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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"vetting"”.
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The good, the bad, and the ugly: selecting and vetting indigenous leaders
… affected by countless factors. Selecting, vetting, and influencing indigenous leaders in foreign countries has been a key task of U.S. Special Operations Forces since its inception, but to date Special Operations Forces often struggles with mastering this, as evidenced by recent experiences …
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'Is little to be gained by lamenting the past?' : Assessing the extent to which addressing the past legacy of the South African and Kenyan judiciaries by means of transitional justice mechanisms, has contributed to achieving the objectives of judicia
… Africa. Secondly, the contribution which the vetting of the Kenyan judiciary made to achieving judicial reform in Kenya after the 2007 Election crisis is assessed. In both circumstances, the final contributions of these transitional justice mechanisms to achieving the objectives of judicial …
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Controversial advertising in the UK : its regulation and practitioner ethical decision making
… advertising is placed, media clearance and pre-vetting procedures are also common. However, despite these controls, over 25,000 complaints are received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) every year and on average 2,500 campaigns annually are found in breach of the code (ASA, 2012). …
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Deploying the right technology : a framework for digital strategy and selection at the United States Postal Service to shape the future of work
… qualitative or quantitative process possible for vetting new and existing technology implementations while remaining adaptive and service-oriented? This paper explores the development of a framework that provides guidance on deploying the right technologies. I will draw on desk research of …
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No Linux, No Problem: Fast and Correct Windows Binary Fuzzing via Target-embedded Snapshotting
… on Windows programs. Thus, accelerating vetting of the Windows software ecosystem demands a fast, correct, and kernel-agnostic fuzzing execution mechanism. We propose making state snapshotting an application-level concern as opposed to a kernel-level concern via target-embedded …
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John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith, 1960-1963
… 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy endured a grueling vetting process by virtue of his Catholic faith. Conventional narratives depict Kennedy’s ultimate victory as a turning point that announced a new era, free of religious prejudice, and marked the beginning of the “secular sixties.” In fact, …
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Donogh O’Malley And The FreePost Primary Education Scheme
… surprising and involved An Taoiseach Lemass in vetting the announcement speech.
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Study of the role of Strategically Managed Inventory (SMI) in the Caterpillar supply chain
… for the SMI process, increasing supplier vetting, and crafting a way to gain visibility into current SMI usage.
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The roles and functions of private security companies in UN Peace Missions - a critical analysis
… however, does also highlight the UNs vetting deficiencies in terms of the use of illegitimate companies, procurement issues - especially favouritism and corruption, and grave accountability problems associated with criminal prosecution mechanisms and the use of force by PSCs in the …
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Prospects for Professional Art and STEM Collaborations to Create STEAM Programs and Projects
… and facilitate important activities, such as vetting potential members, and cultivate over time the development of a transdisciplinary STEAM collaboration.</p>
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On Building: A Return of the Master Builder
… me to have a great deal of independence, while vetting my drawings and ideas with experienced professionals. A small group of students joined me in the larger aspects of the build, which provided another opportunity to discover an aspect so critical to building: collaboration. This build taught …
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American Sign Language-English Interpreting Program Faculty: Characteristics, Tenure Perceptions, and Productivity
… which began as a community apprenticeship and vetting process, has within the last several decades moved into higher education. Most recently, the number of baccalaureate-granting ASL-English interpreting programs have continued to increase while the number of associate's degree programs has …
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British Domestic Security Policy and Communist Subversion: 1945-1964
… remarkably limited beginnings as small-scale vetting reform to a wide-ranging program of surveillance and counter-propaganda by the early 1960s. And finally, whether such responses can be judged as proportional with the benefit of historical hindsight, or if the British government’s conduct …
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Administrative challenges in Land Reform: the case of Vhembe District of Municipality
… such as centralised record systems, protracted vetting processes, and insufficient staffing, considerably slow down land claim processing. The research highlighted the fragmentation of institutions and overlapping responsibilities between the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural …
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Identifying Exoplanets and Unmasking False Positives with NGTS
… to quantify and prepare strategies for candidate vetting and follow-up. Second, I developed a centroiding algorithm for NGTS, achieving a precision of 0.25 milli-pixel in a CCD image (published in Günther et al., 2017b). With this, one can measure a shift of light during an eclipse, readily …
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Identifying End-User Challenges and Mitigation Strategies in Software Ecosystems: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on User Feedback
… a supportive community, implement stringent vetting processes in marketplaces, employ live feedback tracking tools, consider developing cross-platform software, establish comprehensive documentation and guidelines, and maintain transparent policies in user data management.
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The Post-Conflict Reconciliation Process; Truth Commissions
… truth commissions, reparation programs, and vetting, a truth commission, in particular, has been progressively used in the past decade as one aspect of transitional justice measures. This increase in use illustrates its popularity in handling sensitive and fragile post-conflict societies. …
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A Comparative Analysis of Read 180 and Cultural Literacy on the Reading Achievement and Motivation of African American Males in an Alternative High School
… levels of academic achievement. A thorough vetting of these interventions, however, is necessary to determine if the potential benefits can be generalized to other populations.</p> <p>The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to compare the reading achievement and …
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Concept synthesis and design optimization of meso-scale, multi-degree-of-freedom precision flexure motion systems with integrated strain-based sensors
… block modeling allows for rapid synthesis and vetting of concepts. This approach also allows the designer to check concept feasibility, identify performance limits and tradeoffs, and obtain 1st order estimates of beam geometry. In short, this enables one to find an optimal design and set first …
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