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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"long-term relationships"”.
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Female Mate Selection for Long-Term Relationships
… opposites attract. However, in order to have a long-term relationship individuals tend to marry someone who is similar to them. I propose that females tend to select partners who are similar to themselves. Previous studies have shown that individuals do tend to select partners who are similar in …
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Essays on Long-Term Relationships and Networks
This thesis comprises three chapters on long-term relationships and networks. The first and second chapters study long-term relationships between shippers and carriers in the US truckload freight industry. The third chapter studies properties of learning and information aggregation on social …
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The Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations of Younger LGB Couples in Long-term Relationships
This thesis explores the long-term relationship experiences of younger LGB couples. It builds upon existing knowledge and understandings of LGB couple relationships and the lives of younger adults. The study utilised multiple qualitative methods informed by social science research on intimate …
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Adult children of divorce and their attitudes towards romantic long-term relationships : comparison between genders
… shape their attitudes and views toward romantic relationships. The current research strived to examine if adult children of divorce and individuals from intact families have significantly different attitudes toward romantic long-term relationships by using the Revised Adult Attachment Scale, …
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Somatic murmurs: a narrative inquiry into how women with low libido in long-term relationships experience sensate focus
… inquiry was used to explore how three women in long-term relationships, who had undertaken sex therapy to resolve their ‘low’ sexual desire, experienced sensate focus. Two narrative interviews were conducted with each participant. Three in depth individual narratives were produced from their …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… industry. The first and second chapters study long-term relationships between shippers and carriers. The third studies how artificial intelligence changes human decision-making in the context of the maintenance of heavy-duty trucks. The first chapter (joint with Thi Mai Anh Nguyen) provides …
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INVERSE APPROXIMATION THEORY OF RECURRENT MODELS FOR LEARNING SEQUENCES
Learning long-term relationships is a challenging task in sequence modelling. Despite numerous empirical results demonstrating the difficulty of recurrent models in learning long-term relationships, this dissertation presents a series of theoretical studies on the learning of long-term memories …
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The experience and meaning of women’s extramarital affairs
… heterosexual extramarital affairs for women in long-term relationships. Five women were recruited from two cities on Vancouver Island, B.C. During individual, in-depth, audiotaped, personal interviews, the women retrospectively described their experience of an extramarital affair (or affairs). …
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Narcissism and relationship satisfaction: The impact of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism on relationship duration
… and vulnerable narcissism in short- and long-term relationships. Participants include 164 Texas Woman’s University students. The participants are asked to complete an online survey first gathering demographics and then measuring for grandiose and vulnerable narcissism characteristics. The …
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Life with John
… visitors in the past, Elena decides to play along and pretends that John is real. However, as John's stay prolongs itself, the lines between what's real and what's imaginary begin to blur, until the point where Elena begins to doubt her own sense of reality. The film combines elements of dark …
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Experience and expression of emotions in relationships.
… theoretical model of display rule negotiation in relationships was developed. It was predicted that perceived appropriateness and management of negative emotions would be lower in undeveloped relationships than developed relationships and lower than positive emotions in both relationship contexts. …
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THE EFFECTS OF CAUSE-RELATED MARKETING FOR CORPORATE TRANSGRESSIONS ON CONSUMER RESPONSES
… & Tayler, 2005). Many companies use short-term marketing activities to improve consumer responses; however, these recovery strategies have temporary effects (Beverland, Chung, & Kates, 2009). There is no doubt that building long-term relationships with consumers is vital for companies to …
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Modelling the long-and-short run dynamics of share price movements in the resource sector
… GOLDFIELDS, SASOL and SAPP!. Significant long-term relationships were found between company share price, earnings per share, dividends per share, commodity price and interest rates. The technique of co-integration permits these non-stationary economic variables to be linked by a stable …
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Relationship marketing with customers in the hotel industry in Thailand
… aim of relationship marketing is to establish long-term relationships with customers and is subject to cultural specificities. While relationship marketing research may achieve encouraging results in Western business environments, its wider effectiveness in the context of Eastern culture …
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Are there benefits to diversification across the largest African stock markets?
… to investors. This study looks at short and long term relationships using correlation, cointegration, and the direction of the relationships using causality tests. It finds low correlations between all African exchanges and the USA, with the exception of South Africa, which did show …
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Methods for extension of ground shipment windows through a supplier collaboration initiative
… packages more efficiently so as to allow for a longer window of time each day that the UPS Ground ship method is available. Additional goals exist around implementing more consistent processes and delivering product to UPS earlier in the evening for more efficient sorting. This project …
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Call center demand forecasting : improving sales calls prediction accuracy through the combination of statistical methods and judgmental forecast
… important for developing and maintaining healthy relationships with customers. At Dell, call centers are also at the core of the company's renowned direct model. For sales call centers in particular, the impact of proper operations is reflected not only in long-term relationships with customers, …
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Purchasing organisation structure and its impact on supply relationship - An Irish public sector case study
… the relationship between Buyer and Seller has long been at the centre of the purchase interaction. Organisations have chosen close long-term relationships instead of “playing the market” in the name of cost reduction and increased revenues. The objective of this study is to identify the …
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Augmented Reality and Customer Fulfilment: A Case Study on Temu's Penetration in UK Markets
… confidence, also the purchase intentions, and long-term loyalty. By analyzing the available secondary data from the various market reports, the academic articles, also case studies, this research provides such empirical evidence of the growing role of the AR in enhancing the overall online …
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