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The institutional determinants of CEO compensation: An international empirical evidence [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 2011
Corporate governance literature suggests that the relationship between CEO effort and outcomes such as firm performance is highly uncertain due to the influence of numerous organizational and environmental contingencies that are outside CEOs’ control ...
Fakhfakh, H., Singhal, P.
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Fake Barns and Our Epistemological Theorizing

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
Pure virtue epistemology faces the fake barn challenge. This paper explains how it can be met. Thus, it is argued that the thought experiment contains a hidden ambiguity concerning the visual ability typically ascribed to, or denied, fake barn subjects ...
Ángel García Rodríguez
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Free Will Pessimism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The immediate aim of this paper is to articulate the essential features of an alternative compatibilist position, one that is responsive to sources of resistance to the compatibilist program based on considerations of fate and luck.
Russell, Paul
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Luck as Risk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this paper is to explore the hypothesis that luck is a risk-involving phenomenon. I start by explaining why this hypothesis is prima facie plausible in view of the parallelisms between luck and risk.
Broncano-Berrocal, Fernando
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BCI-Mediated Behavior, Moral Luck, and Punishment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
An ongoing debate in the philosophy of action concerns the prevalence of moral luck: instances in which an agent’s moral responsibility is due, at least in part, to factors beyond his control.
Miller, Daniel J.
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Dexamethasone for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Prevention in Pediatric Patients: International Consensus

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An international Delphi panel of experts developed consensus statements to delineate the circumstances where the risks of dexamethasone as an antiemetic do and do not outweigh its benefits. Procedure Experts in supportive care of pediatric patients were invited to participate.
Negar Shavandi   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

An additively manufactured model for preclinical testing of cervical devices

open access: yesJOR Spine
Purpose Composite models have become commonplace for the assessment of fixation and stability of total joint replacements; however, there are no comparable models for the cervical spine to evaluate fixation.
Jenna M. Wahbeh   +6 more
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THE LUCK IN “TALENT VERSUS LUCK” MODELING

open access: yesAdvances in Complex Systems, 2020
This paper further investigates the Talent versus Luck (TvL) model described by [Pluchino et al. Talent versus luck: The role of randomness in success and failure, Adv. Complex Syst. 21 (2018) 1850014] which models the relationship between ‘talent’ and ‘luck’ on the impact of an individuals career.
openaire   +2 more sources

Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weapon as a Party to a Relationship [PDF]

open access: yesИсторическое оружиеведение, 2020
The article represents a shot, taken at analyzes of weapon as a party to a relationship in the realm of traditional military cultures. The grounds for the question are the folkloristic data and ethnographic watch that testify the specific for the ...
Denis A. Sheremetev
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