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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"misappropriation"”.
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An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Goal Orientation, Ethical Orientation, and Personality Traits on Managers' And Accountants' Abilities to Recognize Misappropriation of Assets
… and accountants' abilities to recognize misappropriation of assets. Participants included students and professionals. The student group included upper-level accounting majors and upper-level management majors. The professional group included students enrolled in an introductory accounting …
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A Study of the Early American Author Judith Sargent Murray, Her Role in Early American Print Culture and Her Misappropriation by Twentieth-Century Feminism
<p>In 1798, Judith Sargent Murray published a three-volume collection of one hundred miscellaneous essays on topics ranging from social politesse to women’s education to international politics. Her diligence, forethought and manipulation of pseudonyms in the print-hungry post-Revolutionary America …
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Misappropriation of adjectives by Grade 7 non-native English language learners: A case study of four independent rural primary schools in Manombe Circuit, Mopani District
The study aimed to present an analysis of adjective errors committed by Grade 7 non-native English Home Language Learners, with a special focus on independent rural primary schools in Man’ombe Circuit, Mopani District. Grade 7 is the transitional grade from senior primary phase to high school which …
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“It’s an admission of guilt”: A critical case study of Indigenous fans’ identities and their perspectives of the Kansas City NFL franchise’s organizational policy changes and cultural misappropriation
… interpret the Kansas City NFL team’s cultural misappropriation. Third, this study investigates how Indigenous Kansas City NFL fans understand the 2020 organizational policy changes that limit fans’ symbolic cultural misappropriation by restricting fans’ nonverbal communication. Most …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
… the earliest distinctions between imitation and misappropriation in the humanist schoolroom, through the first recorded uses in English of the Latin legal term plagiary (kidnapper) as a metaphor for literary misappropriation, to an inchoate conception of literary property among a coterie of …
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The legal implications of the WIPO treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on indigenous peoples of Uganda and Kenya
… Peoples in Uganda and Kenya continue to face the misappropriation of their Traditional Knowledge associated with Genetic Resources, often without their free, prior, and informed consent or fair compensation. Despite the adoption of international instruments and the enactment of domestic …
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Komercinė paslaptis kaip civilinių teisių objektas, teisės į ją gynimo būdai ir egzistuojančios praktikos verslo organizacijose /
… protection, defense options in the event of misappropriation and, based on the data of the research, determine trade secret protection practices used by organisations. The work consists of three main parts - theoretical, methodological, and empirical. Literature analysis reviewed the …
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The Influence of Leadership Style and Personal Costs on Fraud Whistleblowing Intent
… two types of occupational fraud schemes (misappropriation of assets and financial statement fraud). Unexpectedly, the results indicate leadership style and/or personal costs do not have a significant influence on reporting intention under most models examined in this study. The findings …
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Patent system and its role in the conservation of South African biodiversity
… patents are charged as the easiest routing for misappropriation of indigenous biological resources and traditional knowledge associated therewith. Being member of the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity, South Africa is under obligation to ensure that its patent system supports the …
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Realizing the Human Unity with the Universe by way of Letting Go and Emptying: Martin Heidegger and the Zhuangzi at the Crossroads of Being and Dao
… opposing ideas of the underlying cause of this misappropriation and obstruction, this work uncovers that both traditions offer a vision of how to navigate the world such that we transform with and respond to the world of which we are an inseparable part.
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3D Image Acquisition System for Facial Recognition
… from the rising rates of identity theft and misappropriation of services that current methods employed to identify individuals is ineffectual. The most common way people identify other individuals is via recognition of the subjects face. The speed and accuracy with which one person can …
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Patent protection and foreign direct investment in Uganda's mining sector: a legal analysis of intellectual property as an investment incentive
… they shield investors' technological assets from misappropriation and infringement.
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Patents of traditional medicine inventions and their relationship with traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources in Namibia: proposals for legal reform
… based on or derived from TK associated with GRs, misappropriation of TK and GRs can be prevented in Namibia. To this end, the study identifies key concepts and legal instruments both internationally and regionally i.e. the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993, the TRIPS Agreement, 1994 and the …
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Inequalities in the Common European Asylum System: The role of Greek libraries as information resources in the midst of asylum system shortcomings
… aid money should be allocated, severe financial misappropriation is evident in Greece (Howden and Fotiadis, 2017). The routine mishandling of funds exacerbates the resource shortage and creates a false front as to the level of assistance actually reaching asylum seekers. The incorrect presumption …
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Challenges of Humanitarian Aid International Non-Government Organizations (INGOs) in Myanmar
… arose in the wake of 2012, and suspicions about misappropriation of aid resources and mismanagement of funds seem to have become more controversial after the aid agencies jumped into the Rakhine crisis under the agenda of humanitarian violations. This research is based on a literature review, …
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Becoming a Beloved Community: A Restorative Reckoning for a Radical Conversion to Transform Discourse in Higher Education
<p>This dissertation critically examines the misappropriation of Restorative Justice Discourse (RJD) within three predominantly white institutions (PWIs), analyzing 59 institutional documents through Critical Discourse Analysis, Relational Critical Discourse Analysis, and Rhetorical Criticism …
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A taxonomy and analysis of web wrapping technologies
… HR3261 Database and Collection of Information Misappropriation Act. A comparative analysis between the two Acts was performed and their respective implications on the database producing industry were examined.
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Attribution principles for data integration : technology and policy perspectives
… we offer two new arguments to support misappropriation as a policy approach to the attribution problem space. Our formal model of attribution is developed in the established foundation of the Domain Relational Calculus (DRC). Three distinct types of attribution are identified: …
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Efficacy of fraud triangle model in the detection of fraudulent financia reporting in South African Municipalities
… Fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets tend to undermine investors’ confidence in audited financial statements. Prior studies have reported the high financial cost of fraudulent financial reporting from municipalities and the subsequent impact on capital and …
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Debt crisis in the local governments of South Africa: a policy and legal analysis.
… identified include poor revenue management, misappropriation of funds, corruption, inadequate fiscal oversight, political interference, and a general lack of financial management capacity within municipalities. These weaknesses have led to widespread non-compliance with statutory obligations …
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