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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi +1 more
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El estándar "interés de la justicia" es clave para entender las (necesarias) facultades del Fiscal de la Corte Penal Internacional para la selección de situaciones a investigar entre las que le son remitidas y casos a perseguir cuando ya se ha autorizado
Claudia Cárdenas Aravena
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Righting a Financial Wrong: Debt Settlement Services, Private Student Lenders, and Auto Lenders Use Forced Arbitration to Escape Accountability When They Harm Consumers [PDF]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB, or "the Bureau") in December 2013 released preliminary results of a study called for in the 2010 Dodd -- Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on financial services businesses' use of ...
Christine Hines
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ABSTRACT As software applications get increasingly connected and complex, cybersecurity becomes more and more important to consider during development and evaluation. Software engineers need to be aware of various security threats and the countermeasures that can be taken to mitigate them.
Raffaela Groner +5 more
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Can High Reserves Offset Weak Fundamentals? A Simple Model of Precautionary Demand for Reserves [PDF]
Apart from exchange rate objectives which have resulted in reserve accumulation as a side effect, Asian countries have chosen explicitly to build up reserves at least in part for precautionary motives.
Jie Li, Ramkishen Rajan
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Labour market reform and the sustainability of exchange rate pegs [PDF]
It is commonly thought that an open economy can accommodate output shocks through either exchange rate or real sector adjustments. We formalise this notion by incorporating labour market rigidities into an “escape clause” model of currency crises.
Castrén, Olli +2 more
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The Designated Suppliers Program (Revised Sept \u2706) [PDF]
The Designated Suppliers Program is a system for protecting the rights of the workers who sew university logo apparel. Under the Designated Suppliers Program, university licensees are required to source most university logo apparel from supplier ...
Worker Rights Consortium
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Integrating Conflict Driven Clause Learning to Local Search
This article introduces SatHyS (SAT HYbrid Solver), a novel hybrid approach for propositional satisfiability. It combines local search and conflict driven clause learning (CDCL) scheme. Each time the local search part reaches a local minimum, the CDCL is
Bertrand Mazure +5 more
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Abstract Did democratization reduce the likelihood of politically connected bank bailouts in the past? What role did private central banks play as independent lenders of last resort? To answer these questions, this article provides new detailed archival evidence on the causes of bank failures in Spain in July 1931.
Enrique Jorge‐Sotelo
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ABSTRACT The appointment of the new European Commission for the period 2024–2029 is a critical opportunity to establish a governance model that can address the Union's evolving challenges, ranging from fiscal sustainability and digital transformation to climate imperatives and democratic legitimacy.
Bernardino Benito +2 more
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