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, 2000 Augustus Samuel Mein-Sun Lee was born in San Francisco on August 8, 1946, the only son of Tsung-Chi Lee and Da-Tsien Tsu. His three sisters had been born in mainland China and accompanied his mother on the difficult trek across China to India and then to
Hawley, John C.
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Political Signaling via Equity Ownership: Impacts on Supplier Financial Performance
Journal of Operations Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers a new application of signaling theory to better understand the role of equity linkages and political influence on buyer–supplier relationships (BSRs). We examine the signaling effects of a politician's personal equity investment in a buyer firm on the financial performance of the supplier firms located in the politician's ...
Wenming Wang +3 more
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A Contrastive Study of Conceptual Metaphor in Chinese and American Courtroom Discourse
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2017 Based on the corpora of 20 Chinese cases from Court Insession and 20 American cases from Famous Trials, the current study aimed to to apply Conceptual Metaphor Theory to carry out a contrastive analysis of the main conceptual metaphors between the two countries’ corpora and further explore the reasons for selecting the same and different conceptual ...
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Antidumping mechanisms and safeguards in Peru [PDF]
Peru's experience in the application of antidumping and safeguard measures is characterized by a radical change in the philosophy and procedures of trade at the beginning of the 1990s, and by an increasing use of these mechanisms.
Camminati, Josefina +2 more
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Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.Abstract The papaya tree (Carica papaya L.), native to the Americas, is cultivated in tropical regions and holds substantial economic importance, with an estimated export volume of 365 000 t in 2023. However, diseases caused by viruses, fungi, bacteria, and nematodes can lead to severe losses.
Luíza Favaratto +7 more
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, 2006 [Excerpt] This past August, FMCS’ 13th National Labor-Management Conference brought more than 1,500 people representing labor and management interests together in Chicago.
U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
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Precision Restoration to Minimize Soil Loss in a Watershed in the Atlantic Forest Domain
Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Turvo River Watershed, located in the Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais and part of the Doce River Basin, faces serious problems of erosion and soil degradation, which compromise and reduce the quality of local water resources. Given this scenario, it is essential to implement environmental recovery strategies that prioritize the ...
Rodrigo Nobre Santana +6 more
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Procedural Violence in Chinese Criminal Courtrooms
The British Journal of CriminologyAbstract This article explores the relationship between penal violence and legal procedures. Drawing on five months of participant observation in a lower court in China and an analysis of 215 trial videos, the author introduces the concept of ‘procedural violence’ to describe how legal procedures can generate violence during micro-level ...
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, 2022 This research project is based on the Multimodal Corpus of Chinese Court Interpreting (MUCCCI [mutʃɪ]), a small-scale multimodal corpus on the basis of eight authentic court hearings with Chinese-English interpreting in Mainland China. The corpus has approximately 92,500 word tokens in total.
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Review essay: The unwritten law of files [PDF]
, 2010 This review article brings into dialogue Cornelia Vismann's Files and the Hong Kong film The Unwritten Law (1985). It discusses the originality and contribution of Vismann's work, and further draws on her analysis to investigate the construction of legal
Wan, M
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