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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"preferential treatment"”.
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Transit preferential treatment : a public policy-making perspective
… in the late 70's towards the implementation of preferential treatment. To do that, they introduced innovative policies in order to give the full priority to transit. Preferential treatment is a broad definition that combines all the means to insure that priority is given to transit (queue jump, …
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Impact of different strategies and levels of preferential treatment on different methods of bull dam selection
… and the top 2% were chosen to be bull dams. Preferential treatment was simulated by increasing milk and fat yields by 8, 16, 32, and 48% in separate copies of the simulation. Preferential treatment was given to a limited number of cows in copies of the original herds based on 8 strategies. …
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A Framework and Analytical Methods for Evaluation of Preferential Treatment for Emergency and Transit Vehicles at Signalized Intersections
Preferential treatments are employed to provide preemption for emergency vehicles (EV) and conditional priority for transit vehicles at signalized intersections. EV preemption employs technologies and signal control strategies seeking to reduce emergency vehicle crash potential and response times. …
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COLLEGE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD OLDER WORKERS
… organizations may have policies that are giving preferential treatment toward older workers and reinforcing younger workers’ negative attitudes. For the present study, I used a scenario based-procedure in which participants read about an older worker who has been promoted based on an employment …
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Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective
… Equity (EE) strategies, particularly, towards preferential treatment in terms of EE. Negative attitudes towards preferential treatment in turn may act as contributing factors to demographic changes towards a more representative workforce being slow in organisations. The objective of the study …
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Chivalry: The Relation Between a Cultural Script and Stereotypes About Women
Chivalry is a cultural script prescribing the preferential treatment of women by men in the contexts of protection and provision. Although it is often regarded as a polite and prosocial script for male-female relations, chivalry is sometimes suspected of undermining efforts to promote equal status …
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Boys will always be boys? The impacts of gender-based Affirmative Action and Role Models on competitiveness in the lab
… literature, the longer-term implications of the preferential treatment creating role model representation have not been examined. Consistent with the literature, we find men have a higher preference for a competitive environment compared with women in our sample. However, there are no significant …
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North Korean Migrants' Integration into South Korean Society: Policies, Perceptions and Realities
… this paper's findings indicate that despite preferential treatment and generous support from receiving states, ethnic migrants do not fully enjoy economic stability and social acceptance in their new homeland. They often face the same difficulties as non-ethnic migrants.</p> <p>I address the …
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Question of Bias: A Content Analysis of the Visual Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Campaign
This thesis focuses on the question of preferential treatment by U.S. national newsmagazines of presidential candidates in the 2004 election as evidenced by their visual coverage. Using content analysis, all the visual depictions of candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry were analyzed for 10 …
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The manifold operations of the gothic double
… the complexity of reconciling them. The preferential treatment of middle-class values in the gothic helped shift mainstream conceptions of morality. In combination with contemporary critical theory, through the treatment of doubles, this thesis aims to address how the gothic influenced …
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A framework for secure applications with QoS
… today's customers are ready to pay extra for preferential treatment of their network traffic. We cannot have a separate airplane for each first class passenger; similarly we cannot have a separate network connection for each of our customers. Therefore, the bulk of network traffic must flow …
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Effects of housing policies on intra-urban inequality in transitioning China
… families with strong negotiation power received preferential treatment to facilitate the relocation process. In summary, market reform has preserved some features of socialism, particularly the advantages of certain urban population groups with political implications.
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The admission and enrolment of foreign legal practitioners in SACU countries as an international trade services issue
… law graduates from sister universities are given preferential treatment. Graduates with qualifications from outside BOLESWA, irrespective of nationality, must sit for local Bar examinations and satisfy some local laws. For these reasons, the measures put in place are viewed as a wanton …
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RESEARCH ON POLICY-BASED FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION OF CHINESE ADVANCED MANUFACTURERS
… such as industrial policies, that is, giving preferential treatment in terms of interest rates, loan terms, guarantee conditions, etc., and selectively funding with a view to cultivating specific strategic industries. In 2015, in order to promote the development of the manufacturing industry, …
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International Organizations as Information Providers: How Investors and Governments Utilize Optimistic IMF Forecasts
… deviates from its original mandates and provides preferential treatment to certain countries. The studies suggests that geopolitical and financial interests of the major shareholders of the Fund and the Fund's bureaucratic incentives to preserve its power and prestige are the main determinants of …
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Distributive justice in international law: : can the CDM regime support an equitable geographic distribution of projects?
… need (or sustainable development potential) and preferential treatment. The answer to the second question is that although the CDM regime can achieve a slightly more equitable geographic distribution than is currently the case, a truly equitable geographic distribution cannot be achieved under …
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Employment Discrimination and Affirmative Action: Are Affirmative Action Plans Helpful or Hurtful?
… to employ and promote minorities and females. Preferential treatment of minorities under affirmative action plans then resulted in lawsuits by Caucasian males alleging reverse discrimination claims. Caucasian males claimed that affirmative action plans favoring minorities actually discriminated …
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The Elite of the Elites: the U.S. Marine Raider Battalions, 1942-1944: A Case Study in Elite Military Organizations
… the elite was superfluous and undesirable. The preferential treatment and widespread publicity accorded to the Raiders, combined with the Raiders' sense of exceptionalism and claims to superiority, garnered resentment among other Marines. Ultimately, the leadership of the Corps concluded that …
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Profit Based Simulation Model for The Rail Transportation Industry
… actually pay a premium to garner this level of preferential treatment. Operating in this type of environment results in decisions that severely erode profits.</p> <p>In this dissertation, a simulation model referred to as the Rail Profit Model (RPM) is developed to test three transit strategies …
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