Participants in ISEE programs are encouraged to teach and mentor in ways that transfer ownership to learners. Though learners can feel a sense of ownership over many aspects of their learning, emphasis is put on transferring and maintaining ownership over learning core concepts and practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Put simply, ISEE supports teaching and ment...

This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study of R/3 users in China which was conducted in Spring 2000. The broad purpose of the study is to identify crucial implementation process and context variables which warrant closer attention in the study of IT-enabled organizational change. As companies display a great variety of ownership structures in China (including state-owned, foreign-i...

This paper is concerned with the English Court of Appeal's decision in Yearworth v North Bristol NHS Trust that six men had, for the purposes of their claims against the trust, ownership of the sperm they had produced. The case has been discussed by many commentators and most, if not all, of those who have discussed the case have claimed or assumed that the court held that the claimants had pro...

Car Ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the initial wealth difference, blacks cannot afford...

Income tax is one of the most important costs of companies and it is usually considered as a cost that should not be paid. One of the most noticeable and influential factors in tax avoidance is corporate ownership structure. With an emphasis on institutional ownership and its types in this paper, it is attempted to measure the effect of this ownership and its types on corporate tax avoidance. F...

BACKGROUND We focused on human-animal interaction (HAI) as an important aspect of social functioning at the individual level, framing this emerging field from a public health perspective. METHODS Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) 2012 HAI module, we describe the characteristics of pet ownership in a population of older adults, and examine the relation between pet ownership...

The paper aims to examine the determinants of profit performance of financial holding companies (FHCs) using panel data for the period 2001–9. The effects of bankspecific ownership structure and dualcore strategy are examined. Our findings show that (1) business diversification, a lower financial cost, a higher liquidity ratio, larger assets, and lower debt ratios can improve the profit perform...

A growing body of research documents the positive outcomes of research experiences for undergraduates, including increased persistence in science. Study of undergraduate lab learning experiences has demonstrated that the design of the experience influences the extent to which students report ownership of the project and that project ownership is one of the psychosocial factors involved in stude...