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The prospect
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was meant to commemorate the "opening" of the west and the possibilities of the frontier. Instead, the Arch marks its closure. Sited on the west bank of the Mississippi River, this conspicuous monument has occupied a peripheral, if any, position within architectural …
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Prospect Theory in the Housing Market
… towards losses and gains, is a core concept in prospect theory. Similar to behavioural sciences in general, loss aversion has been widely applied in various research areas. However, evidence of this concept in residential real estate remains scarce and limited. Advances in this line of research …
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Prospect and refuge : shelter in Roxbury
… thesis attempts to use the concept of juxtaposed prospect and refuge to design shelter on a large urban site (92,000 square feet). The broad range of scales stretches the applicability of prospect and refuge as a design tool, yet also forges a varied understanding of related (and sometimes …
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Ludgate Circus: St. Paul's AS prospect
… there. The nearby great works of old become ”prospects” for this design. The historical precedents emit rhythms of order, clues to design.
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Essays on Prospect Theory, Dynamic Contracting and Procurement
… is an explanation for common stylized facts of prospect theory like loss aversion, status quo bias and non-linear probability weighting. Locally limited utility knowledge is considered within a classical demand model framework, suggesting that costs of inefficient search for optimal consumption …
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Retrospect and prospect : oral history in Texas museums.
The oral history movement flourished during the 1970s in Texas and is a wellestablished, legitimate research tool in the state today. During the same period, Texas museums experienced unprecedented growth and established themselves as viable public educational institutions. History museums in Texas …
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A cross-cultural study of prospect-refuge theory
… biological perspective to landscape perception-- prospect-refuge theory. The theory postulates that landscapes with opportunities to see (prospect) and places to hide (refuge) are aesthetically pleasurable as they satisfy humans’ basic survival needs. Landscape paintings of different historical …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Applying Prospect theory to Auctions
… auctions. In the first part, I develop a Prospect theory based model to explain bidding in first-price auctions. I show that bidding in induced-value first-price sealed-bid auctions can be rationalized as a combination of reactions to underlying ambiguity and anticipated loss aversion. …
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Knowledge, inquiry, action: Teacher collaboration at Prospect Center's Summer Institute
… November Conference under the auspices of The Prospect Archive and Center for Education and Research in North Bennington, Vermont. The purpose of this study is to portray the experience of collaborative inquiry using Prospect Center's descriptive processes.</p><p>Teacher network groups …
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The domestic and international dimensions of risk: prospect theory and Argentina
… consistency the nation's projection of itself. Prospect theory is a decision making theory which claims that decision makers make choices in terms of relative rather than absolute utility, based on a status-quo reference point. Based on this theory, individuals are likely to take risks when …
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A Project Plan for Software that Advances Museums' Prospect Research Effectiveness
… a project plan for software that facilitates prospect research: the SMIC software, or Social Media Information Collector, an innovative system that gathers information on new donors and members from their social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest. The …
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Robo-Advising on South African Exchange Traded Funds utilizing Prospect Theory
Robo-advising is an emerging trend in markets around the world. The term has come to refer almost exclusively to automated advisory services for financial investments or wealth management. Currently, in the South African market, financial services firms offer their own robo-advising platforms that …
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The impending revolution : the prospect for openness in Korean-American adoptions
This thesis explores the potential for openness in international adoptions and, more specifically, in Korean-American adoptions. Open adoptions are becoming more common in the United States. More adoptees are also searching for their birthfamilies. These changes resulted from social evolutions that …
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An argument of the overwhelming: architectural forms in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
This is a thesis investigation of the potential of architectural form in its ability to overwhelm. Architecture cannot be measured by bolts or decorative elements; it must be measured by its capacity to move us. Technological feats, humanistic comforts, or historical legacies will never yield the …
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Assessment of Status and Prospect of Domestic Tourism in Schools in Tanzania
The study explores the prospects of promoting domestic tourism by targeting schoolchildren in Tanzania. The main thrust of the argument in this study is that the inculcation of tourism values among schoolchildren will make them potential tourists thereby promoting domestic tourism in Tanzania. The …
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Architecture, A Public Engagement with: Purpose, Poetry, Place, Prospect, Program, Principle, Process
The purpose of the Times Square Civic Center is to deal with the street as a living, breathing member of the community just as the street was treated in the Old Town of the 18th Century. The Times Square Civic Center demonstrates ways in which architecture engages its public by allowing visitors to …
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Prospect and scope for traditional medicine in the South African Education support services
This research study examined the prospect and scope for traditional medicine in the South African education support services. The first aim was to assess teachers' perceptions of the need for traditional medicine practices in the school. The second aim was to investigate the problems experienced by …
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The use of prospect theory framework in constrained multi-objective particle swarm optimisation
… 1979 into mathematical equations represented by prospect theory (PT).Including PT in the proposed methods help to direct the swarm towards the feasibleregion, encourage the swarm to explore a new area in the search space andconsequently, improve the convergence to the optimal solution (or the …
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