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Urban-GAN: An artificial intelligence-aided computation system for plural urban design

Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, 2022
The current urban design computation is mostly centered on the professional designer while ignoring the plural dimension of urban design. In addition, available public participation computational tools focus mainly on information and idea sharing ...
S. Quan
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The Plural of Goal: Learning in a World of Ambiguity

Organization science (Providence, R.I.), 2021
In the Carnegie School tradition of experiential learning, learning processes are driven by the encoding of performance outcomes as a success or failure relative to a goal. We expand this line of inquiry by highlighting how conflicting and thus ambiguous
Daniel A. Levinthal, Claus Rerup
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Determining plurality

ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2008
Given a set of n elements, each of which is colored one of c colors, we must determine an element of the plurality (most frequently occurring) color by pairwise equal/unequal color comparisons of elements. We prove that ( c − 1)( n −
Alonso, Laurent, Reingold, Edward M.
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Price, Authority, and Trust: From Ideal Types to Plural Forms

, 1989
This review article focuses on the three control mechanisms that govern economic transactions between actors: price, authority, and trust. In contrast to conventional approaches that view market and hierarchy as mutually exclusive control mechanisms (or ...
Jeffrey L. Bradach, R. Eccles
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Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration

, 1980
While it may be difficult to achieve and maintain stable democratic governments in countries with deep religious, ideological, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic cleavages, Lijphart argues that it is not at all impossible.
J. Nagata, Arend Lijphart
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A Pluralism of Legal Pluralisms

2017
Abstract Legal pluralism, as a way of thinking about law, is the seemingly straightforward idea that there is a range of normative orders, which are independent from the state and can be properly described as legal without committing any conceptual mistake.
Mariano Croce, Emmanuel Melissaris
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The pluralism of British pluralism

Journal of Political Ideologies, 2009
Despite the international character of political ideologies, an historically distinct British pluralism can be identified. But it is characterized by a tension inherent in all pluralism, between groups as sources of individual identity, and individuals as components of groups.
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Adaptive scholarship and situated knowledges? Hybrid methodologies and plural epistemologies in climate change adaptation research

, 2016
Climate change, along with other so-called global challenges, demands that scholars work across disciplines. Drawing on Donna Haraway's idea of situated knowledges, this paper develops an approach to mixing disciplines by engaging in epistemological ...
A. Nightingale
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Surveying the Economics of Plural Modes of Organization

Journal of economic surveys (Print), 2019
Why do firms concomitantly rely on more than one organizational arrangement to procure/distribute a given input/product? In this paper, we systematically review and discuss the extensive path undergone by the literature exploring this issue: the so ...
E. Raynaud, Paula Sarita Bigio Schnaider, M. Saes   +2 more
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Delayed Childbearing as a Growing, Previously Unrecognized Contributor to the National Plural Birth Excess.

Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2018
OBJECTIVE To establish the annual and cumulative multiyear contribution of delayed childbearing to the national plural birth excess. METHODS Using publicly available national birth data reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, we ...
E. Adashi, R. Gutman
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