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This paper explores how learning English affects Asian students' sense of dignity in an Australian social environment, and how they deal with negative encounters at school, at work and at public places. The research methodology used was in-depth interviews with seven postgraduate international students from six different countries in Asia and a convenient snowball sampling. Regardless of the non-native students' English proficiency test results, they all encountered language and cultural obstacles during their transition to the Australian social environment. Their prior motivation and attitudes vis-à-vis English language learning in their homeland positively impacted on their responses to those obstacles. Such obstacles affected their well-being and sense of dignity negatively because mastering English is seen as an accomplishment.

El presente articulo es producto de la investigación "Análisis de los procesos de retorno y reubicación de población en situación de desplazamiento forzado en los municipios de la subregión del oriente de Antioquia: tres estudios de caso", inscrita en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, sede Medellin. Los estudios de caso se adelantan en los corregimientos El Jordán (municipio de San Carlos), Santa Ana (municipio de Granada) y Aquitania (municipio de San Francisco). La investigación se centra en analizar la efectividad de los procesos y políticas de retorno que se implementan en los lugares en cuestión. Para ello se tiene en cuenta el marco normativo que debe aplicarse a dichos procesos, así como los protocolos tendientes a darles una ruta metodológica. En el transcurso de la investigación, se accede además a información directa brindada por las comunidades retornadas y los entes administrativos locales encargados de los procesos de retorno. A partir del análisis de la información brindada por estos actores se concluye que la efectividad de los programas de retorno presenta diversas falencias respecto al goce efectivo de los derechos de las personas que han sido victimas de desplazamiento forzado.

Der Autor nimmt die gegenwärtige Herausgabe der zweiten Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe zum Anlass, um einige historische und politisch-philosophische Forschungsfragen zur Rezeption des Werkes von Karl Marx zu erörtern. Er thematisiert zu Beginn das Wesen des Politischen und geht anschließend näher auf die Demokratieforschung im Vormärz ein, wobei er folgende Forscher in den Blick nimmt: Arnold Ruge (1802-1880), Karl Heinzen (1809-1880), Karl Marx (1818-1883) und Karl Nauwerck (1810-1890). (ICI)

"Zentraler Bestandteil des so genannten Bologna-Prozesses ist die Umstellung aufBachelor- und Master-Studiengänge. An diesem Beispiel soll dargestellt werden, wie deutsche Hochschulen die hieraus resultierende Verschärfung der Konkurrenz zwischen unterschiedlichen Anbietern auf dem nachschulischen Bildungsmarkt wahrnehmen, verarbeiten und umsetzen. Zwei empirisch zu überprüfende Vermutungen sind hierbei forschungsleitend: Erstens wird davon ausgegangen, dass sich die Wahrnehmungs- und Reaktionsmuster von Hochschulen nur erfassen lassen, wenn man sie nicht als individuelle Einheiten versteht, sondern als Teil eines umfassenden organisationalen Feldes. Dieses Feld wird durch andere Hochschulen, Akkreditierungsagenturen, staatliche Einrichtungen und Beratungsorganisationen gebildet. Bachelor- und Master-Studiengängestellen dabei im organisationalen Feld 'Hochschulen' ein institutionalisiertes Symbol für Reformfreudigkeit und Innovativität dar. Zweitens ist zu vermuten, dass Universitäten sich nicht abstrakt 'im Wettbewerb' verorten, sondern vielmehr im Rahmen so genannter 'Wettbewerbs-Sets', die nur einen bestimmten Ausschnitt möglicher Konkurrenten umfassen. In diesen 'Wettbewerbs-Sets' spielen ausländische Hochschulen und der 'europäische Bildungsmarkt' einegeringere Rolle als Fachhochschulen, die mit der Umstellung der deutschen Hochschullandschaft auf Bachelor- und Master-Strukturen nun auf demselben Terrain wie Universitäten konkurrieren und so die Institutionenkonkurrenz verschärfen. Eine fürdie nationale Ebene bedeutende Folge des eingeschlagenen Weges in den europäischen Bildungs- und Forschungsraum ist, dass damit die in unterschiedlichen Bildungsabschlüssen zum Ausdruck kommenden traditionellen organisationalen Ungleichheiten innerhalb des deutschen Hochschulsystems aufgehoben werden. Es entstehen jedoch neue Ungleichheiten zwischen Hochschuleinrichtungen, die anders als zuvor nicht in der ständischen Ordnung der Gesellschaft begründet sind, sondern das Ergebnis der unterschiedlichen Umsetzung in der Organisationsumwelt als modern und innovativ geltender Strukturen." (Autorenreferat)

Purpose. To investigate the effectiveness of the Well at Dell comprehensive health management program in delivering health care and productivity cost savings relative to program investment (i.e., return on investment). Design. A quasi-experimental design was used to quantify the financial impact of the program and nonexperimental pre-post design to evaluate change in health risks. Setting. Ongoing worksite health management program implemented across multiple U.S. locations. Subjects. Subjects were 24,651 employees with continuous medical enrollment in 2010–2011 who were eligible for 2011 health management programming. Intervention. Incentive-driven, outcomes-based multicomponent corporate health management program including health risk appraisal (HRA)/wellness, lifestyle management, and disease management coaching programs. Measures. Medical, pharmacy, and short-term disability pre/post expenditure trends adjusted for demographics, health status, and baseline costs. Self-reported health risks from repeat HRA completers. Analysis. Propensity score–weighted and multivariate regression–adjusted comparison of baseline to post trends in health care expenditures and productivity costs for program participants and nonparticipants (i.e., difference in difference) relative to programmatic investment. Results. The Well at Dell program achieved an overall return on investment of 2.48 in 2011. Most of the savings were realized from the HRA/wellness component of the program. Cost savings were supported with high participation and significant health risk improvement. Conclusion. An incentive-driven, well-managed comprehensive corporate health management program can continue to achieve significant health improvement while promoting health care and productivity cost savings in an employee population.

In early 1990, Indonesia entered as the third-largest exporter in the world after Ivory Coast and Ghana. The number of cocoa farmers is estimated to be 1.4 million households, generally on a small scale, with an area of about two hectares of cocoa. The very high increase in cocoa prices during the economic crisis in the late 1990s contributed significantly to the poverty alleviation of cocoa farming communities, especially those in rural areas. Almost 20 percent of the national cocoa production comes from West Sulawesi Province. The Cocoa National Movement Program (Gernas) in West Sulawesi is a locomotive for community-based development as a holistic, integrated program involving stakeholders to increase productivity and quality and encourage the growth of the cocoa trade and industry. The Central Government subsequently carried it out formed the National Movement for the Improvement of Cocoa Production and Quality. The research showed that there had been a significant increase in cocoa productivity in Mamasa Regency, West Sulawesi, between before the National Movement Program and after its implementation through rejuvenetion, rehabilitation, and intensification programs. Rehabilitation activities are higher than those of rejuvenation and intensification. Rejuvenation increased cocoa production from 342.68 kg.ha–1.year–1 in 2008 to 605.05 kg.ha–1.year–1. Rehabilitation increased cocoa productivity from 332.47 kg.ha–1.year–1 in 2008 to 720.98 kg.ha–1.year–1 and intensification increased cocoa productictivity from 328.27 kg.ha–1.year–1 in 2008 to 531.45 kg.ha–1.year–1 during the program implemented.

By studying the case of the Carbon Neutrality Program (CNP) in Costa Rica, this thesis proposes an innovative approach to the evaluation of voluntary environmental programs in developing countries. In doing so, it seeks to provide relevant information to key stakeholders on the merit and worth of the CNP, and to contribute to the understanding of how specific institutional configurations affect the capacity of public programs to achieve their intended outcomes in the environmental policy domain. This thesis adopts a mixed-methods approach (specifically, a parallel triangulation design) that combines a survey with a case study to obtain complementary data on the research topic. Specifically, it employs a cross-sectional online survey of organisations with the C-Neutral brand that were active between 2012 and 2016. In complement, a case study was used to collect primary qualitative data by interviewing a broad range of respondents. Secondary information was collected from official reports, bibliographies, records and previous studies by public and private organisations (both domestic and international), and newspaper articles. At the theoretical level, the main contribution of this study is its construction of a theoretical framework that combines concepts from institutional theory (third-phase institutionalism) and public policy theory (the multiple governance framework). This framework illuminates the way the CNP operates and helps determine why it produces specific policy outcomes. It was found that although the CNP has inherent merit as a voluntary environmental program, its outcomes do not seem to be significant for the current Costa Rican climate policy. The institutional configuration that characterises the governance of the CNP exhibits a robust combination of rules and narratives. However, there is evidence of weak practices and a limited rate of company membership in the CNP. Furthermore, the program displays a fractured governance structure at its constitutive, directive and operational levels. The ...

Stock options are usually issued to corporate executives in an attempt to align the interests of those individuals with the interests of the company's shareholders. The options are designed to provide a large payoff to the executives when the company's stock price increases substantially above the exercise price of the options. However, in those periods when a company performs poorly, its stock price may decrease to a level below the exercise price of outstanding options. When this occurs, the options are said to be "underwater." Because options provide a benefit only as the stock price increases, underwater options will often lack the motivational incentive that they were designed to create. This creates a dilemma to the compensation committee of the company—i.e., modify the compensation agreements of the individuals in charge during the period of poor stock price performance or risk losing those executives to other companies. One such modification that is often considered in these circumstances is a stock-option repricing program. Here, underwater stock options are exchanged for new options containing a lower exercise price. These programs experienced increased popularity during the 1990s despite the opposition that arose from critics who claimed that repricing programs "rewarda" executives for poor performance. This instructional case requires students to evaluate the appropriateness of a stock-option repricing program for the executives and other employees of Cendant Corp. This company experienced a severe decrease in its stock price during 1998 as a result of many factors including an accounting scandal, failed expansion efforts, and poor market conditions. In addition, the case material can also be used to introduce students to the accounting implications of stock-option repricing programs as modified by Interpretation No. 44, issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in March 2000.

Artículo escrito por un elevado número de autores, solo se referencian el que aparece en primer lugar, el nombre del grupo de colaboración, si le hubiere, y los autores pertenecientes a la UAM ; An updated search is performed for gluino, top squark, or bottom squark R-hadrons that have come to rest within the ATLAS calorimeter, and decay at some later time to hadronic jets and a neutralino, using 5.0 and 22.9 fb-1 of pp collisions at 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. Candidate decay events are triggered in selected empty bunch crossings of the LHC in order to remove pp collision backgrounds. Selections based on jet shape and muon system activity are applied to discriminate signal events from cosmic ray and beam-halo muon backgrounds. In the absence of an excess of events, improved limits are set on gluino, stop, and sbottom masses for different decays, lifetimes, and neutralino masses. With a neutralino of mass 100 GeV, the analysis excludes gluinos with mass below 832 GeV (with an expected lower limit of 731 GeV), for a gluino lifetime between 10 μs and 1000 s in the generic R-hadron model with equal branching ratios for decays to qq͂X͂0 and gX͂0 .Under the same assumptions for the neutralino mass and squark lifetime, top squarks and bottom squarks in the Regge R-hadron model are excluded with masses below 379 and 344 GeV, respectively ; We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC, and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST, and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR, and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC, and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET, ERC, and NSRF, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/ IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG, and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT and NSRF, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP, and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; BRF and RCN, Norway; MNiSW, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZSˇ , Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF, and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular, from CERN and the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/ GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK), and BNL (USA) and in the Tier-2 facilities worldwide

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhetorics of democracy in the Americas -- Part 1 Questioning the Narratives of Democracy Beyond the West -- 1 The democratic hemisphere -- 2 A strange democracy: rhetoric, Posthegemony, and Latinamericanism -- 3 Draining the democracy: Donald J. Ttrump and anti-immigrant rhetoric -- 4 Revisiting the seeming impossibility of migrants as political actors -- 5 American Exceptionalism, baseball diplomacy, and the normalization of us-cuban relations -- Part 2 Problematizing and Reconstructing Democracy in Latin America -- 6 Communicating about corruption: Guatemalan Rhetorics of corruption -- 7 Re/tracing the local grassroots women activists' crafting of rhetorical agency in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico -- 8 The peace agreement and the rhetoric of religion in the Colombian plebiscite: religious activism and democracy -- 9 People, media, and democracy in Brazil: discourses about Lula's oratory in the Brazilian press -- 10 The farewell speech of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner -- 11 Spectacular crisis: Rhetorics of representation in Venezuela -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index

Many students from the Salafiyah Islamic boarding school cannot continue their education to a higher level because of constraints in formal diplomas. Basic education program is one of the programs of the Ministry of Religion to overcome this. However, in its implementation it depends on the pesantren's own stakeholders, such as the role of the pesantren caregivers, pesantren head and pesantren instructors. Like in PP. Darutta'lim Wadda'wah Malang, which is one of the pesantren in Malang that has implemented a fair education program. In this case, the role of the head of the pesantren is very influential. Therefore, researchers are interested in carrying out research related to how the leadership of the pesantren head in implementing the fair education program. The focus of this research is about (1) How is the leadership of the pesantren head (2) how is the implementation of this program and also (3) what are the supporting factors and inhibiting factors of the program.The results of this study found that (1) Leadership characteristics of Darutta'lim Wadda'wah Islamic boarding school leadership in the implementation of the Elementary Education Program included in a democratic leadership style, including: Prioritizing deliberation in decision making, involving pesantren stakeholders in making policy, and providing opportunities to all pesantren stakeholders to give their opinions for the achievement of the success of the Elementary Education Program at the Darutta'lim Wadda'wah boarding school. (2) Implementation of the Basic Education Fair Program in PP. Darutta'lim Wadda'wah started with the socialization of the Ministry of Education, after the socialization activities, the City Ministry of Education also provided guidance to pesantren who wanted to implement the Elementary Education Program in their pesantren. Guidance includes how the licensing process to how the evaluation later. (3) Supporting factors for the implementation of the Basic Education Program at the Darutta'lim Wadda'wah boarding school include: the support of pesantren caregivers, the availability of educational infrastructure, experienced teaching staff, and the availability of supporting books. While the inhibiting factors include: the lack of time for learning activities, the tutor has not been able to get an educator certificate, the problem of funding, although getting assistance from BOS funds, the size depends on the number of students, learning facilities are still lacking, and limited teaching time for teachers.

Jörg R. Bergmann, Christian Meyer (Hrsg.): Ethnomethodologie reloaded: Neue Werkinterpretationen und Theoriebeiträge zu Harold Garfinkels Programm. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2021. 978-3-8376-5438-7