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Political analysis of shareholder activism in emergent democracies : a case study of Nigeria [PDF]
, 2010 Shareholder activism has become a force for good in the extant corporate governance literature. In this paper, we present a case study of Nigeria, characterised by a very turbulent polity, to show how shareholder activism, as a corporate governance ...
Adegbite, Emmanuel +4 more
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Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance
Media and CommunicationThis thematic issue shares research that critically analyzes counter-mapping undertaken by community groups who appropriate, collect, and utilize counter-datasets to unveil and reshape spatial realities.
Sandra Jeppesen, Paola Sartoretto
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Corporate governance and financial performance: an empirical analysis of selected multinational firms in Nigeria [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2019 This study focused on corporate governance and performance of selected Nigerian multinational firms from 2012 to 2016. Specifically, the study focused on the effect of board size, activism and committee activism on return on asset and firm growth rate ...
Gideon Tayo Akinleye +2 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham +1 more
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SCHOLARSHIP AND ACTIVISM TOWARD VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Teosofia: Indonesian Journal of Islamic Mysticism, 2017 This paper discusses on the relationship between scholarship and activism and argues that one is an integral part of another. Scholarship provides an analytical framework and guidance for activism in understanding the social injustice and oppression.
Nur Hasyim
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Documentar lo invisible: Cómo el activismo de datos llena los vacíos visuales
Papeles del CEIC: International Journal on Collective Identity Research, 2022 This article examines, from the perspective of data activism, how some organizations are developing new languages to talk about invisibility, disappearance, and liminality.
Miren Gutiérrez
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Active Learning with Logged Data
CoRR, 2018 We consider active learning with logged data, where labeled examples are drawn conditioned on a predetermined logging policy, and the goal is to learn a classifier on the entire population, not just conditioned on the logging policy. Prior work addresses this problem either when only logged data is available, or purely in a controlled random ...
Songbai Yan +2 more
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Firearm carrying practices and motivations: A mixed methods study among adults and youth
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this participatory action, mixed methods research study was to identify motivations related to firearm carrying from a qualitative perspective, and then to use quantitative research to characterize the patterns of motivations around carrying.
Krista R. Mehari +5 more
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Activity recognition on streaming sensor data [PDF]
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2014 Many real-world applications that focus on addressing needs of a human, require information about the activities being performed by the human in real-time. While advances in pervasive computing have lead to the development of wireless and non-intrusive sensors that can capture the necessary activity information, current activity recognition approaches ...
Narayanan Chatapuram Krishnan +1 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito +6 more
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