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Meskerem Lifeline Charities: A Nonprofit Organization Audit in Ethiopia*
Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.Abstract This CPA‐style case focuses on Eddie Kimpembe. Eddie is a trained CPA auditor and former nonprofit organization (NPO) manager working at a Kenyan public accounting firm. The firm has received an invitation to undertake the audit of a significant aid NPO operating in Ethiopia.
Ryan Stack +2 more
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Earth, Planets and Space, 2020 Reconstruction of the eruption history of an active volcano is necessary to elucidate its volcanic activity and to assess the probability of its volcanic eruption. Yokodake volcano in central Japan is the only active volcano among the Yatsugatake volcano
Hiroya Nitta +2 more
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Can riots represent? A democratic theory
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
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Electoral responses to economic crises
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How do voters respond to economic crises: Do they turn against the incumbent, reward a certain political camp, polarize to the extremes, or perhaps continue to vote much like before? Analyzing extensive data on electorates, parties, and individuals in 24 countries for over half a century, we document a systematic pattern whereby economic ...
Yotam Margalit, Omer Solodoch
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Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract This paper revisits the Tunisian 2010–2011 uprising and its ensuing decade of agrarian contention as a crisis of social reproduction stemming from the combined effects of depletion and dispossession. It traces the lineages of the grievances that continue to animate the Tunisian countryside to the multiple and often enmeshed labours—both ...
Dhouha Djerbi
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A Parasite Not a Cannibal? How the State and Capital Protect Accumulation Amid Devastation
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract Nancy Fraser's recent book, Cannibal Capitalism, breathes new life into the eco‐Marxist concept of the ecological contradiction, arguing capitalism destroys its own ecological conditions of possibility like a serpent eating its own tail. Fraser's thesis appears to be playing out in British Columbia forests, where industry is closing mills and ...
Rosemary Collard, Jessica Dempsey
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The 1723 AD violent Strombolian and phreatomagatic eruption at Irazu volcano (Costa Rica) [PDF]
, 2013 The largest of the recorded historic eruptions at Irazú volcano began on February 16, 1723 and lasted until at least December 11. We here critically examine deposits of this eruption exposed on the summit of Irazú. Our reconstruction of the eruption is
Alvarado, G. E., Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich
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CO2-crystal wettability in potassic magmas. Implications for eruptive dynamics in light of experimental evidence for heterogeneous nucleation. [PDF]
, 2017 The volatile content in magmas is fundamental for the triggering and style of volcanic eruptions. Carbon dioxide, the second most abundant volatile component in magmas after H2O, is the first to reach saturation upon ascent and depressurization.
Fanara, S. +4 more
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NGO Decision‐Making During Typhoon Disaster Response: Towards a Relational Approach
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the decision‐making processes of a non‐governmental organisation (NGO) during Typhoon Odette (Rai) in Palawan, Philippines. The typhoon, which struck during the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic, exacerbated vulnerabilities in the province, leading to the destruction of homes and livelihoods, disruptions in education, fatalities ...
Pamela Gloria Cajilig, Mona Nasser
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, 2016 The detection by Rest et al. (2012) of light echoes from $\eta$ Carinae has provided important new observational constraints on the nature of its 1840's era giant eruption.
Owocki, Stanley P., Shaviv, Nir J.
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