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The integration of content and language in students’ task answer production in the bilingual classroom
2016
The notion of content and language integration has recently become a key topic of inquiry in research on content and language integrated learning and other kinds of bilingual educational programmes. Understanding what integration is and how it happens is of fundamental importance not only for researchers interested in gauging the possibilities and limitations of bilingual programmes, but also for practitioners seeking optimal ways to support student development. This study investigates integration as it takes place in the context of collaborative writing in the classroom. Drawing on conversation analytic methodology, text production is investigated as a social and sequentially evolving phen…
The Village of the Year Competition Constructing an Ideal Model of a Rural Community in Finland
2016
The Village Action Association of Finland (SYTY) organizes the Village of the Year competition annually to award active rural communities. The competition has taken place since 1985, but after the village action movement was integrated into Finnish rural policy networks in the 1990s, it also became a part of rural policy instruments. The competition can be considered a governing technique that constructs norms and an ideal model for rural communities to pursue. In this article, I study the representation of an ideal rural community by analysing the criteria of the competition. I also look for changes to see whether the integration of the village action movement into rural policy is reflecte…
DETERMINANTS OF PROFITABILITY IN SPANISH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. COMPARING AIDED AND NON-AIDED ENTITIES
2015
The last financial crisis has led to the greatest contribution of public funds ever made to Spanish banks. This paper studies why the need for support has been asymmetric, with not all of the institutions requiring aid. Based on profitability of assets (ROA), we determine using panel data econometric and logit response models the components of profit and loss accounts that generated profitability as well as the factors leading to some entities to ask for aid. The analyses show that before the beginning of the crisis there were significant differences between entities that needed aid and those that did not. The most profitable banks grounded their success in the traditional revenue component…
Consensus in inventory games
2008
This paper studies design, convergence, stability and optimality of a distributed consensus protocol for n-player repeated non cooperative games under incomplete information. Information available to each player concerning the other players' strategies evolves in time. At each stage (time period), the players select myopically their best binary strategy on the basis of a payoff, defined on a single stage, monotonically decreasing with the number of active players. The game is specialized to an inventory application, where fixed costs are shared among all retailers, interested in reordering or not from a common warehouse. As information evolves in time, the number of active players changes t…
Drastic innovation reduces firms’ incentives to create divisions
2020
I study a game in which two firms create independent divisions, then they choose whether to do R&D so as to reduce their divisions’ marginal costs, and then the divisions compete in the market. I provide necessary and sufficient conditions under which the game has an equilibrium in pure strategies, and I show that the game has an equilibrium only if each firm threatens that if the rival creates more divisions it will use R&D to foreclose the market. The case we find in the literature, in which firms flood the market with their divisions, should happen only in industries with low returns to R&D.
An entrepreneur's social capital and performance: the role of access to information in the Argentinean case
2012
Purpose - The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of an entrepreneur's social capital on their access to information, and how such access improves the performance of their entrepreneurial project. Design/methodology/approach - A structural equations model (SEM) is estimated and validated from a database including information from 282 Argentinean entrepreneurs who answered a questionnaire specifically designed for this research. The analysis of this model allowed the impact of dependent latent variables on the performance of the start-up to be determined. Findings - The performance of an entrepreneurial project depends on an entrepreneur's access to finance, markets and information. S…
Foreign Aid to Education in Sub-Saharan Africa : How Useful Is It?
1988
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The pedagogical development of an international teacher in the cultural context of Finnish CLIL home economics
2016
This thesis draws on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) as a methodological innovation in language education. In order to become competent CLIL teachers in 21st century, however, teachers should not merely have expertise knowledge in their own teaching fields but take pedagogical tact into consideration. The aim of this qualitative action research is to understand: (1) How an international teacher from Taiwan utilized the theoretical framework of CLIL 4Cs and (2) How 4Cs were used as a support to develop pedagogical tact in CLIL home economics classes in a Finnish lower secondary school. The action research approach and process were conducted in two cycles that included plannin…
Regnskapsmanipulering og regnskapskvalitet : kartlegging av diagnostiseringsmetoder med mulig anvendelsespotensiale
2009
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2009 Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å gi en presentasjon av temaet regnskapsmanipulering og regnskapskvalitet. Jeg har startet med å definere kreativ regnskapsføring og earnings management, samt beskrevet hvilke incentiver som ligger til grunn for kreativ regnskapsføring. Deretter har jeg beveget meg over til regnskapet, god regnskapsføring, samt ulike metoder for regnskapsføring. Jeg har inkludert disse momentene i oppgaven da jeg føler det er nødvendig for å få en forståelse for hvorfor de ulike manipuleringsmetodene strider mot lovlig regnskapsføring. Videre i oppgaven har jeg beskrevet ulike metoder for regnskapsmanipule…
Privātā un sabiedriskā sektora algu atšķirības un to noteicošie faktori Latvijā un Eiropas Savienībā
2021
Promocijas darbā analizētas algu atšķirības starp privāto un sabiedrisko sektoru un to ietekmējošie faktori Latvijā un Eiropas Savienībā. Izmantojot darbaspēka apsekojuma mikrodatus no 2007. līdz 2018. gadam, secināts, ka sabiedriskā sektora darbinieku algas Latvijā (it īpaši Rīgā) ir statistiski nozīmīgi zemākas nekā pēc sociālekonomiskajām īpašībām pielīdzināmiem privātā sektora darbiniekiem. Visizteiktāk tas bija novērojams ekonomiskās krīzes laikā un pirmajos gados pēc tās, kā arī algu sadalījuma augstākajās decilēs un augsti apmaksātajās profesiju grupās. Empīriskās analīzes otrajā daļā, izmantojot informāciju par 27 ES dalībvalstīm no 1995. līdz 2018. gadam, ar ekonometriskām metodēm …