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Showing 1 to 20 of 797 for “"Illegal"”.
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Manage illegal dumping of solid waste
With the growing generation of waste globally, illegal dumping events are increasing as well. The generation of illegal dumping has a range of environmental, economic and social impacts. It has become a global concern to properly manage illegal dumping. Illegal dumping is a kind of behaviour. …
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Three Essays on Illegal and Temporary Migration
My dissertation focuses on two of the most important aspects concerning migration, from a host country point of view: undocumented immigration on the one hand, and temporary versus permanent immigration on the other hand. The thread of my work is the issue of immigrants integration in the …
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Strategies of survival among illegal migrants in Montreal
… the migration and employment strategies of illegal migrants in the labour market in Montreal. The migratory flows discussed are permanent in nature. The thesis also examines the role of networks in initiating the migration process and in securing employment in Montreal. It includes an …
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Illegal drug trafficking and economic development in Colombia
… of economic development. Revenues earned by illegally introducing drugs into industrialized countries were recycled through the parallel foreign exchange market and used to finance illegal imports. The industrialist class which had formally enjoyed a protected market was now forced to …
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Three essays on illegal transactions in international trade
This thesis analyzes the effect of uncertainty on illegal transactions. The major results of the existing literature are reexamined with regards to trade tax revenues and the social welfare effects of smuggling. New insight is gained on the theoretical implications of smuggling by analyzing how the …
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Determination of illegal and toxic ingredients in face creams
… consumer health, with some products containing illegal and toxic ingredients that can lead to serious dermatological and systemic effects. This study focuses on the identification and quantification of illegal and toxic ingredients in fifty-eight skin cosmetic creams marketed to reduce …
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Word associations and phonologically legal and illegal sound sequences
… making a choice between phonologically legal and illegal nonwords. An additional aspect was also investigated, this being the role of association value in making a choice. In Experiment 1, which used the original pairings found in Messer (1967), it was found that adults prefered the legal nonwords …
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Criminal Liability for Illegal Reproduction of Literary, Scientific, Artistic Work or Object of Related Rights, Distribution, Transportation or Storage of Illegal Copies Thereof /
The dissertation analyses criminal liability for illegal reproduction of literary, scientific, artistic work or object of related rights, distribution, transportation or storage of illegal copies thereof. Conception and attributes of intellectual property, evolution of laws of intellectual property …
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The Use of Force on Humanitarian Grounds: Illegal but Legitimate?
… issue that is discussed considers whether an ‘illegal’ opposition force can in fact have some legitimacy. That is, can a use of force be justified even though it stretches the boundaries of international law, in particular an enabling UNSC Resolution. The predominant justification that is …
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The Shadow of Effectiveness: An Investigation of Illegal Corporate Activity
… and empirically, several forms of corporate illegality and their antecedent conditions. Specifically, the violation types are (a) illegal mergers and acquisitions, (b) anti-competitive trust behavior, (c) misrepresentation, (d) pollution, and (e) illegal domestic and foreign payments …
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Historical processes and their effect on growth of illegal settlements
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Plotting transformations--the illegal land subdivision process in Delhi, India
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Fast Discovery of Illegal State Cubes for Sequential Equivalence Checking
… is the determination of a sufficient portion of illegal states such that the two designs are equivalent outside of the illegal states. This work proposes a low-cost method to discover a subset of the illegal state space of a circuit by simulating and grouping some state variables to determine if …
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Illegal aliens out! : making sociological sense of the new restrictionist frame
In a 2005 op-ed piece, Wall St. Journal columnist Peggy Noonan queried, "What does it mean that your first act on entering a country is breaking its laws?" Unauthorized noncitizen populations have increased rapidly, from 3 million in 1990 to over 11 million in 2009. In the first decade of the …
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Irish Institutional Discourses of Illegal Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
This dissertation examines illegal immigration in the Irish context. Its principal aim is to investigate how illegal immigration was responded to and discursively represented in Irish institutional texts between 2002 and 2009. An analysis of institutional texts can cast light upon how power …
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Safeguarding the illegal rethinking the interface between labour and immigration laws
The rendering of work by foreigners without the authorization to work is a contentious issue in South Africa. South Africa possesses one of the most progressive Constitutions, yet many are left at the fringes of the economy with little protection. Despite constitutional entrenchment of fundamental …
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An Examination of the Media's Framing of the Illegal Street Racing Issue
… and public policymakers have assumed that illegal street racing has appealed to a single portion of the driving population—young adults driving modified vehicles. However, this assumption has been based solely on anecdotal information and has never been empirically investigated in the …
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