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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"American model"”.
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The economic and financial effects of the introduction of Super League in Rugby League.
… by the Rugby Football League, to apply the American professional team sports model to its game, making it the first British sport ever to attempt this. It investigates the economic, financial and social changes, which have occurred within the sport of rugby league, since the introduction of …
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Using the Finnish Response to Immigrants in Schools in the American System
… the transposability of the Finnish education model to the American model. Critics point to Finland’s relatively uniform demographics and political leanings in contrast to the dramatically varied cultures within the United States as a primary concern with comparing the two systems. While these …
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STAKEHOLDER CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES: APPLYING A SOCIO- ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO INTEGRATE HUMAN DIMENSIONS WITH U.S. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
… of ecological and social issues yet the model they use in the United States, the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC), relies heavily on natural sciences. Inclusion of social science perspectives is needed to provide a consistent methodology to assess the current and …
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Corporate governance, firm performance, and executive compensation : evidence from China
… in China is a unique combination of the Anglo-American model and the German system by including a board of director and a supervisory board simultaneously, and has two monitoring organs, independent directors and supervisory board, co-existing. One of the special features of the Chinese …
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Identity Negotiation of Young Arab Muslim Women Attending College in the United States and France
… in college experience between French and American samples. Based on these findings, this study supports a moderate secularism that takes religion into account as a minority identity with specific rights and protection. It objects to French bans on the veil, which single out veiling women …
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Text Integration for the Multilingual Printed Page
… has moved from the pluralistic Netherlands model to the American model where greater emphasis is now placed on English language acquisition and assimilation. Further, given the current global financial downturn (2009), it is unlikely that ‘best practice’ recommendations for the design of …
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Corporate governance in Japan and pressure to change: a critical analysis
… governance system and converge with the Anglo-American corporate governance system. From a critical theoretical perspective the study explores how the U.S. administration, pursuing a neo-liberal agenda, put pressure on the Japanese government to change the laws relating to corporate governance. …
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Anthropophagic Queer: A Study on Abjected Bodies and Brazilian Queer Theory
… <p>My readings reveal that, beyond the Anglo-American model of coming out and politics, there are other possibilities of affirmation, be it through acceptance or silence and failure, which are seen in this dissertation as a productive mode of queer representation. Moreover, the pieces of …
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The Influence of Weimar Culture on Pop Music in the 1970s and ‘80s
… production in response to the ‘authentic’ American model. The breakdown of the divisions between diametrically opposed principles and ideologies is featured as artists consistently sought to erode boundaries. Chapter 1’Beyond Divine Symmetry’ looks at radical ideas in philosophy, politics …
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Culture Industry Policy in China and the United States: A Comparative Analysis
… the most vigorous profit-making sectors in the American economy. The fact that the United States has turned from a cultural resource-scarce nation into a cultural resource-affluent giant not only points to a fundamental evolution in the global political patterns and expansion of economic …
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) within a South Indian (Keralian) mainstream school context
… the potential cultural influences of this North American model. The present study examines the incidence and interpretation of ADHD within the context of five mainstream schools in Trivandrum, South India. It also explored cultural influences impact upon the cultural validity and reliability of …
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Corporate governance and financial performance of Sri Lankan listed companies 2006-2010
… Although Sri Lanka basically follows an Anglo-American model of corporate governance, country institutional and cultural differences create a unique corporate governance environment in Sri Lanka. It is important to further develop the corporate governance code incorporating country specific …