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Elk and Deer Hunters in Washington State: Affiliations and Ethical Behavior
Elk and deer are particularly challenging natural resources to manage due to their mobility and the impacts of other species and humans both direct and indirect. A man-made lack of natural predators has created a need for hunting in order to control the population expansions of herds. Such efforts …
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The design and management of diverse affiliations : an exploration of international hotel chains
… how these risks are managed within these diverse affiliations through an investigation of organisational and inter-organisational design. This study draws on three fields of literature; international market entry, alliance and networks, and organisation design. A number of gaps have been …
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THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL AUDITORS' PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL AFFILIATIONS ON FINANCIAL REPORTING QUALITY
… corporate governance is professional and social affiliations. Accordingly, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX, 2002) limits some professional affiliations among management, the audit committee, and the external auditor (S206; S301), but only provides one limitation related to the internal auditor, which …
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Political Affiliations of American Economic Elites: Wayne County, Michigan, 1844, 1860, as a Test Case
… the economic careers, ethnic origins, religious affiliations and family backgrounds of a carefully selected economic elite. What is obtained by the extensive documentation of over one-hundred and seventy-five individuals is the opportunity to study the relationship of these attributes to …
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Engaged or just "friends": using social media for membership engagement or identity management through group affiliations
The purpose of this study investigation was to ascertain the engagement levels of emerging-aged adults that affiliate and hold membership in groups both on and offline. In-person and online participation levels were examined, and motives for online activity on groups' social media pages were …
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Do Gender, Delinquent Peer Affiliations, and Parenting Practices Moderate the Relation Between Callou-Unemotional Traits and Delinquency
… More specifically, it considered delinquent peer affiliations and ineffective parenting practices as moderators in this relation with the belief that those moderators would exert a different influence for males and females. The study was conducted with a sample of 238 adolescents (166 males, 72 …
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Disambiguating academic institution names: a comprehensive study of authority files, linguistic variations, and computational evaluation in PubMed affiliations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Mood Disorder and Hypertension Among Canadian Older Adults with Different Religious Affiliations: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the Baseline Data from the CLSA
Background: The relationship between mood disorder and hypertension is not well understood among Canadian older adults. No research has examined whether religiosity has any impact on this relationship in a Canadian older adult population. Objectives: To examine i) the association between mood …
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The effect of Cultural Affiliations on Attitudes, Beliefs, and Reactions to the Fighting Sioux Nickname Issue Between Northern Plains American Indian and Majority Culture College Students
<p>The main puqjo.sc of this study was to compare the effect of cultural affiliation on altitudes, beliefs, and reactions to the Fighting Sioux Nickname and logo issue for 60 Nonhem Plains American Indian college students and 61 non-Indian college students at the University of North Dakota. …
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THE INFLUENCE OF ANGEL INVESTOR CHARACTERISTICS ON VENTURE CAPITALIST DECISION MAKING
… 1995). Here, an organization's patterns of affiliations are often used by third parties to make inferences about intrinsic quality, which can assist in shaping the perception of that venture (Gulati and Higgins, 2003; Pollock et al., 2010). By extension, this dissertation focuses on how …
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Prior Commitments: Multiply Affiliated Women Writers and Modernism's Shifting Boundaries
… avant-garde, traditional, and mass cultural affiliations, Loy, Millay, and Parker created work that troubles the dividing lines often drawn in discussions of modernism between ironic and sentimental, experimental and traditional, and high and low art. Their skill at combining influences from …
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Searching for an Answer: A Humanbecoming Research Study
… contemplation, unease-ease, disparate affiliations, and enduring amid the arduous. The answer to the research question is searching for an answer is bewildering contemplation emerging with the unease-ease of disparate affiliations while enduring amid the arduous. Contributions for this …
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The effects of individual attributes, health behaviors, and religion on adolescent obesity: a study of African American and Caucasian adolescents
… sleeping pattern) as well as religion (religious affiliations and religious commitment) on African American and Caucasian adolescents' body weight. The sample for this study consisted of African American and Caucasian adolescents (N = 3,596) aged 14-18 years at Wave II of the National Longitudinal …
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Influence of Peer Group Norms on Aggression in Early Adolescence
… aggression. Children who kept stable group affiliations were influenced by both departing and final group characteristics (prospective and attractive influences), but children who changed their affiliations were affected only by later group characteristics (attractive influence). …
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Wildlife-associated recreation and wildlife management: views of birders, hunters, environmentalists, wildlife professionals, and forestry professionals
… recreation activities, and organizational affiliations, as well as their perceptions concerning approaches to wildlife management, habitat issues, and the social values attributed to wildlife. While responses often differed according to populations, the surveyed groups enjoyed many of the …
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Tenure Practices in Christian Higher Education: Policies of Member Institutions in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
… (b) these schools represent nearly all religious affiliations within the CCCU, and (c) they are large in relation to CCCU schools that do not grant tenure. The predominant reasons given for granting tenure are protection of academic freedom, mutual commitment by institution and faculty, and …
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A Contemporary Analysis of Shifting Contours of Jewish and Christian Identities
… attempts by Christians of varying denominational affiliations to incorporate Jewish rituals associated with Shabbat (Jewish Sabbath) observance into Christian practice and (2) attempts by academic Jesus-believers, self-identified as Gentile Christians and Messianic Jews, to underscore the …
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Intersectionality in Organisations: Exploring the Relationships between Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Women’s Work in a Postcolonial African Space.
… attitudes to gender and ethno-religious affiliations framed by colonial legacies and postcolonial policies, thereby developing an expanded Intersectionality which is able to adequately analyse experiences of Nigerian women working in academia. Postcolonial feminism is concerned with …
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The Concept of Overcoming the Political: An Intellectual Biography of SS-Standartenfuehrer and Professor Dr. Reinhard Hoehn, 1904-1944
… Revolution through his changes in political affiliations. It serves as a case study of the much debated relationship between the Conservative Revolution and Nazism.While developing as a radical right-wing Weimar intellectual, Hoehn joined a succession of Revolutionary Conservative …
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