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InvitedPaper presented at conference/seminar on difficult fieldwork, discusses compromises that ethnographers will have to make as their fieldwork becomes more fragmented and their study objects more suspicious, especially when studying elites; the possibility of any solidarity or empathy with the people we study may be declining.
Current corporate governance recommendations – rooted in an investor-based shareholder supremacy model – often narrowly discuss the issue of board leadership as whether or not there is a separation of the CEO and chairperson positions. In this article we employ a team production approach to better understand the leadership role of the board chairperson. We argue that effective board performance is
This paper presents a development of the use of multi-axial ultrasonic data for the quantification of extrinsic, crack or grain-contact induced elastic anisotropy in core samples with application to a UKCS oil field. An approach for inversion of multi-axial velocity measurements is presented, which extends the previous work by Sayers (2002) for the determination of second- and fourth-order crack d
The Circassian languages (Northwest Caucasian) exhibit ergative patterns both in case marking and in the alignment of agreement markers in the verb. Ergative/absolutive case marking is restricted to certain types of nominals, which thus results in split-ergativity. The paper examines the marking of ergative/absolutive case in various types of nominals and relates the distribution to the Nominal Hi
The article reviews the unsustainable appeasement policy of Europe towards South Caucasus, especially Armenia and Azerbaijan in regard to the unresolved conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh. Unless a policy shift is implemented by all involved parties, a possible re-eruption of the armed conflict, with disastrous consequences, is feared.
