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Means of Arguments in Bank's Annual Reports
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In line with the most recent trends in genre analysis (Swales, 1990; Bahatia,
1993) and discourse studies on business communication (Dudley-Evans and St.
John, 1998;Bargiela-Chiappini, F. and C. Nickerson, 1999, the article focuses on a
particular financial genre, Bank's Annual Reports (ARs). More in detail, in contrast
in widespread claim about the purely financial and informative nature of ARs,
addressing experts only, this paper aims at illustrating in accordance with Bexley
and Hynes (2003), and Burrough's (1986) considerations, that those reports
endeavour to promote the company image and to leave a positive impression on
readers. Generally speaking, companies communicate because they exist: they have
a name, headquarters, offices, a logotype, and provide cosumers with products and
services that help people to come closer to the company's reality (Brioschi,
1990:51). However, another type of communication exists, this of argumentation: it
is essential to inform the public about the company's activity, to charge its mind
(Cantoni, Di Blas, 2002) and to it act in a certain way. Thus, argumentation aims at
convincing the counterpart that a thesis should (not) be accepted by using
reasonable arguments that impress the hearer/ reader. More specifically,
argumentation can be found in an extremely important economic and financial text:
the ARs. These are considered comprehensible not only to experts but also the
layman: they develop arguments that are within everyone's reach; they use plain
language and effective stylistic devices in order to be readable, to delight and
convince the public (Mignini, 2005:1).
(Some research so far has been based on the definition as well as the content
analysis of ARs, and on their writing's techniques and strategies, but few had taken
into account their argumentative stylistic features and discursive (in the sense of
other-than-purely-financial) sections.
There has been not much research focusing on argumentation in the economic
and financial world up-to-now; in this paper the researcher examines how
argumentation is carried on in banks ARs, what the most exploited topics are, and
how they are arranged to win the public over. A glance at the textual structure is
given first so as to have an idea about how the readers are introduced into the bank's
world. Then, an analysis of the most common topics and the way they are usually
presented (their argument) is provided: examples are also given in order to clarify
the content. 

The corpus of material gathered for the analysis includes four Bank's ARs. All
the selected ARs are published on the web between 2003 and 2006 by the following
prestigious big banks: Deutsche bank (2003), Bank of England Annual Report
(2004), Raiffeisen Centrobank (2005), and Bank of America (2006).

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Publication Date
Fri Dec 31 2021
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Laser
Hong-Ou-Mandel Dip Measurements of Two Independent Weak Coherent Pulses for Free Space Quantum Key Distribution Systems
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Preparation of identical independent photons is the core of many quantum applications such as entanglement swapping and entangling process. In this work, Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment was performed to evaluate the degree of indistinguishability between independent photons generated from two independent weak coherent sources working at 640 nm. The visibility was 46%, close to the theoretical limit of 50%. The implemented setup can be adopted in quantum key distribution experiments carried out with free space as the channel link, as all the devices and components used are operative in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Publication Date
Fri Oct 30 2020
Journal Name
Journal Of Economics And Administrative Sciences
Institutional Performance Assessment using a model of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) A case study at an organization
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The study aims to use the European Excellence Model (EFQM) in assessing the institutional performance of the National Center for Administrative Development and Information Technology in order to determine the gap between the actual reality of the performance of the Center and the standards adopted in the model, in order to know the extent to which the Center seeks to achieve excellence in performance to improve the level of services provided and the adoption of methods Modern and contemporary management in the evaluation of its institutional performance.

The problem of the study was the absence of an institutional performance evaluation system at the centre whereby weaknesses (areas of improvement) and st

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Publication Date
Sat Feb 01 2014
Journal Name
Journal Of Economics And Administrative Sciences
Application Effect of the Conflict Management Strategies On Increasing Workers Productivity at the Electricity Company (IGEC) (Field Study Irbid Governorate)
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Research aimed to explore the Application Effect of the Conflict Management Strategies by the managements to solve conflict between and inside the conflicted parties within (IGEC) to increase the productivity of the workers. To collect data, 110 questioners had been distributed among managers and heads of departments of all managerial levels, 102 answered questioners regained, 5 of them were disqualify for statistical analytic, only 97 were taking in consideration   for statistical analysis presenting 93% of the retained number.

SPSS Program supported with a group of statistical tools, had been used for analysis purposes such as Kronbach Alpha test to assure the validity & stability of the t

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Publication Date
Sun Oct 21 2018
Journal Name
Journal Of Planner And Development
استخدام مياه المجاري في استدامة الأراضي في مدينة الرمادي
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Publication Date
Thu Jun 06 2024
Journal Name
مجلة التربية الاساسية
شعرية الخطاب الروائي في رواية (النوم في حقل الكرز)
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إن أهم مايميز النص الأدبي شعراً كان أم نثراً نسيجه اللغوي الجمالي الذي يعبر عن التجارب الحياتية والمشاعر الوجدانية وترجمة ما يجول في الخاطر من أفكار واحاسيس الى صور انفعالية تؤثر في المتلقي. . يحاول هذا البحث الخوض في شعرية الخطاب الروائي في رواية ( النوم في حقل الكرز ) للكاتب العراقي ( أزهر جرجيز ) وهي واحدة من أهم الروايات الحائزة للجائز العالمية ( البوكر ) ودراسة الصورة الشعرية بانماطها المتنوعة التشبيهية وال

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Publication Date
Mon Nov 19 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
العلماء العلماء المسلمون ودورهم في نشر الإسلام في أصفهان
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            Knowledge was varied at all level, and it reached to all sector of society during the Arabic Islamic Renaissance that lasted five centuries. Its creativity and originality had a great effect on every aspect of life in the countries laborited by Arab Muslims.Esfahan was one of these countries, in which Arab Muslims played a great role in dissemination of knowledge and science in the society.

The role of Arab bookworms and thinkers in circularizing Islamic knowledge was distinguished. Islamic religion improved the behavior of Arabic people so they became able to learn people and nations the principles of knowledge. This lead to develop the scientific movement by man

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Publication Date
Mon Sep 25 2023
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
(التعليم في ايران في سنوات الثورة الدستورية 1905-1911م)
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The Constitutional Revolution is an important event in the modern history of Iran. It led to major changes in the political system and the education system. In addition  to it, laws were enacted that contributed to increasing the number of students who were unable to learn because of their deteriorating economic situation. The revolution also contributed to opening the way for girls to enter the country.  Schools after that was forbidden due to the opposition of the clergy, as the enemy of female education is contrary to Sharia, and different classes appeared in society calling for the fight against ignorance, the development of learning, the education of girls, and the establishment of modern schools for their education

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Publication Date
Sun Mar 30 2025
Journal Name
مجلة المستنصرية للدراسات العربية والدولية
أثر العمالة الاجنبية في ارتفاع مستويات البطالة في العراق
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ساهم توافد العمالة الأجنبية في تفاقم مشكلة البطالة في العراق الذي يستقبل المئات منهم سنوياً، في ظل تخرج آلاف الطلاب من الجامعات العراقية وانطلاقهم إلى سوق العمل بالتزامن مع عدم تنشيط دور القطاع الخاص بسبب التجاذبات السياسية والأوضاع الاقتصادية والأمنية التي أثرت بشكل كبير في تفعيله وجذب المستثمرين، وعلى رغم ذلك استمر توافد العمالة الأجنبية التي وجدت في العراق عبارة عن فرص ثمينة لا سيما في قطاع الخدمات، مما

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Publication Date
Mon Jul 02 2018
Journal Name
المجلة العراقية للعلوم الاقتصادية
العولمة المالية واثرها في الضريبة في بعض البلدان العربية
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ظهر التحول نحو العولمة في ضوء التغيرات العالمية السريعة والمتلاحقة والعميقة في آثارها وتوجهاتها المستقبلية وخاصة تلك التي شهدها الربع الاخير من القرن العشرين الماضي .إذ تحول الاقتصاد العالمي بالفعل إلى قرية صغيرة متنافسة الاطراف بفعل الثورة التكنولوجية والمعلوماتية . ولم تتوقف الامور عن هذا الحد إذ ان التطور العالمي الحديث وما سيشهده العالم من سيطرة العولمة الجديدة التي تدعو لحرية التجارة وسهولة تبادل الب

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Publication Date
Thu Sep 01 2011
Journal Name
Journal Of Accounting And Financial Studies ( Jafs )
دور الإعفاء الضريبي في تشجيع الاستثمار الأجنبي في العراق
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It is weII known that Iraq was alerted to  the fact the need to catch up with globalization and the need  to attract foreign investment , perhaps the solutions is able to or control  over its economic problems which centers on the problem pf unemployment .

        Imposing the Investment Law No (13) for the year 2006 is the most basic steps to attract foreign investment through Madmen Law of incentives KaIiafaouat tax , it must be the study of those exemptions and compare them with tax  exemptions for some of the investment Laws of the Arab countries as one investment Lebanese , Jordanian and Egyptian that we have the knowledge Marvel Law Iraqi investment in respect of such &

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