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Corporate governance
Governance is largely about the decision-making process in a complex organization Shareholders (owners) delegate authority to professionals who have the managerial skills to increase shareholders’ wealth. As a consequence the contributors of a firm's capital base are usually different from the contributors of its management base. This separation of ownership from control has led to organizations establishing a system of corporate governance controls designed to discourage managers from pursuing objectives that fail to maximize shareholder wealth. These controls constitute the firm's corporate governance framework. Corporate governance controls are designed to monitor managers behavior or align the goals of management with the goals of shareholders. In this chapter, a corporate governance framework is developed that outlines the roles and responsibilities of participants involved in governing the organization and portraying information to the capital market
Rothberger bounded groups and Ramsey theory
We show that: 1. Rothberger bounded subgroups of sigma-compact groups are
characterized by Ramseyan partition relations. 2. For each uncountable cardinal
there is a topological group of cardinality such
that ONE has a winning strategy in the point-open game on the group and the
group is not a subspace of any sigma-compact space. 3. For each uncountable
cardinal there is a topological group of cardinality
such that ONE has a winning strategy in the point-open game on the
group and the group is \sigma-compact.Comment: 11 page
Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility: Military Work and Peacebuilding
The paper considers a number of important questions related to the involvement of engineers in peacebuilding and military work, including the preference of many countries for high tech weapons based security over peacebuilding, whether and in what circumstances, if any, it is justified for engineers to be involved in military work; and how engineers can persuade their colleagues to apply their skills to support peacebuilding. It is introduced by an overview of what is meant by the term military work and the extent and consequences of the use of military technology worldwide. This is followed by the applications of different approaches and theories of ethics to discuss the questions presented in the introduction. The approaches and theories applied include considerations of micro-and macro-ethics, codes of ethics, virtue ethics, considerations of gender and paradigms and the ethical imperative. Initial insights include the importance of considering the associated context and the need to avoid othering, which can make different treatment of minority groups, including the use of high tech weapons against them, seem acceptable
Remarks on countable tightness
Countable tightness may be destroyed by countably closed forcing. We
characterize the indestructibility of countable tightness under countably
closed forcing by combinatorial statements similar to the ones Tall used to
characterize indestructibility of the Lindelof property under countably closed
forcing. We consider the behavior of countable tightness in generic extensions
obtained by adding Cohen reals. We show that certain classes of well-studied
topological spaces are indestructibly countably tight. Stronger versions of
countable tightness, including selective versions of separability, are further
explored.Comment: Extended from 12 pages to 23 pages. Newly extended to 27 page
Supporting EU, home and foreign students in London writing final year undergraduate BA English language studies dissertations
The London Metropolitan University BA English Language Studies degree (BA ELS) attracts more than 50% “non-traditional” entrants, including many with English as a second language. This paper reports on challenges of the compulsory third year Undergraduate Dissertation, and on implementing and evaluating interventions to help students meet these challenges.
My colleague and I carried out pre- and post-module surveys of student perception and made use of an ongoing student diary from one student to determine student needs and experiences. We discovered that students find structuring their literature reviews challenging and need to be trained to see the applicability of some of the literature to their particular thesis situations. There is evidence that students in European institutions face similar challenges.
Our action research was informed by a constructivist, dialogic, pedagogic approach which, importantly, included supporting students’ writing from within their subject area. In attempting to find solutions to these problems, we were influenced by the academic literacies with its emphasis on learner differences, but more by the genre approach.
I argue that existing manuals on research Dissertations, which focus largely on topic choice, storage of notes and may need to give higher priority to structuring the literature review. Our report includes a survey of students’ attitudes and expectations regarding the Dissertation, then moves on to describe and assess changes which were made to the Dissertation in the Degree in question. The greatest focus is on the “literature review”, but we also describe changes to the module documentation (Handbook), changes to the Dissertation structure, to the process of choice of Dissertation topic, and attention to students’ time management
Measurable cardinals and the cardinality of Lindel\"of spaces
If it is consistent that there is a measurable cardinal, then it is
consistent that all points g-delta Rothberger spaces have "small" cardinality.Comment: 9 pag
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