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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"social choices"”.
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Individual, Family, School, And Community Predictors Of High School Male Suicidal Behaviors: An Analysis Of 2010 Iowa Youth Survey Data
… (risk behaviors of substance use and anti-social choices, and resilient behavior of self-determination), family (family engagement), school (school connectedness), and community (community support) predicted the suicide behaviors of intent or attempt in 11th grade males in the state of …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
Novels of manners exhibit social economies that bear some metaphorical resemblance to literal economies. In England and America, before the women's movement and the introduction of large numbers of women into the workforce, this was the woman's economy: the economy of manners. This thesis examines …
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Nobody's Ever Asked Me That Before: Middle School Students Talk about Motivation to Achieve in School Contexts
… students' school contexts and their academic and social choices by listening to the voices of first year middle school students. The intent of this study was to provide teachers with a way to reconceptualize adolescents as learners. Research suggests that there are two distinct approaches to the …
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A review of infrastructure services for the upgrading of South African informal settlements
… the complexity of the technical and social choices that have to be made in the context of informal settlements. The hypothesis that is presented is that it is beneficial to treat each of the services independently in order to identify the criteria for selecting particular …
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Political artifacts and personal privacy : the Yenta multi-agent distributed matchmaking system
Technology does not exist in a social vacuum. The design and patterns of use of any particular technological artifact have implications both for the direct users of the technology, and for society at large. Decisions made by technology designers and implementors thus have political implications …
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Experimental Investigations of Strategic Interactions
… Chapter 3, titled "Preference Aggregation in Social Choice Under Risk", studies decision-makers' willingness to accommodate others' preferences when making "social choices": choices that influence both one's own and others' welfare. I design an experimental task that can answer these questions …
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Governance and Economic Development in the Arab Region: A Global Perspective
… approach to examine the outcomes of economic, social and political reform in the Arab countries with those in other world regions. Secondly, an examination of these relationships by utilising an augmented neoclassical growth model framework derived from a production function and a dynamic panel …
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'A new tempered spirit to comfort the twenty-first century': individual choices, public policies, and the philanthropic experience in Western Europe
… of the new European Union. The individual and social choices made within this continuing process tell us a great deal about both the philanthropic impulse and the major institutions which comprise European life at the end of the twentieth century. The description of each important institutional …