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• Property: Centralization.
• "Educational systems centralization is concentration of channels. ...
• The push in the 1950's towards centralization of schools is a good example of this process. ...
• Representative democracy is an excellent example of centralization, as the voices of the people are centralized through their elected officials. ...
• Hypotheses Containing the Property: Centralization.
• If education system passive dependence increases, then centralization increases. ...
• If educational system active dependence increases, then centralization decreases. ...
• If educational system centralization increases, then passive dependence increases. ...
• If educational system centralization increases, then active dependence decreases. ...
• If educational system centralization is less than some value, then independence increases. ...
• If educational system centralization is less than some value, then centralization increases. ...
• If educational system toput increases, then centralization decreases. ...
• If educational system centralization increases, then toput decreases. ...
• If educational system centralization increases, then state steadiness increases. ...
• If educational system wholeness is greater than some value and centralization is greater than some value, then state determination is greater than some value. ...
• If educational system automorphism increases , then centralization decreases. ...

• com/htdocs/travel-references/en/wikipedia/c/ce/centralization. ... com/htdocs/travel-references/en/wikipedia/c/ce/centralization. ...
• Centralization.
• Centralization is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding decision-making, become concentrated within a particular location and/or group. ...

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• The Centralization Specialists.

• Book : Centralization and Power in Social Service Delivery Systems: The Cases of England, Wales, and the United States (International Series in Social).

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• IT Centralization versus Decentralization: The Trend Towards Collaborative Governance.
• This survey and my experience indicate that IT organizations almost universally deploy elements of centralization, even in cases where the management of certain IT functions is decentralized. ... Explaining this dichotomy requires the recognition that the trend is not towards centralization or decentralization – neither of which are sustainable in a pure sense.
• The real IT management trend is a shift towards governance structures that enable the best attributes of centralization and decentralization to be applied based on the requirements of a given function or business unit. ...
• Centralization versus Decentralization.
• Examining the underlying issues that drive IT centralization and decentralization help frame the trend towards creating an environment where these seemingly diverse philosophies can peacefully coexist. Arguments for centralization focus on coordination, standardization and consolidation of equipment, processes, technology, customer and vendor management. Centralization also enables the creation and execution of a shared vision of how IT should support and drive market opportunities and growth. Centralization also provides significant economies of scale, reduction of redundancies and improved management efficiencies.
• Many advocates of centralization concede the need for business units to play a role in the application management function. Hence the statistic showing that 48% of IT executives surveyed combined elements of decentralization with centralization. ...
• IT is stuck on a centralization-decentralization yo-yo. ...
• Centralization and decentralization can flourish under this trend towards collaborative, adaptive governance. ...

• Re: "Punishment"? Re: Centralization.
• au: "Re: "Punishment"? Re: Centralization" .
• In reply to: Justin Schwartz: "Re: "Punishment"? Re: Centralization" .
• Next in thread: Doug Henwood: "Re: "Punishment"? Re: Centralization" .
• au: "Re: "Punishment"? Re: Centralization" .
• In reply to: Justin Schwartz: "Re: "Punishment"? Re: Centralization" .
• Next in thread: Doug Henwood: "Re: "Punishment"? Re: Centralization" .

• Peer-to-Peer is Not Always Decentralized: When Centralization is Good Nelson Minar, Google Track: Overview/Infrastructure Date: Tuesday, November 06 Time: 2:00pm - 2:45pm Location: Washington Ballroom .
• Nelson talks about centralization and decentralization as a basic design principle, relying heavily on examples from current systems. ...

• The Centralization of the Appraisal Institute, Part 1 .
• Destruction of Money (Federal Reserve), the Centralization of the Realty Valuation Industry, .
• We as appraisers in the Institute have played the game toward the Essentiality of Centralization such that all the trend lines are in place. ...
• I applaud the Appraisal Institute's attempt to negate the criminal activities of HUD's Appraiser Watch Centralization, namely President Motta's letter dated September 18, 2002, which appears to have been a joint effort of the Appraisal Institute and the American Society of Appraisers, and apparently at the Eleventh Hour, the National Association of Realtors. ...
• Vainglorious because there are central underlying issues which the Appraisal Institute and its leaders fail to recognize, all of which lead ultimately to the Centralization Issue as an Essentiality. ...
• the Centralization Issue is the main problem facing the Appraisal Institute today. ...
• Themes overlap in understanding, perception, and awareness of the physical realities of our world, how the money system truly works, and the Centralization of the Realty Valuation Industry, including the Appraisal Institute, as an "Essentiality," under the smoke and mirrors of FIRREA, and its future Big Brother. ...
• Third we must understand Centralization, by government, as an Essentiality. ...
• Destroy economics, one destroys freedom, thus centralization may become possible, either in the short, near, or most likely, longer term, the time of which is immaterial in Essentialities. ...
• The Essentiality of Centralization of the realty valuation industry in the United States, with the primary target as the Appraisal Institute, has been in motion since 1989 (FIRREA). The tools of Centralization under the Federal Reserve are Blitzkrieg Lending and Blitzkrieg Appraising, using the GSEs, namely Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as the Gestapo, under this premier FIRREA legislation, a smoke and mirror trick intended to accomplish the opposite of what it stated. ... With these trendlines in motion, we will under the Essentiality of Centralization, create one helluva Centralized Lobotomized Trade Organization, called the Appraisal Institute. ...
• We have but little time to re-educate our membership pronto to preclude the Essentiality of Centralization of our Fraternity. ...

• The Degree of Centralization in Comparative Perspective .
• The purpose of this article is to examine whether party characteristics and contextual variables explain varying degrees of centralization of intra-partisan candidate selection methods. ... In order to carry out the study, an index of the degree of centralization is constructed. ... None of the institutional variables determines the degree of centralization of candidate selection. ...
• Key Words: candidate selection • centralization • decentralization • selection methods.

• Notebooks Duality between Knowledge Centralization and Market Completeness?.
• Markets, in this view, by coordinating individual actions, effectively calculate the solution (or a solution) without requiring centralization, exploiting computational parallelism and modularity. ...
• To put it a bit more formally, I wonder whether we can't establish, in some suitable class of models, a well-defined trade-off between knowledge centralization and the completeness of the system of markets, and hence between the difficulty of the central authority's allocation problem and the magnitude of the transaction costs paid by decentralized participants. ...

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