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Peer‐based comparison and firms' discretionary cost decisions

Australian Economic Papers, 2020
AbstractThis study investigates whether firms engage in peer‐based benchmarking in their decision‐making regarding selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) for a large sample of U.S. listed firms. Peer‐based comparison relates to comparing own performance against the performance of a meaningful reference group of other firms.
Tom Van Caneghem, Walter Aerts, Oveis Madadian   +2 more
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Specifically Mentioned Discretionary Punishments (al-Ta’zirat al-Mansoos): From Perpetual Laws to Judicial and Administrative Laws [PDF]

مطالعات فقه و حقوق اسلامی, 2018
In Islamic traditional jurisprudence it is assumed that punishments are either had (prescribed punishment) or ta’zir (discretionary punishment left to the decision of the judge in each case). There are also some specific crimes which are considered as ta’
Mohammad Ramezani, Rahim Nobahar, Mohammad Reza Ayati   +2 more
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Optimization and Analysis of Central bank Losses for Oil Exporting Economy, Application of DSGE Model (Case study of Iranian Economy) [PDF]

Environmental Energy and Economic Research, 2022
One of the most important macroeconomic challenges has always been creating and implementing an economic policy, and it continues to be a key element of planner's decisions. The importance of the time difference between the design process of a policy and
Marzieh Asadi Asad Abad, Seyyed Abbas Najafizadeh, Baytollh Akbari Moghaddam   +2 more
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Discretionary Decision-Makin in Juvenile Justice [PDF]

Crime & Delinquency, 1976
The social distribution of youths who engage in delinquent behavior is not ,exactly the same as that of youths who come into contact with the juvenile justice system. Thus a certain amount of discretion characterizes the decisions made at various points within the system.
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Re‐Irradiation in Pediatric Diffuse Midline Glioma: A Multi‐Institutional Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with recurrent diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) have limited therapeutic options at recurrence. Re‐irradiation (RT2) may be used at progression, but with uncertainty about the benefit. Methods We conducted a multi‐institutional retrospective study of children aged < 18 with DMG treated at three centers (Toronto, Canada ...
Ajay Thomas Alex, Sean P. Hassan, Helen Benghiat, Liam Herbert, Jennifer Adamski, Shivani Bailey, Claire Esler, Louise Brookes, Molly Bamber, Grace Koudou, Karen Waite, Julie Bennett, Anirban Das, Derek S. Tsang   +13 more
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Sentencing as Craftwork and the Binary Epistemologies of the Discretionary Decision Process [PDF]

Social & Legal Studies, 2007
This article contends that it is time to take a critical look at a series of binary categories which have dominated the scholarly and reform epistemologies of the sentencing decision process. These binaries are: rules versus discretion; reason versus emotion; offence versus offender; normative principles versus incoherence; aggravating versus ...
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A test for implicit bias in discretionary criminal justice decisions.

Law and Human Behavior, 2023
Our goal was to develop a framework to test for implicit racial bias in discretionary decisions made by community supervision agents in conditions with increasing information ambiguity.We reasoned that as in-person contact decreases, community supervision officers' specific knowledge of clients would be replaced by heuristics that lead to racially ...
Jessica Saunders, Greg Midgette
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Measurable Residual Disease Monitoring During Treatment for Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia in First Relapse

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survival after relapse in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains poor, highlighting the critical importance of identifying prognostic factors to guide optimal relapse management. Methods We investigated the prognostic impact of multiparameter flow cytometry (MFC) measurable residual disease (MRD) in 188 patients with first ...
Camilla Poulsen, Kristian Juul Sandahl, Lene Karlsson, Jonas Abrahamsson, Nira Arad‐Cohen, Daniel Cheuk, Barbara De Moerloose, Linda Fogelstrand, Jose Maria Fernandez Navarro, Bianca F. Goemans, Kirsi Jahnukainen, Gertjan Kaspers, Zhanna Kovalova, Monica Cheng Munthe‐Kaas, Ulrika Norén‐Nyström, Josefine Palle, Ramune Pasauliene, Cornelis Jan Pronk, Kadri Saks, Anne Tierens, Henrik Hasle, Kristian Løvvik Juul‐Dam   +21 more
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Immunoglobulin Depletion and Recovery Following Blinatumomab in Infants With KMT2A‐Rearranged ALL

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adding blinatumomab to standard chemotherapy for infants with KMT2A‐rearranged acute B‐cell lymphoblastic leukemia (KMT2A‐r B‐ALL) improves outcomes. Although blinatumomab impairs immunoglobulin G (lgG) production, increasing infection susceptibility, IgG recovery remains poorly understood.
Miguel Vieira Martins, Paola de Lorenzo, Rishi S. Kotecha, Andishe Attarbaschi, Gabriele Escherich, Karsten Nysom, Jan Stary, Alina Ferster, Benoit Brethon, Franco Locatelli, Martin Schrappe, Peggy E. Scholte‐van Houtem, Maria G. Valsecchi, Rob Pieters, Inge M. van der Sluis   +14 more
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Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
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