China has experimented with two strategies of reform of its state-owned enterprises (SOE). One is diversification of SOEs’ ownership through introducing non-state sources of investment. Another is to improve the management of SOEs by granting SOEs’ managers autonomy and their employees profit incentives. Utilising a data set on 680 SOEs over 1980-94, we tested the relative effectiveness of two ...

In the big data era, new technologies and powerful analytics make it possible to collect and analyse large amounts of data in order to identify patterns in the behaviour of groups, communities and even entire countries. Existing case law and regulations are inadequate to address the potential risks and issues related to this change of paradigm in social investigation. This is due to the fact th...

It seems fair to assume that employers provide e-mail facilities to employees as tools intended for workrelated activity. As such it further seems fair to assume that employers would have the right to monitor such e-mail messages. However, the question arises as to how far the right to privacy – one of the fundamental rights contained in the Bill of Rights in the South African Constitution – ma...

We develop a general procedure for estimating the effective constitutive behavior of nonlinear dielectrics. The procedure is based on a variational principle expressing the effective energy function of a given nonlinear composite in terms of the effective energy functions of the class of linear comparison composites. This provides an automatic procedure for converting well-known information for...

Current Problems in Surgery keeps readers up-to-date on the latest surgical advances. Each month, this publication examines a single clinical problem or condition commonly seen by general surgeons. Issues also focus on topics in surgical research and emerging ideas in surgical subspecialties. Current Problems in Surgery is ideal for information too urgent to await book publication, yet too impo...

When the World Trade Centre was destroyed in New York on 11 September 2001, I felt devastation for all the victims of this atrocity. This included the terrorist themselves as well as the families of the dead and injured and of the perpetrators. When America used this atrocity as a reason to attack Iraq I was very disturbed by the transposition of lines of blame to a country that had no direct l...

An enquiry into the present condition of the Persian province of Baluchistan, its antecedents and potentialities Disciplines Anthropology | Social and Behavioral Sciences This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/138

Perlmutter (1970) argued that the indefinite article is categorically different from the definite article and proposed that it is a clitic version of the numeral "one". But there are, as Perlmutter himself pointed out, instances of "a" as well as of "one" that don't seem to have the semantics of the numeral. Hence a divorce of "a" (and of "one") from "numeral"-hood is called for. Furthermore, t...

We present predictions of a relatively simple model of the low-lying 0+ states in 12Be, their predicted energy splitting in 12O, their cross-section ratios in 10Be(t,p) and 14C(p, t) and their decay widths. Comparison is made with predictions using earlier wave functions of Barker. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments Suggested Citation: Fortune, H.T. and Sherr, R. (...

W oter an Att eeldt Wouter van Atteveldt http://vanatteveldt.com http://content-analysis.org Semantic Network Analysis is a technique in which the content of a message (such as a newspaper article) is extracted from text and represented as a network of semantic relations between actors and issues, which can be queried to look for specific patterns and answer various research questions. This tec...