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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"first names"”.
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On a First Name Basis: Effects of African American Sounding First Names on the Hiring Decision
… effect of applicant race and type of applicant first name on hiring decisions. Two- hundred and five participants acted as mock hiring managers and reviewed an application and resume, completed an evaluation of the applicant’s job related characteristics, and made hiring and starting salary …
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Test of policies Apollo 7.6
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Changing Personal Names and Titles in Written Farsi (1921-1978): A Sociolinguistic Study With Pedagogical Implications
… 1978: the Persianization and simplification of first names (FNs), last names (LNs) and titles (Ts). Persianization refers to the replacement over time of Arabic Ns and Ts with Persian Ns and Ts. Simplifications refers to the substitution over time of mono-lexical Ns and Ts for Ns and Ts that are …
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Cease Fire: One Woman's Search for Self in a Culture of War
… and enemies that graced and plagued a career. First names and nicknames were used to protect the privacy of a few and render respect for the surviving children of a fallen two.</p>
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Naming Venus: An Exploration of Goddesses, Heroines, and Famous Women
… features are named after famous women, female first names, heroines, or goddesses. However, 45% of those names are European in origin — and only 2% come from South America.</p> <p>My capstone project, Naming Venus — which can be accessed at this link: <a …
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Lenkų bajorų integracija Žemaitijoje: migracija, kalba, atmintis XVI a. –XVIII a /
… features of their anthroponymy: the spread of names that sounded unusual to the local Samogitians, the formation of surnames of the new-arrivals, how these surnames were presented in chancelleries and alike, and unsual instances where Polish surnames were “Lithuanian-ised”. In this study, the …
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Essays in Behavioural Corporate Finance
… in different corporate finance contexts. The first chapter introduces a novel proxy for managerial conservatism trait by utilising the hand-written signature styles of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs). The proxy is motivated from psychology research, which …
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Explorations of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity
… I conduct this investigation using real first names, allowing exploration of sound symbolism in existing language. Further, by demonstrating an association between phonemes and an abstract dimension, I widen the scope of sound symbolism, and provide a novel test case for the potential …
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Sprachliche und soziale Normen : quantitative Studie zum Einfluss von Abweichungen des sprachlichen Standards und ethnisch markierten Vornamen bei der Leistungsbewertung von Schulaufsätzen
Die vorliegende Masterarbeit hat in einer Einstellungsstudie untersucht, welchen Einfluss Einstellungen gegenüber sprachlichen Varietäten und gegenüber der wahrgenommenen ethnischen Herkunft von Sprecher*innen auf die Leistungsbewertung von Schulaufsätzen haben. In Anlehnung an die Debatte um …
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Comparative Study on Cultural Dimensions of Organisational Change in India and New Zealand IT Industry
… teamwork, addressing managers by their first names, and valuing income over personal relationships.
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A Corpus-based analysis of the Construction of Identities in the BBC Sitcom Citizen Khan
… of transcripts of the thirteen episodes from the first two seasons of the sitcom. The analysis utilised an array of different analytical tools and approaches to carry out an in-depth textual and visual analysis. Corpus software was used to carry out an initial quantitative analysis which …