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Richardson, Christine Rosalie, and n/a. "Symbolism in the Courtroom: An Examination of the Influence of Non-Verbal Cues in a District Court Setting on Juror Ability to Focus on the Evidence." Griffith University. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2007. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070314.095406.
Full textKominis, Georgios N. "PMERS, environmental uncertainty, & managerial behaviour : an empirical investigation of the E-V theory of motivation in the organisational setting." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269516.
Full textSmolarski, Jan M. (Jan Mietek). "Environmental Determinants and Choice of Project Evaluation Techniques in US and UK Firms." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277767/.
Full textOzyurt, Gulizar. "Fuzzy Vulnerability Assessment Model Of Coastal Areas To Sea Level Rise." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612653/index.pdf.
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cek has moderate vulnerability and Amasra shows low vulnerability to sea level rise. These results are in accordance with the general literature on impacts of sea level rise at different geomorphological coastal areas thus the applicability of fuzzy vulnerability assessment model (FCVI) to coastal areas is validated.
Xu, Bin. "Fast Path Planning in Uncertain Environments: Theory and Experiments." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29734.
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Hendricks, Michael D. "Structuring a Wayfinder's Dynamic and Uncertain Environment." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/HendricksMD2004.pdf.
Full textDuncan, Scott Joseph. "Including severe uncertainty into environmentally benign life cycle design using information gap-decision theory." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22540.
Full textCommittee Chair: Bras, Bert; Committee Member: Allen, Janet; Committee Member: Chameau, Jean-Lou; Committee Member: McGinnis, Leon; Committee Member: Paredis, Chris.
Moore, Dale L. "The Experience of Strategic Thinking in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) Environment." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633614.
Full textThis qualitative, phenomenological research study addressed the research question: What is the experience of leaders when they think strategically in a VUCA environment? The study explored what happens when leaders think strategically in a VUCA environment and how such thinking occurs. Of specific interest were the triggers of strategic thinking, the strategic questions being asked, and the methods used to develop insight. The term VUCA stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity and is used interchangeably in this study with the term "complex" to represent the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition program management environment (Army, 1998).
Ten acquisition program managers and deputy program managers for major DoD acquisition programs were selected as referred by naval aviation acquisition program executive officers. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and transcribed to capture the program managers' lived experience and the meaning they made (Seidman, 2006). Data were analyzed and themes developed using Moustakas's (1994) modification of the Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method as a guide.
The study had four findings: (1) strategic thinking utilizes an extensive range of knowledge, abilities, and conditions that enable clarity of thought; (2) strategic thinking occurs deliberately as both a high-level creative and a tactically grounded process; (3) strategic thinking is fueled by iterative individual and group analytical and dialogical activities to address the knowledge needed to create strategic-to-tactical linkages and frameworks; and (4) strategic thinking is a deeply personal experience that evokes a wide range of positive and negative emotions. The study concluded that strategic thinking is a cognitive, emotional, and behavioral phenomenon that is both high-level and tactically grounded and is fueled by individual and group analytical and dialogical activities to address needed knowledge, enable clarity of thought, and create strategic-to-tactical linkages and mental models to develop enabling strategies. Further, the characterization of the VUCA environment needs to include the structural elements that may impede the ability to adapt and respond, and the triggers for strategic thinking need to include having the explicit responsibility to think strategically. Implications for theory, practice, and future research are offered.
Allen, Martin William. "Agent interactions in decentralized environments." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/1.
Full textZhao, Yuxin. "Position Estimation in Uncertain Radio Environments and Trajectory Learning." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-135425.
Full textLivingston, David R. "Team Adaptation in Uncertain Environments| A Descriptive Case Study of Dynamic Instability in Navy SEAL Units." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3680645.
Full textThe United States increasingly calls upon elite teams of Special Operations Forces, like the Navy SEALs, to respond to the evolving asymmetric threats posed by terrorists and extremists. These teams must have the capacity to adapt as a collective unit in the most dynamic circumstance. This research explored the nature of collective adaptation by these exceptional action teams using a qualitative case study methodology and a lens of complexity theory. Specifically, data gathered from official documents and interviews with retired Navy SEALs expanded the understanding of dynamic instability as it relates to team adaptation in uncertain environments. A greater understanding of this phenomenon contributed to the scholarly literature by identifying and describing the critical factors used by teams to promote adaptive capacity through the appropriate usage of structure and innovative flexibility in a dynamically changing situation. The study produced the following conclusions: 1. Individuals in an action team mentally reference a combination of general simple rules and situation-specific simple rules when they adapt in an uncertain environment. • Varying application of different types of simple rules correspond with different levels of environmental uncertainty. • Simple rules provide the basis for a shared cognitive structure that enables greater collective adaptation. 2. Previous experience plays an important role in the adaptive capacity of an action team. • Experience provides an individual with context to determine how simple rules can and should be applied. • Experience strengthens the relationship (trust and familiarity) between team members which allows them to adapt more quickly and effectively as a collective. 3. Relationships between team members, grounded in previous experience and a shared culture, play an important role in the adaptive capacity of an action team. • Trust between team members gives each individual the freedom and permission to take initiative and adapt as necessary. • Familiarity between team members enables the action team to collectively adapt more quickly and effectively because they can predict how another teammate will react given a specific set of parameters without the need for extensive communication. 4. The ability of individual team members to control emotions, slow and simplify reactions, and focus communication promotes more effective adaptation by an action team in an uncertain environment. • Individual decision-making is enhanced when individuals are able to control their reactions and react calmly in the midst of an uncertain environment. • As environmental uncertainty increases, individuals who react by slowing down and simplifying their actions are capable of more effective adaptation. • In an uncertain environment, action teams that focus communication, reduce potential distractions for team members. This reduced, but effective communication is possible because of trust and familiarity between team members. 5. An action team's ability to adapt is dependent upon its dynamic instability (the interplay between morphostatic and morphogenetic factors). • Morphostatic factors that promote structure include simple rules, selection of team members, familiarity between team members, and perpetuation of a structured culture that regulates behavior. • Morphogenetic factors that promote flexibility include previous experience, distributed leadership, trust between team members, and perpetuation of a permissive culture that encourages innovation.
Alfaro-García, Víctor G. "Business Innovation: measurement, treatment and decision making in uncertain environments." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/441735.
Full textEs generalmente aceptado que la innovación es una fuente de competitividad para las empresas y para las naciones. El impacto de las actividades de innovación sobre los resultados de las empresas va desde el efecto sobre las ventas y la cuota del mercado hasta la mejora de la productividad y la eficiencia operacional. Los principales beneficios a nivel de nación se distinguen por el incremento de la competencia sectorial, lo cual eleva el rendimiento total de los factores productivos, así como el derrame del nuevo saber-hacer, que permea de forma sistémica las redes empresariales. Es notorio que alrededor del concepto de innovación se encuentran elementos tales como progreso económico, éxito empresarial, solución de problemas, etc. Por lo tanto, identificar las implicaciones que las actividades innovadoras suponen al rendimiento de las empresas es relevante, ya que abre camino para asistir un aspecto clave entorno a la innovación: determinar de forma sistemática qué recursos, de aquellos destinados a gestionar el cambio continuo dentro de las empresas es justificable, y más aún, cuáles de ellos han impactado mayormente a los objetivos y metas de la organización. La fórmula para conocer éste aspecto clave resulta de cierta forma lógica y previamente estudiado por varios autores. Consiste en recopilar información del éxito o fracaso empresarial documentado en estudios especializados en factores determinantes de innovación, a continuación, generar una lista con las características y elementos más relevantes y frecuentes, finalmente aplicar un sistema de puntuación con las mejores prácticas encontradas, sin embargo, tal método se enfrenta a retos complejos como lo es la heterogénea terminología, disimiles puntos de vista alrededor de la innovación y desemejantes definiciones del concepto. Así pues, una correcta evaluación, cuantificación y comparación de las competencias innovadoras de las organizaciones es complejo ya que no existe una tendencia única o principal para evaluar la medida la innovación. Motivados por acortar la brecha científica encontrada en la literatura, presentamos nuestra propuesta, que se centra en la aplicación de técnicas para el tratamiento de la información en la incertidumbre destinadas a apoyar la toma de decisiones hacia la gestión de la innovación y el cambio continuo en la empresa.
Dunert, Sofie, and Patrik Westerling. "Outsourcing and Sustained Competitive Advantage : How do Swedish technical production firms in a competitive environment and high technical uncertainty find the right balance between outsourcing and in-house development that enhances their sustainable competitive advantage when they outsource their Research & Development externally?" Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5299.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to find out when Research and Development (R&D) becomes a suitable attribute for a production company to outsource. In an environment where innovations are following up quickly up and uncertainty about the type of innovation and customer is a fact, external sourcing can bring a competitive advantage. The empirical evidence shows that when R&D is outsourced the total cost does not increase at a due cause of outsourcing in this given study.
Although a lot of theory explains outsourcing as a cost increasing factor, the internal experience and frequent relation between the technical production company Beta and its R&D vendor company Alfa can decrease costs considerably due to lower communication and governance costs. This was not explicitly expressed in related theory and is therefore a contribution to the academia as well as for managers who seek to find an answer to the question of when to outsource and when not to outsource.
Kühl, Ralf. "Dispersión retributiva y resultados: evidencia empírica en las empresas cotizadas españolas." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/52189.
Full textThe globality of the problem through different hierarchical levels, functions and roles of all employees takes to the analysis of a limited set of factors related to compensation in the context of listed Spanish companies and directly on the role of pay and the pay differences at the top management team. This paper examines the contextual factors of main influence on establishing remuneration levels of top management team, considering the nature of their working activities- hierarchical position, discretion, task interdependence, and uncertainty-and how these characteristics may influence pay differences between the members of the top management team. Completed by the exploration of effects of corporate governance and the role of supervision mechanisms to control managers in the agency theory context this paper is enriched in the topic concerning pay differences and operating results.
(7012823), Pamela Carralero. "Uncertainty Discourse: Climate Models, Gender, and Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene." Thesis, 2019.
Find full textThis dissertation, titled “Uncertainty Discourse: Climate Models, Gender, and Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene,” takes a feminist approach to sustainability through the lens of climate science and English-language environmental fiction. I diagnose the appearance of what I call a discourse of uncertainty, which describes new constitutions of thought and social organization emerging in response to the structural uncertainties that characterize climate change. I root this discourse in the scientific practice of climate modeling, by which scientists calculate the probability, or degrees of uncertainty, of future weather scenarios. Though climate models inform socio-political preparations for a climate-changed future, their utility has gone unheeded in the humanities. I fill this gap by placing scientific and literary depictions of uncertainty into conversation to explore their epistemological and ethical implications for a climate-changing future through issues such as gender and representation, politics and sustainability, and knowledge and time. I not only trace how uncertainty is manifested in contemporary environmental literature, such as Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010) and Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior (2012), but also consider the drama of South Asian women playwrights alongside the works of feminist scholars, philosophers, and activists.
Chen, Li Kuo, and 李國禎. "The study of the relationship among environmental uncertainty organization resource advantage social network theory social capital theory dynamic capability." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82937622417211135831.
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The main purpose of this study dynamic capabilities by organizational point of view, to explore the past 10 years, corporate research, and then discuss the value of its theory and practice. Previous studies by the development of dynamic capabilities in the organization of this study the theoretical foundation, and environmental uncertainty, organizational advantages of resources, social networks, inter-related nature of social capital. Finally, the study also raises a dynamic capabilities on organizational and managerial implications for future research. In the sample, this study in Taiwan listed company as a sample, a total of 1,000 questionnaires were issued, the valid sample of a total of 116, the effective rate was 11.6%. According to the empirical results show that: overall business environment more uncertain, companies must be more advantageous resources, to meet the adequate social capital and dense social networks and strong dynamic capabilities to respond to the current multi-changing business environment. In the past studies have not found that environmental uncertainty, organizational advantages of resources, social networks, social capital and organizational capacity to each of the dynamic.This article uses regression revealed: superior resources for environmental uncertainty has no significant effect of social capital for environmental uncertainty has a positive significant effect of environmental uncertainty for social network has a significant positive impact on social capital has the advantage of resources significant positive impact, superior resources for the organization has a positive significant effect on dynamic capabilities, superior resources for social network has a significant positive impact of social capital for social network has a positive significant effect,social networks, the organization has a positive significant effect on dynamic capabilities social capital for the organization has a positive significant effect of dynamic capabilities, the environment is more uncertainty, the amount of business has the resources,social networks and social capital will significantly affect the organization the strength of dynamic capabilities.
Lo, Chun Cheung. "To investigate the use of influence strategies in Hong Kong electronics industry." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341690.
Full textThis research is dedicated to examine that the use of influence strategies would be affected by interdependence and moderated by environmental uncertainty in the supplier-buyer relationship in Hong Kong electronics industry. This research provides both theoretical and managerial insights into the applicability of influence strategies and managers need to understand the effective use of influence strategies under different interdependent relationships and uncertain environment to make appropriate decisions.
Lin, Hsiu-Fang, and 林秀芳. "Effect of Internal Marketing Consciousness, Environmental Uncertainty Perceptions and Organizational Commitment on Teaching Quality in the Private University Teachers:From the Aspects of Social Cognitive Theory." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55461098142629262761.
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高階公共政策碩士班
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Abstract In recent years, the Ministry of Education''s policy on higher education is no longer the way to indulge control operation, the opposite order to improve the quality of higher education. The Ministry of Education used the double-dealing, first of all, the university evaluation system begin and regulate the so-called "university exit mechanism." In addition the education and implementation of large grants of accreditation providing subsidies to the better universities, and thus evaluation of poor schools can’t get grants, so the formation of most of the subsidies to the school an excellent university, and therefore caused the situation to strong become more stronger, the weak become more weaker. Therefore, if colleges and universities can’t achieve the minimum number of students remain in operation, and it will eventually be forced out of the education market, and then it will be accompanied by referred students, teachers, severance and other social issues. This study used the purposive sampling with snowball sampling, and questionnaires the domestic 14 private university teachers, a total of 224 valid questionnaires recovered, and then to use the SPSS 18.0 in statistical analysis and examination the collected date. The results showed: 1. Teachers with high degree of Internal Marketing consciousness will increase their organizational commitment in the university. 2. Teachers with high degree of environmental uncertainty Perceptions will reduce their organizational commitment in the university and it will affect the teaching quality. 3. Teachers with high degree of organizational commitment and the internal marketing consciousness will increase the teaching quality. 4. Teachers with organization commitment have positive mediation effect between the internal marketing consciousness and teaching quality 5. In the situation of internal marketing consciousness, the environmental uncertainty perception does not have any effect the organizational commitment and the teaching quality.
Stewart, Robert Nathan. "A Geospatial Based Decision Framework for Extending MARSSIM Regulatory Principles into the Subsurface." 2011. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1130.
Full textEl-Khatib, Mayar. "Highway Development Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Analysis, Critique and Advancement." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5741.
Full textCooke, Kevin. "Essays on the influence of experience and environment on behavior." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/33065.
Full textSchiller, Frank. "Diskurs und Nachhaltigkeit." Doctoral thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B237-D.
Full textNkuiya, Mbakop Robeny Bruno. "Essais sur des questions internationales en économie de l'environnement." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5238.
Full textThis thesis is composed of three papers. The first paper studies the problem of global pollution in the context of environmental uncertainty. The second paper has to do with international environmental agreements. The third paper shows how trade liberalization can affect welfare and pollution taxes in a world of heterogeneous countries and transboundary pollution. In the first paper, I consider a world where countries suffer uniformly from global pollution while facing a continuous threat that the damages from this global pollution will suddenly jump to an irreversible high-damage state. I characterize the equilibrium level of emissions, the equilibrium stock of global pollution and the discounted net social welfare for both the cooperative and non-cooperative equilibria. The purpose is to analyze the impact of this type of uncertainty on the equilibrium behavior of the countries. I find that this uncertainty can have a significant effect on those equilibria. Countries reduce their emissions to mitigate their exposure to that threat. As the level of threat rises, countries adjust their emissions to lower the stock of pollutant. However, although initially this type of uncertainty has the effect of lowering the discounted net welfare, it can in the long run have a net positive effect on welfare. The second paper extends the standard model of self-enforcing dynamic international environmental agreements by allowing the length of the period of commitment of such agreements to vary as a parameter. It analyzes the pattern of behavior of the size of stable coalitions, the stock of pollutant and the emission rate as a function of the length of the period of commitment. It is shown that the length of the period of commitment can have very significant effects on the equilibrium. Three distinct intervals for the length of the period of commitment are identified, across which the equilibrium and its dynamic behavior differ considerably. Whereas for sufficiently high values of the period of commitment only self-enforcing agreements by a small number of countries are possible, for sufficiently low such values cooperation on the part of a very high number of countries can be occur. Lengths of periods of commitment between those two thresholds are characterized by an inverse relationship between the length of commitment and the membership size of the agreement. This suggests that considerable attention should be given to the determination of the length of such international agreements. The third paper considers a trade situation where the production activities of potentially heterogeneous countries generate pollution which can cross borders and harm the well-being of all the countries involved. In each of those countries the policy maker levies pollution taxes on the polluting firms and a tariff on imports in order to correct that distortion. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the effect of a reduction in the tariff on equilibrium pollution taxes and welfare. The existing literature has investigated this problem for trade between two identical countries. This paper analyzes the problem in the more realistic context where countries are not necessarily identical and trade can be multilateral. It becomes possible to show what bias is introduced when those two realities are neglected. I find that a tariff reduction can actually lower output; it can also lower welfare even if pollution is purely local.
Amato, Christopher. "Increasing scalability in algorithms for centralized and decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes: Efficient decision-making and coordination in uncertain environments." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3427492.
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