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The market economy of trips
… revenues of the system. The Market Economy of Trips (MET) explores a new operation model based on a double auction market where cost-minimizing users are both buyers and sellers of trip rights while profit-maximizing stations are competing auctioneers that trade them. Trip rights are priced …
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Indonesia’s Patent Law at a Crossroads: Can Indonesia Implement a Constitutional Patent Law in the TRIPS and TRIPS-plus Era?
… Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and TRIPS-plus standards under free trade agreements. This shift of focus has created tensions between the interests of the inventors or patent owners and the society. The protection-oriented approach to patent law will also create tensions …
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Evaluation of 21st Century Skills in Museum Field Trips
… grade students practice the 4Cs during field trips at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). In 2010, the National Education Association identified four skills (Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity) that students will need in 21<sup>st</sup> century academia and …
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Defining preparation and preparedness for nursing study abroad trips.
… receive prior to undertaking study abroad trips. The researcher's personal context that initiated this project is representative of the findings of the literature - namely that students often feel unprepared during study abroad trips. Evidence-based preparation for study abroad trips is …
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A New Travel Demand Model for Outdoor Recreation Trips
… new model is based on estimating the numbers of trips to two outdoor recreational sites (Wigg Island and Wigan Flashes) and to nine English National Parks where data on visitor trips exist. In the final stage of the research, the new model is applied to estimate the changes that would arise from …
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Trips flexibilities and access to essential medicines in South Africa
… It further contends that the use of the TRIPS flexibility known as compulsory licence should be utilised to realise the need of access to medicines in South Africa, together with how the pricing system has a weighty effect with regards to access to medicines. The TRIPS flexibility has …
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Performance and alertness of railroad engineers on long duration trips
The present study investigated the performance and alertness of 8 healthy male participants between the age of 31 years and 65 years old in nighttime, long duration simulated train operation. Participants completed the simulator tasks twice, once alone (single run) and once with another person in …
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Mode and Departure Time Choice Behavior of Non-Work Related Trips
Non-work-related trips comprise a considerable percent of total trips, but there are a limited number of studies that investigate travel behavior related to these trips. This study investigates non-work-related travel behavior in two parts. The first part examines mode choice behavior, while the …
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Effects of Occupational Exoskeletons on Responses to Simulated Slips and Trips
… balance in response to simulated slips and trips. Five representative exoskeletons were investigated including leg-, back, and shoulder-support exoskeletons. This thesis consists of two studies: a smaller study investigating one exoskeleton and a larger one investigating multiple …
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Multiple destination trips and the economic valuation of outdoor recreation sites
… study examines multiple destination recreation trips and the economic valuation of recreation sites using the travel cost method. One common assumption of the travel cost method is that all travel costs incurred by a visitor are exclusively for a trip to a single site. However, this assumption …
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Enhancing Vocabulary Acquisition Through Synthetic Learning Experiences: Implementing Virtual Field Trips Into Classrooms
A Synthetic Learning Environment (SLE) the Virtual Field Trip (VFT) was designed to increase vocabulary acquisition and knowledge by utilizing simulation based technologies and leveraging sound educational findings. Vocabulary acquisition is considered a prerequisite to becoming a good reader and …
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The effect of participating on service trips on community engagement and student development
1 PDF file (vii, 72 pages)
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International patent regime for pharmaceuticals from the Paris Convention to the TRIPS Agreement
… Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement) concluded in the Uruguay Round in 1994 brought IPP into the global trading system. The patent system contained in the Agreement reflects to a large extent MPCs' proposal for a strengthened patent system which paves the way to ensure …
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Incorporating unobservable heterogeneity in discrete choice model : mode choice model for shopping trips
In this thesis, we propose a methodology for incorporating attitudinal data in a choice model to capture unobservable heterogeneity across the population. The key features of this approach are, 1) the concept of latent attitudes, and the assumption that 2) the respondent's answers to psychometric …
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Deep embedding approach to classify purpose of trips between cities from GPS data
… a computational framework to identify purpose of trips between cities from GPS traces using a deep embedding approach. I extracted statistical features that captures trips characteristics that includes: temporal features, spatial features and Points of Interests (POI) features. I deployed a deep …
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The effect of study trips followed by discussion on vocabulary development of kindergarten pupils
… of this study to determine the effect of study trips and subsequent discussion on the vocabulary of kindergarten pupils from three social groups in Madora County.</p><p> Seventy-nine pupils, selected from three classrooms in three rural school districts, were classified as middle-class …
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An investigation into the use of a microblogging technology in school trips to museums
School trips to museums are an important means of introducing young people to museum collections and may have a long-term learning impact (Falk & Dierking, 1997). At the same time, activities in museum spaces can be challenging for students who are engaged in complex learning processes. The thesis …
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Selected Community Resources in the Longview, Washington, Area Available for Elementary School Field Trips
… area available for elementary school field trips. 2. To expand and up-date the existing file which was established in the Longview, Washington, School District in 1947.
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