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Showing 1 to 20 of 2077 for “"fair"”.
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Fair value accounting
The thesis is devoted to fair value accounting. Fair value accounting implies that assets and liabilities get measured and reported in firm´s financial statements at their market value. The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the conceptual foundations of fair value accounting. The thesis is …
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The Fair Wind
This collection of poetry and fiction deals with how physical landscape and environment affect the human condition. The critical introduction cites much of the process and theory involved in the composition of these works, so that readers may come to a greater understanding of them and of the …
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Fair Selective Regression
… Specifically, we define two notions of fairness with respect to these subgroups: monotonic prediction error in the coverage rate, and similar prediction error between subgroups. In each case, we develop and analyze appropriate fairness constraints on the feature set that yield fair …
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Social Accounting and Unethical Behavior: Does Looking Fair Undermine Actually Being Fair?
… that some business activities might seem unfair to subordinates. Social accounts—the explanations managers give their subordinates for those decisions—are known to be a useful tool for managing subordinates’ fairness concerns. Over three decades of research, we learn that social accounts are …
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Fair Value Opinion Shopping
… to provide empirical evidence related to fair value opinion shopping. Experiment 1 provides initial evidence that managers fair value opinion shop for external valuation professionals in the current regulatory environment. Further, the results of Experiment 1 suggest that informing …
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Groton Fair--a revival
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1952.
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Achieving Fair Distribution with Choice
This thesis studies deterministic movement over toroidal grids (and more generally, Cayley graphs on groups), integrating local information, bounded memory and choice at individual nodes. The research is motivated by recent work on deterministic random walks, and applications in multi-agent …
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The state fair in Kansas
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1949 K58
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Fair electronic exchange using biometrics
Fair exchange between two parties can be defined as an instance of exchange such that either both parties obtain what they expected or neither one does. Protocols that facilitate such transactions are known as “fair exchange protocols”. We analyze one such protocol by Micali that demonstrates fair …
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Fair and robust graph mining
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Towards Accurate and Fair Deepfake Detection
… generalization. Subsequently, we introduce FairAlign, a new method to reduce bias and improve fairness in deepfake detection by aligning conditional embedding distributions in a high-dimensional kernel space. Our approach reduces information related to sensitive attributes in the embedding …
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Algorithmic foundation of fair graph mining
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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The Moral Foundations of Fair Labelling
This thesis examines the principle of fair labelling in criminal law. It argues that fair labelling is a principle of justice concerned with the just allocation of blame in offence (i) naming (ii) differentiation, and (iii) persistence or duration. The first two chapters examine the concept of a …
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Fair game : learning from La Salada
… a designer? An exceptional case study, La Salada Fair, provides initial design principles. A large commercial market covering a dense half square mile in Buenos Aires, Argentina, La Salada represents the increasing tendency for users to shape sophisticated and culturally influential urban spaces …
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The Boston Fair Housing Commission : a case study in the local implementation of the federal Fair Housing Act
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Multicultural, gender-fair infusion index and survey
1 PDF file (vi, 60)
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Preference Based Fair Allocation of Limitted Resources
The fair division of scarce resources among agents is a challenging issue across a range of applications, especially when there is competition among agents. One application of resource division is in Air Traffic Management (ATM). This dissertation is motivated by the fairness issues that arise in …
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Liquidity, institutional ownership and regulation fair disclosure
… on liquidity; and 2) the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure on institutional investors and liquidity. Our study addresses both issues with the purpose of attaining a better understanding and explanation of this relationship. We classify institutional ownership according to Bushee's (1998, …
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Efficient and Fair Scheduling for Wireless Networks
We then consider the problem of fair end-to-end resource allocation in wireless networks. First, we consider the problem of allocating resources (time slots, frequency, power, etc.) at a base station to many competing flows, where each flow is intended for a different receiver. The channel …
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