Dissertations / Theses: 'Control Family'

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Xiong, Weidong. "A FAMILY OF HIERARCHICAL CONCURRENCY CONTROL PROTOCOLS." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1604.

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In this thesis, we propose a family of concurrency control protocols for high data contention database environments. The first one is called the Prudent-Precedence Concurrency Control (PPCC) protocol. It is prudently more aggressive in permitting more serializable schedules than two-phase locking and maintains a restricted precedence among conflicting transactions and commits the transactions according to the serialization order established in the executions. The second one is a family of hierarchical concurrency control protocols called the Hierarchical Precedence Concurrency Control (HPCC) protocols. It maintains cycle-free precedence hierarchies for conflicting transactions. Conflicting operations are allowed to proceed only if the hierarchical orderings of precedence is not violated. Transactions also commit based on the serialization order established during the executions. Detailed simulation models have been implemented for all these protocols and extensive experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed approaches. The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms outperform the two-phase locking and optimistic concurrency control over a wide range of system workloads.

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Wojcik, Christopher. "Marriage and family planning an Orthodox Christian perspective /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Echaiz, Moreno Sandra Violeta. "El Family Office como órgano de control de financiamiento de las empresas familiares." Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622875.

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El presente artículo está orientado a aquellas familias que habiendo constituido empresas familiares cuentan con capitales millonarios y a quienes se les sugiere, mediante un Consejo de Familia, constituir Family Office con la finalidad de tener un mejor control del financiamiento de sus empresas y llegar a distinguir con claridad cuál es el patrimonio de la empresa familiar y cuando es el patrimonio familiar. Está institución está orientada a empresas familiares de capitales superiores a los 100 millones de dólares y sirve como un mecanismo de inversión de grandes proyectos en donde se procurará preservar el patrimonio económico en aras de proteger a las futuras generaciones.
This paper is intended for families who, having set up family companies, have millions of dollars and who have been suggested, through a Family Council, to establish a Family Office in order to have a better control over the financing of their companies and to distinguish eith clarity what is the family business’ assets and what is the family’s assets. This institution aims at family businesses with capital exceeding 100 million US dollars and serves as an investment mechanism for large projects where efforts will be made to preserve the financial assets in order to protect future generations.

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Hartmann, Peta B., and n/a. "Family Functioning and Anorexia Nervosa: The Issue of Control." Griffith University. School of Applied Psychology, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030528.124015.

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This thesis aimed to examine the functioning of families with a sufferer of Anorexia Nervosa (AN), using self-report measures and a direct observation family discussion task. Researchers and clinicians have long been interested in the interactional patterns of these sufferers within the family unit, although few have furthered our understanding of the interplay between family functioning, cohesion and emotional expression and issues such as control, by directly examining these interactions. The construct of control has been another area of interest in recent research, although how it is constructed and operates within this disorder remains unclear and ambiguous. Thus the purpose of this research was to expand the study of adolescents suffering Anorexia Nervosa who still resided within the family unit, from merely studying self-report measures and retrospective surveys of recovery, to include a direct examination of sufferers and their families at the time of the disorder. Participants included 16 female sufferers of Anorexia Nervosa and their parents, 17 drug and alcohol sufferers, and 18 non-clinic families. Both parents and their daughters completed self-report inventories assessing their clinical status as well as family functioning and marital happiness. In addition, family members participated in a series of family discussion tasks which were coded for the dimensions of autonomy, cohesiveness, avoidance and control. In Study 1 (Chapter 7), the self-report measures of the anorexic families were examined specifically in relation to the construct of control acting as a mediating variable between level of dysfunction and severity of the disorder. Consistent with previous research, levels of marital happiness and family cohesion influenced the severity level of the daughter's Anorexia Nervosa. This study also explored the construct of control within the family system and found that the more moral-religious emphasis in the family, the more concerned the daughter was with her weight. At the same time daughters were reporting higher levels of moral-religious emphasis, they were reporting higher levels of self-control. The daughters in this study appeared to be inconsistent in their behavioural responses. The daughters' weight concern increased with their own reported levels of moral-religious emphasis in the family. However, as this emphasis increased, so too did their control scores. It was supposed that conflict may be created in a family when strong religious and/or strong moral values are emphasized, particularly when one of the family members suffers AN. This issue is discussed in depth. Study 2 sought to examine these variables further by using a direct observation family discussion task to compare an independent observer's ratings to the family's ratings of the discussion, across the three groups. The study examined the daughters' and mothers' perceptions and compared significant results to the observer's ratings. This study highlighted that the mothers of sufferers appeared not to be concerned about their own bodies and weight, and not distressed when discussing with their daughters the issues of control in the areas of family, body, school and friends. Furthermore, the anorexic daughters presented as more sad and anxious than the two other groups and indicated that their parents had more control over their bodies than they did themselves. Finally, for the majority of participating families, the fathers were absent and this issue is explored.

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Lee, Mee-ling Louisa, and 李美玲. "Perception of control, family and peers in adolescents' coping." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31978095.

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Bleininger, Melissa S. Bleininger. "An Examination of Self-Control and the Family Structure." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1462455646.

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Sievert, Kristin E. "Control and management tasks within family financial management systems." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998sievertk.pdf.

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Niemelä, Eila. "A component framework of a distributed control systems family /." Espoo [Finland] : Technical Research Centre of Finland, 1999. http://www.vtt.fi/inf/pdf/publications/1999/P402.pdf.

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Lee, Mee-ling Louisa. "Perception of control, family and peers in adolescents' coping." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1947099X.

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Huang, Li. "Family processes, low self-control, and deviance a longitudinal test of self-control theory /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Dissertations/HUANG_LI_23.pdf.

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Goenechea, Eneko. "Development of an Electronically Controlled Self-Teaching Lift Valve Family." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-200270.

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Other than mobile hydraulics and high voltage switchgears, Bucher Hydraulics is also involved in the less-known area of hydraulic lifts. In fact, Bucher Hydraulics did invent the electronically controlled lift valve in the 1970s. Since then, Bucher Hydraulics developed a wide line of products for hydraulic elevators, such as valves and power units. In 2012, this valve family included various sizes, pressure ranges, systems with constant motor speeds, inverter-driven motors, energy-efficient solutions with hydraulic counterweight, as well as customized solutions. As the common principle, all these solutions apply an electronic closed-loop control that uses a volumetric flow sensor and a proportional actuator. Since 2012, Bucher Hydraulics is substituting this valve family with a new generation, the iValve. Every iValve uses several self-teaching algorithms to adapt to its environment. Their on-board and cabinet electronics control solenoid currents and measure flow, pressure, and temperature. These features enable the iValve to self-monitor, to adapt to operating parameters, and to analyze and log information about itself and the attached system. This report on a highly specialized product is meant to provide inspiring insights.

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Poon, Yuen-fong. "Impact of family planning on economic development in Hong Kong." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12324401.

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Tavakoli, Reza. "Knowledge, understanding, and attitudes of family planning by Iranian males." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41204.

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Rapid population growth is now one of the biggest socio-economic and consequently, health problems in the world. The significance of this dramatic increase in population becomes apparent when the limited possibilities of socio-economic growth are considered among developing countries. The use of modern contraceptives in order to control birth rates, on the other hand, is rather limited in these countries.
The present study investigates the knowledge and attitudes of family planning programs by Iranian males, who play a major role in all familial decision-making, including the practice of family planning. This research examines subjects' reasoning strategies about practicing family planning. A sample of sixty laborers with various levels of formal education were selected and some methods developed within the domain of cognitive psychology were used in analyzing the data.
The results showed that males, as proposed, play a vital role in decision-making regarding the practice of family planning. Formal education appears to have no significant impact on the subjects' knowledge and attitudes toward issues of family planning. Furthermore, early age of marriage, particularly with respect to the girls, appears to be an accepted phenomenon and has strong roots in the belief systems of the population.
This research has implications for developing educational programs in the domain of health. It is proposed that future research should devote considerable effort to better understand the role of the males in the process of decision-making regarding the practice of family planning.

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Bell, Ian Douglas, and ian bell@deakin edu au. "Social control, self-control and psychosocial problems in adolescent males." Deakin University. School of Psychology, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070119.100141.

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Psychosocial problems are psychological problems that are regarded as resulting from the interaction between the adaptive capacities of individuals and the demands of their physical and social environments. Many different factors have been theoretically proposed, and empirically established, as predictors of a range of psychosocial problems in adolescents. However, a problem exists in that this literature appears to lack an integrative framework that has validity across the range of problems that are observed. The purpose of the current research is to propose and test a model that draws together three clusters of factors that are useful in predicting the incidence of adolescent psychosocial problems. These are family structural background factors, family functioning variables and control beliefs. Data were collected from 155 adolescent males aged between 12 and 19 by a single concurrent and retrospective self-report questionnaire. This included data about the respondent (age, involvements with mental health or juvenile justice agencies) and family structural background factors (days per week worked by mother/father, occupational status for mother/father, residential mobility, number of persons in the family home). The questionnaire also incorporated the Parental Bonding Instrument (Parker, Tupling & Brown, 1979) to quantify the levels of perceived parental care and overprotection, and an adaptation of the Parental Discipline Style Scale (Shaw & Scott, 1991), to assess punitive, love withdrawing and inductive discipline practices. In addition, the (Low) Self-control Scale (Grasmick, Tittle, Bursick & Arneklev, 1993) and the Locus of Control of Behaviour Scale (Craig, Franklin, & Andrews, 1984) were used to collect data concerning adolescents perceived behavioural self-control and locus of control. Finally, selected sub-scales of the Child Behavior Checklist Youth Self-Report (Achenbach, 1991b) were used to collect data on the incidence of social withdrawal, somatisation, anxiety and depression, aggression and delinquency among the respondents, and in aggregated form, the incidence of total problems and internalising and externalising behaviours. Results indicated family structural background factors, family functioning variables and control beliefs possess limited predicted validity and that the usefulness of the proposed model varies between specific psychosocial problems. Family functioning variables were generally stronger predictors than family structural background factors, particularly for internalising behaviours. Of these, levels of parental care and overprotection were generally the strongest predictors. Perceived self-control and locus of control were also generally strong predictors, but were particularly powerful with respect to externalising behaviours. The strength of predictive relationships was observed to vary between specific internalising and externalising behaviours, suggesting that individual difference variables not assessed in the current research were differentially influential. Finally, the parental and individual characteristics that predicted maximal levels of adjustment (defined in terms of minimal levels of internalising and externalising behaviours) were explored and the correlates of various parenting style typologies (Parker et al., 1979) were investigated. These results strongly confirmed the importance of family functioning and control beliefs with respect to the prediction of internalising, externalising and well-adjusted behaviours. In all analyses, substantial proportions of the variance in the incidence of problem behaviours remain unexplained. The findings are examined in relation to previous research focused on (familial) social control and (individual) self-control with respect to psychosocial problems in adolescents. In addition, methodological considerations are discussed and the implications of the findings for clinical and community interventions to address problem behaviours, and for further study, are explored.

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Vogel, Katharina. "Roquin family proteins control T cell co-stimulation and differentiation." Diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-158244.

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Nardello, Andrea M. "The relationship between family communication patterns and locus of control." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2503.

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Poon, Yuen-fong, and 潘源舫. "Impact of family planning on economic development in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31974880.

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Wong, Kin-ki. "The problems of managing control in Chinese family firms : the case of Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19272984.

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Acharya, Shambhu P. "Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of family planning methods in rural Nepal." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/562766.

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The present study "Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Family Planning 'Methods in Rural Nepal" was conducted to assess the situation of fertility behavior and use of family planning methods. It attempted to collect reliable data on reproductive behavior; contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and family size preferences.The immediate objectives of the study were to assess the level of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of family planning methods; to assess the contribution of governmental and non-governmental programs; and recommend appropriate measures and suggestions for the further improvement of the programs.As a representation of rural Nepal, Banganga Village planning office, and the households were randomly selected from the list by the team supervisor. Eligible households selected included all of those in which there was a currently married couple in which either spouse aged between 15 and 45 years of age were present. There were a total of 150 couples identified as eligible for interview and all were successfully interviewed.A structured interview schedule was developed by the researcher, which was sent to Nepal with detailed guidelines for training and management of interviewers. The final editing of all collected survey instruments was carried out by the researcher with the advice of the members of the thesis committee. Later, those instruments were coded and entered in the computer for the purpose of statistical analysis.Based on statistical analysis, it was found that 60.7 percent of the total respondents have heard of at least one of the methods of family planning. However, only 11.3 percent of them have ever used a particular method of family planning. The current use of contraception is also 11.3 percent which is slightly lower than the level found in a 1986 national survey (15.1%). This shows a great disparity between the knowledge and practice of family planning methods.The major reasons given by respondents for not using any family planning method were bad side effects and the desire to have more children. This suggests that program managers and policy makers in Nepal must develop improved information and communication strategies in order to increase the rate of acceptance of family planning.Of the 11.3 percent of the sample who are current users of contraceptive methods, sterilization constitutes as high as 82.4 percent which indicates that family planning is very popular insynonymous with sterilization. This clearly indicates that the concept of birth spacing has not been Nepal.A further finding was that the family planning program is reaching proportionately more literate than illiterate people. This necessitates formation of effective strategies by the concerned agencies which will increase the acceptance rate among illiterate people. This is extremely significant since more than 75 percent of the total population is still illiterate and the majority of them live in rural Nepal.
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Foster, Nicola. "Structure and agency in the economics of public policy for TB control." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31228.

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Globally, Tuberculosis remains a devastating disease, despite the availability of treatment. The disease is associated with poverty, and those with the disease incur a high cost of accessing care, while simultaneously experiencing income loss due to a loss in productivity. A key challenge in TB programmes remains the accurate diagnosis of the disease, especially in people who are HIV positive. Diagnosing TB can be very resource intensive and the accuracy of diagnosis is dependent on a range of disease, health service organisation and provider behaviour factors. This thesis seeks to enhance understanding of how the behaviour of healthcare workers mediates the value of TB diagnostic algorithms, and how this may affect the costs, outcomes as well as the economic burden associated with the disease in South Africa. The work presented is based on empirical work done alongside a pragmatic cluster randomized control trial. Empirically, it examines the longitudinal economic burden of TB diagnosis and treatment in South Africa. The discrepancies between the time at which patients incur the greatest cost and income loss, and the available social protection are highlighted. Based on empirical work, a purpose-built state-transition mathematical model of TB diagnosis and treatment was developed to estimate the cost-effectiveness, from the perspective of the health service and the patient, of health systems interventions to strengthen TB diagnosis. Recognising healthcare workers as those who ultimately express policies, the behaviour of healthcare workers was included in the cost-effectiveness analysis by 1) using data from a pragmatic trial reflecting routine practice and clinical decision-making at the time of the study; 2) developing a conceptual framework of the relationship between behaviour at decision points and disease outcomes; and 3) investigating how these interactions may influence the value of the diagnostic algorithm. Possible public policy levers to improve TB diagnosis in healthcare facilities, as well as the potential mediators of costs and effects were explored. The thesis concludes with recommendations for further methodological work to expand on the approach explored in this thesis to improve how heterogeneity in estimates of cost-effectiveness is presented to decision-makers.

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Sullivan, Annata Ray. "Military couples' experiences with natural family planning /." (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader), 2001. http://stinet.dtic.mil/str/tr4%5Ffields.html.

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Rife, Nathan Prentice. "Tacticity control of polypropylene using a C2-symmetric family of catalysts." Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85795.

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A family of C2-symmetric catalysts was designed and synthesized with the intent to polymerize propylene. The catalyst was designed to be C2-symmetric for the specific goal that the catalyst would have two identical sites for the propagation of the polymer and therefore eliminate some of the stereoerrors that occur in the propagation of the polymer chain. This catalyst would also operate under simple enantiomorphic site control and therefore the insertion of the monomer would be governed by the ligand surrounding the active site. The ligands were synthesized with increasing degrees of steric bulk with the intention to determine if a catalyst system could generate elastomeric polypropylene. Enantiomorphic site control polypropylene utilizes statistical methods to determine the Si and Re content of a given polymer chain as a function of the variable E. Polypropylene samples generated by the catalyst family were analyzed using high temperature pentad analysis of the methyl region to calculate the E value. The goal was to observe E to be equal to 0.78 provided that the number molecular weight of the polymer was 100,000. The catalyst systems generated polymers with values higher and lower than the desired 0.78, indicating too high or too low enantioselectivity of the catalyst systems respectively at Tp = 0°C.

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Fernandez, Diego, Yeffry Zamora, Sandra Rodriguez, and Jorge Vilcapoma. "Daily Control System for the Construction of Multi-family Building Projects." Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653822.

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El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.
Construction projects for buildings, in the execution stage, show a variation of the real with respect to what is planned in the budget. The consequence of this lag presented usually causes large economic losses. Given this situation, in the construction industry, various control systems have been developed that have as a final deliverable a frequent management report, which serves to make decisions regarding the analyzed, whose results are applied and evaluated after a specific period of time. These management reports have good results at the time of their application; however, data processing, analysis execution, and decision making take approximately 30 days. In this sense, the present investigation proposes to develop a control system focused in real time, generated by the daily control in the execution stage. The results show a reduction of waste in the main resources of multi-family building projects, and this is in labor and materials, identifying the causes that originate them and suggesting generic solutions, at the end of the workday.
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Riordan, Diane A. "The nature and effectiveness of management control in small family businesses/." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53603.

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The link between the setting of goals and the controls necessary to accomplish those goals is especially interesting in the area of small family businesses where multiple, conflicting goals are believed to interfere with business control. The actual nature of goal·setting and control in the small family firm are matters for debate because the area is not well researched. This study is an interdisciplinary effort, drawing upon existing work in accounting and business management, as well as kinship relations and group process (social psychology). It views the small family business owner-manager as a resource allocator who makes decisions within the field of family and business. Because field theory was developed to explain an individual's behavior in the context of surrounding groups, it is an especially appropriate research tool for investigating the behavior of the owner-manager in the small family business. Existing theories, specifically systems and contingency theories, are analyzed for possible strengths and weaknesses as theoretical frameworks for studying the problems that small family business owners encounter. Systems theory may be unsatisfactory as a research tool because it assumes that the business and family structures are separate and a control system can be fabricated in which the owner-manager will become a passive participant. This separation may be artificial for some small family business owners who feel a sense of responsibility to their families or to families that. assist the business. Contingency theory may be unsatisfactory as a research tool because it merely explains the obvious: The outcomes of the business are dependent upon activities related to family processes. The data were gathered by surveying approximately 900 members of the Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Radford, and Roanoke, Virginia, Chambers of Commerce. The evidence suggests that for a majority of firms field- theory is the appropriate orientation because resources are flowing in noneconomic exchanges between the businesses and families that operate them.
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Lehmann, Alejandro. "Does Family Control Shape Diversification Decisions? : the Case of Chilean Firms." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/168311.

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This paper analyses how family control affects diversification decision on Chilean firms, its characteristics and limitations. Specifically, we introduce the potential agency frameworks such as pyramidal ownership, family, or business groups, as determinants of corporate prevention to diversify. From a dataset composed by 140 Chilean nonfinancial firms listed in the period 2008- 2015, we use an OLS method withed year-industry fixed effects. Results show that families tend to diversify less than non-family companies. Nonetheless, they show higher compromise with the segments already owned, showing a manifestation of the socioemotional wealth and the resource-based approach. Interestingly, family firms under business groups or pyramidal structures show positive tendencies to diversify, consistent with the wealth expropriation theories.

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Hossain, MD Motahar Gray Alan Noel. "Male involvement in family planning in Bangladesh /." Abstract, 1999. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2542/42E-MotaharH.pdf.

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Wong, Kin-ki, and 王建圻. "The problems of managing control in Chinese family firms: the case of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30088239.

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Bolin, Nicholas John. "Indian and American Demography, Expertise, and the Family Planning Consensus: 1930-1970." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/95816.

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Indian population policy in the twentieth century was shaped by a blend of unique Indian concerns about population growth, legacies of British colonialism, and American foreign aid. This blend of influences resulted in the first national family planning program in the world.
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De, Gita Gloria N. "Spousal communication and family planning behavior in Northern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9133_1256716325.

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Spousal communication on issues related to family planning and reproductive health is important in influencing fertility limiting behaviour. In South Africa, studies analyzing the relationship between spousal communication and family planning behaviour are virtually nonexistant. Understanding this relationship is critical for less developed countries where fertility remains at substantially high levels. In most countries, the isolation of men's participation in family planning issues is acknowledged as one of the major causes of poor performance of most family planning programs. In addition, lack of spousal communication about family planning is identified as one of the reasons for low levels of contraceptive use among women. The main objective of this study was to assess spousal communication on contraceptive use and family planning behaviour in three distinct areas in the Richtersveld (Northern Cape) area.

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Clarke, Damian. "Essays on fertility and family size." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:94016283-a3dd-4b6a-8427-373b49a491be.

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In these papers I discuss the causal estimation of the effects of fertility and fertility planning developments on mother and child outcomes. A number of concerns are raised with existing identification techniques, and alternative methodologies to consistently estimate the effect of interest are proposed. These concerns and new techniques are illustrated using microdata on slightly more than 43,000,000 births ocurring between 1972 and 2013. In the first substantive chapter (written with Sonia Bhalotra), we discuss the validity of the use of twin births in fertility research. We demonstrate that twin births are not random. Successfully taking twins to term depends upon positive maternal health behaviours and investments in the periods preceding birth. We show that this is of considerable concern for estimation techniques which rely on twin births being (conditionally) randomly assigned to identify causal effects. To illustrate, we consider the estimation of the child quantity-quality (QQ) trade-off, and show that existing instrumental variable estimates are inconsistent in the contexts examined. Upon partially correcting for the fact that twin births are not random, a statistically significant QQ trade-off begins to emerge. We close by examining a number of partial identification techniques to bound the true effect of fertility on child outcomes. In the second substantive chapter, I examine the effect of fertility control policies on the fertility decisions and outcomes of women. I consider the case of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile. The staggered arrival of this technology to Chile over the last decade has resulted in the availability of the first safe and legal post-coital birth control policies. In a context of high teenage pregnancy rates, difference-in-difference (DD) style estimates suggest that this policy has accounted for reductions in short-term teen childbearing by as much as 7%, an effect similar to the arrival of abortion in the USA. This policy is also shown to reduce fetal deaths reported in early gestation with no similar reduction in late gestation: suggestive evidence that an alternative fertility control policy may reduce costly and dangerous illegal abortions. Finally, I turn to the use of DD estimators as a policy-analysis tool. I discuss how such estimators perform in the case of reforms which may not be sharply demarcated to treatment and control clusters, but rather subject to local spillovers or externalities. I propose an extension of the typical DD estimator: a spillover-robust DD estimator. This methodology is applied to estimate the effect of two localised fertility control reforms in Mexico and Chile, where women close to treatment clusters who were not themselves subject to the reform may nonetheless travel to access treatment.

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Hossain, Ibteesam. "Investment Performance of Swedish Family Firms : A study of how management, control and ownership impact Swedish family firms investment performance." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Economics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1119.

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Denna magister uppsats undersöker huruvida ledarskap, ägarstruktur och kontroll påverkar svenska familjeföretags investerings prestation på marknaden. I undersökningen har 90 svenska företag analyserats inom en 15 års period (1990-2005).

Ledarskap har delats upp i tre olika strukturer, den första strukturen står för grundar ledarskap. Regressionsanalysen i denna uppsats visade att en grundare har en positiv påverkan på företagets investerings prestation då grundaren agerade som Verkställande Direktör (VD), Styrelseordförande (SO) eller båda. Detta kan förklaras utifrån teorier som gör tydligt att en grundare äger entreprenörskaps anda och utmärkande kunskaper inom området ifråga. Resultatet för den andra strukturen, ättlings ledarskap visade att då ättlingar till grunderaren verkade som antingen VD, SO eller båda i företaget förekom en negativ påverkan på företagets finansiella prestation. Detta kan förklaras utifrån teorier som menar att en ättling inte har samma kunskap eller ambitioner som grundaren till företaget. Ättlingar har oftast ärvt högre poster inom företagen på grund av sina familjerelationer till grundaren snarare än på grund av sina kunskaper inom området. Den tredje ledarskapsstrukturen är externa ledare. Externa ledare är antingen en VD, SO eller båda som har blivit inhyrda till företaget av ägarfamiljen. Regressionsanalysen visade ett insignifikant resultat.

När resultaten för ägarstruktur och andel röster av ägare analyserades i både företag med röstdifferensiering och utan röstdifferensiering visade det sig att när grundaren agerade som VD, SO eller båda i företag utan röstdifferensiering förekom ingen minoritets expropriation eller principal-agent konflikter inom företaget, vilket betyder att företagets finansiella prestation påverkades positivt. Liknande resultat hittades även för företag med röstdifferensiering som hade externa ledare i sin ledning.

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Wang, Jianglong. "Communicating the policy of "one child per family" in Shanghai an analysis of the family planning groups' communication strategies /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 1989. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9015419.

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Tedford, Beverley Helen. "Negotiating toward control, a theory of family recovery following acute myocardial infarction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0001/MQ35532.pdf.

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Yuan, Bingjian [Verfasser]. "The control of germination by the PP2C family protein RDO5 / Bingjian Yuan." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1181855853/34.

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Alzate, Gómez Juan Diego. "Corporate social responsibility practices and performance: the moderating effect of family control." Doctoral thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/16193.

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Companies face pressures of legitimacy and social acceptance in the markets where they operate (Yang, Su, & Fam, 2012). These pressures are accentuated by new trends in sustainable development (Bonsón & Bednárová, 2015; Caravedo, 2011; Vives & Peinado- Vara, 2011). In this sense, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a valuable tool for companies in their search for legitimacy and recognition on the part of society. Understanding the relationship between CSR and economic performance enables companies to adopt practices based on complementarity between economic, social and environmental aspects that help improve their interests together with those of their stakeholders (Valenzuela, Jara-Bertin, & Villegas, 2015). In contexts characterized by a high degree of ownership concentration, such as the Colombian case, understanding this relationship can help family businesses increase their legitimacy and economic performance (Lindgreen, Swaen, & Johnston, 2009). The purpose of this descriptive-quantitative study was twofold. On the one hand, it seeks to determine the relationship between the implementation of CSR practices and economic performance. On the other, it seeks to identify the effect of family control on the CSR-Performance relationship. For this, we studied a sample of 55 companies listed on the stock exchange of Colombia during the period 2010-2017. The analysis was performed with multiple regression models estimated from the GMM method. Three findings are highlighted: (a) No evidence was found about a relationship between the family character and the adoption of CSR practices; (b) Evidence was found on a direct relationship between the adoption of CSR practices and economic performance; and (c) the family character does not influence the CSR-Performance relationship.
Las empresas enfrentan presiones de legitimidad y aceptación social en los mercados donde operan (Yang et al., 2012). Estas presiones se acentúan por las nuevas tendencias en el desarrollo sostenible (Bonsón & Bednárová, 2015; Caravedo, 2011; Vives & Peinado-Vara, 2011). En este sentido, la responsabilidad social corporativa (RSC) se ha convertido en una herramienta valiosa para las empresas en su búsqueda de legitimidad y reconocimiento por parte de la sociedad. Comprender la relación entre la RSC y el desempeño económico permite a las empresas adoptar prácticas basadas en la complementariedad entre aspectos económicos, sociales y ambientales que ayuden a mejorar sus intereses junto con los de sus grupos de interés (Valenzuela et al., 2015). En contextos caracterizados por un alto grado de concentración de la propiedad, como el caso colombiano, comprender esta relación puede ayudar a las empresas familiares a aumentar su legitimidad y desempeño económico (Lindgreen et al., 2009). El propósito de este estudio descriptivo-cuantitativo fue doble. Por un lado, busca determinar la relación entre la implementación de prácticas de RSC y el desempeño económico. Por otro lado, busca identificar el efecto del control familiar en la relación RSC-Desempeño. Para ello, estudiamos una muestra de 55 empresas que cotizan en la bolsa de valores de Colombia durante el período 2010-2017. El análisis se realizó con modelos de regresión múltiple estimados a partir del método GMM. Se destacan tres hallazgos: (a) No se encontró evidencia sobre una relación entre el carácter familiar y la adopción de prácticas de RSC; (b) Se encontró evidencia sobre una relación directa entre la adopción de prácticas de RSC y el desempeño económico; y (c) el carácter familiar no influye en la relación RSC-Desempeño.
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Warlick, Jayne. "Family Environment. Lifestyle, and Control Factors of Depressed Adolescents and Their Parents." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331611/.

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The problem of this study was to identify variables in the family environment that may describe depressed adolescents' families. This study was based on Adlerian theory. The Family Environment Scale (FES) was used to measure the family atmosphere. The Lifestyle Scale (LS) was used to examine the adolescent's unique system of beliefs, values, and attitudes. The Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (IE) was used to measure the extent of external control exhibited by the adolescents and their parents. The subjects of this study were 31 depressed adolescents from 2 suburban psychiatric hospitals and one of each of the adolescent's parents. The subjects were from a homogeneous socioeconomic population showing no significant variation in the demographic categories of sex, race, chronological birth order, or marital status of the parents. Scores were compared with normative data. Product moment correlations were calculated between the results of the subscales on the 3 instruments. A principal components factor analysis was performed to determine if any patterns existed.

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Milwertz, Cecilia Nathansen. "Accepting population control : urban Chinese women and the one-child family policy /." Richmond : Curzon, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37023631d.

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Saunders, Garret. "Family-Wise Error Rate Control in Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Mapping and Gene Ontology Graphs with Remarks on Family Selection." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2164.

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The main aim of this dissertation is to meet real needs of practitioners in multiple hypothesis testing. The issue of multiplicity has become a signicant concern in most elds of research as computational abilities have increased, allowing for the simultaneous testing of many (thousands or millions) statistical hypothesis tests. While many error rates have been dened to address this issue of multiplicity, this work considers only the most natural generalization of the Type I Error rate to multiple tests, the family-wise error rate (FWER). Much work has already been done to establish powerful yet general methods which control the FWER under arbitrary dependencies among tests. This work both introduces these methods and expands upon them as is detailed through its four main chapters. Chapter 1 contains general introductions and preliminaries important to the remainder of the work, particularly a previously published graphical weighted Bonferroni multiplicity adjustment. Chapter 2 then applies the principles introduced in Chapter 1 to achieve a substantial computational improvement to an existing FWER controlling multiplicity approach (the Focus Level method) for gene set testing in high throughput microarray and next generation sequencing studies using Gene Ontology graphs. This improvement to the Focus Level procedure, which we call the Short Focus Level procedure, is achieved by extending the reach of graphical weighted Bonferroni testing to closed testing situations where restricted hypotheses are present. This is accomplished through Theorem 1 of Chapter 2. As a result of the improvement, the full top-down approach to the Focus Level procedure can now be performed, overcoming a signicant disadvantage of the otherwise powerful approach to multiple testing. Chapter 3 presents a solution to a multiple testing diculty within quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping in natural populations for QTL LD (linkage disequilibrium) mapping models. Such models apply a two-hypothesis framework to the testing of thousands of genetic markers across the genome in search of QTL underlying a quantitative trait of interest. Inherent to the model is an unidentiability issue where a parameter of interest is identiable only under the alternative hypothesis. Through a second application of graphical weighted Bonferroni methods we show how the multiplicity can be accounted for while simultaneously accounting for the required logical structuring of the testing such that identiability is preserved. Finally, Chapter 4 details some of the diculties associated with the distributional assumptions for the test statistics of the two hypotheses of the LDbased QTL mapping framework. A novel bivariate testing strategy is proposed for these test statistics in order to overcome these distributional diculties while preserving power in the multiplicity correction by reducing the number of tests performed. Chapter 5 concludes the work with a summary of the main contributions and future research goals aimed at continual improvement to the multiple testing issues inherent to both the elds of genetics and genomics.

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Saunders, Garrett. "Family-Wise Error Rate Control in Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Mapping and Gene Ontology Graphs with Remarks on Family Selection." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7021.

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One of the great aims of statistics, the science of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data, is to protect against the probability of falsely rejecting an accepted claim, or hypothesis, given observed data stemming from some experiment. This is generally known as protecting against a Type I Error, or controlling the Type I Error rate. The extension of this protection against Type I Errors to the situation where thousands upon thousands of hypotheses are examined simultaneously is known as multiple hypothesis testing. This dissertation presents an improvement to an existing multiple hypothesis testing approach, the Focus Level method, specific to gene set testing (a branch of genomics) on Gene Ontology graphs. This improvement resolves a long standing computational difficulty of the Focus Level method, providing more than a 15.000-fold increase in computational efficiency. This dissertation also presents a solution to a multiple testing problem in genetics where a specific approach to mapping genes underlying quantitative traits of interest requires a multiplicity adjustment approach that both corrects for the number of tests while also ensuring logical consistency. The power advantage of the solution is demonstrated over the current standard approach to the problem. A side issue of this model framework led to the development of a new bivariate approach to quantitative trait marker detection, which is presented herein. The overall contribution of this dissertation to the statistics literature is that it provides novel solutions that meet real needs of practitioners in genetics and genomics with the aim of ensuring both that truth is discovered and that discoveries are actually true.

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Sultan, Mehboob. "The family planning programme and its effect on fertility in Pakistan." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/123361.

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This study attempts to analyse the impact of the family planning programme on fertility in Pakistan during 1976-85. Data on family planning acceptors were obtained from the Population Welfare Division, Government of Pakistan. Secondary data from the 1975 Pakistan Fertility Survey, the 1981 Census and the 1984 Contraceptive Prevelance Survey have been used for estimating the family planning programme effect on fertility. The estimated contraceptive use on the basis of service statistics has been compared with survey results. A brief comparison has also been made between the last decade (1975-85) and the first decade (1965-75) of the programme operation in terms of contraceptive use. Areas of further investigation are also identified for generating the data required for adequate monitoring of the family planning programme and its effect on fertility. Indirect estimates of contraceptive use have also been derived using bivariate regression between the reported contraceptive use and the values of the "m" parameter for 26 countries. The values of "m" were obtained by Coale and Trussell's method. These values signify deliberate fertility control in a population at a particular period in time. The indirectly estimated contraceptive use levels are found to be consistent (around 20 per cent) and on the basis of this analysis, are judged to be more accurate than the levels reported in surveys (5 to 10 percent).

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Wafula, Anne Nasambu. "Work-family conflict among women from a collectivistic culture." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_8897_1319091282.

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This study investigated how Work-Family Conflict was related to Role Salience and Job level (investigated in terms of the amount of job demand and job control associated with different job levels) among women from a Collectivistic culture. A sample of 65 teachers was used. Although the results of the study showed no correlations between Work-Family Conflict and both role salience and job level, this was attributed to the high data skewness, thereby reducing the chances of detecting correlations. The high positive data skewness was possibly caused by the floor effect, which was the situation that the sample consisted of only female teachers from a Collectivistic culture. The high negative data skewness was possibly caused by the ceiling effect, which is the situation that the women in this sample have a Collectivistic cultural orientation, and are therefore highly likely to consider their home role as more salient. Moreover, correlations between Work Family Conflict and Job demand have been found to be higher in Individualistic cultures compared to Collectivistic cultures. There also seems to be no differences in job control among teachers occupying different job levels, and hence, no correlations were detected. Further analyses depicted that the teachers within this sample considered their home role as more salient. Moreover, despite their commitment to both their home role and occupational role, the data indicated that the sample experienced low levels of Work Family conflict.

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Luo, Jianguo, and n/a. "A communication analysis of China's family planning campaigns." University of Canberra. Communication, 1989. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060818.162031.

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In China, April 13, 1989 was marked as the "1.1 Billion Population Day." Though it has become the first "demographic billionaire" in the world, China has obtained remarkable results in population control. According to the statement issued by China's National Bureau of Statistics in 1987, the natural population growth rate dropped from 25.83 per thousand in 1970 to 11.28 per thousand in 1985. This has been viewed as an achievement not previously seen in any other population. In the past four decades, the Chinese government has adopted a population policy to organize the fertility transition in a planned way through education, motivation and persuasion. Five communication campaigns have been instituted to implement the policy. The successive family planning campaigns have played a vital role in educating and persuading individuals to accept the new fertility norms advocated by the government. In the communication processes of these campaigns, the strategies used have changed from the media-oriented strategy of the first campaign, to the introduction of an interpersonal approach in the second followed by an integration of media, interpersonal and organisational communication in the three latest campaigns. The integration of the media and interpersonal communication approaches was achieved through group discussion sessions and home visits, in which media messages were mediated and interpreted as a reinforcement to media impact. The group dynamics in the interpersonal communication has played an important role in changing individuals' attitudes towards and behaviour of family planning. As a campaign is an organized activity which requires organizational channels to ensure the conduct of the activity and the flow of information, a well-established organization hierarchy for family planning work has facilitated the management of family planning campaigns and also been regarded as a fundemental element to the success of the later campaigns.

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Hill, Crystal Renee. "Effects of family routines and family stress on child competencies." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4142.

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The current study had two purposes. The first purpose was to examine the association between family rules and routines and first grade children's teacher-rated and peer-rated behavioral competencies (e.g., emotional symptoms, conduct problems, peer problems, hyperactivity, and prosocial behavior) after controlling for both family stressors (i.e., single parent home, mobility, socioeconomic status, property ownership) and child ethnicity (African American, Caucasian, Hispanic). The second purpose was to determine if child regulatory control abilities mediates the effects of family rules and routines and children's behavioral competencies. The parents of 215 ethnically diverse children (38%, Caucasian, 22% African American, 33% Hispanic, 7% Other) were interviewed in their homes with a modified and shortened version of Family Routines Inventory (FRI; Jensen, James, Boyce, & Hartnett, 1983). Teachers completed the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 1997), and peers completed a modified version of the Class Play (Masten, Morison & Pelligrini, 1985). Scores from the SDQ were standardized and combined with the standardized scores obtained from the peer nominations to create composites of the behavioral competencies. Additionally, teachers completed a modified version of the California Child Q-set (CCQ) (Block & Block, 1980) as a measure of these children's regulatory control abilities. African American parents' ratings of their family's rules and routines were higher than those of Hispanic and Caucasian parents' ratings. Additionally, family stressors were positively associated with higher teacher and peer ratings of conduct problems and lower ratings of prosocial behavior. Neither ethnicity nor family rules and routines predicted child competencies. A statistically significant curvilinear relationship was found between family rules and routines and conduct problems such that children of parents reporting the highest and lowest levels of family rules and routines have more conduct problems. No associations were found between family rules and routines and child competencies or children's regulatory control abilities. Limitations of the study are discussed in terms of inadequate measurement of family rules and routines, a defensive response set, self-selection on the part of the parents to participate in the interview, and a sample that is not representative of the community of parents and children in the participating schools.

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Rodberg, Josie. "Planning the American Family: The Politics of Government Family Planning Programs from the Great Society to the New Right." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10999.

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This dissertation examines the creation and development of the United States government's Title X family planning program from 1965 to 1988. It argues that Title X became controversial when its supporters shifted their focus from promoting family self-sufficiency to celebrating individual reproductive freedom. The new individualist arguments profoundly threatened many Americans who wanted government policy to support the patriarchal nuclear family. Support for federally-subsidized family planning programs in the 1960s rested on an ideology of nuclear family economic independence. Advocates reasoned that birth control services would enable poor Americans, especially African-Americans, to have children only within stable, self-sufficient marriages. Using these arguments, family planning advocates developed nearly-unanimous support for family planning programs among federal policymakers. In the early 1970s, though, family planning supporters embraced feminist and anti-racist critiques of their earlier ideas, leading them to promote subsidized family planning as a route to individual women’s reproductive freedom. In turn, the dissertation examines the growth of the New Right in reaction to the new liberal focus on individual freedom. While some dissenters had opposed family planning programs in the 1960s, this opposition mushroomed in the 1970s as opponents identified Title X as a threat to the family. Family planning opponents focused on two aspects of subsidized birth control programs that endangered the patriarchal nuclear family: abortion and teenagers’ access to contraception. Both of these issues jeopardized the husband’s and father’s authority over his dependents. In addition, opponents claimed that federal government spending on Title X overused their tax dollars, compromising their own ability to be self-sufficient and, thus, the survival of their own independent nuclear families. As a result, they mobilized in opposition to Title X in the 1970s and 1980s. The dissertation uses a wide variety of archival materials, government documents, and published sources to document the trajectory of debates over federally-funded family planning programs
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Margono, Sugeng. "The role of Depo Provera in the Indonesian family planning program." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/123365.

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The purposes of this study are to examine the acceptability of Depo Provera (DP) as a possible alternative contraceptive in Indonesia; to investigate the side effects commonly experienced by Indonesian women and to examine how they tolerate these side effects. The analysis is based on three sources: the results of a field work case study in Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta of 1985; the contraceptive continuation module of the family planning modular survey of 1982; and family planning service statistics reports. Since the decision of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) not to grant approval for the use of DP as a contraceptive in the United States, in 1978, debates and controversy have been going on up to the time of writing. This decision made thousands of women afraid of getting cancer or fearful that DP will impair their fertility. Because of this controversy, the usage of DP as a contraceptive is being carefully monitored by IPPF and WHO through multinational comparative studies in 15 developed and developing countries around the world. Evidence is mounting from world wide experience, that DP is a satisfactory contraceptive with several advantages and some disadvantages but no more serious side effects than those found in oral contraceptives. The field study demonstrated the acceptability of DP among respondents. The greatest obstacle to use was the cost of the drug. Most respondents postponed their follow-up injections for that reason, but still they did not drop-out. They used other methods to avoid pregnancy during their period without DP. These respondents would gladly have another injection when they had money to pay for the service (and the drug). The selection of DP by respondents was mostly through self evaluation, comparison and consideration (most of the respondents have used one or another methods in the past), and the decision appeared to be a solid decision, not just "follow the leader". The respondents also indicated that they could tolerate the side effects. It appeared that they easily managed menstrual disturbances, while most respondents were happy about the most common side effect, amenorrhoea, because it allowed them to avoid the "monthly trouble" caused by menstruation in disrupting their daily religious activities. They also benefited through avoiding anaemia, and some respondents preferred DP for post-partum use, because it does not suppress breast milk production. In summary, the study found DP to be an acceptable form of contraception. It is perceived by Indonesian women and practitioners as a safe and reliable alternative to existing birth control techniques.

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Lilly, Mary Kristine M. S. "An Analysis of Adherence in Childhood Diabetes: Social Learning and Family Systems Variables." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30416.

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The purpose of the current study was threefold: 1) to assess youths' and parents' perceptions of their competency in managing diabetes, 2) to assess family flexibility and cohesiveness, and 3) to assess the utility of self-efficacy and family factors as predictors of adherence and metabolic control. Participants included 62 youths with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and their parents. Parents' and youths' perceptions of their abilities in diabetes and related situations, family cohesion and adaptability, and perceptions of the family's ability to integrate the demands of the diabetes regimen into general family routines were assessed. Results suggested that both social learning factors and general family relations were important in the prediction of youths' adherence to the treatment regimen for diabetes and metabolic control. Moreover, family efficacy and family cohesion were related, suggesting the need for models of assessment and intervention that include both social learning and general family functioning variables.
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King, Roger. "Two essays on corporate finance : the impact of independent non-executive directors and the longevity of family control /." View abstract or full-text, 2006. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?FINA%202006%20KING.

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DRYFHOUT-FERGUSON, VICKI LYNN. "GENDER DIFFERENCES IN INTENTIONS TO LEAVE ACADEMIA: SOCIAL CONTROL, WORK AND FAMILY EXPLANATIONS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1066676001.

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Etheridge, Naomi. "DRG under control : detailed characterisation of the highly regulated DRG family in arabidopsis /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16392.pdf.

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Staf, Susanne. "Ownership succession process in practice : Importance of long-term planning." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-988.

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Problem According to previous research a successful succession requires a long-term plan. This is since the main problem causing companies to fail in succes-sions is seen to be the absence of planning, or that planning is not done well enough. But when the next generation is found outside the family or the family business, the succession is done quite fast, so long-term planning in advance does not seem to be that important after all. Therefore I question the importance of long-term planning, and what it includes, since I believe the outcome is decided by several interacting factors, and not by one alone.

Purpose The purpose with this thesis is to contribute to the debate concerning the need of long-term preparation before transitions of family businesses are done. This is done by comparing the characteristics of two successful suc-cession processes. One is a family business that has undertaken a shift within the family, and the other is a family business that has been sold ex-ternally. It will also take into account the kind of advices that comes from interviews with representatives of one bank and two audit firms, in order to find out their general view of the process.

Method This study was conducted through a qualitative method. The data was col-lected by interviewing representatives from two family businesses that have undertaken successions. In addition data was collected from representatives from one bank, and two audit firms. The characteristics in the data from these interviews have been compared to each other, and also to literature and research within the subject.

Conclusion Based on this study, I believe a view that takes into account all aspects is needed, since all aspects are equal important when a company undertakes a succession. As a result of this, long-term planning should not be seen as an aspect more important than any other. From the ancestors´ point of view long-term planning is foremost about how well-prepared the succession of the company has been, and the time until the succession is done. Long-term planning seen from the successors´ view is the time from when the succes-sion is done, and forward. This includes for example how the handing over process should be done, and how to secure that important knowledge stays within the company.

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