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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"value system"”.
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Strategic Technology Planning Using Roadmaps in the Value System
… or ""network"" of firms, referred to as a ""value system"". During this research, it was noted that regardless of the amount invested, the new technology planning process often fails. Firms develop technologies that are never commercialized, or firms do not have technologies ready when they …
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Implementing supply chain "best practices" in the construction value system
… highly fragmented with innumerous players in its value system. Supply Chain Management involves management of inter and intra company resources (personnel, inventory, transportation, facilities) in order to efficiently deliver products and services to the market place and boost profitability. …
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Development of a Value System and Mission Architecture for the Exploration of the Oceans of Europa
Of all of the bodies in the solar system, Europa is perhaps the most enticing. Based on several lines of evidence, Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is believed to have an ocean of liquid water beneath several kilometers of ice. This ocean is likely in contact with Europa's rocky core, making Europa's …
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Morality according to Irving : an examination of the value system operating in the fiction of John Irving.
… Irving's label as a moral writer unless Irving's values are examined more closely. This close examination is impossible without admitting that Irving's moral sense differs from traditional American values. After establishing Irving's critical background, this study clarifies the values operating …
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Could the values or value system of a competent person, disclosed in a living will, play a role in medical treatment decision-making processes under the Mental Capacity Act 2005?
Disclosing a value system in a living will could be in your best interests: Whilst doctors are recognised for being expert in medical matters they are nevertheless generally required by law to obtain the consent of a competent adult patient prior to administering a medical treatment.1 The need for …
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History, Nonviolence, and the Experience of Values
… History, Nonviolence, and the Experience of Values MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Randall E. Auxier The goal of this dissertation is to address the question: what are values? To carry out this inquiry in a manner which will provide new insights into the complexity, difficulty, and importance of this …
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Value convergence as it relates to marital adjustment of twenty-five well-adjusted and twenty-five maladjusted couples in southeast Massachusetts
… whether there is an association between value system similarity and marital adjustment; and (2) to examine qualitatively the nature of that association. The relationship between mutual values and marital adjustment has long been assumed to be a strong one, although little research has …
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Sectarian Value Consciousness of the Japanese Seventh-day Adventists
… of this study was to find how the sectarian values of the SDA church were assimilated among the Japanese SDA church members. In order to clarify the characteristics of the sectarian values, their origin and contents were discussed in the first part of this study. It was concluded that the SDA …
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Towards a theory of the configuration and management of export-dependent land-based value systems: The case of New Zealand
… products from pasture to plate encompasses a value system. A value system (depicted as the Z-form Model, overleaf) includes all sequentially aligned organisations through which product flows from the producer to the international consumer. Value systems also include the linkages between …
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Switching to Celsius to Improve Patient Outcomes
… of this project is to change the way the microsystem of the Surgical Services department takes, communicates, and documents patient body temperature. Currently when a healthcare provider takes or documents a patient’s body temperature, it is left to the healthcare provider’s preference whether …
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Patriarchal fallacies East and West: A comparative study of gender imposition in the writings of Hell
… imposed through the projection of a patriarchal value system, particularly the theological one."
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Ethical issues in organizational practices: individuals, organizations and partnerships
… to an organization’s pursuit of a higher value system, and to organizations’ social and ethical practices in the broader context of cross-sector collaborations. The thesis comprises four research papers, with topics ranging from ethics and value-based motivations, issues surrounding …
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Authoritarianism, Threat, and Declining Tolerance and Support for Democracy: Evidence from the Post-Arab Spring Middle East
… authoritarianism and threat. Authoritarianism—a value continuum that places the need for conformity and order over independence and self-expression—is known in Western samples to interact with both normative and existential threats to increase intolerance. Specifically, those high in …
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Creating community through symbolic discourse: An analysis of Jesse Jackson's rhetoric at the Democratic National Conventions, 1984--2000
… involvement works to challenge the majority value system. Each address aims to create a community consisting of minority voices in America by bringing them into the Democratic Party in hopes of changing national policy. Metaphorical strategy is used to symbolically create a community …
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Characteristics of Principalship Candidates and Their Relation to Selection Patterns in Eight Illinois Communities' Public School Districts
… the physical environment, economic condition, value system, and social strata that might impact each public school district principal selection process.
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Conceptualizations of Wisdom in the Native American Community
… collectivist social structure, and an individual value system promoting of personal development.Participants outline the worldview of interconnectedness as involving components of caretaking, both of others and of nature, and connections through a higher power, which reportedly lead to …
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On Complex Value Systems in the Connected World - Examining Structures and Dynamics of the ICT Driven Value Systems in Mobile Communication, Internet, and Transportation
… interrelations between the technologies and value systems of the companies has become crucially important. As the existing literature on value systems recognizes systemic complexity often implicitly only, a question arises: is it possible to develop a holistic system model to examine the …
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The impact of leadership values and culture on sustainable development strategies
… companies can create and capture significant value for multiple stakeholders. This can be achieved by innovating business models with built-in sustainability. Sustainability business models can help alleviate the country's top three socioeconomic pain points (inequality, unemployment, and …
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Dynamic study of factors impacting on combat power
… extends the development of the Generalized Value System (GVS), used in the Airland Advanced Research Model (ALARM), as an on-going research effort at the Naval Postgraduate School. Specifically, the problem of determining the multidimensional mapping of the state variables that represent the …
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