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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"tipping point"”.
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"The Trans Tipping Point": Assessing Contemporary Transgender Visibility in Alternative and Mainstream Media
This thesis seeks to develop a rubric for the assessment of recent transgender visibility across disparate media spaces. The rubric is based upon the critiques of transgender studies scholars and transgender activists on transgender representation in media. The rubric aims to address the most …
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Private Provision of Public Goods: Uniform Price Mechanisms with a Threshold and Dynamics with a Tipping Point
… we introduce two novel mechanisms for provision point public goods: The uniform price auction mechanism (UPA) collects an endogenously determined uniform price from everyone offering at least that price, while the uniform price cap mechanism (UPC) collects the uniform price from everyone offering …
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Investigating threshold effects of public debt on economic growth for Zambia (1980 - 2015).
… bivariate model against debt-to-GDP ratio. The tipping point is found to be at 36.6 percent of debt-to-GDP ratio after maximizing the resultant equation of the model. The multivariate threshold autoregressive model reveals that for the Zambian case, debt has an insignificant effect on growth …
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Investigating threshold effects of public debt on economic growth for Zambia (1980 - 2015).
… bivariate model against debt-to-GDP ratio. The tipping point is found to be at 36.6 percent of debt-to-GDP ratio after maximizing the resultant equation of the model. The multivariate threshold autoregressive model reveals that for the Zambian case, debt has an insignificant effect on growth …
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Spatio-temporal dynamics before population collapse
… more vulnerable to disturbance closer to the tipping point. Fluctuations of population density increased in size and timescale near the tipping point, in agreement with the theory. In the second project, we used spatially extended yeast populations to evaluate early warning signals based on …
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Innovative Multivariate Meta-Analyses Methods For Diagnostic Tests And Multiple Treatments
… a sensitivity analysis tool: a correlation tipping point analysis for AB-NMA assessing the robustness of conclusions about relative treatment effects across a feasible range of correlation parameter values. Our application on multiple NMA datasets highlights its supplemental value for robust …
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The Failure of Mobility as an Effective Unemployment Adjustment Mechanism in the Urban Labor Market: The Case of Chicago
… In the course of creating these models, a tipping point for mobility-migration was obtained. This tipping point lies between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars in annual income. Above this point, the ability to move or to be locked in the poverty neighborhood structure disappears. Below …
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Fulfilling Positive Stereotypical Expectations, Performance Boosts or Performance Decrements?
… to performance decrements. I also aimed to pinpoint the exact condition, or level of threat salience, that would lead to the switch from performance boosts to performance decrements (i.e. a tipping point). The threat salience antecedents of social referent’s group membership and feedback …
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Engaging Communicative Praxis in an Era of Neoclassical Economics
… corporate social responsibility has reached a tipping point from which it may move to become a fully informed and dominant practice or recede into the status of a passing fad. This project is driven by the question,"What might be done to better ensure a fuller adoption of CSR as a standard …
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Exhausted with Emissions: Exploring the Link Between Anthropogenic Emissions and Urban Pollution on Public Health
… CA and New York City, NY. We estimate the Tipping Point (TP) as well as the Break-Even Point (BEP) and show that compounding benefits of NOx control will compensate disbenefits occurred with abatement. In addition, we examine the impact of nationalized vs. localized emission control …
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Urban Agriculture And Resiliency Of At-Risk Communities: Evaluation And Implementation At The University Of Minnesota Golf Course
… immaterial in urban environments have reached a tipping point where their supposed designers and regulators of operation are being opposed for the lack of common good in mind. This study examines what the creation and use of sustainable urban agriculture at the University of Minnesota Golf Course …
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The Economy and Workplace Safety: Evidence from the Macro-Level
… state of the economy worsened until reaching a “tipping point” at approximately 3.94% above the state mean-level of unemployment. Practical implications are discussed in light of these findings, including the need for organizations to consider employing state-level safety interventions in …
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The effects of working memory and directionality on sentence build-up drill performance
… errors. Second, it also extended the tipping point, which was defined as the serial position of the word at which participants started making their first errors. Finally, there was an interaction effect between WM and input direction, indicating that participants with different WM …
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Case studies in DSM : utilizing the Design Structure Matrix to improve New Product Introduction
… (BOM) and other tasks. In fact there was a "tipping point" where reducing the dependency between tasks could yield significant reductions in cycle time and standard deviation of cycle time. More significantly, the case studies highlighted the large number of stakeholders involved in the …
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On Startups : patterns and practices of contemporary software entrepreneurs
… to care about it." Malcolm Gladwell Author, "The Tipping Point". "I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out, that is the reason why I compose. " Ludwig van Beethoven. The above quotes answer the basic question that many people have asked me …
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Reforestation Management to Prevent Ecosystem Collapse in Stochastic Deforestation
… attention is given to the outcome at the turning point, tipping point, and transition point, considering a critical threshold beyond which recovery becomes implausible. Our findings suggest that reducing tenure costs has advantages, while substitution between primary and secondary forests is not …
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International journalism: political crises and their impact on foreign correspondents: the case of the failed coup attempt in July 2016 in Turkey and its impact on European correspondents who live and work in Instanbul
… The convergence of the Role Theory, the Tipping Point concept, the Resilience Theory in psychology and the Spiral of Silence allowed us to conceptualize the ‘Syndrome of the Correspondent’ as a framework overarching our research questions. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews with …
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Turn-Taking Behaviors in the Physics Classroom
… participation, that there will be an observable tipping point in women's participation, and that women's average participation will go up with the proportion of women in the classroom. These hypotheses were tested in 10 physics classrooms over the course of one class period each. The …
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E-commerce and the retail sector : implications for 7-11, Taiwan
… are presented. Gladwell’s idea of a “tipping point” with regard to market growth is used to discuss 7-11’s need to move faster to the solution of trading on-line. Amazon.com is used as an example to argue that 7-11 can save more costs by moving the business on-line.The case study of …
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Re-energized : a new model for suburban housing through infrastructural remediation
… This type of urbanization has reached a tipping point at which local governments lack implementable strategies for meeting the demands of their growing populations that are both sustainable and economically viable. Focusing on Denton, Texas, the proposal aims to repurpose oil and gas …
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