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Multinationals, Social Agency and Institutional Change; Variation by Sector
This is the accepted manuscript version of the following article: Mike Geppert and Graham Hollinshead, ‘Editorial: Multinationals, Social Agency and Institutional Change; Variation by Sector’, Competition and Change, Vol 18(3): 195-199, June 2014. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published is available online via doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1024529414Z.00000000056 Published by SAGE Publishing. All rights reserved. © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014Multinational corporations (MNCs) operate at a crossroads of countervailing influences, While headquarters are typically embedded in the institutional settings of their home country, subsidiaries tend to internalize regulative and cognitive frames in their own national and regional contexts. MNCs now frequently assume highly diffuse global structures, operating across regionally dispersed horizontal and vertical networks, thereby exposing them to a global mosaic of societal, institutional and socio- economic influences. Moreover, MNCs are subjected to regulative effects emanating from transnational regulationPeer reviewe
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Abortion may prevent the birth of ''unwanted'' children, who would have relatively small investments in human capital and a higher probability of crime. On the other hand, some research suggests that legalizing abortion increases out-of-wedlock births and single parent families, which implies the opposite impact on investments in human capital and thus crime. The question is: what is the net impact? We find evidence that legalizing abortion increased murder rates by around about 0.5 to 7 percent. Previous estimates are shown to suffer from not directly linking the cohorts who are committing crime with whether they had been born before or after abortion was legal.crime, abortion, out-of-wedlock briths, human capital
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides and Crime
It is frequently assumed that safe storage gun laws reduce accidental gun deaths and total suicides, while the possible impact on crime rates are ignored. However, given existing work on the adverse impact of other safety laws, such as safety caps for storing medicine, even the very plausible assumption of reduced accidental gun deaths cannot be taken for granted. Our paper analyzes both state and county data spanning nearly twenty years, and we find no support that safe storage laws reduce either juvenile accidental gun deaths or suicides. Instead, these storage requirements appear to impair people's ability to use guns defensively. Because accidental shooters also tend to be the ones most likely to violate the new law, safe storage laws increase violent and property crimes against low risk citizens with no observable offsetting benefit in terms of reduced accidents or suicides. During the first five full years after the passage of the safe storage laws, the group of fifteen states that adopted these laws faced an annual average increase of over 300 more murders, 3,860 more rapes, 24,650 more robberies, and over 25,000 more aggravated assaults. On average, the annual costs borne by victims averaged over $2.6 billion as a result of lost productivity, out-of-pocket expenses, medical bills, and property losses.gun control, crime, suicide, accidental death
Vertices for Iwahori-Hecke algebras and the Dipper-Du conjecture
Let denote the Iwahori-Hecke algebra corresponding to the
symmetric group . We set up a Green correspondence for
bimodules of these Hecke algebras, and a Brauer correspondence between their
blocks. We examine Specht modules for and compute the vertices
of certain Specht modules, before using this to give a classification of the
vertices of blocks of in any characteristic. Finally, we apply
this classification to resolve the Dipper-Du conjecture about the structure of
vertices of indecomposable -modules.Comment: 31 pages, v2 Minor corrections and corrected statement of Theorem 5.
Method Development for Detecting and Characterizing Manufactured Silver Nanoparticles in Soil Pore Water Using Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation
Recent advances in nanotechnology have led to the production of materials with nanoscale dimensions (nm) and properties distinctly different from their bulk (\u3e100 nm) counterparts. With increased use, it is inevitable that nanomaterials will accumulate in the environment and there is concern that the novel properties of nanomaterials could result in detrimental environmental and human health effects. In particular, there has been concern recently regarding the use of silver (Ag) based nanomaterials as antimicrobial agents in consumer and medical products. Current regulations dealing with the discharge of metals into the environment are based on total concentrations with no consideration for the form (e.g., ionic, nanoparticle, colloid) which can largely determine toxicity. Methods for the identification and characterization of nanoparticulates within complex matrices are lacking and the development of robust methods for this purpose are considered a high priority research area. This research focuses on the development and application of a novel method for characterizing Ag manufactured nanoparticles (MNPs) within terrestrial environments, in particular in soil pore water, with applications relevant to other metal MNPs as well. The method was then applied to understand the dynamics and behavior of Ag MNPs in soil and soil amended with sewage sludge biosolids
A Comparison of Student Hope and Social-Emotional Competence Between General Education and Special Education Settings
Hope, the ability to establish goals, plan for the future, persist in the face of challenges, and motivate oneself throughout the goal cycle, is a social endeavor requiring the collective support and resources of families, school staff, and peers. Schools that teach and reinforce life skills (i.e., hope and social-emotional competence) are able to positively impact student outcomes by teaching the skills necessary to build social support systems, improve the safety of the school by facilitating social-emotional expression, foster collaboration and collective success, and give students meaningful voice and choice. In doing so, schools increase the resources available to students in their goal pursuits. Hope and social-emotional competence are important because they impact every aspect of a child\u27s development which, in turn, affects the child\u27s future goals and their ability to motivate themselves, access and utilize resources, problem-solve to overcome barriers, inhibit and facilitate behaviors, and achieve their goals. Students\u27 backgrounds, the environments in our schools, student risk factors, and the school\u27s ability to adapt to meet students\u27 needs have the potential to impact students\u27 life skills and short- and long-term outcomes. This qualitative study examined the CHS and DESSA-mini scores of 153 students in third through sixth grades to determine whether a
relationship exists between social-emotional competence and students\u27 levels of hope and whether students receiving special education services have significantly different levels of hope and social-emotional functioning than students in general education. The findings of this study support a relationship between hope and social-emotional functioning and highlight significant differences in hope and social-emotional competence between the two subgroups. The results of this study were used to inform a self-monitoring tool that schools can use to determine whether gaps in life skill development exist for their own populations, address any gaps that exist, and produce equitable outcomes for all students
PROFILES OF TARIFFS IN GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
High protection for agricultural commodities in the form of tariffs continues to be the major factor restricting world trade. The large differences in average tariffs across countries make it possible for farmers in one country to benefit from tariff protection while farmers in other countries lose income because of lower prices resulting from those tariffs. This report provides the first comprehensive analysis of agricultural tariffs and tariff-rate quotas (limits on imported goods) across a large number of countries and commodities and finds that high average tariffs create barriers to markets for U.S. and other farmers.market access, megatariffs, tariff profiles, over-quota tariffs, in-quota tariffs, tariff-rate quotas, World Trade Organization, International Relations/Trade,
Applications of satellite data relay to problems of field seismology
A seismic signal processor was developed and tested for use with the NOAA-GOES satellite data collection system. Performance tests on recorded, as well as real time, short period signals indicate that the event recognition technique used is nearly perfect in its rejection of cultural signals and that data can be acquired in many swarm situations with the use of solid state buffer memories. Detailed circuit diagrams are provided. The design of a complete field data collection platform is discussed and the employment of data collection platforms in seismic network is reviewed
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