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Accountability, Exile and Social Media: An Analysis of Contemporary Online Public Shaming Practices and "Cancel Culture"
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What is unique about contemporary online public shaming practices is the potential scope and reach facilitated by social media, where call-outs can go viral and a collective response can be provoked by reaching a massive audience in a short amount of time. Call-outs can at once be ephemeral (they...
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Spring 2014
The two essays in this dissertation help us to better understand the types, functions, and effects of management and accounting requirements within non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the way they are implicated in the process of constructing and managing international development in...
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Accounting for non-stationarity via hyper-dimensional translation of the domain in geostatistical modeling
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Medium and short term mine planning require models of mineral deposits that account for internal geological structures that permit scheduling of mine production at a weekly and monthly production periods. Modified kriging estimation techniques are used for accounting for such geologic structures....
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Fall 2022
The general goal of this thesis was to uncover the computational characteristics of verbal association memory by focusing on two specific topics. We first examined the role of mental imagery in association memory. One of the most effective ways to improve verbal association memory is to ask...
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Accounting for Pure Consciousness: An Examination of the Ability of the Representationalist Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness to Account for Pure Consciousness Experiences
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Any successful theory of phenomenal consciousness must be able to account for all types of phenomenally conscious experience. Representationalist theories of phenomenal consciousness take phenomenally conscious experience to be intentional and explain phenomenally conscious experience in terms...
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Spring 2019
Responding to rising disaster damages and shrinking budgets, Canadian cities are looking for ways to maximize protection from flood damages while minimizing costs. To inform such mitigation investments, quantitative decision-making tools have been used for decades to evaluate structural...