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THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: A LITERATURE REVIEW

open access: yesEconomy and Sociology, 2022
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is essential for the global economy, especially for developing and emerging countries, which are dependent on these financial resources.
Anatol Melega
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The influence of race tactics for performance in the heats of an international sprint cross-country skiing competition.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of race tactics for performance in the heats of an international sprint cross-country (XC) skiing competition in the classical style.
Pål Haugnes   +5 more
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Race(ing) to the Top: Interrogating the Underrepresentation of BIPOC Education Leaders in Ontario Public Schools

open access: yesJournal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 2021
Although there have been many calls to diversify the Ontario teacher workforce there has not been the same attention toward troubling the administrator diversity gap within publicly-funded education and its impacts on teacher hiring.
Zuhra Abawi
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The Conservation Effects of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Biased Policymakers

open access: yesAgriculture, 2018
In this paper, we study the effects of international trade on forest conservation and welfare in a two-country model with industry-biased policymakers and Cournot-competing firms.
Qianqian Shao   +3 more
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Cognitive control, attention, and the other race effect in memory. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
People are better at remembering faces from their own race than other races-a phenomenon with significant societal implications. This Other Race Effect (ORE) in memory could arise from different attentional allocation to, and cognitive control over, same-
Thackery I Brown   +4 more
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The Legal Consequences of Mandating High Stakes Decisions Based on Low Quality Information: Teacher Evaluation in the Race-to-the-Top Era

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
In this article, we explain how overly prescriptive, rigid state statutory and regulatory policy frameworks regarding teacher evaluation, tenure and employment decisions outstrip the statistical reliability and validity of proposed measures of teaching ...
Bruce D. Baker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of sailing variables and performance of laser sailors with different rankings under the condition of certain wind speed

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
Objective: The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of sailing variables and differences between different ranking sailors under the condition of certain wind speed, and predict the variables that affect performance.
Dandan Pan, Kaiyang Sun
doaj   +1 more source

Elite Marathoners Run Faster With Increasing Temperatures in Berlin Marathon

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2021
The influence of environmental conditions has been investigated for different marathon races, but not for the Berlin Marathon, the fastest marathon race course in the world.
Beat Knechtle   +8 more
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Regulating human genetic research in Latin America: a race to the top or a race together?

open access: yesRevista Iberoamericana de Bioética, 2016
Balancing the therapeutic potential of genetic science with the adoption of policies that reflect social values has proven to be a formidable task for Latin American countries.
Rosario Isasi
doaj   +1 more source

The race to the top initiative: towards excellence in health-care service delivery

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2015
Background: Since 2006, Rwanda has adopted performance-based incentives to boost the motivation of health-care workers and improve Millennium Development Goal (MDG) health indicators.
E Nahimana   +7 more
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