Firm-level evidence suggests that family firms are more apt to honor implicit labor contracts than are widely held firms, making family firms especially successful at winning workers’ loyalty–a trait that is reflected in fewer strikes and lower unionization rates. Accordingly, we might expect to see more family ownership in countries in which labor relations, for cultural or historical reasons,...

Nowadays, there is a growing need to automatically extract information from texts. In this active research field much effort has been invested to improve the identification and classification of named entities, the detection of time expressions, and the identification of semantic relations between text entities. This paper presents a system that identifies and classifies family relations. The d...

Members of the family Iridoviridae infect a diverse array of invertebrate and cold-blooded vertebrate hosts and are currently viewed as emerging pathogens of fish and amphibians. Iridovirid replication is unique and involves both nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments, a circularly permuted, terminally redundant genome that, in the case of vertebrate iridoviruses, is also highly methylated, and t...

In this paper, the concepts of well-posednesses and Hadamard well-posedness for a family of mixed variational inequalities are studied. Also, some metric characterizations of them are presented and some relations between well-posedness and Hadamard well-posedness of a family of mixed variational inequalities is studied. Finally, a relation between well-posedness for the family of mixed variatio...

The recently introduced series of description logics under the common moniker ‘DLLite’ has attracted attention of the description logic and semantic web communities due to the low computational complexity of inference, on the one hand, and the ability to represent conceptual modeling formalisms, on the other. The main aim of this article is to carry out a thorough and systematic investigation o...

Using firm-, industry-, and country-level data, we document a link between family ownership and labor relations. Across countries, we find that family ownership is relatively more prevalent in countries in which labor relations are difficult, consistent with firm-level evidence suggesting that family firms are particularly effective at coping with difficult labor relations. Our cross-country re...