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Showing 1 to 20 of 241 for “"rivalry"”.
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Green Rivalry and Performance
… of performance measures to look at the impact of rivalry on growth and long term shareholder value. Furthermore, this section also looks into the joint impact of environmental behavior and environmental performance on financial performance via a mediating model using various environmental …
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The evolution of interstate rivalry
… dissertation I study the evolution of interstate rivalry, seeking to identify situations or behaviors that lead to rivalry. Past research suggests that most interstate conflict occurs between long-time rival countries, and that crises occurring in the context of enduring rivalry tend to be more …
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Strategic behavior in economic rivalry
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1981
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Regulating visual awareness during binocular rivalry
… if our attention is engaged elsewhere. Binocular rivalry, which occurs when perception alternates between conflicting monocular inputs, provides a way to study updates in consciousness in a unique way since changes in awareness are not the result of a change in what the eyes see, but rather to …
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Rivalry in International Relations: A Mimetic Approach to the Case of the Rivalry in Northern Ireland (1963-2020)
This PhD dissertation explores how rivalry, understood as a protracted intractable conflict, emerges, and develops. It takes issue with current approaches to rivalry in International Relations (IR) and Peace and Conflict Studies (P&CS) to advance an alternative, innovative, and interdisciplinary …
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Experiments in the control of binocular rivalry
vi, 380 leaves : ill.
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Sibling rivalry in black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)
… within a brood but their influence in sibling rivalry have not been widely tested. In the present thesis egg components of A and B eggs were analysed, comparisons of behaviour, survival and growth of chicks in two different years were made and egg size and quality were experimentally …
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The Venetian blind effect, binocular luster, and binocular rivalry
… luster, or a perceived shimmering; and binocular rivalry, or an alternating perception between the views of the two eyes. In this paper, it is shown that increasing the dichoptic luminance modulation leads to these three phenomena in sequence, while increasing dichoptic contrast modulation …
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Television viewership and rivalry in the National Football League
Rivalry is competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field. Sport is replete of rivalries between teams within region or division, offering a desirable living laboratory. Moreover, rivalry influences demand for sport, infusing significance to each match. Especially in the …
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How Rivalries End: Understanding Dynamics of the Rivalry Termination Process
<p> How do rivalries end? Rivalry denotes the most conflict-prone relationship between two states. The studies on rivalry termination, so far, have examined when and why rivalries end, yet the question of how rivalries end has not been sufficiently explored. The how question asks a researcher to …
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Anglo-German commercial and financial rivalry in Brazil 1900-1929
… reassessing the opposing views of the commercial rivalry debate through the case study of an independent market such as Brazil, the central question of relative competitiveness is further related to the concept of economic imperialism. The connection between the two issues is obvious. The growth …
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In the Shadow of Rivalry: Rebel Alliances and Civil War
<p>How does competition and rivalry within alliances affect outcomes and processes in civil wars? Towards addressing this inquiry, this dissertation presents a formal theory of alliance formation that takes into account both internal and external threats. The theory, presented in Chapter 2, focuses …
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New Middle East Cold War: Saudi Arabia and Iran's Rivalry
… catapulted these two states into an embittered rivalry. The fall of Saddam Hussein following the 2003 U.S. led invasion, the establishment of a Shi’ite Iraq and the 2011 Arab Uprisings have further inflamed tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Iran and Saudi Arabia have not confronted each …
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A study of sibling rivalry in fifty pre-school children
… in an attempt to assess the influence on sibling rivalry of maternal attitudes, family composition and the child's perceptions of family relations. Maternal attitudes and the child's attitude towards parents were not related to sibling rivalry. Rivalry was significantly higher following …
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Post-Saddam Iraq: Caught Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Strategic Rivalry
This thesis explores the complex rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia in postSaddam Iraq, particularly focusing on the period from 2010 to 2014. To capture the complexity of this rivalry, the thesis develops a conceptual framework based on foreign policy analysis, rivalry studies, and …
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A corpus-based analysis of adjective suffix rivalry in the english language /
… theoretical insights into adjectives and suffix rivalry, exploring the rivalry among adjectives-forming suffixes in order to identify the factors contributing to the predominance of certain suffixes over others and collecting the frequency of adjectives in the English Web Corpus and the OED. In …
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Proto-Feminist Chaucer: The Rivalry Between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk
This essay explores whether Geoffrey Chaucer should be considered a proto-feminist, focused primarily on “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” and “The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale”. The Wife of Bath, as this essay states, can arguably be considered a feminist character, based on modern definitions …
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