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The effect of cultural tightness-looseness on fraud perception in insurance services
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how cultural tightness may influence consumers' attitudes toward insurance services and occurrence of insurance fraud. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on Gelfand ...
Early stage litter decomposition across biomes
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Through litter decomposition enormous amounts of carbon is emitted to the atmosphere. Numerous large-scale decomposition experiments have been conducted focusing on this fundamental soil process in ...
A comparative analysis of the UN declaration, global business compact, and religious morals in determining global values for business and their application to Islamic marketing
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose
The continued rise of the multinational and debate as to what constitutes global business values is predicated on the UN Declaration and Global Business Compact. This research suggests both documents explicitly ...
E-parliament in Jordan: Challenges and perspectives
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Inderscience
, 2018 , Article)
This paper aimed at understanding the e-parliament phenomenon and the contribution of technology and new applications in enhancing such area. We tried to explore the attitudes of Jordanian representatives regarding such ...
صناعة الفتوى بين الماضي والحاضر
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Ekev Akademi Dergisi
, 2018 , Article)
لا يخفى على أحد ممن يعمل في حقول الدراسات الشرعية والأبحاث الاجتماعية والسياسية تلك المكانة العظمى التي يتبوؤها صناعة الفتوى اليوم من حيث التأثير الإيجابي والسلبي على الأفراد والمجتمعات في تصوراتهم وتصرفاتهم كما أن لها ...
Effect of post-activation potentiation induced by one, two or three half-squats on repeated sprint acceleration performance
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CIC Edizioni Internazionali s.r.l.
, 2018 , Article)
Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of different post-activation potentiation (PAP) protocols on initial-acceleration (0-10 m) and late-acceleration phases (10 to 30 m) within a repeated sprint ...
Dynamic balance ability in young elite soccer players:implication of isometric strength
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Edizioni Minerva Medica
, 2018 , Article)
BACKGROUND: Soccer requires maintaining unilateral balance when executing movement with the contralateral leg. Despite the fact that bal-ance requires standing with maintaining isometric posture with the support leg, ...
Fixed point results of F-rational cyclic contractive mappings on 0-complete partial metric spaces
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Forum-Editrice Universitaria Udinese SRL
, 2018 , Article)
Wardowski [19] introduced a new concept of contraction which called F-contraction and proved a fixed point theorem on complete metric space. Following this direction of research, in this paper, we introduce an F-rational ...
Cumulative learning and sustained engagement in an introduction to accounting course
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose - Due to its technical focus, the introductory accounting course has a hierarchical knowledge structure that requires students to master and integrate abstract knowledge which builds on itself over time. The purpose ...
A framework for antecedents of trust in social commerce
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
Trust is essential in social commerce environment, where consumers rely on feedback and advice that they collect from social platforms. Despite the importance of trust in virtual environments, there are a limited number ...