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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"public power"”.
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Problems of the nuclear power industry : the Washington Public Power Supply System case
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1983.
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In Search of the Constitution: How the Constitution Generated the Public Power in South Korea (1963-1979)
This study challenges the positivist view of the Korean Constitution, which sees it merely as an assemblage of rules and statutes defining its citizens’ status and setting out codes of conduct for the government, or mapping the government’s institutional arrangements. Prevalent in Korean …
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A comparison between the manner in which court will second-guess the exercise of a private contractual power, on the basis of public policy, and the manner in which court will second-guess the exercise of public power, on the basis of rationality
… review the exercise of private contractual power, on the basis of public policy, and the standards against which Courts in South Africa review the exercise of public power on the basis on rationality. This thesis undertakes this task in four main parts. Firstly, this thesis outlines …
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Políticas públicas para museus brasileiros: gestão e sustentabilidade
The following dissertation – Public policies for brazilians museums: management and sustainability – presents research based on, mainly, cultural public policies in Brazil, in particular on the content expressed in Art. 4 of the Law nº. 11.904, Statute of Museums, which provides for the …
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Procedural justice under the principle of legality in South African administrative law
… PAJA is however limited to those exercises of public power classified as ‘administrative action'. In giving meaning to the concept of administrative action under the Constitution, the Constitutional Court has excluded from its ambit, executive, legislative and judicial action, while the PAJA …
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The use of neural networks to help facilitate the accurate prediction of electricity demand on Crete
… for short-term load forecasting for the isolated power system of the island of Crete, Greece.<br/><br/>The system was based on the use of multilayer perceptron neural networks. Data used to train and test the networks were obtained from the Public Power Corporation and span four years. These data …
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La nuova disciplina dell'occupazione acquisitiva: l'atto di acquisizione e giusto procedimento acquisitivo
… full-blown pathology in the relationship between public power and private property. With the examination of the law we will try of to understand as operate the new acquisition procedure and if this is compatible with the Italian Constitution and the principles developed by the Court of Human …
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Becoming Kleopatra: Ptolemaic Royal Marriage, Incest, and the Path to Female Rule
… ruling couple to gain increasing access to power, culminating in several instances of co-rule, regency, and female sole-rule, the most notable being Kleopatra VII. While the pharaohs of the dynasty have been comprehensively studied, the queens are neglected and relegated to the academic …
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The constitutionalisation of administrative law in South Africa: an examination of the administrative justice clause in the interim constitution, case law pursuant thereto and proposals for the clause in the final constitution
… for reform for this critical juncture of law and public power were the most propitious for nearly five decades. Three years had passed since the political logjam had been broken by the formal unbanning of the ANC and other proscribed movements and negotiations for a new democratic constitution …
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A critique of contemporary Islamist political philosophy with specific regard to the concept of Islamic state
… as a complex form of social organization and public power that has authority independent from any particular office holder such as a king. The modern state is an association between the members of a society which assumes supreme authority to make and enforce laws that regulate social …
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Olive Schreiner : women, nature, culture
… to culture, both preventing their access to public power and marginalising their fully social activities within culture. Schreiner attempts to displace definitions of culture constituted through a system of binary oppositions which inevitably privilege masculinity as opposed to femininity by …
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African development bank infrastructure investments in Somalia: an analysis of multilateral development funding within a high-risk socio-economic and political context
… organizations and increasing the visibility of public power nationwide. AfDB should also continue to assist Somalia in achieving the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) completion point, which is crucial for increasing its infrastructure spending. Thus, this study adds new knowledge about why …
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Towards a legal framework for preventing tax revenue leakage in the upstream oil and gas industry in Tanzania: an analysis of the concepts, methods and options available in a public trusteeship model of natural resource holding
… which impose restraints on the exercise of public power and prevent corruption. The study concludes that although Tanzania has a competitive fiscal regime, anti-avoidance legislation and systems of accountability, the level of Government's tax revenue nevertheless depends on institutional …
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LA FUNZIONE CONOSCITIVA DELL¿AMMINISTRAZIONE PUBBLICA DIGITALE: LA CIRCOLAZIONE DEI DATI NELL¿ERA DELLA BIG DATA ANALYTICS
… dissertation examines the knowledge function of public administration in the era of big data analytics, with particular attention to the mechanisms of data circulation within the public sector. Starting from the context of the knowledge society, in which data constitutes a strategic resource for …
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On the Evaluation of a State Power aimed at Preventing Urban Sprawl in Peri-Urban Areas of Chilean Cities. A Justification from Property Law
… This paper aims to evaluate one of the state powers that Chilean law offers to address this phenomenon. Since the exercise of such power implies a constraint on the property rights of the rural landowner, we will approach our study from Christopher Essert’s Property Law Theory complemented …
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Inquiry into the differential between public municipal ownership of water and electric supply in Texas.
Public ownership is dominant at the municipal level of government in the United States. Municipal ownership of certain public utilities typifies public ownership at the municipal level of government. However, there has been a tendency for a few public utilities to be resistent to municipal …
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“Cookie Mom-ster,” “Mom in Chief,” and “Sugar Mommy” : [de-] constructing ideal femininty of Presidential candidate wives
… Ladies at political conventions wrote, “The public will someday accept a fully independent first lady, Ms. Gibbons predicted, 'I don't see how we can go backwards.’'' (Purnick, 2004) That isn’t to say, however, we have continued moving forward. Perpetuating the trend that began two decades …
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Using Discourse Opportunity as a Measure of Potential Power in Zoning Amendments
… deemed zoning to be one of the most essential powers of local governments (Cooper, Knotts, and Brennan, 2008) (Albemarle County, 2018). This paper examines the zoning amendment, one of the many processes that comprise local government in the United States. I explore a phenomenon of public …
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Lawfare and legitimacy: The wicked problem of judicial resilience at a time of judicialisation of politics in South Africa
… mapped. The politicisation of law sees political power refocused on the courts, exposing them to political aggression and attack by the dominant party. The judicialisation of politics that seeks accountability from recalcitrant political actors asks much of the courts, at a time when ensuring …
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