To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Partial dividend.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Partial dividend'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 20 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Partial dividend.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Monroe, Nathan W. "Partisan dividends : the policy impact of partisan turnover /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3129943.
Full text
2
Groeling, Tim. "When politicians attack : the causes, contours, and consequences of partisan political communication /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3027048.
Full text
3
Murtagh, Cera Eleanor. "Fighting for the centre : civic political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Ireland in comparative perspective." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25834.
Full textAbstract:
In deeply divided societies political parties that attempt to reach across that divide, by definition, form the exception. Indeed, in post-settlement contexts where institutions have been designed to accommodate communal identities, non-ethnic parties are broadly cast in the literature as marginal actors. Nevertheless, in a number of segmented societies, civic parties and movements have emerged and seized space in the political system. This thesis probes the puzzle of these actors’ existence and endurance in power-sharing frameworks by comparatively analysing the experiences of civic parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Ireland. It explores the constraints and opportunities these parties encounter in such settings and how they navigate those structures. This thesis seeks to advance understanding of this critical topic, contributing comparative findings on which broader theoretical work can build. Standing at the juncture of the theories of consociational democracy and civic mobilisation in divided societies, this research examines this problem comparatively in the selected cases. Taking a qualitative, interpretive approach it draws primarily on evidence from elite interviews, as well as a limited number of focus groups with voters and analysis of party documents. This thesis has found that civic parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Ireland, in varying ways, meet with severe barriers in the formal and informal structures of their consociational settings, but that they also find critical openings therein. These opportunities, however, can incentivise non-ethnic actors to assume roles and pursue strategies that conflict with their longer term goals and challenge their legitimacy as civic parties. In fighting for survival on the centre ground in divided polities, civic parties are faced with strategic dilemmas that they must carefully negotiate. These findings demonstrate the centrality of institutions for the type of politics and political actors that ensue following peace settlement and bear potential implications for institutional design and party strategy in such contexts.
4
Freier, Ronny. "Incumbency, divided government, partisan politics and council size : Essays in local political economics." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-2221.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis comprises four empirical papers, each devoted to a specific topic in local political economics. Paper one and two evaluate the importance of the mayor position to the future electoral success of the mayor’s party. In the first paper, the focus is on the party’s electoral outcome in subsequent mayoral elections, while the second paper is concerned with the interdependencies between the mayor’s office and elections on other levels of government. The third paper investigates the causal effect of individual parties on policy in the context of German town council politics. The objective is to measure the impact of political representation in a proportional election system on core fiscal decisions of the municipalities. The final paper studies the specific concerns when using population thresholds in regression discontinuity designs for causal inference (in the German case). The analysis reviews the German evidence on the link between the size of the legislation and government spending.Diss. Stockholm : Stockholm School of Economics, 2011. Introduction together with 4 papers.
5
Ward, Paul. "A Scalable Partial-Order Data Structure for Distributed-System Observation." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1161.
Full textAbstract:
Distributed-system observation is foundational to understanding and controlling distributed computations. Existing tools for distributed-system observation are constrained in the size of computation that they can observe by three fundamental problems. They lack scalable information collection, scalable data-structures for storing and querying the information collected, and scalable information-abstraction schemes. This dissertation addresses the second of these problems. Two core problems were identified in providing a scalable data structure. First, in spite of the existence of several distributed-system-observation tools, the requirements of such a structure were not well-defined. Rather, current tools appear to be built on the basis of events as the core data structure. Events were assigned logical timestamps, typically Fidge/Mattern, as needed to capture causality. Algorithms then took advantage of additional properties of these timestamps that are not explicit in the formal semantics. This dissertation defines the data-structure interface precisely, and goes some way toward reworking algorithms in terms of that interface. The second problem is providing an efficient, scalable implementation for the defined data structure. The key issue in solving this is to provide a scalable precedence-test operation. Current tools use the Fidge/Mattern timestamp for this. While this provides a constant-time test, it requires space per event equal to the number of processes. As the number of processes increases, the space consumption becomes sufficient to affect the precedence-test time because of caching effects. It also becomes problematic when the timestamps need to be copied between processes or written to a file. Worse, existing theory suggested that the space-consumption requirement of Fidge/Mattern timestamps was optimal. In this dissertation we present two alternate timestamp algorithms that require substantially less space than does the Fidge/Mattern algorithm.
6
Wang, Hung Chung. "A Blue-Green Divide? Elite and Mass Partisan Dynamics in Taiwan." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1218.
Full textAbstract:
This dissertation aims to investigate the bases of partisan differentiation and degree of polarization since Taiwan's 2000 presidential election. By employing American concepts and theories of partisan polarization, I analyze Taiwan's party politics at both the elite and mass levels. At the elite level, I examine whether inter‐party antagonism has become more intense in Taiwan's legislature and what types of issues contribute most to party conflict since 2000. At the mass level, I examine public perceptions of the parties, analyze whether any political issues divide the Taiwanese public along partisan lines, and explore the social and demographic bases of partisan divisions. The findings suggest that political elites became polarized along partisan lines after 2000, as observed in roll‐call voting behavior in the Legislative Yuan. This resulted from the formation of a divided government and the confrontation of two party coalitions after the 2000 presidential election. Furthermore, this polarization is mainly due to the opposite positions of the two party coalitions on the issue of the relationship with China. The pan‐blue party coalition favors reunification and closer interaction with China, whereas its counterpart, the pan‐green party coalition, favors Taiwanese independence and limited interaction with China. The issues of social reform vs. stability, social welfare vs. lower taxes, and environmental protection vs. economic development are less polarizing and less consistently divisive than the issue of Taiwan's relations with China. Partisan polarization is less evident among ordinary citizens than among political elites. The only issue dividing Taiwanese significantly is the China relationship issue (independence or unification with China). In addition, demographic factors may lead to partisan division among citizens. Nevertheless, this polarization is more moderate than that of political elites because the number of partisan independents is high and has not decreased significantly. In short, partisan polarization in Taiwan is not as intense as some political scientists claim. Taiwan's partisan polarization at the mass level is closer to the concept of "sorting", referring to the process of people gradually affiliating with the party that best reflects their policy preferences, even if those preferences are more moderate than extreme.
7
Schäfer, Carsten. "Asset Dividing Appraisal Model (ADAM) - Direct Real Estate Investment Evaluation." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-191784.
Full textAbstract:
The Asset Dividing Appraisal Model (ADAM) enables the appraisal of cash flows resulting from direct real estate investments. The model is an evaluation tool, which takes capital markets and the specific characteristics of real estate as an asset (heterogeneity, site-dependency, eternal land-yield, etc.) into consideration, while also considering different ownership approaches of real estate in the European Union. Thus, it contributes to the harmonization of capital markets and of direct real estate investment evaluation as intended by the "European Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments 2004/39/EC". ADAM is based on financial mathematical instruments and on the property valuation methods of different cultural areas. It combines continental European (Germ an Gross Rental-Method) and international (Discounted Cash Flow-Method) property valuation approaches. Although it is scientifically reasonable to take property valuation approaches into account, the aim of the model is not to valuate a property or to quantify an objective market value but to evaluate cash-flows resulting from direct real estate investments. A mathematical analysis based on empirical market data confirmed the validity of the methodology of the model. In the course of the analysis the major input variables that determine the results of the model and how the model reacts to marginal deviations of input data, were quantified. This was done using partial derivations and a simulation study. In Czech Republic a building isn't actually considered as a part of the underlying plot. Consequently, differing persons or institutions can be owner of the building, as of the appropriate plot. From 2014 on, a suitable reformation of the Czech Civil Code is supposed to cause a consolidation of real estate property. Czech law is going to be adjusted to German law, which considers plot and building as an economic entity. This consolidation of real estate could be an approach of the introduced model.
8
Feinman, David Eric. "Divided government and congressional foreign policy a case study of the post-World War II era in American government." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4891.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of American federal government, during periods within which these two branches are led by different political parties, to discover whether the legislative branch attempts to independently legislate and enact foreign policy by using "the power of the purse" to either appropriate in support of or refuse to appropriate in opposition to military engagement abroad. The methodology for this research includes the analysis and comparison of certain variables, including public opinion, budgetary constraints, and the relative majority of the party that holds power in one or both chambers, and the ways these variables may impact the behavior of the legislative branch in this regard. It also includes the analysis of appropriations requests made by the legislative branch for funding military engagement in rejection of requests from the executive branch for all military engagements that occurred during periods of divided government from 1946 through 2009.ID: 029809199; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-112).
M.A.
Masters
Political Science
Sciences
9
Tunková, Martina. "Městské lázně." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215713.
Full text
10
Ting, Yang Wei, and 楊薇婷. "Partial Imputation on the Corporate Dividend Policy: Analysis from Taiwan Large-Cap Stocks." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58kb7h.
Full textAbstract:
碩士逢甲大學
經營管理碩士在職專班
104
nal tax reform trend to adjust the short-term tax system with less impact, and doesn’t violate the non-retroactivity principle of laws. The income tax laws only adjusted the calculation formula of shareholders’ tax deduction and didn’t affect the accumulated undistributed earnings of the company financial statments. From 2015/1/1, the imputation tax system is changed from complete imputation to partial imputation. The deductible tax amount and the tax deduction ratio are regarded as one of the important factors for the dividend payout ration. Although the tax deduction did not affect the tax distribution calculation of the company, it has a direct impact on the consolidated income tax and tax deducttion of the individual shareholders. This study investigates the impact by a new tax system based on the dividend policy. We use the Taiwan Large-Cap stocks to discuss the adjustment of their dividend policies after the policy of the imputed tax credits.
11
Anderson, Warwick W. "An investigation of dividend signalling on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in the 1990s and of several new tools employable in such an investigation : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of PhD in Finance in the University of Canterbury /." 2006. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20061130.152229.
Full text
12
Lockhart, Julia Kate. "Divided government in Canada." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15596.
Full textAbstract:
Divided government in Canada refers to the common situation when the federal and
provincial governments are held by different political parties. The study of divided
government can aid in the understanding of voter behaviour. The thesis reviews the
relevant literature on divided government, split-ticket voting and party identification in Canada and the United States. From the literature several voter strategies are extracted that describe the possible individual level processes that result in the aggregate outcome of divided government. This linkage, between individual decisions and collective outcomes, is crucial to understanding divided election outcomes and it is to the exploration of this concept that the thesis contributes. Using a dataset of party vote shares in provincial and federal elections from 1904 to 2003, the thesis looks for aggregate effects of the individual level strategies that it identifies. The thesis argues that
divided government in Canada is a result of staggered election timing and policy learning
across levels which combine to produce a cyclical effect in election results.
13
PENG, JI-GING, and 彭及青. "Transient natural covection in undivided and partially divided^^rectangular enclosures." Thesis, 1988. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39356939702778550771.
Full text
14
KE, BO-WEN, and 柯博文. "Numerical simulation of natural convection in enclosures partially-divided by conducting plates." Thesis, 1989. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45645110175005572578.
Full text
15
Mellow, Nicole Elizabeth. "A house divided regional conflicts, coalitions, and partisanship in postwar America /." 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3116388.
Full text
16
Ching-Chuan, Hu, and 胡清泉. "Effect of a magnetic field on free convection in a partially divided ecolosure filled with a porous medium." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32127060014198414732.
Full textAbstract:
碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
機械與精密工程研究所
97
This study investigates the natural convection of the Newton fluids in a square cavity saturated with porous medium. The cavity is affected by a magnetic field in the horizontal direction. The cavity is constructed with two adiabatic horizontal walls and two isothermal walls at different temperatures. Inside the cavity, there are two baffle plates embedded on either horizontal wall symmetrically. The fluid is assumed to be (a) two-dimensional incompressible laminar Newtonian fluid, (b) of negligible dissipation of viscous heat, (c) buoyancy-dependent as a result of fluid density. Numerical simulation iscarried out by using the Spline alternating - Direction Implicit Method (SADI). The results are displayed by streamlines and isotherms. The effect of the governing parameters Da, Ha, and Ra on the flow fields is discussed in details in the paper.
17
Fradet, Pierre-Alexandre. "Derrida et Bergson : dialogue médiat sur la question de l'immédiat." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8944.
Full textAbstract:
Si le rapport entre Derrida et Bergson n’a pas fait l’objet de nombreuses études, les commentaires existants témoignent à peu près tous d’une vision commune : entre les deux philosophes, les divergences peuvent être atténuées, voire dissoutes, par la considération de convergences plus fondamentales. Les pages qui suivent seront l’occasion pour nous de faire contrepoids à cette vulgate interprétative. Sans nier l’existence de points de contact entre Derrida et Bergson, nous voudrions en effet montrer qu’un important désaccord subsiste entre eux au sujet de la possibilité de l’intuition. Alors que Derrida met en cause les doctrines intuitionnistes, Bergson érige l’intuition en méthode philosophique. Le présent mémoire prendra pour fil conducteur les motifs de cette discorde. Réduit à sa plus simple expression, l’objectif que nous y poursuivrons sera de montrer que les pensées bergsonienne et derridienne, lorsque mises en dialogue, révèlent un désaccord partiel qui permet de réfléchir de façon féconde sur la possibilité de l’intuition. Pour être plus exact, nous caresserons ici une triple ambition : i/ cerner étroitement l’objet du litige entre Derrida et Bergson, trop peu souligné par les commentateurs, et dont nous montrons qu’il s’articule à une entente partielle ; ii/ tirer au clair les diverses raisons qui amènent l’un à s’en prendre à l’intuition, l’autre à embrasser la méthode intuitive ; iii/ établir que certains arguments de Bergson, bien qu’ils connaissent un regain d’intérêt depuis quelques années, paraissent lacunaires lorsqu’on les confronte à différentes objections.Although studies of the relation between Derrida and Bergson are few and far between, they nearly all share a common vision: that of attenuating – or even altogether eliminating – the divisions between the two philosophers’ thought, by considering their more fundamental convergences. The following pages will allow us to counterbalance this common interpretation. Without denying the points that Derrida and Bergson do have in common, we will show an important divergence in opinion between the two on the idea that intuition is possible and founded. While Derrida lays doubt on intuitionist doctrine, Bergson establishes intuition as a philosophical method. This thesis examines the motives behind this divergence. Put simply, a comparison of Derridian and Bergsonian thought reveals a partial disagreement that enables fruitful reflection about whether or not intuition is possible. More precisely, we pursue three objectives here: i/ to clearly identify the scope of the disagreement between Derrida and Bergson, often overlooked by previous commentaries, showing that it includes a partial agreement; ii/ to clarify the diverse reasons leading Derrida to deny the very existence of intuition while Bergson embraces intuition as a philosophical method; and iii/ to show that certain Bergsonian arguments, although enjoying a resurge in interest in recent years, appear unable to stand up to several different objections.
18
Svensen, Eric Paul. "Divided government, ideological polarization, and factional coalitions : a study of the House, 1947-2000." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2584.
Full textAbstract:
To understand the dynamics of legislative gridlock, as well as account for the mixed and often conflicting findings in the divided government literature, this paper posits that the previous unidimensional approach of using divided government as an explanatory variable of interest fails to accurately reflect the changing realities of American politics since WWII. Two new and interlocking conceptual approaches are introduced that expand the dimensionality of legislative gridlock: ideological polarization explained through the temporal shift of political parties from a party system of moderation and universalistic policy outputs, to one where particularistic goals became much more common. As studies of divided government center on temporally-bound concepts, they ignore most of the inter- and intra-party variation evident throughout the latter 20th century.text
19
ZOU, ZHI-HUA, and 鄒治華. "Experimental and numerical investigations of natural convection in partially divided rectangular enclosure with or without opening on the partition." Thesis, 1988. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13295951252143277506.
Full text
20
Zhu, Jihai. "Low-complexity block dividing coding method for image compression using wavelets : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/704.
Full textAbstract:
Image coding plays a key role in multimedia signal processing and communications. JPEG2000 is the latest image coding standard, it uses the EBCOT (Embedded Block Coding with Optimal Truncation) algorithm. The EBCOT exhibits excellent compression performance, but with high complexity. The need to reduce this complexity but maintain similar performance to EBCOT has inspired a significant amount of research activity in the image coding community. Within the development of image compression techniques based on wavelet transforms, the EZW (Embedded Zerotree Wavelet) and the SPIHT (Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees) have played an important role. The EZW algorithm was the first breakthrough in wavelet based image coding. The SPIHT algorithm achieves similar performance to EBCOT, but with fewer features. The other very important algorithm is SBHP (Sub-band Block Hierarchical Partitioning), which attracted significant investigation during the JPEG2000 development process. In this thesis, the history of the development of wavelet transform is reviewed, and a discussion is presented on the implementation issues for wavelet transforms. The above mentioned four main coding methods for image compression using wavelet transforms are studied in detail. More importantly the factors that affect coding efficiency are identified. The main contribution of this research is the introduction of a new low-complexity coding algorithm for image compression based on wavelet transforms. The algorithm is based on block dividing coding (BDC) with an optimised packet assembly. Our extensive simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms JPEG2000 in lossless coding, even though it still leaves a narrow gap in lossy coding situations