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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"lemons"”.
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Networks or lemons?
… then those who are not employed will tend to be "lemons," labor market leftovers who are of uncertain quality. To the extent that employers rely on employment as a signal, then well-qualified, but out-of-work job seekers will be stigmatized simply by being out of work. "Networking" is commonly …
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Dynamic markets for lemons
Este trabalho investiga o papel da sinalização em um mercado dinâmico de limões. Nós derivamos propriedades gerais dos equilíbrios, e em particular dos equilíbrios totalmente separantes. O equilíbrio separante mais eficiente permite que trocas ocorram em todos os períodos para tos os …
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Are they lemons? Unobservable quality, information, and mineral fertilizer demand
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-07-21 at 08:23.
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Lemons Into Lemonade: Black Undergraduate Women's Embodiment of Strength and Resilience at a PWI
… Black women, we always make lemonade when given lemons because we are innately strong, empowered, and fierce.</p>
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When life gives you lemons, make a left: Investigation of contextualization of learning in speech production using speech errors
Language production is a flexible yet complex system and is constantly updated by new experience. Within this system, implicit phonotactic learning provides a window into how speakers acquire and generalize rules that govern sound patterns. This thesis investigates how such rules are represented, …
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Pragmatic referring functions as Montague semantic operators
… means (on the assumption that one knows what lemons are), while one goes to the encyclopedia to find out about lemons (on the assumption that you know how English speakers name them). The view suggested here is that this is a distinction that is not possible to maintain in a formal description …
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Using Frequent, Unannounced, Focused, and Short Classroom Observations to Support Classroom Instruction
… diagnostic framework of Wagner, Kegan, Lahey, Lemons, Garnier, Helsing, Howell, and Rasmussen’s (2006) systemic change plan was used. The process looked at current (As-Is) and future (To-Be) status of an organization and uses Wagner’s 4Cs—context, culture, conditions, and competencies—to …
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Shifts in suitability distribution of deciduous and citrus fruit trees under climate change in South Africa: a large-scale empirical study
… in spatial suitability of 9 crops (oranges, lemons, mandarins, grapefruit, apples, pears, peaches, plums, and table grapes) over South Africa in each of these scenarios. Ecocrop is an empirical model, suited to this large-scale analysis despite known and acceptable point scale inaccuracies, …
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Embedding Diversity Into The Curriculum: Facilitating Challenging Conversations
<p>Wagner, Kegan, Lahey, Lemons, Garnier, Helsing, and Rasmussen’s (2006) four C’s, consisting of competency, conditions, culture, and context, were used to think systemically when looking at the current (As-Is) and projected (To-Be) in the Galaxy School district. This paper focused on the need to …
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International economic effects of halting the voyage of CSAV RIO PUELO
… that an on board container of Argentine lemons carried a "harmful biological substance." The ship was held at anchor for six days as officials tested containers and weighed options of how to best prevent the release of a hazardous substance. Although the information which triggered the …
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Three Greek Islands: A Literary Interpretation by Lawrence Durrell
… s elation at once being again in Greece. Bitter Lemons reveals the tragedy of the political immaturity of the Cypriots and the inherent problems of colonialism. But primarily it is an unfolding analysis of the author s anguish, torn as he is between his love of an island, now inflamed by …
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STUDYING THE IMPACT OF GRIT IN THE LEARNING OF YOUNG CHILDREN BY WAY OF IMPLEMENTING A STUDENT-TEACHER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM IN ELEMENTARY GRADES
… model developed by Wagner, Kegan, Lahey, Lemons, Garnier, Helsing, and Ark (2006) was used to assess the culture, context, conditions, and competencies of a small, nonpublic Islamic school located in a suburban area. This study aimed to explore the factors that cultivate grit in the …
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Parents of Children Who Had Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: A Mixed-Methods, Exploratory Study
… the negative, outside of reality, lemonade from lemons, and the desires of parents. Areas of convergence, such as stress and depression were well enhanced by parental statements. Areas of divergence indicated that neither the quantitative surveys, nor open-ended interviews were adequate to …
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The effects of licensing and equity financing cycles on pharmaceutical development
… results point to the possible existence of a "lemons" phenomenon in the market for pharmaceutical development projects. However, a different interpretation of the results suggests that large pharmaceutical company licensees are superior evaluators of quality and are perhaps more selective and …
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Essays on liquidity and information
… information about project quality creates a lemons problem. The magnitude of this friction responds to aggregate shocks, amplifying the responses of asset prices and investment. Indeed, negative shocks can lead to a complete shutdown in financial markets. I then introduce learning from past …
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Water Quality and the Primary Producers in the Upper James River, Missouri
Monthly water quality, periphyton biomass, and species composition were determined at three stations in the upper James River, Missouri, was determined from May to November 1980. Periphyton cell numbers (cells x 10⁵ cm⁻²) gradually increased during the study, and ranged from 3.43 to 32.9 x 10⁵ …
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Archetypes, Rhetoric, and the American Reader: Explaining the Success of Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple
Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple (1791) is America's first best selling novel, yet it receives little attention. Critics tend to dismiss the novel as unimportant, but this thesis argues that it does merit further study as an expression of our country's early culture, primarily of the split between …
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Image, Context, and Knowledge in the Practice of Two Elementary Music Teachers
Findings included issues related to context, music teaching images, and knowledge in operation. Historical and present contexts, such as family, community, and school, are discussed as to how they shaped the knowledge used for music teaching. Analysis revealed that the teachers' images were based …
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Implied Boundaries
Implied spatial boundaries are examined and evaluated at a camping shelter complex on an Eastern California lake. A grid of concrete columns house a series of suspended wooden boxes and a connecting ramp.
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Predictive Modeling of Uniform Differential Item Functioning Preservation Likelihoods After Applying Disclosure Avoidance Techniques to Protect Privacy
The need to publish and disseminate data continues to grow. Administrators of large-scale educational assessment should provide examinee microdata in addition to publishing assessment reports. Disclosure avoidance methods are applied to the data to protect examinee privacy before doing so, while …
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