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Discrete torsion [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review D, 2003
In this article we explain discrete torsion. Put simply, discrete torsion is the choice of orbifold group action on the B field. We derive the classification H^2(G, U(1)), we derive the twisted sector phases appearing in string loop partition functions, we derive M.
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Unstitching Scarlet Letters?: Prosecutorial Discretion and Expungement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This Article argues that scholarly discussions about prosecutorial discretion need to extend their focus beyond the exercise of prosecutorial judgment pretrial or questions of factual and legal guilt. Given that the primary role of the prosecutoris to do
Murray, Brian M.
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The Adjudication of Minor Offenses in New York City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
American criminal justice is founded on overcriminalization and discretion. Our legislatures have long criminalized much more conduct than can be effectively sanctioned. American police and prosecutors have been granted virtually unreviewable authority
Weinstein, Ian
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Law enforcement agents at European borders: perceptions of migration, and the networked and relational exercise of discretion in policy implementation

open access: yesPolitical Research Exchange
Law enforcement agents (LEAs) operating at the forefront of European borders play a crucial role in the implementation of migration policies. As frontline actors, LEAs are often perceived as powerful agents who enforce legislation and determine who is ...
Rut Bermejo-Casado   +2 more
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Bad (good) news and delay (anticipation) of financial statements’ disclosure [PDF]

open access: yesRAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas, 2020
Managers have discretion over the timing of accounting information disclosure; existing literature has investigated the potential determinants regarding this choice.
Anderson Brito Vivas   +2 more
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Discrete Symmetries/Discrete Theories

open access: yes, 2012
Dynamical, metastable supersymmetry breaking appears to be a generic phenomena in supersymmetric field theories. It's simplest implementation is within the so-called "retrofitted O'Raifeartaigh Models". While seemingly flexible, model building in these theories is significantly constrained. In gauge-mediated versions, if the approximate $R$ symmetry of
Bose, Milton, Dine, Michael
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If digitalization is the answer – what is the problem? An analysis of policy documents related to the digitalization of Norwegian child welfare services

open access: yesNordic Social Work Research
In this article, we have analysed policy documents related to the digitalization of the Norwegian child welfare services. The project ‘DigiBarnevern’ is a national initiative intended to develop and improve the digital tools in child welfare services. In
Minela Kvakic   +2 more
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Law and Nonlegal Norms in Government Lawyers\u27 Ethics: Discretion Meets Legitimacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This Essay is about the role of unwritten norms in the ethical decisionmaking of government lawyers. Because the ethical obligations of lawyers, including government lawyers, are closely tied to the legal rights and obligations of clients, this analysis ...
BÜYÜKKILIÇ BEYZİ, SELMA   +4 more
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Neo-constitutional theory of administrative discretion

open access: yesRevista Eurolatinoamericana de Derecho Administrativo
This study has as its object the administrative discretion in the light of the premises of neo-constitutionalism. It distinguishes the legalist theory, in which the source of discretion is the legislation, from the neo-constitutionalist theory, in which ...
Ricardo Marcondes Martins
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H.L.A. Hart’s "The concept of law" and the moderate indeterminacy thesis reconsidered [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article the author, in the context of the fiftieth anniversary of H.L.A. Hart’s “The Concept of Law”, reconsiders the moderate indeterminacy of law thesis, which derives from the open texture of language.
Flores, Imer B.
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