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Showing 1 to 20 of 276 for “"Merchant"”.
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Merchant banks and corporate acquisitions
… provide a comprehensive analysis of how British merchant banks organise and approach contested bids within the institutional framework of the City.To this end., a number of exploratory hypotheses were derived from a pilot study with five merchant banks in the City as well as discussions with the …
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Effects of Merchant Credit on Farm Organization
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
I bring together ethnographic interviews with deck officers, studies in actor-network theory, explicit and tacit knowledge theory, and performativity theory in this work. I prove that bridge technologies produce what are called mimeomorphic (repeatable with some variation) actions that contain no …
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Enforcement of UK merchant shipping legislation: in 2 volumes
… and MAIB are addressed within the context of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and Regulations issued under the Act.<br/><br/>The thesis identifies inconsistencies of UK legislation when compared with European law and apparent lack of clarification within UK law. The analysis of administrative …
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Corporate Governance in Kuwait: the role of merchant families
… result of the political pressure exerted by the merchant families‘ party in the parliament who have established a network of actors between them and the government to prevent the issuance of any act that would threaten their power and control over the listed companies.
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Commercial Versus Spiritual Values in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
An Intense interest in Shakespeare has possessed the writer ever since she took a course in the rapid reading of hie plays ease years ago. Learning of this interest Rev. Paul F. Smith, English advisor, suggested the topic of this thesis and explained the new method of studying Shakespeare by …
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Understanding merchant adoption of m-payments in South Africa
… the success of m-payments in Cape Town, from the merchant's perspective. The research model is based on the Perceived Characteristics of Innovation (PCI) instrument developed by Moore and Benbasat (1991) which measures an individual's perception of adopting m-payments. Our results found the main …
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Valuation methods for capital investment in merchant power plants
… in competitive markets. Developers of the new merchant plants face a different set of risks than the regulated vertically integrated utilities that formerly owned the generating resources that supplied electricity to customers in their service area. This thesis evaluates the impact that …
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Feasibility Analysis for a Nuclear-Powered Commercial Merchant Ship
This thesis evaluated advanced reactor designs to determine the best option for installation onboard a civilian container ship in support of the IMO’s strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ships. Greenhouse gas reduction has been a major challenge within commercial maritime shipping …
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Murals and the Development of Merchant Activity at Chichen Itza
… of the art tradition is the apparent focus on merchant activity in the city. The influence and power of merchants strengthened during the transition from the Classic to Postclassic in Mesoamerica. With an increase in demand of foreign goods, new exchange relationships developed between centers …
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John Williams: A Merchant Banker in Springfield, Illinois, 1824-1864
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Merchant differentiation through integrative negotiation in agent-mediated electronic commerce
… other than price in their buying decisions and merchants usually prefer to differentiate themselves along alternative dimensions such as brand, customer service, delivery time, warranty, and other value-added services. Tete-a-Tete is an agent-mediated comparison shopping system that allows …
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The Governor, the Merchant, the Soldier, the Nun, and their Slaves
… Charles LeMoyne de Longueuil; prominent Montréal merchant Ignace Gamelin Jr.; decorated soldier Luc de La Corne St. Luc; and nun Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais. These four families can be understood as microcosms of some of the broader fluid and highly mobile commercial, social, intimate, …
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Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945
<p>This dissertation argues that merchant seamen, because of their inherent transience, diversity, and the unique nature of their work, occupied a marginal position in U.S. society, and that that marginalization produced a series of confrontations with shoreside people, communities, institutions, …
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Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281
… language inscriptions patronized by south Indian merchants in south India and China. Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, Indian Ocean trade was at its apex, connecting populations on European and Asian continents through complex interlocking networks. Southern India's Tamil region, in …
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Relative valuations of merchant and tolling LNG models considering alternate capital structures
… financing considerations. The first is the merchant model, in which the LNG asset owner takes title to the supply. The second is the tolling model, in which the LNG asset owner does not take title to the supply. Each of these scenarios will be valued using a high debt, low equity capital …
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The decline of UK merchant shipping, 1975-90: beyond the market view
… will provide explanation for the decline of UK merchant shipping, 1975-1990. This involves identifying and analysing a broad range of factors which have simultaneously affected the merchant fleet. In attaining this objective it has become apparent that prominent amongst the explanations is the …
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The Materiality of Family Identity: Archaeological Investigations of 19th Century Jewish Merchant Households
The study of family identity seeks to demonstrate the connections between material culture, individual and group identities, and social norms and beliefs from the Victorian Era. Identities are fluid and ever changing, as is material culture and the values and meanings assigned to them. …
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