The passive index investing revolution and the demand for bespoke environmental, social, governance (“ESG”) investment products are most monumental changes to shape investor landscape many years. These developments have been accompanied by an unprecedented concentration of power among BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street (the “Big Three” asset managers). Inevitably, Big Three powerful shareholders...

This article argues that lyric poetry is a form suited to contesting dominant ideas about masculinity because of its thematic and formal preoccupations with voice. It voice offers different way viewing the social constrictions accompany male experiences ageing well-known theory mask ageing. Through study long history Western verse, which includes writers such as William Shakespeare, Percy Byssh...

Abstract. The ethical challenges facing contemporary science range from scientific misconduct to the rightful treatment of people, animals and environment. In this work, we explore role virtue ethics, which concern character a person, in science. Through interviews with 13 scientists, eight whom are geoscientists, identify six virtues (honesty, humility, philia, innocence, generosity reticence)...

Abstract This article examines how judges and lawyers working in international criminal courts see their authority relation to power exerted by states, organisations private actors. We draw together ethnographic research inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ictr ) Court icc that examined perceptions of interactions among local, national legal regimes potential accomplice liab...

Since the turn of 21 st Century, higher education sector has witnessed a proliferation transnational arrangements, including joint venture universities. Concurrently, there been surge in published literature on education. While current explores various issues with respect to regulation, management, quality assurance, and impact, is deficit lived accounts benefits challenges from teacher perspec...

Abstract Our paper examines how prior trust moderates consumer and firm responses to a firm's failures. We document that relatively high in can help firms better recover from the negative effects of denying versus accepting failures, but offers greater protection against competence as compared ethical also consider two failures - external attribution monetary compensation demonstrate these may ...

It is widely recognized that one person's freedom may be limited to prevent harm to another (non-consenting) person. It is curious, therefore, that where a right to reproductive freedom is recognized, there is considerable reticence to limit or override it in cases where reproduction harms those people who are brought into existence. I argue that this is inappropriate. If there should be no rig...

Artificial neural networks are the machine learning technique best known in the high-energy physics community. Introduced in the field in 1988, followed by a decade of tests and applications received with reticence by the community, they became a common tool in high-energy physics data analysis. Important physics results have been extracted using this method in the last decade. This lecture mak...

Despite the apparent advantages offered by formal methods, industry has been very slow to take on the techniques involved. This paper attributes some of this reticence to a lack of clear guidance on where and how formal methods fit into the software engineering process. The paper distinguishes between formal methods techniques for modelling and reasoning about systems mathematically and a forma...