Examining the relationship between antisocial behaviour and team performances in youth sports by Chan, Nicholas Yen Hau

“…Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between antisocial behaviour on team performance in youth sports, the potential implication of its relationship (or lack thereof), and any other potential relationship between moral behaviour and team successes in youth sports. …”
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Pre-emption and prevention : an ethical and legal critique of the Bush doctrine and anticipatory use of force in defence of the State by Brailey, Malcolm

“…From an ethical perspective, the moral reasoning of the just war tradition will be used to demonstrate that whilst many of the claims made by the US are valid, any policy of preventive war targeted against sovereign states cannot be justified. …”
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Compensation for Historic Injustice: Does it Matter how the Victims Respond? by Miller, D

“…They would need to violate a moral norm that is deeply embedded in their culture. 4. …”

Resettlement of Northern Muslims: A Challenge for Sustainable Post-War Development and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka by Yusoff, Mohammad Agus, Sarjoon, Athambawa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah

“…In addition, the issue of resettling northern Muslims became highly contested due to lack of proper policies and plans of the government authorities, as well as moral and institutional support from the Tamil community and their polity, opposition, and criticisms from the Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist forces, and fragmentation within Muslim politics, together with the protracted nature of the displacement. …”
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Lexical stress perception : a case study on Tamil-English bilinguals by Lim, Samantha JieYing

“…Participants included Tamil–English bilinguals (N=10) and a control group of Hindi–English bilinguals (N=10), selected as both Hindi and English contain contrastive stress. Random aural sequences containing contrastive phonemes, five bisyllabic nonword tokens per sequence, were presented aurally in a baseline task where participants were to replicate sequences. …”
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The early Confucian worry about yuan (resentment) by Sung, Winnie

“…This paper has four main sections: the first section makes textual observations of “yuan” in the early Confucian texts; the second section proposes a Confucian-inspired account of yuan and highlights the psychological state in which one who has yuan sees oneself as object; the third section discusses the problematic dimensions of yuan; the final section discusses the negative implications of the passive stance with respect to contemporary concerns: vulnerability, moral repair, and self-respect.…”
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Incentives and impacts: dissecting individual and collective cheating in organizations by Riyanto, Yohanes Eko, Wang, Yuxin

“…This study sheds light on the complex dynamics of cheating in group settings and the moral calculations behind individuals' choices.…”
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Qualified empathy: the spectator looking/not looking away by Keefe, John

“…As knowing spectators of (mimetic) empathetic moments, we look with a critical distance as well 'feeling in', 'there but for the grace...', or degrees of moral disengagement toward the other as subject-object. …”
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Mediation in a feuding society: an anthropological approach to the process of sasmos in contemporary Crete by Chereji, C, Tsantiropoulos, A

“…The mediators are always men, as are the parties in conflict, and the motivation for mediation is rooted in the ‘moral duty for the communal good’ as the locals claim, which means the prevention of the escalation of interpersonal hostility into an open conflict – crime and its revenge (vendetta) (Herzfeld 1985; Tsantiropoulos 2004, 2008, 2019). …”

Challenges in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Malaysia by Diana Suwardi, Suhana Saad

“…The findings reveal seven key strategic issues in PPP project management, such as accountability; incentives and assistance; values, norms, and prevalence; standards and procedures; good and moral governance; duties and roles; and laws and regulations. …”
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Irreverence intended? Destabilizing ‘intent’ as determinative in discourse around satire at the ECtHR by Hussain, H, Sanghi, S

“…Loosely termed as a form of artistic expression with a ‘moral edge’ to humour, satire ensues a critical complexity for courts to deconstruct due to the perceivable absence of a consistent criteria to adjudicate such cases. …”

The ethics of incompletion : film bodies and absence in the films of Rithy Panh and Joshua Oppenheimer by Chia, Justin Ian Soon Hann

“…This essay analyzes how both presence and absence work within the texts to undercut cinema's ability to resolve ethical and moral quandaries solely within itself, to be essentially incomplete, thereby providing the possibility for any such imperatives to be shifted onto the spectator to grapple with.…”
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Addressing Problem of Criminal Investigation in Pakistan by Ghani, Abdul, Ayub, Zainal Amin, Mat Rus, Mukhriz

“…The studies recommend that an advanced system police investigation must be introduced, investigation officer should be scientifically trained, and the sense of professional and moral honesty should be imparted among them. In this way the police investigation system in Punjab, Pakistan can be improved according to the demands of modern time…”
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Hearing what is not said; seeing what is not written. by Han, Peiyi.

“…In both novels, parts of the plots are purposely left out and characters are silenced or keep silent. Unlike aural silence, literary absences and silences can only be conceived and be meaningful when they are framed by specific contexts. …”
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A scandal in the British Empire: child guardianship, theosophy, sexuality and fatherhood in Besant v. Narayaniah by Tan, Fidellithy

“…The second chapter focuses on Charles Leadbeater, investigating how discussions regarding alleged sexual misconduct, homosexuality, and pedophilia were central to concerns of moral decline in colonial India, Australia and metropolitan Britain. …”
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Microsoft kinect for early education by Tan, Haiwang.

“…These contents can be subject related texts, specially designed images to promote positive learning attitude, moral teaching videos, fancy animations created from book stories or any other kind of contents teachers can think of. …”
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Systematic bias in trait attributions for deceased friends and relatives by Galang, Adrianne John Real, Ellescas, Bianca Ysabel C., Santos, Jan Marie E., Locsin, Maria Aisha V., Sy, Keena Mayumi D.

“…Bering (2006) put forward the claim that the deceased are viewed as authoritative moral figures, and Bering, MacLeod, and Shackelford (2005) present evidence supporting this. …”
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What can literature do that philosophy can't? Entering the hybrid worlds of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch by Holt, N

“…In particular I challenge the view, in the case of Beauvoir, that she was advocating a new literary way of ‘doing’ philosophy and, in the case of Murdoch, that the close connection she perceived between art and morals was to do with the moral effects of art. The ideas of each of them on literature cannot be understood without a proper grasp of their thinking on language. …”

A critical analysis of current debates in natural law: a theo-cultural engagement with John Finnis, Jean Porter, & John Milbank by Morgan, G

“…<p>This thesis argues that natural law – when construed as an epistemological and trans-cultural lingua franca, adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of specific Christian moral principles within contemporary “secular” discourse – has failed. …”

Of blood and belonging: the practice of antiretroviral treatment among HIV-positive youth in South Africa's Eastern Cape by Vale, B

“…</p> <p>The findings elucidate adolescent ART as a complex (and often volatile) form of social incorporation, through which young people negotiate survival, care and moral connection in contemporary South Africa. Enrolling in ART meant being encompassed into a (often hierarchical) set of social relationships, through which adolescents sought belonging, recognition and protection, amid profound insecurity. …”