Factors predicting coroners’ decisions to hold discretionary inquests [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2012 Coroners in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other countries in the Commonwealth hold inquests into deaths in two situations. Mandatory inquests are held when statutory rules dictate they must be; discretionary inquests are held based on the decisions of individual coroners.
Simon J, Walter +3 more
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Initial Public Offering: earnings management and ownership structure [PDF]
پژوهشهای تجربی حسابداری, 2015 This paper examines factors effective on investors' behavior and valuation in IPOs. One of the factors is discretionary accruals. To test the effects of "earning management before IPO" and "ownership structure" after IPO, some variables such as accruals ...
Seyed Mojtaba Shafipoor +1 more
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Conceptions and representations of the sentencing decision process [PDF]
, 1997 This article attempts to reflect on the success of attempts by academic research to understand and explain the sentencing decision process. It identifies conventional themes in the conception and representation of that decision process and argues that ...
Tata, Cyrus
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Joining the 'discretionary homeless' : a reporter's decision to live in a Walmart parking lot and what he found [PDF]
, 2015 textI lived eight months of my final year of graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin as a homeless person, sleeping in my car. I parked overnight at various Walmart store locations across Austin.
Macias, Gabriel, M.A.
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Deciding by discretionary power on application for admission to the citizenship of the Republic of Serbia: The limits of the constitutional control [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2015 The paper analyzes the boundaries of constitutional normative control of law provisions which authorize the administrative authorities to decide cases on discretionary power.
Rajić Nataša N.
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Discretion in Professional Practice and in Engineering Ethics [PDF]
, 2015 There is an ongoing investigation by scholars of ethics and economics into whether human decision making and the resultant acts should be guided by rules and procedures or by judgment and discretion.
Wajszczyk, Piotr
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Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020 In this paper, the decision-making model of discretionary lane-changing is established using cumulative prospect theory (CPT). Through analyzing the vehicles’ dynamic running states, safety spacing calculating approaches for discretionary lane-changing ...
Xueqin Long +3 more
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Earnings Management Prediction Using Neural Networks and Decision Tree in TSE [PDF]
بررسیهای حسابداری و حسابرسی, 2012 The main goal of this research is to accurately analyze the profit management using the neural networks and decision tree and comparing them with the linear models.
Rezvan Hejazi +3 more
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Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2023 The critique of planning and new proposals to reform the English planning system and “rethink planning from first principles” have led to the introduction of rules-based principles into what is regarded as the paradigm of a discretionary planning system,
Sebastian Dembski, Phil O'Brien
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Evaluating the Role of Earnings Management in Identifying Fraudulent Financial Statements in Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange [PDF]
Journal of Asset Management and Financing, 2020 Objective: Financial statements are of substantial significance to investors and other players in financial markets. Yet, these statements are sometimes misinforming and misleading. Thus, a potentially intricate issue for financial decision-makers is the
Hossein Alikhani Dehaghi +2 more
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