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Complexity and the paradox of project control.

Cicmil, Svetlana; Cooke-Davies, Terry; Crawford, Lynn; … - 2009

During the past decade, there has been an increasing tendency to draw attention to the particular challenges posed by complex projects. At the same time, complexity in and of projects has emerged as a theme for discussion and debate in response to growing concern about the dominance of various...

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Two envelope problems and the roles of ignorance

Malinas, Gary - 2003

Four variations on Two Envelope Paradox are stated and compared. The variations are employed to provide a diagnosis and … an explanation of what has gone awry in the paradoxical modeling of the decision problem that the paradox poses. The … canonical formulation of the paradox underdescribes the ways in which one envelope can have twice the amount that is in the …

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Strong and weak lifespan extension: What is most feasible and likely?

Lucke, J. C.; Hall, W. D. - 2006

Recent advances in biomedical science indicate that it may eventually be possible to intervene in the biological process of human ageing. This paper overviews the current state of the science of lifespan extension and promising future directions. It is uncertain whether 'strong' lifespan...

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Paradox in Positive Organizational Change

Cameron, Kim - 2008

Positive organizational change is a paradox. On the one hand, natural human inclinations toward the positive and … reconcile the paradox of positive change is proposed. New investigations of positive organizational change are introduced which … address various aspects of the positive change paradox. …

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Managing the Tension between Standardization and Customization in IT-enabled Service Provisioning: A Sensemaking Perspective

Lewis, Mark O. - 2008

The outsourcing literature has offered a plethora of perspectives and models for understanding decision determinants and outcomes of outsourcing of business processes. While past studies have contributed significantly to scholarly research in this area, there are an insufficient number of...

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Making sense of financial education

Klein, Valerie - 2007

A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...

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Teaching Statistics in a Spreadsheet Environment Using Simulation

Barr, Graham D; Scott, Leanne - 2011

The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first … teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment whereby students are, inter alia, required to master the basics of MS … exploring the statistical distributions of a number of pieces of information generated by the students. Teaching sessions are …

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Identifying key competences of industrial design and technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises

Garner, Steve; Duckworth, Adrian - 1999

Industrial design graduates can be true ‘agents of change’ in manufacturing industry andnowhere is this potential more valuable than in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)where flexibility and speed of response are essential and which make up 94% of the UK economy.However, little...

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Pedagogical innovations in sustainable development: Fair trade in the classroom

Lewis, Katrina; Dickinson, Torry; Lewis, Summer - 2009

groups that work with women-owned cooperatives in Mexico and Nicaragua. By teaching nonviolence studies, this educator helps …

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Conceptual SLA Framework for Cloud Computing

Alhamad, Mohammed; Dillon, Tharam S.; Chang, Elizabeth - 2010

should be considered at the stage of designing SLA in cloud computing. Also, we investigate the negotiation strategies … which is involved in the negotiation processes. …

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