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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"financial issues"”.
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An empirical analysis of financial issues in the Australian electronic commerce sector
E-commerce is a new phenomenon in the financial markets. The rapid advances in the information and communications technology sector have facilitated the advent of e-commerce and has resulted in global market euphoria over technology stocks in financial markets. This thesis is based on the premise …
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Factors influencing adult learners’ satisfaction and retention
… learners’ retention in higher education? 3) Do financial issues, and satisfaction influence adult learners’ retention in higher education? 4) Does satisfaction influence adult learners retention in higher education? ABSTRACT: Internal and external environmental factors impact adult learners’ …
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Perceptions of Retired Public School Teachers Regarding Retirement: Implications for Preretirement Planning
… was in developing a data base regarding the non-financial issues of retirement leading to the design of a preretirement preparation planning program.</p><p>A random sample of 393 retired North Dakota teachers from a population of 3930 was surveyed. Seventy percent (274) returned the eight-page …
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Estate Planning Documents In Virginia Among Adults 50 And Over With At Least One Adult Child
… Living Trust, Durable Power of Attorney for Financial Issues, and the Letter of Instruction. Health care-focused documents included Living Will and the Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care. An analysis was also conducted on the possession of a complete set of estate planning documents. …
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The Differences between Novice and Experienced Public Middle School Principals in the Decision to Remediate a Tenured Teacher
… a time-consuming process filled with legal and financial issues that will strain relationships in the school. However, giving a less than honest rating results in leaving the teacher in the classroom and not making decisions in the best interest of students.</p><p>Presented here is a review of …
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Decision-making processes in shipping acquisitions and shipbuilding
… of newbuildings, operational aspects as well as financial issues concerning a shipping company. The issues that shall be analyzed and discussed have been deduced after extended discussions with technical directors of some of the major Greek Shipping Companies. Once all issues at hand have been …
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Contract closeout pathologies and recovery strategies
… complexity, personnel skill level, contract financial issues, management concern, perceptions, timeliness, problematic steps, existing backlogs, inadequate manpower, and poor quality records/documentation. Recommendations included taking the appropriate steps to make contract closeout a …
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A Study of Department Chairs in Two-Year Colleges: A Comparison of the 1992 International Community College Chair Survey to Department Chairs in the North Texas Community College Consortium
… quality, providing technology, and managing financial issues. The regional sample expresses greater concern about the challenges of distance education, external accountability, and student matters.
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Relational Financial Satisfaction of Cohabiting Couples
… factors affecting cohabiting couples' relational financial satisfaction, defined as<em> the contentment an individual has with how financial issues are handled within his or her domestic romantic relationship</em>, and examined the relations within these factors. This study was a cross-sectional …
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The position of the emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), in the further development of the multilateral trading system.
… presidency, to informally discuss economic and financial issues.
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Dealing with violence against women in South Africa: A case study of the changing responses at the Saartjie Baartman centre for women and children in Cape Town (1999-2018)
… Centre was almost closed down because of serious financial issues. This study periodizes the Centre and its relations with the state, NGOs and tracks changes in programmes that were put in place and ongoing challenges. The thesis included secondary data, reviewing SBCWC Annual Reports, contextual …
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Meeting the mandate for clean water : an evaluation of privately managed U.S. water and wastewater systems
… in the United States. Due to a combination of financial, regulatory and operational challenges, however, it is becoming increasingly difficult for publicly owned and operated water utilities to provide affordable and safe water along with efficient service delivery. Since the 1980's, new actors …
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Testing for Constancy of Correlation in Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (Arch) Models
… a valuable tool for understanding economic and financial issues. As an example of its use in model specification, our test can be directly applied to the constant correlation multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models (Bollerslev (1990)). Bollerslev …
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Buddhist imagery in the work of Paul Gauguin: the impact of primitivism, theology and cultural studies
… as a result of separation from family, financial and health struggles. The personal context of the artists' life, I argue, influenced the appropriation of Buddhist imagery in his work. I examine the visual elements within Gauguin's work that link his subject matter to Buddhism and look …
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Property management in the public sector has specific characteristics which differentiates it from the private sector: evidence from an analysis of the South African market
… diverse as they include assets that have both financial and non-financial objectives. The study concludes that private sector property performance measures are appropriate for use in the public sector as they address financial issues. However, these measures are insufficient as they tend to …
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University Faculty Members’ Understanding of Their Role: Identity, Power, and Silence
… realities coupled with numerous governance issues). While participants were cognizant of the powers that affected their freedoms, they were less aware of the ways in which their position afforded them powers. Subtle but more potent forms of power were at play for tenured professors, but the …
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Modelling Extreme Forecast Errors in Wind Energy Using South African Wind Farms
… in particular cause serious operational and financial issues. This study uses data from a collection of wind farms in South Africa to model shortterm extreme forecast mistakes in wind energy generation. The blended generalised extreme value (bGEV) distribution and extremal mixture models are …
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Exploring how NPO leaders maintained effective organisational performance amid the Covid-19 pandemic
… Covid-19 crisis led organisations to suffer from financial issues and made it difficult for organisations to function virtually. Conversely, working virtually created hybrid working conditions that participants appreciated. Participants were resilient and agile, they empowered and motivated …
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The characteristics of the financial system of developing countries : a study of the Thai stock market
… an emphasis on empirical investigation of the financial market. Applying econometric methods to investigate empirical characteristics of the financial market and its components such as the stock market is an important area of study in finance, for academic, policy formulation and investment …
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Student nurse stress and perceived faculty support: A triangulation study with foreign-born baccalaureate nursing students
… the student experience: personal relationships, financial issues, having no life, lack of accommodation, language issues, stereotyping and discrimination, and cultural incompetence. Within each of these themes, there were twenty six subthemes. Martin Heidegger's theoretical framework received …
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