In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released “A Nation at Risk.” In this document, they warned the United States, “If only to keep and improve on the slim competitive edge we still retain in world markets, we must dedicate ourselves to the reform of our educational system for the benefit of all—old and young alike, affluent and poor, majority and minority” (Hanushek, Jam...

On the Croatian stock market liquidity has never been in the focus of academic research. thus we find it necessary to observe liquidity at the aggregate level. This paper observes multi-dimensional liquidity through the impact of turnover on price change together with several one-dimensional measures. In our empirical research we applythe illiquidity measureto seven different stock markets. We ...

This paper, first of all, demonstrates that the LHL and the L(L)H pitch patterns exhibit significantly different F0 realisations between Osaka Japanese (OJ) and Kagoshima Japanese (KJ) which typologically belong to different accent groups. Secondly, it is argued that the observed difference results from the phonological differences between OJ and KJ in terms of their tonal representations. Fina...

This research presents a comparative analysis of the marine management regimes under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 and the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010. In light of the vision shared by both administrations to achieve ‘clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas’, the research focuses upon the tension between achieving ‘productivity’ in the marine area and e...

This paper compares an extended Meaning of Work framework with findings from a qualitative research project of employment retention among older women working in aged care. While there are majors areas of commonality there are also some specific points of contrast. This suggests that there are important issues relevant to the aged care sector needing particular consideration in the design of fut...

INTRODUCTION Professionalism is essential for the development of mature physicians but not much education is devoted to that theme. AIM We aimed to determine the views of undergraduate medical students on medical professionalism. METHODS This was a qualitative study, based on focus groups of the first and fifth-year undergraduate medical students. Transcripts of the focus groups were indepe...

The study is basically an extension of the k-day Vol ratio analysis on Nifty Index, proposed by Viswanathan and Maheswaran (2016). It examines the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 on the structure of volatility of global indices (S&P500, FTSE100 and DAX). The global indices did not experience a significant change in volatility structure. On comparison, the behavior of volatility of...