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Lijfering, Willem Marten. "Thrombophilia issue or non-issue in clinical practice? /." [S.l. : [Groningen : s.n.] ; University of Groningen] [Host], 2008. http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/.
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Zhao, Xiaoping. "Investigating Shareholder Social Activism From an Issue-Selling Perspective—Issues, Strategies, and Success." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23887.
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Building on the logic of issue selling, my dissertation explores the micro-processes of shareholder social activism through which shareholders interact with targeted firms and also addresses which micro-processes could affect the effectiveness and the success of shareholder social activism. To do this, my dissertation develops a theory with respect to the approaches of linguistically framing the contents of and of presenting shareholder social activism. Based on a qualitative (descriptive) analysis on 1,612 shareholder social proposals, my dissertation identifies six packaging strategies that are used by the proponents to linguistically frame the contents of their proposals and two selling strategies used by the proponents to present their proposals. Subsequently, a quantitative analysis demonstrates that the effectiveness of shareholder social proposals would be largely determined by the joint effects of opportunity framing, threat framing, coalition building, and repeated submitting and that other packaging strategies would have little unique contribution to the effectiveness and the success of shareholder social activism. I argue that my dissertation would make contributions to the understanding of shareholder social activism and also offer some theoretical considerations for future studies on issue selling, although my dissertation might not directly contribute to the body of work of issue selling.<br>Ph. D.
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Holovach, M. "Safety issue." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/40484.
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There is no doubt that in the age of informational
technology the importance of saving and protecting personal data is
growing rapidly. Many places such as companies, banks, hospitals or
even your personal gadgets need their data to be protected well.
Because of these reasons more and more money are invested in
security programs. So what can be a target of cybercriminals?
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Yakis-Douglas, Ayse Basak. "Managing Strategic Issues over Time : Senior Managers' Issue Sustaining Activities." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508683.
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Bowman, Kate. "Wedge issue politics the effects of controversial issues on legislative behavior /." Connect to resource, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6560.
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Thesis (Honors)--Ohio State University, 2006.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages: contains 54 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-54). Available online via Ohio State University's Knowledge Bank.
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Garner, Andrew Douglas. "Issue clarity and heterogeneity in the issue-basis of party identification /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2007. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1417815111&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1219952086&clientId=22256.
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Manning, Colin Ph D. "Issue Individuation in Public Reason Liberalism." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu161675417735823.
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Kim, Bo-Sun. "Neorealism and issue structuralism." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1033642.
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This study presented a comprehensive review of Kenneth Waltz's structural realism of international politics. Waltz pursues parsimonious theory by adopting elegant definitions of structure. His neorealistic approach is an impressive intellectual achievement. It is an elegant, simple, deductively rigorous instrument geared for scientific contribution. Yet this pure structural realism provides an insufficient basis for explaining international relations. Neorealism is one presentation of reality among many. It does not pretend to reflect all realities. Thus, I suggest that we adopt the complex interdependence concept as a thought experiment regarding that which international politics might look like if the basic assumptions of realism were revised and how we overcome inefficient and over-consumptuous control of great powers that defend the status-quo via the excuse for international stability.<br>Department of Political Science
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Carlsson, Wincrantz Pernilla, and Josefin Wahlberg. "Sexuality - a sensitive issue." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24398.
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Sexualitet är en del av att vara människa och berör själva meningen med livet. Den finns med oss i alla åldrar och livssituationer. Vid sjukdom och behandling påverkas sexualiteten på olika sätt och det är därför viktigt att allmänsjuksköterskan uppmärksammar och berör patientens sexualitet i omvårdnadsarbetet. Trots vetskapen om detta väljer många sjuksköterskor att borste från patientens sexualitet, vilket kan orsaka mycket onödigt lidande för patienten. Sexuell dysfunktion kan även vara det enda tecknet på allvarlig sjukdom och det är därför av stor vikt att sjusköterskan införlivar sexualiteten i omvårdnadsarbetet. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att undersöka allmänsjuksköterskans förhållningssätt kring sexualitet i mötet med patienter i olika åldrar. Studien genomfördes som en litteraturstudie där elva vetenskapliga artiklar samlades in och granskades. Både kvalitativa och kvantitativa artiklar inkluderades i studien. Resultatet visade att det fanns ett antal faktorer som påverkade sjuksköterskans förhållningssätt till patientens sexualitet. Många av deltagarna i studierna var medvetna om att det låg inom deras ansvarsområde att uppmärksamma och beröra patientens sexualitet i omvårdnadsarbetet, men få gjorde det. Av de hinder som identifierades, var brist på sexologisk kunskap och utbildning det mest framträdande hindret bland såväl sjuksköterskor som sjuksköterskestudenter.<br>Sexuality is integral to every person and affects the individual in all developmen-tal stages. Sexuality is affected by both illness and treatments, which is a reason why nurses ought to incorporate sexuality into nursing practice. Despite being aware of the importance of patients’ sexuality, many nurses choose not to address the issue, which could possibly cause the patient unnecessary suffering as sexual dysfunction can be the only symptom indicating severe illness. The aim of this study was to explore nurses’ attitude towards patients’ sexuality throughout life. The study was conducted as a literature review based on eleven scientific articles. Qualitative as well as quantitative articles were included in the study. Results showed that there are a number of barriers that affect nurses’ attitudes towards patients’ sexuality. The majority of all informants were well aware that addressing patients’ sexuality formed part of their duties as nurses, however, only a small number of nurses actually did address the issue. The most prominent barrier iden-tified by both nurses and nursing student was their self-reported lack of education in sexology.
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Wayman, John. "Equity issue pre-announcements." Connect to resource, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261318131.
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Åhman, Stefan. "Robust Issue Tracking Application (RITA) : Developing an issue tracker using modern web technologies." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för informationssystem och -teknologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-30919.
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Issue tracking is one of the vital parts in maintaining computer systems. It is utilized in anything from small independent companies to large enterprises. The tracking does not just provide developers and other personnel with crucial information regarding their systems current state, but additionally stores useful documentation if any error reoccurs in the future. However, if the tracking issue would be deficient in some way, the complete process of developing or maintaining a system could affected negatively in great extent. This thesis work has looked into a scenario where the tool has been to slow, overly complicated and obsolete. It has made a large negative impact on the work force that uses the tool and made tracking issue to a discouragement. The thesis work has thence investigated features of the existing tool, suggested a better solution to use based upon these findings, followed by the development of a web application. When the application was finished, its usability was tested by the intended staff and performance tests were conducted. The test results showed that the application had been implemented successfully in many aspects. Unfortunately, due to deficient technical choices, the project did struggle with implementing all features as expected. The thesis work did consequently learn the hard way the importance of a choosing development techniques very thoroughly.
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Haegermark, Jakob, and Sara Andersson. "Internal Issue Selling : An individual perspective on the issue selling process within the subsidiary." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-255965.
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The traditional issue selling process refers to strategic actions taken at a subsidiary in order to gain attention from the HQ. This study aims to broaden the theories on issue selling to also cover internal issue selling, which refers to the individual level of issue selling within a subsidiary. Further is attention and initiative taking worth investigating when studying issue selling, whereas these underlying constructs of issue selling are highlighted in the paper. For this specific study we have performed a case study with L’Oréal Sweden to investigate how the individuals are selling issues within the subsidiary. This micro-level focus of the issue selling process have the potential to contribute to an understanding of the process and the underlying constructs of issue selling on a macro perspective. The findings of this study indicate a tendency that issue selling exists on a subsidiary level. Thereby it could be argued that ideas and initiatives raised by the individuals within a subsidiary have the potential to generate in strategic and organizational improvements on a macro perspective for the MNC.
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Dunn, Elizabeth Margaret. "Women's issues and politics : getting the childcare issue onto a municipal political agenda." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30544.
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This thesis examines women's issues and the political agenda. Several factors affect the likelihood of a women's issue getting onto the formal political agenda of government (municipal, provincial, and federal). The nature of the issue (the degree to which it challenges the status quo) affects the political outcome: those issues which have fit into current and historical legislative patterns (such as welfare state guidelines) have been more successful. A patriarchal family ideology places limitations on the proper role of women: women have held primary responsibility for the care of children and family. Women's labour force participation creates parameters for government involvement in issues such as childcare. The lobbying and organizational skills of the political actors involved are prerequisites for gaining access to government decision-makers. While the entry of women into the political arena has not insured the entry of women's issues onto the political agenda, female politicians have been especially important in bringing women's issues forward for debate and action. However, government bureaucracy has often been a barrier in the implementation of legislation concerning women's issues.
I present a case study of a particular women's issue (childcare) at the municipal level of government. Five locations are examined in the Greater Vancouver area, using a combination of qualitative methods (personal interviews) and quantitative research
techniques (government statistics, official documents, and reports from a variety of community organizations). In spite of the steadily increasing labour force participation of women in all locations, the response of local governments to the childcare issue has varied greatly — childcare is on Vancouver's political agenda but not that of the four district municipalities examined. Vancouver's involvement has been more comprehensive and longterm (more childcare spaces, an involved Social Planning Department, two task forces, a Children's Advocate, and buildings and sites for childcare purposes). The response of municipal councils continues to reflect patriarchal notions of the family (where childcare is a private, family responsibility). Alternatively, Vancouver council has recognized a permanent restructuring of the family and the ongoing involvement of the larger community in childcare. At the same time, the lobbying approach of Vancouver childcare advocates has followed long established patterns concerning childcare and governments -- the argument has been based on child welfare, not the rights or welfare of women.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Sociology, Department of<br>Graduate
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Freund, Sabine. "Kundenbewertung im Strategischen Issue Management." Duisburg Köln WiKu, 2006. http://d-nb.info/99681387X/04.
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Treussart, François. "Lumière issue d'émetteurs individuels, applications." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00011177.
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Nous avons étudié expérimentalement des propriétés de la lumière émis par des objets individuels. Nos études ont essentiellement porté sur la fluorescence d'émetteurs individuels en vue de disposer d'une source de photons uniques déclenchée fonctionnant à température ambiante et utilisable pour la cryptographie quantique. Cette source repose sur l'excitation impulsionnelle d'un seul émetteur placé au foyer d'un objectif de microscope de grande ouverture numérique. Sur un système moléculaire organique, nous avons mis en évidence le caractère non-classique de la lumière émise. Nous avons étudié le bruit d'intensité en mesurant le paramètre de Mandel de la distribution temporelle de photons. Une réduction du bruit par rapport à une source de lumière classique équivalente est observée aux temps courts. La technique de mesure mise au point, qui repose sur l'acquisition de tous les instants d'arrivée des photons détectés, permet en outre de remonter à la dynamique de la molécule, fournissant ainsi une alternative à l'enregistrement direct des corrélations temporelles habituellement utilisé.<br />Pour pallier l'inévitable photoblanchiment des molécules de colorants, difficilement compatible avec les applications, nous leur avons préféré un centre coloré unique dans un nanocristal de diamant. Ce dernier se comporte du point de vue de sa fluorescence comme un système moléculaire avec l'avantage supplémentaire d'être parfaitement photostable à température ambiante. Nous avons utilisé la source de photons uniques reposant sur ce centre coloré dans une expérience de distribution quantique de clé de cryptage avec une transmission des photons en espace libre. Nous avons montré qu'une telle source permettait encore le partage d'une clé sûre en présence d'une forte atténuation sur la ligne, là où les impulsions laser atténuées ne peuvent plus permettre un tel partage de secret.<br />Nous décrivons également dans ce mémoire quelques résultats obtenus sur la génération de second harmonique par des nanocristaux organiques et l'utilisation d'un tel signal comme diagnostic du caractère cristallin du nano-objet ainsi détecté. Enfin, nous concluons sur le projet en cours portant sur la manipulation cohérente d'un spin individuel d'un centre coloré du diamant, pour le traitement quantique de l'information.
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Bekaert, Xavier. "Issue in electric-magnetic duality." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211461.
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Hilts, Bonnie Rae. "Advancing women, a business issue." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0021/MQ49187.pdf.
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McKenzie, Janet. "Education as a political issue." Thesis, University of Salford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.258245.
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Miehe, Gudrun, and Henrike Firsching. "Exploring Krapf's dictionary: special issue." Swahili Forum 16 (2009), S. 1-203, 2009. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11485.
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This collection summarizes the items on society, history and culture from Krapf’s famous dictionary which may be of some interest to today’s audience. The idea of arranging the sometimes idiosyncratic Swahili for modern use came up during preparations for the Krapf Workshop held on 11 September 2007 at Fort Jesus in Mombasa.1 The lemmas found in this first comprehensive Swahili dictionary were checked against Frederick Johnson’s Standard dictionary of 1939. In addition, the dictionary by Charles Sacleux of 1939 and the revised version of Krapf’s dictionary by Harry Kerr Binns (1925) served as sources of information. With the exception of those entries which Krapf had already marked with a question mark, all others were selected, which are not found in Johnson or which are described differently or in
less depth than in Krapf\''s work.:1. Introduction 1
1.1 Krapf’s spelling conventions 2
2. The inventory 7
2.1 Society, law 8
2.2 References to stories and historical events 37
2.3 Language, pronunciation, etymologies, different use according to sexes 41
2.4 Religion, superstition 44
2.5 Attitudes towards neighbouring peoples 54
2.6 Geographical and ethnic terms 55
2.7 The body (body parts, diseases, body care) 62
2.8 Sickness, handicaps, medical treatment and medicine 67
2.9 Agriculture, food (plants, trees, products) 73
2.10 Animals 97
2.11 Season, times, environment 111
2.12 Material culture 117
2.13 Measures 141
2.14 Comparison of meanings 143
2.15 Critical statements and prejudices 151
3. Proverbs and songs quoted in Johann Ludwig Krapf’s Dictionary 153
3.1 Proverbs 153
3.2 Songs 158
4. Indices 165
4.1 Index Swahili – English 165
4.2 Index English – Swahili 189
Sources 203
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Villanueva, Hecky. "Editor's Introduction to Issue #17." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110032.
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Valado, Martha Trenna. "Editor's Introduction to Issue #16." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110093.
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West, Colin Thor. "Editor's Introduction to Issue #15." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110095.
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Murphy, John T. "Editor's Introduction to Issue #14." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110097.
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van, Heck Sjoerd. "The dynamics of issue attention." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19230.
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Das erste empirischen Kapitel analysiert die ,Parteieninteraktion’ im Wettbewerb. Parteien sind empfänglich für die Agenda ihrer Mitbewerber. Allerdings sind nicht alle Parteien in gleichem Maße empfänglich. Erfahrung in Koalitionen sollte etablierte Regierungsparteien empfänglicher für Signale der wettbewerblichen Umgebung machen, wohingegen herausfordernde Parteien ihre eigene Agenda antreiben und Veränderungen in der system-internen Salienz von Themenbereichen ignorieren. Weiterhin nehmen die Parteiführungen eine größere Notwendigkeit wahr, auf Konkurrenten zu reagieren und auf der Welle der Themen des Parteisystems mitzuschwimmen. Aktivisten sind stattdessen eher von policy-seeking-Motivationen angetrieben und bevorzugen eher, dass die Partei thematisch einen traditionellen Fokus beibehält.
Das zweite empirische Kapitel behandelt die Reichweite von parteilichen Themenkatalogen. Das Argument ist dabei, dass herausfordernde Parteien den Status quo zu ändern suchen, indem sie sich auf wenige Themen fokussieren. Etablierte Parteien verteilen ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf eine Vielzahl von Themen. Weiterhin ändern etablierte Parteien die Reichweite ihrer Agenda, wenn sie mit elektoralen Verlusten konfrontiert, oder von Regierungen ausgeschlossen sind. Parteiführungen versuchen breitgefächert anzusprechen, wohingegen Aktivisten wollen, dass zur Parteibasis gesprochen wird.
Der dritte empirische Teil behandelt Innovationen auf dem Markt der politischen Themen. Das Kapitel untersucht der Einfluss von Wählerunterstüzung für grüne, rechtsaußen- und euroskeptische Parteien auf thematische Agenden. Neben Unterstützung für grüne und rechtsaußen Parteien, provoziert auch der Erfolg von euroskeptischen Parteien andere Parteien dazu, ihre thematischen Berücksichtigungsstrategien anzupassen. Dieser Effekt ist konditional und hängt von der Salienz ab, die die herausfordernde Partei dem Thema zumisst.<br>The first empirical chapter analyses `party interaction' in issue competition. It shows that parties are responsive to the agendas of their competitors. Not all parties are equally responsive. Experience in government coalitions makes mainstream parties more `sensitive' towards their competitive environment whereas challengers push forward their own agendas and ignore systemic salience shifts. Furthermore, party leaders perceive the need for their party to respond to competitors more strongly than do activists. Activists are driven by policy-seeking motivations and would like to see the party focus on its traditional agenda.
The second empirical chapter deals with the scope of parties' issue agendas. Why do parties sometimes offer a broad agenda to voters, whereas at other times they confine their policy appeals? Challenger parties seek to change the political status quo by focusing on a few issues only. Mainstream parties distribute their attention across a wide range of issues. Moreover, mainstream parties change the scope of their agenda when after electoral losses or when excluded from office. This depends on intra-party politics. Leaders seek to satisfy vote- and office-seeking motivations and `appeal broadly', activist want the party to `speak to the base'.
The third empirical chapter deals with innovations in political issue-markets. It examines how parties respond to the pressure to address new issues. This chapter examines the impact of electoral support for green, far right and Eurosceptic parties on the issue agendas of other parties. In addition to green and far right support, Eurosceptic party success also provokes other parties to adjust their salience strategies. This effect is conditional: if Eurosceptic parties regard European integration issues as particularly important, other parties adapt and shift salience to this issue dimension. For green and far right parties such a conditional effect is absent.
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Bland, Susan L. "Agenda-Building in Local Land-Use Issues: Blacksburg Versus the Big Box." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32158.
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Like other communities across the country, Blacksburg, Virginia, has struggled with land-use policy, planning, and growth issues. This struggle intensified when town residents discovered a Walmart store might be included in a new retail development project. Local interest groups quickly formed, establishing different perspectives concerning the issue, while a Blacksburg Town Council member introduced an ordinance that would give the town the power to halt plans for the store. This measure became the focal point of the conflict, and groups both supporting and opposing it worked aggressively to gain community support for their respective sides of the issue. Using Cobb and Elderâ s (1983) agenda-building framework, the goal of this thesis is to examine the ways various groups involved in a local land-use conflict defined, and sometimes redefined, their messages to town residents in an effort to expand the issue beyond the core members of the groups to gain more widespread support. The results of these efforts are also evaluated. A case study was conducted incorporating interviews with some of the key members of the interest groups involved in the conflict and discourse analysis to examine group messages generated during the controversy. This study found that the way an issue is defined could influence its progression and play an important role in its resolution. It also highlights definitive times during an issueâ s evolution that are critical to its progression. These findings demonstrate some of the benefits that can result from integrating effective issue management strategies into a communication program.<br>Master of Arts
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Nordholm, Elin, and Anette Björkstrand. "To issue or not to issue a going concern opinion : A study of factors and incentives influencing auditors’ ability and decision to issue going concern opinions." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226641.
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If auditors question a company’s ability to continue existing, they should issue a going concern opinion in the audit report. Whether or not auditors will issue a going concern opinion depends on auditors’ ability to identify going concern problems, as well as their decision whether or not to issue going concern opinions. In Sweden, the going concern accuracy rate has been low compared to other countries. The aim of this study is therefore to analyse whether it is auditors’ lack of ability to identify going concern problems or their decision not to issue a going concern opinion, or perhaps both, that could explain the relatively low accuracy rate. Interviews with four auditors from the Big Four audit firms and four CFOs from middle sized companies were conducted. The results show that there are factors speaking both for and against auditors’ ability to identify going concern problems, why we cannot say for sure whether auditors’ lack of ability to identify going concern problems could be an explanation to the relatively low accuracy rate. The results do however reveal that auditors actively make decisions not to issue going concern opinions to their clients as much as possible, which could explain the relatively low accuracy rate.
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Hirsch-Pemberton, Robert Gray. "When is a developmental issue not a developmental issue? : the case of the conservation task controversy." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18965.
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Robert, John M. "The Issue with Latino Voter Turnout: How Does the Issue of Immigration Affect Latino Voter Turnout?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500164/.
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In this study, I investigate how the issue of immigration affects Latino voter turnout. I hypothesize that U.S. Latino citizens who view immigration as highly important and helpful to the United States will be more likely to turn out to vote in midterm and presidential elections. In addition to a contextual analysis on elections in Arizona and California, I perform a probit regression analysis on survey data from Pew Hispanic's 2004 National Survey of Latinos on Politics and Civic Participation. The results are mixed with respect to the initial expectations. While respondents who view immigration as important and helpful are more likely to turn out than those who view immigration as important and hurtful, the results suggest that respondents who find immigration as unimportant may not be less likely to turn out. Further, there are some differences between Latino subgroups, although these differences are minor. Ultimately, the hypotheses presented in this study find moderate support.
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Sadikot, Minaz. "International Law : The Issue of Rape." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Political Science, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12008.
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<p><strong>Varför har FN inte kunnat erkänna våldtäkt som ett krigsbrott?</strong></p><p>Denna studie har ägnats åt att upplysa användning av våldtäkt och andra former utav sexuella övergrepp under krig och dess konsekvenser för utsatta kvinnor. Studien har tillämpat en kvalitativ och litterär metod. Den största delen av materialet har tagits ur diverse artiklar, dokument och tidsskrifer. Uppsatsen upplyser kvinnors rättigheter inom den internationella arenan och studien ifrågasätter varför Förenta Nationerna (FN) har dröjt (ca.50 år) med att identifiera våldtäkt som ett krigsbrott inom internationall lagstiftning.</p><p>Första delen av uppsatsen kommer att presentera de underliggande teorierna som preciserar konceptet sexuellt övergrepp och mer djupgående, också förklara anledningar bakom anvädning av våldtäkt, därav begränsa dess anvädning inom krigsförhållanden.</p><p>Andra delen av uppsatsen sätter fokus på termen våldtäkt och dess utveckling inom den juridiska ramen. Den behandlar folkrätt, och framhäver även orsaker till FN’s svaghet och svårighet att kunna erkänna, inte bara våldtäkt som ett krigsbrott, utan också andra frågor som är problematiska för FN att kunna hantera. Eftersom begreppet ’våldtäkt’ är relativt brett, faller det både under kvinnors rättigheter och i sin tur under mänskliga rättigheter. Av denna anledning kommer uppsatsen att ta upp de möjliga anledningar om varför det har dröjt för FN, men också dess svårighter, att kunna erkänna anvädning av våldtäkt som ett vapen inom krig.</p><p>Tredje delen av uppsatsen tar upp några av de möjliga problem som är ohanterliga för FN, bland annat kulturella skillnader och individuella åsikter mellan medlems staterna, vilket medför brist på konsensus. Uppsatsen ifrågasätter även om kvinnors rättigheter är del av mänskilga rättigheter. Utöver det kommer även uppsatsen resonera kring FN’s dilemma att kunna särskilja sin roll som ett mellanstatligt och transnationellt organ. Och sist men inte minst kommer suveräniteten, som varje stat har rätten till att erhålla, att diskuteras. Denna punkt kommer att klargöra den oenighet som förekommer mellan medlems staterna, vilket ännu än gång har resulterat i det dröjsmål som uppstått i att kunna indentifiera våldtäkt som ett krigsbrott.</p><br><p><strong>Why haven’t the UN been able to recognise rape as a weapon of war?</strong></p><p>The thesis enlightens the usage of rape in war and the consequences this has brought on women who have been subjected to rape. The bulk of the information is taken from various articles, documents and journals and the method used is of a qualitative nature. The thesis sheds light upon women’s rights in the international arena and questions why it took so long (almost 50 years) for the United Nations (UN) in addressing rape as a war crime within international law.</p><p>The first part of the thesis will present various theories that elucidate the word sexual violence and more accurately ‘rape’ in the context of war. The second part generates the judicial part that will depict the difficulty for the international community to address rape as a war crime within international law.</p><p>Furthermore the thesis takes the approach in presenting obstacles faced by the UN, within the framework of human rights, to handle delicate issues such as rape and sexual violence. Since rape is, to a large extent, complicated and a broad concept, and since it falls under the category of women’s rights and under human rights, the thesis will explain reasons behind the dawdling and the hurdles faced by the UN in accepting rape under the category of war crime.</p><p>The third part of the thesis will present possible predicaments that are unmanageable for the UN. Some possible issues that the thesis has touched upon, is cultural diversity and differing opinions among the member states which has resulted in lack of consensus. Furthermore, the study will present the notion of women’s rights, and question if they are part of human rights. The thesis will also discuss the dual role of the UN and its struggle for the past decade to uphold its role both as an intergovernmental as well as a transnational body. Lastly the thesis will enlighten sovereignty that each state must enjoy. Sovereignty has resulted in lack of agreement among the member states which again has caused delay in recognising rape as a war crime.</p>
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Andersson, Rebecca Bebben. "The Male Issue : (Metro january 2013)." Thesis, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-30.
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Alla artiklar i gratistidningen Metro som handlar om mäns våld mot kvinnor under en månad. Avtecknade på ljusbord som en ny tidning. För masteressän i form av en videoanimation. Som eftertexten i en film.<br>[I examensarbetet ingår utställningen "Jag har känt på friheten":] I handen: En karta.I rummet: Skuggor i bländande motljus.Sortin: Ett stålkallt, stirrande visir. Den som följt Rebecka Bebben Anderssons konstnärskap känner på den här utställningen omedelbart igen det obehag som efter en stund kryper genom det i förstone dekorativa intrycket. Samtidigt har en dramatisk förändring har ägt rum: Verkens tidigare ytbundna energi har lämnat väggarna, fått kropp och tagit plats på golvet. Där står skulpturer – kulisser – så tätt att vi som besökare inte enkelt kan ta oss förbi. Vi måste gå emellan dem och runt dem för att komma till nästa rum, och tappar på vägen kontrollen och överblicken över var vi befinner oss. Ljuset gör oss blinda. Vad som helst kan hända på vägen. Material: Papperskollage på MDF, furu, sandsäckar, offsettryck. Teknik: Installation, offsettryck. Mått/längd på film/video: 6 x 8 meter<br><p>Mitt examensarbete består av en installation, en lastpall med gratisaffischer (på vilka kontextualiseringen är tryckt) och en video (som är masteressän).</p><p>DVD och affisch finns tillänglig i Kungl Konsthögskolans bibliotek.</p>
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Hobby, Kristina Lee. "Metaphoric Interpretations of a Social Issue." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/15.
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This thesis presents a study on how fourth graders can learn and use metaphor to create meaningful and expressive artworks. It is intended to investigate how students can understand the idea of metaphor and how they can use it to illustrate their own thoughts and ideas within their artworks. Jean Piaget believes much abstract thinking does not occur until the Formal Operations Stage of eleven to thirteen years of age. This study sought to question the ideas of Piaget by introducing the abstract thought of metaphor to fourth graders who are at the approximate age of nine. It set out to demonstrate that students may understand the idea of metaphor while applying it to create meaningful artworks that demonstrate their own opinions, thoughts and beliefs. Concepts about metaphor were introduced to the students through a number of interactive lessons to develop their ability to implement metaphor into their own artworks. This unit taught students how to interpret metaphor and apply the use of metaphor to their own artworks.
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Mangan, Michael. "The issue of the Theophrastan Character." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356657.
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Cole, M. S. "Quasi-government : the issue of accountability." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491911.
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Plyva, Taisiia. "The issue of using licensed software." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13114.
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Soliar, Bohdan. "To the issue of economic cybernetics." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13166.
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Bradley, Erin Nicole. "Cultural Competence: An Issue For Education." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1303749360.
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Chen, Hsinchun. "Special issue: "Web retrieval and mining"." Elsevier, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106101.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona<br>Search engines and data mining are two research
areas that have experienced significant progress over
the past few years. Overwhelming acceptance of the
Internet as a primary medium for content delivery and
business transactions has created unique opportunities
and challenges for researchers. The richness of the
webâ s multimedia content, the reach and timeliness of
web-based publication, the proliferation of e-commerce
activities and the potential for wireless web
delivery have generated many interesting research
problems. Technical, system, organizational and
social research approaches are all needed to address
these research problems. Many interesting webretrieval
and mining research topics have emerged
recently. These include, but are not limited to, the
following: text and data mining on the web, web visualization, web intelligence and agents, web-based decision support and knowledge management, wireless web retrieval and visualization, web-based usability methodology, web-based analysis for eCommerce applications.
This special issue consists of nine papers that
report research in web retrieval and mining.
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Glavas, Dejan. "Why do firms issue green bonds?" Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01E041.
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Cette thèse porte sur le marché des obligations vertes et les motivations qui poussent les entreprises à émettre cette nouvelle forme d’instruments financiers. Trois grandes hypothèses ont été émises pour expliquer les motivations des émetteurs d’obligations vertes. Selon la première hypothèse appelée « création de valeur à long-terme », les émetteurs d’obligations vertes cherchent à créer de la valeur actionnariale en investissant dans des technologies vertes. Selon la seconde hypothèse appelée « délégation de philanthropie », une entreprise émet une obligation verte pour répondre à la pression de ses parties prenantes. Selon la dernière hypothèse appelée « problèmes d’agence », un manager d’entreprise émettrice d’obligations vertes chercherait à servir ses intérêts propres plutôt que ceux de l’entreprise. Cette thèse vise à tester ces hypothèses par le biais de trois articles empiriques et d’un article de synthèse situé en annexe<br>This thesis topic is the green bond market and the incentives pushing firms into issuing this new type of security. Three key hypotheses were stated to explain the motive for a firm to issue a green bond. The first hypothesis (“long-term value creation”) asserts green bond issuers invest in green technologies to generate long-term value. The second hypothesis (“delegated philanthropy”), professes stakeholder pressure engenders the fundamental reason for a firm to issue green bonds. The third hypothesis (“agency view”) contends that managers of green bond issuing firms serve their own objectives. This thesis aims at testing these hypotheses through three empirical articles and a synthesis article added in the appendix
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Duff, Jeremy Franklin. "The reciprocal effects of ideology and issue attitudes considering a directional link from issues to ideology /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Ihle, Chelsea Jae. "Going on the Offensive: The Role of Issue Ownership and Issue Salience in the Tone of Campaign Advertising in US Senate Campaigns." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306262924.
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Timoner, Lledó Pere. "Rationing problems: Extensions and Multi-issue analysis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398016.
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This thesis concerns itself with the study of situations in which a group of agents lay separate claims to a scarce resource. These situations are as old as the discipline of economics itself; indeed, a number of ancient documents including the works of Aristotle, the essays of Maimonides and the Babylonian Talmud address this very old problem.
Despite the ancient nature of these texts, these situations were not tackled formally until the early eighties by O'Neill (1982), who provided an extremely simple mathematical model to explain a wide variety of economic problems, including, among others, the assignment of taxes, bankruptcy, the distribution of emergency supplies and cost-sharing of a public good. In general we can refer to these situations as problems of adjudicating conflicting claims or (standard) rationing problems.
The present study seeks to enrich rationing problems from different perspectives:
* In Chapter 2 we introduce an extension of the standard rationing model, in which agents are not only identified by their respective claims to some amount of a scarce resource, but also by some exogenous ex-ante conditions (initial stock of resource or net worth of agents, for instance), other than claims. The essence of this chapter is that those agents who have less (with a worse ex-ante condition) should somehow be given some priority over those who have more (with a better ex-ante condition). Within this framework, we define a generalization of the constrained equal awards rule and provide two different characterizations of this generalized rule. Finally, we use the corresponding dual properties to characterize a generalization of the constrained equal losses rule.
* In Chapter 3 we present a variant of the multi-issue rationing model, where agents stake their claim for several issues. In this variant, the amount of resource available for each issue is constrained to a quantity fixed a priori according to exogenous criteria. The aim is to distribute the amount corresponding to each issue while taking into account the allocation for the remaining issues (issue-allocation interdependence). We name these problems constrained multi-issue allocation situations (CMIA). In order to solve these problems, we first reinterpret some single-issue (standard) egalitarian rationing rules as a minimization program based on the idea of finding a feasible allocation that lies as close as possible to a specific reference point. We extend this family of egalitarian rules to the CMIA framework. Specifically, we extend the constrained equal awards rule, the constrained equal losses rule and the reverse Talmud rule to the multi-issue rationing setting, which are found to be particular cases of a family of rules, namely the extended α-egalitarian family. This family is analysed and characterized by using consistency principles (over agents and over issues) and a property based on the Lorenz-dominance criterion.
* Finally, in Chapter 4 we consider how to solve a rationing problem in which the resource cannot be directly assigned to agents. We propose a two-stage procedure in which the resource is first allocated to groups of agents and then divided among their members. We name these situations decentralized rationing problems. Within this framework, we define extensions of the constrained equal awards, the constrained equal losses and the proportional rules. We show that the first two rules do not preserve certain essential properties and prove the conditions under which both rules do preserve those properties. We characterize the extension of the proportional rule as the only solution that satisfies individual equal treatment of equals. Furthermore, we prove that the proportional rule is the only solution that assigns the same allocation regardless of
whether the resource is distributed directly to agents or in a decentralized manner (with agents grouped). Finally, we analyse a strategic game based on decentralized rationing problems in which agents can move freely across groups to submit their claims.
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Sripoom, Sompodh. "Thailand and the issue of income distribution." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA302959.
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Thesis (M.S. in Resource Planning and Management for International Defense) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1995.<br>Thesis advisor(s): Katsuaki L. Terasawa, William R. Gates. "June 1995." Bibliography: p. 69-72. Also available online.
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Pekdemir, Zeynep Ferah. "The Property Issue In The Cyprus Question." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609565/index.pdf.
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This thesis aims to provide an evaluation of the property aspect of the Cyprus problem. The '<br>property issue'<br>is an important aspect of the problem because it concerns the individual human rights and interests of a large population on both sides of the island. Following an introduction and a description of the historical backgroundof the island, there will be a basic account of the Cyprus conflict in order to have a perspective on the disagreement. The bulk of the thesis is then formed by the problem of property in the overall disagreement and both sides&rsquo<br>arguments towards the issue. After detailing various peace negotiations in relation to the property issue, the involvement of the European Court of Human Rights in the issue will be discussed, including the most recent developments which have since emerged
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Saglam, Suheyla Hande. "The Property Issue In Cyprus 1974-2012." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614378/index.pdf.
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This thesis aims to analyze the property issue in the Cyprus conflict from 1974 up to 2012 based on historical and legal factors. First of all, the historical background of the Cyprus conflict will be evaluated with its different dimensions. After the EU and UN&rsquo<br>s involvement, the conflict internationalized and regarding the geostrategic importance of the island with the security concerns in the Middle East region the core of today&rsquo<br>s conflict became the property issue. In this respect, especially both the Turkish and Greek Cypriots proposals about property issue will be detailed one by one. Following that, based on these proposals the Turkish and Greek Cypriots cases to the ECHR about property issue will be analyzed. In the light of these the overall solutions to the Cyprus conflict will be evaluated.
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Liu, Hao. "Oracle ThinkQuest Library Security Issue Clean-up." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-133629.
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As the Internet evolves and security attacks become more sophisticated, security has become one of the most challenging issues for website development and maintenance. Oracle Education Foundation (OEF funded by Oracle Corporation) maintains 7000 websites in ThinkQuest Library. These websites are developed by elementary school students, with PHP, Perl, and MySQL technologies. Because they have insufficient knowledge in website security, their websites may contain security issues and are hard for OEF to maintain. The purpose of this thesis is to seek an efficient and accurate solution to clean up the website security issues in ThinkQuest Library. The thesis consists 3 parts: improvement of Apache web server security configuration; summarizing methodology of manual fixing vulnerabilities and developing a simple script tool for security issue detection and cleaning up. These achievements can prevent illegal operations and attacks on the websites in ThinkQuest web server.
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Silvera-Munoz, Raul E. "Static instruction scheduling for dynamic issue processors." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0003/MQ44107.pdf.
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Silvera, Muñoz Raúl E. "Static instruction scheduling for dynamic issue processors." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20237.
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This thesis presents a novel approach to the instruction scheduling problem for dynamic issue processors. Our approach aims at generating an instruction sequence with a low register pressure and a high level of Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) exploitable by the dynamic issue mechanism of the processor. Our objective is to improve the performance of the program by taking advantage of the out-of-order execution and register renaming mechanisms of the processor to reduce the amount of spill code introduced by the register allocator.<br>Our approach uses a traditional ILP scheduler to generate an initial schedule for the program, and then reorders its instructions to reduce the register pressure of the program. This reordering is performed carefully. to ensure that the dynamic issue mechanism of the processor is able to exploit from the reordered sequence as much parallelism as available on the original schedule.<br>We have proposed an approximate method to determine, for a given instruction sequence and a given instruction schedule, whether a particular dynamic issue superscalar processor can exploit from the sequence as much ILP as present in the schedule. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Ho, Kin-wai Patrick, and 何健偉. "Determination of issue price for share flotation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31265327.
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Otomo, Ryoko, and 大友涼子. "Centring marginality: gender issue on confessional writing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950693.
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Nunez-Faraco, Humberto Rafael. "Borges and Dante : a critical issue revisited." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368853.
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