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The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw +5 more
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Further Considerations Needed to Assess Reshoring: Its Impact on Host Communities
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After several decades of offshoring, reshoring is becoming an emergent strategy in many countries and industries. Both governments compel firms to reshore their production to their home countries as firms find, in some cases, that it is more profitable for them to do so.
Fernando Merino
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to study the differences and similarities between emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) and developed market multinationals (DMNEs) in their levels of adoption of environmental management policies and environmental disclosure practices when they increase their international diversification.
Nuria Esther Hurtado‐Torres +3 more
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STRATEGIES OF RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE GLOBAL EDUCATION MARKET
RUDN Journal of Economics, 2016 This paper analyses position of Russia and Russian universities in the global education market, where we cane note the decline of traditional leaders like USA and UK. It is related to the fact that new players are entering the global market and Russia is
R R Asmyatullin
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Fall 2007, Putting the “study” in study abroad: Mathematics in Finland, Hungary, and Russia [PDF]
, 2007 Erin Kiley is a senior from Loudon, NH, majoring in mathematics and Russian. A member of the University Honors Program, Erin has won two summer research grants through the National Science Foundation, has presented her research at national conferences ...
Kiley, Erin
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管我们是因为爱我们 To Guan Us Is to Love Us: Understanding Guan Through Adolescent Perceptions
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how children interpret the practice of guan (Chinese parenting) within the home and its relationship to family language policy (FLP). The study involved nine adolescent participants from six families. Using a written reflective task, the study explores the attitudes of adolescents towards the practice of guan and its ...
Angie Baily +1 more
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Библиотечная цензура в России: к историографии вопроса
Библиосфера, 2010 The characteristics of historiographical studies on the topic of library censorship and special depositories in Russia and abroad is given.
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Private Equity Investment in the BRICs [PDF]
, 2012 This Article investigates the legal and economic environment for private equity investments in Brazil, Russia, India and China (“BRIC”). In contrast with disappointing returns in the 1990s, private equity investment has soared in developing countries ...
Andreas Woeller
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Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.Summary Background and Objectives The Hospital de la Magdalena, a care home for female prostitutes with venereal diseases, operated in Barcelona from 1923 to 1959. The purpose of this investigation is to highlight how this hospital was used to educate female prostitutes morally in addition to providing medical treatment.
Florian Grafl, Florian Steger
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Individualism and working from home
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract We show that culturally transmitted individualism is an important determinant of working from home (WFH). Using individual‐level data from the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) and the European Social Survey (ESS), we compare immigrants and their descendants from different cultural backgrounds residing in the same location.
Jan Bietenbeck +2 more
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