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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Legal Decisions"”.
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Application of statistical decision theory to legal decisions
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1964.
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Assimilative demands: The psychological impact of legal decisions on lesbians’ lives
… were to examine the impact of structural, legal covering demands on psychological domains and develop a grounded understanding of these demands in lesbian women. A mixed-method approach was utilized. Forty-six lesbian-identified women recruited from community venues participated in the …
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INTERNAL DEMOCRACY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL OUTCOMES: A STUDY OF STATUTES, ELECTORAL DISPUTES AND LEGAL DECISIONS IN NIGERIA (1999-2019)
… of IPD in Nigeria have necessitated significant legal and institutional reforms over the years. However, the reluctance of party officials to abide by and enforce these reforms has rendered – and continues to render - the laws ineffective. Using a socio-legal approach, this thesis examines the …
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The effect of legal judgements on responsibility taking behaviour : an exploratory study
… jurisprudence school of law point out that legal decisions may have important psychological consequences. They propose that research should peristently examine the impact of legal decisions on the psychological functioning of individuals. Judged by letters and articles within the media, one …
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A brief screening instrument for use by lawyers to assess the capacity of older clients with memory deficits
… in recent years . Older people frequently face decisions that require the consultation of a lawyer, such as issues over wills and financial investments. Preventative law advocate lawyers act as therapeutic agents, preventing stress and discomfort in elderly clients making legal decisions. In …
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Miranda rights comprehension and advice to juveniles
… have been implemented to assist juveniles with legal decisions, but adults’ understanding of Miranda rights is also limited. The present study examined whether adults’ Miranda knowledge related to their estimates of juveniles’ Miranda understanding and their advice to juveniles being questioned …
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New Surveillance Technologies and the Invasion of Privacy Rights
… These changes and improvement need new legal decisions for new kinds of privacy invasions. This study explores the scope of privacy right, particularly when a technological surveillance has occurred by law enforcement agencies. It focuses in particular on increasing law enforcements' …
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Stigmatization of Psychological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Effects of Diagnostic Labeling in a Legal Context
… labels as mitigating evidence when making legal decisions, whereas other labels may be less mitigating.</p>
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Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijra Suicides in India
… the recent past there have been many public and legal discussions considering decriminalizing suicide attempts. How is suicide conceptualized within criminal law? What are the knowledges that inform the complex and shifting views, claims, and legal decisions that constitute the legal regulation …
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Best Interests Of The Child Principle In The Context Of Parent Separation Or Divorce : As Conceptualised By The Community
… child (BIC) is a construct that is central to legal decisions in several areas including parenting matters in the Family Courts, guardianship, child-protection, and adoption. Despite the centrality of the construct, BIC has not been operationalised (Thomson & Molloy, 2001) and there is little …
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Enriching deontic logic with typicality
Legal reasoning is a method that is applied by legal practitioners to make legal decisions. For a scenario, legal reasoning requires not only the facts of the scenario but also the legal rules to be enforced within it. Formal logic has long been used for reasoning tasks in many domains. Deontic …
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The impact of court and legislative decisions on policies and practices regarding race-targeted financial aid at selected public universities in Virginia
There have been numerous legal challenges to affirmative action programs in education. Two legal decisions that have directly affected race-targeted financial aid programs in Virginia schools are the court ruling in <u>Podberesky v. Kirwan</u>, (1994) and the Virginia statute: Participation in or …
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Migrant Filipino Seafarers In the Global Cruise Industry: Discourse, Risk and the Geographic Limits to Labor Flexibility
… embody in their working lives on ships. Recent legal decisions in U.S. courts relating to the employment and protection of international cruise ship workers have repositioned the historical relationships between seafarers and their employers, and have created a new extraterritorial legal space …
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Rhetoric Beyond the Digital/Physical Divide: The Internet and Digital and Physical Hybridity
… on the app. In the second case study, I consider legal decisions in the United States focusing on the rhetorical moves that make internet interactions matter within the context of internet surveillance and privacy rights. In the final case study, I consider online-only writing courses and the …
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California Education Foundations: A Mixed Methods Study
… the last 30 years as a result of a number of legal decisions related to equity and ballot initiatives such as Proposition 13. One mechanism for channeling private funds to public schools is nonprofit education foundations linked to schools or districts. The total number of these foundations …
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The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright
Copyright, broadly defined, is a legal form of proprietary ownership of authored works, including literary, pictorial, musical, and selected other intellectual kinds. Ideally, one who is familiar with the law should know whether something they have created is protected by copyright (and to what …
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Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias: when changing the font changes your mind
Research on the confirmation bias (Nickerson, 1998) demonstrates that people selectively seek evidence that confirms their prior beliefs and expectations. This selective search for information allows people to analyze new information in an efficient, but shallow way. The present research discusses …
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Causes of the decline in the loss of vegetated palustrine wetlands in the U.S. 1955 - 2009
… federal legislation, regulatory programs, legal decisions, economic factors, and changes in society's view and understanding of the importance of wetlands and the need to merge conservation programs with agricultural policies. Economic factors exert a significant impact in decision-making …
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The Authoritative Text: Raymond of Penyafort's Editing of the 'Decretals of Gregory IX' (1234)
… of Penyafort (1175-1275), actively shaped the legal content of the Decretals through eliminating, rewording, or supplementing the individual texts has remained elusive, in part because of the complicated manuscript tradition and in part because of our ignorance of all his sources. This …