UNIFYING THE MARITIME AGENCIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF MARINA AS THE FOREMOST AUTHORITY ON MARITIME ISSUES The Filipino shipboard personnel have been a major contributor to the Philippine economy through its foreign exchange earnings in the amount of more than $3 Billion annually. Yet historically‚ when it comes to welfare support and training implementation‚ the government has been lacking in these aspects. Consequently‚ since the maritime field has been upgrading its laws and improving its training
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What is the agency theory? Agency Theory is defined the branch of financial economics that looks at conflicts of interest between people with different interests in the same assets. This most importantly means the conflicts between: * shareholders and managers of companies. * shareholders and bond holders. The fact: Agency theory is rarely‚ if ever‚ of direct relevance to portfolio investment decisions. It is used to by financial economists to model very important aspects of how capital
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of the future work of business travel agencies Nevmerzhitskaya‚ Julia Master’s Thesis Degree Program of Tourism 2013 Abstract Date of presentation Degree programme Author or authors Julia Nevmerzhitskaya Title of the thesis Scenarios of the future work of business travel agencies Group or year of entry YMA11 Number of pages and appendices 68 + 2 Supervisor(s) Jarmo Ritalahti This study focused on the future work of travel agencies in the business travel segment. It aimed
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What is meant by the Sixties Revolution? In the 1960s Britain started developing into a more permissive society. A permissive society is a tolerant and lenient society regarding various aspects of culture or interests. It is a term that reminds people today of the type of society that has existed in most of Europe‚ Australia and North America since the 1960s‚ in which there was and still is a great amount of freedom in all aspects of people’s daily lives as well as a rapid change in morals. In
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The (origin of the) concept of agency PE in the OECD Model and its differences between civil law and common law countries Paragraphs 5 and 6 of Article 5 of the OECD Model Convention (the provisions) deal with the so-called “Agency Permanent Establishment” (hereinafter agency PE) whereby‚ in general terms‚ it is intended for states of source to preserve their taxing rights upon economic activities generated within their jurisdiction carried by a person (legal or natural) acting “in the name of”
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Detailed Specification This is an individual piece of work. You are required to answer the following question: Do agile software development frameworks adequately provide the tools to understand both the technical and cultural requirements of a system? Development frameworks provide tools for solving technical systems problems. It is still the case that information systems fail‚ often for human‚ rather than technical reasons. Agile approaches to software development contain tools which
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Credit Rating Agencies Credit rating agencies play a crucial role in the financial system‚ and played an important one in the events that led to its near-collapse in 2008. The business is dominated by three firms – Moody’s‚ Standard and Poor’s and Fitch Ratings -- whose job is to provide an objective analysis of the risk posed to investors by bonds‚ companies and countries. During the housing boom‚ the system broke down‚ as several billion dollars worth assets‚ later shown to be worthless‚ received
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INTRODUCTION Nigeria is a multi-ethnic nation with various cultural groups that are about three hundred in number. In 1947‚ Nigeria was not yet a nation. Nigeria now has been a multi-national society‚ one of the sociological problems of building Nigeria as a nation is multi-ethnicity with its concomitants such as multilingualism and completive ethnicity. There were varieties of lines which existed between the various states and people which were the predecessors of modern Nigeria. But on the
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© Myles Cook‚ 2006 Milgram’s Agency Theory of Obedience One of the areas that have fascinated psychologists is that of obedience – why does someone obey another? In the period following World War 2‚ the subject became a popular one for researchers fascinated by the amount of obedience shown by the German soldiers in Nazi Germany when faced with orders that resulted in the torture and deaths of millions of Jews. Stanley Milgram‚ a Jew himself‚ decided that the only way to prevent any further
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Running head: MSE and Dementia Multi-Sensory Environments and Dementia: Abstract This paper addresses the concern for the wellbeing of patients with dementia and the struggle to find a new or alternative and effective treatment. The topic‚ Multi-sensory environments and dementia‚ was selected for the challenge it presented‚ and the conviction that the writer has for the rights of geriatric psychiatric patients. Along with personal conviction‚ this topic was chosen because of the intrigue
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