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Showing 1 to 20 of 292 for “"justifications"”.
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Justifications for piercing the corporate veil
According to the decision in Salomon a company is recognised as a legal entity separate and distinct from its shareholders. Although this fundamental rule has had a considerable influence in company law worldwide, it cannot be absolute and, as such, must allow for exceptions where the courts may …
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Justifications for KLM-style defeasible reasoning
… "explain" how they were able to draw inferences. Justifications are one form of explanations, and research into them has increased throughout the years as explainable artificial intelligence researchers have highlighted their importance in creating trustworthy and reliable systems. This …
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Persons and partiality: limitations on consequentialist justifications
… people, but rather should limit consequentialist justifications for these types of actions. Such a distinction addresses the air of paradox that surrounds restrictions because it allows for the possibility that agent-relative reasons justify why agents may assault or kill when the agent is …
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War in Islamic Law : justifications and regulations
This study examines the justifications and regulations for going to war in both international and domestic armed conflicts under Islamic law. It studies the various kinds of use of force by both state and non-state actors in order to determine the nature of the Islamic law of war, specifically, …
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Enhancing children's educational television with design rationales and justifications
This research involves creating a system that provides parents with tools and information to help children learn from television. Children who converse with their parents during television viewing are better able to evaluate and make sense of content. However, children might learn more if they are …
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The Management of Justice through Accounts: Constructing Acceptable Justifications
… and complaints). The results indicated that justifications delivered by the expert trainer were more acceptable than non-experts under conditions of lower involvement (except when a non-expert delivered a specific justification). This effect reversed itself, however, under higher involvement. …
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Examining the Battle House: the greek revival, religion, race relations, and slavery justifications
Reasons for the fervor in the United States for the Greek Revival style in architecture in the nineteenth century have been revived in recent years by Barksdale Maynard’s challenge of Talbot Hamlin’s widely accepted 1944 argument about the popularity of this architecture. However, little has been …
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The Effects of Audit Review and Audit Risk on Auditors' Justifications and Judgments
This study adds to an interesting and growing area of accounting research by providing new evidence about the strategic persuasion behaviors subordinates use when they expect to be reviewed. It is crucial to understand these behaviors since they may affect reviewer evaluations of and responses to …
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Assessing the Independent Role of Moral Foundations In Attitudes Toward Various Justifications For Abortion
<p>Although many states have legal frameworks that restrict abortion to certain situations, largely associated with health risks to the mother, child or both, other factors, such as financial stability, emotional readiness, and partner's presence, are not covered by existing laws, though they may …
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Justifications for the Implementation of Shadow IT Solutions by Functional Departments in an Organisation
… behaviour is actually reasonable. Understanding justifications for SIT is essential for IT managers since they can understand them as justification and not confuse them with other phenomena and at the same time they can devise appropriate strategies to counter them. IT Managers who are not aware …
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Enlightened innovation and the ancient constitution : the intellectual justifications of the Brabant Revolution (1787-1790)
This study is a revisionist history of the Brabant Revolution in its political and intellectual context. The argument presented here stands in contrast with standard 'whiggish' interpretations of the revolutionary movement in the Austrian Netherlands or the narrowing of its analysis to the …
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Justifications for re-sharing non-consensual pornography on social media platforms: A case of South Africa
… main objective of this study was to explore the justifications used by social media users for re-sharing non-consensual pornography. The purpose was to understand how these justifications are used as neutralisations to continue to perpetuate this behaviour. Research Design/Methodology: This study …
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Academic dishonesty: a study in the magnitude of and justifications for academic dishonesty among college undergraduate and graduate students
… students cheat as well as to examine if the justifications for cheating differed amongst these groups. Cheating behavior scores and justifications for engaging in academically dishonest behavior scores were obtained from 138 college undergraduate and graduate students through the use of a …
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Virtual child pornography – policing fantasy? A critical evaluation of the justifications for the criminalisation of virtual child pornography (VCP)
… can be justified. The critical evaluation of the justifications for criminalisation consider the philosophical and moral arguments for criminalisation as well as the views expressed by those who responded to the government consultation, data obtained using a Freedom of Information Act request and …
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Policy, values & incommensurability: the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Project
… the light of scientific principles, why do the justifications for implementation differ from justifications for the legislation? The predator reintroduction being carried out under the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan, now 19 years old, has recently catalyzed a national controversy …
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The analytical approach of the European Court of Human Rights in surveillance cases—the implications, justifications, and future of the Court’s reasoning, with a focus on the legislative impact in Ireland
A notable feature of the surveillance case law of the European Court of Human Rights has been the tendency of the Court to focus on the “in accordance with the law” aspect of the Article 8 ECHR inquiry. This focus has been the subject of some criticism, but the impact of this approach on the manner …
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Changing the way we build games: a design-based research study examining the implementation of homemade powerpoint games in the classroom
… were based on the literature for the three justifications for the use of homemade PowerPoint games in the classroom: constructionism, microthemes, and question writing. A review of the literature for the justifications found that the game project, as implemented in previous studies using …
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Judgments of Learning and Retrospective Confidence Judgments: A Qualitative Exploration of Difference in Processes
… of confidence. Participants provided written justifications of their metamemorial confidence judgments for JOLs and RCJs for unrelated word-pairs. Justifications were analyzed using three different but complementary text data analyses – Latent semantic analysis, n-gram word frequency analysis, …
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Three Papers on Peer Sanctioning, its Evaluation, and its Justification
… and by considering how punishers can use verbal justifications to shape third-party evaluations of their actions.</p><p>The first of these studies, contained in Chapter 2, uses data from therapeutic communities for addiction treatment (TCs) to determine if people generally receive reputational …
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