bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Making Only America Great? Non-U.S. Market Reactions to U.S. Tax Reform
Authors: Gaertner Fabio B. , Hoopes Jeffrey L. , Williams Braden M. 
Published: November 2019

We study the foreign externalities of the recent U.S. tax reform, commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Specifically, we examine foreign firms’ stock returns around key tax reform events. We find significant heterogeneity in market responses by country, industry, and firm. Chinese firms experience large negative returns, especially in steel, business equipment, and chemical manufacturers, whereas the rest of the world experiences positive returns. Firms operating in more differentiated product markets experience positive returns, whereas firms in financial distress experience negative returns, consistent with the TCJA having competitive repercussions. We also find that firms experiencing decreases in effective tax rates following tax reform experience positive returns. Overall, our results suggest that the TCJA had varied, yet systematic effects on foreign firms’ shareholders’ wealth and the global competitive landscape. This paper was accepted by Brian Bushee, accounting.
Adsorptive Removal Study of the Frequently Used Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics - Moxifloxacin and Norfloxacin from Wastewaters using Natural Zeolites
Authors: Rubashvili Imeda , Eprikashvili Luba , Kordzakhia Teimuraz , Zautashvili Marine , Pirtskhalava Nino , Dzagania Maia 
Published: November 2019

Residual antibiotics pollution has become one of the most severe environmental problems today.Â Antibiotics from hospitals and drug factories represent a potential risk for human and ecological health. Therefore, it has been a high exigency to develop some efficient and cost-effective treatment methods and technologies for antibiotics removal from industrial and household contaminated water. Adsorption is one of the most utilised techniques and has many competitive advantages such as the unique properties of flexibility, effectiveness, superior performance and the robustness for consecutive cycles. The present research concerns the adsorption of two frequently used fluoroquinolone antibiotics - moxifloxacin and norfloxacin on natural zeolite - clinoptilolite and its acid-modified form from aqueous solutions. For the first time, the adsorption of the antibiotics mentioned above on the selected natural zeolite was investigated under static and dynamic conditions. Adsorption experiment under dynamic conditions carried out using the specially constructed dynamic type of laboratory equipment. The effect of the inlet concentration, the flow rate and the pH value of the antibiotic solution, also, the contact time of system zeolite/antibiotic solution on the adsorption process were examined and evaluated using the Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption models. The results showed that the highest static adsorption capacities were observed at low initial concentration - 0.2 mg/mL of antibiotic solution for both adsorbents; the highest dynamic adsorption capacities - at low flow rate - 1.5 mg/mL and low inlet concentration - 0.2 mg/mL of antibiotic solution for both adsorbents. The static adsorption capacity was up to 2.71 mg/g for moxifloxacin hydrochloride; 4.14 mg/g for norfloxacin and the dynamic adsorption capacity was up to 1.20 mg/g for moxifloxacin hydrochloride; 2.10 mg/g for norfloxacin at a neutral pH value and constant temperature of 200°C. Each antibiotic was determined quantitatively in sample solutions using the developed and validated HPLC methods with a limit of quantitation - 0.05 Âµg/mL. Hence, this study demonstrates and proves that natural zeolite could be an effective adsorbent for the removal of the selected antibiotics from wastewaters.
Removal of methyl orange from aqueous solution using synthetic clay type MgAl-LDH: Characterization, Isotherm and thermodynamic studies
Authors: Zaghloul Ahmed , Abali Mâ€™hamed , Benhiti Ridouan , Ait ichou Abdejalil , Soudani Amina , Chiban Mohamed , Zerbet Mohamed , Sinan Fouad 
Published: November 2019

The MgAl-LDH adsorbent (2:1) was developed by the urea method and used as an adsorbent for the removal of methyl orange from aqueous solution.Â The synthesized adsorbent was characterized by a different analytical technique: scanning electron microscope SEM, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The effect of adsorption parameters such as solution pH, initial concentration of dye, and the temperature was studied using a static system. X-ray diffraction analysis of the samples confirms the crystal structure of the MgAl-LDH material. The MgAl-LDH adsorbent was efficient in removing MO from aqueous solution, and maximum removal of 98.5 % was observed in the pH range from 2 to 10. The maximum adsorption capacity of MgAl-LDH (2:1) was calculated from the Langmuir isotherm; the maximum quantity is 1250 mg. g-1. The determination of the thermodynamic parameters indicates that the reaction between methyl orange and MgAl-LDH (2:1) is spontaneous and exothermic (Î”HÂ°<0 and Î”GÂ°<0).It can be concluded that LDH adsorbent can be used effectively for the removal of anionic dyes fromÂ industrial wastewater.
Behavior of 3-hydrazino-6-aryl-1,2,4-triazin-5-one as a strong nucleophile towards active electrophilic compounds and their antibacterial evaluation
Authors: Al-Romaizan Abeer N. 
Published: November 2019

The behavior of 3-hydrazino-6-aryl-1,2,4-triazin-5-one towards the active electrophilic compounds in polar and/ or non-polar solvents and various times and temperatures, has been studied. N-[2-(3-(3/5-(4-Nitrophenyl)-5/3-thioxo-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-5-oxo-1,2,4-triazin-6-yl)phenyl]pivalamides were obtained from the reaction of N-(2-(3-hydrazineyl-5-oxo-1,2,4-triazin-6-yl)phenyl)-pivalamide with 4-nitrobenzoyl isothiocyanate in THF and/ or EtOH-piperidine respectively. Also, N-(2-(3-hydrazineyl-5-oxo-1,2,4-triazin-6-yl)phenyl)-pivalamide was shown a strong nucleophilic behavior by reaction with N-phenyl-thiourea to produceÂ N-[2-(5-oxo-3-(2-(phenylcarbamothioyl)-hydrazineyl)-1,2,4-triazin-6-yl)phenyl]pivalamide, which upon cyclization with diethyl carbonate produced N-(2-(5-oxo-3-(5-oxo-4-phenyl-3-thioxo-1,2,4-triazolidin-1-yl)- 1,2,4-triazin-6-yl)phenyl)pivalamide. Moreover, N-(2-(3-hydrazineyl-5-oxo-1,2,4-triazin-6-yl)phenyl)pivalamide studied its behavior by reaction with cyanoacetic acid, chloroacetonitrile, and/ or benzoyl carbonitrile to produce N-(2-(3-amino-4,8-dioxo-4H-[1,2,4]triazino[4,3-b][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl)phenyl)pivalamide,N-(2-(4-amino-8-oxo-2H-[1,2,4]triazino[4,3-b][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl)phenyl)pivalamide and N-(2-(4-imino-8-oxo-3-phenyl-4H-[1,2,4] triazino [4,3-b][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl)phenyl)pivalamide. Structure of the products was established upon their elemental analysis and FT-IR, 1H/ 13C NMR, and MS. The new compounds were evaluated as antibacterial agents some Gram-positive and negative bacteria. Some compounds were showed the highest inhibition activity towards Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, and Sarcina lutea bacteria and lowest inhibitory activity against Escherichia coli bacteria.
Tectono-stratigraphic correlations between Northern Evvoia, Skopelos and Alonnisos, and the postulated collision of the Pelagonian carbonate platform with the Paikon forearc basin (Pelagonian-Vardar zones, Internal Hellenides)
Authors: Scherreiks Rudolph , Boudagher-Fadel Marcelle 
Published: November 2019

The Pelagonian stratigraphy of the study area consists of a Permo-Triassic basement and an Upper Triassic and Jurassic carbonate platform formation that had been overthrust by the Eohellenic ophiolite sheet during the Early Cretaceous. Intensive erosion, during the Cretaceous, removed most of the ophiolite and partly the Jurassic formation. It is hypothesised that uplift and erosion of eastern Pelagonia had been triggered by the break-off of the subducted oceanic leading edge of the Pelagonian plate.
An investigation of the rocks that succeed the erosional unconformity shows that they constitute a shear-zone-formation which is tectonically overlain by Cretaceous platform carbonates that characterise the Palouki series of Skopelos and Alonnisos. Geochemical analyses of the shear-zone rocks substantiate that they are of mid ocean ridge and island arc provenience.
Eastern Pelagonia collided with a Cretaceous carbonate platform, probably the Paikon-Paeonian forearc basin, as the Almopias ocean subducted beneath that island-arc-complex. The Cretaceous platform, together with a substrate of sheared-off ocean floor mélange, overthrust eastern Pelagonia as subduction continued, and the substrate was dynamically metamorphosed to cataclastic rocks, mylonite, phyllonite and interpreted pseudotachylite. This complex of Cretaceous platform rocks and a brittle-ductile shear-zone-substrate constitute the here named
Paikon-Palouki nappe which was emplaced during Early Palaeocene. The
Paikon-Palouki nappe did not reach Evvoia.
Seismic tomographic models of the Aegean region apparently depict images of two broken-off ocean-plate-slabs, interpreted as Almopias-lithosphere-slabs: the western Almopias slab began to sink during the Early Cretaceous, the eastern Almopias slab broke off and sank after the Paikon-Palouki nappe was emplaced in Early Palaeocene time.
Cesare Pavese en Los diarios de Emilio Renzi de Ricardo Piglia
Authors: Cattoni Silvia 
Published: November 2019

Ricardo Piglia fue, al igual que Cesare Pavese, un diarista. Con el nombre de Emilio Renzi el escritor argentino comenzó, a fines de 1957, el registro de su vida en «la serie de cuadernos negros». En 2015, con la conciencia literaria de la vida vivida, reorganizó y completó el material original en un proyecto que lleva por nombre Los diarios de Emilio Renzi. En el origen del diario de Piglia se reconoce, por su carácter modélico e iniciático, el de Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere. Diario 1935–1950 (1952). Hijo y nieto de italianos, Renzi se identifica en su diario como un escritor ítalo- argentino que reconoce a Cesare Pavese como su escritor de culto. Ejemplo acabado de literatura como principio ordenador de la experiencia, el diario de Pavese fue, para Piglia, lectura reiterada y atenta, a partir de la cual pudo dar forma a la voz de Emilio Renzi. A partir del diálogo que ambos textos entablan, esta indagación propone poner en evidencia cómo la literatura y la vida alcanzan, en la escritura diarística de los autores, su grado máximo de fusión.
A cartographic approach to embedded word order in Jordanian Arabic
Authors: Jarrah Marwan 
Published: November 2019

AbstractThis paper investigates marked and unmarked word order patterns in embedded clauses in Jordanian Arabic (JA), motivating a mono-clausal analysis of them. It shows that ‘topic’ in this Arabic dialect is not a unique category, nor susceptible to a single analysis, hence providing support for proposals that argue for topics typology. For instance, topics that express information that is newly introduced, newly changed or newly returned to, i.e. Aboutness Topic, are shown not to be licensed in JA embedded clauses. On the other hand, the study argues that topics that convey familiar information, i.e. Familiar Topic, are more constrained in embedded contexts than previously believed; they are not recursive. Such a state of affairs implies that there are no elements being assigned the same informational/communicative value in the left periphery of JA embedded clauses.
How does ‘bring’ (not) change to ‘give’?
Authors: Gafter Roey J. , Spicer Scott , Ariel Mira 
Published: November 2019

AbstractThis paper investigates a semantic change from ‘bring’ to ‘give’, and the language-specific factors that determine when it may happen. Drawing on a corpus of blogs and an acceptability judgment experiment, we demonstrate an ongoing change in the meaning of the Hebrew verbhevi, usually glossed as ‘bring’: older speakers are more likely to usehevifor unambiguousbringevents, whereas younger speakers are more likely to use it in contexts also compatible withgiveevents, although not in the full range of ‘give’ contexts. We argue that this change is facilitated by the specific discourse profile associated with the verbhevi: (1) frequent uses ofheviin the Goal-theme construction, the Hebrew functional equivalent of the English double object construction, creating a “bridging context” for semantic change (2) frequent uses ofheviin which there is no real-world motion, facilitating the bleaching of the ‘agent motion’ component. We then examine the English verbbring, which is not undergoing a similar change, and demonstrate that it has a different discourse profile (namely, far fewer double object constructions and no-motion uses). Thus, while a ‘bring’>‘give’ change is well-motivated and potentially possible, the factors enabling it to actually happen are determined by the predominant discourse pattern characteristic of the verb.
Russian verbal borrowings in Udmurt
Authors: Arkhangelskiy Timofey 
Published: November 2019

AbstractIn Udmurt, a Uralic language that has experienced long and extensive contact with the dominant Russian language, all four typologically relevant strategies of verbal borrowing are attested: direct and indirect insertion, light verbs, and paradigm insertion. This is unusual both cross-linguistically and for the Uralic family. The paper investigates these strategies and the factors that govern the choice between them. It turns out that, although free variation plays a major role in the distribution of strategies, there are also several important morphological, stylistic and areal factors. By analyzing these factors and the available historical data, I propose a diachronic explanation of the currently observed distribution. The study is mostly based on corpus data collected from contemporary Udmurt-language social media.
White Consciousness and White Prejudice: Two Compounding Forces in Contemporary American Politics
Authors: Jardina Ashley 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
In recent years, American politics has been defined by party polarization driven in part by Americans’ diverging attitudes toward immigration. In this article, I suggest that Donald Trump was able to capitalize on this polarization and on the way in which race is implicated in the issue of immigration. He did so by appealing to the attitudes held by two distinct groups of white Americans – those who possess a sense of animosity toward members of immigrant groups like Muslims and Latinos, and separately, whites who may demonstrate little out-group hostility, but instead have a strong sense of solidarity with their racial group. I show how white hostility toward Latinos and Muslims and white racial consciousness have become two distinct forces in American politics, driving opposition to immigration and bolstering support for Donald Trump above and beyond other presidential candidates, regardless of their party affiliations.
The Political Meaning of Whiteness for Liberals and Conservatives
Authors: Schildkraut Deborah J. 
Published: November 2019

AbstractThis study examines new open-ended and closed-ended survey responses among white liberals and conservatives in the US to assess the role they think their racial group membership plays in how they think about politics. It then uses insights from those responses to develop and test a new measure designed to capture how white identity operates politically. To date, much political science research on white racial identity documents the links between white identity and right-leaning candidate and policy preferences. Much less is known about the role of whiteness on the left. The analysis here shows that even though white liberals talk about anti-racism, privilege, and institutional racism when asked about race and politics and say that they have become more aware of their race in recent years, they generally do not view their own whiteness as a politically salient identity. The results indicate that it is important for scholars to use measures that distinguish between whites who appear “woke” but do not act on their “wokeness” from whites for whom an awareness of privilege motivates them toward an anti-racist agenda.
Lost in the Fog: Immigrants and Refugees, Bureaucrats and Activists
Authors: Skerry Peter 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
At least since Emma Lazarus’s famous sonnet became associated with the Statue of Liberty, Americans have confounded important differences between immigrants and refugees. Cold War politics contributed further to that misapprehension. In recent years the continuing crisis at our southern border has rendered this confusion more evident and problematic. At the same time, a global refugee crisis of genuinely historic proportions has been unfolding. More than ever, it is critical to delineate carefully between the needs of refugees and the preferences of immigrants. Yet now there are strong counter-pressures at work, blurring critical distinctions between these two categories. These are particularly evident in the international political arena, where the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is highly susceptible to pressure from the media, academics, and activists to once again confound the two.
Race, Evangelicals and Immigration
Authors: Wong Janelle S. 
Published: November 2019

AbstractWhite evangelicals constitute the core of President Trump’s electoral base. The loyalty of White evangelical Trump supporters to the President is grounded in racial anxieties expressed well before Trump’s 2016 campaign. White evangelicals’ anti-immigration agenda runs deep, and it is as important to understanding the current political moment as their anti-abortion agenda. Perceptions of discrimination against Whites drives the group’s conservative views on immigration. Even as growing numbers of Black, Asian, and Latinx evangelicals exhibit political attitudes and behavior that stand in sharp contrast to their White evangelical counterparts, White evangelicals’ overrepresentation in the electorate relative to dwindling population share creates a pathway to continued political influence.
Language shift and language revival in Crimea
Authors: Bocale Paola 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
This article presents observations and findings from an ongoing research on language revival among Italian new speakers in Crimea. Victim of Stalin’s mass deportations of minorities in the 1940s, the community experienced severe physical, demographic, social and cultural dislocation that led inexorably to language shift towards Russian. Through the use of ethnographic research methods, including participant observations and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the study explores the participants’ motivations, learning experiences and language use as they are involved in the project of reviving the Italian community.
Language and religion in Central Ukraine
Authors: Zeller Jan Patrick , Taranenko Oleksandr , Hentschel Gerd 
Published: November 2019

AbstractThis article investigates the relationship between linguistic preferences, religiousness and religious denomination in Central Ukraine. On the one hand, the Ukrainian linguistic situation is characterized by the co-existence of Ukrainian, Russian and substandard forms of Ukrainian Russian mixed speech, on the other hand, the Orthodoxy in Ukraine is split into different denominations. In Central Ukraine, most notably the conflict between the Kyїv and the Moscow Patriarchate is relevant. For both linguistic and religious affiliation, a correlation with political preferences has been postulated, and, in a similar vein, a connection between religious denomination and the degree of religiousness on the one hand, and different aspects of linguistic affiliation, i. e. language usage and native language, as well as attitudes toward substandard speech on the other hand. Based on field work from 2014, we show that there is no preference for the Russian language among members of the Moscow Patriarchate in comparison to those of the Kyїv Patriarchate, and only a slightly more pronounced preference towards substandard forms of mixed speech among respondents with lower degrees of religiousness. Overall, the results argue against the existence of a “language conflict” in the Ukrainian population, outside the elites.
A sociolinguistic approach to implicit language attitudes towards historically white English accents among young L1 South African indigenous language speakers
Authors: Álvarez-Mosquera Pedro , Marín-Gutiérrez Alejandro 
Published: November 2019

AbstractThis study investigates the potential role of context-relevant sociolinguistic factors in explaining young L1 indigenous South African language speakers’ IAT (Implicit Association Test) scores towards two varieties largely associated with the white group: Standard South African English and Afrikaans accented English. To this end, a post-IAT sociolinguistic survey on participants’ linguistic background, language exposure and intergroup social distance levels (among other social factors) was used. Separate ANOVAS were performed using the IAT reaction times as a dependent variable and sociolinguistic variables as factors. Notably, the sociolinguistic approach revealed that more positive attitudes towards Afrikaans accented English are correlated with the language range of participants, the dominant languages spoken in their places of origin, and the type of school they have attended.
Reserve Adequacies and the Determinants of Foreign Exchange Reserves – Empirical Analysis through the Vector Error Correction Model: The Case of Lebanon
Authors: Dakhlallah Kassim 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Investigating the causes and motives for reserves’ accumulation in a highly dollarized small open economy such as that of Lebanon is of extreme importance, especially since fluctuations in foreign reserves have been demonstrated to be a leading cause of economic and financial instability. For an emerging economy such as that of Lebanon, which is subject to internal and external shocks, the accumulation and holding of reserves signal, among other things, credibility and financial strength. Therefore, identifying the factors that determine the level of reserves in the long and short term is crucial for the stability of the entire economy. For an in-depth understanding of those factors, this study employs the vector error correction model (VECM), which helps distinguish between short- and long-term effects. The results indicate that currency substitution has the most significant impact on reserves in the short and long terms, while the trade balance and the real effective exchange rate have substantial effects but only in the long terms. The study also reveals that the reserves held by the central bank fulfil all the reserves’ adequacy criteria and are in alignment with the reserves’ adequacy ratios.