straw voteAn opinion poll; an unofficial vote taken to ascertain the relative strength of political candidates or the general trend of opinion on a given issue. In the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States, informal polls were taken by handing out a piece of straw to each of ...
Local candidates vying for spots on the City Commission and Lawrence school board are ticketed to take part in a candidate forum event open to the public on Saturday. Held at the Lawrence Public Library, City Commission candidates are slated to share the spotlight at 1:30 p.m., fo...
“The contents of this judgment stand as a salutary warning to local authorities and to other public bodies concerned with fitness to practise in occupations concerned with or touching on the welfare of children…I hope what took place in this case will not happen again.” These are the conclu...
Local regulations on employment contract have more specific provisions on what constitutes the "basic information directly related to the employee and his/her employment contract" as set forth in the Employment Contract Law . Regulations in different provinces vary slightly, but generally include basic ...
This study explores self-visual presentation practices by female political candidates on Facebook during Kenya’s political campaigns that culminated in the national elections of 2022. The unit of analysis is the Facebook profile image of the women leaders. Image-centrism is operationalized as the ex...
While it’s common for employers to look up candidates on Facebook, linking to your profile on your resume comes across as unprofessional and increases the risk of employers finding out information about you that you don’t want them to know. ...
By relying on a quasi-experimental setting identified in parliamentary elections in Hamburg, it is shown that a large portion of voters chooses to vote for local candidates irrespective of the ballot position of the candidate. The paper further controls for factors conditioning the effect and finds...
4. Online Recruitment:Online recruitment plays a vital role in the field of Information Technology. Recruiting technology is often defined and consists of sourcing, screening, and assessing candidates. With the advent of Information Technology, it has become easier, and technology recruitment ensures fi...
s decision would only apply in respect of the processing of personal data in respect of Norwegian data subjects, in practice it is very difficult to see how the IBO could comply with an order only applying to Norwegians, when the effect of the order would be that IB candidates across ...
These community-based interventions focused on behavioral change in individuals who committed or were impacted by violent acts and might be high-risk candidates for committing violent acts in the future. The proposed classification of violence as an epidemic has been controversial (Greene, 2018; ...