The aim of this paper is to examine what has been the role of information provision to the market throughout the crisis. We consider two main sources of information to the market, financial statements and information provided by credit rating agencies. We examine how these sources of information work and the effectiveness of their disclosure process during the crisis. Contrary to the commonly h...

This review summarises recent evidence about the interaction between bone, the immune system and cartilage in disabling conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis. These topics have been recently discussed at the 'OsteoRheumatology' conference held in Genoa in October 2014. The meeting, at its 10th edition, has been conceived to bring together distinguished in...

AMITAI ETZIONI is University Professor at George Washington Utriversity, H/ashiiigIon. D.C. This article is bused on Chapter 6 of his latest book. An Immodest Agenda (New York: McGraw-Hill. 19821. 1982. Arnitai Etzioni. uch of the talk about the cognitive deficiencies exhibited by many U.S. pupils tends to focus on teaching methods (e.g., phonics versus sightreading) and teaching resources (e.g...

In this paper we present the analysis of the BMAP/GI/1 phase dependent vacation model with decrementing-K service discipline. The exhaustive discipline is a special case of the decrementing-K discipline, where K = ∞. The generalization of the service discipline independent expressions of the vacation model [7] for phase dependent vacation enables the treatment of the BMAP/GI/1 queue as special ...

1 Juris Reinfelds, New Mexico State University, Klipsch School of EE & CE, Box 30001 dept 3-0, Las Cruces, NM 88003 [email protected] Abstract  For too long computer programming has been treated as an art or a craft rather than as a science or an engineering discipline. The Kernel Language approach provides a precise and concise basis for programming in all paradigms (imperative, logical, functio...

A plethora of process modeling techniques has been proposed since Petri nets were introduced in 1962. One way of evaluating and comparing the scope and completeness of these techniques is by way of ontological analysis, a method which has gained popularity in the last decade. The purpose of this paper is to gauge the level of maturity of process modeling techniques over the last four decades of...

The goal of this paper is to present in context the key didactical principles behind the Program by Design curricula, motivate the need for the supporting software, and describe in detail the How to Design Classes component for teaching introductory object oriented program design using Java and Java-like languages. The key innovations are a systematic test-first program design, and the introduc...

Twenty-five years after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the European East-West divide has not been relegated to the annals of history. Among other areas, it persists tenaciously within the ethnological/anthropological sciences practised in Europe. This article deconstructs and challenges reified differences between ethnologies in Central-Eastern Europe and Western, mainly British-s...