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Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination

The Academy of Management Review, 1989
The process of theory construction in organizational studies is portrayed as imagination disciplined by evolutionary processes analogous to artificial selection. The quality of theory produced is predicted to vary as a function of the accuracy and detail present in the problem statement that triggers theory building, the number of and independence ...
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L'économie industrielle internationale : une discipline en construction

Revue d'économie industrielle, 1991
Rainelli Michel. L'economie industrielle internationale : une discipline en construction. In: Revue d'economie industrielle, vol. 55, 1er trimestre 1991. L'economie industrielle internationale : une discipline en construction, sous la direction de Jacques Mistral. pp. 5-11.
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The Alexander discipline appliance designand construction

Seminars in Orthodontics, 2001
Abstract Appliance design and construction is one of the most important aspects of producing a successful orthodontic result. The Alexander Discipline has developed a unique appliance prescription that incorporates particular advantages of a multitude of designs and combines them into a practical, efficient, and comfortable system.
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Important Constructs in Literacy Learning across Disciplines

Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
Currently students who struggle with language and literacy learning are classified with various labels in different states—language learning disabilities, dyslexia, specific language impairment, and specific learning disability—in spite of having similar diagnostic profiles.
Barbara R. Foorman, Elissa J. Arndt, Elizabeth C. Crawford   +2 more
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A discipline for constructing multiphase communication protocols

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1985
Many communication protocols can be observed to go through different phases performing a distinct function in each phase. A multiphase model for such protocols is presented. A phase is formally defined to be a network of communicating finite-state machines with certain desirable correctness properties; these include proper termination and freedom from ...
Ching-Hua Chow, Mohamed G. Gouda, Simon S. Lam   +2 more
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The Constructive Veto and Parliamentary Discipline

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
The paper shows that a non-legislative actor with a power to veto legislation can sell protection to lawmakers against opportunism in the plenary. So the veto power, especially the constructive kind that recognizes the issuer to make a counter-oer to the assembly (cf.
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Educator Sexual Misconduct and Texas Educator Discipline Database Construction

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2018
The purpose of this research is to describe Texas educator sexual misconduct (ESM) by examining 8 years of sanctions issued to educators (N = 1415) for either sexual misconduct or inappropriate relationships with students or minors. We first examine Texas ESM from the perspective of quality database construction and then describe the demographic ...
Catherine E. Robert, David P. Thompson
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Disciplining Students: the construction of student subjectivities

British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1997
Abstract While we usually think of higher education as a process through which every able individual's potential may be realised more fully, it can also be seen as one of arbitrarily disciplining the student to particular ends. One of these ends is the production of the ‘good’, or docile and useful, student subject.
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On teaching methods for construction disciplines specialities

THE TIDINGS of the Baltic State Fishing Fleet Academy Psychological and pedagogical sciences (Theory and methods of professional education)
The Article validates the feasibility of teaching od separate disciplines in the field of higher education majoring in construction using reference to the cases (situations), that have taken place as a result of erroneously made decisions at the different stages of buildings and facilities life cycle.
O. S. Bychkova, A. V. Karpenko
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Establishing construction economics as an academic discipline

Construction Management and Economics, 1994
Despite the importance of construction in national economies and in socio-economic development, construction economics, as a field of study, is still fledgling. Its foundations are weak and there is confusion about many of its concepts and terms. Worse, there are indications that unless a conscious effort is made to advance the field further, progress ...
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