Journal articles: 'United States Trust Company of New York'

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HANSEN, BRADLEY A. "Trust Company Failures and Institutional Change in New York, 1875–1925." Enterprise & Society 19, no. 2 (August 7, 2017): 241–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eso.2017.7.

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, New York State trust companies were successful, grew quickly, and failed rarely. The few failures, however, played a leading role in shaping the rules that governed trust companies. Because trust company failures were consistently interpreted as isolated departures from the norm of conservative management, trust companies were able to continue to participate in the rule-making process. The institutions that evolved promoted financial stability by imposing the costs of failure on decision makers and discouraging risky behavior. These failures shed new light on the treatment of failure and the development of corporate governance and financial regulation in the United States

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Moen, Jon, and Ellis W. Tallman. "The Bank Panic of 1907: The Role of Trust Companies." Journal of Economic History 52, no. 3 (September 1992): 611–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700011414.

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The Bank Panic of 1907 was one of the most severe financial crises in the United States before the Great Depression. Although contemporaries realized that the panic in New York City was centered at trust companies, subsequent research has relied heavily on national bank data. Balance sheet data for trust companies and state banks as well as call reports of national banks indicate that the contraction of loans and deposits in New York City during the panic was confined to the trust companies.

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Beck, Kevin. "Trust and the Built Environment in New York City’s Public Housing." Sociological Perspectives 62, no. 1 (October 3, 2018): 120–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121418803327.

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Public housing has been an important site for empirical research on concentrated poverty, social isolation, and social organization. Scholars have demonstrated that public housing was disproportionately built in high poverty neighborhoods, thereby exacerbating the physical and social isolation of residents. They have also hypothesized that physical features of public housing may contribute to a breakdown of social organization. These hypotheses motivated the demolition of large and physically deteriorated public housing structures throughout the United States. I use the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey to test the hypotheses that large building size and visible building disorder are associated with mistrust among neighbors, as would be expected by theories linking the built environment to social organization. Although I find some evidence that trust is less common in large buildings with higher levels of disorder, I argue that critics of public housing overstate the social effects of the built environment.

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Smith Reilly, Susan. "Why don’t US citizens trust professional journalists?" Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies 9, no. 3 (October 1, 2020): 293–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00013_1.

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In 2016, the United States elected a populist president who had no public service, legal or military experience. Donald J. Trump was a New York real estate developer, known for his involvement in the Miss Universe Pageant, World Wide Wrestling and the reality television show, The Apprentice. Although the news media covered his unorthodox campaign extensively, after the election, the new president turned on the press, repeatedly accusing it of publishing ‘fake news’ about him and his administration and going so far as to call the press ‘the enemy of the people’. Alarmed by these accusations, journalists are discovering that without civics education in the public schools, US citizens no longer understand the role a free press plays in a democracy.

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THOMPSON, BRIAN C. "Journeys of an Immigrant Violinist: Jacques Oliveira in Civil War–Era New York and New Orleans." Journal of the Society for American Music 6, no. 1 (February 2012): 51–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175219631100040x.

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AbstractThis article explores the U.S. career of the Dutch immigrant violinist Jacques Oliveira. Following successful performances in Britain, Oliveira sailed for the United States in the fall of 1859. Under P.T. Barnum's management, the twenty-three-year-old became a fixture on New York's theatrical scene, as an instrumental soloist with Tom Thumb's company, with the Drayton Parlor Opera troupe, and with Hooley and Campbell's Minstrels. After a year, he traveled south, settling in occupied New Orleans, where he had family connections. Despite the economic difficulties of the time, he soon became an important figure in the city's cultural life, only to die during an outbreak of cholera and yellow fever in the summer of 1867.In the absence of letters or diaries, the article relies heavily on close examination of period newspapers, city directories and census data to reconstruct Oliveira's world. Oliveira's activities, his successes and struggles, offer insights into the place of the working musician, newly arrived in the Unites States in the late 1850s. Examining the events of his life enables us to contrast cultural life in New York and New Orleans at the time of the Civil War. The article illuminates the place of the instrumentalist in the theater, reveals how attitudes toward music were influenced by a cultural hierarchy, provides insights into the place of the violin in the musical life of the United States, and examines the impact of the Civil War on musical life in New Orleans.

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SCRIVANO, PAOLO. "Defining the Profession of Architect in the Twentieth Century: France, Italy and the United States." Contemporary European History 13, no. 3 (August 2004): 345–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777304001766.

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Anthony Alofsin, The Struggle for Modernism. Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002), 311 pp., $60.00 (hb), ISBN 0–393–730484.Hélène Jannière, Politiques éditoriales et architecture ‘moderne’. L'émergence de nouvelles revues en France et en Italie (1923–1939) (Paris: Éditions Arguments, 2002), 377 pp., €24.50 (pb), ISBN 2–909109–26–7.Paolo Nicoloso, Gli architetti di Mussolini. Scuole e sindacato, architetti e massoni, professori e politici negli anni del regime (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1999), 239 pp., €19.63 (pb), ISBN 88–464–1305–9.

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Haverty, John L. "China Eastern Airlines: People's Republic of China Accounting Standards, International Financial Reporting Standards, or U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles?" Issues in Accounting Education 22, no. 4 (November 1, 2007): 685–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/iace.2007.22.4.685.

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China Eastern Airlines, headquartered in the People's Republic of China, has been listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 1997. In its 2005 annual report, China Eastern Airlines presents two sets of financial statements: one prepared under People's Republic of China accounting regulations, and a second set prepared under International Financial Reporting Standards. In addition, as a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, China Eastern Airlines files Form 20-F with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. This filing includes a limited reconciliation of net income and net assets from International Financial Reporting Standards to United States' generally accepted accounting principles. Your job is to examine these financial statements, explore any differences noted between each of the financial statements and U.S. GAAP, and highlight some issues to be included in a financial analysis of China Eastern Airlines for possible inclusion in an investment portfolio.

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Hunt, Aeron. "MAKING MARKETS: INFORMATION AND PARODY IN VICTORIAN COMMERCIAL REPRESENTATION." Victorian Literature and Culture 46, no. 1 (March 2018): 157–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150317000377.

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In the early months of 2012 excitement built for the initial public offering of Facebook, the behemoth social media company with the boy-wonder CEO. Two days before shares began trading on May 18, the IPO was expected to generate $16 billion for the company, placing it third after General Motors and Visa in the list of largest IPOs in the United States to that date. In the “frenzy” leading up to the IPO, the New York Times reported waiting lists at events for potential investors and speculation about where “newly minted Facebook billionaires” would go for a drink, while the company revealed its plans to celebrate with a “hackathon” featuring employee DJs and Red Bull (Rusli and Eavis).

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Kunitsa, D. A. "Review of Some Aspects of the Russian Legislation on Fiduciary Management of Property and Personal Funds through the Prism of the Law on Trusts in the United States and Canada." Kutafin Law Review 9, no. 3 (October 5, 2022): 511–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17803/2713-0525.2022.3.21.511-543.

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Enactment of new provisions of the Civil Code in the spring of 2022 on personal funds has increased the number of legally recognized instruments for management of property of others available in Russia (personal funds, investment funds of closed type and trust management agreements). This article reviews similarities between these three instruments and trusts formed under applicable laws of the United States and Canada. Such similarities suggest that certain legal mechanisms and approaches to legal issues developed in the United States and Canada should be taken into account for further development of the Russian law on personal funds and implementation of the law in practice. The article analyses certain aspects of the Russian legislation on management of property of others (legal status of each instrument, liability of the managers to the beneficiaries and liability of founders of personal funds for the obligations of such funds) and compares provisions of Russian law with relevant laws of the State of New York and the Province of Quebec.

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Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. "Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by FelipeFernandez-Armesto. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2014. 416 pp. $27.95." Political Science Quarterly 129, no. 4 (December 2014): 729–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/polq.12259.

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Ciardi, Federico, Vidya Menon, Jamie L. Jensen, Masood A. Shariff, Anjana Pillai, Usha Venugopal, Moiz Kasubhai, Vihren Dimitrov, Balavenkatesh Kanna, and Brian D. Poole. "Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions of COVID-19 Vaccination among Healthcare Workers of an Inner-City Hospital in New York." Vaccines 9, no. 5 (May 17, 2021): 516. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9050516.

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Introduction: New York City is one of the areas most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Healthcare workers are among those at high risk of contracting the virus, and a vital source of information and trust in vaccines to the community. Methods: This study was conducted about attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers at a public hospital in New York City during the beginning of COVID-19 vaccination. 428 hospital employees responded. Results: Several factors were significantly associated with vaccine attitudes, including demographics such as gender (p = 0.002), age (p = 0.005), race (p < 0.001) and home location (p < 0.001), role within the hospital (p < 0.001), knowledge about the virus (p < 0.001) and confidence in and expectations about personal protective equipment and behaviors (p < 0.001). Structural equation modeling revealed that the most predictive factors were prior vaccine attitudes and concern with the speed of testing and approval of the vaccines (p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis reinforced these, while also identifying perceived personal risk as significant (p = 0.033). Conclusions: Several modifiable factors that reflect confidence in science, scientific knowledge, personal risk perception, experience and medical authority are correlated with vaccine attitudes, indicating that a holistic educational approach to improve trust in science is likely to be effective in long-term reduction in vaccine hesitancy.

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du Plessis, Izelle. "‘Place of Effective Management’: Finding Guidelines in Case Law." Intertax 48, Issue 2 (February 1, 2020): 195–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/taxi2020017.

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The concept ‘place of effective management’ (POEM) is used in many States around the world. Yet the meaning of this concept remains somewhat ambiguous. It is important to establish where an entity is effectively managed, since many States still use The POEM as one of the criteria to determine residence in terms of their domestic legislation. Furthermore, The POEM is still relevant in several double taxation treaties (DTTs), even after the changes to the OECD Model Tax Convention and the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting. This article critically analyses significant judgments from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada and Australia. From these judgments, a set of guidelines to determine an entity’s POEM is compiled. These guidelines may assist both taxpayers and tax administrators in the application of the concept of the POEM to a new set of facts. Place of effective management, Central management and control, Residence, Taxation. Company, Board of directors, Trust, Trustees

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Bianco, Martha J. "The Decline of Transit: A Corporate Conspiracy or Failure of Public Policy? The Case of Portland, Oregon." Journal of Policy History 9, no. 4 (October 1997): 450–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030600006175.

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In his 1974 testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, Bradford Snell lay partial blame for the decline of mass transit in the United States on a targeted program, spearheaded by General Motors (GM), with the goal of “substitution of buses for passenger trains, streetcars and trolley buses; monopolization of bus production; and diversion of riders to automobiles.” Snell argued that General Motors and its subsidiary company National City Lines were responsible for “the destruction of more than 100 electric surface rail systems in 45 cities including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.”

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Gibson, Tom. "Bright Bounty." Mechanical Engineering 135, no. 04 (April 1, 2013): 38–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2013-apr-2.

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This article is a case study on BrightFarms, which is a company in Midtown Manhattan that brings fresh, locally grown produce to underserved urban areas by engineering green gardening on a commercial scale. Based in Midtown Manhattan, BrightFarms builds and operates hydroponics greenhouse farms across the United States, mostly at supermarkets. The company tries to use renewable energy sources and waste energy from a host building. BrightFarms now focuses on commercial clients that can handle the high volumes of produce that come out of the greenhouses. The BrightFarms team has expertise spanning horticultural sciences, engineering, ecology, energy analysis, environmental education, and produce marketing. While much of BrightFarms’ work has focused on New York City till date, it is trying to build facilities not only wherever it makes economic sense, but also where it makes sense in the food system.

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Fridenson, Patrick. "Mira Wilkins and Frank Ernest Hill, American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents." Business History Review 88, no. 4 (2014): 791–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680514000774.

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Arthur L. Honiker, from “Brooklyn, New York,” reviewed American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents, first published in 1964, in the Autumn 1966 issue of the Business History Review. His review was sober, yet quite positive: “This is a thoroughly researched, straightforward account of the overseas expansion of the Ford Motor Company during the sixty years from its founding in 1903.” He praised the book's contextualization of “the vast economic and political changes in the world during that period” and “its objective evaluation of the consequences to the corporation, to the United States, and to the host nations from Ford's activities abroad” (Business History Review 40, no. 3 [1966]: 395).

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Hagen, Julie K., and Jennifer Thomas. "‘To really trust [...] we had to be open with ourselves and each other’: Community building through Spring Awakening." Studies in Musical Theatre 14, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 95–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00021_1.

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The purpose of this ethnographic study was to better understand how participation in St. Lawrence University’s (New York, the United States) production of Spring Awakening served as a means of intimate and broader community building. This narrative ethnography investigated the director and a focus group of actors involved in the production of Spring Awakening. Analyses of the data revealed four themes: content, interconnectedness, emotion and vulnerability and magic. St. Lawrence University students welcomed and embraced the language, the music and the subject matter presented to them in the content of Spring Awakening. The willingness with which the students opened up to conversation and community continued to resonate with them in an interconnectedness that seemingly had more depth and more meaning than other productions they have worked on, including other musical theatre productions.

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Wilson, Paul A. "Book Reviews : Health Care Delivery in the United States, Third Edition, Steven Jonas and contribu tors, New York, Springer Publishing Company, 1986, 558 pp." Health Education Quarterly 14, no. 2 (June 1987): 252–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109019818701400210.

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Salinger, Rober Miller. "First-Order Determinants of Capital Structure among Listed Manufacturing Companies in the United States of America." Journal of Finance and Accounting 6, no. 4 (September 22, 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.53819/81018102t4072.

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Capital structure plays a critical role which enables manufacturing firms address the dilemma of whether or not an optimal capital structure can be achieved. The total capital of a firm is composed of both debt and equity which makes up firm’s capital structure. The capital structure of manufacturing firms is made up of a combination of internal financing and external financing of the firm. Internal financing composed of equity, preference share capital and shareholder's funds and external financing composed of long term debt and short term debt of the firm. Internal financing using profits as a source of capital for new investment rather than obtaining capital elsewhere distributed as dividends to firm's owners or other investors. External financing is the phrase used to describe funds that firms obtain from outside of the firm. The decade since the onset of the global financial crisis has brought about significant structural changes in the manufacturing sector in USA. This study thus sought to assess the first-order determinants of capital structure among listed manufacturing companies in the United States of America through literature based study methodology. The study found that the manufacturing industry in USA is an industry that dominates companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it can be seen from the number of companies listed on NYSE increasing every period. The companies not only required to produce products, but also must be able to manage their capital structure. The study established that the first order determinants of capital structure for listed manufacturing firms in USA consist of financial situation, growth opportunities, size of the firm, product uniqueness, business risk, tax shields, dividend Policy. Furthermore, the first order determinants of capital structure consist of firm size, tangibility, growth opportunities, the non-debt tax shield, the bankruptcy risk, profitability and risk. The study concludes that listed manufacturing firms with the highest asset liquidity may increase debt capacity only when the bond covenants impose restrictions on the disposition of assets. The fact that a company possesses fixed assets to a large extent can be considered by its creditors as a guarantee that will allow them to recover their funds in the case of financial distress experienced by the borrower corporation. If a high-risk company is experiencing a decline in sales, the resulting profit will decrease due to the amount of the fixed costs. Because there is a decrease in profits, the company is not available enough funds to pay off the debt and interest so that it threatens the occurrence of bankruptcy. Keywords: First order determinants, capital structure, listed manufacturing companies, USA.

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Kim, Jeungkun, and Suk-Young Kang. "Sociocultural Differences in Accepting Technology for Older Adults Between South Korea and the United States." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2108.

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Abstract In recent years, Western-originated technology products for older adults are rapidly spreading in Korea, but discussions on technology acceptance taking into account the socio-cultural characteristics of older adults in Korea are relatively insufficient. The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of the socio-cultural characteristics of Korean older adults on their intention to use technology compared to the United States. Due to Covid-19, a telephone and non-face-to-face survey was conducted for older adults aged 65-95 residing in New York State in the U.S. and the metropolitan area of South Korea from September 2020 to January 2021(N=155 in South Korea, N=180 in the U.S.).In this study, the expanded technology acceptance model for older adults was conceptualized, and socio-cultural factors were used as mediators or modulators. Results show that Korean older adults had higher expectations that technology use would have a positive impact on their lives, and their product purchase intentions were higher than those in the United States(p<0.001). The main reason was that Korean older adults were less anxious about the leakage of personal information, had higher national trust and were relatively less resistant to robots than American older adults. In addition, Korean older adults were more confident that they could receive help in case of problems with technology products than their counterparts in the United States. This study suggests practical and policy alternatives for securing technology acceptance of older adults, taking into account the social and cultural factors of Korea and the United States.

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Hambrick, Marion E. "Riding Into the Future: A Financial Examination of SoulCycle and the Indoor Cycling Studio Trend." Case Studies in Sport Management 6, no. 1 (2017): 86–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/cssm.2017-0013.

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SoulCycle is a $122 million company offering customers 45-min workouts in its indoor cycling studios. As one of the first boutique fitness firms to emerge in the $28.5 billion fitness industry, SoulCycle grew from one indoor cycling studio in New York City in 2006 to 67 studios across the United States by 2016. SoulCycle executives faced a pivotal moment in May 2016. Chief executive officer Melanie Whelan recognized the company faced increasing competition in the boutique fitness segment, with companies such as Flywheel and Peloton making inroads into this market. In addition, two of SoulCycle’s founders resigned from their leadership positions earlier the same year. These developments led to questions about the long-term viability of SoulCycle within the larger fitness industry. A detailed financial analysis of SoulCycle, including an examination of the company’s financial statements, financial ratios, strategic initiatives, and competitors, could provide insights about its chances for continued success.

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Armandi, Barry, Adva Dinur, and Herbert Sherman. "Abandoning ship at Scandia, Inc.: Part A." New England Journal of Entrepreneurship 13, no. 2 (March 1, 2010): 89–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/neje-13-02-2010-b007.

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Scandia, Inc., is a commercial vessel management company located in the New York Metropolitan area and is part of a family of firms including Scandia Technical; International Tankers, Ltd.; Global Tankers, Ltd.; Sun Maritime S.A.;Adger Tankers AS; Leeward Tankers, Inc.; Manhattan Tankers, Ltd.; and Liuʼs Tankers, S.A. The companyʼs current market niche is the commercial management of chemical tankers serving the transatlantic market with a focus on the east and gulf coast of the United States and Northern Europe. This three-part case describes the commercial shipping industry as well as several mishaps that the company and its President, Chris Haas, have had to deal with including withdrawal of financial support by creditors, intercorporate firm conflict, and employee retention. Part A presents an overview of the commercial vessel industry and sets the stage for Parts B and C (to be published in the Spring 2011 issue) where the firmʼs operation is discussed.

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Sherman, Herbert, Barry Armandi, and Adva Dinur. "Abandoning ship at Scandia, Inc.: Parts B and C." New England Journal of Entrepreneurship 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/neje-14-01-2011-b006.

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Scandia, Inc., is a commercial vessel management company located in the New York Metropolitan area and is part of a family of firms including Scandia Technical; International Tankers, Ltd.; Global Tankers, Ltd.; Sun Maritime S.A.;Adger Tankers AS; Leeward Tankers, Inc.; Manhattan Tankers, Ltd.; and Liuʼs Tankers, S.A. The companyʼs current market niche is the commercial management of chemical tankers serving the transatlantic market with a focus on the east and gulf coast of the United States and Northern Europe. This three-part case describes the commercial shipping industry as well as several mishaps that the company and its President, Chris Haas, have had to deal with including withdrawal of financial support by creditors, intercorporate firm conflict, and employee retention. Part A, which was published in the Fall 2010 issue, presented an overview of the commercial vessel industry and set the stage for Parts B and C where the firm℉s operation is discussed.

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Scanlon, Jennifer. "Mediators in the International Marketplace: U.S. Advertising in Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century." Business History Review 77, no. 3 (2003): 387–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/30041184.

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In the early twentieth century, companies relied on advertising to inform international audiences about their products and services, just as they do today. The J. Walter Thompson Company, a New York–based advertising agency, entered the global stage early, and by 1928 Thompson advertisements had appeared in twenty-six languages in over forty countries. Reaching international audiences and expanding their tastes required an understanding of local cultures and the ways in which they conducted their businesses, and advertisers often had to act as mediators for their clients. The J. Walter Thompson Company's efforts in Argentina provide an excellent case study of how both “local” and “global” messages of consumption were understood–and often misinterpreted–when they were transmitted to other countries from the United States.

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Russell, Mason W., Daniel M. Huse, Shelley Drowns, Elizabeth C. Hamel, and Stuart C. Hartz. "Direct Medical Costs of Coronary Artery Disease in the United States 11This study was supported in part by Parke-Davis, a division of Warner-Lambert Company, Morris Plains, New Jersey, and Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York." American Journal of Cardiology 81, no. 9 (May 1998): 1110–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9149(98)00136-2.

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Wertz, Margaret Iacono. "Confronting the Past, Hanging Together: Charles Stewart Carstairs’s Campaign for Modern Art." Nineteenth Century Studies 33, no. 1 (December 1, 2021): 113–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/ninecentstud.33.0113.

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Abstract Charles Stewart Carstairs (1865–1928) was a world-renowned art dealer and adviser to eminent collectors like Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937). As a principal member of M. Knoedler and Company—an art-dealing firm founded in about 1848 as the New York branch of the French Goupil and Company that remained active until its closure in 2011—and the director of its London headquarters for more than two decades, Carstairs was a key figure in the art market of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Although his fundamental role in creating a market for Old Master paintings in the United States is now being acknowledged, his advocacy of modern and contemporary art and especially modern French painting remains largely unexplored. This article discusses his personal art collection and shows how the promotional methods he employed—including displaying Old Masters and modern and contemporary works together, a strategy being increasingly adopted by museums, galleries, and auction houses today—encouraged collector and public appreciation of modern painting.

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Shelton, A. M., M. K. Kroening, S. D. Eigenbrode, C. Petzold, M. P. Hoffmann, J. A. Wyman, W. T. Wilsey, R. J. Cooley, and L. H. Pedersen. "Diamondback Moth (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) Contamination of Cabbage Transplants and the Potential for Insecticide Resistance Problems." Journal of Entomological Science 31, no. 3 (July 1, 1996): 347–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-31.3.347.

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Samples collected from 1989 to 1992 document that the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) was introduced into New York in early spring on cabbage, Brassica oleracea capitata (L.), transplants grown in the southern United States. During 1989, transplant shipments from five transplant companies in Florida, Georgia and Maryland were sampled for P. xylostella. In 1989, average seasonal infestations per transplant company ranged from 1.3 to 3.5 P. xylostella per 100 transplants. During June, when the majority of transplants arrived in New York, P. xylostella infestations were as high as 12.8 insects per 100 transplants on an individual shipment. Infestations by cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), imported cabbageworm, Artogeia (=Pieris) rapae (L.), and cabbage webworm, Hellula rogatalis (Hulst), on an individual shipment were as high as 19.7 insects per 100 transplants. Compared with a standard susceptible field population, the P. xylostella which were collected from transplants demonstrated moderate to high (> than 100-fold in one case) levels of resistance to permethrin or methomyl. In 1990, average seasonal infestations per transplant company varied from 0.3 to 12.0 P. xylostella per 100 plants, but an individual shipment from Florida had 30.4 P. xylostella per 100 transplants. A population of P. xylostella collected in 1990 from Florida transplants had >200-fold resistance to methomyl. Despite intensive treatments, a New York grower who used the transplants with high contamination of resistant P. xylostella was unable to achieve acceptable control in his field. Samples collected from 1989 to 1992 from a transplant grower in Maryland indicate that better management in the field can reduce contamination levels to < 0.5%. The introduction of P. xylostella, especially those resistant to insecticides, on transplants poses a serious threat to cabbage growers and interregional management strategies should be adopted.

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Lewis, James R. "Danceageddon." Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 11, no. 1 (2020): 11–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/asrr202081166.

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Falun Gong was originally a qigong group that entered into conflict with the Chinese state around the turn of the century. It gradually transformed into both a religious group and a political movement. Exiled to the United States, the founder-leader, Li Hongzhi, acquired property near Cuddebackville, New York, which he subsequently designated Dragon Springs. Dragon Springs, in turn, became the headquarters of Shen Yun Performing Arts, an ambitious touring dance and music company that claims to embody the traditional culture of China prior to its subversion by the Chinese Communist Party. Though Li’s earlier eschatology emphasized that individuals needed to become Falun Gong practitioners in order to survive the imminent apocalypse, the significant success of Shen Yun seems to have prompted Li Hongzhi to rewrite his eschatology, which now emphasizes that all one need do in order to be “saved” is to view live Shen Yun performances.

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Sheehan, Michael. "Book Review: Coit D. Blacker, Reluctant Warriors: The United States, The Soviet Union and Arms Control (New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 193pp., £19.95 hbk., £12.95 pbk.)." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 17, no. 1 (March 1988): 113–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03058298880170010401.

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Mendoza, Marcela. "Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. By Felipe Fernández-Armesto. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Pp. xxix, 382. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index. $27.95 cloth." Americas 71, no. 1 (July 2014): 157–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2014.0098.

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Wilson, Mark R. "Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. By Sally H. Clarke (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 296 pp. $50.00." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39, no. 1 (July 2008): 145–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2008.39.1.145.

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Goyder, D. "United States, Common Market and International Anti-Trust: A comparative guide by Barry E. Hawk. Law and Business Incorporated-Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 2nd edition 1986, 3 volumes." Yearbook of European Law 6, no. 1 (January 1, 1986): 466–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/yel/6.1.466.

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Smalley, Heather Kitada, and Christopher Wolf. "Building a Framework for Mode Effect Estimation in United States Presidential Election Polls." Statistics, Politics and Policy 13, no. 1 (February 2, 2022): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/spp-2021-0024.

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Abstract As public confidence in polling has been waning in the wake of recent elections (Narea, N. 2016. After 2016, Can we Ever Trust the Polls Again? New Republic), many researchers have been seeking to diagnose the shortcomings in these data (Gelman, A., and J. Azari. 2017. “19 Things We Learned from the 2016 Election.” Statistics and Public Policy 4 (1): 1–10; Kennedy, C., M. Blumenthal, S. Clement, J. D. Clinton, C. Durand, C. Franklin, K. McGeeney, L. Miringoff, K. Olson, D. Rivers, L. Saad, G. E. Witt, and C. Wlezien. 2018. “An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States.” Public Opinion Quarterly 82 (1): 1–33; Mercer, A., C. Deane, and K. McGeeney. 2016. Why 2016 Election Polls Missed Their Mark. Pew Research Center. Also available at https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/why-2016-election-polls-missed-their-mark/). One conjecture stems from observed differences between polling results based on the methodological choice between live and non-live modes of survey administration (Enten, H. 2015. The Future of Polling May Depend on Donald Trumps Fate. FiveThirtyEight. Also available at https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-future-of-polling-may-depend-on-donald-trumps-fate/). While it has become commonplace to discuss “mode effect” on surveys, it reemerged in the political zeitgeist as the “Shy Trump” supporter hypothesis leading up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (Edsall, T. B. 2016. How Many People Support Trump but Dont want to Admit it. New York Times). Motivated by the conflicting evidence for (Enns, P. K., J. Lagodny, and J. P. Schuldt. 2017. “Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Polls: The Importance of Hidden Trump Supporters.” Statistics, Politics, and Policy 8 (1): 41–63) and against (Coppock, A. 2017. “Did Shy Trump Supporters Bias the 2016 Polls? Evidence from a Nationally-Representative List Experiment.” Statistics, Politics, and Policy 8 (1): 29–40) this hypothesis, we built a complex statistical model that pools together results across multiple pollsters and throughout the election cycle while accounting for the nuances of these data. Specifically, we explored election data for the presence of mode effect using time series with a general additive mixed model (GAMM). We estimated mode effect at state and national levels to perform statistical mode adjustments, which we then compared to observed election results. In this paper, we utilized polling results from the United States Presidential Elections in 2016 (4208 polls) and 2020 (4133 polls). Using these data, we identified spatial trends and areas where mode effect was statistically significant at a 0.05 level. In summary, we make three contributions to the literature on mode effect adjustment in the poll aggregation setting. First, we present a straightforward and flexible statistical approach to estimating mode effect using time series data. In doing so, we help to bridge the gap between theory-focused statistical work and the social sciences. Second, we apply this method to two recent presidential elections, providing insight into the significance of mode effect. Third, we provide evidence for spatial mode effect trends suggesting regional voting behaviors that future scholars can explore.

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Sevenster, H. G. "United States and Common Market Antitrust Policies; Barry E. Hawk (Ed.); New York, Matthew Bender & Company Incorporated, 1987; Library of Congress Catalog Number 87–70029; xxii + 682 pp." Leiden Journal of International Law 1, no. 2 (November 1988): 247–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0922156500000923.

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Gal, Tali, and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg. "“I Am Starting to Believe in the Word ‘Justice’”: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study on Community Courts." American Journal of Comparative Law 68, no. 2 (June 2020): 376–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaa017.

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Abstract With the growing awareness of the crisis of mass incarceration and distrust toward the legal system, recent years have seen a rise in interest in specialized, problem-solving, and therapeutic courts designed to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates and enhance public trust in state authorities. Community courts have been operating in numerous jurisdictions worldwide, providing a non-adversarial platform in which repeat low-level offenders are offered a comprehensive rehabilitative and restorative intervention program. Alongside evaluations demonstrating the ability of community courts to reduce incarceration and enhance offenders’ trust, some critics have suggested that community courts jeopardize offenders’ procedural rights and result in over-criminalization of program non-completers. This Article provides a qualitative empirical examination of an Israeli community court model, inspired by the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York. Based on over 280 hours of observations of approximately 100 hearings and fourteen staff meetings, the findings provide an inside look at the ways in which Israeli community courts implement a range of evidence-based, democracy-oriented approaches to crime control, such as procedural justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, and community justice, in the context of community courts. The findings also point to a need to pay closer attention to how these courts continue their operation, within a broader adversarial legal framework of criminal justice. The challenges identified in this Article raise questions that are relevant to other community courts in the United States and elsewhere.

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Feghali, Khalil, and Joe Hallak. "International internal audit standards (IIA) and the geographical location of international groups: An application to the information technology sector." Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets and Institutions 9, no. 3 (2019): 32–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/rgcv9i3p3.

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The international standards for internal audit (IIA) created by the Internal Audit Institute in the United States are presently one of the most important bases for the practice of the internal audit profession. In this research, we assess the use of these principles in international groups through empirical studies, adopting an objective evaluation of the application of the standards. This multivariate statistical study was conducted in 2017 on more than 22 countries covering Africa, Middle East and Europe. Data was collected through a validated questionnaire covering two topics: general company information, and international internal audit standards applicability and relevance. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS-22 software (IBM, New York, USA). Results showed that audit quality components, information technology and accounting and finance have a favorable correlation with the international standards. In conclusion, these findings suggest such standards are expected to enhance the internal audit practice. As such, international companies should consider applying these standards in their core practice promote the application of the standards through complying their audit practice strategies to the regulations.

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Studies, Kurdish. "Book Reviews." Kurdish Studies 3, no. 1 (May 1, 2015): 99–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ks.v3i1.395.

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Minoo Alinia, Honor and Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 190 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-36700-6).Fevzi Bilgin and Ali Sarıhan (eds.), Understanding Turkey’s Kurdish Question, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013, 250 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-7391-8402-8).Michael M. Gunter, Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War, Hurst Publishers, London, 2014, 169 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-84904-435-6).Mohammed Shareef, The United States, Iraq and the Kurds: Shock, Awe and Aftermath, New York and Oxon: Routledge, 2014, 234 pp., (ISBN-13: 978-0415719902).Latif Tas, Legal Pluralism in Action: Dispute Resolution and the Kurdish Peace Committee, Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, 208 pp., (ISBN-13: 978-1472422088).Galia Goran and Walid Salem (eds.), Non-State Actors in the Middle East: Factors for Peace and Democracy, Oxon: Routledge, 2013, 230 pp., (ISBN-13: 978-0415517058).Mehmed S. Kaya, The Zaza Kurds of Turkey: A Middle Eastern Minority in a Globalised Society. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011, xii, 223 pp., (ISBN 978-1-84511-875-4). Shanna Kirschner, Trust and Fear in Civil Wars: Ending Intrastate Conflicts, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 189 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-7391-9641-0).

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Liebowitz, Jay, Yolande Chan, Tracy Jenkin, Dylan Spicker, Joanna Paliszkiewicz, and Fabio Babiloni. "If numbers could “feel”: How well do executives trust their intuition?" VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 49, no. 4 (November 11, 2019): 531–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/vjikms-12-2018-0129.

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Purpose In the business and data analytics community, intuition has not been discussed widely in terms of its application to executive decision-making. However, the purpose of this paper is to focus on new global research that combines intuition, trust and analytics in terms of how well C-level executives trust their intuition. Design/methodology/approach Our Fulbright research, as described in this paper and performed by colleagues from the United States, Canada, Poland and Italy, examines executives’ as well as other less experienced employees’ preferences for different types of intuition versus data analysis. This study set out to better understand the degree to which executives prefer intuition versus analysis and the relationship between these approaches to decision-making. Our research combines elements of a review, a cross-cultural/cross-company survey study and a biometrics study in interoception. The research team has a multidisciplinary background in business, information technology, strategy, trust management, statistics and neuroscience. Findings Based on our research, the main findings are as follows. The use of and preference for intuition types change as employees gain more experience. However, there may be intuition styles that are more static and trait-like, which are linked to roles, differentiating managers from leaders. Using “inferential intuition” and “seeing the big picture” go hand in hand. Listening to your body signals can promote improved intuition. Cross-cultural differences may impact executive decision-making. Executives often prefer to use their intuition over analysis/analytics. Research limitations/implications This research could be expanded to have a larger sample size of C-level executives. We had 172 responses with 65% C-level executives and 12% directors. However, a recent survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit on intuition used by executives had a sample of 174 executives around the world, which is comparable with our sample size. Practical implications From our research, executives should continue to apply their experiential learning through intuition to complement their use of data in making strategic decisions. We have often discounted the use of intuition in executive decision-making, but our research highlights the importance of making it a critical part of the executive decision-making process. Originality/value Based on the results of our survey and biometrics research, executives apply their intuition to gain greater confidence in their decision-making. Listening to their body signals can also improve their intuitive executive awareness. This complements their use of data and analytics when making executive decisions.

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Gao, Yui. "Data sovereignty and national security in China’s legal system (based on the dispute over the share allotment of the company “DiDi Taxi” on the New York Stock Exchange." Национальная безопасность / nota bene, no. 6 (June 2021): 99–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0668.2021.6.37260.

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This article analyzes the modern concepts of data sovereignty, as well as the corresponding issues of their practical application. Based on the example of China as the country with the largest in the world number of Internet users and developed economy, description and critical assessment is given to the existing approaches towards data sovereignty, taking into account the international law experience. The conclusions acquired in the course of theoretical analysis are proven on the case of the company “DiDi Taxi”, the share allotment of which on the New York Stock Exchange has been terminated due to posing risks to the information sovereignty of the People's Republic of China. It is established that the modern concepts of “data sovereignty” are based on application of the methodology of previously existing branches of legal science on the storage, processing and transmission of data; therefore, the explanations developed on their basis cannot be acknowledged as universal and fully meeting the specificity of the object of regulation. Based on the case of “DiDi Taxi”, the author formulates the objective criteria that may underlie the restriction of the right of the company to freely use the following data: number of users, scope of data, and possibility of their preliminary verification). Special attention is given to the problems associated with the attempts of the United States to revise the principle of determination of the state jurisdiction of data, which has established in the international practice, based on the principle of data localization. It is noted that the establishment of such regulation is unacceptable and may lead to political and economic conflicts in the future. The obtained results give an adequate perspective on the current concept of data sovereignty and the related issues, thereby drawing the interest of law enforcement agencies and scholars dealing with the national security issues.

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Wilmeth, Don B. "United States Theatre: A Bibliography From the Beginning to 1990. Compiled and edited by Robert Sylvester. Romsey, England: Motley Press; New York: G. K. Hall & Company, 1993; pp. 400. $150.00 hardcover." Theatre Survey 35, no. 1 (May 1994): 143–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557400002623.

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MINCHIN, TIMOTHY J. "“Don't Sleep With Stevens!”: The J. P. Stevens Boycott and Social Activism in the 1970s." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 3 (December 2005): 511–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805000630.

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On 30 November 1978 thousands of people from across the United States took part in “Justice for J. P. Stevens' Workers Day.” In seventy-four cities activities such as rallies, marches, press conferences, film premieres, and leafleting were held in support of a union boycott against a giant textile company that had persistently shown its willingness to violate the law rather than recognize its workers' right to organize. In New York City more than 3000 demonstrators marched in front of the company's midtown headquarters as part of the nationwide day of protest that was endorsed by Governor Hugh L. Carey and the City Council. In Los Angeles hundreds of trade unionists and their supporters rallied in front of City Hall, while in Indianapolis protesters gathered at the local Hilton Hotel for a “hard times luncheon” of ham and beans that was designed to express solidarity with the company's low-paid workers. Finding that the hotel's table cloths were made by Stevens, enraged protesters ripped the fabrics from the tables and dumped them in a pile on the floor. Activities were also held in many smaller cities; in Albany, New York, for example, a rally was addressed by Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor-elect Mario Cuomo, who told consumers “to shun the products of J. P. Stevens as you would shun the fruit of an unholy tree.” Across the country, protesters carried signs urging consumers to steer clear of the company's sheets, a staple part of its textile business.

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Fox, Ashley, Yongjin Choi, Heather Lanthorn, and Kevin Croke. "Does highlighting COVID-19 disparities reduce or increase vaccine intentions? evidence from a survey experiment in a diverse sample in New York State prior to vaccine roll-out." PLOS ONE 17, no. 12 (December 14, 2022): e0277043. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277043.

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Racial identity and political partisanship have emerged as two important social correlates of hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccines in the United States. To examine the relationship of these factors with respondents’ intention to vaccinate before the vaccine was available (November/December, 2020), we employed a multi-method approach: a survey experiment that randomized a vaccine-promotion message focused on racial equity in vaccine targeting, stepwise regression to identify predictors of hesitancy, and qualitative analysis of open-ended survey questions that capture how respondents reason about vaccination intentions. Experimental manipulation of a racial equity vaccine promotion message via an online survey experiment had no effect on intention-to-vaccinate in the full sample or in racial, ethnic and partisan subsamples. Descriptively, we find heightened hesitancy among non-Hispanic Black respondents (OR = 1.82, p<0.01), Hispanics (OR = 1.37, p<0.05), Trump voters (OR = 1.74, p<0.01) and non-Voters/vote Other (OR = 1.50, p<0.01) compared with non-Hispanic White respondents and Biden voters. Lower trust in institutions, individualism and alternative media use accounted for heightened hesitancy in Trump voters, but not non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics. Older age and female gender identity also persistently predicted lower vaccine intentions. Qualitatively, we find that most hesitant responders wanted to ‘wait-and-see,’ driven by generalized concerns about the speed of vaccine development, and potential vaccine side-effects, but little mention of conspiracy theories. Identity appears to be an important driver of vaccinate hesitancy that is not fully explained by underlying socioeconomic or attitudinal factors; furthermore, hesitancy was not significantly affected by racial equity messages in this setting.

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Witt, John Fabian. "Sally H. Clarke, Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 296. $56.00 (ISBN 978-0-521-86878-5)." Law and History Review 27, no. 3 (2009): 700–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248000004077.

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Becker, Paula Alexander. "The alien tort statute of 1789 and international human rights violations: Kiobel v. royal dutch petroleum co." New England Journal of Entrepreneurship 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/neje-17-01-2014-b004.

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Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. involves an action under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The case was brought in the United States, Southern District of New York, by the widow of Dr. Barinem Kiobel, a Nigerian activist and member of the Ogoni tribe, and others for human rights violations committed in the Niger River Delta. Defendants include Royal Dutch Petroleum, Shell Transport and Trading Co., and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria. Although the human rights violations including murder and torture were allegedly committed by the Nigerian military government, it is claimed that the Royal Dutch Petroleum defendants aided and abetted the Nigerian military in the human rights violations. The plaintiffs had engaged in protests about the environmental damage caused by the Royal Dutch Petroleum defendants in the area of the Niger Delta and the plight of the Ogoni people in Ogoniland. At the trial level, the court decided that certain claims involving violations of the Law of Nations could be heard by the court. However, the case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided that there is a presumption against extraterritoriality in the application of the ATS, and that “mere presence” of a defendant corporation in the United States is insufficient for a court to assume jurisdiction. However, the question remains: What corporate presence would serve as a sufficient basis for a court to assume jurisdiction under the ATS? Given the possibility that corporations could, and perhaps in the future will, be found liable for human rights violations occurring in foreign locales even after Kiobel, prudent risk management behooves corporations and their counsel to monitor whether human rights violations are occurring in connection with their operations, even when those human rights violations are committed by foreign governments or their agents.

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Zeid, Abe, Trisha Bhatt, and Hayley A. Morris. "Machine Learning Model to Forecast Demand of Boston Bike-Ride Sharing." European Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 1, no. 3 (May 20, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejai.2022.1.3.9.

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Bike-ride sharing systems are the new generation of traditional bike rentals, where the entire process is automated. A user rents a bike from one location and returns it at another location. There are more than 500 bike-ride sharing systems around the world, consisting of more than 500,000 bikes. Bike-ride sharing systems are typically found in urban and large cities such as Boston, N.Y. City, Washington DC, Paris, Montreal, and Barcelona. Bike-ride sharing is particularly important due to their important impact on traffic, environment, and health. As popular as bike-ride sharing systems are, there is a lack of a reliable model to forecast (predict) bike rental demand daily. Lack of available bikes constitutes an inconvenience to individuals seeking a bike at a certain location and a loss of revenues for companies operating the bikes. This paper develops a Machine Learning (ML) model (algorithm) to forecast (predict) the number of bikes rented daily based on historical data. Moreover, the model overlays environmental and seasonal settings to study their impact on bike rental demand. We test our ML model using a real-life dataset obtained from a local bike-ride sharing company in the City of Boston in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. We also applied the model to historical dataset from New York City (NYC). In both cases, the model is accurate and reliable.

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Kloetzel, Melanie. "Site-Specific Dance in a Corporate Landscape." New Theatre Quarterly 26, no. 2 (May 2010): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x10000278.

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Site-specific performance relies on the terms space and place as markers for discussing a performance's engagement with a site. However, practitioners and researchers are often disgruntled by the limitations such terms impose upon site-specific performance – as was Melanie Kloetzel, in the creation of The Sanitastics, a site-specific dance film created in the Calgary Walkway System. In this article, Kloetzel examines how theorists have struggled with space and place in the last four decades and how bringing in the perspective of the body allows us to reassess our assumptions about these terms. As she analyzes her creative process, she discovers the restrictions as well as possibilities in space and place, but she also notes the need for Marc Augé's idea of non-place to clarify her site-specific efforts in the homogenized, corporate landscape of the Walkway System. Kloetzel is an associate professor at the University of Calgary and the artistic director of kloetzel&co, a dance company founded in New York City in 1997 that has presented work across North America. Her site-specific films have been shown in Brazil, Belgium, Canada, and the United States, and her anthology with Carolyn Pavlik, Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces, was published by the University Press of Florida in 2009.

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Kennedyd, Sarmann I., Rob Kim Marjerison, Yuequn Yu, Qian Zi, Xinyi Tang, and Ze Yang. "E-Commerce Engagement: A Prerequisite for Economic Sustainability—An Empirical Examination of Influencing Factors." Sustainability 14, no. 8 (April 11, 2022): 4554. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14084554.

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Economic sustainability for firms of all sizes and sectors is likely to depend on some type of online commercial activity. While technical barriers to e-commerce are not high, adaptability to new online markets is a critical part of sustainable economic growth for many firms. The Chinese e-commerce market has increased dramatically to become larger than that of the United States, Europe, and Japan combined. This study explores the underlying factors that influence Chinese online consumers’ acceptance and patronage of the online shopping platforms where those firms must operate. Firm competition in the e-commerce platform in China is highly competitive, making exploration of the factors that influence consumer purchase behaviour more valuable. After an extensive qualitative focus group study, a quantitative online survey of 691 savvy Chinese online shoppers was completed. When the data was subjected to structural equation modelling (SEM) for analysis, it was found that a model of three factor constructs explains whether an online shopping platform would be the preferred online shopping platform of choice. E-commerce platform preference (EPP) can predict purchase intention (PI) and site commitment (SC). The results explain why e-commerce platforms should address important EPP factors such as: order fulfilment and delivery process, company image enhancers, the variety of products offered, the design of the online shopping platform, trust of its recommendation system, and finally, awareness of the online shopping platform itself. These findings may be of interest to e-commerce practitioners as well as those whose research interests include e-commerce and consumer behaviour.

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Rodriquez, Louis. "Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market, by Sally H. ClarkeTrust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market, by Sally H. Clarke. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii, 296 pp. $56.00 US (cloth)." Canadian Journal of History 43, no. 3 (December 2008): 571–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.43.3.571.

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Matras, Judah. "Zev Harel, David E. Biegel and David Guttman (eds), Jewish Aged in the United States and Israel: Diversity, Programs and Services, Springer Publishing Company, New York, 1994, 274 pp., $44.95, ISBN 0 826 18570 3." Ageing and Society 15, no. 4 (December 1995): 574–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x00002993.

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Khalidi, Walid. "The Ownership of the U.S. Embassy Site in Jerusalem." Journal of Palestine Studies 29, no. 4 (2000): 80–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2676563.

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One of the most difficult issues of the final status negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is Jerusalem. The complexity of this issue has been compounded by U.S. actions to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and by allegations that the prospective site of the embassy is Palestinian refugee property confiscated by Israel since 1948. Evidence of Palestinian ownership of the 7.7-acre site-the subject of this report-was gathered by a group of Palestinians from the records of the United Nations Conciliation Committee on Palestine (UNCCP) in New York, the Public Records Office (PRO) in London, the U.S. State Department (DOS), the Jerusalem Municipality, the Israeli Land Registry Records (Tapu), the Israeli Ministry of justice, and heirs of the original owners. The research extended over a six-year period and involved some forty individuals. Although hampered by the inaccessibility of the site to surveyors and by Israel's rezoning and reparcellation of the land in question, the evidence yielded by this research shows that at least 70 percent of the site is refugee private property, of which more than a third is Islamic waqf (trust). On 15 May 1948, the last day of the Mandate, the site was owned by seventy-six Palestinians. On 28 October 1999, the American Committee on Jerusalem (ACJ) addressed a letter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright outlining the results of this research and requesting a meeting to share the findings with the DOS. It was only on 28 December that the DOS replied to the effect that any data that the group had should be communicated to the DOS "to be kept on file." Given the grave implications of the embassy issue for the peace process and the credibility of the United States, the ACJ felt as a result of the correspondence that it had no alternative but to go public.

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Nurjanah, Mira, Ahmad Hambali, and Sri Supiah Cahyati. "TEACHING STUDENT'S SPEAKING ABILITY USING TIME TOKEN ARENDS." PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) 1, no. 4 (June 30, 2018): 454. http://dx.doi.org/10.22460/project.v1i4.p454-459.

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Speaking is one of skills that should be mastered by all of students who learn English. However, passive students face some difficulties in speaking. They are less confident, so they difficult to talk in present of the class. Regarding this, the teacher should teach using appropriate strategy to improve students’ speaking ability and to increase their confidence. This research was conducted to find out whether Time Token Arends can improve students’ speaking ability. This research was arranged using Classroom Action Research. The sample taken by using purposive sampling technique. The writers took 32 students of class X IPS 1 in one of a senior high school in Cianjur as the sample of this research. The result showed that Time Token Arends can improve students’speaking ability, especially in encouraging passive students become active students.Aratry. S, Rumiri, A. & Desri, M. S. (2017). The Effect of Please Strategy on the Ability of the first year Students of SMPN 5 Pekan baru in Paragraph writing. FKIP Universitas Riau.Arends, R. (2009). Learning to teach. United States: McGraw Hill.Arikunto, S. (2013). Prosedur Penelitian. Jakarta: PT. Rineka Cipta.Babie, E. (1990). Survey Research Methods (2nd ed.). California: Wadsworth Publishing company, 2nd ed.Brown, H. D. (2001). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (5 editions). New York: Pearson Education Inc.Hatch, E. M., & Farhady, H. (1982). Research design and statistics for applied linguitics. Rowley, Mass: Newbury House.

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