeling literature, and I look beyond preferences for a particular project or policy by assessing landscape-scale attributes with implications for planning at a broader regional scale. At the rural-urban fringe where …
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Instrument of Change: The Baroque Guitar and the Emergence of Harmonic Tonality in England and France, 1626-1737
… 18th-century England and France. My thesis’ geographic scope centres on London and Paris, whilst its temporal scope spans the 111 year period from 1626 – when the earliest known printed source of guitar music to appear in either England or France was published in Paris – to 1737 – when …
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The nonprofit board servant leader : a quantitative analysis of servant leadership behavior in nonprofit board presidents from the perception of nonprofit chief staff officers using Liden's global servant leadership scale
… of organization focus, annual budget size, and geographic scope of the organization's mission, and demographic characteristics of nonprofit board presidents including age, tenure, length of volunteer involvement, and gender identity. The study addresses gaps in the current literature by …
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Performance targets for electric vehicle batteries
… energy consumption and analyzing data with wider geographic scope. The method consists of a model of battery-to-wheel vehicle energy consumption and a conditional bootstrap procedure for combining GPS travel data with large-scale data from the US National Household Travel Survey. The research …
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The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting in the Visual Cultures of the Umayyad Empire
… attention to a consciousness of conquest and the geographic scope of empire reflected in the images that adorn its walls, and I see this building as articulating a visual muʿārada (competitive comparison) between the centers and provinces of the caliphate.</p> <p>The third case study analyzes the …
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