Introduction. At the present stage, Ukraine is in active process of building its own statehood. This based on relations with other states and international organizations institutions. In this context, it extremely important to develop issue peacekeeping missions during Polish-Ukrainian war 1918-1919. After all, experience past invaluable for current realities Russian-Ukrainian activities instit...

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Improvisation is being appreciated by the management literature because of its key role in a variety of contingencies: emergencies, markets and work organizations. Improvisation is described as a form of extemporaneous, situated action. In the literature, the study of these two phenomena has been mainly cognitive. This exposes it to the critique according to which the situated action paradigm w...

By defi nition, the term volunteer means “without pay.” Thus, a volunteer EMS system is one in which the EMS personnel are not paid.1 There are a multitude of different types and combinations of EMS systems as noted by both the 2006 Institute of Medicine report and the EMS Agenda for the Future.2,3,4 The issues associated with each EMS system can be signifi cantly different between urban and ru...

The discipline of comparative and evolutionary physiology suffered the loss of one of its most creative scholars earlier this year, with the all-too-young passing of Bruce Sidell. As all who knew Bruce – either personally or from reading his many excellent publications – realize, his science exemplified the 'curiosity-driven' approach to investigation that commonly leads to the most novel and f...

This study investigates when forced sales turn into fire sales by using a natural experiment which allows us to separate supply and demand effects: Forced sales result from sudden death of house owners and are thus unrelated to current market conditions. We find that forced sales result in fire sale discounts. Discounts increase when the sale is urgent, market conditions are poor, the seller is...