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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"rules of the game"”.
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Rules of the game : rezoning Boston, 1984-1989
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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THE RULES OF THE GAME OF DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC DISCOURSE
In response to the negative phenomena that characterize contemporary public discourse, such as the spreading of hate and toxic speech, fake news, disinformation, conspiracy theories, etc., this dissertation addresses the following research question: how should ordinary citizens publicly discuss in …
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Changing the rules of the game : banks and community-oriented economic development
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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Changing the Rules of the Game: Rule-Adjustment Mechanics in Tabletop Games
In most tabletop games, the rules of the game are typically defined and agreed upon by all players before play begins. However, there are some games which allow players to change the rules of the game during play. Through an exploratory design research methodology, the author defines a …
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The unwritten rules of the game : a case study of European funding distribution in Wales
This thesis examines the process of European Union funding programme and its implementation within a network context, and asks how institutional and network factors influence which organisations acquire funding. It is a case study which focuses on one European programme and one project partnership …
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Changing the Rules of the Game: Can Voicing for Social Responsibility Influence Market Behavior Toward Greater Inclusiveness in Economic Development?
<p>This thesis examines social responsibility within a capitalist economy by investigating socially responsible investing and, tangentially, corporate social responsibility. These concepts have been at the heart of economic and legal debates for hundreds of years, with no clearly defined consensus …
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Learning the Rules of the Game: The Nature of Game and Classroom Supports When Using a Concept-Integrated Digital Physics Game in the Middle School Science Classroom
Games in science education is emerging as a popular topic of scholarly inquiry. The National Research Council recently published a report detailing a research agenda for games and science education entitled Learning Science Through Computer Games and Simulations (2011). The report recommends moving …
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Rules of the Game: Effects of a Game-based Metaphor on Instructional Activity Design and the Use of Student Mentors on Learning Outcomes in a Middle School General Science Class
This study investigated the effects of a game-like environment on instructional activity design and the use of student mentors on learning outcomes in a middle school general science class. The participants for this study were 165 students, ages 13-14 years old, who were enrolled in 8th grade at a …
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Sustainability Hacking: conceptual development and empirical exploration
… current and future generations from meeting their very basic needs. The speed and scope of mainstream responses to the world’s most pressing problems are limited by agency failures and by the ‘rules of the game’. In this context, this research contributes to theory and practice by formulating …
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A study of political tolerance in the context of South Africa
This study measures levels of political tolerance and degrees of consensus on democratic norms in the South African context. Tolerance is the willingness to put up with opposition. It implies procedural fairness--a commitment to the rules of the game and a willingness to apply them equally. The …
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Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: A Case Study of the Jefferson National Forest Planning Process
Environmental decision-making is a tournament of competing conservation agendas in which some values and beliefs are held up and exalted, others are dismissed and ignored, and still others are implicit and unnoticed. Stakeholders compete in the tournament to advance their value systems through the …
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Women Troubadours in Southern France
<p>In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries women troubadours in southern France called trobairitz participated in dialogue or debate poems called tensons with male troubadours. Of the nine existing tensons that include a male and a female voice, we will only analyze five tensons with the known …
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An Institutional Analysis of the Chinese Land Conversion Process
… China has a highly centralized system to control the conversion of farmland to non-farming uses. Its rigidity and other problems, however, have led to a large informal and decentralized market that serves to accommodate the demand for developable land. This dissertation, based on a case study in a …
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Searching for patterns in Conway's Game of Life
Conway’s Game of Life (Life) is a simple cellular automaton, discovered by John Conway in 1970, that exhibits complex emergent behavior. Life-enthusiasts have been looking for building blocks with specific properties (patterns) to answer unsolved problems in Life for the past five decades. Finding …
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Interstate Cooperation in Cyber Strategies of the United States and China Post-2010: A Comparative Study
INTERSTATE COOPERATION IN CYBER STRATEGIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA POST-2010: A COMPARATIVE STUDY July 2020 Glasgow Student Number: 2402268 Dublin City Student Number: 18114229 Charles Student Number: 67474092 ROMAN KOLODII Presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree …
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Why tech companies fail to jump the financial S-curve
The rules of the game in the globalized business environment have changed. In the Information Technology (IT) industry, starting as a new company with a new offering or business model, climbing the upward growth trajectory of financial results, and later getting stuck in a flat or declining graph …
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Getting beyond the lowest common denominator : Developing countries in global environmental negotiations
This study explores the collective negotiation behavior of the developing countries of the South in international environmental politics. The so-called 'South'-represented in global negotiations by Group of 77 (G77)-is an unwieldy and unlikely collective made up of over 130 countries displaying …
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An investigation into student sense of belonging at a post-1992 university
This study explores students’ sense of belonging through the accounts of nineteen undergraduate students studying at an inner city post-1992 university. Participants' accounts were obtained through semi-structured interviews conducted at three key points during their first year of study. The …
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Audience at the gates: how the BBC is using social media to identify talent and involve audiences in programme production.
The rise of social media has changed the way the BBC broadcasts. Previous studies have examined the way major broadcasters use social media and social network tools, such as YouTube and Twitter, to supplement their existing channels (Burgess and Green 2009), and to augment newsgathering (Wardle and …
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Conflict, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Postcolonial African Regional Order, 1957-1963
This thesis is a work of International History and an investigation of the birth of inter-African relations from Ghana’s Independence in March 1957 to the establishment in May 1963 of Africa’s first and wholly owned political organisation, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa. The …
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