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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Cayman Islands"”.
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Behavioral Response of Hotel Employees to Hurricane Warnings on Grand Cayman, The Cayman Islands
… and in ways other than on the mainland. Grand Cayman, the largest of the three Cayman Islands, thrives on its financial and tourism industries. The Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort and The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman employ workers drawn from The Cayman Islands and a multitude of other …
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The Legacy of British Rule On LGBT Rights In Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
… (LGBT) rights in the Caribbean. Comparing the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, and Jamaica, an independent former colony of the United Kingdom, the situation for LGBT people is evaluated. While Jamaica has serious abuses and a concerning situation for the human rights of LGBT …
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Gatekeepers for global wealth: Transnational legal orders of the Cayman Islands offshore financial centre
… orders and ethnographic approach to the study of Cayman Islands professionals to understand how an offshore financial centre operates from the perspective of professionals who work in them. It offers a close-examination of a jurisdiction, one that is heavily referred to by critics of offshore, and …
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AN AFROCENTRIC ANALYSIS OF SCHOLARLY LITERATURE ON THE CAYMAN ISLANDS: LOCATION THEORY IN A CARIBBEAN CONTEXT
… has the prominent scholarly literature on the Cayman Islands promoted a discourse that serves to undermine the acknowledgment of African contributions as well as African self-identification in the country? Utilizing an Afrocentric inquiry, the method of content analysis was employed to …
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Assessing the feasibility of establishing a publicly traded global real estate fund domiciled in the Cayman Islands
… investments. The fund will be domiciled in the Cayman Islands, where it will benefit from a tax exempt status, limited regulations, and a well established investment fund industry. The global investment strategy of a synthetic REIT-type Cayman Islands fund is a novel investment strategy. Because …
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Professional Learning for Educators: Enhancing Practice and Parent-Teacher Relationships in Early Childhood Programs in the Cayman Islands
Many countries around the world including the Cayman Islands are drawing upon the principles of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) to develop curriculum frameworks for early childhood programs in response to the convergence of multidisciplinary research indicating the importance of …
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Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Work-Life Balance Among Female Public School Teachers (K-12) In The Cayman Islands
… how female public-school teachers (K-12) in the Cayman Islands experienced and managed work-life balance within the intersecting contexts of gender, culture, and institutional demands. Guided by phenomenological principles and framed through role theory, the study examined how participants …
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Disaster Risk Reduction in the Caribbean: Designing Optimal Policy Mixes
… net in Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands. Semi-structured open-ended interviews reveal that the Cayman Islands uses all three governance modes: hierarchical, market, and network. Hierarchical, with a relatively small governance structure, enables the market and network …
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Island time and other stories
… fiction linked through their setting in the Cayman Islands. The stories explore a diverse set of viewpoints and experiences present on the island, spanning across genders, races, socioeconomic statuses, time periods, nationalities, industries, and opinions about island life. Working through …
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Legal aspects of international tax planning for sportspeople and entertainers: a critical examination from a UK perspective, with comparative analysis from a US perspective, of the degree to which offshore financial centres can provide effective tools for international tax planning for sportspeople and entertainers
… the US, and between Jersey (offshore UK) and the Cayman Islands (offshore US). The third theme involves an analysis of offshore financial centres themselves, their history and characteristics, and their corporate, trust and partnership vehicles. This thesis has been researched and written up …
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Characterization of the prokaryotic community associated with the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta across the Caribbean
… USA; Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, and Little Cayman, Cayman Islands) to compare nitrogen cycling and prokaryotic community composition. The dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) fluxes of sponges were studied using nutrient analysis, stable isotope ratios, and isotope tracer experiments. Results …
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Tencent Holdings Limited : an IPO case study
… domiciling in the British Virgin Island and Cayman Islands, the cost of listing on the HKEx Main Board versus the NASDAQ National Market as well as the effects of US GAAP and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The study was concluded with the application of a relative valuation and discounted …
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Comparative Systematics of Subterranean Amphipod Crustaceans (Hadzioidea)
… cave on the southern coast of Cuba, <em>B. caymanensis </em>is described from a weakly brackish-water pool in a small cave on Grand Cayman Island in the Cayman Islands, <em>B. yagerae</em> is thoroughly redescribed, and a phylogenetic analysis of <em>Bahadzia</em> and a number of outgroup …