Financial Services Liberalisation in Transition Countries and the Role of the WTO

While a bulk of economic theoretical and empirical research deals with various aspects of financial liberalisation, there is far less research devoted to the measurement of financial liberalisation. In this paper we calculate an index of financial liberalisation in 18 transition countries in the Central, Eastern and South-East Europe (CESE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This index was previously developed in works of Aaditya Mattoo (1999) to measure financial liberalisation that the WTO member countries have committed to. We make a slight modification to scaling to take into account the specific aspects of CESE and CIS countries and also apply the index to a non-WTO member (Serbia) using its currently applied regime. In this paper we will examine the influence of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) framework on liberalisation commitments in financial services sector in the target countries.Financial services, Financial liberalisation, Transition, WTO

Zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und Theologie - Christi leiden in Einer Vision Geschaut

The analysis of the passion-treatise Christi Leiden in einer Vision geschaut shows that the text gets its specific meaning by its intertextuality with the gospels as oscillating between mythical and dogmatic aspects of literature on salvation histor

ANTROPOLOGIJA ETNOLOGIJE I OBRATNO

Michael Herzfeld, Ours Once More. Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece, Pella Publishing Company, Inc., New York 1986.; Anthropology through the Looking-Glass. Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe, Cambridge University Press, New York 1987

Toter Buchstabe - lebendiger Geist. Bibelauslegung als Lektüreereignis

There is scarcely a sentence in the New Testament that could have unleashed a wider reception history than Paul‘s comparison of the letter and the spirit in the third chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians: "For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” In Patristics two diverging lines of reception can be identified, which, depending on the perspective, emphasise the hermeneutic or the soteriological side of the formula more strongly. This paper investigates the antithesis of spirit and letter at various stations of its reception history from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and ventures to profile the contrast primarily as the hermeneutic relationship between the object and the reading even

Nasljeđe jugoslavenskih etnologija i suvremeno istraživanje postsocijalizma

U izlaganju se razmatraju uvjeti za antropološko istraživanje postsocijalističkih društava s obzirom na znanstveno nasljeđe etnologija u socijalizmu, posebno na primjeru hrvatske etnologije kao nekadašnjeg dijela jugoslavenskog sustava različitih etnoloških znanstvenih tradicija. Praznina etnografije socijalizma ali i elementi znanstvene postkolonijalnosti u istraživanju i interpretaciji istočnoeuropskih društava od strane zapadne antropologije posljednjih desetak godina otčitavaju se u nasljeđu bivših socijalističkih etnologija i njihovih nesvjesnih ili dirigiranih interpretativnih interesa. *** The conditions for the anthropological research of post-socialist societies are discussed with regard to the legacy of ethnologies in socialism, with the accent on the Croatian ethnology as the former part of the Yugoslav system of different ethnological scientific traditions. The blankness of ethnography of socialism, but also some features of the current anthropological interpretation of the East European cultures, are detected in the underlying heritage of the former socialist ethnologies and their unconscious or dictated interpretative interests

Concealing More Than Your Affairs: A Deep Dive into the World of Cryptocurrency and its Future Influence on Family Law in Ohio

This Note dives into the world of cryptocurrency and family law in Ohio. With its current popularity and dramatic fluctuations, cryptocurrency has created a new legal issue in the family law practice. Specifically, this Note focuses on the concealability of Bitcoin and how that influences division of property, spousal support, and child support in Ohio divorce proceedings and settlements. To tackle this issue, this Note begins with the history of Bitcoin, its value since the beginning, as well as the reason for its fluctuations. This Note also looks into what makes Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency forms so concealable. This Note then analyzes the current family law in Ohio, using relevant Ohio Revised Code sections as well as case law that presents examples of how standard assets are divided amongst spouses in a divorce. These statutes and cases are also used to analyze allocation of spousal and child support. This Note then looks to how Ohio has treated parties who conceal their assets in divorce proceedings with respect to division of property, spousal support, and child support. Lastly, I analyze how other states have treated Bitcoin in divorce settlements, as well as the approach countries like the United Kingdom and Canada treat cryptocurrency. This Note finds that cryptocurrency should be treated similarly to standard assets in divorce settlements, and that the Ohio Legislature should act quickly to propose amendments to relevant family law statutes to include cryptocurrency as a standard asset

Genotoxic Potential of Dentin Bonding Agents

Svrha rada bila je ispitati genotoksično djelovanje pet dentinskih adheziva: Adper Single Bonda, Adper Single Bonda 2, Prompt L-popa, Excitea i OptiBonda Solo Plus. Ispitivanje genotoksičnosti provedeno je na humanim limfocitima periferne krvi u uvjetima in vitro, ispitane koncentracije adheziva bile su 0,2, 0,5 i 5 μg/ml, a testirana vremena eluacije 1 sat, 24 sata i 5 dana. Genotoksičnost adheziva ispitivala se citogenetičkom metodom - analizom strukturnih aberacija kromosoma, dakle, određivanjem ukupnog broja kromosomskih lomova, kromatidnih lomova i acentričnih fragmenata. Rezultati pokazuju genotoksičnost OptiBonda Solo Plus već u koncentraciji 0,2 μg/ml i to nakon 24-satne eluacije, zatim OptiBonda Solo Plus u koncentraciji 0,5 μg/ml nakon jednosatne eluacije, OptiBonda Solo Plus, Adper Single Bonda 2 i Excitea u koncentraciji 0,5 μg/ml nakon jednodnevne eluacije. U koncentraciji 5 μg/ml nakon jednosatne eluacije genotoksičnost su pokazali OptiBond Solo Plus, Excite, Adper Single Bond 2 i Adper Single Bond, a nakon jednodnevne eluacije svi su ispitivani adhezivi pokazali genotoksičnost. Iz rezultata je jasno da enotoksičnost raste s porastom koncentracije adheziva, a smanjuje se s vremenom. Najveća genotoksičnost zabilježena je nakon 24-satne eluacije.The aim of this study was to examine the genotoxic activity of five dentin bonding agents: Adper Single Bond, Adper Single Bond 2, Prompt L-pop, Excite and Opti-Bond Solo Plus. This in vitro study was performed on human lymphocytes from peripheral blood, and the concentrations of dentin bonding agents tested were 0.2, 0.5 i 5 μg/ml, and elution times tested were 1 hour, 24 hours and 5 days. Genotoxicity testing was done using the Structural chromosomal aberration analysis cytogenic method , which determined the complete number of chromosome breaks, chromatide breaks and acentric fragments. The results showed genotoxicity of Opti-Bond Solo Plus in the 0.2 μg/ml concentration after a 24-hour elution period, then OptiBond Solo Plus in the 0.5 μg/ml concentration after a 1 hour elution period and OptiBond Solo Plus, Adper Single Bond 2 and Excite in the 0.5 μg/ml concentration after a 1 day elution period. In the 5 μg/ml concentration after 1 hour of elution, genotoxic potential was observed in cultures with OptiBond Solo Plus, Excite, Adper Single Bond 2 and Adper Single Bond, while all dentin bonding agents showed genotoxicity at that highest concentration but after 1 day of elution. From the results it is obvious that genotoxicity increases with the concentration of the dentin bonding agent, and decreases over time. The highest genotoxicity was observed after a 24-hour-elution period