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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"intrinsic value"”.
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Toward Creaturely Value: God's Inner Processive Life and the Intrinsic Value of Creatures in Thomas Aquinas
The intrinsic value of creatures is defensible on many accounts, though more rarely from a speculative, metaphysical, and theological perspective. In this thesis, I seek to establish and elaborate the connection between creaturely value and scholastic theology through the work of Thomas Aquinas. In …
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Stock Option Valuation for Thinly Traded Enterprises: Comparing the Historically Based Intrinsic Value Model to the Black-Scholes-Merton Model
… companies, the issue of establishing a fair value can seriously impact thinly traded, highly volatile companies' bottom line. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or GAAP as promulgated by accounting standard setters such as the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) or the …
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The environment and natural rights
… ontologically independent and confers on it intrinsic value as opposed to instrumental value. This intrinsic value is one that all the entities that make up the environment share. It is further argued that this intrinsic value is aesthetic rather than moral. Only beings that are specially …
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Essays in Microeconomics
… designed to investigate if using assets with an intrinsic value that increases over time leads to persistent undervaluation in laboratory asset trading markets. This question has not previously been investigated by researchers. Results from ten sessions are reported. Three used assets with an …
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Parental Differential Treatment With Math: Links to Adolescent Girls' Math Achievement Beliefs
… girls reporting lower ability perceptions, task-value and intrinsic value in math. Additionally, adolescent girls with younger siblings report lower intrinsic value for math when mothers engage in differential intrusive support towards target females. This occurred even after controlling for …
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Optimal Bond Refunding: Evidence From the Municipal Bond Market
… American call option has two components to its value, the intrinsic value and the time value. The issuer can realize at least as much as the intrinsic value by exercising immediately, when the option is in-the-money. Usually it is optimal for the holder of an in-the money American option to wait …
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Visualizing the Other: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Objectification of the Body in Biomedical Research Using Human Subjects
… undeserving of respect or recognition of their intrinsic value. In response, normative guidelines and methodological constraints have been imposed upon the scientific community to prevent future abuses. Foremost among them is the imperative that investigators show respect for research subjects …
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Wild Practices: Teaching the Value of Wildness
… A survey of the ways in which wilderness value is expressed through language reveals much confusion and repression regarding our understanding of the autonomy of nature. By framing discussions of wilderness through fact-driven language games, the value of the wild autonomy in nature …
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THE IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP: AN INVESTIGATION OF EFFECTS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND EXPECTANCY-VALUE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
… school students' perception regarding expectancy-value and intrinsic motivation according to their grade, gender, and ethnicity, (b) the relationship between physical education teachers' transformational leadership and middle school students' expectancy-value and intrinsic motivation. To conduct …
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Motivaatiotekijät ja matematiikan osaaminen : sukupuolierot ja koulujen väliset erot peruskoulun kolmannella luokalla
… are mathematical self-concept and expectancy-value theory fields: intrinsic value, utility value and costs. The data used in this study was collected for the international MathMot investigation project. 215 third grade pupils from four different schools within Helsinki participated in the …
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Teaching for Aesthetic Experience: A Dual Case Study of the Mediating Influence of Curriculum and Pedagogy on Students' Experiences Visiting an Art Museum
… by investigating the potentially educative value of aesthetic experience for young people. It also aims to contribute to the efforts of scholars, such as Elliot Eisner, who seek to understand the intrinsic value of art for education by discussing how aesthetic experience, specifically, may …
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Academic identity, parental socialization, and teacher support of charter school Latinx adolescents
… old) academic identity on two dimensions (i.e., intrinsic value and belonging) and their parental academic socialization (PAS), as well as the teacher academic support they receive at a local charter school. The study will use correlation, as well as a regression analysis to examine the variance …
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Legitimacy and diversity : an examination of the problem pluralism presents to the legitimacy of democratic regimes
… foundations of liberalism lie in respect for the intrinsic value of human freedom. This respect is usually expressed through the defence of the twin values of autonomy and equality. It was during the Enlightenment that liberal values acquired concrete philosophical foundations in the writing of …
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Three Essays in Capital Markets Research
The third essay estimates firms' intrinsic value using the accounting-based valuation model and examines the predictive power of the estimated value for future stock returns. The key empirical issue of the model is to estimate future residual income. While most research has relied on the earnings …
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STEM Identity, Sense of Belonging, and Academic Engagement: Motivational Pathways Among Undergraduate STEM Students
… theory (Bandura, 1986) and situated expectancy–value theory (Eccles & Wigfield, 2002), this dissertation examines how STEM identity development, sense of belonging, and self-efficacy jointly support students’ motivation and engagement. Although recent work has expanded multidimensional …
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An evaluation of piano literature written originally for four hands--one piano
… thesis is to explore and analyze the wealth of intrinsic value that is to be found in compositions originally written for piano duet (two performers at one piano). Only compositions originally conceived for piano duet will be considered transcriptions of works that were at first in the form of …
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Regulatory opportunities and constraints facing private sector biodiversity conservation outside protected areas
… materials. In addition biodiversity is accorded intrinsic value because a growing number of individuals believe that mankind has an ethical obligation to conserve every other form of life on earth. Humans are one of numerous species who occupy space on earth, together comprising an environment …
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Tencent Holdings Limited : an IPO case study
… is a Chinese internet and telecommunications value-added service provider that launched its IPO on 16 June 2004. Tencent is China’s largest internet firm and Asia’s most valuable brand, boasting a current market capitalization of HK$1.224 trillion (US$157.9 billion). The origins of …
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The impact of EEC directives on Maltese company law
… is worth considering these Directives for their intrinsic value. They represent the latest trends and developments in Company Law in Europe, and they would be always useful to our legislator, when coming to update our Commercial Partnership Ordinance. I hope, furthermore that my thesis will be of …
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The Role of Students' Goals and Perceptions of Instrumental Value in The Development of Achievement Motivation at Junior High School
The influence of task value, expectancies, self concept of ability, task difficulty, and anxiety on the development of achievement motivation in junior high school was studied. Measurement instruments for intrinsic, attainment, and instrumental value, developed for use in this study, are described. …
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