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Explaining the behaviour of small states: an analysis of Jordan's nuclear energy policy

open access: yes, 2016
Conventional analyses claim that small states bandwagon with leading international powers. The dominant view is that small states’ vulnerabilities and limited power hinders their ability to pursue policy goals.
Imad El-Anis, El-Anis, I
core   +1 more source

From Imposter to Original: How Organizational Leaders Shape and Develop a Leader Identity Through Meaning‐Making of Experiences

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article describes how people in formal leadership roles shape and develop a leader identity through meaning‐making of experiences across time and situations. Drawing on qualitative data from in‐depth life narrative interviews with 22 organizational leaders, enriched through photo and object elicitation techniques as well as timeline ...
Sonja Zaar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequalities of Some Trigonometric Functions

open access: yes, 2003
By using two identities and two inequalities relating to Bernoulli’s and Euler’s numbers and power series expansions of cotangent function, secant function, cosecant function and logarithms of functions involving sine function, cosine function and ...
Qi, Feng, Chen, Chao-Ping
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Undercover and Hyper-Visible: Security Poetics and Pacification Prosaics in African American and Arab American Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
My dissertation is a comparative analysis of Arab American and African American literature spanning from the Cold War era up to the present “War on ‘Terror.’” I examine how paradigms of security are constructed and contested within the texts under ...
Zahzah, Omar
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CSR disclosure and investment efficiency in MENA countries: The moderating role of CSR committee

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) is often recognized as a transparency mechanism that allows companies to communicate their commitment to CSR. However, CSRD may also exacerbate agency conflicts. This study addresses these two contrasting perspectives by investigating the impact of CSRD on investment efficiency and exploring ...
Mohamed Malek Belhoula   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complications of Cochlear Implant Surgery in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review

open access: yesOtolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Hearing loss disproportionately affects low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Recent advances in cochlear implant surgery have benefitted patients globally, but the risk of complications in LMICs may be heightened due to social and structural factors.
Akash Srinivasan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Irish accents, foreign voices: mediated agency and authenticity in 'In the Name of the Father' and 'Fifty Dead Men Walking'

open access: yes, 2013
Given the intensity of narrative contestation over the public history of and discourse around the modern period of Northern Irish civil conflict known locally as ‘the Troubles’, for filmmakers from outside of Northern Ireland to be seen as making a ...
Ives-Allison, Nicole
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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

On Evaluation of Riemann Zeta function ζ(s)

open access: yes, 2002
In this paper, by using Fourier series theory, several summing formulae for Riemann Zeta function ζ(s) and Dirichlet series are ...
Qi, Feng, Luo, Qiu-Ming, Guo, Bai-Ni
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Tackling Inequality and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa Region

open access: yes
This paper examines the redistributive impact of fiscal policy—specifically taxes and transfers—on poverty and inequality in eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa: the Arab Republic of Egypt, Djibouti, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq ...
Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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