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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"individual choice"”.
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Travel prediction with models of individual choice behavior.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering.
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Social disorganization and individual choice: A multi-level causal model of the etiology of delinquency.
Social disorganization and individual choice: A multi-level causal model of the etiology of delinquency.
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Fuzzy and probabiblistic approaches to modelling individual choice or preference : Rationality conditions and their relationships
… de esta tesis es el modelado de la elección individual. En particular, nos centramos en dos generalizaciones de la teoría de elección clásica que permiten tratar aquellas situaciones donde los datos pueden ser imprecisos. La teoría de elección clásica se fundamenta en la idea de que los …
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An Information Processing Model of Individual Choice Behavior Stressing the Simplicity-Complexity Dimension of Cognitive Functioning
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It always has to come down to individual choice . Vaccination decision-making among privileged parents in South Africa
… Cape, South Africa. Privilege was defined as individuals who have an educational level above high school, and through self-report had experienced no major financial difficulties, due to the COVID-19 pandemic or other reasons, that would have resulted in impact on standard of living, children's …
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Quality and Competence: An Analysis of the Role of Mill's Qualitative Hedonism on his Conception of Representative Democracy
… both utility maximization and the protection of individual choice-making as a non-trumpable value. Like his moral philosophy, Mill’s political thought is also rejected for interspersing, seemingly at random, elements of utilitarianism with concerns about respecting individual choice-making. More …
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An economic analysis of the causes of unionization of college faculty
… the economic approach to human behavior to individual choice in the context of voting for or against unionization. That is, the benefits and costs of unionization are assumed to be the relevant factors in the choice calculus of voting faculty. The primary source of benefits and costs come …
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Fertility, sexuality and HIV/Aids prevention campaigns in Mafalala barrio, Maputo, Mozambique
… to fulfil kinship expectations. The notion of individual choice highlighted in the condom campaigns is contrasted with people's ideas about 'protection'. This suggests that socio-cultural factors should be taken into account when developing HIV/Aids prevention programs. The study concludes with …
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A Senian approach to the relationship between the natural environment and the distribution of welfare: a new perspective on inequality measurement and choice
… measuring people’s ability to exercise choice over valuable welfare outcomes (their ‘beings’ and ‘doings’) with respect to the environment. In this way, Sen’s capability approach offers an alternative approach to evaluating environmental value based on the metric of freedom, expressed in …
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Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation
… file sharing is less significant as an individual choice than it is as a structural feature of the digital age.
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Sexual subjects : a feminist post-structuralist analysis of female adolescent sexual subjectivity and agency
… the context of HIV/AIDS have been dominated by individualistic, cognitive perspectives, which present sexuality as a site of rational, individual choice and agency. A paradigm shift has occurred in recent years, advanced with the realisation that decision-making around sexual health is not …
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The feminist pornography debates: Civil rights v. civil liberties
… it mandates a simultaneous focus on sexuality, individual choice and privacy, as well as gender and racial inequality, misogyny and racial bigotry, and sexual violence. In this context, the individual right to be active autonomous sexual agents comes into conflict with the right to refuse sexual …
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The Great Divide: Citizenship And Statelessness
… of State control of citizenship upon the individual's ability to choose membership in a given State polity. It briefly examines how States gained absolute control over the granting, denying and revoking of citizenship and demonstrates how the acquisition of citizenship and statelessness …
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Spatial competition and nonlinear responses in marketing
… perspective. Chapter2 develops a normative individual choice model to explore how "power retailers" affect grocery shopping behaviour, and, consequently, market share. Power retailers are very large retail outlets that compete primarily on price, and are known variously as warehouse clubs, …
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The rebellious mind: explaining which people become rebels
… of how socio-economic factors influence the individual choice to join a rebel group, but conflict scholarship also lacks progress an understanding of how an individual’s predispositions toward specific behaviors influence this decision. This dissertation investigates which individual …
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Dead reckoning : where we stand on privacy and security controls for the Internet of Things
… studies across six different control categories: Individual Choice, Command and Control Regulations, Operational Standards, Technical Standards, Compliance Frameworks, and Federal Authorities. These case studies reveal major deficiencies in current IoT privacy and security controls. IoT privacy …
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Teachers’ Perceptions Of Professional Learning Experiences Intended To Promote Growth In Their Discipline And Pedagogy
… and offers empowerment for teachers through individual choice. Future studies can focus on the culture of the teaching faculty and its impact on professional learning, how to increase motivation with teachers, the impact of professional learning and student learning, as well as change with …
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Personalization of future urban mobility
… menu optimization model. The model built upon individual consumer's choice behavior generates a personalized menu for app-based mobility solutions. It integrates behavioral modeling of consumer mobility choice with optimization objectives. Individual choice behavior is modeled through logit …
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Parental influence on mate selection: an exploratory study
… students perceived parental influence on their choice of mate. Thirty-six per cent of the parents felt that they had influenced their childrens' choice of a spouse. It was postulated that parents through socialization and by acting as validators of their childrens' choices--by encouraging …
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Towards measuring privacy
The acceptable threshold for privacy is an individual choice, informed by culture, tradition and experience. That it is important, conversely, is self-evident. We use it to moderate personal information disclosure, how we choose to act and dress every day. However, the debate about privacy has …
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