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Gallagher, Ryan. "Disentangling Discourse: Networks, Entropy, and Social Movements." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/724.
Full textKjörling, Andreas. "Entropi i omorganisation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-402546.
Full textI denna studien undersöks entropi i omorganisering mot bakgrund av att den individuella medarbetaren utgör en allt viktigare del av sin samtida organisation, där förändring och omorganisering sker kontinuerligt. Tidigare forskning kring entropi i omorganisering har främst gjorts ur ett finansiellt perspektiv, s.k. diversifieringsperpektiv. Således finns utrymme för ytterligare forskning med individen i fokus snarare än företagsportföljen. Studien syftar till att belysa den entropi som genom förlorad information gör sig påtaglig i samband med omorganisering. Med kvalitativ metod och fenomenologisk ansats har fem respondenter, i olika positioner från svenska och globala organisationer, intervjuats om sin och sina kollegors upplevelse av omorganisering. Studien påvisar en diskrepansen mellan det av ledningen definierade färdigställandet respektive när medarbetarna upplever att en omorganisation de factoär klar. Här påvisas även hur individens motivation, psykosociala hälsa och arbetsinsats kan påverkas genom förlust av de identifierade tre typerna av information deskriptiv, operativ och narrativ.
Bhattacharjee, Abhishek. "Measuring Influence Across Social Media Platforms: Empirical Analysis Using Symbolic Transfer Entropy." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7745.
Full textLamba, Amrita. "The Effects of Uncertainty on Cooperation: using Bayesian Cognition and Entropy to Model Cooperative Heuristics." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639680.
Full textWatts, Jameson K. M., and Jameson K. M. Watts. "Language Consistency and Exchange: Market Reactions to Change in the Distribution of Field-level Information." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556000.
Full textGielniak, Michael Joseph. "Adaptation of task-aware, communicative variance for motion control in social humanoid robotic applications." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43591.
Full textDelgado, Villanueva Kiko Alexi. "Methodological proposal for social impact assessment and environmental conflict analysis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/64063.
Full text[ES] La evaluación del impacto social (SIA) forma parte de la evaluación de impacto ambiental (EIA), y está caracterizada por su alto nivel de incertidumbre, y por los aspectos subjetivos presentes en los métodos usados para su realización. Por otro lado, el análisis del conflicto ambiental (ECA) se ha convertido en un factor clave para la viabilidad de los proyectos y el bienestar de la población afectada. En esta tesis, se propone un método integrado para la SIA y el ECA, mediante la combinación de los métodos grey clustering y entropy-weight. La SIA fue desarrollada usando el método grey clustering, el cual permite cuantificar la información cualitativa recogida de los grupos de interés o stakeholders. Sucesivamente, el ECA fue realizado usando el método entropy-weight, el cual identifica los criterios en los cuales existe gran divergencia entre los grupos de interés, permitiendo así establecer medidas para prevenir potenciales conflictos ambientales. Luego, con el fin de aplicar y testear el método integrado propuesto fueron realizados dos casos de estudio. El primer caso de estudio fue un proyecto minero ubicado en el norte de Perú. En este estudio se identificaron tres grupos de interés y siete criterios. Los resultados revelaron que para el grupo población urbana y el grupo población rural, el proyecto tendría un impacto social positivo y negativo, respectivamente. Para el grupo de los especialistas el proyecto tendría un impacto social normal. También fue notado que los criterios más probables de generar conflicto ambiental en orden de importancia fueron: acceso al agua potable, pobreza, PIB per cápita, y empleo. El segundo caso de estudio considerado fue un proyecto de exploración de hidrocarburos ubicado en el Golfo de Valencia, España. En este estudio se identificaron cuatro grupos de interés y cuatro criterios. Los resultados revelaron que para el grupo de los especialistas el proyecto tendría un impacto social negativo, y contrarias percepciones se encontraron entre el grupo de los directamente afectados y el grupo de los ciudadanos a favor. También fue notado que los criterios más probables de generar conflicto ambiental fueron el porcentaje de desempleo y el PIB per cápita. El método integrado propuesto en esta tesis mostró un gran potencial sobre los casos estudiados, y podría ser aplicado a otros contextos y otros tipos de proyectos, tales como gestión de recursos hídricos, proyectos industriales, proyectos de construcción de obras públicas, y para medir el impacto social y prevenir conflictos durante la aplicación de políticas y programas gubernamentales.
[CAT] L'avaluació de l'impacte social (SIA) és una part de l'avaluació de l'impacte ambiental (EIA), la qual està caracteritzada pel seu alt nivell d'incertitud i els aspectes subjectius presents en els mètodes amprats durant la seua conducció. A més, la anàlisis del conflicte ambiental (ECA) s'ha convertit en un factor clau per a la viabilitat dels projectes i el benestar de la població afectada. En esta tesis es proposa un mètode integrat per a l'avaluació de l'impacte social i la anàlisis del conflicte ambiental, mitjançant la combinació del mètode grey clustering i el mètode entropy-weight. L'avaluació de l'impacte social ha segut realitzada usant el mètode grey clustering, el qual permet que la informació qualitativa arreplegada dels grups d'interès siga quantificada. Successivament, la anàlisis del conflicte ambiental ha segut realitzada usant el mètode entropy-weight, el qual identifica els criteris en els quals existeix gran divergència entre els grups d'interès, la qual cosa permet establir mides per a prevenir conflictes ambientals potencials. Després, amb la finalitat d'aplicar i testejar el mètode integrat proposat han segut realitzats dos casos d'estudi. El primer d'ells ha segut un projecte miner al nord de Perú. En aquest estudi, tres grups d'interès i set criteris foren identificats. Els resultats revelaren que per al grup població-urbana i el grup població-rural, el projecte experimentaria un positiu i un negatiu impacte social respectivament. Per al grup dels especialistes el projecte tindria un impacte social normal. Per altra banda també va ser reconegut que els criteris més probables de generar conflicte ambiental en orde d'importància foren: accés a l'aigua potable, pobresa, PIB per càpita, i ofici. El segon cas d'estudi considerat va ser un projecte d'exploració d'hidrocarburs ubicat al Golf de València, Espanya. En este estudi, quatre grups d'interès i quatre criteris foren identificats. Els resultats revelaren que per al grup dels especialistes el projecte tindria un impacte social negatiu, mentre que entre el grup dels directament afectats i el grup dels ciutadans a favor es mostraren percepcions contraries. Va ser també reconegut que els criteris més probables de generar conflicte ambiental foren el percentatge de desocupació i el PIB per càpita. El mètode integrat proposat en aquesta tesis mostra un gran potencial sobre els casos estudiats, i pot ser aplicat a altres contexts i altres tipus de projectes com gestió de recursos hídrics, projectes industrials i projectes de construcció d'obres públiques. A més pot fer-se servir per mesurar l'impacte social i prevenir conflictes durant l'aplicació de polítiques i programes governamentals.
Delgado Villanueva, KA. (2016). Methodological proposal for social impact assessment and environmental conflict analysis [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/64063
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Zayani, Mohamed-Haykel. "Link prediction in dynamic and human-centered mobile wireless networks." Phd thesis, Institut National des Télécommunications, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00787564.
Full textRossi, Martina. "Opponent Modelling using Inverse Reinforcement Learning." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/22263/.
Full textVieira, Joice Melo 1980. "Transição para a vida adulta em São Paulo : cenários e tendências socio-demográficas." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280644.
Full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: A transição para a vida adulta é um momento crítico do curso de vida dos sujeitos. É uma fase que se caracteriza por importantes mudanças de status, que assinalam de diferentes formas a passagem da condição de dependente à condição de independente. Do ponto de vista sócio-demográfico, as mudanças de status mais importantes são: a conversão do indivíduo de estudante em trabalhador, de membro dependente de um domicílio em chefe de domicílio, de solteiro em pessoa em união, de filho (a) em pai ou mãe. O principal objetivo é descrever e analisar o processo de transição para a vida adulta no Estado de São Paulo em dois momentos de alargamento da coorte jovem, 1970 e 2000. Tanto em um quanto em outro se observam as chamadas ondas jovens, apesar da diferença nos cenários sócio-demográficos no país e no Estado de São Paulo. Busca-se uma apreensão integrada da passagem para a vida adulta, refletindo sobre como fatores de ordem econômica e institucional podem influenciar motivações e decisões acerca de eventos da trajetória de vida dos indivíduos. As fontes de dados utilizadas foram os censos demográficos de 1970 e 2000. Do ponto de vista metodológico, a principal inovação consiste na aplicação da análise de entropia de coortes sintéticas. Com ela é possível mensurar a (des) padronização do curso da vida, além de descrever o ritmo da passagem para a vida adulta ao longo das idades consideradas jovens. Com vistas a explorar algumas dimensões da vida juvenil no Estado de São Paulo, são utilizadas as informações da Pesquisa de Condições de Vida de 2006. A principal contribuição deste estudo consiste em explorar os diferenciais encontrados no tempo de transição para a vida adulta. Determinadas características sóciodemográficas dos sujeitos - como o sexo, a situação de domicílio, a cor/raça e a camada de renda - estão claramente associadas ao tempo de juventude e ao ritmo das transições. A duração da transição, se mais curta ou mais longa, muda de acordo com essas variáveis sócio-demográficas. Uma questão pertinente é em que medida esta diversidade no processo de transição para a vida adulta é produto de desigualdades sociais e, concomitantemente, reprodutora dessas mesmas desigualdades.
Abstract: The transition to adulthood is a critical moment in the individuals' life courses. This stage is characterized by important status changes, which may be responsible for different roots in the passage from a dependent towards an independent condition. From a sociodemographic perspective, the more important status changes are that from a student to a working condition, from a dependent to a head of a household, from a single to a married status, and from the condition of a child to that of a mother or a father. Those are the dimensions selected for the analysis of the process of transition to adulthood in the State of São Paulo, focusing on two points in time, 1970 and 2000. These where moments in which young waves have occurred, due to demographic factors affecting age structures, especially fertility changes in the past. Young cohorts have increased in volume at both moments, facing different sociodemographic contexts at the time. The aim of this analysis is to develop an integrated approach of demographic factors as well as economic and institutional ones, in a way that the timing of the transitions can be described and individuals' motivations and decisions can be understood. The main data sources used are de demographic censuses of 1970 and 2000. In addition, data from the Survey of Life Conditions (PCV) of 2006 were also used. From the methodological point of view, the principal innovation of this study is the application of the analysis of entropy of synthetic cohorts to the Brazilian census data. Entropy measures give an image of the process of standardization / de-standardization of life courses, and make it possible to describe the pace of the transition to adulthood across time. The contribution of this doctoral thesis is to revel differences in the timing of the transitions and exploring their meaning in the context were they occur. The variables taken for this endeavor are sex, household position, color/race, and income level. A shorter or longer transition depends on these sociodemographic characteristics. The results show that differentials in the pace of transition to adulthood are both a result of and an influential factor on social inequality.
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Vitória, Fernando Bilhalva. "A crise socioecológica no labirinto do capital : uma análise das relações entre humanidade e natureza a partir dos conceitos de entropia e sociometabolismo." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2016. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br:8080/handle/prefix/2956.
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A presente tese sobre “A crise socioecológica no labirinto do capital: uma análise das relações entre humanidade e natureza a partir dos conceitos de entropia e sociometabolismo” tem como ponto de partida o cenário de crise do capitalismo atual, que, em termos históricos, espalhou-se por todas as partes do globo sob o domínio da mercadoria. Ela é perceptível tanto em temos sociais, no desemprego estrutural e na precarização do trabalho, como em termos ecológicos, indo desde a desestruturação dos solos pela agricultura industrial e homogênea até o aquecimento global, com previsões catastróficas para o presente e para o futuro. Esta relação-limite revela, de algum modo, o que Marx chamou de rachadura ou falha metabólica sob as relações produtivas e sociais, a partir do mando do modo de produção capitalista, ou o que Georgescu-Roegen chamou de processo entrópico da irreversibilidade. Com ênfase na síntese destas duas perspectivas teóricas, a tese se situa na problemática da existência de uma crise socioecológica profunda, onde o fundamento teórico-prático desta; repousa no sociometabolismo, no sentido marxista, e na noção de entropia, a partir da bioeconomia, como uma poderosa ferramenta de interpretação e compreensão qualitativa das relações sociais e ambientais no presente tempo com “Um todo manifesto”. A tese visa, assim, contribuir para o campo das ciências humanas na pretensão de propor uma visão ampla e criteriosa das relações entre a humanidade e a natureza e do papel da educação frente a este processo, para além das tramas do capital e da ideologia do desenvolvimento verde. A estrutura da tese consiste num aprofundamento do pensamento de Marx sobre a natureza e o metabolismo, e da questão da entropia em Georgescu-Roegen, bem como da evidência teórico-prática destas duas visões de mundo. Para tanto, ela propõe um todo estruturado para a análise da crise socioecológica: No primeiro capítulo, no marco teórico, recorrendo ao pensamento de Georgescu-Roegen e Marx; no segundo, a dupla visão da crise e os limites do desenvolvimento verde; no terceiro, a historicidade da crise a partir da evolução do metabolismo, até o papel dos sujeitos e da educação como uma das dimensões necessárias para outro sistema metabólico/entrópico e conciliatório entre a humanidade e a natureza no quarto capítulo, onde o metabolismo e a entropia se articulam como um salto de qualidade.
This thesis about "The socio-ecological crisis in the capital labyrinth: an analysis of the relationship between humanity and nature from the concepts of entropy and socio-metabolism" has as its starting point the crisis scenario of the current capitalism, which, in a historical sense, has spread itself all over the world under the domain of the goods. It can be noticed in two ways. The first one is in social terms in cases as structural unemployment and work precariousness, the other one is in ecological terms ranging from soil disruption by industrial and homogeneous agriculture to global warming, with catastrophic forecasts for the present and for the future. This limit relationship reveals, somehow, what Marx called metabolic failure or crack under the productive and social relationships, from the behest of the capitalist production way, or what Georgescu-Roegen called entropic process of irreversibility. Emphasizing the synthesis of these two theoretical perspectives, the thesis lies on the questioning about the existence of a deep socio-ecological crisis, where its theoretical and practical ground lies on socio-metabolism. It is in the Marxist sense, and in the notion of entropy, from the bio-economy, as a powerful tool to have a qualitative interpretation and comprehension of the social and environmental relations in this time with "A whole manifesto". Thus, the thesis aims to contribute to the field of human sciences and intends to propose a careful and wide vision of the relationships between humanity and nature as well as the role of education facing this process, beyond the capital plots and the ideology of green development. The structure of the thesis is a deepening of Marx's thought about nature and metabolism, and the entropy issue in Georgescu-Roegen, as well as the theoretical and practical evidence of these two worldviews. To do so, it proposes a whole structured to analyze the socio-ecological crisis. In the first chapter, in the theoretical framework, using the thought of Georgescu-Roegen and Marx. In the second one, the double vision of the crisis and the limits of green development. In the third chapter, the historicity of the crisis from the metabolism evolution to the role of subject and education as one of the necessary dimensions for other metabolic/entropic and conciliatory system between humanity and nature. Finally in the fourth chapter, where metabolism and entropy are articulated as a leap in quality.
Ma, Yin-Shan. "The Correlation between Land-use Mixture and Home-based Trips (The case of the city of Richmond)." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2670.
Full textSayeed, Yeasmin. "Child Marriage, Human Development and Welfare : Using Public Spending, Taxation and Conditional Cash Transfers as Policy Instruments." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-47122.
Full textWang, Chao. "Exploiting non-redundant local patterns and probabilistic models for analyzing structured and semi-structured data." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1199284713.
Full textForsé, Michel. "L'ordre improbable : entropie et processus sociaux." Paris 5, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA05H048.
Full textTheories of social change have always combined equilibrium and order, as classical mechanics states. Difficulties resulting there of cannot be solved without assuming the thermodynamical point of view which, on the contrary, associates equilibrium and disorder. If we make the hypothesis that social systems require stability, it can be prove that their maximal state of stability is also their maximal state of disorder. Dynamically, they tend spontaneously to this state of equilibrium where entropy is high. The result is a relevant medialization of the three main classes of social processes: alteration, movement and hierarchy. Applications to empirical data indicate that predictions, authorized by this model, are corrects. Nevertheless, we must be careful with intuitive representations of chaos. If a finite utility has to be shared between a great number of individuals, the highest disorganized and stable distribution is the one in which the number of individuals and the level of utilities are related with an inverse exponential function. Inequality and society cannot therefore be distinguished. Still the entropy law may also be stated as the spontaneous increase of equality. Hence societies are not, as some wrote recently, systems that are able to organize them self spontaneously. As open systems, they can find the amount of neguentropy to increase their own order ; but this order, which is always less probable than disorder, is never definitely secured
Forsé, Michel. "L'Ordre improbable entropie et processus sociaux /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376051585.
Full textJacobs, Carolyne. "Social networking as a bridge between higher education students' pre-entry expectations and post-entry experiences." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2010. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ffd41f10-b1d2-4b3e-bc3a-3e11cab1bca3.
Full textLemos, Ricardo. "Internacionalização do empreendimento social: um estudo de dois empreendimentos sociais que entraram no Brasil." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11850.
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The internationalization of organizations can be noticed as international transactions grow at a rapid pace. Amongst several alternatives, internationalization frameworks developed and analyzed have been mainly used, in academic studies, to portray the process of internationalization of industries; however, its application in other sectors is still very incipient. Social entrepreneurship,which can be described as the organization or person trying to meet a need or solve a problem of a social nature using business methods, gradually has also sought the internationalization process, nevertheless there are still very few studies that depict the process of internationalization of social enterprises. The aim of this study was to compare the strategies and internationalization process of social enterprises with the traditional theory of internationalization verifying if the traditional framework could be applied to the internationalization process. Social entrepreneurship in Brazil is quite significant, but remains limited to the borders of the country. For this reason, the object of our study was social enterprise internationalizing into Brazil. Here we analyzed, through the exploratory qualitative research approach based on in-depth interviews, two oragnizações who came to Brazil. The results arising from these interviews showed different patterns and processes and as a result, we present the dynamics found for the internationalization of social enterprises.
A internacionalização de organizações pode ser observada como um envolvimento crescente em transações internacionais. Dentre as diversas modalidades e alternativas de internacionalização, os modelos estudados têm sido usados principalmente para retratar o processo de internacionalização de indústrias, sendo sua aplicação em outros setores de atividade ainda muito incipientes. O empreendimento social, isto é, a organização ou pessoa que tenta atender a uma necessidade ou resolver um problema de cunho social utilizando métodos empresariais, aos poucos também tem buscado o processo de internacionalização, mas são poucos os estudos que retratam o processo de internacionalização de empreendimentos sociais. O objetivo deste trabalho foi comparar as estratégias e o processo de internacionalização de empreendimentos sociais, com a teoria tradicional de internacionalização verificando se o modelo tradicional pode ser aplicado para compreender o processo (de internacionalização). O empreendimento social no Brasil é bastante significativo, mas de maneira geral permanece limitado às fronteiras do país. Por este motivo, o objeto de nosso estudo foram empreendimentos sociais que se internacionalizaram em direção ao Brasil. Aqui analisamos, através de pesquisa qualitativa pela abordagem exploratória a partir de entrevistas em profundidade, duas organizações que vieram para o país. Os resultados oriundos dessas entrevistas demonstraram padrões e processos diferentes e, como resultado, apresentamos a dinâmica encontrada na internacionalização de empreendimentos sociais.
LINGXIU, JIANG. "IKEA marketing entry strategy in China." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-36640.
Full textStephens, Shanda. "Latino Children's Kindergarten Entry: Views of Parents and Teachers." DigitalCommons@USU, 2001. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2651.
Full textBrunetti, Ilaria. "Il metodo entropico nelle applicazioni della meccanica statistica alle scienze sociali." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/2827/.
Full textRonk, Marla J. Landau Steven E. "Peer entry behavior of boys with and without ADHD." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1390291471&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1205250904&clientId=43838.
Full textTitle from title page screen, viewed on March 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Steven E. Landau (chair), Alycia M. Hund, Dawn M. McBride, Glenn D. Reeder, Susan K, Sprecher. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-182) and abstract. Also available in print.
Contreras, Eitner Alfredo. "Essays in Rational Inattention and Market Microstructure." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673962.
Full textEn mi disertación, doy una explicación a diferentes anomalías de precios de los activos en el mercado financiero al caracterizar los conjuntos de información de quienes interactúan en él mismo. En particular, estudio los efectos de enfrentar una restricción en el volumen de información que un actor puede procesar. Para ello, desarrollo un análisis desde una perspectiva de la microestructura del mercado financiero, donde un grupo de inversores tiene acceso a información privilegiada sobre los activos negociados. Encuentro que estas anomalías pueden originarse cuando un agente racional enfrenta una restricción en el volumen de información que puede procesar. La disertación contiene resultados cuando los inversores y los agentes de fijación de precios enfrentan esta restricción.
In my dissertation, I explain different asset price anomalies in the financial market by characterizing the information sets of those who interact within it. In particular, I study the effects of facing a restriction on the volume of information that an actor can process. For this purpose, I construct the analysis from a financial market microstructure perspective, where a group of investors has access to inside information about the traded assets. I find that these anomalies can originate when a rational agent faces a constraint on the information volume they can process. The dissertation contains results when investors and price-setting agents face this restriction.
Kern, Ana Paula. "O Programa Bolsa Família e impactos sobre o desenvolvimento humano." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2018. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/7192.
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Esta tese tem por objetivo avaliar o impacto do Programa Bolsa Família sobre o desenvolvimento humano em saúde, educação e mercado de trabalho, respectivamente. É importante dizer que os trabalhos voltados para avaliar o impacto do Programa Bolsa Família estão basicamente apoiados nas análises dos dados da PNAD e do Censo Demográfico, que podem possuir um possível viés de representatividade. Portanto, para essa tese foi construído um painel longitudinal, no nível de indivíduo, a partir dos dados da AIBF I e AIBF II. Esse painel constitui um marco para os estudos de avaliação de impacto do Programa Bolsa Família, uma vez que é o primeiro painel que acompanha o mesmo indivíduo ao longo do tempo, e assim pode gerar resultados mais robustos. O modelo utilizado foi de diferenças em diferenças com balanceamento por entropia. Além disso, esta tese representa mais um avanço na literatura a respeito de programas de transferência de renda, por fazer todas as análises de impacto levando em consideração o plano amostral, que é outra característica importante normalmente ignorada. Em pesquisas por amostragem, ignorar características do plano amostral pode enviesar a estimação do impacto e produzir estimativas incorretas. O primeiro ensaio investiga o impacto do Bolsa Família nas condições de saúde das mulheres e das crianças de até 7 anos de idade, sendo considerada principalmente a saúde das gestantes e vacinação das crianças. No segundo ensaio avalia-se o impacto do Programa Bolsa Família sobre a educação das crianças de 6 a 17 anos, com enfoque sobre a participação, progressão, repetência e abandono escolar. O terceiro ensaio avalia o impacto do programa sobre o mercado de trabalho, mais especificamente na oferta de trabalho dos indivíduos. No primeiro ensaio, os principais resultados mostram que o Bolsa Família aumenta o status de imunização das crianças de 2005 para 2009, mas não o suficiente para manter o calendário vacinal em dia. Para o segundo ensaio, os resultados obtidos indicam que o PBF não afetou a matricula escolar das crianças de 2005 para 2009, quando separadas por gênero. No entanto, o Bolsa Família aumentou a probabilidade das crianças se matricularem, especialmente para crianças mais velhas, residentes na área urbana na região Nordeste. Para progressão, repetência e evasão, o Bolsa Família não apresentou impacto. Para o terceiro ensaio, os resultados indicam que não há efeito do PBF sobre a probabilidade de trabalhar dos homens ou das mulheres, e que o impacto de redução nas horas de trabalho, se concentra nas mulheres residentes em áreas rurais. Com isso, não é pertinente a crítica de que o PBF seria responsável por gerar dependência dos benefícios do programa.
This thesis is made up of three essays that aim to evaluate the impact of the Bolsa Família Program on human development in health, education and the labor market, respectively. It is important to say that the work aimed at evaluating the impact of the Bolsa Família Program is basically supported by the analysis of PNAD and Demographic Census data, which may have a representative bias. Therefore, for this thesis a longitudinal panel, at the individual level, was constructed from the data of AIBF I and AIBF II. This panel constitutes a milestone for impact assessment studies of the Bolsa Família Program, since it is the first panel that accompanies the same individual over time, and thus can generate more robust results. The model used was of differences in differences. In addition, this thesis represents a further advance in the literature regarding income transfer programs, for making all impact analyzes taking into consideration the sampling design, which is another important characteristic usually ignored. In sampling design, ignoring characteristics of the sampling plan may bias the impact estimation and produce incorrect estimates. The first essay evaluates the impact of the Bolsa Família Program on the education of children aged 6 to 17 years, with a focus on participation, progression, repetition and drop-out. The second essay investigates the impact of Bolsa Família on the health conditions of women and children up to 7 years of age, mainly considering the health of pregnant women, vaccination of children and health expenses. The third essay assesses the impact of the program on the labor market, more specifically on the labor supply of individuals. For the first trial, the preliminary results obtained indicate that the PBF has a positive and significant impact only for school dropout for female children residing in rural areas, from 6 to 14 years of age. For urban children, the PBF had no impact. In the second trial, it is examined whether the PBF generates an increase in the likelihood of children aged 0 to 7 years having a vaccination card and a decrease in monthly health care expenses for all individuals. For the third test, a positive relation between hours worked is expected.
Marin, Anicama Mónica Giuliana. "Consulting report - Bigmond mexican market entry business plan." Master's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2018. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/12735.
Full textBigmond es una empresa peruana dedicada a la búsqueda de altos ejecutivos con una gran propuesta de valor en el mercado. Dada la gran aceptación en el Perú, la firma tiene mucho interés en extender sus horizontes y llevar su propuesta de valor a México. El objetivo del proyecto es desarrollar un plan de negocio viable para la entrada de Bigmond al mercado de Executive search en México. Para ello, se realizó un macro análisis de mercado para identificar oportunidades y amenazas que podrían influenciar el éxito del proyecto. Además, se realizó un análisis de la industria a través de las cinco fuerzas de Porter. Luego de identificar los factores claves, se realizó un estudio cualitativo y cuantitativo del mercado mexicano para definir el mercado objetivo del proyecto en el cual Bigmond debe enfocarse. Se tomó en consideración el desarrollo histórico de las industrias de México, el pronóstico de crecimiento, la demanda de talento por sector, la disposición por los servicios outsourcing en las empresas, la concentración de potenciales empresas a nivel regional y las principales tendencias del mercado. El resultado definió que el mercado objetivo se ubica en la región central de México y debe enfocarse en cuatro principales sectores económicos: Marketing y comunicaciones, Manufactura, Servicios Financieros y Construcción, con un gran enfoque en el desarrollo de la industria tecnológica en cada uno de los sectores. A continuación, se desarrolló la estrategia de entrada que tuvo como resultado crear una sucursal en la ciudad de México. Luego, se llevó a cabo el plan de implementación través del marketing mix el cual desplegó que el principal factor clave de éxito será el desarrollo del valor de marca. Finalmente, el estudio financiero dio como resultado un TIR económico de 102.5% y un VAN de 309 mil dólares americanos, además se realizó un análisis de sensibilidad con la cuota de mercado y el crecimiento del negocio, los nueve escenarios desplegaron un TIR superior al 15% y un VAN mayor a cero. Lo cual permite concluir que el proyecto de entrada al mercado mexicano es viable y factible.
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Lott, Donalyn L. "Perceptions of College Readiness and Social Capital of GED completers in entry-level college courses." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1460.
Full textSOBERANES, MARTIN FABIAN 551989, and MARTIN FABIAN SOBERANES. "Entropías de las información cuántica de dos sistemas cuánticos y su comparación." Tesis de maestría, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/49968.
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Bäckström, Emil, Tim Fhager, and Manfred Klint. "Den flyktiga ljudbilden : En marknadsföringsretorisk analys av svensk radioreklams dramaturgi och struktur." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för studier av samhällsutveckling och kultur, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-56775.
Full textBerton, Marie, and Pauliina Matteinen. ""Alla borde få en chans till..." : En kvalitativ studie om före detta intagnas upplevelser." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39042.
Full textThis study aimed to get insight in former inmates’ experiences, about their imprisonment and their re-entry into the free society. To answer the aim, the following questions were formulated; how does imprisonment affect the individual and how has the individual re-entered the society after imprisonment. The studies result was divided in two larger themes that concerned the time in prison and the time after. The selection for the study was six men that have been imprisoned in Sweden; they were between 25-60 years. Data was collected through semistructured interviews. The results show that imprisonment affect the individual in a negative way, both physical and psychological. The results also show that individuals inner motivation is very important when they re-entry the society and social support needs to be available to the former inmates in the right time.
Grahn, Robert. "Treatment repeaters : re-entry in care for clients with substance use disorder within the Swedish addiction treatment system." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-141601.
Full textZheng, Jianya. "Modelagem de influência de sócios das redes sociais pelos PageRank e Índice W-Entropia." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2012. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/11061.
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As redes sociais desempenham um papel cada vez mais importante na comunicação das pessoas, e devido a este fato é necessário que sejamos capazes de medir a influência das pessoas nas redes sociais. Cada plataforma possui a sua lista de classificação para mostrar quem são os membros mais populares, mas esta medida é muito incompleta e unidimensional e a variação dos resultados entre as diferentes listas são sempre discrepantes. Da mesma forma, alguns pesquisadores têm proposto algoritmos computacionais diferentes para avaliar e medir esta influência, mas estes estudos são geralmente muito simples para expressar as características da transmissão de informações. Este trabalho apresenta uma pesquisa a respeito de como medir a influência dos membros das redes sociais, aplicando o PageRank e a W-Entropia, mais precisamente. Dada uma única rede social, o algoritmo PageRank calcula a importância de cada pessoa com base na ligação intrínseca entre os membros, esse algoritmo é justo e dificilmente os resultados serão manipulados. Dadas diversas redes sociais, a W-Entropia, que utiliza a teoria de Shannon, pode medir o desequilíbrio entre plataformas diferentes durante a transmissão de informações, alcançando assim um resultado mais preciso. Seguindo essa metodologia, o trabalho desenvolveu o Sistema W-Entropia para medir a influência das pessoas. Este sistema consiste de três partes: a parte do crawler, encarregada de coletar os dados e convertê-los para o formato exigido, a parte de cálculo, responsável por calcular a influência da pessoa e a parte de exibição, que exibe a lista de classificação na internet. De acordo com o experimento, o algoritmo PageRank apresentou uma boa performance dentro de uma única plataforma, já que ele pode efetivamente eliminar a interferência de usuários inativos e obter um valor mais justo de influência. A W-Entropia obtida responde ao desequilíbrio entre plataformas diferentes durante a transmissão das informações. Com a utilização da entropia, o resultado coincidiu melhor com a lei de propagação de informações. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
As social networks play more and more important role in people’s daily communication, it is necessary to measure a person’s influence in social networks. Currently, every platform has its ranking list to show who the most popular member is. But this measurement is inaccurate and the results between different lists are always different. Similarly, some researchers have proposed various computation algorithms, but these studies are usually too simply to express the features of transmission of information. This work presents a research that applied PageRank algorithm and W-Entropy index which is based on the theory of information to measure influence more precisely. For a single social network, PageRank calculates the importance of each person with the intrinsic link between members, this algorithm is fair and not easily manipulated. For multi-social networks, Shannon’s theory can measure the unbalance between different platforms during the transmission of information, thus achieving the accurate result. According to the methodology, this work developed W-Entropy system to measure people’s influence. This system consists of three parts: the crawler part is in charge of collecting the data and converting them to the requirement format; the computation part is responsible for calculating the people’s influence; the display part is for displaying the ranking list in the Internet. With the experiment result, PageRank algorithm is with a good performance for a single platform, it can effectively remove the interference of inactive users and get a fair influence value. The W-Entropy index obtained from Shannon’s entropy responses to unbalance between different platforms during the transmission of information. With the entropy, the result more coincided with the law of information propagation.
Johansson, Jessica. "Procurement after the entry of the Lisbon Treaty : Will social economical market have an impact on procurment?" Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Commercial Law, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12311.
Full textAs of 1 December 2009 the Treaty of Lisbon came into force. The Treaty brings along several changes for the physical structure of the EU. There are no changes aimed directly towards procurement, however the Treaty of Lisbon might prove to include changes of major impact. Article 3 (3) NEU includes a change to how the inner market shall be achieved. The Treaty text has gone from an inner market based on competition to include a “social economic market”, however there is no indication of what this means from a procurement perspective. The inner market and procurement had difficulties already before the entry of the Lisbon Treaty. There was arguments as regards to how fair a state could intervene trough public procurement to achieve positive social effects. The CJEU has persistently held that the inner market shall be built by the help of the inner market and competition. The Commission has during the last years started to express a different opinion than the CJEU with regards to low value procurements. The legislators has also shown a great interest for the SME’s and ensured more leeway for these companies to receive help form the member states. The ECJ has however made it difficult to support further than the actual startup phase of an SME. The European Parliament is critical to the Commissions work with regards to measures supporting the member states and ignoring the CJEU. The EU Parliament fears the consequences a more protectionist approach might have on the development of a free inner market and express concern for the legal uncertainty developed trough the lack of attention to the procurement market when introducing the “social market economy” with the Treaty of Lisbon.
The EU Parliament and the CJEU might have to adjust their opinion on competition within the inner market towards the Commissions opinion. The thesis does however conclude that an inclusion of the de minis principle in the test for equality of suppliers might be all that will be done to clarify this legal uncertainty.
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Engel, Michael [Verfasser], and Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Ihl. "Social Influence, status, and entrepreneurial entry: evidence from the comic book industry / Michael Engel ; Betreuer: Christoph Ihl." Hamburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Hamburg-Harburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1192861329/34.
Full textSinclair, Dana Alexandra. "The effects of postnatal depression on the social behaviour of children during the transition to schools entry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337306.
Full textGu, Donghui. "Shanghai xia gang zhi gong yan jiu she hui zhi chi xi tong, ge ren hui ying yu zai jiu ye = A study of the unemployed in Shanghai : social support systems, individual responses & reemployment /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2000. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9984698.
Full textBradley, Kathy Denise. "Group entry strategies of socially excluded children as a function of sex, ethnicity, and sociometric status /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008284.
Full textYao, Lan. "Experimental Studies on Market Entry under Uncertainty and on Coordination." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4083.
Full textThis thesis is divided into three chapters that refer to two different topics. The second chapter focuses on the incentive effects of lowering flat wages and its role in helping overcome coordination failure. The results weakly support the positive effects of lowering flat wages. The two papers in the third and fourth chapters relate the studies of information uncertainty of risk and ambiguity in market entry games. We study experimentally decisions under uncertainty of risk and ambiguity in market entry games, which captures the basic features of the phenomena over entry in the market. The important task is to find out whether the excessive participation is related to the information types of risk and ambiguity, and whether decisions are different in risk and ambiguity in strategic environments. We find ambiguity seeking in a market setting of a comparative environment of risky and ambiguous information market in fixed matching. However, in a non-comparative environment of risky and ambiguous information market, ambiguity seeking is salient in random matching, but not in fixed matching. We find that ambiguity effects in strategic games do not depend on whether risk and ambiguity are put in comparative or non-comparative contexts, but on the strategic complexity in the games. The stronger the strategic complexity is, the more salient the ambiguity effects.
Comino, Stefano. "Entry decisions and the governance form of strategic alliances." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4023.
Full textEn la segunda parte de la tesis (capítulos 3 a 6) se estudia la manera en que las empresas organizan sus acuerdos de cooperación. En el capítulo 3 se proporciona una introducción al tema. En los capítulos 4 y 5 se presentan dos modelos teóricos. En el primero se utiliza un marco de contratos incompletos y se analiza el rol que el aprendizaje del know-how del partner juega en el desarrollo de dos modos de organización de alianzas estratégicas, esto es, Joint Ventures y acuerdos de contratos. Se demuestra que cuanto mayor es la asimetría en la capacidad de aprendizaje de las empresas, mejor es la Joint Venture. El modelo presentado en el capítulo 5 combina las herramientas y métodos de dos áreas de la literatura económica: inversión bajo incertidumbre y teoría de la búsqueda. El objetivo principal del modelo consiste en relacionar la forma de gobierno elegida por las empresas involucradas en la alianza con las características del sector en el que la alianza tiene lugar. Se demuestra que cuanto mayor es la incertidumbre a la que se enfrentan las empresas, mayor es la probabilidad de que elijan formas de gobierno más flexibles, como los acuerdos de contratos. El último capítulo se dedica a la investigación empírica del tema. Se contrastan algunas de las predicciones que pueden ser derivadas de los modelos presentados en los capítulos 4 y 5, así como aquellas que han sido destacadas en otros trabajos teóricos.
The thesis is composed of two distinct parts. In the first one (chapter 2), I present an extension of an entry model "à la Dixit". I consider a setting in which the entry decisions of the first mover might reveal information about the markets' profitability to a second entrant. In this context, I characterize the first mover's strategic behavior. I show that when priors about markets profitability are at an intermediate level, then the first mover enters them sequentially trying to delay the competitor's entry. On the contrary, when priors are lower, the first mover tends to enter all the markets at the same time trying to preempt the other firm.
In the second part of the thesis (chapters 3,4,5,6), I consider the issue of the governance form of strategic alliances. That is, I study the way in which firms organize their cooperative arrangements. In chapter 3, there is a brief introduction to the topic. In chapters 4 and 5, I present two theoretical models. In the first one, I employ an incomplete contracts setting and I analyze the role of learning the partner's know-how on the performances of two typical modes of organizing strategic alliances, namely Joint Ventures and Contractual Agreements. I show that the more asymmetric firms' absorptive capacities are, the better a Joint Venture performs. The model of chapter 5 combines the tools and methods of two strands of economic literature: investment under uncertainty and search theory. The main objective of the model is that of relating the form of governance that partners choose for their alliance to the typology of the project undertaken and to the characteristics of the sector in which the alliance takes place. It is proved that the larger the uncertainty that partners face, the more likely that they choose more flexible forms of cooperation such as Contractual Agreements. The last chapter is devoted to an empirical assessment of the topic. I test some of the predictions that can be derived from the models of chapters 4 and 5 as well as those that have been put forward by other theoretical studies dealing with the same issue.
Dalton, Tony Lynn. "Entry Age and Reading Level by the End of Third Grade." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1361.
Full textSpeerschneider, Kimberly K. "The Differentiated Impact of Early Entry Into Head Start on Social Competence and Literacy| An Applied Propensity Score Analysis." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10815702.
Full textFamily poverty is associated with children’s health, achievement, and behavior (Brooks-Gunn & Duncan, 1997). Less than half, 48%, of children from low income homes are considered school ready by the age of five compared with 75% of their peers from middle to high income homes (Isaacs, 2012). Researchers have linked school readiness to long-term outcomes like success in grade school, lower drop-out rates in high school, and higher earned income as adults (Duncan et al., 2007). Although children in poverty experience greater deficits in areas of school readiness, participation in a quality childhood education can serve as a protective buffer and has been shown to be associated with improved academic, social and health outcomes (Caughy, DiPietro, & Strobino, 1994; Love et al., 2003; Karoly, Kilburn, & Cannon, 2005). School readiness has been an aim of Head Start since its conception (Raver & Zigler, 1997).
More research has been dedicated to aspects of early childhood education programming to ascertain which aspects are most beneficial to children and thus there is a growing body of literature for which researchers have assessed the impact of early entry into Head Start, which in turn provides children with two years versus one year of Head Start programming (Moiduddin, Aikens, Tarullo, & West, 2010; Tarullo, Aikens, Moiduddin, & West, 2010). Due to the limited program capacity, children who enter Head Start at three instead of four-years-old, tend to have more extreme risk factors that afford them priority for enrollment. While randomization of a treatment such as early entry into Head Start is not often feasible nor ethical, a quasi- experimental design like propensity score analysis can help mitigate the effects of selection bias by controlling for confounding variables (Rosenbaum & Rubin, 1983).
Researchers who have applied this methodology to learn more about the impact of early entry into Head Start, have found that the additional year of Head Start programming tends to lead to gains in social competence and literacy outcomes. This study sought to replicate these findings with a new sample and extend this work by assessing possible differentiated treatment effects by propensity score strata. Further, this study sought to assess the nature of the relationship between social competence and literacy.
Early Entry into Head Start was associated with significant gains in literacy throughout the four-year-old year for children in the treatment compared to those in the control. This treatment effect was consistent across all propensity score strata. There were no significant treatment effects of early entry on social competence, including social skills and problem behavior. Significant gains in social skills were observed throughout the academic year for both the treatment and control groups, but no changes were observed in problem behavior. The treatment effect on social competence was distinct for children with low propensity scores who were therefore least likely to be in the treatment group. Ad-hoc analyses of the low propensity score group identified some possible areas for future research. Finally, data here established a small positive correlation between social skills and literacy but found no correlation between problem behavior and literacy.
Collectively, the findings suggested that early entry into Head Start was significantly associated with improved early literacy outcomes that were sustained throughout the pre- Kindergarten year. Head Start, regardless of the age of entry, was associated with significant gains in literacy and social skills. Recommendations are made to improve program efficacy regarding problem behavior outcomes and assess program characteristics. Recommendations are made for future research to address the Head Start selection criteria and enrollment process to identify areas of opportunity for outreach and advocacy.
Papero, Anna L. "Developmental outcome in preschoolers: Interrelations among maternal depression, perceived social support, and child's age of entry into Head Start." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11143.
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Carruthers, Evalyn Parker. "Use of the Lasswell social process model in the analysis of the American nurses' association's entry into practice resolution." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1302627470.
Full textCarruthers, Evalyn P. "Use of the Lasswell Social Process model in the analysis of the American Nurses' Association's entry into practice resolution /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487676847114457.
Full textTang, Felix Motekah. "The BOP Energy Challenge and Pro-Poor Responses: Strategic Entry Pathways for Entrepreneurs." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2179.
Full textNobre, Lucas Soares. "Model of entry in applied to concentrated market sector brazilian air." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2012. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=9340.
Full textAccording to the board of the National Agency of Civil Aviation, Brazil was the country that experienced the largest growth in the number of passengers carried worldwide in 2010, rising to the rank of the seventh market in civil aviation. Due to the growth of the industry and also the demand for air tickets, this scenario seems favorable for the consolidation and spread of the Brazilian airlines with lower market share. This work shows that economists can make inferences about entry, even when prices and firm's costs are unobservable. Through the model proposed by Bresnahan and Reiss (1990,1991), based on game theory, this work seeks to analyze the entry effect of smaller airlines companies in 26 Brazilian capitals. The main results shows an increase in competition with entry, reducing the entry thresholds ratio between firms from the the third to the second firm, and it also suggests that investments in airport infrastructure and efficiency are good measures of public policy for the sector.
De acordo com a diretoria da AgÃncia Nacional de AviaÃÃo Civil, o Brasil foi o paÃs que apresentou o maior crescimento no nÃmero de passageiros transportados no mundo em 2010, elevando-o ao posto de sÃtimo mercado em aviaÃÃo civil. Frente ao crescimento do setor e da demanda por tickets aÃreos, este cenÃrio à favorÃvel ao crescimento e consolidaÃÃo das companhias aÃreas brasileiras de menor participaÃÃo no mercado. Este trabalho mostra que economistas podem fazer inferÃncia sobre entrada mesmo quando os preÃos e custos das firmas nÃo sÃo observÃveis. AtravÃs do modelo proposto por Bresnahan e Reiss (1990, 1991), baseado em Teoria dos Jogos, busca-se analisar o efeito de entrada das companhias aÃreas de menor poder de mercado em 26 capitais brasileiras. Os principais resultados mostram que entrada aumenta de forma significativa a competiÃÃo, reduzindo a taxa do limiar de entrada das com a entrada da segunda para terceira firma, alÃm de sugerirem que investimentos em eficiÃncia e infraestrutura aeroportuÃria sÃo boas medidas de polÃticas pÃblicas para o setor.
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Full textThe purpose of this dissertation study was to adapt, deliver, and experimentally test the effectiveness of a research-based, employment-focused group counseling intervention (OPTIONS) that was designed to improve male inmates' ability to secure employment upon release from prison. The intervention curriculum and study were modeled after similar interventions with battered (Chronister & McWhirter, 2006) and incarcerated women (Chartrand & Rose, 1996). The OPTIONS program was grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994, 2000) and comprised of all critical intervention components identified as contributing to positive career intervention outcomes (Brown & Krane, 2000). In addition, the OPTIONS intervention consisted of 5 weekly group sessions, which lasted 120 minutes, and each group was comprised of 6-7 male inmates. The intervention focused on various aspects of the job preparation process such as identifying necessary skills, obtaining information about different types of jobs, practicing for job interviews, and learning how to utilize social support. Study participants included 77 (n = 38 treatment, n = 39 control) adult male inmates housed at the Oregon Department of Corrections medium security release facility, the Oregon State Correctional Institute (OSCI) in Salem, OR. This study utilized a randomized block design, with between subjects and within subjects measurements at pretest, posttest, and one month follow-up. Participants were blocked based upon age and release date, and then randomly assigned to a wait-list treatment as usual control group or the OPTIONS treatment intervention group. Outcomes measured were job search self-efficacy (Career Search Self-Efficacy Scale, Solberg, Good, & Nord, 1994), perceived problem solving ability (Problem Solving Inventory, Heppner, 1988), and hopefulness (Hope Scale, Snyder et al., 1991). Data were analyzed using 2 (experimental group) x 2 (time) analyses of variance (ANOVAs). Results indicated that participants in the OPTIONS treatment intervention had higher career-search self-efficacy, problem solving, and hopefulness scores at posttest and follow-up than participants in the treatment as usual control group. This dissertation study was the first time a manualized, theory based employment preparation treatment intervention was adapted specifically for inmates preparing to release back to the community.
Committee in charge: Linda Forrest, Chairperson, Counseling Psychology and Human Services; Krista Chronister, Member, Counseling Psychology and Human Services; Deanne Unruh, Member, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Robert 0 Brien, Outside Member, Sociology
Patt, Jacky Linn, and Gloria Ann Stickler. "A comparison of re-entry and traditional students needs and issues." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1863.
Full textGatley, David Alan. "The influence of social-class origins on the choice of course, career preferences, and entry to employment of CNAA graduates." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 1988. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2602/.
Full textJackson, Ildiko. "De muslimska kvinnornas etablering i det svenska arbetslivet - Muslim women´s entry into the Swedish labour market." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-28883.
Full textThis is a study about muslim women´s entry into the Swedish labour market.
Huntington, Scott. "Integrated and Reducing Re-Entry into the Criminal Justice System." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2547.
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