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Media Frames and Abortion Issue Polarization
<p>The abortion issue is one of the most polarizing topics within the public and media sphere. How the media chooses to frame the abortion debate may influence public opinion and individual reactions. Specifically, articles that use incongruent abortion frames (pro-life/pro-abortion & …
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Cultural Competence: An Issue For Education
The population in the United States is progressively taking on a new appearance. Cultural and racial groups are consistently experiencing dramatic increases in population status. International migrants are entering our borders in record numbers in hopes to build brighter futures for themselves and …
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Forgiveness, Freedom and the Inmate Issue
<p>Forgiveness Freedom and the Inmate Issue:</p> <p>It is no secret that the United States has a mass incarceration problem. The war on drugs, traffic violations, and the Three Strikes Law, are just pieces of the systems being used to repeatedly place people behind bars. What we are facing now as a …
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How teachers perceive the "school violence issue"
… dramatically report crime is clearly seen in the issue of school violence. Violent crime in schools is rare, however, over publicized (Baily, Carona, Mebane, & Snell, 2002). Nonetheless any evidence of it arouses fear in teachers, students, and parents (Toby, 1983; Dworkin, Haney & Telschow, 1988; …
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Knowledge management: the issue of multimedia contents
Knowledge Management is a very important topic in business and in academy research. There are many fields of applications for knowledge management, including cognitive science, sociology, management science, information science, knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence, and economics. Many …
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Compiler support for multiple-instruction-issue architectures
… over that for conventional single-instruction-issue architectures can be achieved by multiple-instruction-issue architectures with the support of an optimizing compiler. We have constructed a full-scale C compiler that can learn the dynamic behavior of user programs by profiling, apply the …
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The evolution of the diesel fireman issue
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1976
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Issue resolution at a large aerospace manufacturer
… omitted in metrics reporting, leading to poor issue resolution and limited feedback between customers and suppliers. Because the tool requires additional steps that were not required in previous problem solving techniques at UTC Aerospace Systems, it is both more cost and time intensive. To …
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Empirical Analysis of Issue Management in Small Vertical Construction Projects: Relationship between Project Performance, Project Team Actions, and Issue Types
… small building projects are fraught with issues that threaten to cause deviations (mostly negative) from their base cost, schedule, and quality. Therefore, even smaller magnitude of cost and schedule growth on projects, can quickly cumulate to millions of dollars and months of schedule …
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Debating NBN policy : the influence of issue management
… However, media reporting about a proposal or issue and representations by special interests – often referred to as lobbying – can affect policy development and political decision-making; and this was demonstrated in interview data for this study. The practice of “issue management” (IM) …
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Policy issue networks: Social network analysis case studies
… structure and relationships with related policy issues. The three Canadian policy case study subjects are cannabis legalization, nuclear energy development, and the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project (TMX). The cases were selected for their current social importance and national concern, …
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Corporate news : the issue of newspaper ownership revisited
The rise of the corporate form of organization within the Canadian newspaper industry has raised concerns over the quality and diversity of information available to the public. In doing so, two competing theories have sought to explain the effects of such change on the editorial product being …
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Bank capital: definition, adequacy and issue announcement effects
… coincident with the announcement of bank capital issues. Potential influences considered include increased regulatory pressure, conflicting regulatory and market views of bank capital adequacy and the relative predictability of security type. Where possible, the dissertation is set in both UK and …
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Three Essays on Firms' Decisions to Issue Securities
… the choice of marketplaces in which firms issue securities is studied. Since capital markets are not seamlessly integrated, firms may be able to issue securities into foreign markets to take advantage of a market with a segmented information set or to act opportunistically with respect to …
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Ethics and Accounting Policymaking: The Economic Consequences Issue
The issue as to whether accounting standards should be chosen for the consequences they will effect as opposed to the faithfulness of their resulting representations has been an area of much controversy for accounting policymakers. This thesis attempts to resolve the issue through an analysis of …
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Representation at CCMA tribunal: still a vexed issue
… aim of the current study was to investigate the issue of legal representation of parties. in unfair dismissal disputes, now the most common of employment disputes. The paper · evaluated the nature of representation and endeavoured to weigh up the pros and cons of allowing parties in dismissal …
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Preserving history in military bases : a redevelopment issue
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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An examination of China's non-performing loan issue
… from other Asian countries, China's NPL issue resulted primarily from a transitioning economy dominated by the triangular relations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), state-owned commercial banks (SOBs) and the fiscal system. Even though the total amount of NPLs in 1999 was estimated to …
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