Search results for "Reign"

On the Internationalization of Corporate Boards

2013

Despite the global reach of their commercial activities, many multinational firms have proved slow in internationalizing their boards of directors. Based on a panel study of the internationalization of the boards of 347 non-financial firms from the Nordic countries, we find a higher fraction of international board membership in firms with more foreign sales, in firms with more foreign ownership and in firms whose shares are traded on foreign (mostly European) stock exchanges. Moreover, we find international directors and national directors with international experience complementary. The first-mentioned group is found to serve a monitoring role, related to financial internationalization of …

Productivity, Ownership and National Chains: Evidence from the British Retail Sector

2009

Abstract This paper investigates factors explaining firms' productivity differences in the British retail sector. In particular, using simultaneous quantile regressions, it aims to uncover performance gaps stemming from foreign ownership and multinationality, as well as national scale economies. The findings suggest that foreign ownership weakly explains differences in performance across retailers. Only when firms in the upper quantiles of the TFP distribution are compared, the role of foreign ownership gains statistical significance, although with exceptions. In addition, firms able to expand their infrastructure across Great Britain possess a productivity advantage over more local retaile…

Rigaer Handels-Archiv: alphabetisches Register zum Rigaer Handels-Archiv und zu den demselben vorausgegangenen Druckschriften des Rigaer Börsen-Comité

1883

Rigaer Handels-Archiv: alphabetisches Register zum Rigaer Handels-Archiv und zu den demselben vorausgegangenen Druckschriften des Rigaer Börsen-Comit…

1898

Multinucleated giant cells in the implant bed of bone substitutes are foreign body giant cells-New insights into the material-mediated healing process

2017

In addition to macrophages, multinucleated giant cells (MNGCs) are involved in the tissue reaction to a variety of biomaterials. Especially in the case of bone substitute materials it has been assumed that the MNGCs are osteoclasts, based on the chemical and physical similarity of many materials to the calcified matrix and the bony environment in which they are used. However, many studies indicate that these cells belong to the cell line of the foreign body giant cells (FBGCs), which are of "inflammatory origin", although they have been shown to possess both a pro- and also anti-inflammatory phenotype. Moreover, no information is available about their role in the tissue reaction to bone sub…

Small-sized granules of biphasic bone substitutes support fast implant bed vascularization

2015

The present study investigated the influence of granule size of 2 biphasic bone substitutes (BoneCeramic® 400-700 μm and 500-1000 μm) on the induction of multinucleated giant cells (MNGCs) and implant bed vascularization in a subcutaneous implantation model in rats. Furthermore, degradation mechanisms and particle phagocytosis of both materials were examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Both granule types induced tissue reactions involving primarily mononuclear cells and only small numbers of MNGCs. Higher numbers of MNGCs were detected in the group with small granules starting on day 30, while higher vascularization was observed only at day 10 in this group. TEM analysis reve…

Maître de langue, professeur de langue et enseignement de la musique du français (XIXe siècle)

2005

Toute langue est si liée à sa musique qu’il faut logiquement envisager la recherche du maître de musique de langue et l’évolution vers le professorat. Le bon maître de langue devait être un artiste de qualité : les approches musicales plus ou moins feutrées fusent au XVIIIe et perdurent au XIXe. Les domaines de la Langue et de la Musique se croisent, se rejoignent. Des portraits de maîtres et maîtresses de musique du français s’esquissent. Cependant, l’exclusion de ce courant artistico-musical du processus d’institutionnalisation, l’application d’une phonétique plus instrumentale que musicale, affective et humaine ont déterminé le sort de l’enseignement des musiques de langue, fondé sur la …

Do debt crises boost financial reforms?

2014

"Published online: 15 Aug. 2014"

The Nexus between Sovereign CDS and Stock Market Volatility: New Evidence

2021

This paper extends the studies published to date by performing an analysis of the causal relationships between sovereign CDS spreads and the estimated conditional volatility of stock indices. This estimation is performed using a vector autoregressive model (VAR) and dynamically applying the Granger causality test. The conditional volatility of the stock market has been obtained through various univariate GARCH models. This methodology allows us to study the information transmissions, both unidirectional and bidirectional, that occur between CDS spreads and stock volatility between 2004 and 2020. We conclude that CDS spread returns cause (in the Granger sense) conditional stock volatility, m…

El método IBI en la enseñanza de ELE. Aplicación de la gamificación en el Camino de Santiago

2019

Los cambios recientes producidos en el ámbito de la educación y, particularmente, en la adquisición de segundas lenguas, como son la utilización de metodologías activas y el viraje en el foco de atención de la gramática hacia el vocabulario, son el punto de partida de esta propuesta de innovación didáctica para una clase de ELE. En concreto, este trabajo parte de un método pedagógico donde el aprendizaje de vocabulario se sitúa en el centro del mismo, el método IBI (input-based incremental), y de cómo una herramienta didáctica, la gamificación, puede aumentar su efectividad tanto en resultados de aprendizaje como en términos actitudinales. Para ello, este trabajo realiza una propuesta de in…