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Origins of the outperformance of venture backed initial public offerings : a French study
2010
In this thesis, we analyze the contractual relationship between private equity investors and entrepreneurs/managers of small and medium sized firms. More specifically, we focus on the real contribution of these financial intermediaries to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) performance of financed firms. While considering venture capitalists’ involvement in the governance of financed firms as the main explaining factor, we use the Corporate Governance theory as the relevant theoretical framework. Thus, we firstly point out the agency theory perspective and secondly the resource and knowledge based view perspective to examine the determinants of venture capitalists’ involvement and the impact …
Survey sampling for functionnal data : building asymptotic confidence bands and considering auxiliary information
2011
When collections of functional data are too large to be exhaustively observed, survey sampling techniques provide an effective way to estimate global quantities such as the population mean function, without being obligated to store all the data. In this thesis, we propose a Horvitz–Thompson estimator of the mean trajectory, and with additional assumptions on the sampling design, we state a functional Central Limit Theorem and deduce asymptotic confidence bands. For a fixed sample size, we show that stratified sampling can greatly improve the estimation compared to simple random sampling. In addition, we extend Neyman’s rule of optimal allocation to the functional context. Taking into accoun…
Ucieczka od autobiografizmu - pisanie w drugim języku jako strategia (samo)obronna
2022
The author discusses two examples of writing in a language different from writers’ mother tongue: Jan Novak i Tomasz Jedrowski. A novel by Novak Million Dollar Kit never was published in English and is available for Czech readers in translation only. Debut novel by Jedrowski Swimming in the Dark was written in English for an English audience. The main subject of the article is to analyse possible motivations that led the writers to a decision of writing in their second language using contemporary linguistic and cognitivist theories.
Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Translation The Language of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a Globalized Context
2022
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a very ancient history and its importance for human health has long been acknowledged worldwide. The significant role that TCM plays in the global healthcare system has been officially recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO), which devoted a chapter to TCM in the 2019 latest version of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11). TCM, alone or in combination with Western Medicine (WM), has been recommended for various health conditions (Aung et al., 2013; Cai et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2015) – including mild COVID-19-related symptoms (Zhao et al. 2021). As a result of globalization, which has fostered th…
«Que en estos nuestros reinos llamábamos…»: a la búsqueda de una naturalización coeva de títulos y fórmulas de tratamiento en la traducción de la dra…
2019
La traducción de textos no-contemporáneos, ‘diacrónicos’, se puede plantear desde la lealtad romántica al original hasta la absoluta domesticación. Centrándonos en la onomástica de los títulos heredados y adquiridos y en las fórmulas de tratamiento, proponemos una naturalización histórica y cultural, de modo que la reacción del público ante la puesta en escena de la traducción sea lo más equivalente posible a la del público de la cultura de partida, hoy en día. La parte teórica arranca con la presentación y explicación de lo que entendemos como tres modos básicos de traslación, junto con la argumentación de nuestra propuesta metodológica. A continuación, se expone una taxonomía de títulos h…
Sulla Spina dorsale dell'Italia
2018
It is a translation of the opening passage of a prose book by contemporary Irish writer, Harry Clifton, On the Spine of Italy.
Translating with the Internet, Translating with Speechy Project
2011
The Speechy Project (SP henceforth) arose in the last autumn of 2009 with the aim of helping advanced students of English to make the most of the Internet. Since then, this website has been sieving the net in order to pick out the best online resources and classify them orderly into field-related lists. On this trend, several sieves have been performed onto different fields of the English Language. The one which this article is concerned with corresponds to the Translation field that is projected in SP as a neat cooperative network teamed up (and managed) by six volunteers.
The Diccionario Inglés-Español de Contabilidad: Traducción and the Diccionario Inglés-Español de Contabilidad: Traducción de Frases y Expresiones: Tw…
2014
This paper focuses on the role dictionaries play in a translation situation. This role is analysed in terms of the tenets of the Function Theory of Lexicography, which proposes that users do not have needs in general but punctual needs in specific situations. For example, translators of accounting texts need insertable equivalents whose meanings and language behaviour are clearly described. Furthermore, translators also need contextual data on domain-specific consensual usage. The construction of the Accounting Dictionaries and Diccionarios de Contabilidad reveals that the Function Theory offers theoretical and practical solutions for constructing dictionaries that target user needs in a pr…
Turkish women writers in English translation
2011
The present paper aims to present a brief survey of Turkish women writers in English translation. Due to the dominant position of English, Turkey has been rather dependent on translations from this language and the flow of translations into the opposite direction has been quite slow. Yet, there is a considerable increase in the number of translations from Turkish into English especially since the 1980s. This also holds true for the works of women writers, and, of women’s fiction in particular, which is closely related to the bond between writing and women’s increased consciousness. The paper also briefly touches upon issues such as what has not been translated and why, and the role translat…
Tīmekļa projekti vidusskolēnu caurviju prasmju attīstībai
2018
Izglītības sistēmai ir noteicoša loma tādu zināšanu, kompetenču un dzīves uztveres formēšanā, kas ir pamats 21. gadsimta cilvēka veiksmīgās dzīves un karjeras panākumiem. Pasaule nemitīgi mainās, un, lai saglabātu aktualitāti, izglītībai ir jāattīstās un jāpielāgojas mūsdienīgai videi, nodrošinot jēgpilnu mācību procesu. Tomēr Latvijas izglītības sistēma ne vienmēr spēj sniegt skolēniem tādu kompetenču klāstu, kas atbilstu reālās dzīves prasībām 21. gadsimtā. Mūsdienās jaunatnei nepieciešams labi pārvaldīt caurviju prasmes, kas savukārt veicinātu spējas pielāgoties, gūt panākumus problēmu risināšanā mainīgajā pasaulē. Jaunā izglītojamo paaudze tiecas pēc aktīvas iesaistīšanās mācību procesā…