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Vanhook, Patricia M., and Julie D. Hubbard. "Nurse Family Partnership: A Two Generation Approach Using the Nurse Family Partnership Model." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7421.
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Randle, Hanne. "A partnership approach : strategies for organisational change." Licentiate thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-2409.
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The research described in this report aimed to describe “best practice” for partnership based work in the labor market in the steel and metal industry as a response to the process of restructuring in the European steel and metal sector. It is based on case studies at two companies manufacturing goods to a global market and presents how the blue-collar workers union has dealt with the management of organizational change in the steel and metal industry in Sweden. The results in this report show that both companies have been successful when it comes to responding to the restructuring in the steel and metal sector; however there are some differences. The author discusses the differences in the report and search for answers in the trade unions involvement in the change process. Trade unions that have a higher level of participation and a stronger influence on the management of organisational change are more successful in creating sustainable conditions for change - that means creating conditions that are good for their members.
Hanne Randle is working as a researches assistant at the R&D centre APeL in Lindesberg in Sweden and she is currently involved in two different research projects. The first project is to evaluate investments in the public sector to lower employee sick rates and the second is to take part in a transnational project with the ambition to develop a European standard for employee vocational training and education for the explosives sector.
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Boyle, Sally. "Women's views on partnership working with midwives during pregnancy and childbirth." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/10919.
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United Kingdom (UK) health policy over the past thirty years has been predicated on a partnership model focusing on empowering service users to be fully involved in their care. Within maternity care partnership relationships have been conceptualised as empowering women to have continuity, choice and control (Department of Health (DoH), 1993), within a relationship of personal autonomy between the woman and her carers. In this study I sought to identify the extent to which the Government agenda for partnership working and choice is realised or desired by women during pregnancy and childbirth. In addition, I wanted to examine the level of alignment between the views of midwives with that of women accessing the maternity services. This study took a qualitative approach, drawing on the principles of grounded theory. In the first phase of the study a purposive sample of sixteen pregnant women were recruited and invited to complete a diary and to take part in two interviews. Women maintained diary entries following appointments with the midwife during pregnancy and childbirth. Semi–structured interviews were undertaken at 36 weeks of pregnancy and four weeks after the birth, based on the diary entries. In the second phase, four focus groups were undertaken with two groups of community midwives and birth centre midwives from two National Health Service (NHS) Trusts. Quotes from the diary-interviews from phase one were utilised to develop three vignettes which acted as a prompt during the focus group interviews. Following a thematic analysis of the data, I analysed women’s views on partnership working and choice. Most women in this study did not feel that they developed a partnership relationship with the midwife. This was associated with a lack of continuity of care and insufficient time to engage in meaningful discussion in an environment which was not conducive to shared decision making. Women described wide variations on the midwives role in supporting decision making. This ranged from decisions being dictated to midwives guiding choices and for some women, being facilitated to make informed choices. Many women described input of family and friends and widespread use of the internet as an information source. Women depicted their antenatal midwifery care as medicalised and felt that whilst their bio-medical needs were met their psycho-social and emotional needs were not. Women described the visits frequently as ‘in and out’ or ‘ticking the boxes’ to describe this approach to care. A small number of women (n=5) did experience a partnership relationship. Three of these women knew the midwife from a previous pregnancy; the remaining two women attended a midwifery led unit for all of their care. In relation to the choice agenda, most of the women who participated in this study were not aware that they had a choice about who provided their care or where they would have their care. The midwife focus groups concurred with the women’s findings and suggested that a lack of time was a significant factor hindering the formation of a partnership relationship. Midwives felt that this was exacerbated by the paperwork they were required to complete in order to audit care and meet the ‘payment by results’ agenda (DoH, 2003b). During the focus groups midwives identified strategies which could be implemented to enhance midwifery led care, including offering antenatal care to small groups of women and undertaking an antenatal home visit towards the end of pregnancy, to provide women with the time to discuss any issues that they wanted to explore in more depth. The findings from this study contribute to the current body of knowledge on midwifery led care particularly in providing the women’s perspective on partnership working. Women want to experience midwifery care that meets their psycho-social needs as well as bio-medical needs through a model of care that provides continuity. In contrast to previous research findings, the women in this study described community based care as mechanistic, clinically focused and time bound, more in line with an obstetric model of care than a midwifery model. However, midwifery led care offered within a birth centre was perceived by women as providing a more holistic, social model of care. Whilst continuity of care is not a new concept, what this study contributes is that despite successive administrations supporting partnership working and informed choice over the past twenty years, most of the women in this study did not experience this level of care. The findings from this study resulted in the development of a midwifery partnership model as a theoretical framework that could be utilised in future research studies to evaluate the extent to which a partnership relationship exists within a range of midwifery care settings.
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Bastin, Clive. "The partnership approach to environmental governance : the case of the Moor Trees Partnership Network." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1309.
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Academic discussion of policy-making and governing indicates a significant shift in the model of governance away from top-down state control to the bottom-up approach of engaging non-state actors (Goodwin and Painter, 1996; Jessop, 1998; Stoker, 1993, 1998). Central to governance theory are new forms of policy organisation, in effect, a shift from state monopoly of decision-making towards partnering with non-state (and, therefore, non-elected) actors for the formulation and delivery of sustainability objectives. It is argued that these partnerships are a key aspect of governance, which, in turn has become one of the main themes in environmental politics (Imrie and Raco, 1999; MacKinnon, 2000; Goodwin and Painter, 1996; Stoker, 1998). In part, the growing prominence of environmental partnership-working is a recognition that sustainability cannot be achieved through top-down government, but requires the active involvement of a broad range of non-state stakeholder groups spanning all sections of society to ensure that sustainability strategies are context-oriented and meet the needs of local populations. This study refers to these objectives as 'environmental plans, policies and programmes' (EPPP). I suggest that contemporary academic debate is lacking in conceptual and empirical focus on partnership-working as a delivery mechanism for environmental governance. This thesis aims to address this gap by; (i) assessing the implications of the state's devolution of responsibility for the delivery of EPPP to the community level; (ii) investigating the democratic legitimacy of these non-state actors; (iii) appraising the financial and operational accountability of state non-state partnerships; and (iv) furthering the understanding of the practical issues that environmental partnership-working must address in order to become an effective delivery vehicle for environmental policy objectives. In meeting these objectives, this thesis has conceptualised the formulation and delivery of EPPP via the Policy Implementation Continuum. The continuum is stratified into four sectors: state', 'QUANGO', 'third', and 'private'. I argue that the success of these partnerships revolves on actors from across all four layers meeting the three requirements of; (i) accepting responsibility, (ii) acquiring legitimacy, and (iii) providing accountability. To this end, I argue that these three constructs are critical components of the Effective Partnership-working model. I argue that, without achieving all three, partnerships cannot work effectively and that the implementation gap between policy and practice will remain.
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Draker, Debbie Ann. "Recreational valuation, a dichotomous choice approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0009/MQ29985.pdf.
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SANTOS, MATHEUS SILVEIRA CATAULI DOS. "CAREER CHOICE: A REAL OPTIONS APPROACH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=22213@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROA escolha de uma carreira é uma das decisões mais importantes na vida de uma pessoa, e é feita em um ambiente repleto de incertezas em relação ao futuro. Este trabalho analisa o aspecto financeiro da escolha entre uma carreira numa empresa privada e uma carreira em um órgão público, com ingresso por meio de um concurso. A análise pelo tradicional fluxo de caixa descontado apresenta uma série de limitações por não captar aspectos como a incerteza e a flexibilidade da tomada de decisão. Assim é aplicada uma abordagem segundo a teoria das Opções Reais, que se mostra mais adequada a este caso, pois permite que a flexibilidade de escolha seja modelada e considerada na escolha de carreira de um indivíduo. Neste estudo, os ganhos em uma empresa privada são modelados por meio de um processo estocástico enquanto a carreira pública tem um valor determinístico. Existe flexibilidade de data em relação ao ingresso na carreira pública, porém esta decisão é irreversível. Os resultados sugerem que a opção de ingressar na carreira pública pode ter valor significativo em relação à carreira privada.
Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions in a person s life, and is done in an environment full of uncertainties about the future. This study analyzes the financial aspect of a career choice between a private company and a career in the government, with admission through a contest. The analysis through the traditional discounted cash flow would bring a lot of limitations, not capturing aspects such as uncertainty and flexibility of decision making. So real options theory approach is applied, which appears more appropriate in this case because it allows the flexibility of choice to be modeled and considered in the choice of an individual s career. In this study earnings in a private company are modeled through a stochastic process while public career has a deterministic value. There is flexibility regarding the date of entry into public career, but this decision is irreversible. The results suggest that the option of joining the public career may have significant value in relation to private career.
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Graham, Justin W. "School choice : a discrete optimization approach." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127294.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, May, 2020Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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An equitable and flexible mechanism for assigning students to schools is a major concern for many school districts. The school a student attends dramatically impacts the quality of education, access to resources, family and neighborhood cohesion, and transportation costs. Facing this intricate optimization problem, school districts often utilize to stable-matching techniques which only produce stable matchings that do not incorporate these different objectives; this can be expensive and inequitable. We present a new optimization model for the Stable Matching (SM) school choice problem which relies on an algorithm we call Price-Costs-Flexibility-and- Fairness (PCF2). Our model leverages techniques to balance competing objectives using mixed-integer optimization methods. We explore the trade-offs between stability, costs, and preferences and show that, surprisingly, there are stable solutions that decrease transportation costs by 8-17% over the Gale-Shapley solution.
by Justin W. Graham.
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S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center
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Heo, Chi-kwong Simon. "The effectiveness of partnering approach in Hong Kong building projects." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36790230.
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Probandari, Ari. "Revisiting the choice : to involve hospitals in the partnership for tuberculosis control in Indonesia." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Epidemiologi och global hälsa, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-37894.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in many low- and middle-income countries, including Indonesia. To accelerate TB case detection, and to improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment provided by all providers, the Public-Private Mix for implementing Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (PPM DOTS) was introduced in 2000. However, previous studies on PPM DOTS have focused on private practitioners and there has been a scarcity of research on PPM DOTS in the hospital setting. This dissertation aims to capture the potential of the PPM DOTS strategy, and identify the barriers to its implementation in hospitals in Indonesia. This dissertation is based on four separate but interrelated studies: 1. A costeffectiveness analysis, comparing incremental cost per additional number of TB cases successfully treated under three strategies of PPM DOTS in four provinces. 2. An evaluation of the access to TB services by a cross-sectional study among 62 hospitals, by estimating the proportion of TB cases receiving standardised diagnosis and treatment according to the DOTS strategy. The data were analysed using poststratification analysis. 3. The quality aspect was explored in a multiple-case study, including eight selected hospitals. The data were analysed using cross-case analysis. 4. The process of partnership was explored through a qualitative study. In-depth interviews were conducted with 33 informants, who were actors involved in PPM DOTS in hospitals in Yogyakarta province. Content analysis was applied to the qualitative data. PPM DOTS in hospitals was shown to be a cost-effective intervention in this particular context. However, the quality of the implementation was commonly suboptimal. In addition, a substantial number of TB cases did not get standardised diagnosis and treatment as per the DOTS strategy. The process of creating partnership among hospitals and National TB Programme was shown to be complex and dynamic. Process factors, such as commitment to collaboration and interaction and trust among the actors, were shown to be important. The rapid scaling-up of PPM DOTS in hospitals at the national level in Indonesia should be revisited. Indeed, considering the importance of hospitals in TB control, the implementation should be continued and expanded. However, more attention needs to be given to process, context and governance.
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Georgescu, Irina. "Fuzzy choice functions a revealed preference approach." Berlin Heidelberg Springer, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68998-0.
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Alvarez, Daziano Ricardo. "A Bayesian approach to Hybrid Choice models." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27726/27726.pdf.
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Les modèles microéconométriques de choix discrets ont pour but d’expliquer le processus du
choix individuel des consommateurs parmi un ensemble limité et exhaustive d’options mutuellement
exclusives. Les modèles dits de choix hybrides sont une généralisation des modèles de
choix discrets standard, où des modèles indépendants plus sophistiqués sont considérés simultanément.
Dans cette thèse des techniques d’estimation simultanée sont analysées et appliquées
pour un modèle de choix hybride qui, sous la forme d’un système complexe d’équations structurelles
généralisées, intègre à la fois des choix discrets et des variables latentes en tant que
facteurs explicatifs des processus décisionnels. Ce qui motive l’étude de ce genre de modèles est
que pour comprendre le processus du choix il faut incorporer des attitudes, des perceptions et
des attributs qualitatifs à l’intérieur de modèles décisionnels économiques conventionnels, tout
en prenant ce qui dit la recherche en sciences cognitives ainsi qu’en psychologie sociale.
Quoique l’estimation du système d’équations d’un modèle de choix hybride requière l’évaluation
d’intégrales multidimensionnelles complexes, on résoudre empiriquement ce problème en applicant
la méthode du maximum de vraisemblance simulée. Ensuite on dérive une procédure
d’échantillonnage de Gibbs pour l’estimation simultanée bayésienne du modèle qui offre des
estimateurs convergents et efficaces. Ceci devient une méthode plus avantageuse comparativement
aux méthodes classiques dans un cadre analytique avec un grand nombre de variables
latentes. En effet, en vertu de l’approche bayésienne il suffit de considérer des régressions ordinaires
pour les variables latentes. Par ailleurs, dériver les intervalles de confiance bayésiennes
pour les parts de marché ainsi que pour des dispositions à payer devient trivial.
De par sa grande géneralité, le modèle de choix hybride est capable de s’adapter à des situations
pratiques. En particulier, la réponse des consommateurs suite à l’innovation technologique
est analysée. Par exemple, on étudie les préférences pro-environnementales dans un modèle
économique des décisions d’achat de véhicules verts selon lequel les consommateurs soucieux
de l’environnement sont prêts à payer davantage pour des véhicules à faibles émissions, en
dépit des inconvénients potentiels. En outre, en utilisant un noyau probit et des indicateurs
dichotomiques on montre que des connaissances préalables ainsi que des attitudes positives
envers l’adoption de nouvelles technologies favorisent l’adoption de la téléphonie IP.Microeconometric discrete choice models aim to explain the process of individual choice by consumers among a mutually exclusive, exhaustive and finite group of alternatives. Hybrid choice models are a generalization of standard discrete choice models where independent expanded models are considered simultaneously. In my dissertation I analyze, implement, and apply simultaneous estimation techniques for a hybrid choice model that, in the form of a complex generalized structural equation model, simultaneously integrates discrete choice and latent explanatory variables, such as attitudes and qualitative attributes. The motivation behind hybrid choice models is that the key to understanding choice comes through incorporating attitudinal and perceptual data to conventional economic models of decision making, taking elements from cognitive science and social psychology. The Bayesian Gibbs sampler I derive for simultaneous estimation of hybrid choice models offers a consistent and efficient estimator that outperforms frequentist full information simulated maximum likelihood. Whereas the frequentist estimator becomes fairly complex in situations with a large choice set of interdependent alternatives with a large number of latent variables, the inclusion of latent variables in the Bayesian approach translates into adding independent ordinary regressions. I also find that when using the Bayesian estimates it is easier to consider behavioral uncertainty; in fact, I show that forecasting and deriving confidence intervals for willingness to pay measures is straightforward. Finally, I confirm the capacity of hybrid choice modeling to adapt to practical situations. In particular, I analyze consumer response to innovation. For instance, I incorporate proenvironmental preferences toward low-emission vehicles into an economic model of purchase behavior where environmentally-conscious consumers are willing to pay more for sustainable solutions despite potential drawbacks. In addition, using a probit kernel and dichotomous effect indicators I show that knowledge as well as a positive attitude toward the adoption of new technologies favor the adoption of IP telephony.
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Djehiche, Younes. "A Neural Networks Approach to Portfolio Choice." Thesis, KTH, Matematisk statistik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229410.
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This study investigates a neural networks approach to portfolio choice. Linear regression models are extensively used for prediction. With the return as the output variable, one can come to understand its relation to the explanatory variables the linear regression is built upon. However, if the relationship between the output and input variables is non-linear, the linear regression model may not be a suitable choice. An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is a non-linear statistical model that has been shown to be a “good” approximator of non-linear functions. In this study, two different ANN models are considered, Feed-forward Neural Networks (FNN) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). Networks from these models are trained to predict monthly returns on asset data consisting of macroeconomic data and market data. The predicted returns are then used in a long-short portfolio strategy. The performance of these networks and their corresponding portfolios are then compared to a benchmark linear regression model. Metrics such as average hit-rate, mean squared prediction error, portfolio value and riskadjusted returns are used to evaluate the model performances. The linear regression and the feed-forward model yielded good average hit-rates and mean squared-errors, but poor portfolio performances. The recurrent neural network models yielded worse average hit-rates and mean squared prediction errors, but had outstanding portfolio performancesDen här studien undersöker portföljval med hjälp av neurala nätverk. Linjära regressionsmodeller används extensivt vid prediktion. Med avkastning som responsvariabel kan man ta reda på dess relation med förklaringsvariablerna som regressionsmodellen är byggd på. Men, om förhållandet är icke-linjärt, kan en linjär regressionsmodell vara opassande. Neurala nätverk är en ickelinjär statistisk modell som har visats vara en god skattare av icke-linjära funktioner. I den här studien kommer två olika neurala nätverksmodeller att undersökas, framåtkopplade nätverk och rekurrenta nätverk. Nätverk från dessa två modeller tränas för att prediktera månatlig avkastning för data på tillgångar som består av makroekonomisk data samt marknadsdata. De predikterade avkastningarna används sedan i en “long-short extended risk parity” portföljstrategi. Prestandan för nätverken samt deras respektive portföljer undersöks och jämförs med en refrensmodell som består av en linjär regression. Olika metriker, såsom genomsnittligt träffvärde, genomsnittligt kvadratiskt fel, portföljvärde och riskjusterad avkastning, används för att evaluera modellernas prestanda. Den linjära regressionsmodellen samt det framåtkopplade nätverket gav en god genomsnittligt träffvärde samt ett lågt genomsnittligt kvadratiskt prediktionsfel, men inte ett bra portföljvärde. De rekurrenta modellerna gav sämre genomsnittligt träffvärde samt ett lite högre genomsnittligt kvadratiskt fel, däremot presterade portföljen mycket bättre.
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Wojton, Mary Ann. "A Study Of A Museum-School Partnership." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243452101.
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Nelson, Alison J. Klass Patricia Harrington. "Characteristics of a school-university partnership a grounded theory approach /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1276398251&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1202155860&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title from title page screen, viewed on February 4, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Patricia H. Klass (chair), Wendy Troxel, Amee Adkins, Paula Ressler. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-181) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Strandell, Susanna. "Strategy and partnership in planning : moving towards an integrated approach." Thesis, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423088.
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Zaras, Faidon. "A rational choice approach of Greek-Turkish relations." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/3362.
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Explanations of the enduring Greek-Turkish rivalry found upon neorealist and neoliberal assumptions, undercut by epistemological limitations, have been repeatedly falsified by empirical evidence while culturalist accounts emphasizing the centrality of prevailing norms related to identity and ethnocentrism fail to predict social change. An alternative explanation relying on a thick rational choice approach focusing on the two states‟ domestic scenes and exploring their interaction with interstate bargaining is offered. Methodologically, two analytic narratives of their institutional evolution are constructed by identifying key actors, mapping out their incentives and exploring their strategic interaction. Two policy shifts, namely the Greek Helsinki strategy and the Turkish acceptance of the Annan Plan are selected to explore domestic mechanisms of preference formation and expose the limitations of alternative accounts. In the Greek case the impact of international diplomacy on policy equilibria through its linkage to domestic institutional structures is explored, while in the Turkish case policy equilibria are contingent upon the relative success of anti-Kemalist collective action. These policy equilibria inform negotiators‟ utility functions during interstate bargaining. The thesis, emphasizing the analytical importance of parallel exploration of domestic sources of foreign policy and interstate bargaining, strives to model the interaction over the Aegean Sea dispute using negotiator preferences exposed by the analysis of two shifts on issues only indirectly related to the Aegean Sea dispute. The thesis focuses on two normative constructs, rigidity and Kemalism, as informal institutions which define available strategies on all issues of bilateral interest. Overcoming problems with assigning preferences, the approach demonstrates how the two states are unable to communicate honestly under incomplete information, in order to switch from a non-cooperative to a cooperative equilibrium, despite domestic institutional change. Although realist accounts predict the difficulties with international cooperation, this approach offers a more realistic image of the bilateral relation and is able to account for a broad range of policy shifts.
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Mohaidin, Zurina. "Behavioural analytic approach to consumer choice as foraging." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54461/.
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Human behaviour can be explained not only through experience and environments but also by incorporating evolutionary explanation. Consumer behaviour could not be understood accurately without infusing Darwinian evolutionary theory which has contributed in the knowledge of human nature. Evolutionary psychology revolves around the human's evolved mental and the impact on human's traits and behaviour where the influence of the environment to our genes would determine our individual behaviour and traits, resulting in variation among us. Foraging which is a part of behavioural ecology involves many sequences or repetitions of animals' activities and decision making which is useful to relate these patterns of activities to the decisions made in human consumption. The aim of this research is to investigate the similarities of human consumption and ecological behaviour by employing interpretative and comparative approach. It is hoped that by applying the evolutionary theory in explaining consumer choice, this study is able to contribute to the development of behavioural ecology in human consumption.
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Zhai, Lihua 1977. "A system dynamics approach to supplier partnership management in supply chain." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28524.
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Thesis (M. Eng. in Logistics)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 62 ).
To be competitive and quick-to-market in today's global marketplace, Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS) providers should focus on their core competencies, partnership relationships and continuous improvements. As Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) Customers shift their focus on marketing and product development, EMS providers have been assuming the leading role to develop creative manufacturing solutions based on the core competencies in their supply chains. A tightly-coupled and synergistic relationship with OEM customers and key components suppliers is critical to EMS providers' success. This thesis focuses on applying system dynamics approach to supplier partnership management at FSJC, a top player in EMS industry, with the aim of gain deeper understanding on dynamics within FSJC's supply chain network and between suppliers and FSJC. We find out that to maintain its market position, FSJC must concentrate on small number of qualified suppliers and put effort to build strong partnership with these suppliers. This requires a better understanding of the impact of key parameters of partnership and manufacturing process of both suppliers and FSJC. Developing this sort of understanding can help FSJC continue to provide worldwide responsiveness to its customers by improving time-to-market, scalability and manufacturing efficiency and foster long-term partnership with both customers and suppliers by improving communications both upstream and downstream in the supply chain.
by Lihua Zhai.
M.Eng.in Logistics
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Heo, Chi-kwong Simon, and 許志光. "The effectiveness of partnering approach in Hong Kong building projects." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36790230.
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Weatherley, John, Tamara Sumner, Michael Khoo, and Marcel Hoffmann. "Partnership Reviewing: A Cooperative Approach for Peer Review of Complex Educational Resources." ACM, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106387.
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Digital Library for Earth Science Education, DLESEReview of digital educational resources, such as course modules, simulations, and data analysis tools, can differ from review of scholarly articles, in the heterogeneity and complexity of the resources themselves. The Partnership Review Model, as demonstrated in two cases, appears to promote cooperative interactions between distributed resource reviewers, enabling reviewers to effectively divide up the task of reviewing complex resources with little explicit coordination. The shared structural outline of the resource made visible in the review environment enables participants to monitor other reviewersâ actions and to thus target their efforts accordingly. This reviewing approach may be effective in educational digital libraries that depend on community volunteers for most of their reviewing.
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Pyne, Derek Arnold. "The political economy of trade, a public choice approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22925.pdf.
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Grogan, Kathryn E. "Parents' Choice of Pre-Kindergarten: A Transactional Ecological Approach." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_diss/83.
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Empirical research on parents’ decision making process and parents’ actual criteria when considering preschool is critical when considering its relationship to early educational experiences and subsequent outcomes for children. Research has consistently demonstrated that the type and quality of preschool program children attend has implications for future academic success. A review of past research suggests parents often have difficulty assessing quality and include a wide range of considerations that include both practical and educational features of care. The current study utilized a transactional ecological framework to examine parent considerations and related family, child and cultural factors. A series of focus groups and interviews were conducted with parents to identify parent considerations and inform creation of a survey measure designed to assess these considerations. Surveys were then completed by 203 parents from varying socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds who had a child that qualified for state-funded preschool the following year. Parents were recruited from 20 centers including Head Start programs, private-for profit programs, religiously affiliated programs and one YMCA center. Exploratory factor analysis identified two highly correlated categories of considerations: 1) characteristics that designate several types of quality indicators and 2) characteristics that designate a program’s practical features. A series of hierarchical regressions indicated a combination of cultural, family and child factors are important when assessing parents’ considerations for pre-kindergarten. In particular, socioeconomic status, parents’ beliefs about childrearing and involvement and children’s prosocial skills and family structure were uniquely related to parental endorsement of quality and practical considerations. These findings have important implications for policymakers and practitioners.
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蘇英麟 and Ying-lun So. "Guanxi in Chinese cultural context: a choice-theoretic approach." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31239286.
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Gray, R. "A social perceptual approach to freight transport modal choice." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1990. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8651.
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This research develops a conceptual model of freight modal
choice in which the basic unit of analysis is the socio-organisational
group.
Research into freight modal choice at the level of the firm
has tended to disregard the nature of human choice and to
assume that modal choice can be explained in terms of
technological phenomena or cost relationships. There is also
a tendency to equate the modal choice of organisational members
with the modal use of firms. The approach adopted in this work
is to accept that there are different interest groups within
shipper firms and that such groups may not necessarily form a
consensus of opinion about freight model choice. It is assumed
that different socia-organisational groups may form different
implicit theories about transport systems. Such an approach is
called the social perceptual approach.
The conceptual modal is converted into an operational model
and an empirical investigation is undertaken into the area of
modal choice between air freight transport end surface less
than full load freight transport from the United Kingdom
to Western Europe. In particular, the standpoint of shipping
managers (managers responsible for arranging international
freight transport in exporting companies) is examined
vis-a-vis certain normative approaches such as the through
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So, Ying-lun. "Guanxi in Chinese cultural context : a choice-theoretic approach /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20667656.
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Nunes, Letícia Faria de Carvalho. "Practice location of physicians: a discrete choice model approach." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/13827.
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Economists and policymakers have long been concerned with increasing the supply of health professionals in rural and remote areas. This work seeks to understand which factors influence physicians’ choice of practice location right after completing residency. Differently from previous papers, we analyse the Brazilian missalocation and assess the particularities of developing countries. We use a discrete choice model approach with a multinomial logit specification. Two rich databases are employed containing the location and wage of formally employed physicians as well as details from their post-graduation. Our main findings are that amenities matter, physicians have a strong tendency to remain in the region they completed residency and salaries are significant in the choice of urban, but not rural, communities. We conjecture this is due to attachments built during training and infrastructure concerns.
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Ng, Ka-Chui. "The partnership approach to urban renewal by the land development corporation in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2000. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU602313.
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Urban renewal in Hong Kong has a long history. However, the difficulties in land acquisition and rehousing had made most of the Government's urban renewal attempts unsuccessful. Moreover, urban renewal projects often caused citizen protest resulting in years of negotiations between the Government and the affected communities. On the other hand, piecemeal urban redevelopment by individual developers has always resulted in an undesirable "pencil" urban pattern which make long term comprehensive redevelopment more difficult. The Land Development Corporation (LDC) was established in 1988 to promote and facilitate urban renewal by means of utilisation of resources in the private sector (i.e. public-private partnership approach). This dissertation conceptualises that the fundamental causes of implementation problems for LDC's urban redevelopment projects in Hong Kong relate to the Mackintosh's concept of "partnership". Problems and issues arise when there are inequalities occur in the distribution of power among partners in urban renewal partnerships. The LDC's urban redevelopment projects without addressing this critical factor would eventually fail. With the increasing accountability to the urban planning processes, the Hong Kong Government can no longer ignore the significance of "community involvement" in urban renewal. The LDC's partnerships involve different parties such as property owners, private developers and different user categories as well as the Government. Their interaction may lead to conflictual interests through three major issues of partnerships: motivation of partnership, distribution of cost and benefits among the partners and the power relations between the public and private sectors in deal making. It has been possible to address these dilemmas using urban regime theory, the approach underlying this research. In this respect, two case studies of the redevelopment partnership projects examine the difficulties and the role of the LDC in promoting and facilitating urban renewal. In particular this dissertation is revealed that the popularity of the partnership approach faded away as quickly as it had become popular. The most important explanation is that under the existing Land Development Corporation Ordinance, the Hong Kong Government used the concept as an instrument to solve the financial problems in urban redevelopment processes. The Government was not aware of the social dimension of partnership. The concept can be applied in a successful way only if the relationship with private developers and affected residents is redefined. To address the LDC's partnership problems in a comprehensive way, a fundamental redefinition of the existing relationship between different stakeholders is proposed. Firstly, has to be based on the concept of the "Government-led" approach which requires reducing limitations in the current's Land Development Corporation Ordinance, and the successful of urban redevelopment could only be achieved through Government intervention. Secondly, a new Urban Renewal Authority (URA) with much wider jurisdiction, power and resource base than the existing the Land Development Corporation is recommended Thirdly, it is recommended that urban redevelopment must embrace a wider community agenda. This needs to relate physical redevelopment in a more equitable way towards wider economic, social and community concerns. Finally, the dissertation is concluded that the inclusion of community participation in administrative and legislative processes will definitely help to balance power amongst Government, the Land Development Corporation, private developers, and the affected residents in urban redevelopment process.
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Whitfield, Telly Chagall. "Handshakes and Hugs: A Study of the Approaches Used by Local Social Service Agencies to Partner with Faith-Based Organizations in Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29235.
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â If the [White House faith-based] initiative was going to have an impact on the local community, you had to begin to think of the initiative in local terms.â â Brad Yarbrough, Director of the Oklahoma Office of Faith and Community Initiatives
Charitable Choice and other faith-based initiatives attempt to provide faith-based organizations (FBOs) easier access to public funds for social service delivery in the community. Five years after Charitable Choice was included in the federal welfare reforms of 1996, President George W. Bush introduced the White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives in order to expand partnership opportunities between federal agencies and FBOs. The Bush administration actively recruited religious groups to apply for public dollars that would fund local social programs. The actions in Washington mirrored similar movements that took place in many states during the mid to late 1990s. Since then, so-called â faith-based social servicesâ have received their share of media attention and public scrutiny. Much of the attention has been on political-philosophical debates and the legal challenges to church-state separation.
Research by Bartkowski and Regis (1999), Kennedy and Bielefeld (2001), Gomez (2003), Vanderwoerd (2004) and Sager (2006) depict the efforts of individual states to implement Charitable Choice policies and the attitudes of FBOs towards partnerships with government. However, there has been inadequate research on the experience of local governments who engage faith-based providers on a daily basis. Much more can be learned about the themes that shape current collaborations between local social service agencies and the faith community in Virginia.
Using a collective case study design, this research captures the experiences and perspectives of local public managers who have formed partnerships with FBOs mostly through non-financial means. The data shows that federal and state faith-based initiatives have little influence on the way local social service agencies in Virginia conduct their work. The typical partnerships with FBOs are the result of pre-existing, informal and non-financial relationships that have been fostered and sustained long before welfare reform or without the impetus of any faith-based initiatives.Ph. D.
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Grey-Elsharif, Janet. "Understanding parents' perspectives on inclusive education and partnership practice : a Life History approach." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1472/.
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It is a truism that children make greater educational progress when their parents are included in their educational journey from childhood to adulthood. A key focus of this thesis is the particular role accorded to parent-school partnership as a means of engaging parents in the decision-making process concerning their children’s schooling. The study was particularly interested in pupils deemed to have special needs and school-related difficulties. The issues addressed related to parents’ understanding of disability and SEN issues; disabling barriers experienced when parents sought to get involved in the schooling of their children, particularly barriers which determined their level of participation in parent school partnerships; and the development of inclusive education based on good practice. The methodology for conducting the research consisted of the life history method and focus groups: specifically, twelve individual case histories and three focus groups. Life history interviews and focus group sessions were conducted over a one-year period with twenty-four parents living in one urban locality of the United Kingdom. A particular emphasis was placed on the experiences of Black parents including parents who are themselves disabled and have children with special educational needs. The findings revealed that parents experienced many personal, social and instructional barriers with the education system. These barriers shaped their sense of identity and circumscribed their level of participation in parentschool partnerships. In particular, parents felt undervalued. Though parents thought that the longevity of these barriers would require a concerted effort before change could be effected, they were willing to propose a number of suggestions that could be incorporated into good practice in order to develop an inclusive education system. Overall, there was a call for initiatives to provide a range of specialist support, practitioners and training to parents in order to address home and school-related issues, particularly those relating to managing special needs and school exclusion. The results of the research offer insights into what it is to be a parent whose voice is not always heard when their child comes into contact with the state education system.
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Nwangwu, George Anachebe. "A risk based approach to enhancing public-private partnership (PPP) projects in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Hull, 2013. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8600.
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This thesis investigated the sources of the problems with Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Nigeria. The reason for this enquiry is as a result of the multitude of problems threatening the collapse of most of the concluded projects. Therefore, against the backdrop that proper risk management is the most critical success factor for PPPs, the thesis evaluated how risks have been allocated and mitigated in the projects concluded thus far in Nigeria. This is premised on the basic assumption that if risks are better managed, that it would result in enhanced projects. Having determined that political risk, demand risk and stakeholder opposition risk were the most prominent risk factors affecting PPPs in Nigeria, three case studies were used to evaluate how these risks have been handled. The projects are the 26 ports concessions, the Murtala Muhammed Airport terminal 2 (MMA2) BOT project and the Lekki toll road concession. It is believed that the lessons learnt from these studies will provide a tool for policy reforms leading to more successful projects. Also, by adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the thesis ensures that its findings and recommendations may easily be generalised across other projects, economic sectors, and disciplines and even to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, since these countries share the same socio-economic conditions with Nigeria.
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Fowell, Susan Patricia. "The performance modelling of preferential choice : a knowledge engineering approach." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335892.
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Shaper, Colin F. "Preferences, choice and explanation : 'the economic approach' : a case study." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621594.
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Levin, Victoria, and Anna Hallgren. "The choice of capital budgeting techniques : a human capital approach." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-16891.
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Tidigare forskning har identifierat ett gap mellan teori och hur företag använder kapitalbudgeteringstekniker i praktiken. Forskning tyder på att gapet är särskilt stort vid SME-företag, eftersom de tenderar att använda de enkla kapitalbudgeteringsteknikerna. Genom att försöka förklara förekomsten av fenomenet the theory-practice gap har forskare reflekterat kring vilka bakomliggande faktorer som ligger till grund för valet av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik i SME-företag. En bakomliggande faktor som påverkar valet av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik är en individs humankapital, i form av utbildningsnivå och yrkeserfarenhet. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur humankapitalet påverkar valet av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik vid strategiska investeringar i svenska SME-företag. För att undersöka och analysera studiens syfte har en kvantitativ datainsamlingsmetod använts i form av en internetbaserad enkät. Studien har en positivistisk forskningsfilosofi som utgår från en deduktiv forskningsansats som används för att möjliggöra hypotesprövningar. Studiens resultat baseras på 56 respondenter vilka är beslutfattare vid strategiska investeringar i svenska SME-företag, där resultaten illustreras med hjälp av statistiska analysmetoder. Studiens resultat och slutsats visar att beslutfattare i svenska SME-företag med högre utbildningsnivå eller högre grad av yrkeserfarenhet ökar användningen av avancerade kapitalbudgeteringstekniker. Dock kan inte studiens resultat signifikant påvisa att en beslutsfattare i svenska SME-företag med låg utbildningsnivå eller lägre grad av yrkeserfarenhet använder enkla kapitalbudgeteringstekniker.Previous research has identified a gap between theory and how companies actually use capital budgeting techniques in practice. Research highlights that the gap is particularly large among SMEs, as they tend to use simpler capital budgeting techniques. By trying to explain the phenomenon of the theory-practice gap, researchers have reflected on underlying factors that influence the choice of capital budgeting techniques in SMEs. An underlying factor, that influences the choice of capital budgeting techniques, is on the individual level in terms of educational degree and occupational level of experience. The aim of this thesis is therefore to increase the understanding of how the human capital influences the choice of capital budgeting techniques in Swedish SMEs. To examine the aim of the study, a quantitative method is used by a web-based survey. Furthermore, the study is based on a positivism research philosophy that evolve from a deductive research method in order to draw general conclusions. The result of the study is based on 56 responses from decision makers for strategic investments in Swedish SMEs, where the results are illustrated using statistical analysis methods. The results and conclusions of the study shows that decision makers in Swedish SMEs with higher degree of education or higher level of occupational experience increase the use of more advanced capital budgeting techniques. However, the results do not support that decision makers in Swedish SMEs with a lower degree of education or lower level of occupational experience use more simple capital budgeting techniques.
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Szeto, Chung Leung Frankie, and 司徒頌良. "The choice between income and expenditure tax as tax base, with special reference to an public choice approach." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31954418.
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Szeto, Chung Leung Frankie. "The choice between income and expenditure tax as tax base, with special reference to an public choice approach." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13705507.
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Bouscasse, Hélène. "Essays on travel mode choice modeling : a discrete choice approach of the interactions between economic and behavioral theories." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2106/document.
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Cette thèse a pour objectif d’incorporer des éléments de théories de psychologie et d’économie comportementale dans des modèles de choix discret afin d’améliorer la compréhension du choix modal réalisé à l’échelle régionale. Les estimations se basent sur une enquête de type choice experiment présentée en première partie. Une deuxième partie s’intéresse à l’incorporation de variables latentes pour expliquer le choix modal. Après une revue de littérature sur les modèles de choix hybrides, c’est-à-dire des modèles combinant modèle d’équations structurelles et modèle de choix discret, un tel modèle est estimé pour montrer comment l’hétérogénéité d’outputs économiques (ici, la valeur du temps) peut être expliquée à l’aide de variables latentes (ici, le confort perçu dans les transports en commun) et de variables observables (ici, la garantie d’une place assise). La simulation de scénarios montre cependant que le gain économique (diminution de la valeur du temps) est plus élevé lorsque les politiques agissent sur des dimensions palpables que sur des dimensions latentes. S’appuyant sur un modèle de médiation, l’estimation d’un modèle d’équations structurelles montre par ailleurs que l’effet de la conscience environnementale sur les habitudes de choix modal est partiellement médié par l’utilité indirecte retirée de l’usage des transports en commun. Une troisième partie s’intéresse à deux formalisations de l’utilité issues de l’économie comportementale : 1) l’utilité dépendante au rang en situation de risque et 2) l’utilité dépendante à la référence. Dans un premier temps, un modèle d’utilité dépendante au rang est inséré dans des modèles de choix discret et, en particulier, un modèle à classes latentes, afin d’analyser l’hétérogénéité intra- et inter-individuelle lorsque le temps de déplacement n’est pas fiable. La probabilité de survenue d’un retard est sur-évaluée pour les déplacements en train et sous-évaluée pour les déplacements en voiture, en particulier pour les automobilistes, les usagers du train prenant d’avantage en compte l’espérance du temps de déplacement. Dans les modèles prenant en compte l’aversion au risque, les fonctions d’utilité sont convexes, ce qui implique une décroissance,de la valeur du temps. Dans un deuxième temps, une nouvelle famille de modèles de choix discret généralisant le modèle logit multinomial, les modèles de référence, est estimée. Sur mes données, ces modèles permettent une meilleure sélection des variables explicatives que le logit multinomial et l’estimation d’outputs économiques plus robustes, notamment en cas de forte hétérogénéité inobservée. La traduction économique des modèles de référence montre que les meilleurs modèles empiriques sont également les plus compatibles avec le modèle de dépendance à la référence de Tversky et KahnemanThe objective of this thesis is to incorporate aspects of psychology and behavioral economics theories in discrete choice models to promote a better understanding of mode choice at regional level. Part II examines the inclusion of latent variables to explain mode choice. A literature review of integrated choice and latent variable models – that is, models combining a structural equation model and a discrete choice model – is followed by the estimation of an integrated choice and latent variable model to show how the heterogeneity of economic outputs (here, value of time) can be explained with latent variables (here, perceived comfort in public transport) and observable variables (here, the guarantee of a seat). The simulation of scenarios shows, however, that the economic gain (decrease in value of time) is higher when policies address tangible factors than when they address latent factors. On the basis of a mediation model, the estimation of a structural equation model furthermore implies that the influence of environmental concern on mode choice habits is partially mediated by the indirect utility derived frompublic transport use. Part III examines two utility formulations taken from behavioral economics: 1) rankdependent utility to model risky choices, and 2) reference-dependent utility. Firstly, a rank-dependent utility model is included in discrete choice models and, in particular, a latent-class model, in order to analyze intra- and inter-individual heterogeneity when the travel time is subject to variability. The results show that the probability of a delay is over-estimated for train travel and under-estimated for car travel, especially for car users, as train users are more likely to take into account the expected travel time. In the models that account for risk aversion, the utility functions are convex, which implies a decrease in value of time. Secondly, a new family of discrete choice models generalizing the multinomial logit model, the reference models, is estimated. On my data, these models allow for a better selection of explanatory variables than the multinomial logit model and a more robust estimation of economic outputs, particularly in cases of high unobserved heterogeneity. The economic formulation of reference models shows thatthe best empirical models are also more compatible with Tversky et Kahneman’s reference-dependent model
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Eichhöfer, Moritz. "Institutionelle Investoren in der Infrastrukturfinanzierung Untersuchung der Eignung von institutionellen Investoren als Eigenkapitalgeber für Public Private Partnership Projekte aus Sicht der öffentlichen Auftraggeber /." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/06600555001/$FILE/06600555001.pdf.
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Hynynen, Raija Kaarina. "Partnership in the enabling approach of housing development : a case study in the Philippines." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267857.
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Chirwa, Catherine Sekanayo. "Partnership for education in Malawi : power and dynamics within the education sector wide approach." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40520/.
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This thesis investigates the sector wide approach (SWAp) partnership in the education sector in Malawi. In my study, I utilized interviews with key actors and a questionnaire for selected development partners (DPs), government officials and members of civil society. In so doing, my aim was to gain an insight into the origins of the SWAp as a critical partnership strategy for funding sectors in developing countries based on the conceptual understanding that it would prove to be a more effective aid modality than the project approach. Being a typical basis for partnership collaboration in the wake of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the Malawian education SWAp, which was initiated as a response to the demands of changes in international aid during the 1990s, provided the focus of the study. The findings of the study show evidence of how partnership interactions affected the SWAp process. This thesis demonstrates that the SWAp process has experienced challenges around power relations, as DPs seem to be either unwilling or unable to comply with the principles and partnership model prescribed in the Paris Declaration. Funding constituted the main source of power relations in this SWAp process. DPs that donated more money to the government created an imbalance of power and influenced the interactions of other actors, which adversely influenced the decision-making process, including policy design and implementation. This in turn affected the participation of government officials, civil society and those DPs that donated less money. The thesis argues that as long as those who loan or donate the most fail to use their influence positively and facilitate adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration, the SWAp process is bound to continue to be adversely affected. It also shows that although the SWAp differs fundamentally and conceptually from the project approach, in reality, nothing much has changed. The thesis further argues that the initial assertion that a SWAp is a more effective aid modality than the project approach is optimistic, and is made without due consideration for the practice on the ground. In addition, the thesis demonstrates that the role of civil society as a watchdog in this SWAp was constrained and, although expected to constitute one of the main actors in the process, it was rarely viewed as part of the main partnership. It also found that even though DPs seemed to embrace the innovations that a SWAp necessitated, their internal systems were too slow to change and adapt to the requirements of the modality. It argues that, moreover, DPs‟ own government mandates and internal systems restricted their operations in the SWAp process; which, in a sense, created conflict not only with their role as DPs, but also around the setting of national priorities. Finally, a key finding of the study is that minimum capacity – a “capacity base” – is required if the government is to engage meaningfully in a SWAp, even though such a modality intrinsically includes state capacity building. Indeed, capacity was an area of great concern, particularly in terms of the ability of government officials to engage in the SWAp process according to the principles of ownership and leadership – as a certain amount of capacity is required to lead the SWAp process by bringing together DPs and civil society, and clearly advancing government priorities.
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Zhao, Feifei. "The community-based partnership approach for affordable housing development : a case in Shenzhen, China." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54205.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103).
Affordable housing has been a crucial urban issue in China. Given its fast-paced urbanization process, China is experiencing a dramatic increase in the demand for affordable housing. At the same time, the affordable housing is in short supply due to the demolition of existing low-income housing during the urban renewal process, and the lack of funding for housing construction. In the United States, the affordable housing industry is relatively well-developed with a comprehensive system and a mature research framework. The literature in this area is complete with policy, financing and design. However, in China, research on affordable housing has not yet been conducted on a comprehensive basis, with existing research mostly focused on physical planning and design. This thesis recognizes that in order to solve the problems, a comprehensive system for affordable housing development should be established. A comprehensive affordable system needs to consist of six major components: policy, planning, design, financing, and partnership. However, the scope of this research will deal with only the partnership aspect, which is about how a variety of entities collaborate in each stage of affordable housing development. This thesis will investigate the feasibility and potential of community-based partnership approach in providing affordable housing in the context of China's urbanization and urban renewal. It will first examine the housing affordability in China. It will then look at the current affordable housing system in China. The third part presents and companies the affordable housing system in the United States and its use of community-based partnerships.
(cont.) This will be followed by a case study of Shenzhen's urban villages and urban village corporations. Finally, the paper will make suggestions for the Shenzhen case, and provide examples of potential community-based partnerships as well as future steps of research
by Feifei Zhao.
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Guilhardi, Paulo. "A unified approach to the study of choice, conditioning, and timing /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174614.
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Ek, Kristina. "Valuing the environmental impacts of wind power : a choice experiment approach." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Samhällsvetenskap, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-17107.
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There exists a political goal in Sweden to increase the use of renewable energy, and wind power seems to be a favorable choice from an environmental perspective. Although the public generally expresses a positive attitude towards wind power, specific projects often face resistance from the local population. This study aims at examining the general attitude towards wind power among Swedish house owners, and in particular at analyzing their valuation of the external impacts associated with wind power using a choice experiment approach. A postal survey was sent out to 1000 Swedish residential homeowners. The non-monetary attributes included in the choice experiment were: the noise level, location, height, and the grouping of windmills. An electricity price change was included as a cost attribute. According to the results wind power incurs external costs, and the impacts represented by the noise, location, group, and the price change attributes all had statistically significant effects on the utility of the average respondent. Among the non-monetary attributes, the location of windmills seems to have the biggest impact on the utility of the respondents, i.e., the highest implicit price. The average respondent perceives wind power capacity located offshore as a change for the better while locating windmills in the mountains is perceived as a change for the worse, all compared to a location onshore. In addition, the respondents appear to be willing to pay a positive amount to avoid large wind farms. Furthermore, noise reductions are considered as improvements and lower electricity prices are preferred over higher, as is to be expected. However, there is no evidence that the height of windmills affects the utility of the average respondent. Hence, if the environmental external costs associated with wind power are to be minimized, our results suggest that new schemes should be located offshore rather than in the mountains and that large wind farms should be avoided. This also provides important lessons for wind power producers who wish to market wind power as a "green" electricity source and adapt their generation portfolio accordingly. However, all future measures towards decreasing the external impacts of wind power must be relatively low- cost; according to the results the Swedish house owners are cost conscious and prefer low electricity prices over higher.Godkänd; 2002; 20070224 (ysko)
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Schooneveldt, Jan C., and n/a. "Context and choice : a new approach to making ecologically sustainable decisions." University of Canberra. Resource, Environmental & Heritage Sciences, 2000. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061107.172651.
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This thesis develops a framework for making ecologically sustainable decisions. It is an
integrative thesis that draws its data from the fundamental concepts underlying the disciplines
of psyschology, linguistics and biology. Its orientation is essentially theoretical, but its
application is practical. It is presented in three parts. Part 1 sets out the theoretical context
and proposes a basis for understanding decision-making processes in an interactive,
evolutionary context. This part focuses particularly on subjective factors that play a role when
an organism is in the process of making a decision. Part 1 provides an underpinning for the
core of the thesis.
Part 2 forms this core. It considers the context in which decisions are made and
overviews current decision-making frameworks that aim at ecologically sustainable
outcomes. It proposes a process of metabolic mapping of materials and energy flows
across integrated socio-political bioregions as a basis for decision-making.
Part 3 considers the implications of the approach in terms of its utility, reliability and
validity. This part also looks at the role of ethics in decision-making and outlines the
strengths and weaknesses of the new approach.
The principle rinding is that research and decision-making are fundamentally distinct, often
confused concepts. An integrative approach to decision-making is required to counter the
increasing fragmentation in research and professional and administrative specialisation. A
research tool that bridges the plethora of theoretical orientations is proposed. This involves
the use of a semantic metalanguage to capture meaning in a rigorous and verifiable way. Such
a metalanguage gives us a means of understanding the subjective experience of organisms,
and in particular, their subjective perception of reality which guides their decision-making. A
second finding is that, unlike research, which necessarily involves a process of context
reduction, sound decision-making necessarily involves a process of context augmentation. And
finally it proposes a method of metabolic mapping on a bioregional basis operating under the
principle of subsidiarity as the most appropriate route towards sustainable decision-making.
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Krueger, Andrew D. "Valuing public preferences for offshore wind power a choice experiment approach /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 172 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456295031&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Hasan, Basri Bakti. "Valuing the attributes of Malaysian recreational parks : a choice experiment approach." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1210.
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The objective of this study is to investigate public preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for the attributes provided at the Malaysian Agricultural Park (MAP) in Shah Alam (SA), Selangor. The study also estimates individuals’ WTP for the attributes of a generic recreational park and investigates the transferability of these estimates to MAP. This exercise is undertaken by asking a sample of residents in Kuala Lumpur (KL) to value a hypothetical park in KL. Qualitative and quantitative methods are applied to undertake this study. The former include focus group meetings and stakeholder interviews which are used to determine appropriate park attributes and their levels. The latter use Choice Experiments (CEs) to investigate respondents’ preferences for these attributes. A face-to-face questionnaire survey is employed to collect information from respondents. The usable sample sizes achieved in KL and SA are 188 and 169, respectively. Data analysis methods employed include multinomial, random parameter logit, and latent class modelling. The qualitative approaches suggest that visitor amenities, recreational facilities, information, and natural attractions are the most relevant park attributes for visitors. Analysis of CE data indicates that respondents in KL had the highest preference for recreational facilities, followed by visitor amenities, natural attractions and information. In SA, the order of preference is recreational facilities, visitor amenities and information. The CE results also show that the samples in KL and SA are willing to pay for improvement in the attributes. The benefit transfer study yielded mixed results with evidence to support the transferability of some estimates but not others. Finally, the study yields several recommendations on the provision and pricing of facilities and amenities to those involved in the management and development of MAP and other recreational parks in Malaysia.
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Milligan, Ian. "A positive choice approach to residential child care : challenges and resources." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510857.
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Ntibagirirwa, Symphorien. "Philosophical premises for African economic development : SEN’S capability approach." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25560.
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The focus of this research is the cultural assumptions underpinning Africa’s strategies of economic development, taking the Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as case studies. It considers the issue whether the neglect of Africa’s cultural beliefs and values in African plans and policies of economic development may not lead to a development impasse. Accordingly, three major objectives are pursued. The first objective is to attempt a critical assessment of the two strategies of economic development, LPA and NEPAD, against the background of theories of economic development that informed them respectively and their cultural assumptions. Using both a theoretical reflection and an empirical approach, I argue that LPA and NEPAD relied on theories of economic development whose cultural foundations are not African. Consequently, although they were designed in Africa, their respective philosophical bases are not African. The second objective is to investigate the relationship between African cultural values and economic development and the extent to which the neglect of the African value system in African policymaking and planning could lead to a development impasse. Based on a theoretical reflection as well as empirical research, I argue that in both LPA and NEPAD, the beliefs and values that structure the African value system have been neglected to the extent of being ignored. The major implication of this neglect is that there is insufficient room for people’s participation in the process of their economic development. Participation makes possible the democratisation and the inculturation of economic development, and thus translates the universal conception of economic development to its local, cultural feasibility. The third objective is to propose certain philosophical premises that could guide development planning in Africa. I revisit the African value system and retrieve the Bantu concept of the human person as umuntu-w’-ubuntu / umuntu-mu-bantu in order to ground the future economic development of Africa on the African foundation. Using Sen’s capability approach which defines development in terms of the ability of people to lead the life they value and have reason to value, human agency and the expansion of capabilities (or real freedoms people enjoy), I suggest four philosophical premises which link African economic development to what Africans believe and value. The first premise consists of the shift from extroversion to the freedom of people to lead the lives they value and have reason to value. This premise deals with the spirit of extroversion which prevents Africans from appreciating their beliefs and values in the process of economic development. It emphasises the fact that development is not a project, but rather a process by which people create and recreate themselves and the conditions by which they can flourish fully. The second premise is the human agency. It deals with the shift from the conception of development as an autonomous process to the conception of development as an agency-based process. It emphasises that the development conceived of as an agency-based process, has as its starting-point and end-point the people. The third premise deals with the shift from the conception of development as an end product to development as an expansion of capability or the real freedoms people enjoy. This premise emphasises three major things. The first is that the expansion of people’s capability is both the end and the means of development. People’s capabilities are not only the primary end of development, they are also its principal means. The second is that development conceived of as the expansion of people’s capability is the concern of both the people and their structural institutions. The third is that the interaction between people and their structural institutions makes it possible to transcend the various dualities often observed in certain development approaches such as the bottom-up and topdown development. The fourth and last premise is the principle of baking the cake together. This premise follows from the fact that the capability approach leads to development as a participatory and inclusive process. It expresses the traditional practice of collaboration in the African community. It emphasises that the three major actors in the development process, namely, the state, the people and the market which tend to exclude each other, are all agents and must work together inclusively to achieve a sustainable economic development. These are the premises suggested to lead future economic development in Africa. Each of these assumptions has implications which are unpacked in the conclusion.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Briers, Andrew N. "School based police officers : a comparative evaluation of a partnership approach to tackling juvenile delinquency." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2003. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/11704/.
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There has been a great deal of good work in recent years involving police and other agencies in particular that work which has taken place within the context of schools. However, there is no work, which specifically relates to the role of police working full time in an educational setting and consequently no research of an evaluative nature. This research focuses on the role of one officer in a secondary school and looks at the level of interaction that he has with the whole school and its community and tries to examine whether through his programme of intervention he is able to meet the aims and objectives of the scheme.
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Nesrine, Abdel Halim Abdel Mohsen El Tawy. "The impact of buyer supplier partnership on FMCG's supply chain agility : a grounded theory approach." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13872.
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This research study investigated the influence of maintaining a partnership form of relationship between a Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) multinational company and its core suppliers, on their abilities to achieve supply chain agility. It took place within the Middle East region, where the in-depth case study used for data collection was Unilever (North Africa Middle East). The research also focused on the role played by information technology within Unilever’s (North Africa Middle East) partnership with its core suppliers and the achievement of a high level of agility within their supply chain. In addition to these two main aims, the research also focused on exploring the required attributes of supply chain agility within FMCG industry and also to explore the attributes of buyer-supplier partnership required to help the companies working within this type of industry to achieve agility within their supply chain. To achieve the aims and objectives of this research, this study used qualitative methods for collecting rich and valuable data. Several data collection methods under the umbrella of the in-depth case study approach were used. The methodological approach used by the research was the Grounded Theory approach (Strauss and Corbin, 1990-1998). Data was collected from the case study managerial level in Unilever’s (North Africa Middle East) main clusters within the Middle East in three different rounds, using semi-structured interviews. Data was also collected from five core suppliers for Unilever (North Africa Middle East). The research also used other data collection means, such as documents collected during the researcher’s visits to the case studies and observation. Data was analysed using the steps and procedures of the Grounded Theory approach (Strauss and Corbin, 1990-1998). Data analysis took place in three interrelated iterative steps: open coding process, axial coding process followed by the selective coding process, leading to the generated theory of the research. The findings of the study, as presented in the research’s generated theory, showed that the partnership, with its attributes explored during the research, between Unilever (North Africa Middle East) and its core suppliers can be considered as the starting driver helping the companies working within this type of industry to achieve a higher level of supply chain agility, through the attributes explored during the research. The generated theory also showed that the role played by information technology can be considered as the catalyst in this equation. It played the role of channelling the relationship between the two concepts: buyer-supplier partnership and supply chain agility. Information technology can be considered as the catalyst because the evidence indicates that without it the relationship between Unilever (North Africa Middle East) supplier partnership and supply chain agility would struggle to be achieved. In more detailed, 43 open codes had been derived from the first analysis coding process, and which were derived under the main pre-determined themes: FMCGs industry-based features, Buyer-supplier relationships, Information sharing and information technology, and Agility. These 43 open codes provided the basis for stages 2 and 3 of the analysis. In the axial coding process (the second data analysis), the axial sub categories and the axial categories were determined and the axial paradigm model was used in the analysis. In the final coding process: the selective analysis, the core category of the research was determined to be ‘Partnership existence with core suppliers’. The relationship of this core category with the other elements in the paradigm model namely: casual conditions, context, intervening conditions, action/interactional strategies, and consequences. The research has its own Theoretical, Methodological, and Managerial contributions. Among these contributions is that it can be considered a novel research, using a grounded theory approach to generate a theory, showing the relationship between buyer-supplier partnership and supply chain agility in this dimensional manner.
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Wang, Zheng. "Motivational processing and choice behavior during television viewing an integrative dynamic approach /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278466.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Telecommunications, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4127. Advisers: Annie Lang; Jerome R. Busemeyer. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 19, 2008).