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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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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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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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 +2 more
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Proportionality and Margin of Appreciation in the Whaling Case. Reconciling Antithetical Doctrines? [PDF]
, 2016 In its decision on the Whaling in the Antarctic case, the International Court of Justice used a sophisticated methodology for assessing the legality of a whaling program allegedly designed to pursue purposes of scientific research.
Cannizzaro, Vincenzo
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Who is the ultimate master of contractual, regulatory, discretionary and residual cash flows? An answer from the standpoint of corporate governance [PDF]
, 2008 This paper sets forth a framework of analysis that links contractual, discretionary, regulatory and residual cash flows with decision rights over them. To attain this purpose, firstly we introduce the standard incremental cash flow model, underlying its ...
Apreda, Rodolfo
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Comparisons of mandatory and discretionary lane changing behavior on freeways
International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 2018 This research performs comparative analyses on drivers’ behavior during mandatory and discretionary lane changes. We do this by examining the statistical properties of four lane changing decision variables that describe the gaps between the subject ...
Matthew Vechione +2 more
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The formalized framework for decision-making in child protection care orders : a cross-country analysis [PDF]
, 2015 Care orders within the child protection system are some of the most invasive interventions a state can make. This article examines the discretionary space governments set out for child protection workers when they prepare care orders.
Alexy R. +18 more
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Practice Recommendations for Genetic Testing of Ataxias
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Over the past decade, significant advances in genetic testing for ataxia have improved diagnostic accuracy, informed clinical trial eligibility, guided treatment decisions, and enabled cascade testing of at‐risk relatives. While guidance exists for other neurogenetic conditions, there are no standardized guidelines on genetic ...
Sharan R. Srinivasan +7 more
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Istanbul Management Journal, 2022 In many emerging economies with less efficient market systems like Nigeria, investors tend to rely on financial reports for decision-making. Managerial opportunistic behavior is associated with the need to achieve performance-based remuneration targets ...
Titilope Esther Olorede +2 more
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