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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"poll"”.
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The persuasive public-opinion poll in city-planning
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1959.
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Full potential analysis and design of transonic propellers by Philip B. Poll.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1991.
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A Logistic Regression Analysis of Utah Colleges Exit Poll Response Rates Using SAS Software
… and nonresponses) in the 2004 Utah Colleges Exit Poll. In 2004, 4908 of the 7562 voters approached responded to the exit poll for an overall response rate of 65 percent. Logistic regression is used to estimate factors that contribute to a success or failure of each interview attempt. This logistic …
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Enhancing colour-coded poll sheets using computer vision as a viable Audience Response System (ARS) in Africa
… aims to show that computer vision and coloured poll sheets can be an alternative to clicker based ARS. This thesis examines a proposal to create an alternative to clickers applicable to the African context, where the main deterrent is cost. This thesis studies the computer vision structures of …
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Application of adult learning principles by district election trainers in selected constituencies of Lusaka district
… apply adult learning principles when training poll staff. (ii) to identify challenges faced by District Election Trainers in the application of adult learning principles when training poll staff, and (iii) to explore District Election Trainers suggested possible solutions on how adult learning …
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Application of adult learning principles by district election trainers in selected constituencies of Lusaka district
… apply adult learning principles when training poll staff. (ii) to identify challenges faced by District Election Trainers in the application of adult learning principles when training poll staff, and (iii) to explore District Election Trainers suggested possible solutions on how adult learning …
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A ranking model for two women's team sports
… Associated with each of these sports are polling procedures conducted to indicate national rankings in terms of quality of performance. These polls generally are referred to as "Top Twenty Polls." Questionnaires were designed and mailed to the coaches and selection committee members …
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An Improved Approach to Fault Tolerant Redundant Fiber Optic Ring Design for Polled Data Networks
… implementing a redundant communications ring for polled network applications. FDDI and a unique solution (the tone method) designed specifically for this application are compared. In polled networks one of the most critical parameters is the time required to interrogate all of the nodes in the …
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State of the Union addresses and their impact on popularity and credibility
… respectively. The impact was measured by the poll results taken before and after each State of the Union speech.</p> <p>A content analysis of each address was done to determine the major themes and messages and to determine which of those messages resulted in increased poll numbers.</p> …
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Problems confronting contemporary public schools as perceived by Black school superintendents
… seventeen problems culled from the 1982 Gallup Poll, 2) ascertain commonality of agreement among respondents, 3) compare rankings of respondents with rankings of the public as identified in the 1982 Gallup Poll, and 4) develop a profile of the contemporary black school superintendent.Data …
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Review, analysis, and recommendations of the 1990-99 Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the public's attitudes towards public schools top responses to the question "What do you think are the biggest problems facing public schools in your community?"
… derived from the Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Polls of the Public's Attitudes Toward Public Schools (Poll) for that 10-year period. Possible solutions to those problems were examined and discussed based on the latest literature on identified topics.Based on the Poll data the public identified …
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Raptorq-Based Multihop File Broadcast Protocol
… has five different phases: STARTUP, FINISHING (Poll), FINISHING (Wait), FINISHING (Extra), and COMPLETED. Three threads are utilized to implement the RaptorQ-based broadcast protocol features. Thread 1 receives messages and passes them to the receive buffer. Thread 2 evaluates the received …
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Religion and the French Constitution of 1791
… exception of the Clergy of new Prance, from the poll and the income tax. The exemption from the poll and income taxes was rather an exoneration than an exemption, since the Clergy had made themselves free by a large gift early in the eighteenth century, and again every ten years, at the exaction …
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Trending in the Right Direction: Using Google Trends Data as a Measure of Public Opinion During a Presidential Election
… the 2016 presidential election, public opinion polls consistently showed a lead in the popular vote and Electoral College for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Following Trump's surprise victory, the political pundits and public at large began to question the accuracy of modern public opinion …
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The pulse of expectations: The evolution of news making in United States presidential campaigns
… and the recent proliferation of public opinion polls. I argue that with the combination of heightened day-to-day coverage of campaigns (made easy by satellite technology) and the new omnipresence of poll data, campaign coverage has largely degenerated into a day-to-day series of contests, with …
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The Last Act of a Desperate Man
… a statistical analysis of the test audience's poll responses.
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Oro taršos tyrimas Kuršėnų mieste rugsėjo- gruodžio mėnesiais /
The aim of this thesis is to analyze air pollution of Kuršėnai city from September to December and to locate problematic spots. This thesis will contain the analytics of environment air protection, regulation of law analysis. An observation program was designed and particle concentration …
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Performing Cooperative Work and Conferencing on an Intranet Using Java
… of facial expressions and an ongoing polling system. The results demonstrate that a presence of facial expressions helps users to better engage in on-line discussion and that users find an ongoing poll to be useful in determining direction within an electronic meeting.
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Social network effects on information aggregation
… of information aggregation: vanilla opinion poll, opinion polls where sociometric data is inferred from the population's own perception of social connectivity, opinion polls where sociometric data is obtained independent of the populations beliefs and data aggregation using market mechanisms. …
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A study of face-covering in the Hampshire breed of sheep
… from one for faces bare of wool beyond the poll to five for faces fully covered to the nostrils. By assignment of plus and minus values for those faces considered to fall slightly above or below an event unit, ewes and lambs could be separated into fifteen classes. Some points receiving …
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