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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"UK and US"”.
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Estimating the number of cars in UK and US households
… concerns about transportation energy consumption and emissions across nations has created more interests to investigate factors responsible for households’ car ownership. While literature holds an extensive body of investigation usually compartmentalised in individual different disciplines, …
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The rights of employees on corporate insolvency: a UK and US perspective
… Dworkin’s interpretative approach to law may be used to resolve the uncertainties in how a balance can be achieved between employee protection and corporate rescue laws during corporate insolvency. There exist a significant number of academic theses on the role that insolvency law should play in …
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The Use of Blogs for Teaching and Learning in UK and US Higher Education
… This has led to a significant increase in the use and popularity of Social Media within many aspects of everyday life, particularly within the UK and US. One of the areas in which there has been a rise in the use of Social Media is within Higher Education (HE). Within HE there have been reports …
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A comparative study of contractor performance based on Japanese, UK and US construction practice
… of world economy requires that any robust benchmarking of contractor performance be conducted on an international level. The Japanese and US construction industries are internationally renowned as world leaders. Notwithstanding this, when at its best, UK construction has been shown to …
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Owner-occupied housing taxation: an equity evaluation of the UK and US tax systems.
This research identifies and quantifies horizontal and vertical inequities resulting from selected owner-occupied housing tax policies though micro-simulation. The simulations are spread sheet constructions underpinned by the respective UK and US tax systems. Within each country-specific simulation …
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The Legal Implications of Off Balance Sheet Financing: A Comparative Analysis of UK and US Positions
… its employment in a number of major corporate scandals. Previous investigations dominated by short works and consultancy papers have focused mainly on the financial aspects of OBF. This academic cross-country research on the use of OBF in the UK and US capital markets was undertaken to extend the …
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Essays on bank capital and balance sheet adjustment in the UK and US, and implications for regulatory policy
… interest in developing a better understanding of how market and regulatory driven capital targets affect bank behaviour. Such considerations are important to assessing the effects of shocks to banks' capital ratios on their supply of financial intermediation services to the real economy, …
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An analysis of the potential lessons that can be learned from UK and US financial services regulation in the context of the UAE
… embarks on a comparative analysis of regulatory landscapes in the financial sectors of the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US), and within the context of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The investigation was driven by the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) which exposed …
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Corporate Governance in the Banking and Finance Sector.
The focus of this thesis is an examination of certain weaknesses in the corporate governance at UK and US banks which constituted an underlying cause of the crisis. It considers the regulatory responses to these identified weaknesses and assesses to what extent these have led to improvements in …
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Bank capital: definition, adequacy and issue announcement effects
This dissertation focuses primarily on potential explanations for bank common stock abnormal returns, and their patterns, coincident with the announcement of bank capital issues. Potential influences considered include increased regulatory pressure, conflicting regulatory and market views of bank …
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The human dimension of domestic energy use : an integrated approach
… phenomenon which is dependent on both the social and technical characteristics of domestic households. In this thesis it is argued that such a phenomenon is best understood using an integrated approach, combining both the physical and social theories of energy use. Such an integrated approach is …
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Armed glances: the history and culture of sunglasses & cool
The thesis sets out to explore the enduring and widespread appeal of sunglasses in western popular culture as evident in the fields of fashion, film and advertising. The emergence of sunglasses as a fashion accessory is established through evidence from UK and US fashion magazines of the early …
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The Gulf War myth: a study of the press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict
This thesis examines the UK and US press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict. It outlines the propaganda model of the press identified by Herman and Chomsky and, through a qualitative study of press content, examines the extent to which the predictions of the model are fulfilled in the coverage. The …
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A multifactor model of investment trust discounts.
A closed-end fund, known as an investment trust in the UK and closed-end fund in the US, is a collective investment company that invests in shares of other companies. This study attempts to describe and explain the persistence of the excess discount return on UK investment trusts and US closed-end …
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Democracy promotion in reverse? An evaluation of the UK and the US’s democracy promotion programmes (2005-2017).
… contribution to knowledge by arguing that UK and US democracy promotion is in reverse. In order to fully understand democracy promotion in an era of democratic decline, this thesis draws upon two dominant theories: democratisation and foreign policy analysis. This thesis critically …
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An analysis of U.K property funds classified according to U.S styles : core, value-added and opportunistic
This analysis explores the feasibility of sorting UK funds into three different styles, which are widely used in the US. In an overview of major factors' impact on the expected risk of a fund, the analysis shows that leverage is by far the most influential factor, followed by the subtype …
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BALANCING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, INNOVATION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN COPYRIGHT LAW: THE CASE OF GENERATIVE AI MODELS
… which is built around the anthropocentric standard of the “author’s own intellectual creation.” Under this framework, autonomously generated outputs are ineligible for protection as copyright requires a human creator capable of making ‘free and creative choices. The legal uncertainty emerges …
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Using Intersectionality Theory to explore the experiences of students from African Caribbean and South Asian heritage and who have a Special Educational Need and/or Disability (SEND) in Further Education.
The coronavirus outbreak disproportionately affected ethnically minoritised groups in the UK and US. This health crisis coincided with mass Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in response to the killing of unarmed African Americans by the police. Both event series brought awareness to the impact of …
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I make, therefore I am: Agency, action, affordance, and the path to creative identity
… creativity research from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Transdisciplinary theories of creativity and identity are discussed, and the emerging theory of circuits of creative affordance is found to be a useful means for considering creative identities. Three research questions are …
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International financial reporting standards (IFRS): exploring financial evidence from Australia, Germany, Greece, the UK and the US
… adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in 2005. IFRS is a set of unique, high-quality standards that aim to increase the transparency and comparability of information in firms’ financial statements. However, since their implementation, issues have arisen, such as their …
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