Inter-firm cooperation and innovation: The role of strategic alliances

The relationship between inter-firm cooperation and downscaling, outsourcing and multiple firm strategic alliances is explored conceptually and with data from innovative firms. Downscaling is related to cooperative outsourcing as a significant influence shaping inter- firm relations. Embedding cooperative outsourcing in interfirm strategic alliances is advantageous, particularly for small and medium-size firms. Network structures within alliances are important to consider, however, since they hold the key not only to the division of labour within an alliance, but also to the longevity of the alliance, cooperation, and the relations of trust that pervade transactions.

Letter from Luis Javier Correa Suarez: Regional Leader of SINALTRAINAL Assassinated

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ILRF_Letter_from_Luis_Javier_Correa_Suarez__Regional_Leader_of_SINALTRAINAL_Assassinated.pdf: 52 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Rethinking Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Innocent Owner Defense

Law enforcement departments across the country use civil asset forfeiture as a method to fund the work of law enforcement departments under the guise of combatting the “War on Drugs.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions made in- creasing civil asset forfeiture a DOJ priority. If civil asset forfeiture continues to rise to the level that Attorney General Sessions would like to see it, then we will soon find ourselves fighting to keep what is rightfully ours. This Comment will argue that the government should be required to prove that the owner of forfeited property had actual knowledge that the property was connected to an underlying crime. Dick M. Carpenter, Director for the Institute for Justice, believes that civil asset forfeiture is a thing of the past that today’s legal system should eschew. Civil asset forfeiture plays a relevant role in contemporary law enforcement, but additional safeguards should be enacted to ensure that civil asset forfeiture is not used at the expense of citizens’ property rights. Uniform reporting reform regarding forfeiture should occur amongst the states, and the government must prove that the innocent owner is not innocent. This is not to say that the government is required to succeed in a criminal prosecution before property can be forfeited, but this Comment argues that the government must prove from the onset that any owner of the property is not innocent and detached from the crime. Property owners should never be forced to prove their innocence without the constitutional protections guaranteed in criminal courts

Seminario como estrategia pedagógica para la actualización de la Ley 1333 de 2009 régimen sancionatorio ambiental

El presente Ensayo propone un seminario, como estrategia pedagógica de actualización en la formación universitaria, para estudiantes de Derecho, sobre ley 1333 de 2009, Régimen sancionatorio ambiental.The present essay proposes a seminar, as pedagogic strategy of upgrade in the university preparation, for law students, about of the law 1333 of 2009, environmental penalties regime

Theoretical Modelling of the Singlet Fission Process:from the gas phase to the effect of the environment

Conversion of sunlight into electricity prevails, until this day, as a promising source of renewable energy. Nevertheless, enhancement of conversion efficiencies in photovoltaic devices is desired. Different alternatives to bust this efficiency have been explored and applied. Among these alternatives, it has been proposed that the deposition of a layer of a material exhibiting singlet fission (SF) on top of a solar cell could increase its efficiency. This layer has two purposes: to absorb high energy incident photons that in current solar cells would be lost due to thermalisation, and to potentially generate two pairs of charge carries per single absorbed photon. Even though experimental attempts to demonstrate the potential of SF materials have been performed in recent years, two main drawbacks still limit their implementation: the small number of molecules known to exhibit SF and limited knowledge on how the process actually occurs. The aim of this thesis is, aided by computational techniques and theoretical methods, to offer insights in the SF process and attempt to provide answers to the drawbacks mentioned above. We focus on finding novel SF molecules and on providing a deeper understanding on how the process occurs

ELT novice and experienced teachers’ teaching strategies for enhancing speaking skill

"This study aims to explore the teaching strategies that novice and experienced teachers use to enhance students’ speaking skills in the classroom. This research project analyzes the similarities and differences between the strategies that these teachers use to make the teaching-learning process more efficient. The research questions that guided this study are 1) What strategies do novice teachers use the most to enhance students’ speaking skills? 2) What strategies do experienced teachers use the most to enhance students' speaking skills? and 3) What are the differences between experienced and novice strategies to enhance students' speaking skills? In addition, this study adopts a Mixed-method approach. The study was conducted with thirty English language teachers from public and private universities in the city of Puebla. To collect data for this study the instrument used was a questionnaire. The data was analyzed, and the findings showed that both novice and experienced teachers employ different strategies for enhancing students’ oral skills. Most of the strategies these teachers use in their English classes follow a student-centered approach. It was also observed that these strategies require limited intervention from the teacher"