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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"setting behavior"”.
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Prospective retarders for alkali-activated slag: stability at high alkalinity, effects on setting behavior and strength of paste
… in mainstream construction and a control of the setting or hardening time is essential. Several retarders have been conventionally used for this purpose in the ordinary Portland cement systems. This investigation hopes to study the effectiveness of these retarders in the significantly different …
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Wage Structures, Exchange Rate Regimes, and the Transmission of Disturbances
The role of wage behavior in open economies is a topic currently receiving attention in the international macroeconomics literature. However, no study has adequately examined the theoretical and policy implications of integrating alternative forms of wage setting behavior into an open macroeconomic …
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Childhood Fire-Setting: A Contextual Understanding
Previous research on fire-setting has been either totally theoretical or has been based on limited contact with individuals who set the fires. This dissertation accessed fire-setting through interviews with three male adults who set fires as children. Background information was acquired from the …
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Modeling The Fluid To Solid Transition In Cement Paste, Mortar, And Concrete
… the growth model was applied to represent setting behaviors of paste, mortar, and concrete, and the quantitative characterization of the setting behaviors is investigated. Also, the difference in setting behaviors of sieved and prepared mortars is examined with quantifying the paste content …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Effects of Biofilm Age and Composition on Oyster Larval Setting
… and considered the variables that impact oyster setting behavior in an effort to understand why oyster populations have not recovered. Studies that have examined setting surfaces suggest that biofilms promote oyster larval settlement; however, similar studies with barnacle larvae have found an …
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The Applicability of Values Clarification to Cardiac Patient Education
… these sessions the patients evaluated their own behavior in terms of their self-set goals, in the life style areas of smoking, diet, work, exercise and stress.</p> <p>Sixty-five per cent of the patients studied acted on their self-set goals and thirty-five per cent chose not to set goals for …
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Edgeworth price cycles in retail gasoline markets
… motivated by the interesting and dynamic price-setting behavior of firms in Canadian retail gasoline markets. In the first essay, I examine behavior at the market level for 19 Canadian cities over 574 weeks. I find three distinct pricing patterns: 1. standard cost-based pricing, 2. sticky …
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Essays on Adapting to Extreme Shocks: Local Market Correlations and Global Agricultural Trade Responses to Weather and Yield Variability
… negative shocks, indicating asymmetric price-setting behavior. These findings highlight the reliance on shared infrastructure, emphasizing the need for coordinated risk management, supply chain resilience, and targeted insurance policies. The study also reveals non-normal, asymmetric tail …
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Essays on vertical price restraint, merger and competitive conduct
… vertical price restraint on the competitive behavior of brewers in the US beer industry. Resale price maintenance (RPM) is the practice whereby upstream firms in an industry, e.g. manufacturers, make an agreement with downstream firms, e.g. retailers, that the downstream firms will sell the …
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Essays on Monetary Policy and Financial Crises
… This finding indicates that the interest rate setting behavior of the US monetary policy implicitly contributes to increase the risk of financial crises. Chapter 3 analyzes the economic costs associated with the central banks’ decisions to intervene or not to intervene in case of speculative …
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Adolescent Goals and Their Reports of What They do to Achieve Those Goals
Twenty-five adolescents' ranking of a set of equally highly valued goals on a Paired-comparisons Survey was compared with what adolescents say they are doing to achieve those goals. Results of the Paired-comparisons Survey showed that adolescents ranked career, interpersonal, and educational goals …
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Working with your hands : essays on craft occupations in India
… and Field-Experimental Evidence of Price-Setting from the Sale of Handicraft Products in Southern India. Scholars of economic sociology have shown that sellers often vary prices among different buyers for short-term monetary gains or long-term relational gains, but they have failed to …