Determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program

We empirically investigate the determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program. Applying a data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and 2011, we find that the probability of a firm becoming the chief witness increases with its character as repeat offender, the size of the expected basic fine, the number of countries active in one group as well as the size of the firm’s share in the cartelized market. Our results have important implications for an effective prosecution of anti-cartel law infringers

Prelude to a Saturday nighter

This thesis pertains to the forgotten women dramatists of the Harlem/New Negro Renaissance of the 1920\u27s and 1930\u27s. It is divided into two parts: Preface and one-act drama. The Preface addresses the problems and issues when researching these women, namely the fact that there is little research devoted solely to their contributions to the movement. Set in the home of Georgia Douglas Johnson in late summer of 1929. Johnson is one of the most prolific women dramatists of the Harlem/New Negro Renaissance, whose works expanded even into the Civil Rights Movement, the one-act drama consists of a meeting between Johnson and Zora Neale Hurston, who is most notable for her non-dramatic works, despite the fact that it was in drama that she first made her mark. The first scene, set in the parlor, attends to the issue of race and how each woman goes about addressing their own representation of how race affects the African American community. In the second scene, the women are in the kitchen and address the most pressing issue of gender relations within the African American community

Body-Mind Interface in the Primate Insular Cortex

Long perceived as a primitive and poorly differentiated cortical lobe, the primate insula is in fact a highly evolved, organized and richly connected cortical hub interfacing interoception (bodily states) with sensorimotor, environmental, and limbic activities. This interface likely engenders emotional embodiment and underlies the interoceptive shaping of cognitive processes, including perceptual awareness. Our lab combines several distinct experimental approaches in non-human primates (architectonics, tracing, NET-, DES- and opto-fMRI) to examine the anatomical and functional organization of the insula. Here, we present a novel working model of the insula, based on an accumulation of neuroanatomical and functional evidence obtained in our and other labs. This model proposes that interoceptive afferents that represent the ongoing bodily states are first being received in the granular dorsal fundus of the insula or “primary interoceptive cortex,” then processed serially through dysgranular poly-modal “insular stripes,” and finally integrated in anterior agranular areas that act as an output stage for efferent autonomic regulation. One of the agranular areas hosts the specialized von Economo and Fork neurons, which could provide a pivotal evolutionary advantage for the autonomic and emotional binding inherent to subjective awareness