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Identifying and managing risk in international construction projects
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
Over the last decade, major construction projects have increasingly arisen in countries or regions that lack specialist, expert construction contractors, suppliers and consultants. Steps are being taken by governments in ...
The Relation of Earnings Quality to Accounting Conservatism
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Qatar University
, 2012 , Article)
The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between accounting conservatism and
earnings quality. Data were collected from 50 industrial corporations listed in Amman
Stock Exchange (ASE) between 2004-2009. ...
Codifying the corporate opportunity doctrine: The (UK) Companies Act 2006
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
Part 10 of the UK Companies Act 2006 codifies the fiduciary and common law duties of directors as a means of addressing the key policy considerations which underpinned the company law reform project launched by the Labour ...
Corporate Governance and Islamic Social Responsibility Disclosure In Kuwaiti Shariah Compliant Financial Institutions
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Qatar University
, 2012 , Article)
This study examines the relationship between corporate governance characteristics and the extent of Islamic social responsibility disclosure in Kuwait. The annual reports of 40
Shariah-compliant financial institutions ...
Investigating the Relationship Between Professional Development and Student-Centered Learning Environments in Qatari Math and Science Elementary Classrooms
(2012 , Conference Paper)
While considerable study of the organizational structures and outcomes of Qatari educational reform in Education for a New Era initiatives has been planned and implemented (see Rand, 2007), little attention has been placed ...
Open Educational Resources (OER) for Control Systems Engineering: Development Case with LabVIEW, Simulink, and Camtasia
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International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) in cooperation with Kassel University Press GmbH
, 2012 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to report on the development
of control systems open educational resources. The
paper reports on two control systems education software: 1-
A LabVIEW based Control Systems Analysis Toolkit
(CSAT) ...
Colonial cleansing: Laws for a summer resort in China
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
In the leased territory of Weihaiwei, China (1898–1930), public health and related laws played an important part in the local British government’s effort to create and maintain a summer resort for European visitors. These ...
USE OF EPORTFOLIOS IN K-12 TEACHER HIRING IN NORTH CAROLINA: PERSPECTIVES OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
, 2012 , Article)
This study explored the perceptions of principals involved in the hiring process of K–12 teachers in 11 counties in southeastern North Carolina. Forty-nine principals responded to a survey on ePortfolio use in the hiring ...
Constitution-making in the 21st century
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
Constitutions have been made or changed in major ways in more than half the countries of the world in recent decades. This article deals with contemporary approaches to constitution-making, organising the analysis around ...
Harmonizing formal requirements for cross-border sales contracts
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
Legal systems have different traditions about how to “prove” a contract for the sale of personal property. Most legal systems today permit the contract to be proved by any means but some States require that the agreement ...