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Ruxton, Brooke Marie. "Measured vocational interests, expressed interests in college major, and interest congruence of college-bound women across time." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
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HU, Qinju, and 琴菊 胡. "職業興味の構造に関する研究の検討." 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/16144.
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Sabo, Melody. "Retaining Interests: The Relationship between Student Interests and Student Retention." Malone University Undergraduate Honors Program / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1463139891.
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Webster, Margaret Ruth. "Exploring patterns of interest group collaboration : environmental interests at the European level." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314050.
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Silva, Daniele Pena da. "Interesses profissionais em jovens de ensino médio: um estudo comparativo entre a AIP e o BBT-Br." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-09022015-181020/.
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Processos de Orientação Profissional e de Carreira objetivam auxiliar pessoas a refletirem sobre seus projetos de vida e as decisões relacionadas à carreira. Em tais processos instrumentos de avaliação psicológica, utilizados em uma perspectiva dinâmica e integrativa, podem contribuir para a clarificação das inclinações e disposições para a escolha da carreira em pessoas que buscam auxílio para tal empreendimento. Entre as diversas variáveis psicológicas que influenciam as escolhas ocupacionais destacam-se, neste estudo, os interesses profissionais, mensurados por meio de dois instrumentos: a Avaliação de Interesses Profissionais (AIP) e o Teste de fotos de Profissões (Berufsbilder Test, BBT-Br). Assim, esta investigação objetiva descrever as estruturas de interesses profissionais em estudantes do ensino médio regular e técnico em função do sexo e da procedência escolar, avaliar índices de consistência interna (fidedignidade) dos instrumentos, e correlacionar os resultados da AIP com o BBT-Br. A amostra desta investigação foi composta por 231 participantes, com idade entre 16 e 55 anos; 75 (32,5%) do sexo masculino e 156 (67,5%) do sexo feminino; 121 (52,4%) provenientes do ensino médio técnico e 110 (47,6%) do ensino médio regular. Os alunos do curso técnico eram oriundos dos cursos de administração, secretariado, eletrônica, design, mecatrônica, edificações e eletrotécnica. Os resultados indicaram a existência de diferenças significativas de escolhas em função do sexo dos participantes, tal como em estudos similares da área, que já apontavam a existência de padrões de escolhas diferenciados entre homens e mulheres. Em relação à procedência escolar, foram verificadas diferenças significativas entre os estudantes de ensino médio regular e técnico somente no grupo masculino da amostra. No que diz respeito aos índices de consistência interna da AIP (Alfa de Cronbach), foram obtidos valores que variaram de 0,529 a 0,746, que podem ser considerados índices razoáveis; para o BBT-Br foram encontrados valores de consistência interna entre 0,418 a 0,753, indicadores também classificados como índices razoáveis de fidedignidade. Quanto a análise dos índices de correlação (Correlação de Pearson) entre a AIP e o BBT, foram obtidas diversas correlações significativas ( 0,30), tanto no grupo feminino da amostra quanto no grupo masculino. Assim, aponta-se para a convergência dos resultados dos instrumentos avaliados. Sobre os índices de consistência interna da AIP, indica-se a necessidade de aprimoramento do instrumento. Por fim, assinala-se a importância de ampliação de estudos que avaliem as características de estudantes de ensino médio técnicoCareer Guidance and Career Processes aim to assist people in reflecting on their own life plans and decisions related to career. Applied in a dynamic and integrative perspective, psychological assessment instruments can contribute to clarify inclinations and dispositions to career choice for those who seek help for such undertaking. Among several psychological variables that can influence occupational choices, the professional interests stand out in this study, measured by two instruments: the Assessment of Professional Interests (AIP) and the Test of pictures of Occupations (Berufsbilder Test, BBT-Br). This research aims to describe the structures of professional interests of students in regular secondary and technical education schools by gender and school of origin. To assess the internal consistency (reliability) of the chosen instrument, the results have been correlated to the AIP BBT-Br. The research sample consisted of 231 participants, aged from 16 to 55 years; 75 (32.5%) male and 156 (67.5%) female patients; 121 (52.4%) and 110 (47.6%) from technical schools and regular high schools, respectively. Students in technical schools were distributed in courses on administration, secretarial, machine design, mechatronics, electrical engineering, and buildings. The results indicated significant differences in career choices depending on the sex of the participants. This agrees with similar studies already reported in the area, indicating the existence of patterns of differentiated choices between men and women. Also, for the school of origin, it was found significant differences between students from technical and regular schools only in the male sample group. Regarding to internal consistency of the AIP (Cronbach\'s alpha), values ranged from 0.529 to 0.746 , which can be considered reasonable rates; for the BBT -Br were found internal consistency values between 0.418 to 0.753, indicators also classified as reasonable levels of reliability. With respect to the analysis of correlation coefficients (Pearson correlation) between the AIP and the BBT, several significant correlations ( 0.30) were obtained in both female and male sample groups. Therefore, it is noted for the convergence of the results of both instruments; on the internal consistency of the AIP, it indicates the need for improving the instrument. Finally, we point out the importance of expanding studies to evaluate the characteristics of students from technical high schools
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Leal, Mara de Souza. "Autoeficácia percebida em desenvolvimento de carreira e interesses profissionais em estudantes do ensino médio regular e técnico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-26092013-111136/.
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Em momentos de mudanças velozes e de instabilidade do mundo do trabalho, investigações sobre constructos, como a autoeficácia e os interesses profissionais, são relevantes, objetivando maior entendimento no que se refere ao desenvolvimento de carreira de jovens e adultos. No âmbito dos modelos sóciocognitivos da carreira de Lent, Brown e Hackett (1994), este estudo visa analisar a relação entre interesses e crenças de autoeficácia, bem como estudar os interesses e a autoeficácia em função da procedência escolar, sexo e nível socioeconômico familiar. Os participantes da pesquisa foram 241 alunos, de ambos os sexos, do terceiro ano do ensino médio, regular e técnico, com idades entre 16 a 20 anos, provenientes de duas instituições públicas de ensino, de uma cidade do interior do estado de São Paulo. Os instrumentos aplicados coletivamente foram: (a) Questionário de Identificação; (b) Inventário de Autoeficácia em Desenvolvimento da Carreira (CD-SEI) - versão brasileira e (c) Avaliação dos Interesses Profissionais (AIP). Os resultados não apontaram diferenças significativas na percepção da autoeficácia em desenvolvimento da carreira em relação à procedência escolar e ao sexo; no entanto, em relação ao nível socioeconômico familiar verificou-se que alunos de condições socioeconômicas mais elevadas se percebem mais capazes de lidar com questões relativas ao desenvolvimento da carreira que alunos do nível socioeconômico mais baixo. No que se refere aos interesses profissionais, não foram identificadas diferenças estatisticamente significativas em função da variável nível socioeconômico, porém, verificou-se que os estereótipos de gênero ainda predominam na formação dos interesses dos adolescentes e que os alunos provenientes do ensino médio técnico possuem interesses mais claros que alunos do ensino médio regular. Foram verificadas correlações baixas, mas estatisticamente significativas entre as dimensões e escore total da autoeficácia e as escolhas reais em alguns campos de interesses. Estes resultados indicam pistas para intervenções baseadas no referencial da Teoria Social Cognitiva de Carreira, que visem o trabalho da autoeficácia em desenvolvimento de carreira, principalmente, com estudantes de níveis sociais e econômicos mais baixos e que contemplem também questões relativas às diferenças de gênero, no que se refere aos interesses profissionais. No futuro será indicado o estudo das variáveis investigadas em diferentes amostras e inclusão de outras variáveis consideradas importantes para perspectiva da Teoria Social Cognitiva de Carreira, tais como as expectativas de resultado, os objetivos, o desempenho escolar, dentre outras.At moments of fast changes and instability in the world of work, investigations about constructs such as self-efficacy and career interests are relevant, aiming at a better comprehension of young peoples and adults career development. According to Lent, Brown and Hacketts socio-cognitive models of career (1994), this study aims at examining the relationship between interests and self-efficacy beliefs, as well as studying the interests and self-efficacy, according to school type, sex and family socioeconomic status. The subjects were 241 students, male and female, aged between 16 and 20 years old, attending the 3rd grade of high school and 3rd grade of technical schools in two public schools located in a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The instruments applied collectively were: the Identification Questionnaire (Questionário de Identificação), the Career Development Self-Efficacy Inventory - CD-SEI- Brazilian version (Inventário de Autoeficácia em Desenvolvimento de Carreira) and the Evaluation of Professional Interests - EPI (Avaliação dos Interesses Profissionais- AIP). The results have not shown any significant differences between selfefficacy in career development related to the type of school or gender. However, the study pointed that higher socio-economic level students consider themselves more capable to deal with career development issues than lower socio-economic level students. Regarding career interests, significant differences were not identified when considering the socio-economic level variable; however, gender stereotypes were still found to prevail with the teenagers interest development, and the results also showed that technical school students have their interests better defined than regular high school students. Low but statistically significant correlations were verified between the dimensions investigated and the total score of selfefficacy and true choices in some fields of interests. The results suggest clues to interventions based on the Social Cognitive Career Theory that aim at the development of self-efficacy, especially with lower social and socio-economic level students, as well as regarding gender differences issues concerning career interests. Future studies are suggested that include other variables which are considered important in the Social Cognitive Career Theory, such as: outcomes expectations, goals, school performance, among others, in different samples.
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Saidova, Sanam. "Security interests under the UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment 2001." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12686/.
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This work examines security interests under the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. The main purpose of the Convention is to provide a uniform legal regime for the creation, registration and protection of a creditor’s interests held in high value types of mobile equipment, such as aircraft, railway and space objects. The Convention provides for the creation of an autonomous international interest in these types of equipment and establishes an electronic International Registry for recordation of interests in aircraft objects. The international interests are supported by an elaborate system of remedies exercisable in the case of the debtor’s default or insolvency. These features of the Convention are aimed at promoting predictability and transparency in the financing of mobile equipment which should reduce the risks and costs of borrowing to the benefit of all stake holders. The work examines such issues as the problems of the definition and creation of security interests as well as the possibility of the creation of a floating security under the Convention. It also explores the aims and assesses the effectiveness of the registration system established under the Convention. Next, the thesis examines the rules of the Convention on setting priorities between competing creditors. Finally, the work explored the remedies (and their effectiveness) available to the creditor. One of the aims of this work is to examine the provisions of the Convention and to test whether the legal regime created by it can operate successfully and help facilitate financing of high value equipment. In order to test the effectiveness of the Convention, its provisions will be evaluated in the context of various factual scenarios, which, considering the absence of cases under the Convention, were largely inspired by the experience of some major domestic jurisdictions, such as the UK and the US. This exercise may also shed some light on strengths and weaknesses of the Convention in comparison with these systems.
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Glanville, Luke. "Norms, interests and humanitarian intervention." Thesis, Electronic version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/794.
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Submitted in fullfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Research) Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Dept. of Modern History. 2005.Thesis (MA)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept. of Modern History, 2005.
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Introduction -- 1. Norms, interests and humanitarian intervention -- 2. Bosnia and Somalia -- 3. Rwanda -- 4. The Clinton Administration and the Balkan Wars -- Conclusion.
A number of Constructivist and English school scholars have investigated the degree to which humanitarian intervention is allowed and legitimised by international society. In other words, they have examined the nature and strength of a norm permitting humanitarian intervention. It is the contention of this dissertation that another norm of humanitarian intervention - parallel but discrete - has been neglected. It is argued that ideas and beliefs shared by members of international society not only permit intervention but prescribe it in certain circumstances and this has been largely ignored in the literature.
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Marocco, Andrew E. "Japan's national interests in Taiwan." Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/34702.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThe U.S.Japan alliance continues to be the cornerstone of the U.S.-led security structure in East Asia. Within the parameters of this alliance, the unresolved status of Taiwan still presents one of the most precarious security situations in the region, one that could lead to a major war with China. Within the larger scope of U.S.ChinaJapanTaiwan relations, Japan and Taiwans relationship would generally be considered the least prominent of all possible combinations. Despite this reality, when pulling back the veneer from this seemingly tertiary regional relationship, there is a depth of interaction that is difficult to categorize and that has the potential to greatly influence security and stability in the region. This thesis examines Japan and Taiwans special relationship through the lens of Japans national interests and assesses the implications for the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
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Leaver, Clare Louise. "Special interests and bureaucratic behaviour." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392955.
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Worthington, Sarah Elizabeth. "Proprietary interests in commercial transactions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336602.
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Raczynska, Magdalena Eliza. "Security interests in derived assets." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/43020/.
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This thesis focuses on the extent of security interests in property. A security interest is a right of a creditor to resort to an asset with priority to at least some other creditors of the grantor of security when debt or defaults on the secured obligation. This works examines to what extent the secured creditor’s right is, or ought to be, affected when the encumbered asset undergoes changes that result in a new derived asset. Three scenarios are looked at: where new assets (“fruits”) are derived from the original collateral; where the original collateral is substituted for another asset or where it is incorporated or mixed with other assets into a new product. The question has attracted little judicial or academic attention. In the key case Buhr v Barclays Bank Plc [2001] EWCA 1223 it was held that that the secured creditor had a right to sale proceeds of collateral by virtue of its property right. This was termed as a “principle of substitutions” encompassing accretions, fruits and proceeds of the original collateral. It is suggested that this “principle” does not exist in current English law. This is so whether the security is fixed or floating. If a security interest is to extend to derived assets, parties ought to bargain for it. If new assets are a result of dispositions unauthorised by the secured creditor the creditor may claim the proceeds by asserting a new right based on unjust enrichment, not by virtue of the original property right. English law contrasts with Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code in the US, where the secured creditor automatically acquires right to proceeds. Law and economics analysis suggests that extending security to proceeds promotes efficiency of secured credit but only if proceeds are understood narrowly and do not include fruits.
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Al-Ayyar, Torki Fahad. "Reading interests of Saudi children." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34605.
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Capriati, Marinella. "Human rights, interests and duties." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:068aeab6-ae43-423b-873a-a441b910269a.
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This dissertation focuses on the concept of human rights, and in particular on how we should understand the interests protected by human rights and human rights' correlative duties. The work consists of three papers. Human rights and interests In the first paper I consider which conditions interests have to satisfy in order to be protected by human rights. I call these the Interest Conditions. I argue that we need to distinguish between two kinds of Interest Conditions: qualitative and quantitative ones. This means that we need to consider both which type of interests, and how much of these interests, human rights protect. I then consider the content of these conditions. Political accounts and fidelity to human rights practice In recent years, considerable attention has been received by so called "political accounts" of the analysis of human rights. According to these theories, one of the distinctive features of human rights is that they play a certain political function. In particular, a large number of political accounts hold that human rights have political correlative duties. I call this thesis 'Political Duties'. Political Duties has been defended on the grounds of the desideratum of fidelity, according to which the analysis of human rights ought to be faithful to human rights practice. I consider two ways of interpreting this desideratum and the corresponding versions of the argument in support of Political Duties. I argue that neither version successfully supports the thesis. The universal scope of positive duties correlative to human rights In the third paper I focus on duties correlative to human rights. We can distinguish between two different kinds of duties: negative and positive ones. Negative duties are duties not to perform an action, while positive duties are duties to perform an action. I focus on the latter and, in particular, I concentrate on the question of their scope - that is, on understanding who holds them. I defend a refinement of the thesis that all individuals hold positive duties correlative to human rights, which I call the Universal Scope Thesis.
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Roth, Charlotte Roberta. "Experience and interests plus materials." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1328206974.
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Hojnacki, Marie Elizabeth. "Coalition formation among organized interests /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487856906261803.
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Kodaka, Mitsuru. "Assessing Play Interests in Toddlers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12142/.
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Play is a significant part of childhood. Typically developing children exhibit a wide range of interests within their play behavior, but children with autism do not. The purpose of this study was to design and implement an assessment tool that will capture the constellation of behaviors indicating play interests in young children. The Early Play Interests Assessment (EPIA) includes categories of play behavior and their components behaviors. Additionally, measures of child affect were built into the EPIA. All behaviors were observed under various environmental conditions. The results show that the EPIA was useful in observing toddlers' play behavior within behavioral categories and components and in assessing the interactions among these measures of play interests. The results are discussed in relation to the importance of creating observational systems to quantify play interests in typical and atypical children and for establishing a link between the information gathered in assessment and the planning and implementation of autism interventions.
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Kodaka, Mitsuru Ala'i-Rosales Shahla S. "Assessing play interests in toddlers." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12142.
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Chalmers, Adam. "Interests, information and influence: a comparative analysis of interest group influence in the European Union." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104705.
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Faulty assumptions about the nature of interest group activity have misled scholars' assessments of interest group influence in the European Union (EU). The influence literature portrays interest groups as commonly using undue pressure and purchase tactics in order to change the minds of decision-makers. However, this work on influence has yet to take seriously insights from the rest of the interest group literature, which has long established that interest groups are much more likely to lobby decision-makers who already share their views (friends) rather than to attempt to change the minds of those who do not (foes). Moreover, in lobbying friends, interest groups are best understood as informational service bureaus, providing policy-relevant information to decision-makers in exchange for legitimate access to the policy-making process. This dissertation brings these insights to bear on interest group influence in the EU. I conceive of interest group influence as a function of an interest group's ability to efficiently and reliably provide policy-relevant information to EU decision-makers. To this end, I examine the information processing capacity – how interest groups gather, filter, make sense of, generate and transmit information – of EU interest groups within a comparative framework. I find that, in general, interest group influence in the EU is balanced with no particular set of groups dominating the EU policy-making process at the expense of others.Des hypothèses erronées quant à la nature de l'activité des groupes d'intérêt ont induit en erreur plusieurs experts dans leur analyse de l'influence de ces groupes au sein de l'Union européenne (UE). Leur travaux sur l'influence des groupes de pression affirment que les groupes d'intérêt recourent couramment à une pression inutile et à des techniques de vente dans le but de faire changer d'avis les décideurs politiques. Toutefois, cette lecture de l'influence de ces groupes n'a pas su intégrer les conclusions du reste des travaux scientifiques sur les groupes d'intérêt qui affirment depuis longtemps que ces groupes d'intérêt sont bien davantage susceptibles de faire pression sur des décideurs qui partagent déjà leur point de vue (alliés) que d'essayer de faire changer d'avis ceux qui ne le partagent pas (adversaires). De plus, dans le cercle des lobbyistes, les groupes d'intérêt sont davantage perçus comme des bureaux de renseignements, qui fournissent des informations pertinentes d'un point de vue politique aux décideurs en échange d'un accès légitime au processus décisionnel. Ce projet de recherche s'attarde à illustrer les principes qui sous-tendent l'influence des groupes d'intérêt dans l'Union européenne. Je considère l'influence des groupes d'intérêt comme fonction de leur capacité à fournir de manière efficace et fiable des informations pertinentes d'un point de vue politique aux décideurs de l'UE. À cet effet, j'examine la capacité des groupes d'intérêt au sein de l'UE à traiter l'information, à savoir comment ces groupes rassemblent, sélectionnent, analysent, génèrent et transmettent l'information, dans une analyse comparative. J'estime qu'en général, l'influence des groupes d'intérêt de l'UE n'est pas caractérisée par la présence de certains groupes en particulier qui domineraient le processus décisionnel européen au détriment d'autres groupes.
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Buelow, Kristine. "Examining the Relationship between Career Interests, Styles, and Subjective Well-Being with the Strong Interest Inventory." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/738.
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The Strong Interest Inventory (SII; Donnay, Morris, Schaubhut, & Thompson, 2005) has a broad research base commonly comprised of vocationally-relevant constructs such as career satisfaction (Hees, 2010), self-efficacy (Betz & Borgen, 2000), and educational aspirations (Rottinghaus, Lindley, Green, & Borgen, 2002). The present study aimed to expand the research base on the SII by linking the fields of vocational and positive psychology by examining the relationships between vocational interests, personal styles, and subjective well-being. This study focused specifically on the General Occupational Themes (GOTs) and Personal Style Scales (PSSs) of the SII by exploring the relationship between these scales and subjective well-being across a sample of 4945 working adults in eight occupations, including administrative assistant, a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields composite, realtor, elementary school teacher, sales manager, graphic designer, attorney, and automobile mechanic. Regression analyses demonstrated that the GOTs and PSSs individually explain a significant portion of variance in subjective well-being, as well as that the PSSs explain a significant amount of variance in subjective well-being above and beyond the GOTs. Occupation-specific hypotheses for GOTs and PSSs were also supported for 4 of the 8 occupations. This study provides further validation for the 2005 SII, specifically the newest PSS, Team Orientation. Future research, theory, and practice implications are discussed herein.
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Roeckell, Lelia M. "British interests in Texas 1825-1846." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357534.
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Templeton, William James. "Consumer interests as market segmentation variables." Thesis, London Business School (University of London), 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312926.
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Kim, Seung Ryeol. "South Korea’s Strategic Interests in Antarctica." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5474.
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The Republic of Korea (ROK) joined the Antarctic Treaty in 1986 as the 33rd member and became a consultant party in 1989. Despite its geographical remoteness from the region and the geopolitical pressures it faces at home, ROK has made great progress in its scientific research in Antarctica as well as the Arctic. In particular, since the inauguration of the Lee Myung Bak administration in 2008, Seoul has accelerated its commitment to polar research by announcing that it would set up a second permanent base in the Antarctic continent and build a new 7,000 ton ice breaker.
South Korea is the 9th largest economy in the world and is now seeking ways to expand its global political influence. The Korean government sees its expansion into Antarctica and the Arctic as part of its path to a greater global leadership role. This thesis explores the reasons behind South Korea’s increased involvement in Antarctica, while referencing the activities of its Arctic programme. It profiles various bodies involved in maintaining and negotiating ROK’s Antarctic presence and voice on Antarctic affairs; it discusses Seoul’s core interests in the Antarctic continent and the polar regions overall, which help to shape its Antarctic policy.
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Abdi, S. Wali. "Science interests of sixth grade students." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49911.
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Authors of some research studies and other concerned citizens have questioned the relevance and appropriateness of the teaching of science as it is currently done for the transescents in the middle schools. Some suggest that teachers merely attempt to teach scientific facts without regard for students' characteristics, needs, interests, and input.
The premise that student input is desirable suggested the need for this investigation of the sixth grade science course. The purposes of this study were:
1. To determine the degree of interest expressed by students in ·topics and in specific items within topics,
2. To determine differences in the degrees of interest expressed by students of different teachers,
3. To determine differences in the degrees of interest expressed by male and female students in the topics taught,
4. To determine if student interest in science is related to achievement as indicated by final grade in science, and
5. To determine teachers' perceptions of their students' interests in topics and specific items within topics.
A survey was conducted with an instrument that listed all of the science topics covered in the sixth grade course. Beginning seventh grade students were asked to express their interest in each concept and indicate whether they thought they were taught or not taught in sixth grade. They rated each concept as definitely interesting, of some interest, or not interesting. Appropriate statistical procedures were used to analyze the data and the following conclusions were drawn:
1. Students were generally interested in the sixth grade science program„ However, for most of the concepts students indicated "some" interest as opposed to "definite" interest.
2. There were significant differences among the levels of interest of students taught by different teachers on five topics: Classifying Animals with Backbones; Classifying Animals without Backbones; Elements and Compounds; Sources of Energy; and Atmosphere, Climates of the World, and Natural Cycles.
3. There were significant differences in the levels of interest between male and female students only on two topics: Life Cycles, Heredity, and Living Things; and Sources of Energy.
4. Student achievement and interest were significantly related only on the topics of Classifying Animals without Backbones; Properties of Light; Sources of Energy; and Electricity and Magnetism.
5. Teachers perceived all the science items to be of "definite" or greater than "some" interest to the students.Ed. D.
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Attard-Johnson, Janice. "Measuring sexual interests with pupillary responses." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/61261/.
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During the visual processing of sexual content, pupillary responses have been positively associated with observers' sexual orientation. The question of whether this measure also reflects age-specific sexual preferences, however, is rarely considered. This is remarkable given the potential applied value of pupillary responses for directly measuring unhealthy and inappropriate sexual desires in clinical and forensic settings. The experiments in this thesis addressed this question with a series of tasks whereby observers' viewed images of adults and children while their eye movements and pupil responses were recorded. These results were then compared with sexual appeal ratings for these images and self-report questionnaires relating to sexual interests and experiences. The main findings indicate that pupil dilation is a measure of sexual orientation that is particularly robust and consistent for male participants (Chapters 2 to 4). Furthermore, these experiments provide initial evidence that pupil dilation could also be used as an age-specific measure of sexual interest in males and females (Chapters 2 and 3). Additionally, this thesis explored the influence of low-level stimulus artefacts within the scenes on pupillary patterns (Chapter 2). Findings provide further evidence that the pupillary responses obtained in these experiments are driven by the person content in the scenes. These findings are discussed in relation to existing research on eye-tracking and other current measurements of sexual interest.
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Koenig, Bryan L. "Misperception of Romantic and Sexual Interests." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626500.
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DE, NICOLA ANTONIO. "Diffusion of interests in social networks." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/202331.
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This thesis provides a model for diusion of interests in Social Networks (SNs). It
demonstrates that the topology of the SN plays a crucial role in the dynamics of
the individual interests. Understanding cultural phenomena on SNs and exploiting
the implicit knowledge about their members is attracting the interest of dierent research
communities both from the academic and the business side. The community
of complexity science is devoting signicant eorts to dene laws, models, and theories,
which, based on acquired knowledge, are able to predict future observations
(e.g. success of a product). In the mean time, the semantic web community aims at
engineering a new generation of advanced services by dening constructs, models and
methods, adding a semantic layer to SNs. In this context, a leapfrog is expected to
come from a hybrid approach merging the disciplines above. Along this line, this work
focuses on the propagation of individual interests in social networks. The proposed
framework consists of the following main components: a method to gather information
about the members of the social networks; methods to perform some semantic
analysis of the Domain of Interest; a procedure to infer members' interests; and an
interests evolution theory to predict how the interests propagate in the network. As
a result, one achieves an analytic tool to measure individual features, such as members'
susceptibilities and authorities. Although the approach applies to any type of
social network, here it was tested against two research communities in the domain of
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computer science and physics. The DBLP (Digital Bibliography and Library Project)
database and the APS (American Physical Society) dataset were elected as test-cases
since they provide the most comprehensive list of scientic productions in their respective
elds.
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Strid, Sofia. "Gendered interests in the European Union : the European Women's Lobby and the organisation and representation of women's interests /." Doctoral thesis, Örebro : Örebro University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-8633.
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Kauffman, Syndi. "STORY ELEMENTS: WHICH IMPACT CHILDREN'S READING INTERESTS?" Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1120575730.
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Hooks, Elizabeth R. "Kurdish nationalism : American interests and policy options /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1996. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA327350.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1996.Thesis advisor(s): Daniel Moran. "December 1996." Includes bibliographical references (p. 115). Also available online.
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Kim, Yong-Beom. "U.S.-Japan national interests : necessity and implications." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA358947.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998."December 1998." Thesis advisor(s): Edward A. Olsen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71). Also available online.
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Clare, Joseph Daniel. "Domestic institutions, strategic interests, and international conflict." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4866.
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This dissertation explores the interactive effects of domestic audience costs and
strategic interests on state behavior in international crises. I argue that the magnitude of a
leaderâÂÂs audience costs is influenced by the level of strategic interests, which leads to
several predictions of crisis behavior in terms of (1) decisions to issue threats, including
bluffs, (2) the credibility of these threats and the willingness of opponents to resist, and
(3) crisis outcomes, including war. In the theoretical chapters, a formal model of crisis
bargaining is stylized under conditions of complete and incomplete information. Based
on this model, several novel predictions are derived regarding crisis behavior. These
predictions are quantitatively tested through a series of monadic and dyadic probit and
multinomial logit models using a dataset of deterrence crises for the period 1895-1985.
The results lend strong validity to the approach advanced here that does not consider
endogenous and exogenous factors in isolation, but rather models their interplay to
predict the dynamics of crisis behavior.
With respect to dispute initiation, the results show that strategic interests have a
much stronger influence on authoritarian leadersâ willingness to initiate disputes than they do for democracies. Moreover, the formal stylization and empirical analyses show
that democracies can and do bluff, which is in contrast to the conventional expectations
from audience cost research. Relatedly, this study specifies if and when democratic
threats are credible and how the interplay between variable domestic costs and strategic
interests can lead to deterrence success, failure, or war. While there is little difference
between the credibility of democratic and authoritarian threats at the lower level of
interests, democratic threats become more credible and less likely to be resisted as the
interests at stake increase. As for crisis outcomes, among others, war is more likely
between opponents with vital interests involved; yet even here, the predictions are not
straightforward but rather the probability of war is increasing at a differential rate for
democratic and authoritarian initiators. Whereas the formal models in this study provide
the logical rationale for these and other expectations, the quantitative findings
demonstrate their empirical validity as well.
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Veselov, Dmitry A. "Private interests, endogenous institutions and Schumpeterian growth." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010045.
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Cette thèse étudie les effets des régimes politiques et de l'inégalité socioéconomique sur les institutions économiques et la croissance. Le chapitre 1 considère une version du modèle d'échelles de qualité avec des agents hétérogènes dans le niveau de richesse, de revenu et de savoir-faire. Les instruments de politique économique incluent des barrières à l'entrée sur les marchés des biens et le niveau de la redistribution. Trois types d'équilibres politiques sont considérés. Le chapitre 2 analyse l'effet de la démocratisation sur l'émergence des barrières à l'entrée et la redistribution des revenus. On montre qu'une distribution plus égale du pouvoir politique parmi les individus diminue les barrières à l'entrée seulement si les savoir-faire sont à un niveau élevé et si l'inégalité des savoir-faire et des revenus est faible. Le cas contraire, où les plus riches et les plus pauvres constituent une majorité, conduit à une redistribution élevée, mais aussi à la présence des barrières à l'entrée. Ce chapitre peut expliquer les trajectoires différentes de pays en cours de démocratisation. Le chapitre 3 considère un modèle de croissance endogène, qui décrit la transition de la stagnation pré-industrielle à une croissance stable. Selon le modèle, la qualité des institutions économiques est déterminée par le conflit entre les deux composantes de l'élite (propriétaires fonciers et capitalistes). Le modèle explique les sources politiques de la stagnation et de la croissance, ainsi que la relation entre le conflit social et le développement pendant la période de transitionThis thesis studies the effect of political regimes and economic inequality on the level of barriers to entry, redistribution, and economic growth. Barriers to entry are economic institutions, which protect incumbent firms from competition with new entrants. This is one of the form of economic institutions, which provide gains for a narrow group of agents at the cost of economic efficiency. In Chapter 1 I consider the problem of finding sufficient conditions for political support of liberal, growth-enhancing policy in a quality-ladders model with heterogeneous agents differing in their endowment of wealth and skills. The policy set is two-dimensional: agents vote for the level of redistribution as well as for the level of entry barriers preventing the creation of more efficient firms. I show that under the majority voting rule there are three possible stable political outcomes: full redistribution, low redistribution and free entry (liberal order), high redistribution and high barriers to entry (corporatism). Key variables that determine political outcome include an expected gain from technological adoption, the ratio of total profits to total wages, and the skewness of skills distribution.Chapter 2 extends the analysis of the previous chapter by considering the effect of democrati-zation on barriers to entry and economic outcomes. Democratization shifts the political power from the narrow class of wealthy elites to a broader group of agents. Even if political institutions change towards democratization, under certain conditions this leads only to the rise of redistribution, rather than to the elimination of barriers to entry. This argument is particularly relevant for countries with low human capital level and high inequality in incomes and skills.Chapter 3 considers the two-side relationship between the level of industrialization and the quality of economic institutions, which stimulate the technological adoption and growth. It provides a simple two-sector endogenous growth model of transition from pre-industrial stagnation to modern economic growth regime. The model underlines the role of political conflict between new elite (capitalists) and old elite (landowners) during the whole period of transition. The level of efforts in the political conflict is chosen endogenously by both groups. The model generates a long period of stagnation with a low-intensified conflict between capitalists and landowners, which is followed by industrial revolution with high conflict intensity and higher probability of institutional changes. The model describes political origins of stagnation and growth and interconnections between the political conflict and economic structure
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Al-hijazi, Yahya Z. D. "The conflicting interests, the Warsaw system crisis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ44051.pdf.
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Alhijazi, Yahya Z. D. "The conflicting interests - the Warsaw system crisis /." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20219.
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Private international air law encompasses the delicate balance of interest between the air carriers and the consumers of their service. This balance is made by states according to their socioeconomic and political conditions. Since these conditions differ among states, another, yet more complex conflict of interests arises between states as to how the interest of air carriers and consumers should be balanced. This difference between states has been, and still is, the biggest obstacle in the way of unifying private international air law.Giving an overview of the present situation and the possible future implications, this thesis highlights the balance of interest of the successive private international air law instruments and examines the factors that lead thereto. This thesis further analyses the crisis of unified private international air law and the actions taken to confront it by examining the reasons behind it in order to understand the current situation and apprehend the future.
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Chou, Shih-Yu. "Constructing national interests : narrating the Falklands crisis." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574602.
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This thesis solves the puzzle of why Britain fought the Falklands war. It situates the loss of the Falkland Islands colony in a particular historical context in which the constitutive role of ideas can be examined specifically in relation to interests and then demonstrates the striking parallel between the deduction of one proposition to another and the construction of national interests in the midst of the Falklands crisis. Drawing upon Jutta Weldes' Constructing National Interests and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, this thesis argues that after Britain lost possession British interests were then socially and discursively constructed within a narrative of the Falklands crisis. Metaphorically speaking, Britain's narrative was structured into a chain of hypothetical propositions (hereafter a chain argument). A chain argument comprises multiple "if, then" statements that are deductively linked to one another and may construct a contingent representation of national interests. Britain's narrative of the Falklands crisis began with a false premise that the Falkland Islands were a "British sovereign territory". The validity of the conclusion that Britain must repossess the Falklands flowed not from empirical evidence but from the power held by Britain to define the first premise. The metaphor of a chain argument offers a useful way to understand why the definition of the archipelago conferred by the first premise was accepted despite the fact that the definition was constructed in opposition to common sense knowledge. As shown within this thesis it can also examine the logical truths of national interests that arrive at a particular conclusion through pure deduction.
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Jacobz, Melville. "Objectivity, power and interests : a sociological analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52376.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Discourse about the human world has, since Socrates, been structured around the assumption that one view of a given matter is better than competing views, and that argumentation, if carried out correctly and systematically, will favour the view which has the preponderance of reasons and evidence on its side. If this supposition were dropped, the nature of social scientific inquiry would change significantly. For many commentators in the social sciences the ineliminable interpretative dimension of social inquiry and the standpoint-bound character of interpretation lead to the conclusion that we have to abandon any notion of objective truth in the social sciences. The central question raised in this thesis is whether this abandonment is inevitable or even plausible. Is it plausible to conflate objectivity and truth? Is objectivity a possible characteristic of the individual researcher or a characteristic of the scientific research process? Does the cultural environment of the researcher impact on the validity of research findings? If science is a social phenomenon, are scientific beliefs different from other beliefs? How do the interests of the individual researcher or the formal organisation of scientific practice impact on the validity of findings? What role does power play in the shaping of knowledge? These are the questions that will be addressed in the following thesis. The methodology of Max Weber serves as a point of departure and divergences and similarities to the work of Weber are explored in the writings of Kuhn, the Edinburgh School, Latour, Foucault, Habermas, as well as contemporary postmodernist and feminist writers. The analysis of these various concepts and approaches is not presented chronologically, but rather as an exposition of the contributors of various commentators in the fields of both the sociology of science and knowledge, and the philosophy of science.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Diskoers oor die menslike wêreld is, sedert Socrates, gestuktureer rondom die aanname dat een siening van 'n gegewe saak beter is as mededingende sienings, en dat argumentasie, indien korrek en sistematies uitgevoer, ten voordeel sal wees van die siening wat gesteun word deur die oormaat van redes en bewyse. As ons hierdie aanname sou laat vaar, sal die stand van sosiaal wetenskaplike ondersoek ingrypend verander. Vir menige kommentator in die sosiale wetenskappe lei die onafwendbare interpretatiewe dimensie van maatskaplike ondersoek, en die standpunt-gebonde aard van interpretasie, tot die gevolgtrekking dat ons enige opvatting van objektiwiteit in die sosiale wetenskappe moet laat vaar. Die kernvraag in hierdie tesis is of hierdie verskuiwing onvermydelik of selfs aanneemlik is. Is dit geldig om objektiwiteit en waarheid saam te snoer? Is objektiwiteit 'n moontlike eienskap van die individuele navorser, of 'n eienskap van die navorsingsproses? Watter impak het die kulturele omgewing van die navorser op die geldigheid van die navorsingsbevindinge? As wetenskap 'n sosiale fenomeen is, is wetenskaplike oortuigings enigsins anders as ander oortuigings? Watter impak het die belange van 'n individuele navorser, of die formele organsiasie van wetenskaplike praktyk, op die geldigheid van bevindings? Watter rol speel mag in die vorming en skepping van kennis? Hierdie is die vrae wat aangespreek word in dié tesis. Die metodologie van Max Weber dien as vertrekpunt, en ooreenkomste tot en afwykings van die sienings van Weber word ondersoek in die werk van Kuhn, die "Edinburgh School", Latour, Foucault, Habermas, sowel as kontemporêre postmoderne en feministiese skrywers. Die analise van hierdie verskeie konsepte en benaderings word nie kronologies aangebied nie, maar eerder as 'n uiteensetting van die bydraes van verskeie kommentators op die gebied van die sosiologie van die wetenskap en van kennis, sowel as die filosofie van wetenskap.
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Baltrunaite, Audinga. "Political Economics of Special Interests and Gender." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-128246.
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Political Finance Reform and Public Procurement: Evidence from Lithuania. Can political donations buy influence? This paper studies whether firms trade political contributions for public procurement contracts. To answer this question, I focus on the Lithuanian political economy. Combining data on a large number of government tenders, the universe of corporate donors and firm characteristics, I examine how a ban on corporate donations affects the awarding of procurement contracts to companies that donated in the past. Consistent with political favoritism, contributing firms’ probability of winning goes down by five percentage points as compared to that of non-donor firms after the ban. Among different mechanisms, the hypothesis that corporate donors get confidential information on competing bids prevails. The empirical results are in line with predictions from a first-price sealed-bid auction model with one informed bidder. Evidence on firm bidding and victory margins suggests that contributing firms adjust their bids in order to secure contracts at a maximum revenue. I assess that tax payers save almost one percent of GDP thanks to the reform. Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians. We analyze the effects of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians, as measured by the average number of years of education. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all municipalities went through elections during this period, we identify two groups of municipalities and use a difference-in-differences estimation. We find that gender quotas are associated with an increase in the quality of elected politicians, with the effect ranging from 0.12 to 0.24 years of education. This effect is due not only to the higher number of elected women, who are on average more educated than men, but also to the lower number of low-educated elected men. The positive effect on quality is confirmed when we measure the latter with alternative indicators, it persists in the long run and it is robust to controlling for political ideology and political competition. Affirmative Action and the Power of the Elderly. There is evidence that age matters in politics. In this article we study whether implementation of affirmative action policies on gender can generate additional effects on an alternative dimension of representation, namely, the age of politicians. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in candidate lists for local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all municipalities went through elections during this period, we can identify two groups of municipalities and use a difference-in-differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the age of elected politicians. We find that gender quotas are associated with election of politicians that are younger by more than one year. The effect occurs mainly due to the reduction in age of elected male politicians and is consistent with the optimizing behavior of parties or of voters. Let the Voters Choose Women. Female under-representation in politics can be the result of parties' selection of candidates and/or of voters’ electoral preferences. To assess the impact of these two channels, we exploit the introduction of Italian Law 215/2013, which prescribes both gender quotas on candidate lists and double preference voting conditioned on gender. Using a regression discontinuity design, we estimate that the law increases the share of elected female politicians by 22 percentage points. The result is driven by the increase in preference votes cast for female candidates, suggesting a salient role of double preference voting in promoting female empowerment in politics.
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Wilkens, Philadelphia. "Silvopasture interests among livestock producers in Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90392.
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Silvopasture is a land-use management practice which intentionally integrates trees, forage, and livestock. It is increasingly prevalent in outreach and extension, yet considerations for adoption are complex. The implementation of a cost-share initiative for silvopasture created by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in Virginia in 2011 provides an opportunity for landowners to establish silvopasture systems on their properties, thus diversifying land management and income, as well as providing environmental benefits. However, research on who might adopt silvopasture and why is needed. For this research, a mail survey was distributed to 307 cost-share enrollees in NRCS' livestock limitation initiatives and 139 were returned (45.3%). The first objective of this survey was to gauge interest in two forms of silvopasture implementation: a) thinning a woodlot and b) planting trees in a pasture. Furthermore, the study was utilized to test which hypothetical benefits might increase a livestock producers' interest in either implementation form. Results show that respondents preferred thinning to planting but risk and uncertainty were perceived in both. Environmental outputs and assistance from technicians increased interest in both practices over economic benefits; however, livestock performance was most important. Literature on the topic aligns with findings and highlights that more research is needed to understand risk, environmental, and resource-related factors.
The second objective was to measure interest in silvopasture and classify respondents based on their operational or their beliefs-based characteristics and assess
which classification set mattered more. Results indicated that interest in silvopasture varied but the majority (60%) indicated they were either interested or very interested. Two-step cluster analysis was used to classify respondents based on their operational considerations and a combination of Exploratory Factor Analysis and K-means clustering was used to group livestock producers according to their beliefs on traditional and land-use values. A Kruskal-Wallis independent samples analysis for each classification revealed no statistically significant differences in the interest in silvopasture between operational groupings. Conversely, there were statistically significant differences in silvopasture interest according to beliefs-based classifications. These results suggest that operations of livestock producers do not matter as much as their attitudes and beliefs related to the practice. A cross-tabulation of the operational classification and beliefs cluster resulted in no correlation. Literature suggest both operational characteristics and producer beliefs may matter in agroforestry adoption, but that positive or negative correlation in terms of interest may vary.Master of Science
Silvopasture is a agroforestry conservation practice that integrates trees, forage, and livestock in a managed system. The adoption of this practice is complex, though education on the practice has been increasing. A cost-share initiative for silvopasture was created by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in Virginia in 2011, which creates the opportunity to implement silvopasture systems on landowner properties. This system could lead to more diversification of land and income, as well as providing environmental benefits. However, more research is needed. A mail survey was sent to 307 NRCS cost-share enrollees who were managing livestock and 139 were returned. The survey had two objectives; the first was to measure interest in the two forms of silvopasture implementation: a) thinning a woodlot and b) planting trees in a pasture. Hypothetical benefits which might increase a livestock producers’ interest in thinning or planting for silvopasture was also measured. Results show that respondents had a preference for thinning over planting. Economic benefits were not as effective in increasing interest compared to environmental outputs and assistance from technicians; however, livestock performance was most important. Findings were aligned with literature on silvopasture and agroforestry but more research is needed. The second objective was to measure interest in silvopasture and classify respondents based on their operational or their beliefs-based characteristics and to see which classification set mattered more. Results indicated that interest in silvopasture varied but the majority (60%) indicated some level of interest. Statistical analyses were used to classify respondents based on their operational considerations and used to group livestock producers according to their beliefs on traditional and land-use values. Outputs showed no statistically significant differences between operational groupings and their interest in silvopasture. There was a statistically significant difference in silvopasture interest according to beliefs-based classifications. These results indicate that the operations of livestock producers do not matter as much as their attitudes and beliefs on the practice. Previous literature indicates that both operational characteristics and producer beliefs may matter in agroforestry adoption, but interest may vary regardless.
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Earl, Martha F., Leslie G. Adebonojo, and Janet S. Fisher. "Creating and Using a Faculty Interests Database." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1993. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6310.
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Academic librarians routinely assist faculty seeking information on diverse topics. Librarians may overlook potentially useful information, however, if they are unaware of faculty interests that are not mentioned in a specific request. At the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Medical Library, a team of librarians developed a faculty interests database to improve reference services and collection development. This paper describes the creation and implementation of the database and the faculty response.
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Krisanda, Sarah Jane. "King Abdullah's Game: Autocrats and Globalized Interests." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1366211446.
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Wilson, Yolonda Yvette Boxill Bernard R. "Representation and the interests of political minorities." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2147.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Feb. 17, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy." Discipline: Philosophy; Department/School: Philosophy.
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Bonham, Gary. "Ideology and interests in the German state /." New York : Garland, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37314275g.
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LeBar, Mark. "Virtue ethics and the interests of others." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288980.
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In recent decades "virtue ethics" has become an accepted theoretical structure for thinking about normative ethical principles. However, few contemporary virtue ethicists endorse the commitments of the first virtue theorists--the ancient Greeks, who developed their virtue theories within a commitment to eudaimonism. Why? I believe the objections of modern theorists boil down to concerns that eudaimonist theories cannot properly account for two prominent moral requirements on our treatment of others. First, we think that the interests and welfare of at least some others (e.g. family, friends, loved ones) ought to give us non-instrumental reason for acting--that is, reason independent of consideration of our own welfare. Second, we think others are entitled to what we might call respect, just in virtue of their being persons. Eudaimonist accounts (the objection runs) either cannot account for these intuitions at all, or they give the wrong sort of account. My dissertation assesses the resources of eudaimonism to meet these lines of criticism. Chapter 2, 3, and 4 survey the views of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, to discover insights that are important for a successful response. In Chapters 5 and 6, I offer my own account, based on what I call empathic identification. This is the habit or disposition of seeing things, in effect, through the eyes of others. Empathic identification is a process through which the interpersonal transmission of reasons for actions between persons becomes possible. I argue first that our interest in our own eudaimonia justifies us in identifying empathically with others as a general habit or disposition. Second, I argue that empathic identification explains our intuitions about the respect others are due. So empathic identification generates the right sort of explanation of our intuitions about the constraints others and their interests impose upon us after all, and renders eudaimonist virtue ethics a viable form of ethical theory.
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Holder, Joseph Patrick. "Motivation: Using Student's Interests to Guide Instruction." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297624.
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Motivation is a key ingredient to students' success in school and as a preservice teacher I have focused and reflected on this broad topic. Through my coursework I have learned to take an ethnographic approach to learning about my students’ daily life outside of school and this has led me to conduct case study home visits. I observed and analyzed home life interactions and environments in the hopes of making school content more meaningful. Throughout one student teaching semester I worked with my mentor teacher and our class to implement a long-term project that bridged students’ home life with school. My mentor teacher and I collaborated on bodies of knowledge or themes that were of interest to the majority of the class. We chose a pop-culture topic, Angry Birds, which looked to be of interest to most of our students. I implemented the long-term project and through two transcribed interviews and an analysis of theories relevant to motivation concluded that teachers can help students’ motivation by implementing curriculum that follows their interests.
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Croston, Brian. "AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT READING INTEREST AND TEACHER SELECTED NOVELS." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1122664868.
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Kelly-Woessner, April. "Hierarchy of interests : the role of self-interest, group-identity, and sociotropic politics in political attitudes and participation /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486398195327466.
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Hicks, Bentley G. (Bentley Garth) Carleton University Dissertation Law. "Interests and the public interest in law and public policy: a case study in aboriginal policy in Canada." Ottawa, 1995.
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Branco, José Eduardo. "Tutela coletiva dos interesses individuais homogêneos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/8398.
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Previous issue date: 2008-12-01The present work has the target of analyzing the procedural subjects involving the guardianship of homogeneous individual interests, while species of the gender of the interests or collective rights. From the doctrinary and jurisprudential analysis, it looks for the ideal understanding of the legal concepts that involve the studied theme, as well as the systematization of the collective guardianship and its harmonization with the general principles that govern our legal system. Without the pretension of exhausting the lifted up subjects, in reason of the present time of the theme, still unification pendant by the legislative way, and while the text promulgation is awaited that ponders all the kindred institutes, it accomplishes doctrinary research with the purpose of bringing current conclusions concerning the matter and the legal dispositions that today regulate the guardianship of collective interests. In this manner, subjects as the active legitimacy, the judged thing and its reach, the systemic interaction and the procedures to be used to reach the leading principles of the collective guardianship, above all by the way of the homogeneous individual interests, are analyzed through the points that cause larger controversies for, since then, to understand that new procedural reality. In that line, of great relief are the lessons of our doctrine, that from a long time develops studies seeking to adapt the existent procedural legislation and its traditional institutes to the new rights that were born with the mass society and started to demand more effective solutions for the great number of judicial demands that flow of the modern world. The Social State delineated by the Constitution of 1988 could not take place under foundations created exclusively for a law worried, above all, with the individual subjects, unable even of assisting to the democratic vindications of the contemporary society, reason for the law science, through the performance of combative and dedicated legal scholars, needed to present that new system of procedural guardianship of rights. The relevance of the collective guardianship of homogeneous individual interests and the created techniques for that are, therefore, the main point of the present study, that looks for in the doctrinary lessons the foundation to demonstrate the adaptation of the existent legal devices to that guardianship, considering for that the jurisdictional performance and the legislative projects now in course
O presente trabalho tem o escopo de analisar as questões processuais que envolvem a tutela dos interesses individuais homogêneos, enquanto espécie do gênero dos interesses ou direitos coletivos. Partindo da análise doutrinária e jurisprudencial, busca a compreensão ideal dos conceitos legais que envolvem o tema estudado, bem como a sistematização da tutela coletiva e sua harmonização com os princípios gerais que regem nosso ordenamento jurídico. Sem a pretensão de exaurir as questões levantadas, em razão da atualidade do tema, ainda pendente de unificação pela via legislativa, e enquanto se aguarda a promulgação de texto que concentre todos os institutos afins, realiza pesquisa doutrinária com a finalidade de trazer conclusões atuais acerca da matéria e das disposições legais que hoje regulam a tutela dos interesses coletivos. Assim, questões como a legitimidade ativa, a coisa julgada e seu alcance, a interação sistêmica e os procedimentos a serem utilizados para alcançar os princípios norteadores da tutela coletiva, sobretudo pela via dos interesses individuais homogêneos, são analisados através dos pontos que lhes causam maiores controvérsias, para que se possa, a partir daí, compreender essa nova realidade processual. Nessa linha, de grande relevo são as lições de nossa doutrina, que há tempos desenvolve estudos voltados a adequar a legislação processual existente e seus tradicionais institutos aos novos direitos que nasceram com a sociedade de massa e passaram a exigir soluções mais eficazes para o grande número de demandas judiciais que derivam do mundo moderno. O Estado Social delineado pela Constituição de 1988 não poderia se realizar sob alicerces criados exclusivamente para um direito que se preocupava, sobretudo, com as questões individuais, incapazes mesmo de atender aos reclamos democráticos da sociedade contemporânea, razão pela qual a ciência do direito, através da atuação de combativos e dedicados doutrinadores, precisou apresentar esse novo sistema de tutela processual de direitos. A relevância da tutela coletiva dos interesses individuais homogêneos e as técnicas criadas para tanto são, portanto, o ponto principal do presente estudo, que busca nas lições doutrinárias o fundamento para demonstrar a adequação dos dispositivos legais existentes à tal tutela, considerando para tanto a atuação jurisdicional e os projetos legislativos atualmente em trâmite
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Quong, Terrence Edward. "School leadership and cognitive interests: the development of a leadership framework based on Habermas' theory of knowledge-constitutive interests." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2003. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001488/.
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This dissertation reports on an exploration of school leadership from the perspective of how school leaders bring multiple cognitive interests to bear in their leadership practice. By analysing the discourse of practising school leaders this study has enabled insight to be gained into school leaders’ reflections-on-actions in given leadership situations. On the basis of the analysis of discourse it is concluded in this study that school based leadership, and school leadership preparation, can be enhanced when illuminated through a cognitive perspective grounded in Habermas’ theory of knowledge-constitutive interests (1971). Recommendations are given in this dissertation for the development of an approach to school leadership preparation built on a cognitive interests framework. Based in qualitative research techniques the main evidentiary material was elicited by the use of semi-structured interviews, and the collection of narratives, and was analysed with a variation of Membership Categorisation Analysis (Sacks, 1972).