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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"theory development"”.
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Density Functional Theory: Development and Applications
We describe the utility of Density Functional Theory (DFT) to explain phenomena of practical interest in Part I and embark upon further development of this powerful method in Part II. Specifically, we show that DFT can be used to predict enantioselectivities and regioselectivities (Chapters 3 and …
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Predictor displays--theory development and application to towed submersibles
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1991.
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Theory development in educational administration from 1947 to 1995
… of this study was to trace the history of theory development in educational administration in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century. While this study deals with the history of theory development in educational administration in the United States, it should not be …
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Team-based attitude : theory development, inventory construction, and psychometric analysis
The purpose of this study concerns the development of a valid and reliable team-orientation instrument which measures tendencies towards multidimensional team-based attitudes within interactive, interdependent elite sport groups. The theoretical basis utilized to build a conceptual model includes …
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A middle range approach to theory development for service organization
… rather, the goal was to extend existing theory through operationalizing a construct valid definition of the service concept.
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Factors influencing intercollegiate athletics fundraising structure: a survey and theory development
Intercollegiate athletics and fundraising expectations, at institutions of higher education, continue to increase and the pressure on athletic fundraisers has never been greater. There has been little study on the effects of organization structure and design and its effect on fundraisers that work …
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Advancing Pattern Detection, Theory Development and Decision Making with Explainable AI
… decision-making and computationally intensive theory development (CTD) is a subject of ongoing debate, particularly concerning how and whether these methods can be effectively employed, and how the reliability of their explanations can be ensured. This dissertation addresses these issues by …
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Transformative Materiality: Theory Development and Application in Sand, Wind, and Water
… architecture is experienced. An original theory, Transformative Materiality, posits that landscape experience may be heightened, making people more aware of and engaged with their surroundings, if design encourages the changing of materials over time through temporal landscape processes …
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Coupled Elastic-Plastic Thermomechanically Assisted Diffusion: Theory Development, Numerical Implementation, and Application
A fully coupled thermomechanical diffusion theory describing the thermal and mechanically assisted mass transport of dilute mobile constituents in an elastic solid is extended to include the effects of elastic-plastic deformation. Using the principles of modern continuum mechanics and classical …
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Stabilizing the Cocoa Market: A Quarterly Econometric Application Using Optimal Control Theory (Development, Policy, Modelling)
The increased commodity price instability of the 1970s has led to successive international negotiations on commodity agreements, the cornerstone of which are buffer stocks programs.
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Design, theory, development and testing of a new form of steam power generation – the practical steam engine
… steam turbine operation. This text considers the theory, design and development of the product as well as testing and performance review. An application of the PSE in parallel to a pressure reducing valve (PRV) is analytically considered. The theoretical performance in this application is …
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A Grammar of the Idiom: Theory Development and Its Application to Old French and Old West Germanic
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:53:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004178.pdf: 10986464 bytes, checksum: 361a90939f8412eb96a2b060ff07d9ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Towards images of supply chains in a sustainable world: a conceptual exploration of metaphor for sustainable supply chain theory development
… in the context of sustainable supply chain theory development. The sustainable supply chain field is at a turning point in its development as recent work has cast a critical eye over the field’s ability to make meaningful contributions to addressing the sustainability challenge. Evidence …
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Marketing, strategy, and the small firm: A systematic inquiry
… incorporated a contingency approach to theory development, and as such contained contingency variables, response variables, and performance variables.
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An investigation into the responses of the construction industry to preferential procurement in South Africa
… firms with a view to contributing to theory development. The fundamental premise of this thesis is that preferential procurement polices are not neutral, but have distributed consequences.
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Scientific inquiry in high school science learning: Collaborative research activities applying scientific visualizations
… longitudinal study design to examine the theory development activities and high performance tool use of four teams of high school students and teachers. The science learning and research activities of these four high school teams were followed from the start of their research in the summer …
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The Role of Culture and Ethnicity in Psychological Theory and Practice: A Three Part Study with a Particular Emphasis on the Black British Second and Third Generation
… A constructivist abbreviated version of grounded theory was applied to the transcribed material resulting from the interviews. All together 16 categories emerged from the data. These were organised under four broad headings: External Struggle (Trauma), Internal Struggle (Trauma), Private Self and …
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Towards a better understanding of unethical consumer behavior : the influence of individual characteristics, situational circumstances and emotional experiences in consumers' ethical decision-making processes
… consumer behavior by further enhancing the theory development of consumers’ ethical decision-making processes by conceiving and testing (1) additional individual characteristics, (2) situational circumstances, and (3) emotional experiences (along with other issue-related influences), and …
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An investigation into corporate governance practices at tier 3 state owned enterprises in Namibia
… (SOEs). A review of existing literature, a multi-theory, multi-mechanisms approach, a qualitative design, and a multiple case study method have been adopted, with a convenience sample constituted of multiple participants, in order to gain a deeper understanding and different perspectives. To …
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