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The London Committee
1936 to 1939 were explosive years in Spanish history. For some time, social and economic forces complicated by clericalism, regionalism, isolationism, and idealism had been building up to a forceful climax. For two centuries the Spanish state had been corrupt and weak. When the State collapsed in …
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The Committee of Safety
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. May 1911. 1 computer file (PDF); approximately 49 pages.
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Essays on Committee Decision Making
In Chapter 3 we review commonly identified differences between common law and civil law legal traditions. Although it becomes harder to draw a clear line between the two legal traditions, identifying differences can be done at least in theory. We review the economic literature that has modeled and …
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Decision making by agent committee
… with one another. I implemented a program, AgentCommittee, which incorporates such behavior. AgentCommittee uses a set of characteristics that include extroversion, fatigue, resistance, confidence, and competitiveness in a series of one-on-one interactions to arrive at a group decision. The goal …
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Audit Committee Oversight of Fraud Risk
<p>This study examines how audit committees (ACs) fulfill their responsibilities for assessing fraudulent financial reporting (FFR) risk by focusing on the social influence/risk aversion relationship. Although the AC’s responsibility for assessing FFR risk is arguably one of its most important …
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Manual of the Ashram Management Committee
Nonfiction
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Policymaking in the Egyptian Olympic Committee
… analyzes policymaking in the Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC). Two prominent policies of the EOC are selected: preparing for the Olympic Games and boycotting the 1980 Olympic Games.
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Effectiveness of the 4-H advisory committee process as perceived by 4-H professionals and advisory committee members
… program in Louisiana. Parish 4-H advisory committees in each of the 64 parishes are involved in the addressing the needs of the clientele. The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the 4-H Advisory Process as perceived by 4-H professionals in Louisiana and …
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Audit committee effectiveness in Victorian local government
… particular reference to the role of the audit committee. The primary research question is: ‘Do audit committees in Victorian local government function effectively?’ The secondary research question is: ‘Do the investigations into local government maladministration and malfeasance enhance …
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Audit committee effectiveness: Australia and Saudi Arabia
The mere presence of the audit committee does not necessarily translate into an effective monitoring body. As a result, the search for mechanisms to enhance corporate governance and increase the quality of financial reports has mostly focused on the structure of audit committees. This thesis …
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Restructuring the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee
How can the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee (JWC) be restructured as a problem-solving entity and how can this newly structured JWC contribute to mutual water security in the region? While the Israel-Palestine conflict remains unresolved, thousands in the region lack a reliable water …
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From the Committee of 100 to the Committee to Re-Elect the President: The Political Campaigns of Richard M. Nixon
<p><em>From the Committee of 100 to the Committee to Re-elect the President: The Political Campaigns of Richard M. Nixon</em> offers the reader a comprehensive biography of Richard M. Nixon through the lens of his political campaigns. This thesis illustrates how Richard Nixon became one of the …
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Determinants and Consequences of Risk Management Committee Formation
… institutions voluntarily forming risk management committees (RMCs). Specifically, I determine whether RMCs are related to a change in risk outcomes, an increase in profitability, a change in hedging and trading derivative structures, and greater financial reporting quality during the …
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The Determinants and Consequences of Disclosure Committee Adoption
… that companies voluntarily adopt disclosure committees to aid in preparing company disclosures. In this paper, I investigate the determinants and consequences of disclosure committee adoption. I find that companies with material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting and …
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The Committee on Militarism in Education, 1925-1940
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7309876.pdf: 14173048 bytes, checksum: ce0cc6f31f9d54b9805bf83ff4dd1688 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The Congressional Conference Committee: Seventieth to Eightieth Congresses
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:25:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0001670.pdf: 19092105 bytes, checksum: 83dcfbf603ced510d60f95b875605407 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1950
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Committee of N : playful design in teacher education
Committee of N is a collaborative card game where players deepen their learning about educational policy and the history of education in the U.S. by creating new kinds of schools based on design constraints implemented through random card draws. In the core game play, players are randomly assigned …
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AUDIT COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT OF INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
<p>This study investigates the processes audit committees employ to fulfill their obligation to oversee internal control over financial reporting (ICFR). Specifically, I explore audit committee processes within five fundamental internal control components: control environment, risk assessment, …
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ThermoEquil: a secure protocol for committee-based permissionless blockchains
… work with other decentralized systems. The committee-based protocol is proposed to split the overheadsof processing transactions among multiple, smaller groups of nodes to work in parallel to maximizeperformance. However, most existing solutions compromise security or decentralization …
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