Agency Theory, Institutional Sensitivity, and Inductive Reasoning: Towards a Legal Perspective

intercultural sensitivity instruction and interfaces among iranian efl learners intercultural sensitivity,language proficiency,ehnic and demograhic backgrounds:an ethnocentrism vs.ethnorelativism perspective

monumental changes occurring on a daily basis have altered the world into a global village of expanding technology and shrinking geography in which preparing language learners for intercultural communication seems to be a sine qua non for modern language education. employing a cross-sectional design in its first phase, this study investigated the intercultural sensitivity and language proficien...

Theory-based Bayesian models of inductive reasoning 1 Running head: THEORY-BASED BAYESIAN MODELS OF INDUCTIVE REASONING Theory-based Bayesian models of inductive reasoning

principles of an intuitive theory are relevant in this context; these principles are analogous to the taxonomic and mutation principles underlying the evolutionary model in the last section. First, a structured representation captures the relevant relations between entities in the domain: in this context, we posit a set of directed predator-prey relations. An example of such a food web is shown...

an investigation of agency theory and signaling theory in dividend policies: the role of institutional investors

journal of accounting advances (j.a.a) vol. 2, no. 2, fall & winter 2010, ser. 59/3     extended abstract   an investigation of agency theory and signaling theory in dividend policies: the role of institutional investors   dr. g. r. karami         dr. s. mehrani               h. eskandar tehran university   introduction        dividend has a special position among decision makers. dividend poli...

Theory-based Bayesian models of inductive reasoning

Philosophers since Hume have struggled with the logical problem of induction, but children solve an even more difficult task — the practical problem of induction. Children somehow manage to learn concepts, categories, and word meanings, and all on the basis of a set of examples that seems hopelessly inadequate. The practical problem of induction does not disappear with adolescence: adults face ...

A GENERAL NON-PROBABlLISTIC THEORY OF INDUCTIVE REASONING