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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"royalty"”.
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The Royalty of Oakwood County
<p>The Royalty of Oakwood County is a work of fiction composed of one hundred and twenty three, one-to-two page chapters of prose vignettes, fictional interviews, and fictional television episode dialogue transcriptions. The narrative focus is on the complicated relationships of a late teenage, …
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Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power
Child beauty pageants are a phenomenon in rural communities throughout Georgia. My belief is that most of those who compete in these pageants are from the lower socio-economic bracket, participating for a multitude of reasons. A bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnography, critical …
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Mineral royalties : a preview of the development of Mineral Royalty legislation in South Africa
… resources. The Minerals and Petroleum Resources Royalty Act (28/2008) (MPRRA) was enacted on 24 November 2008 to impose a mineral royalty on the extraction of South Africa’s mineral resources to compensate the nation for the depletion of its mineral wealth. This legislation is likely to have a …
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A nonstandard optimal control problem arising in an economics application: for royalty payment with piecewise function
A current Optimal Control (OC) problem in the region of financial aspects has numerical properties that do not fall into the standard OC problem formulation. In this study, the state value at the final time is y T z where it is free and a priori unknown. Furthermore, the Lagrangian integrand …
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Farm saved seed (FSS) and royalty generation for wheat in France, United Kingdom, and Australia - policy implications for Canada
… wide range of outcomes depending on the specific royalty setting mechanisms allowed within their domestic legislation. This thesis compares Canada’s existing policy to three very different international examples (France, United Kingdom, and Australia) of UPOV 91 compliant royalty collection …
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Defining a royalty from a South African perspective for the purposes of the South African Income Tax Act and the South African application of its Double Tax Treaty network
The word "royalty" is used in South Africa's Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962 ("TA") at various points. Although there is a general understanding on the meaning of a royalty, there is no official definition for this term which can be used throughout the ITA. Section 35 of the ITA provides the …
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Dominance and radical submission in seventeenth-century drama: chastity, fairness, and silence in portrayals of Mar(r)iam(ne), Sophonisba, and Cleopatra
… English playwrights’ interpretation of ancient royalty. I survey a series of seventeenth-century plays concerning Mariamne I, the Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba, and Cleopatra VII. I argue that the English stage produced two models of ancient royalty. Mar(r)iam(ne) and Sophonisba personify …
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Tax Accounting Method and Offshore Petroleum Development: A Policy Evaluation Model Employing Royalty Equivalents and Excise Taxes (Oil and Gas, Capital Budgeting, Simulation, Capitalization, Net Present Value)
… discount rates, expected price and costs, royalty rates, tax rates, tax credits, and expected bid. The reservoir model simulated the capacity optimization decision of the firm, that is, the decision as to the number of wells (initial capacity) with which to develop the reservoir. The basin …
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The Complexity of Royalty: An Exploration into Gender Transgressions and Sexual Deviancy in the Reign of Edward II and the Link Between Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Society.
Current historical research regarding both gender and sexuality has been notably biased and lacking. Appropriate research is currently absent regarding both the nature of transgressive individuals, those not acting in accordance with their assigned gender roles, as well as those engaging in …
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Evaluation of the "source " rules as contained in section 9 of the South African Income Tax Act as relating to software in the context of the digital economy
… in section 49A of the ITA, the concepts of a royalty and know-how are consistent in the OECD Model Tax Convention and the ITA. Specifically, in determining if a software payment constitutes a royalty, a distinction should be made between the copyrighted article and the copyright itself, unless …
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The (a)rchitectural Lexicon of (B)lack Hair: A Production of Knowledge
… to MIT a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to exercise any and all rights under copyright, including to reproduce, preserve, distribute and publicly display copies of the thesis, or release the thesis under an open-access license.
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Principles of Unitization
… characteristics, negotiations begin with royalty owners, many of which, not realizing the benefits of unit operations, refuse to permit consolidation of their interests. The state is a party to the formation of a unit and its conservation laws must be strictly obeyed. </p><p>The …
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Sediment plumes and financial modeling in the context of deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining
… of a nodule mining operation and the analysis of royalty payment systems for the International Seabed Authority. A nodule collector vehicle will operate on the seabed to pick up polymetallic nodules and, inevitably, also certain amount of seabed sediment. Most of the unwanted sediment will be …
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The Distortionary Effect of Production Sharing Contract in Upstream Petroleum Industry
… on the distortionary effects of the tax-royalty system, while the effects of Production Sharing Contract (PSC) is largely understudied. Moreover, economic studies typically oversimplify the physics of the field and consequently end up with models which do not necessarily fully reflect the …
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Pu-abi's Adornment for the Afterlife: Materials and Technologies of Jewelry at Ur in Mesopotamia
… meaning, or even a different one, than that of royalty or royalty alone. Based on a thorough examination of the materials and methods used to manufacture these ornaments, I will argue that the jewelry was not simply a rich but passive collection of prestige goods, rather that jewelry that can be …
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Identifying and Modifying the Coal Bed Methane Fiscal Regime in Indonesia: A Comparative Study with the Australia and the U.S.
… these using comparative examples of the U.S. Royalty/Tax (R/T) System and the Australian Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). This research examines the issues of CBM development in Indonesia from the Government of Indonesia (GoI) perspective, investors’ perspectives, consultancies and local …
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Gold mining taxation in South Affrica : a discussion of the MPRDA, its amendments and whether internal inconsistencies exist in the mining legislation
… is to add to the current debate regarding the royalty imposition by discussing the Mineral and Petroleum Resource Development Act No. 28 of 2002 and the three amendments that have been made to it. The effect on investment, production, exploration and government taxation revenue of the MPRDA, …
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Essays on empirical industrial organization
… the evidence shows that opening platforms via royalty licensing can expand installed bases and raise long-run surplus; reusable product design can meaningfully displace disposable usage and reduce externalities with limited loss in consumer value; and the composition—especially exclusivity and …
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