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Showing 1 to 20 of 1165 for “"obligations"”.
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False Obligations
Completed capstone project to fulfill requirements of KSU Master's of Arts in Professional Writing. Includes an acknowledgements page, resume, certificate of approval, table of contents, and the first five chapters of a work of fiction (to - I hope - be turned into a full-length novel).
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The Harmonisation and Regionalisation Obligations of The SPS Agreement and The Issues Facing These Obligations
This dissertation examines the obligations created by Article 3 and Article 6 of the SPS Agreement. It uses Reports accepted by down by the Dispute Settlement Body to find and unpack the interpretation of both Article 3 and 6. These interpretations will be unpacked and examined in detail It further …
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Adopting Obligations: Duties to Existing Children
This thesis argues that infertile prospective parents have a moral obligation to adopt rather than pursue ARTs (Assisted Reproductive Technology). The first chapter presents the negative argument against the common desire among prospective parents for a genetically related child. After refuting the …
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Legal financial obligations: a focal concerns perspective
… characteristics on the amount of legal financial obligations (LFOs) imposed on defendants and the monetary amount of these LFOs. Drawing on focal concerns theory, first developed by Steffensmeier (1980), which identifies three factors used by court actors in criminal sentencing: blameworthiness of …
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Early reasoning about moral obligations and rights
Recent studies suggest that infants have the ability to reason about how individuals should act toward others, and that this early moral reasoning is guided by at least four moral principles: fairness, harm avoidance, ingroup support and authority. For example, infants expect an individual to …
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Obligations abroad : towards a just foreign policy
This dissertation considers three implications of collective self-government for just foreign policies in an imperfect world. Individuals are the appropriate moral unit of analysis, constrained to govern themselves justly, together with compatriots. First I derive limits to state autonomy that …
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Modelling dependance in collateralied debt obligations with copulas
In this paper we provide a review of credit derivatives, and some of the tools used to model them. We give a basic introduction to copulas and how they are used to model the depedence between single name credit derivatives. We then investigate various features of Gaussian and t copula dependence …
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The theoria and praxis of obligations to future generations
… and extent to which the present generation has obligations to future generations. The dissertation starts with the notion of whether there is an obligation to have future generations. It then discusses the various theories and principles that have been put forward regarding obligations to future …
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The expression of rights and obligations in German contracts
… study investigates the expression of rights and obligations in German contracts. It is therefore a study of modality within the specific legal context of contract. The purpose of the investigation is to uncover the actual realisation pattern of the modalities involved in creating contractual …
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Missing migrants: legal obligations and psychosocial implications for families.
This thesis is an analysis of the responses and obligations of states towards missing migrants and their surviving families from a legal, policy and psychosocial perspective in the context of the Europe migrant crisis. Governed by the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants and …
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Implied Obligations of Good Faith in English Contract Law
The concept of ‘good faith’ in English contract law has been the subject of intensified debate in the last decade. This has been precipitated partly by developments in other jurisdictions, as well as being influenced by academic and extrajudicial writings. By far the most impactful driver of the …
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Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Differentiated Legal Obligations
… law. In moving towards responsibility sharing obligations, the thesis takes guidance from recent global refugee policy instruments that implicitly engage with the language of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities’ (CBDRRC), a concept and a principle of …
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The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities
In recent years, psychologists have developed indirect measures to observe unconscious prejudices that diverge from the egalitarian views directly reported by test subjects. This unconscious prejudice is termed implicit bias. It has been used to scientifically explain a variety of broad social …
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Does the contaminated land regime impose stewardship obligations on owners of land?
… makes a detailed discussion of the sorts of obligations and duties that come into play under the contaminated land provisions and the place of the owner of the land within this. It should become clear that the contaminated land provisions were implemented on the back of (amongst others) an …
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The influence of conflicting role obligations on nontraditional student baccalaureate degree attainment
… and to reveal how these conflicting role obligations influence these students' persistence toward the attainment of an undergraduate degree. This study provides a brief history of adult education in the United States as well as the study context, a continuing studies division of a …
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Human Rights, Positive Obligations and the Development of a Right to Security
Abstract In this PhD by Published Work the author is advocating a right to security broadly grounded in ‘communitarian’ ideals. The ‘absolutist’ state theory of, say, Thomas Hobbes, to protect society from collapse, pays too little attention to genuine fears that the state can actually pose a …
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Local and Community Radio in Cornwall: testing achievements against obligations and objectives
… A detailed review follows, looking at the formal obligations imposed on each tier and each station (a) by broadcast licences and (b) by self-reflective aims and objectives. Field research then employs observation and full-day, annotated audio monitoring, leading to detailed analytical comparisons …
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The Interpretation of Bilateral Tax Treaties: Changing Tax Law – Unchanging Treaty Obligations?
This thesis puts forward an integrative approach for the construction of a legal framework that may guide the resolution of temporal questions of interpretation arising from central features of model-based bilateral income tax treaties. It does so through extensive analyses of principles for …
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Rape as Torture: Is South Africa in Breach of its International Obligations?
… Africa is in contravention of its international obligations under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, specifically with regards to the crime of rape and its relation to the crime of torture. This paper …
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The effect of financial reporting on strategic investments : evidence from purchase obligations
… firms to report off-balance sheet purchase obligations, such as commitments to inventory purchases, CAPEX, R&D, and advertising. Motivated by theory on strategic investments, I predict and find that firms respond to the regulation by increasing investments if they have substitutive product …
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