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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"severance"”.
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CEO Severance Agreements and Tax Avoidance
… study investigates the association between CEO severance agreements and corporate tax avoidance. Severance agreements, by providing executives with additional compensation when there is a change in employment status, should serve to encourage additional risk-taking, as reflected by increased tax …
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Severance pay - a right or a privilege?
… widely accepted that an employee should be paid severance pay in the event of him losing his job through no fault of his own. In 1963 the International Labour Organisation ("ILO") reflected upon the predicament of such employees and passed a recommendation that "Some form of income protection …
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Determination of Severance Damages Resulting From Partial Taking of Farm Land
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:37:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6402976.pdf: 3855036 bytes, checksum: e32798fe990566f8731c4e8b5997f289 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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Mineral severance taxes in the western states: an economic and legal analysis of state tax policies
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-186).
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Golden Handshakes at Commercial Banks
… of directors to encourage manager performance. Severance packages are intended to provide insurance for the CEO's human value. Frequently, however, severance packages are increased upon termination by boards of directors at will. These non-contractual severance payments are called discretionary …
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Severance packages: a crime paranormal novel and exegesis focussing on the electronic and digital publication of creative writing
This Master of Arts project comprises a novel, Severance Packages, written for electronic and digital publication, and an accompanying exegesis that contextualises the novel in relation to its genre and to the emerging field of electronic and digital publication in Australia.
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A Content Analysis of Statutory Grounds for Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights: The Impacts and Susceptibility of Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children
… relationship, the likelihood of legal severance between an incarcerated parent and their child increases. Despite the nation’s mounting prison population over the last three decades, the growing interaction between the prison and foster care populations has received minimal attention in …
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A Mythography of the Crossroads:How is the Severance/Threshold/Return progression in both mythology and modern wilderness rites-of-passage established through metaphor? An enquiry conducted through contemporary storytelling practice
How is the Severance/Threshold/Return progression in both mythology and modern wilderness rites-of-passage established through metaphor? An enquiry conducted through contemporary storytelling practice. This research examines the metaphorical structures within seven selected myths in relation to …
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The impact of the hiring and firing decision of employment protection legislation on unemployment in South Africa
… provisions comprise a number of elements such as severance pay, dismissal procedures, probationary employment and temporary work arrangements. This research investigates the impact of these measures on the hiring and firing decision through a survey questionnaire distributed to approximately 20 …
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Bonds of Nobility and the Culture of Revolt: Provincial Nobles and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France, 1610--1635
… in warfare, but civil war also brought severance of bonds and created divisions in noble culture. Civil violence forced warrior nobles to make choices between conflicting loyalties, exposing the contours of clienteles and the complex practices of noble culture. Warrior noble culture was …
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Urbanizing the fringe : armatures for reterritorialization of rurban ecologies
… into geographies of extraction. The ensuing severance of linkages between communities and their landscape results in the loss of a critical interest group in the preservation of natural ecologies. In an impasse between fallacious optimism and cynical pessimism, the thesis explores the …
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An evaluation of existing and conceptual short-rotation energy plantation harvesting machines and systems
… were performed on two types of circular saws as severance devices. The tests concluded that circular carbide-tipped peg-tooth saws were an efficient method of cutting the stems, requiring only about 9 net horsepower and leaving very cleanly-cut stump surfaces. The prototype harvester system and …
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Session texts
… They are all initiation myths, and have the severance/threshold/return progression at their core. There is certainly heroism within them, but also trickery, compromise, and loss. They seem to originate from the tribal idea that a culture requires certain rituals, certain stories, to …
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Forecasting and planning for a multi-product seasonal production facility
… times for new aseptic operators and substantial severance costs for a permanent employee headcount reduction in Italy. With over 50% of the aseptic operators in Rosia on temporary contracts, management spends at least 25 hours per month reviewing headcount in order to make assessments on contract …
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Three essays in applied microeconomics
… demonstrates that when the owner grants a large severance payment to the employee, she would be able to defer the compensation burden to the potential buyer and increase her net return from the firm.
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Evaluation of Neuroplastic Changes in Psychological Intervention and Contemporary Treatments of Depression
<p>Major depressive disorder is one of the most prevalent mental health disorders worldwide. There is a vast range of treatment options for depression, with varying levels of effectiveness. Recent treatments for depression have expanded, increasing alternative treatments, and it is unknown which …
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City Farm Garden : countering the impacts of urban expansion in a rural valley in the Western Cape through a gardening approach to place-making
… land management practices, called ‘cultural severance’, is considered to be even more damaging to nature conservation than climate change and have serious adverse effects on rural economies and communities (Rotherham 2015:3405). Land-use change through urban development affects every aspect …
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The mind-game film in the age of the anthropocene : at the limits of productive pathologies
… Dark [2017-2020], Pantheon [2022-2023], and Severance [2022-Present]), video games (including The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope [2020] and The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe [2022]), and speculative filmic texts (including The House [2022], Aniara [2018], and Last and First Men [2020]), …
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Identifying factors that promote tensional homeostasis in endothelial cells
… stimulate cellular contractility to the point of severance of cell-cell adhesions. To our surprise, the cell-cell junctions remained intact. However, the measurements revealed a threshold in the cluster size after which attenuation in cellular tension rapidly progressed. The underlying mechanism …
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