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Showing 1 to 20 of 1285 for “"scarcity"”.
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Adaptive deep learning under data scarcity
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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WATER SCARCITY, CONFLICT AND NEGOTIATION: FOUR ESSAYS
… explored the link between renewable resource scarcity and violence but found little support at the international level. While some studies identified non-violent tensions over shared rivers, the overall impact of water scarcity on conflict remained inconsistent. Divergent findings often …
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When Shelf-based Scarcity Impacts Consumer Preferences
Scarcity has long been known to impact consumers' choices. Yet, the impact of shelf-based scarcity in retail environments, created by stocking level depletion, has received almost no attention in the literature. Indeed, little research to date has even examined if consumers will attend to …
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Commoditization and the end of financial scarcity
Bibliography: leaves 601-611.
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What we see through the scarcity lens
… of the discipline (economics as the science of scarcity). I leave the door open for weaker, potentially less dogmatic versions of neo-Robbinsianism, but discuss the challenges that one would inevitably face in articulating such a view that avoids the pitfalls but retains the attractive features …
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Scarcity Antidotes: How the Colonial Agenda Demands Our Bodies to be Sites/Sights of Scarcity, and Our Possible Futures
… explored the question, “How might I shift from a scarcity mindset to a possibility mindset to strengthen my anti-oppressive practice?” An anti-oppressive paradigm oriented this research to unconscious colonial norms within white supremacy culture that perpetuate power disparities in society. Using …
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Adapting to Water Scarcity: Effects of Irrigation Management
In developing countries, farmers are dealing with climatic changes by adapting their agricultural practices. Little work has investigated the direct impact of structural variables (e.g., central vs. local management of irrigation water, location of village), psychological variables (e.g., risk …
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Harnessing data priors to mitigate 3D data scarcity
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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EXPLORING NATURAL RESOURCE SCARCITY MITIGATION APPROACHES IN SUPPLYNETWORKS
… requiring firms to incorporate natural resource scarcity (NRS) risks into their operational strategies. However, as demonstrated in the review of the literature, there is a gap in understanding on how firms with complex and dispersed supply networks (SNs) evaluate and mitigate against NRS …
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Sustainable urban development under climate change and resource scarcity
… environmental trends in regard to resource scarcity, climate change and degrading environmental quality. Urban complexity, cross-scale impacts, socio-institutional diversity and adaptability become crucial when thinking about alternative development pathways. This dissertation seeks to …
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Scalable Representation Learning: On Data-scarcity, Uncertainty and Symmetry
Deep learning has experienced remarkable success in recent years, leading to significant advancements in various fields such as vision, natural language generation, complex game play, as well as solving difficult scientific problems such as predicting protein folding. Despite these successes, …
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Overcoming Data Scarcity in Deep Learning of Scientific Problems
… a deep learning framework which overcomes data-scarcity by incorporating three “inexpensive" and easily obtainable auxiliary information. Specifically, these are: 1) abundant unlabeled data, 2) prior knowledge of known symmetries or invariances of the problem and 3) a surrogate dataset obtained …
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Territories of scarcity and creativity: a critical view of informal settlements and emerging tactics under conditions of scarcity in Nairobi, Kenya and Quito, Ecuador
This thesis explores the processes through which scarcity is constructed in informal settlements and how conditions emerging within its limits gives way to particular socio-spatial phenomena and influence the emergence of self-organisation and creative strategies from a non-expert perspective. At …
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The relationship between water scarcity awareness by transnational Nigerians and its effect on the willingness to contribute to water scarcity relief efforts in Nigeria
Water Scarcity has been argued to be one of the fastest growing pandemics of the world currently. The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine the relationship between the awareness of water scarcity in Transnational Nigerians and if it effects their willingness to contribute to water …
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Learning in Dynamic Data-Streams with a Scarcity of Labels
… to change in a stream is compounded by the scarcity of labels problem. This refers to the very realistic situation in which the true class label of an incoming point is not immediately available (or will never be available) or in situations where manually labelling incoming points is …
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The economics of urban water policy : infrastructure, scarcity, and conservation
… change. These two realities imply that increased scarcity may lead to over-consumption, premature resource exhaustion, and shortages. Chapter 3 develops a hydro-economic model of social welfare maximization constrained by water availability. The model provides optimal water use and the efficient …
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Hydrocolonialism, Scarcity, and Pollution: Reading for Water in African Fiction
… in dams, the pollution of water bodies, water scarcity, and the inspirited aspect of water. Building on Hofmeyr et al., my study uses a hydro-infrastructural framework to show how three novels—Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019), and Mahjoub’s Nubian Indigo …
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The impact of institutional variables on measures of resource scarcity
… contributions toward measuring resource scarcity over a long time period. First, more appropriate statistical models are employed, than have been developed in the past, to obtain more robust conclusions regarding the trend of resource scarcity. Second, important non-cost institutional …
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The scarcity of domestic energy : a study in three villages.
Very little information is available on domestic fuel consumption in African villages in Southern Africa. And yet, it is a problem that concerns a large number of people, and which is contributing to environmental deterioration. At three villages, in Lesotho, Transkei and KwaZulu, the collection …
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