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Franchino, Fabio. "Executive and bureaucratic politics in the European Union : bureaucratic preferences, executive discretion and procedural control of the European Commission." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1542/.

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The neofunctionalist literature asserts that supranational institutions play a crucial role in shaping the process of European integration. Yet, it is not apparently obvious why institutions with far less capabilities and resources than national ones can be so effective. The thesis tries to explain this puzzle focusing on the European Commission. It takes up two related questions: Which motives drive this institution. Under which conditions does it reach its objective (and, hence, affect integration). In other words, the thesis applies domestic theories of bureaucratic and executive politics t

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Hernández-Mirabal, Ivo. "Legislative control over the executive in Latin American presidential systems executive-legislative institutional relationship during the stabilization and structural adjustment measures commonly known as Washington Consensus /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11078440.

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Schleiter, Petra. "Legislative politics, institutional choice and democratic stability : the dynamics of executive control in Russia, 1991-1993." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302548.

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Jonelis, Andrew. "Essays on Institutions and Development." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/economics_etds/44.

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The essays in this dissertation examine how political institutions affect economic development. In the first essay, I examine how executive control of the legislature shapes the time horizon of governing politicians and its effect on economic growth. The second essay examines how border changes over the past two centuries have provided different areas within modern countries with different institutional histories and how this affects the geographic concentration of economic activity. For the final essay, I examine whether elections have an effect on macroeconomic volatility when controlling fo

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Kalinauskas, Gintaras. "Vykdomosios valdžios (Vyriausybės) parlamentinės kontrolės institutas: samprata, modeliai, įgyvendinimo problemos." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100422_094235-42056.

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Disertacinis darbas pirmą kartą išsamiai sistemiškai nagrinėjamas parlamentinės kontrolės institutas kaip konstitucinės teisės dalis, sudaranti parlamentinės teisės pošakį ir disertaciniame darbe, remiantis Didžiosios Britanijos, Vokietijos, Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų ir Prancūzijos parlamentinės kontrolės modelių analize, vertinamas Lietuvos parlamentinės kontrolės modelis ir jo įgyvendinimas. Disertacinio darbo tikslas - išnagrinėti ir įvertinti parlamentinės kontrolės institutą kaip konstitucinės teisės institutą. Darbas sudarytas iš įvado, darbo metodologijos ir tyrimų apžvalgos, keturių

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Vela, Estelí, Gabriela Ruiz, Sebastián García, and Pablo Roca. "The discipline and effectiveness of the opposition groups in Parliament in the cases of interpellations during the governments of Toledo, Humala and García (2001-2013)." Politai, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/92078.

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This article discusses the use of the mechanism of parliamentary control of interpellation to ministers in the Peruvian case, with the objective of stablish which factors determine the effectives of opposition groups to approve the motions of interpellations they present during the post- Fujimori goverrnments of Alejandro Toledo, Alan García and Ollanta Humala (2001-2013). Taking into account the size, discipline and the number of motions presented, this research argues that the most effective parliamentary groups have high levels of discipline and present a reasonable number of motions, in re

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Rosset, Patrícia. "Relações entre poderes na Constituição brasileira." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6070.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:21:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Rosset.pdf: 2437906 bytes, checksum: 6ec53bb4896a0aca474141bcbe4cd3d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-29<br>This study is not intended to provide solutions for the complex problems in which the States are inserted in the world today due to the clear mitigation of the Principle of Sovereignty and the enormous difficulty in defending democracy in the formal aspect. Today s society presents itself with a factual multiplicity arising from the existence of actors in the decision-making arena in economy, polit

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Siqueira, Leandro Rodrigues. "Fiscalização e controle na Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/98973.

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Orientador: Karina Lilia Pasquariello Mariano<br>Banca: Maria Teresa Kerbauy<br>Banca: Valeriano Mendes Ferreira Costa<br>Resumo: O presente estudo tem por objeto a análise dos mecanismos institucionais de fiscalização e controle da Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo. O objetivo é verificar quais são os instrumentos com que o Poder Legislativo conta para exercer suas funções fiscalizatórias e de controle dentro do sistema político estadual paulista. Em vista dessa preocupação, o estudo se concentra, num primeiro momento, na discussão a respeito da importância do estudo dos formatos

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Siqueira, Leandro Rodrigues [UNESP]. "Fiscalização e controle na Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/98973.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-04-09Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:39:28Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 siqueira_lr_me_arafcl.pdf: 534019 bytes, checksum: 52cdd85863ac2989a5c38ef366552014 (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>O presente estudo tem por objeto a análise dos mecanismos institucionais de fiscalização e controle da Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo. O objetivo é verificar quais são os instrumentos com que o Poder Legislativo conta para exercer suas funções fisc

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Fulton, Robert William. "Postsceondary developmental and remedial education : perspectives of state legislature education chairpersons and state higher education executive officers /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992793.

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Calvert, Vanessa Yvonne. "Relationship between the executive and legislative authority in South Africa with reference to the role of the leader of government business in the legislative and oversight processes." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5177.

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Masters in Public Administration - MPA<br>The relationship between the executive and the legislature in South Africa is determined by the Constitution. The study focuses on the separation of powers in a single party-dominant system and examines the role of the Leader of Government Business in parliamentary processes. The Leader of Government Business is appointed by the President in terms of Section 91(4) of the Constitution. The role is outlined in the terms of National Assembly Rule (150), while the functions have been developed over time since 1994. Though an executive function an office

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Mackenzie, Ian Grant. "Executive control : an electrophysiological investigation of control processes." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/407/.

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Everyday behaviour requires constant coordination and monitoring in order for our actions to be successful. Within cognitive science such coordination and monitoring of behaviour is termed ‘control’ and refers to a set of functions that serve to configure the mental system for performing specific acts. A system of cognitive control is thought to set high level goals and direct subordinate cognitive systems in order to accomplish those goals. This thesis utilises a cognitive electrophysiological approach to the study of executive control, addressing research questions concerning the mental proc

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Treiber, Kyle Hartley. "Executive capabilities, self-control and crime." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612126.

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Brocki, Karin Cecilia. "Executive Control Processes: Dimensions, Development and ADHD." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7788.

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Flynn, Emma. "Theory of mind, representation and executive control." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364662.

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Zavaleta, Kaitlyn Leigh. "The Role of Executive Control in Language Learning." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/332902.

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This dissertation examines whether enhanced executive function plays a role in successful second language acquisition (SLA). Specifically, I examine learners’ performance in language learning tasks and in three tasks argued to reflect components of Miyake et al.’s (2000) model of executive control. Many studies in the past decade have claimed to find superior performance in executive control tasks by lifelong bilinguals (e.g., Bialystok, 2011). There is also research that supports a relationship between bilingualism and success in third language acquisition (TLA) (e.g., Kaushanskaya & Marian,

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Roberts, Adam C. "Brain markers of executive control in task management." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556981.

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The primary goal of the empirical research outlined in this thesis was to examine the role of the central executive in task management using EEG imaging methods. To achieve this goal, a series of experiments were conducted in order to determine decrements during complex task performance, and explore the relative contributions of executive fatigue and task load in the onset of compensatory control mechanisms which are said to manage goal directed activity. These experiments were based around a theoretical framework of neural correlates of Compensatory Control, drawing on evidence from imaging a

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Morcom, Alexandra. "The role of executive control in task switching." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/d1108d24-de51-45e7-b3fe-49bdde78bacf.

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This thesis addressed the question of whether global, 'executive' control processes are involved in switching between discrete cognitive tasks. The involvement of executive working memory processes in the control of switching was examined, using a combination of cognitive and cognitive neuropsychological methods. In all studies, participants switched unpredictably between two simple tasks, and in some cases they also performed concurrent tasks. The focus throughout was on two putative areas of executive control that may influence task switching, goal-directed advance processing, and the suppre

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Hubbard, Jason. "The Dynamics of Global States in Executive Control." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22632.

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In the present work, we examine how the cognitive system responds to complex environments. It has been proposed that executive control, which is responsible for orchestrating high-level behavior in such environments, operates according to different broad processing modes, one geared towards stability and focus (“maintenance”), and the other that’s open to environmental influence (“updating”). Aging work has proposed that this latter mode is over-represented in older age, leading to deficits in many, but not all cognitive domains. Across three studies, we sought to identify the dynamics of the

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Gottwald, Janna Marleen. "Infants in Control : Prospective Motor Control and Executive Functions in Action Development." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-297642.

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This thesis assesses the link between action and cognition early in development. Thus the notion of an embodied cognition is investigated by tying together two levels of action control in the context of reaching in infancy: prospective motor control and executive functions. The ability to plan our actions is the inevitable foundation of reaching our goals. Thus actions can be stratified on different levels of control. There is the relatively low level of prospective motor control and the comparatively high level of cognitive control. Prospective motor control is concerned with goal-directed ac

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Hung, Wong Shun-chun Dorothy. "Administrative secrecy and the control of government information in Hong Kong." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12335307.

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Schweizer, Susanne. "Executive control in affective contexts : a cognitive neuroscientific investigation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608037.

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Damnjanovic, Sonja. "Dissociating facets of impulsivity executive control vs. intertemporal choice /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024824.

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Walter, Kristen H. "Self-control and executive function in posttraumatic stress disorder." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1276474763.

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Hubbard, Chris. "The Role of Foreign Language Experience on Executive Control." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1462358824.

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Yates, Robert Dean III. "Executive Control of Craving: An Examination of College Students." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc68067/.

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Previous research has shown that alcohol abuse may cause a deficit in frontal lobe functioning, specifically, areas of the frontal lobe that are related to executive function. Additionally, problems with executive function have been related to increased difficulty in managing cravings to addictive substances. The current study explored the relationship between alcohol use and performance on measures of executive functioning in a sample of 121 traditional college students. Students were given 5 measures of executive function designed to explore mental set shifting, updating, inhibition, sustain

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Gray-Burrows, Kara Ayesha. "The relationship between executive control, conscientiousness and health behaviour." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8001/.

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Health is important, but the health of the nation is failing, with chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes on the rise. Most of which are related to the performance of negative health behaviours. As a result, improving the health of the population through the promotion of positive health behaviours is a key aim of health professionals and Government. However, to promote positive health behaviours, first, what variables predict health behaviour must be identified. Two prominent variables of interest are cognition and personality. Recently, attention has focussed on

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Miura, Takayuki. "Executive control in speech comprehension : bilingual dichotic listening studies." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9740.

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In this dissertation, the traditional dichotic listening paradigm was integrated with the notion of working memory capacity (WMC) to explore the cognitive mechanism of bilingual speech comprehension at the passage level. A bilingual dichotic listening (BDL) task was developed and administered to investigate characteristics of bilingual listening comprehension, which include semantic relatedness, unattended language, ear preference, auditory attentional control, executive control, voluntary note-taking, and language switching. The central concept of the BDL paradigm is that the auditory stimuli

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Unsworth, David I. "Working memory capacity and the control of saccades : individual differences in executive control." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30980.

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Lallinger, Stefan. "Madison, Hamilton, and Reagan: The Limits of Executive Power in Foreign Policy and the Reagan Intervention in Nicaragua." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1324.

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The distribution of power between the executive branch and the legislative branch in the realm of foreign policy is a delicate balance and one that has been debated since the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. The debate has gotten no less intense and no less crucial in the modern, nuclear age, and it remains unresolved. The Reagan administration's foray into Nicaragua during the 1980's and its confrontations with Congress during that time period illuminate the complexities of the power-sharing arrangement in foreign policy and offer the ideal case study of execu

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Lott, Mark A. "Aerobic Fitness, Executive Control, and Emotion Regulation in Preadolescent Children." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5869.

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The present study evaluated direct and indirect associations between aerobic fitness, executive control, and emotion regulation among a sample of children aged 8-12 years. To evaluate these associations, the study employed a cross-sectional design and full-information maximum likelihood (FIML) structural equation modeling. Although the hypothesized factor analytic model failed to converge, an alternative exploratory model allowed for the evaluation of associations between primary study variables. Results supported a moderate direct association between childhood aerobic fitness and executive

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Meier, Christina. "A comparative investigation of associative processes in executive-control paradigms." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26798.

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The experiments reported in this thesis were conducted to examine the effects of executive-control and associative-learning processes on performance in conventional executive-control paradigms. For this purpose, I developed comparative task-switching and response-inhibition paradigms, which were used to assess the performance of pigeons, whose behaviour is presumably based purely on associative processes, and of humans, whose behaviour may be guided by executive control and by associative processes. Pigeons were able to perform accurately in the comparative paradigms; hence, associative-learni

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Geddes, J. "Attentional biases in children's anxiety : the role of executive control." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445551/.

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The construct of 'Effortful Control' relates to the efficiency of executive attention. It is the self-regulatory aspect of temperament which involves the ability to inhibit a dominant response and activate a subdominant response. The literature review explores evidence for the link between anxiety in children and attentional biases to threat, and whether this can be explained in terms of individual differences in effortful / executive control. The empirical paper presents a study using a multi- informant methodology carried out on a normative population of nine to eleven year old school childr

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Berlin, Lisa. "The Role of Inhibitory Control and Executive Functioning in Hyperactivity/ADHD." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Psychology, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3292.

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<p>This thesis examined inhibition, executive functioning and their possible relation to childhood problems of hyperactivity and inattention, in its clinical form referred to as Attention Deficit Hyper-activity Disorder (ADHD). Concurrent as well as longitudinal relations were of interest, and both clinical and non-clinical samples were studied. </p><p>Study I demonstrated concurrent relations between executive inhibition and both hyperactivity and conduct problems in preschool. However, the relation between inhibition and conduct problems could be attributed to the large overlap between hyper

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Strobe, Samuel Morgan. "Executive Turnover in the Presence of Internal Control Weaknesses Post-Sox." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297767.

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This study tests the hypothesis that powerful CEOs are less likely to be fired than CFOs when internal control weaknesses are reported under Sarbanes; Oxley Section 404. This study uses four proxies for CEO power: Dual status as CEO and Chairman of the Board, CEO Pay Slice (compensation relative to other top firm executives), CEO tenure, and firm diversification (business and geographic). Controlling for prior year stock returns and ROA, and using a sample of 7,325 observed firm years, I document no significant relationship between CEO power and CFO scapegoating relating to SOX 404. Of the fou

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Hung, Wong Shun-chun Dorothy, and 洪黃順眞. "Administrative secrecy and the control of government information in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975082.

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Malapane, Anthony Tshwarelo. "The effects of the oversight role of legislatures in promoting good governance in South Africa with specific reference to the Gauteng legislature." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2918.

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Thesis (Ph. D. (Public Administration)) --University of Limpopo, 2019<br>South Africa continues to experiment with democracy after 23 years since its rebirth in 1994. The country‘s democracy is still developing towards greater transparency, full participation and accountability. Development depends on the existence of strong and vibrant institutions of accountability in the face of the challenges that threaten to reverse the gains made since the advent of democracy. Among such institutions is the legislature, which is the focus of this study. The study probes the oversight role of legislatures

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Obaid, Mona. "Board control, firm ownership structure, and chief executive compensation : an empirical analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq40203.pdf.

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McVeigh, Claire. "Language and cognition in developing bilinguals : examing working memory and executive control." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602587.

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The overall research aim was to examine the cognitive development of Irish and English speaking developing bilingual children. Caveats from previous research indicated the importance of considering language factors such as acquisition, proficiency and use, which informed a further research aim of conducting a comprehensive examination of language background information for immersion educated children, through multiple sources. Working memory and executive control were of particular research interest as prior international " research with developing bilingual children produced mixed findings fo

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Hallquist, Michael Nelson. "Effortful control, executive inhibition, and personality dysfunction bridging temperament, neurocognition, and psychopathology /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

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Verwoerd, Johan. "The crippling homunculus inefficient executive control and the persistence of intrusive memories /." [S.l. : [Groningen : s.n.] ; University Library Groningen] [Host], 2009. http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/316.

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Yeung, Nicholas Peter. "Switching between simple cognitive tasks : interactions between executive control and task properties." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621559.

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Mayer, Carolina Patricia. "The evolutionary origins of executive functions : behavioural control in humans and chimpanzees." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10494.

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Executive functions (EFs) are a set of cognitive operations, including working memory, inhibitory control and attention shifting, that underpin accurate, flexible and coordinated behaviour in many problem-solving contexts. While it seems likely that humans surpass nonhuman animals in EFs, previous research into the evolutionary origins of EFs is limited and lacks systematic comparisons of EFs in human and nonhuman animals. In this thesis, I aimed to overcome these limitations by developing a test battery to study EFs in our closest primate relative, the chimpanzee. Using an individual differen

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Buechner, Bryan M. "Downside of Self-Control." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1593171428998524.

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Cragg, Lucy. "The development of executive function in childhood." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e47c4799-f629-45cf-902c-46377e855024.

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The experiments in this thesis explored the development of executive function in 5- to 11-year-old children. Developmentally-appropriate versions of the task-switching paradigm, go/no-go task and self-ordered pointing test were used to measure shifting, inhibition and working memory respectively. These executive skills were examined independently and within-task experimental manipulations were used to explore both the executive and non-executive processes that influenced children’s performance. These allowed the investigation of not only when, but also how executive function develops. It was f

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Duan, Chunyu A. "Prefrontal and midbrain contributions to fast executive control of behavior in the rat." Thesis, Princeton University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3737420.

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<p> Flexible control of behavior based on the relevant environmental context is a fundamental component of adaptive behavior. The capability to rapidly switch between different sensorimotor mappings to achieve the current goal is called executive control, and is predominantly studied in primates. To probe fast executive control using the tools available in rodents, we developed a novel rat behavior in which subjects are cued, on each trial, to apply a sensorimotor association to orient either toward a visual target (“Pro”) or away from it (“Anti”). Multiple behavioral a

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Connolly, Daniel Mark. "Theory of mind and executive control in 3- to 5- year-old children." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343370.

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Rutherford, Billy J. "Autobiographical memory specificity, negative mood state, and executive control : implications for clinical depression." [Huntington, WV : Marshall University Libraries], 2009. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=995.

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Hearn, Joe W. "The relationship between physical activity and executive control functioning as modified by genotype." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7342.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Kinesiology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Antoniou, Kyriakos. "The effects of childhood bilingualism and bilectalism on executive control and implicature understanding." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708790.

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