Search results for "Reign"

Is blended best for the Net Generation? : a review of the changing landscape of foreign language learning in higher education

2008

Nihilism as the absence of goals and its overcoming in be-ing historical thinking

2020

La publicación, desde 1989, de los tratados póstumos sobre la historia del Ser profundiza el sentido del problema del nihilismo en la filosofía de Heidegger. En el presente artículo buscamos demostrar que estos textos (de las Contribuciones a la filosofía a los Cuadernos negros) permiten una nueva perspectiva interpretativa del pensar histórico del Ser: la de ausencia de fines (Zielen) y la búsqueda como fin en sí mismo. Esto nos ayuda a entender mejor tanto el problema del nihilismo en Heidegger, como la forma especial que adopta su solución: la superación del nihilismo en el pensar del Ereignis. Since 1989, the publication of the posthumous works of Heidegger has been deepening the meanin…

The World of Anglo-Saxon Learning

2007

D uring the Anglo-Saxon period, English schools were among the finest in Europe. From English schools came the great masters whose writings instructed generations, centuries even, of Insular and continental students alike: one has only to think of the works of Aldhelm, Bede and Alcuin, which were copied and studied intensively up to the twelfth century and beyond. This achievement is all the more remarkable when one considers that the Anglo-Saxons were among the first peoples in Europe who were obliged to learn Latin as a foreign language if Christianity - a religion of the book par excellence - was to flourish. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, English schools benefited from the instructi…

Nodokļu konvenciju un uzņēmumu peļņas repatriācijas uz investora valsti aplikšanas ar nodokļiem ietekme uz ārvalstu tiešajām investīcijām Latvijā.

2022

Latvijai ir salīdzinoši plašs nodokļu konvenciju tīkls, un šo konvenciju slēgšana pamatā tiek slēgta ar mērķi novērst nodokļu dubultās uzlikšanu, tādējādi arī veicinot ārvalstu tiešās investīcijas Latvijā. Taču līdz šim Latvijā jautājums par to, vai nodokļu konvencijas veicina ārvalstu tiešās investīcijas Latvijā, nav plaši pētīts. Autors šajā darbā pētīja sakarību starp nodokļu konvencijas esamības faktu (ņemot vērā dažādas attiecīgo konvenciju īpašības) un ārvalstu tiešajām investīcijām Latvijā. Tāpat tika apskatīta atsevišķu nodokļu faktoru ietekme uz ārvalstu investīcijām Latvijā. Darbā, izmantojot paneļa datu modeli, analizēta informācija par ārvalstu tiešajām investīcijām uz Latviju n…

Ziemeļkorejas ārpolitika laika posmā no 2011. līdz 2018. gadam

2019

Tā kā Ziemeļkoreja turpina būt fundamentāla Austrumāzijas ģeopolitiskā konteksta sastāvdaļa, šī maģistra darba mērķis ir sniegt pārskatu par Ziemeļkorejas ārpolitiku laika posmā no 2011. līdz 2018. gadam, iezīmējot galvenos faktorus, kas ir veicinājuši mūsdienu status quo izveidi. Lai izveidotu stabilu pamatu šī temata sapratnei, maģistra darba ietvarā tiek piemēroti ofensīvā reālisma un konstruktīvisma teorētiskie ietvari, tādējādi cenšoties sniegt skaidrojumu par šī temata galveno aspektu daudzajām niansēm. Šajā ziņā, vairāki no Ziemeļkorejas ārpolitikas kontekstā atrodamajiem tematiem, kā piemēram, valsts reakcija uz starptautiskajiem spiedieniem un tās kodolieroču programma, tiek analiz…

The Renunciation to the State Sovereignty under the OHADA Treaty for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa

2009

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Why FX Risk Management Is Broken - And What Boards Need to Know to Fix It

2015

In this paper we rethink the role of Foreign Exchange Risk Management (FXRM) in corporate management. We believe it is fair to characterize FXRM, on the whole, as a legacy activity rather than something that reflects a realistic cost-benefit analysis at the enterprise-level. The Board of Directors, as the designated guardians of the interests of shareholders, has a key role in setting the firm on a path towards a cost-efficient and centralized FXRM that preserves the firm’s transparency and predictability towards the investor community. A policy conclusion from our analysis is that responsibility for FX policy should shift from the traditional Finance/Treasury orientation to a group risk fu…

Asymmetric Demand Information and Foreign Direct Investment

2007

We examine the FDI versus exports decision of firms competing in an oligopolistic (quantitysetting) market under demand uncertainty and asymmetric information. Compared to a firm that chooses to export, a firm that chooses to set up a plant in the host market has superior information about local market demand. In addition to the well-known tension between the fixed set-up costs of investment, the additional variable costs of exports and oligopoly sizes, the incentive to invest abroad is explained by the strategic learning effect. FDI may be observed even if trade costs are zero. The analysis is robust to price competition and to the possibility that a foreign firm can engage in both FDI and…

Developing and using tasks for the assessment of speaking

2019

This article provides an overview of the development and use of tasks for the assessment of speaking. It first addresses the key role of the assessment of the skill of speaking within language assessment in general and in the context of teaching and learning foreign languages. Then, it discusses how social changes and research have reshaped the way speaking is defined and operationalized, and focuses on how speaking can be assessed more validly and reliably today. The central role of tasks is also discussed, together with the importance of taking into consideration the implications and impact of different task characteristics. Some recommendations for the development of useful and meaningfu…

“No, I’m Not Reading”: How Two Language Learners Enact Their Investments by Crossing and Blurring the Boundaries of Literacy and Orality

2019

This chapter makes an argument for bridging the gap between Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Literacy Studies from the perspective of so-called transmodalities, i.e. ways of using language that merge and blur the modalities of writing, speaking, listening, and reading. This argument is based on data from a qualitative case study that describes the transmodal practices of two trilingual high school students in a German classroom in the Midwestern US. More precisely, the study investigated how the high school students Jana and Karina (both pseudonyms), users of English, Latvian, and German, engaged in activities that mixed and blurred oral and literacy modalities in their German classroo…