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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"relative gains"”.
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Are Countries in Environmental Cooperation Concerned About Relative Gains?
… problem. However, this thesis argues that relative gains is a more decisive factor that influences the decision of countries in international arrangements. It hypothesizes that countries in environmental cooperation are concerned about relative gains. A content analysis of the statements of …
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Band to Band Calibration and Relative Gain Analysis of Satellite Sensors Using Deep Convective Clouds
… (DCC) spectra. Second, a novel method to derive relative gains using DCCs and improve the image quality of cirrus band scenes was developed. DCCs are very cold, bright clouds located in the tropopause layer. At small sun elevation and sensor viewing angles, they act as near Lambertian solar …
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Deep Generative Models for Trajectory Prediction and Mobility Network Forecasting
… our unified framework achieves up to 40% relative gains in trajectory accuracy and up to 100x improvement in contact prediction over state-of-the-art baselines. These results demonstrate that combining advanced sequence modeling with explicit contact inference offers a powerful, scalable …
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The Impact of Radiometric Calibration Error on Earth Observation-supported Decision Making
… properties of materials and are sensitive to the relative gains of the different bands of the satellite sensor. However, satellite sensors are susceptible to degradation from the space environment, leading to drift in band response. For well-calibrated satellites such as Landsat 8, these drifts …
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Securing the Korean Peninsula with an Armed Nuclear North Korea: Identifying Pathways by Examining Past and Current Negotiations
… to that of positive-sum relationship to achieve gains that foster iterative interactions. As these iterative interactions occur, states extend their view of threats outward and build new reference points for mutual engagement. They become, in the words of Joseph Nye and Robert Keohane, …
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Defense Industry Offsets: The President's Hands on Policy
… a foreign policy tool?" This study argues that relative gains concerns in U.S. foreign policy and national security that are significant enough to overcome domestic political constraints can sometimes, but not always, influence the president to authorize encouragement for U.S. industry in offset …
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The limits of a global partnership: Japan's foreign relations in the post-Cold War world
… relations, particularly the realist concern with relative gains, explain the post Cold War foreign policy agendas of, and conflicts between, the US and Japan. Additionally, I argue that Japanese foreign policy has been shaped by the imperatives of the international system on the one hand, and is a …
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Relative Gewinne als Kooperationshindernis in den Internationalen Beziehungen
… einen größeren Vorteil – einen relativen Gewinn – aus der Zusammenarbeit erzielen als er selbst. Zeitweilig war dies ein dominierendes Thema in der politikwissenschaftlichen Theoriediskussion zwischen Vertretern des Neorealismus und Neoliberalismus, doch hat die Debatte um die …
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Strategic Management of R&D Capabilities with Agent Based Modeling
… R&D activities to quantify and compare the relative gains between the tangible and intangible outputs. This type of modeling incorporates agents that move about an environment while making decisions based on their interactions with the environment and other agents. Due to the stochastic …
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‘Dancing among elephants’ : framing the rise of Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey (2000-2015) by applying analytic eclecticism to the concept of pivot state
… are variations among them. Indonesia has been a relatively consistent pivot state. South Africa’s membership in BRICS and BASIC has shaped its foreign policy towards a closer relation to BRIC countries. Nevertheless, as demonstrated in this thesis, South Africa is trying to maintain its relations …
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‘Dancing among elephants’ : framing the rise of Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey (2000-2015) by applying analytic eclecticism to the concept of pivot state
… are variations among them. Indonesia has been a relatively consistent pivot state. South Africa’s membership in BRICS and BASIC has shaped its foreign policy towards a closer relation to BRIC countries. Nevertheless, as demonstrated in this thesis, South Africa is trying to maintain its relations …
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Waste heat recovery from a high temperature diesel engine
… engine efficiency. Though incremental efficiency gains have been achieved, most combustion engines are still only 30-40% efficient at best, with most of the remaining fuel energy being rejected to the environment as waste heat through engine coolant and exhaust gases. Attempts have been made to …