Exploring Children's Requirements for Game-Based Learning Environments by Tuula Nousiainen, Marja Kankaanranta

“…Moreover, we present issues related to design collaboration with children, especially in terms of the children's feeling of ownership over the final outcome.…”
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An Image Sharing Encryption Management System For Kabale University. by Bemera, Rauben

“…The other useful information security scheme for proving ownership is through watermarking. The purpose of this study was to develop an Image Encryption Management System that will help Kabale University students and staff share their secret pictures.…”
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Challenges in decentralization and service delivery, Wakiso district by Henry Stanley, Mbowa, Siraje, Kaaya

“…Results revealed the challenges that exist in service delivery are inadequate human resources, insufficient financial resources, greed, questionable land ownership and lack of political will, stakeholder involvement and bureaucratic bottleneck. …”
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Développement agricole et gouvernance foncière à Tioroniaradougou (Nord de la Côte d’Ivoire) by Jérôme Aloko-N’guessan, Marthe Adjoba Koffi-Didia, Hamed Tiécoura Coulibaly

“…With the diffusion of these crops, guaranteeing sure and regular income, farmers establish strategies of affirmation of their right of property ownership where customary land governance grants only a right of temporary use. …”
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FIRMS’ FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATION WITH EARNING MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: A META-ANALYSIS APPROACH by Fatima Abdul Hamid, Chaabane Oussama Houssem Eddine, Abdullah Mohamed Ayedh, Abdelghani Echchabi

“… This paper aims to investigate the association between firm’s corporate governance and financial attributes (namely, board of directors’ size, board of directors’ independence, chief executive officer (CEO) duality, ownership structure, audit type, firm’s size, firm’s return and leverage) with earnings management practices. …”
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Efficiency determinants in Portuguese banking industry: an application through fractional regression models by Ana Isabel Martins

“…The variables that appear to major influence on overall efficiency are internationalization, size and type of ownership of capital.…”
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Why they persist? An analysis of dual class structures and the unification process in the U.S. and Brazil by Gabriela M. Engler Pinto

“…This paper aims to provide some explanations as to why this happens, particularly from a comparative perspective that analyzes the contexts of Brazil and the United States, two countries that take a rather different approach regarding corporate ownership structures. In order to do so, it reviews the panorama of dual class structures, their main characteristics and the unification process that both countries underwent. …”
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La recrudescence des coupes rases en Morvan (2011-2020) : un mitage de la forêt sur fond de crise des scolytes by Adrien Baysse-Lainé, Antoine Reynaud

“…Data on land use, forest species and land ownership were combined in a sample of 12 communes. …”
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Towards a participatory approach to Bible translation (PABT) by D. C. Chemorion

“… It is generally acknowledged that the participation of the receptor community may enhance the community’s ownership and acceptability of the translation. In spite of this acknowledgement, individuals and organisations engaged in mother tongue translations of the Bible often involve the members of the receptor community in secondary and non-technical aspects of the translation process. …”
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Complex Interplay of Eastern Bloc SMEs Trade Credit Determinants: Changes due to the Global Financial Crisis by Tamara Teplova, Tatiana Sokolova, Kristina Galenskaya, Mariya Gubareva

“…We find that before the GFC the equity concentration and inflation have negatively impacted the trade credit while foreign ownership and company’s longevity have had a positive effect. …”
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The Right to Manage Emergent Land on the Riverbank by Latifah Amir, Helmi Helmi, Arrie Budhiartie, Eko Nuriyatman

“…Management rights over emergent land on the banks of the Batanghari River Watershed in Penyengat Rendah District, Jambi City have been practiced by the local community for generations without formal ownership as of this study. This article examines the legality of land tenure under Indonesian law and the rights to manage land emerging along the Batanghari riverbanks, aiming to advise the local government on the crucial need for legal recognition of these rights. …”
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Comment comprendre les « communs » : Elinor Ostrom, la propriété et la nouvelle économie institutionnelle by Olivier Weinstein

“…The purpose of this paper is to examine the institutional theory of Elinor Ostrom, in its relations to the “new institutional economics”, and more particularly the analyzes which, following the Coase paper on social costs, gives a special place to the question of ownership. This will allow us to highlight key aspects of the theorization of Elinor Ostrom, and the issues they raise. …”
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EFL teachers’ role in English: Letting the silent majority voice their words by Babaii Esmat, Atai Mahmood Reza, Parsazadeh Abbas

“…With the advent of the global perspective on English, the live issues of the ownership and culture of English (Akbari, 2008; Seidlhofer, 2005) have begun to shake up numerous conventional notions of the field. …”
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Understanding Chinese Cities. Redesigning italian methods by Li Bao, Marco Trisciuoglio

“…In the contemporary Chinese society, with the economic system becoming more and more complex along with the new rules concerning ownership, all these novelties demand designers and decision-makers to find a third way, namely, the new sustainable architecture that is designed based on the typological and morphological fundamentals of the city. …”
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FIRMS’ FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATION WITH EARNING MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: A META-ANALYSIS APPROACH by Fatima Abdul Hamid, Chaabane Oussama Houssem Eddine, Abdullah Mohamed Ayedh, Abdelghani Echchabi

“… This paper aims to investigate the association between firm’s corporate governance and financial attributes (namely, board of directors’ size, board of directors’ independence, chief executive officer (CEO) duality, ownership structure, audit type, firm’s size, firm’s return and leverage) with earnings management practices. …”
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ABOUT THE APPROACH AND METHOD OF DETERMINING THE VALUE OF ROYALTIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MINERALS by V. M. Serov, N. A. Moiseenko

“…All business entities, regardless of their form of ownership, must obey established rules, when paying for the right to use licenses for inventions, renting films, publishing books, products, patents, innovations. …”
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The Power of Inquiry-Based Chemical Change Lesson in Under-Resourced Classrooms by Nkosinathi Willy Nkosi, Abraham Motlhabane

“…The study's outcomes have significant implications for science education, highlighting the need for a paradigmatic shift from traditional teacher-centric approaches to learner-centered inquiry-based methods that empower students to take ownership of their learning. …”
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An action research approach to curriculum development by Phil Riding, Sue Fowell, Phil Levy

“…As 'reflective practitioners', we can achieve greater ownership of the evaluative process by becoming systematically self-assessing, alongside, and feeding into, external assessment processes.…”
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Intégration symbolique à Fès et ancrages sur l’ailleurs : Les Africains subsahariens et leur rapport à la zaouïa d’Ahmad al-Tijânî by Johara Berriane

“…Finally, African residents develop a sense of belonging and ownership of the zawiya and its saint, largely due to the influence of the Tijaniyya in West-African countries and the way black Africans are welcomed in this religious site.…”
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Foraging Habitat Distributions Affect Territory Size and Shape in the Tuamotu Kingfisher by Dylan C. Kesler

“…Together, results supported previous work indicating that territory configurations represent a balance between the costs of defending a territory and gains from territory ownership.…”
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