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Une critique du mensonge par-delà le bien et le mal

Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2014
The article develops a critique of lying in an extra-moral sense and attempts to examine the functions of lying and its categorical condemnation for the individual and society. Starting with a neutral definition of lying, several forms and types of lying
Jochen Mecke
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The Dark Pyramid: Unpacking the Multidimensional Nature of the Dark Side of Leadership

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract The dark side of leadership has been employed as an umbrella term to cover an array of concepts typically concerned with the dysfunctionality and/or toxicity of individual leaders. As the field of leadership studies moves towards ‘post‐heroic’ perspectives, we apply the same ontological positioning, adopting a ‘post‐villainous’ perspective in ...
Peter Stephenson, Richard Bolden, Morgen Witzel   +2 more
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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The Optimality of Team Contracts

Games, 2013
This paper analyzes optimal contracts in a linear hidden-action model with normally distributed returns possessing two moments that are governed jointly by two agents who have negative exponential utilities.
Mehmet Barlo, Ayça Özdoğan
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Exemplary Damages as Public Interest Damages: Implications for Rights of Action, Settlement and the Distribution of Awards

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Collusion-resistant cross-chain transaction scheme based on game theory and verifiable consensus

Tongxin xuebao
Existing cross-chain transaction solutions often overlook the issue of cross-chain collusion. In response, the counter-collusion cross-channel was proposed to facilitate scalable and collusion-resistant cross-chain transactions.
JIA Xuedan, WANG Liangmin, HUANG Longxia
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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Video steganalysis scheme based on inter-frame collusion

Tongxin xuebao, 2009
An inter-frame collusion based video steganalysis scheme（ICS） was proposed by utilizing the temporal corre-lation among video frames to find out whether secret data was hidden in the frames or not.Motions existing in video se-quence decreased the ...
LIU Bin, LIU Fen-lin, YANG Chun-fang
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Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
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