Bibliographie: Banse, Frauke/Habermann, Friederike/Sen, Jai/Wahl, Peter/Ziai, Aram: „Our World is not for Sale!“ Was hat die globale Protestbewegung der 1990er Jahre erreicht – und was nicht? Rückblick auf ein virtuelles Kamingespräch im September 2020, PERIPHERIE Politik • Ökonomie Kultur, Nr. 161 (1-2021), S. 114-133. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v41i1.06

We identify and track over time the factors that make financial system vulnerable to fire sales by constructing an index of aggregate vulnerability. The starts increasing quickly in 2004, before most other major systemic risk measures, triples 2008. fire-sale-specific delevering speed concentration illiquid assets account for majority this increase. Individual banks' contributions vulnerability...

this commentary to the editorial of hajizadeh argues that the economic, social and health consequences of legalizing cannabis in canada will depend in large part on the exact stipulations (mainly from the federal government) and on the implementation, regulation and practice of the legalization act (on provincial and municipal levels). a strict regulatory framework is necessary to minimize the ...

the study sought to determine whether pastoralists have resorted to sale of livestock as a form of insurance against commercialization of cattle rustling in which well structured and managed cartels have organised more intense and frequent cattle raids on pastoralist, and how their decisions have affected their herd size. the study was conducted among the pastoral baringo community of kenya. a ...

BACKGROUND Khat is a green leaf with amphetamine-like effects. It is primarily used among people in Africa, the Middle East and in the diaspora communities from these countries. Prior to the prohibition of khat in the UK on 24 June 2014, there was almost no information available on key aspects of the local khat market. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 using snowball sampl...

recently been using ''research'' to cloak illicit cigarette promotions inside one of India's premier educational institutions, Punjab University (PU) at Chandigarh. Since December 2004, India has banned the sale of tobacco products within a radius of 100 yards (91.4 m) of all educational institutions. In April 2006 GPI reached inside PU with a team of young people, each paid 1000 rupees (US$22)...

This work addresses the problem of genre classification of text and speech transcripts, with the goal of handling genres not seen in training. Two frameworks employing different statistics on word/POS histograms with a PCA transform are examined: a single model for each genre and a factored representation of genre. The impact of the two frameworks on the classification of training-matched and n...