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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"level playing field"”.
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Data as a Competitive Resource: Essays on Market Power, Data Sharing, and Data Portability
… markets, (ii) the challenges in creating a level playing field in digital markets, e.g., by harmonizing regulatory obligations for online and offline services, and (iii) the vital role of data and data protection in the context of data-driven business models. Study 2 and Study 3 focus on the …
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HALF OF HUMANITY HAS SOMETHING TO SAY, ALSO: WORKS FOR VIOLIN BY WOMEN COMPOSERS
… of women composers in the classical music field and increase awareness of the lack of effort on the part of presenters, organizations, and musicians towards gender equity. It is my hope that this dissertation will energize and mobilize others to create a level playing field on which women …
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LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD: ACHIEVING PROPORTIONAL GIFTED REPRESENTATION THROUGH OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN AND NONVERBAL ASSESSMENTS
… showed promise to achieving the goal of a truly level playing field.
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Disruption of the group health insurance in light of the Affordable Care Act - system approach
… As ACA and Health Exchanges have provided level playing field for all companies - new entrants and established - will this lead to disruption of Healthcare? Disruptive Innovations is analyzed from System Approach point of view. Disruption is not limited to two companies; Disruptor System …
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The law for the emerging active role of electricity consumers
… Law and regulation have the role of creating a level playing field for active consumers to participate and compete in the market together with traditional actors. In this sense, the role of consumers, distribution companies, markets and retailers should be reconsidered and therefore, the need to …
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French and British corporate political strategies in the case of the European Merger Control Regime: national or European?
Has the construction of a European level playing field in terms of policy solutions in the merger control field led to a de facto standardisation of European corporate modes of representation? This study challenges scholars who have predicted the development of a European mode of representation …
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Private International Law Aspects of Freezing Injunctions
… that freezing injunctions seek to establish a level-playing field in litigation has led the author to conclude that the current scope of the relief is excessively claimant-friendly and involves illegitimate interference with the sovereignty of foreign states. Taking into account the tactical …
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Sustainable construction in Mexican housing markets
… environment impedes efforts to provide a level playing field through building codes. The barriers on the side of the practitioners are that information sharing difficult both within firms and across firms, and the lack of training and experience in working with sustainable construction. …
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Experiences of African American male engineering students: a qualitative analysis
… 2001a). The few who did earn degrees in these fields, obtained them primarily from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and these institutions also served as the primary employer for these graduates in science and engineering (Hines, 1997; Babco, 2001a, 2001b). Since the 1970s, …
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Disciplinary Mythologies: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of Performance Enhancement Technologies in Sports
… hand, modern sports rely on technology at every level, from training and tracking of players to the equipment and apparel used by athletes to the game strategies and playing fields themselves. Nearly all of these technologies are intended to increase athletic performance on some level. And yet, …
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Identity, knowledge and ownership: contemporary theatre dance artists in the UK’s creative economy
… it explores to what extent the theatre dance field’s senior representatives are influential in shaping these competencies and behaviours. It also investigates the relationship between dance artists’ economic conduct and their artistic and financial status, in and outside of theatre dance. The …
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Energy efficiency in the iron and steel industry : cases of Zimbabwe and South Africa
… comparison. Data required was obtained through field visits and international databases. The fieldwork findings, analysis and published literature contributed to the conclusions and recommendations. There is a relationship between technology advancement, energy efficiency and energy intensity. …
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A comparison of the merits of retrofitting against demolition and re-build construction techniques to achieve sustainability in Scottish social housing, through application of building computer simulations
… to demonstrate these benefits and ensure a level playing field is established for retrofit projects.
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Comparative studies on the financial holding company laws and practices in the U.S. and Taiwan
… the U.S. financial services industry with a level playing field and allow them to compete with their strongest rivals from th eEuropean Union. European Union banks already operate under a liberal regime, following the success of the Second Banking Directive of 1989 that embraces financial …
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The Rising Threat of Food Security; A Keynesian Solution to a Global Problem
… and enforce the limits needed to preserve a more level playing field and balance of trade. With this in mind, I will examine current agricultural and trade policy with an eye towards reform, returning to the theories of John Maynard Keynes to illustrate that truly “free” trade requires limits and …
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The implementation of the 1989 Television Without Frontiers Directive: television advertising and sponsorship in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK
… Furthen-nore, Member States have different levels of advertising expenditure, selling practices and television market structures. There is a tension between the provisions for television advertising and sponsorship in the Council of Europe Convention on Transfrontier Television and those in …
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Challenges Facing Islamic Banks: Evidence from Iraq and GCC Countries
… eliminate all kinds of monopolies to provide a level playing field for all banks. On the other hand, IBs must strive to overcome challenges such as customer awareness and trust, lack of qualified staffs and Shariah violations.<br/>
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The Locus of Preparation and Privilege: College Choice and Social Reproduction
… of American higher education to create a level playing field and advance an individual's life opportunities, the history of access to higher education in the United States has demonstrated a lack of equality in enrollment patterns. This enrollment inequality appears most pronounced when …
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Public Interest Computing: a Pluralistic Design Language Foundation for Societal-Machine Alignment
… mediated cognitive alignment, creating a level playing field for workers. The Beyond Boundaries framework enables environmental alignment, providing a platform for public discourse on climate change. Our analysis using Gobo focuses on value alignment, investigating ways to increase human …
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ESSAYS ON CORPORATE INNOVATION
… implications for policies aimed at creating a level playing field in patenting. Finally, the third chapter (with Yuqi Gu, Bo Ouyang) examines the effect of information disclosure regulation on corporate resource adjustment, by using the empirical setting of the passage of the American …
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