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Predicting financial distress using financial and non-financial variables

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2015
This study attempts to clarify whether using a hybrid model based on non-financial variables and financial variables is able to provide a more accurate company financial distress prediction model than using a model based on financial variables only.
Francois Van Der Colff, Frans Vermaak
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Trial by Motive

open access: yesBond Law Review, 2017
This article examines the implications of the High Court ruling in The Queen v Baden-Clay(‘Baden-Clay’)1 for future murder accused with strong motives for killing their spouses who deny all knowledge of their deaths.
David Field
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Certainty beyond a reasonable doubt. A pragmatist understanding of the criminal standard of proof

open access: yes, 2023
The paper argues for a pragmatist understanding of the reasonable doubt standard in law. It builds on the idea that our dispositions to act signal the epistemic states we are in. This helps clarify the notion of a reasonable doubt and the idea of being
Tuzet, Giovanni
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Reasonable Doubt and Moral Elements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The law is axiomatic. In order to convict a person of a crime, every element of the crime with which he is charged must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. This Article argues that this fundamental proposition of American criminal law is wrong.
Lee, Youngjae
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Scottish Identity through National Proverbs and Sayings (A Linguo-Cultural Perspective)

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2017
The importance of historicity in the construction of national identity is undeniable. Proverbs and sayings, which are a link with the past, are used by speakers for a variety of purposes.
Naira Gasparyan
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Taking the Evolution of the Standards of Proof for a Criminal Conviction Seriously

open access: yesQuaestio Facti
The article offers a diachronic and comparative analysis of different standards of proof for a criminal conviction. The first part focuses on the attempt of medieval and early modern Roman-canon systems to clarify this type of rule through a network of ...
Jacopo Della Torre
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants? Exploring Consensus on the Validity Status of Mintzberg’s Configuration Theory After a Negative Test

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
This article explores the degree of consensus on the validity status of Mintzberg’s configuration theory following a test in which the theory was refuted.
Tommy Krabberød
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The Essential Connection between Modern Science and Utopian Socialism [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2014
The chief aim of this paper is to demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt how, through an essential misunderstanding of the nature of philosophy, and science, over the past several centuries, the prevailing Western tendency to reduce the whole of science to ...
Peter A. Redpath
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How to Statistically Show the Absence of an Effect

open access: yesPsychologica Belgica, 2011
In experimental studies, the lack of statistical significance is often interpreted as the absence of an effect. Unfortunately, such a conclusion is often a serious misinterpretation. Indeed, non-significant results are just as often the consequence of an
Etienne Quertemont
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