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Mergers and acquisitions in the new member states of European Union (EU-10) are investigated in the study. The author concentrates on mergers and acquisitions value creation issue in the region. Event study methodology is employed to investigate the scientific problem of value generation as a consequence of analysed transactions. Findings of the study show that there is statistically significant positive effect observed when analysing value variations as a result of mergers and acquisitions taking place in the EU-10 region. However, there are great differences observed when different countries or groups of countries are analysed in EU-10. This finding supports the conclusions of previous researches in the field stating that value creation in mergers and acquisitions varies greatly in separate regions or countries. It was also found during the research that transactions taking place in the Baltic states have generated the highest value increase in EU-10 during the period of 2004–2013.

This research investigates the interaction between the effects of wording and other elements of framing on public attitudes toward asylum policies. In particular, we focus on the labels of asylum-seekers and the discourse about the recent refugee crisis in Europe. In 2015 and 2016, we conducted two survey-experiments in Hungary where mass migration was the major issue on the political agenda at the time of the surveys. The salience of the issue was manipulated in both studies. Earlier findings have indicated that even words with the same meaning could prompt different interpretations in specific contexts. In contrast, we show that even large effects of wording, even if they are driven by differential meaning, can be suppressed by other elements of framing. The paper with the scientific results of this collection are currently under anonymous review. After the review process, the author of this collection will be revealed.

This presentation assesses evidence on support for family/friend carers of older and disabled people in Europe, drawing on the expertise of Eurocarers Research Working Group members and evaluation studies led by the author which were introduced with significant UK government funds in support of a 'national carers' strategy'. The presentation reviews the impact and effectiveness of publicly-funded and NGO-led initiatives developed in the past decade. These aimed to promote carers' health and wellbeing, address their social and financial exclusion, help them identify the skills they need, and acquire, in their caring roles, and obtain the help they need to combine their unpaid care with paid jobs or careers. The presentation includes discussion of the characteristics of carers who have, and have not, benefitted from this type of support, and explains the role of carers' advocacy organisations in campaigning for improvements and greater accessibility in carer support.

Purpose of Review The aim of this review is to understand the state of the art of research related to climate change and collectively organized violence from a broad political science perspective. Recent Findings An increasing share of quantitative studies find a link between weather anomalies and violence for some forms of violence, but the directions are not always consistent and the mechanisms are not satisfactorily understood. Non-naturalist scholars note important reservations. Summary Important improvements have been made during the last few years, but much remains to conclude that climate change will increase the risk of violence. An increased focus on the political consequences of adaptation and mitigation is needed. ; publishedVersion ; © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "Writing Africa Today," a lecture by Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah held at the College of the Holy Cross February 15, 2018. Gappah writes critically about the government, social and criminal justice issues, and human rights work in sub-Saharan Africa. Her collection of short stories called "Elegy for Easterly" was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009. Her second book, a novel, "The Book of Memory" is the fictional story of an imprisoned albino woman on death row, who is hoping for a presidential reprieve. Her most recent book, "Rotten Row," a collection of short stories in modern day Zimbabwe, is an exploration of life in a complex post-independence society. ; https://crossworks.holycross.edu/bibliography_events/1011/thumbnail.jpg

The author of the article considers «the Cossack problem» that existed during the peaceful processes, which proceeded the said match, issues in regard of the direct conclusion of a peaceful agreement as well as the consequences of the said military conflicts. ; В статье рассматривается «казацкий вопрос» в переговорных процессах, которые предшествовали объявлению военных походов и заключению мирных соглашений между Речью Посполитой и Османской империей в XVII – первой четверти XVII вв. В частности, указываются причины объявления Хотинского похода, ход событий, связанных с этим походом, непосредственно заключения соответствующего мирного договора и последствия указанных военных конфликтов. ; У статті розглядається «козацьке питання» в переговорних процесах, які передували оголошенню військових походів та укладанню мирних угод між Річчю Посполитою та Османською імперією в XVII – першій чверті XVIIІ ст. Зокрема, зазначаються причини оголошення Хотинського походу, перебіг подій, пов'язаних з цим походом, безпосередньо укладання відповідного мирного договору та наслідки зазначених воєнних конфліктів.

The Influencing of Public Policy Transparency for Improving the Capability on Budget Public Participation for the Member of Parliaments by Using Moderation Variable. (Case study of Member of Parliament Keerom). The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of public policy transparency on improving the understanding of Member of Parliament in relation to public budgeting. Survey was conducted to obtain data where the author distributed questionnaires to the respondents. By using regression equation, the study found that the influencing of transparency public policy on the capability of the Member of Parliaments was a significant where indicated the t value (1.350) higher than t table (0.188) with the significant level 0.05. In addition, the influencing of community participation as variables moderate and transparency in public policy showed that there was a positive relationship between transparency public policy and capability of the Member of Parliament on budget.

This article examined the African Mission in Burundi (AMIB), assessed its success and drew lessons learned from the experience. The author argued that the mission was successful in restoring peace and stability in Burundi, although the disarma - ment, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) component of its mission was not achieved. The willingness of the African Union (AU) to send a peacekeeping mis - sion as a stabilizing force within an ongoing conflict shows that the organization is serious about tackling security issues on the continent. In spite of AU's endeav - ours, the article establishes that the AU is being challenged by what is called the 'triangular area of tension in African peacekeeping (AU's ambitions versus AU's peacekeeping capacities versus member states' political will and agendas). The article concludes with a reflection on lessons learnt from AMIB as a prelude to addressing this area of tension for better future peacekeeping performances in Africa.

We prove a global Lorentz estimate of the Hessian of strong solutions to the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for a class of fully nonlinear parabolic equations with asymptotically regular nonlinearity over a bounded $C^{1,1}$ domain. Here, we mainly assume that the associated regular nonlinearity satisfies uniformly parabolicity and the $(\delta,R)$-vanishing condition, and the approach of constructing a regular problem by an appropriate transformation is employed. ; NSFC grant 11371050, NSFC-ERC grant 11611530539 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China grant 2016YJS154. The second author is also supported by ERCEA Advanced Grant 2014 669689-HADE, by the MINECO project MTM2014-53850-P, by Basque Government project IT-641-13 and also by the Basque Government through the BERC 2014-2017 program and by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO: BCAM Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2013-0323.

China as a nuclear power must have a profound effect on many aspects of Japan's defence policy, on U.S.-Japanese relations and on Japanese diplomacy. Ten months before China's first nuclear test the French military theorist, General Gallois, stated that the development of China's nuclear weapons would force Japan to adopt one of three courses: she could strengthen her ties with the U.S.; she could drift out of the U.S. orbit into a position of neutrality which would inevitably be inclined towards Peking; or she could develop her own nuclear weapons system. In the event, however, China's nuclear tests do not appear to have had the impact on Japan that Western observers thought inevitable. In this paper the author, through study of the Japanese press and of official documents, examines official and unofficial Japanese reactions to China's emergence as a nuclear power.

This compilation of academic papers is a portfolio designed to invite the reader to explore the author's beliefs and ideas concerning effective second language learning and teaching. Divided into three main parts, this portfolio addresses: 1. expressing the author's teaching philosophy while putting his position into the context from which it formed, 2. exploring the research perspectives that drive the author to continue participating in this academic field, 3. and chronicling the process of studying the academic material that inspired the previous two sections. Major topics include a macro view of the U.S. government's and its education system's dance together over time, the author's resulting opinion on modern education paradigms, the pragmatics of having to refuse something, challenges for language learners who write in a second language, and a look at the changing conception of literacy due to technology.

This article is dedicated to the soviet political anecdote is unique genre of folklore, which flourished in 1960-70th. The author don`t regard an anecdote as the means of the expression of political unloyalty, but stresses its playing function. An anecdote is explored here as the result of particular language situation of the culture of Late Soviet period in which the ideological reality, fixed in the official language, was perceived as self-sufficient and non-connected with validity, as the empty sign. ; Данная статья посвящена советскому политическому анекдоту – уникальному фольклорному жанру, расцвет которого пришелся на 1960-70-е годы. Не рассматривая анекдот как средство выражения политической нелояльности в условиях цензуры, автор делает акцент на его игровой функции. Анекдот исследуется здесь как порождение особой языковой ситуации культуры «зрелого социализма», когда идеологическая реальность, зафиксированная в официальном языке, стала восприниматься как самодостаточная и не связанная с действительностью, как пустой знак.

Routine activities are increasingly being taken over by technology, and in her dissertation the author examines how far this trend can also be observed in those members of the working population with disabilities. Using empirical data from surveys of employed persons, she analyses the factors which influence engagement in activities, the relevance of activities on wage inequality as well as the development of the activities over time, and compares employed persons with disabilities to employed persons without disabilities. The results show that employed persons with disabilities are affected in similar ways by the technology driven developments in the job market, as employed persons without disabilities. Routinetätigkeiten werden zunehmend durch Technik ersetzt. Die Autorin untersucht in ihrer Dissertation, inwiefern diese Entwicklung auch bei Erwerbstätigen mit Behinderung zu beobachten ist. Anhand empirischer Daten der Erwerbstätigenbefragungen werden die Einflussfaktoren auf das Ausüben von Tätigkeiten, die Relevanz von Tätigkeiten auf Lohnungleichheiten sowie die Entwicklung der Tätigkeiten im Zeitverlauf Erwerbstätiger mit Behinderung im Vergleich zu Erwerbstätigen ohne Behinderung analysiert. Die Ergebnisse belegen, dass Erwerbstätige mit Behinderung ebenso von den technologiegeprägten Entwicklungen des Arbeitsmarktes betroffen sind, wie Erwerbstätige ohne Behinderung.

Fundamental human rights and criminal procedural coercion = Основные права человека и уголовно-процессуальное принуждение ; Рассматриваются вопросы, возникающие при использовании в судопроизводстве по уголовным делам достижений научно-технического прогресса. Неоспоримая польза и возможные риски, сопровождающие применение нововведений, показаны на примере компьютеризации нашего общества в целом и сферы уголовного судопроизводства. Отдельное внимание уделено изменениям законодательства, произошедшим летом 2017 г., закрепившим возможность ведения не только видеозаписи судебных заседаний, но и их трансляций в интернете = The author considers the issues related to the scientific and technical achievements application in the criminal justice. The undeniable benefits and possible risks associated with the use of innovative technologies are shown on the example of computerization of the society, and the sphere of criminal justice. Particular attention is paid to changes in the legislation that occurred in the summer of 2017, concerning video recording of court proceedings and their broadcasting on the Internet.

The legal philosophic thought in the USA has been undergone significant changes since the beginning of existence of the state with such name. Studying the ways of development of legal thought allows us to comprehend the ways of development of world view of the citizens of that country, as well. So, we get an opportunity to adjust our interrelations taking into account the picture of world view. Thus, the risk of conflicts in our relations can be essentially reduced, supposes the author of the article, inviting the readers to consider of that topic. ; Философско-правовая мысль в США претерпела значительные изменения за время существования государства с таким названием. Исследование путей развития правовой мысли позволяет увидеть и пути развития мировосприятия граждан этой страны. Отсюда появляется возможность выстраивания взаимоотношений с учетом картины мировосприятия. Тем самым снижается риск конфликтов во взаимоотношениях, полагает автор, приглашая читателей к осмыслению этой темы.