We explore the regional determinants of entrepreneurial activity with latent variables framework in which entrepreneurship is not observed directly, but manifested in activities such as producing patentable innovations, receiving venture funding and establishing new enterprises. We find that R&D expenditures, the presence of anchor firms, good (small) government and the availability of intellec...

Accepted as demo in CSCW 2016. Abstract Among the topics discussed on social media, some spark more heated debate than others. For example, experience suggests that major political events, such as a vote for healthcare law in the US, would spark more debate between opposing sides than other events, such as a concert of a popular music band. Exploring the topics of discussion on Twitter and unde...

AESTRACT LARGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES FACE particular challenges in selecting information resources, organizing them, and providing direct services to support interdisciplinary scholarship. The tension between generalization and specialization is manifested in these core activities and in the debate over branch versus centralized libraries. External factors affecting library strategies include th...

In this essay, Jennifer Richards suggests that a study of Gabriel Harvey’s neglected poetry and prose qualifies his current reputation as a purely pragmatic Renaissance humanist. In his literary writings, Harvey explores the different ways in which social bonds are formed and sustained; this interest is also manifested in his marginalia. Richards considers the continuity between Harvey’s work a...

The processes and the outcomes of social exclusion begin early in life and are manifested at all stages of life, producing a marginalised existence in adulthood, the routes to and outcomes of which may take a number of forms. These include: poor acquisition of basic skills; early leaving from education without qualifications; early labour market entry problems; including jobs without training, ...

before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of iran's seventh president, hasan rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. the current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical move...

Employing the appraisal framework in discovering the way ideology is crystalized through discourse, the present study attempts to investigate how journalistic ideologies and political positions are manifested through attitudinal terms. Referring to White’s (2012) distinction of attitude types, inscribed vs. invoked, based on Martin and White’s (2005) appraisal theory, journalistic ideology toge...

The Shiite school has been the promoter of movements that have stood up to oppression, and this political thought has shaped Shiite political and social movements and movements throughout history. Historically, the turning point of the Shiite revolution and the formation of Shiite protest movements and events is the Ashura event, and the land of Karbala as the holy land of the Shiites and the p...

Article history: Received 7 August 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2015 Accepted 29 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 This study investigates whether a firm with strong corporate governance (CG) requires political connections (PCs), that is, we examine whether CG and PC substitute for or complement each other. Using 71,069 individual bank loan contracts from Taiwan, we examine how lo...