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The article examines recent fictional works by Alice Zeniter and Bessora situating them in the context of 'littérature-monde' construed not as a doctrine or ideology but as a literary stance that makes possible new ways of defining and experiencing the world. In their novels L'Art de perdre and Zoonomia, writing the world does not operate as translation understood as a system of equivalences between universal values or global situations, but as spaces of experimentation that revisit biographical or historiographic narrative models to bring forth situations and characters that test and contest established lines of demarcation between people, languages, 'races' and cultures.

Understanding the factors that lead to correctional officer (CO) turnover intent is vital. Using a gendered career stage model, this study focused on male and female CO similarities and differences in workplace variable effects on turnover intent across career stages. The results indicated that organizational commitment was a consistent predictor of turnover intent for all correctional officers at all career stages, and, at various career stages, quality of supervision, coworker support, and safety concerns affected both males and females. Male officers were more likely to leave at all career stages, with the impact of job stress and role ambiguity influencing male turnover intent.

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially more challenging collective action problems, countries with individualistic cultures are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with collectivist cultures. Our empirical analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic cultures and average polity scores and durations of democracy, even after controlling for other determinants of democracy emphasized in the literature. We provide evidence that countries with collectivist cultures also are more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to autocracy.

AbstractIn this chapter, the authors describe the relevance and importance of principles for collaborative evaluation work addressing inequities and social injustice. They provide a brief introduction to Principles‐Focused Evaluation and describe Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice to provide a rational for using the Principles‐Focused Evaluation approach when evaluating collaboratives addressing inequities. They describe useful strategies for incorporating Principles‐Focused Evaluation into evaluation of such collaboratives, demonstrate how to apply it to other evaluation approaches and models, and provide a case study of an evaluation that incorporated the Principles‐Focused Evaluation approach with Community Coalition Action Theory.

A tractable model with infinitely lived agents is constructed for the examination of bubbles and unemployment. It is demonstrated that the presence of bubbles stimulates capital accumulation and reduces unemployment. The presence of bubbles also changes the effects of government policies that target unemployment and welfare conditions in the labor market. The main findings are as follows: (i) the presence of bubbles is more beneficial to an economy with severe credit constraints; (ii) the presence of bubbles mitigates the negative effects of taxation and unemployment benefits on unemployment and welfare; and (iii) these mitigation effects decrease as credit constraints are relaxed.

New experimental results for the elastic scattering of He6 on Zn64 at incident energies of 15.0 and 18.0 MeV and He4 at 17.5 MeV along with results already published at 10.0 and 13.6 MeV, are presented. Elastic and α experimental cross sections are compared with coupled-reaction-channel, continuum-discretized coupled-channel, and DWBA inclusive-breakup models. The large yield of α particles observed at all measured energies can be explained by considering a nonelastic breakup mechanism. ; Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and FEDER funds (FIS2014-53448-C2-1-P, FIS2017-88410P, FPA2016-77689-C2-1-R) ; European Union's Horizon 2020 654002

ABSTRACT: The relationship between tourism and economic growth has become an important topic of many empirical studies, and various models of analysis can help us understand the contribution of tourism to economic growth, due to the methodological approaches used by researchers. This article analyzed the causal relationship between the economic cycles of the tourism industry and those of regional economic growth between 2004-2016 using the Granger causality test and validated all the causal hypotheses between tourism and economic growth for 21 countries and 158 of regions in the European Union. KEYWORDS: tourism industry, EU regional economy, economic cycles

The article examines Kazakhstan's relations with ASEAN. Kazakhstan has often tried to engage with ASEAN and to become part of its dialogue mechanisms, but the lack of significant trade relations, vast geographical distance and logistical hurdles, and low mutual awareness have proven obstacles to more substantive relations. However, China's increasing influence in Kazakhstan and its Belt and Road Initiative, in which Kazakhstan plays a central role, has opened up possibilities for greater engagement and cooperation as well as ASEAN's increased interest in Kazakhstan. For Kazakhstan, ASEAN's success in regional cooperation could also be a useful model for the growing interest in regional cooperation in Central Asia. (Asian Aff/GIGA)

The ongoing competition between bus and railway systems in the Hungarian regional passenger transport is a current problem, because these subsectors need to complement each other, instead of being in the government-funded competition. Long-term sustainability and efficiency in passenger transport require a balanced transport policy. The parallel bus and railway links, which are present in all regions of Hungary can result in competition. This research explores the solutions to this issue for long-term environmental and economic sustainability optimization. An objective index and interventions developed in previous studies have been applied here. This investigation is to validate the objective index and the interventions by using the Logit model.

Stock Market is a dynamic market where the prices vary and it becomes difficult for an investor for predicting the prices considering external factors like factors like political situations, public image on the company according to efficient market hypothesis. Stock market is extremely volatile and ever evolving with constant developments and research in machine learning and deep learning. This paper deals with a comparative analysis between the most commonly used prediction methods such as Linear Regression, LSTM, CNN , both statistical and recursive learning models using tensor flow and machine learning to find the best fit for individual companies based on historical data.

Deliberative Democracy has proved its value as an alternative to governance dominated by special interests, but its use in governing remains inconsistent. Overcoming this challenge will require the field to focus its energy on 1) building a cadre of elected leaders and public officials who understand deliberative democracy's value and how to do it, 2) engaging with the media so that it becomes an effective partner for the field and a more productive part of our democratic system, and 3) continuing to embrace opportunities – like Creating Community Solutions - to work in unique partnerships, build national infrastructure to support high-quality deliberation, and innovate across methodologies and models.

In addition to education and research, University should pursue the "third mission" to disseminate the acquired knowledge for the development of the Country. Facing a demand for design quality, innovation of models and processes, in the past the academic world has contributed to implementing the effective disciplinary and professional tools, transferring innovations in the professions and sharing what was taught to respond to the needs of the society. Today this does not happen anymore and in the Schools of Architecture the enhancement of knowledge, which mainly passes through the architectural project, assumed as a research tool, remains substantially prohibited by inappropriate and contradictory legislative devices.

The article deals with the analysis of the place and role of the Constitutional Court in the system of separation of powers, for the effective implementation of the system of checks and balances. The institutional and legal model of interaction of constitutional justice authorities with legislative and executive bodies is formulated on the basis of the comparative legal analysis of the regulatory legal acts establishing the powers of constitutional jurisdiction authorities in the mechanism of implementation of the system of checks and balances on the example of different countries with different forms of government, a number of conclusions and suggestions are provided.

This article describes the implementation of political education through learning Pancasila and Civic Education learning to increase the political awareness of students in Abu Bakar Integrated Islamic High School Yogyakarta. This research used descriptive qualitative method. This study gathers data use interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that the implementation of political education through learning Pancasila and Civic Education learning was using the 2013 Curriculum and KTSP, the development of the material, and the use of learning models. Factors that support the implementation of political education are the application of a national curriculum, professional teachers, extracurricular activities, and the availability of facilities.

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially more challenging collective action problems, countries with individualistic cultures are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with collectivist cultures. Our empirical analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic cultures and average polity scores and durations of democracy, even after controlling for other determinants of democracy emphasized in the literature. We provide evidence that countries with collectivist cultures also are more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to autocracy.