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Showing 1 to 20 of 440 for “"Penalties"”.
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Amorality and morality penalties in selection decisions
This dissertation investigates the systematic patterns of neglecting and underappreciating the morality of candidates in selection decisions. In Chapter 1, I propose that selectors tend to seek out information on competence and sociability but ignore morality. Three studies with over 2,400 working …
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Income Tax Penalties and the Doctrine of Punishment
… As one discusses the different types of penalties chargeable in terms of the Admin Act it becomes evident how sternly it can be applied. Furthermore, the dissertation investigates how burdensome the regime can be and what remittance regime is available to taxpayers if they are penalised. …
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Optimal Pricing for a Service Facility with Congestion Penalties
… the congestion level in the facility incurs penalties that greatly influence profit. We model congestion penalties in three different manners: holding costs, balking customers and impatient customers. First, we assume that congestion-dependent holding costs are incurred per unit of time. …
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Control, incentives and penalties in the transit contracting process
… to study the relevance of the incentives and penalties arrangement in the contract and its influence in the service outcome.
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A Multi-Method Analysis of Hospital Readmissions and Medicare Penalties
… the types of hospitals most likely to receive penalties, and evaluates how hospitals respond to these penalties. The work is presented in three essays. The first essay provides a comprehensive literature review of factors associated with 30-day, 90-day, and 1-year stroke readmissions, along …
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The enforcement of financial penalties by magistrates' courts: an evaluative study
… show that a large proportion of financial penalties are in arrears, with significant amounts being written-off. There have been various attempts in recent years to improve the enforcement process, which underscores the need for an evaluation of current policies and practices. The thesis is …
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Mdl-Based Band Selection and Adaptive Penalties for Hyperspectral Image Segmentation
… (GA) MRF criterion with boundary and region penalties. A theoretical analysis shows that GA penalties only minimize the error rate if the scene has certain weak symmetry properties. For example, all boundaries must be equally rough. This is not always satisfied in practice, so we also …
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Risk penalties for enhanced reliability in co-optimized markets with uncertain generation
… In this paper, we examine the role of risk-based penalties in developing alternate designs in which firms combine energy bids associated with uncertain real-time availability with stable reserves bids. Such a study is carried out in a regime where firms have access to a day-ahead market, an …
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Penalties for Foodborne Illness: Jury Decisions and Awards in Foodborne Illness Lawsuits
This study examined how case attributes impact plaintiff success and payouts in jury settled foodborne illness (FBI) lawsuits. Given the risk to firms in terms of potentially large payouts, future litigation, and lost reputation, the results may provide economic incentives for food firms and others …
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Modifying landscapes with penalties in iterative improvement for solving distributed constraint satisfaction problems.
… modifying the cost landscape with two forms of penalties which are attached to individual domain values. We use one type of penalty to perturb solutions and the other to help agents learn about (and avoid) domain values frequently associated with local optima. We argue that, compared to other …
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Efficacy of Administrative Monetary Penalties in Compelling Compliance with Federal Agri-Food Statutes
… and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act, 1995, an omnibus statute, has improved compliance with the Health of Animals Act and the Plant Protection Act. It does this by critically examining the purposes underlying the omnibus statute, which are to provide a fair and efficient …
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The Muslim News: Playing Muslims in the Media Pitch, Penalties and Sport Champions
The portrayal of Muslims in British mainstream media, particularly newspapers, is a subject of significant academic interest. Previous studies find that British newspapers frequently represent Muslims as a distinct and homogenous group, associating them with terrorist groups and framing them as a …
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Administrative penalties as a tool for resolving South Africa’s environmental compliance and enforcement woes
… in numerous jurisdictions. Administrative penalties in the Netherlands and United Kingdom (the roots of SA’s civil and common law systems, respectively) are evaluated to identify best practices for administrative penalties. In SA’s environmental regime, there is an ‘administrative fine’ …
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Variable screening and model selection in censored quantile regression via sparse penalties and stepwise refinement
Many variable selection methods are available for linear regression but very little has been developed for quantile regression, especially for the censored problems. This study will look at the possibilities of utilizing some existing penalty variable selection methods on censored quantile …
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Toward a theory on speeding and penalties : have the increased fines reduced speeding in Massachusetts?
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1989.
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The effect of sighting, distance, and perceived mental status on the allocation of rewards and penalties
… is, make any difference in the way rewards and penalties are meted out, particularly if one of the participants is seen as mentally ill by the other. It was expected that when face-to-face and close to one another, a normal teacher would over-reward someone thought to be mentally ill. This …
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The evolution of drug laws in America and the variation in penalties and sentencing in state courts
… in the United States, the variation in statutory penalties between selected states, and to determine if the written law is reflected in sentencing and prison admissions. Penalties for felony possession and illicit trafficking for five states-Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, and New York---were …
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The Effects of Intent and Consequences on the Assignment of Penalties Related to HIV Non-Disclosure Situations
… or interdependently when recommending penalties. The present study seeks to explore the effects of intent and consequences on recommended penalties in HIV non-disclosure situations. A 3(intent) × 2(consequence) ANOVA design was conducted with recommended penalties for time in prison and …
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Estimating Penalties for Violating the Minimum Wage and Hiring Illegal Immigrants: The Case of the U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Industry
… of the present research was to estimate minimum penalties that would provide no monetary incentive for the average U.S. apparel manufacturing firm to violate the minimum wage and the ban on hiring illegal immigrants. The minimum per-violation penalties that were estimated to deter violation of …
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