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I Have Loved Me a Man: The Life and Times of Mika.
Get PDFHow to be queer, brown, and fabulous in the wake of colonial violence? Queer indigenous scholars help us understand that imperialist Euro-Western forms of knowledge insinuate themselves globally through the medical industrial complex, religion, media, law, and other forms of governance, as well as through physical and sexual violence
Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920
Get PDF“Archivist by day and labour historian by night” Jared Davidson combines his complementary occupations to bring us Dead Letters: Censorship and Surveillance in New Zealand 1914–1920, an engaging book that uses the intimacy of surveillance records to explore broader historical themes of wartime state control and resistance. Davidson places his work in the tradition of “history from below,” and this book achieves some of the best qualities of that tradition; the detailed personal histories bring to life characters that may otherwise have been forgotten, but who are in fact connected to transnational webs of communication and migration of people, political ideas, organisations, and bureaucracies of surveillance and control
Board Diversity and Financial Reporting quality of listed deposit money banks in Nigeria
Get PDFPurpose: The corporate environment in Nigeria is believed to have experienced cases of earnings manipulations which have brought doubt to the credibility of financial reporting resulting in corporate failure. These have attracted the attention of practitioners, regulators, researchers and other stakeholders in getting possible solutions to poor quality of financial reporting in corporate businesses. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of board diversity on financial reporting quality of listed Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in Nigeria.
Methodology: The study uses panel data regression technique for data analysis. Data was obtained from the audited annual reports and accounts of the banks over the period 2006 - 2017. Robustness tests such as normality test of standard error, multicollinearity and heteroscedasticity tests were carried out to validate the results.
Findings: The study found that board remuneration, percentage of women board members and audit committee gender have significant positive effect on financial reporting quality implying lower earnings management. Also, board experience and board reputation have negative but weak effect on financial reporting quality. However, board ownership has a positive and significant effect on earnings management but board nationality and board age have positive but insignificant effect on financial reporting quality of banks. The two control variables (financial performance and leverage have significant negative influence in curtailing managers’ opportunistic tendencies.
Policy Implications: The findings have important policy implication for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which is striving to improve transparency and quality of financial reporting in the financial sector. It also have policy implication which enables the CBN and the DMBs to reap the benefit of having a well re-structured, re-composed, re-organized and diversified board along the findings of the study.
Originality: The originality of study is in the use of comprehensive lists of board characteristics in the Nigerian banking sector. The study originality is also in the use of the entire population of the listed DMBs giving it a wider coverage and therefore more generalizable
The Two Cultures Debate Turns Sixty.
Get PDFOne refreshing way to frame partisan intellectual debates is to think about status. If we strip away all the rhetoric and attempts to occupy the moral high ground what we’re often left with is the claim that some person or discipline should be raised or lowered in status, usually relative to some rival group. This is not a bad way to think about C. P. Snow’s famous “Two Cultures” lecture and the debate it sparked. “Scientists should be higher in status,” is the essence of Snow’s argument. The literary critic F. R. Leavis—who emerged as Snow’s most ferocious opponent—was far less generous towards his own tribe: both literary and scientific intellectuals other than himself should be much, much lower in status, Leavis seemed to feel, especially Snow who should have no status at all
Doing Our Bit: The Campaign to Double the Refugee Quota.
Get PDFOver the past few decades the world has seen a large increase in the number of people seeking asylum. The reactions from Western nations have been varied and the question of responsibility is of social and political significance. When Murdoch Stephens began his campaign in 2013, New Zealand had not increased its refugee quota in 30 years, and amidst this global refugee crisis, their intake figures were poor by international comparison. In Doing Our Bit – The Campaign to Double the Refugee Quota, Murdoch Stephens reviews his campaign, and issues the challenge that New Zealand is not just a passive spectator in the refugee crisis
Why Family Memories and Stories Matter
Get PDFComparatively little is known about the content and form of family memory among Pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent) in contrast to the centrality of whakapapa/genealogy in mātauranga Māori. To address this lacuna, the Marsden-funded research project “The Missing Link” recorded oral history interviews with sixty multigenerational families descended from European migrants who arrived in New Zealand before 1914. We asked our participants what they knew about their family past, the stories that had been passed down, and why particular ancestors interested them. The analysis of these oral history interviews is in progress. This article focuses on the decision to employ a mixed methods research methodology, including an analytical conceptual framework drawn from memory studies, and draws some preliminary conclusions regarding the Pākehā family as a mnemonic community
INCOMPACTNESS OF THE A1 FRAGMENT OF BASIC SECOND ORDER PROPOSITIONAL RELEVANT LOGIC
Get PDFIn this note we provide a simple proof of the incompactness over Routley-Meyer B-frames of the A1 fragment of the second order propositional relevant language
The Adoption Problem and Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic
Get PDFAnti-exceptionalism about logic takes logic to be, as the name suggests, unexceptional. Rather, in naturalist fashion, the anti-exceptionalist takes logic to be continuous with science, and considers logical theories to be adoptable and revisable accordingly. On the other hand, the Adoption Problem aims to show that there is something special about logic that sets it apart from scientific theories, such that it cannot be adopted in the way the anti-exceptionalist proposes. In this paper I assess the damage the Adoption Problem causes for anti-exceptionalism, and show that it is also problematic for exceptionalist positions too. My diagnosis of why the Adoption Problem affects both positions is that the self-governance of basic logical rules of inference prevents them from being adoptable, regardless of whether logic is exceptional or not
Causation in Section 15 of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976: Analysing the New Zealand Supreme Court's "Working Assumption" - Is it Really Working?
Get PDFScott v Williams concerned s 15 of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976. In situations of significant economic disparity post-separation, s 15 empowers courts to depart from the default rule of equal division of relationship property to compensate the disadvantaged partner. Causation is one of the jurisdictional hurdles. Only disparity "because of" the division of functions (DOF) is compensable. Thus far, courts have adopted a strict causation approach by placing a costly and often unattainable evidential burden on claimants. Consequently, compensation has been beyond reach for deserving claimants. Responding to this disquiet, Scott's majority propounded a "working assumption" of causation in relationships conducted along traditional lines, where one party assumes primary responsibility for domestic duties and the other for income-earning. In such situations, Scott's majority would assume causation at jurisdiction and attribute the entire disparity to the DOF when determining the quantum award. This article concludes that the working assumption is a positive development in terms of jurisdiction. However, unlike the majority, it argues that striking the correct balance between s 15's "because of" wording and broad policy rationale requires an apportionment of causes at quantum. Furthermore, Scott's "traditional lines" and "non-career partner" terminology creates unnecessary confusion and should be eschewed
Addressing the Gap: Accountability Mechanisms for Peacekeepers Accused of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Get PDFThe United Nations (UN) has been plagued by incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers for a number of years. These tragedies have had major implications for the credibility of the organisation and have hindered its ability to achieve its goals. As the organisation has struggled to address this problem, a new form of accountability has evolved: direct non-legal accountability. This article examines the problem of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers, previous responses to this problem and the emergence of this new type of accountability. Direct non-legal accountability provides a viable alternative to standard conceptions of accountability in response to the situation. Although it will not solve the problem of sexual exploitation and abuse, normative improvements could be made to these mechanisms in order to better provide some accountability to the victims of this exploitation and abuse
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