bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
L’organisation de la financiarisation
Authors: Foureault Fabien 
Published: April 2018

Resume Résumé. Cet article traite de la financiarisation des entreprises françaises à partir du cas spécifique des fonds d’investissement et des opérations d’acquisition avec effet de levier ( Leveraged Buy-Out ou LBO ). Il tente d’évaluer deux thèses en présence : celle du changement par invasion d’acteurs étrangers et celle du changement par conversion de l’élite économique française. Dans ce but, il analyse la structure du champ des fonds d’investissement en France dans les années 2000 – en particulier son mode de différentiation et d’intégration – puis décrit les conditions – économiques, politiques et idéologiques – qui ont favorisé son émergence et son intégration dans le capitalisme français depuis les années 1980. La thèse de l’invasion n’est pas adéquate en raison de la structure particulière du champ qui n’est pas totalement dominé par les acteurs anglo-américains. La thèse de la conversion est plus pertinente mais n’est pas totalement satisfaisante : la conversion de masse se fait dans les années 1990, lorsque le champ a déjà émergé et s’est stabilisé. L’émergence de ce champ d’action stratégique serait plutôt due à la fusion de segments centraux et périphériques, et il a pu élargir son périmètre à la faveur de la modification du contexte structurel des années 1990-2000.
Le paradoxe de l'enclave ethnique
Authors: Chuang Ya-Han 
Published: April 2018

À partir d'une enquête ethnographique sur l'intégration des travailleurs chinois à la CGT (2009-2014), cet article analyse les frontières mouvantes de la « communauté » à travers la négociation, la régularisation et la résistance au travail dissimulé. Si l'entre-soi économique favorise l'insertion professionnelle des travailleurs immigrés, il ralentit cependant l'acceptation de la valeur du syndicat et freine la mobilisation, sauf lorsque la régularisation entre en jeu 1 .
Un club de cadres et dirigeants de « culture musulmane »
Authors: Mesgarzadeh Samina 
Published: April 2018

Resume À travers une enquête ethnographique dans un club de self-help réunissant des diplômés, cadres et membres des professions intellectuelles de « culture musulmane », cet article analyse le processus de formation et d'investissement dans ce type de groupement. Parfois envisagé comme reproduisant des liens et une solidarité communautaires, le groupement étudié réunit des descendants de travailleurs maghrébins en ascension sociale qui, après une socialisation primaire marquée par la distance avec les descendants de travailleurs, activent les liens jusqu'alors faibles qu'ils entretiennent avec eux au moment de leur entrée dans le monde professionnel, sans pour autant partager de sentiment d'appartenance uniforme. Bien que le haut de la hiérarchie associative mène un travail de communalisation en son sein, les formes d'investissement y demeurent hétérogènes, en lien avec les positions socioprofessionnelles des membres et les rétributions recherchées.
Do business games foster skills? A cross-cultural study from learners' views
Authors: Hernández-Lara Ana Beatriz , Serradell-Lopez Enric , Fitó-Bertran Àngels 
Published: April 2018

Purpose: This study seeks to analyse students’ perception of the effectiveness of business games as an e-learning method in management training. This analysis of games’ effectiveness is centred in the generic and managerial skills acquired, through the comparison of students’ opinions in different cultural contexts within Europe.Design/methodology/approach: The analysis focuses on 120 management students at postgraduate level who use the same business game at different universities in five European countries: Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Germany.Findings: The results indicate that students positively assessed the generic and specific managerial skills fostered by the business game. The generic skills most valued were information and decision-making, and leadership. Regarding the specific skills, the most valued were management skills and the least valued, skills related to planning and the acquisition of theoretical knowledge. However, significant differences were found between students in different cultural contexts and education systems in the case of certain specific managerial skills.Practical implications: This finding suggests that the students’ perception of how a business game helps them acquire specific managerial skills is influenced by cultural aspects and previous exposure to experiential learning, which determine that the teachers’ role and the teaching process should be adapted to the students’ learning model.Originality/value: With this study, a better knowledge about the students’ perception of this e-learning method is obtained, not just considering a specific educational environment, but comparing opinions of students from different cultural contexts, which adds value to the analyses developed.
La lutte entre la mémoire et l’oubli dans Punto final d’Andrés Rivera
Authors: Letourneur Marina 
Published: April 2018

L’épisode traumatisant que fut la dernière dictature militaire en Argentine (1976-1983) a eu pour répercussion, dans l’œuvre de Rivera, un intérêt manifeste pour l’histoire – cinq ouvrages publiés entre 1987 et 2003 ont pour contexte le xixe siècle – doublé d’une réflexion sur son écriture, sa transmission, sa connaissance.Dans le court roman Punto final (2006) – dont le titre renvoie à la loi de « Point final1 » — la lutte pour la mémoire est le dernier combat de l’ancien syndicaliste et ex-membre du PC, Arturo Reedson, dans un pays « que no cesa de mirar para otro lado ». À travers le narrateur homodiégétique et alter ego de l’écrivain, nous nous intéresserons à la forme achronique et elliptique que revêt le récit mémoriel chez Rivera.Nous verrons aussi que mémoire individuelle et mémoire collective sont intimement liées. En effet, certains personnages semblent obéir à cette tradition de l’Ancien Testament, le « Zakhor » (« Souviens-toi ! »), en intériorisant la mémoire collective pour la transmettre de génération en génération et essayer de combler les oublis de l’histoire.
L’archive est-elle un cercueil ?
Authors: Damerdji Amina 
Published: April 2018

En 1996, Jesús Díaz, écrivain cubain récemment exilé, fonda à Madrid sa troisième revue, Encuentro de la cultura cubana dont un des objectifs était de construire « l’archive » plurielle – transcendant le clivage entre La Havane et Miami – de la « mémoire » cubaine. Malgré de timides réformes induites par l’écroulement de l’URSS, la stabilité du régime révolutionnaire en 1996 rend cette approche mémorielle quelque peu déroutante. Après avoir interrogé et analysé sa fabrique dans les nouvelles conditions d’exil, cette contribution questionne la non moins déconcertante centralité de la littérature dans le projet politique d’Encuentro. À la rescousse d’une nation déterritorialisée, le texte fournirait à la fois un lieu et un modèle de démocratie.
Les chemins de la justice et de la réparation en Uruguay
Authors: Chouitem Dorothée 
Published: April 2018

Le 27 mai 2016, l’Uruguayen Manuel Cordero, extradé en 2007 du Brésil vers l’Argentine, fut condamné à vingt-cinq ans de prison par le tribunal Oral Fédéral 1 pour sa participation dans le plan Condor. Cette sentence représente une grande victoire pour les familles des victimes uruguayennes. Si en Argentine la mémoire historique est devenue une politique d’État, tant au Brésil qu’en Uruguay les portes de la justice et de la réparation demeurent fermées. Dans cette contribution, nous nous proposons d’étudier le cas uruguayen. Comment les récits mémoriaux sur le terrorisme d’État se construisent-ils dans un pays où la participation politique directe aux processus de décision (plébiscites pour la nullité de la loi de caducité) a permis aux citoyens uruguayens de fragmenter légalement la construction de la mémoire ?
En mémoire d’un fils, et de tous les autres. : Javier Sicilia, de la poésie à la quête de vérité
Authors: Demeyer Lise 
Published: April 2018

En avril 2011, la marche du poète Javier Sicilia, à la suite de l’assassinat de son fils, est devenue l’emblème international de la résistance populaire au crime organisé au Mexique. Ce padre coraje prend la tête du « Movimimento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad » (MPJD) et met un point final à son œuvre artistique avec un poème qu’il dédie à son fils et qu’il publie dans l’anthologie Vestigios (2013). Il décide de s’engager entièrement dans ce combat civique, au côté des familles des victimes. Pour lui, conserver la mémoire de dizaines de milliers de morts et de disparus au Mexique est un premier pas vers la justice. Nous nous proposons d’analyser les actions du MPJD, et en particulier le processus artistico-politique de son leader, comme alternative populaire aux limites des institutions.
Laura Alcoba : liens de famille et mémoire politique
Authors: Orecchia Havas Teresa 
Published: April 2018

Les récits qui renferment la mémoire des années 70 en Argentine (militantisme politique, terrorisme d’État, deuils, etc.) ont éclos à partir des années 90 ; ils offrent aujourd’hui un vaste registre formel (témoignages, fictions, textes, enregistrements sonores, films…) ; le répertoire des auteurs et des sujets embrasse au moins deux générations, et même trois. On peut inscrire dans ce cadre les livres de Laura Alcoba, écrits et publiés en français et traduits en espagnol par l’écrivain Leopoldo Brizuela. Cette contribution étudie les stratégies mises en œuvre dans ces textes (technique mixte : autobiographie/fiction, point de vue de l’enfance, rôle du langage, etc.) et dégage les marqueurs qui les distinguent. Bien que, par leurs thèmes et par certaines circonstances biographiques, ces romans relèvent du cadre général de l’écriture des mémoires de militants politiques, certaines stratégies, certains objectifs et intentions leur donnent une conformation qui diffère des formes prises jusqu’à présent par ce genre de récits dans le corpus littéraire argentin.Corpus principal: Manèges (2007) (= La casa de los conejos), Les passagers de l’ « Anna C » (2012) (= Los pasajeros del Ana C), Le bleu des abeilles (2013). Éditions Gallimard.
Scaffolding Student Learning: Forest Floor Example
Authors: Krzic Maja , Wilson Julie , Hoffman Darrell 
Published: April 2018

Core Ideas
Through instructional scaffolding, students move toward independent learning.
The forest floor is an important bridge between aboveground living vegetation and soil.
The topic of forest floor is not typically covered in the university curriculum.
Instructional scaffolding employs a variety of instructional techniques that move students progressively toward stronger understanding and greater independence in the learning process. The objective of this study was to develop a scaffolding instructional module focused on forest floor for the second‐year Introduction to Soil Science course at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. The scaffolding module included a campus‐based lecture; online multimedia material in the Forest Floor educational resource; campus‐based, instructor‐led demonstrations of forest floor description and classification; campus‐based, collaborative, hands‐on activity; written instructions provided in the laboratory manual; an individual written assignment; and a self‐guided activity (or quest) performed on the university campus aided by a mobile game application. These forms of support were gradually removed as students developed independent learning strategies, culminating in the self‐guided activity that led students to a forest on the university campus to practice their newly developed skills in forest floor description and classification. The scaffolding components were developed to foster intellectual inquiry and analysis, group problem‐solving, and the application of knowledge to complex issues in a real‐life setting. This could serve as a model for future educational design in post‐secondary courses in the natural sciences.
The financial crisis in the eurozone: a balance-of-payments crisis with a single currency?
Authors: Febrero Eladio , Uxó Jorge , Bermejo Fernando 
Published: April 2018

In a pegged exchange-rate system, a balance-of-payments crisis happens when there is serious mistrust of whether a debtor country holds sufficient international reserves to monetise a capital withdrawal at the ongoing exchange-rate parity. In the eurozone (EZ), doubts that banks and governments of peripheral countries could settle debts when they matured led to a massive capital outflow after the fall of Lehman Brothers and, especially, the first Greek sovereign-debt crisis. This has led some authors to hold that the situation in the EZ is a balance-of-payments (BoP) crisis.However, the European Central Bank (ECB) offset massive financial capital withdrawals with a huge inflow of reserves to the EZ periphery, making the international reserves constraint irrelevant. This invalidated the BoP view in other authors’ opinion, who pointed out bad bank behaviour and a poor initial institutional design as the alternative root cause for the current mess. This position is known as the monetary sovereign (MS) view.In this paper, we provide a brief overview of the debate between both sides, with Cesaratto, as a representative for the BoP view, and Lavoie, De Grauwe and Wray, for the MS view, and discuss whether a reconciliation between these two positions can be possible. We step into the discussion to offer two additional arguments in favour of the second view: (i) A currency union requires a single monetary policy, as opposed to a fixed exchange-rate regime; TARGET2 balances combined with refinancing operations are an essential ingredient of monetary policy implementation. (ii) The current situation is more easily understood as another episode of financial instability after banks have granted huge amounts of credit (which they refinanced abroad). The situation got even worse because governments supporting troubled banks in their respective jurisdictions lacked a lender of last resort.
Maternal Household Services and Children
Authors: Baum Charles L. , Rodgers James D. 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Forensic economists in wrongful death cases are often asked to calculate the present value of household services a decedent otherwise would have provided. In this paper, we calculate the amount of time mothers allocate to provide household services on average by the age of the youngest child and by the number of children using 2003-2013 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data. We separately examine household production and time caring and helping others. Our results show that mothers with younger children and more children generally allocate more time for household services. However, while maternal caring and helping time decreases with the age of the youngest child, maternal household production increases with the age of the youngest child. In contrast to other published sources, the information we provide will allow economists to adjust for the number of children, and to better adjust for the age of the youngest household child, when calculating the present value of lost household production in wrongful death cases involving deceased mothers.
Positive Equity Prices with Insolvency Under Legal Solvency Tests
Authors: Heaton J. B. 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
It is well understood that the equity of an insolvent firm can trade for a positive price so long as there is some positive probability that the firm will become solvent at some future point. Currently, however, this insight exists in the case law in an informal sense, while its use in the financial economics literature is highly formalized and not tied to the legal solvency tests that experts, lawyers, and judges must apply in solvency litigation. A simple model of a debtor firm shows why a positive-equity value does not imply solvency under either of two widely-used legal solvency tests. This links a well-known financial economic insight to legal solvency tests. This is of practical importance as market evidence becomes more important in solvency litigation and as directors continue to face important questions of shifting fiduciary duties when the firm becomes insolvent.
Staggered Wage Net Discount Rates:Accounting for Possibly “Sticky” Wages
Authors: Baumann Robert , Schap David 
Published: April 2018

AbstractSchap, Baumann and Guest (Journal of Forensic Economics December 2014) report the time-series properties of wage net discount rates for the period 1981.01-2012.12, formulated on the basis of contemporaneously observed wage growth rates and various discount rates (determined by yields on U.S. Treasury notes of differing maturities). Gerald D. Martin (Determining Economic Damages, various editions) has noted the relatively rapid response of interest rates to economic stimuli compared with that of wages, which, being somewhat institutionally driven, respond with a lag. Of course, Martin was not the first to observe or mention these phenomena, but he does relate the phenomena specifically to the suitability of forensic economic application of wage net discount rates as typically derived (i.e., using contemporaneously observed wage growth rates and discount rates). The present study takes account of wage growth rates influenced by possible institutional factors by lagging the time frame of their observation relative to discount rates when the two are combined to form what we term “staggered” wage net discount rates. The staggered net rates constructed for the post-1980 era are then examined for stationarity and magnitude. The choice of lag structure for the staggering is empirically determined, but in conjunction with lag durations suggested by the macroeconomics literature on “sticky” wages. The reported results should be of interest to forensic economists that use wage net discount rates as well as critics of their use.
Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of Iowa
Authors: Rosenbaum David I. , Knoshaug Kimberly P. 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
This article presents a framework for computing damages in Iowa personal injury and wrongful death cases. The analysis is based on statute, common law, case law, jury instructions, and practice. Elements unique to personal injury and wrongful death cases are discussed, as well as elements common to both. Iowa proves to be somewhat unique in damages allowed in cases of wrongful death. The role and requirements for damage experts are examined as well.
Sources and physicochemical characteristics of black carbon aerosol from the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: internal mixing enhances light absorption
Authors: Wang Qiyuan , Cao Junji , Han Yongming , Tian Jie , Zhu Chongshu , Zhang Yonggang , Zhang Ningning , Shen Zhenxing , Ni Haiyan , Zhao Shuyu , Wu Jiarui 
Published: April 2018

Abstract. Black carbon (BC) aerosol has important effects on the climate and hydrology of the Tibetan Plateau (TP). An intensive measurement campaign was conducted at Lulang (∼ 3300 m a.s.l. – above sea level), southeastern TP, from September to October 2015, to investigate the sources and physicochemical characteristics of refractory BC (rBC) aerosol. The average rBC mass concentration was 0.31 ± 0.55 µg m−3, which is higher than most prior results for BC on the TP. A clear diurnal cycle in rBC showed high values in the morning and low values in the afternoon. A bivariate polar plot showed that rBC loadings varied with wind speed and direction, which also reflected the dominant transport direction. The estimated net surface rBC transport intensity was +0.05 ± 0.29 µg s−1 m−2, indicating stronger transport from outside the TP compared with its interior. Cluster analysis and a concentration-weighted trajectory model connected emissions from north India to the high rBC loadings, but the effects of internal TP sources should not be overlooked. The average mass median diameter (MMD) of rBC was 160 ± 23 nm, with smaller MMDs on rainy days (145 nm) compared with non-rainy days (164 nm). The average number fraction of thickly coated rBC (FrBC) was 39 ± 8 %, and it increased with the O3 mixing ratios from 10:00 to 14:00 LT, indicating that photochemical oxidation played a role in forming rBC coatings. The average rBC absorption enhancement (Eabs) was estimated to be 1.9, suggesting that light absorption by coated rBC particles was greater than for uncoated ones. The Eabs was strongly positively correlated with the FrBC, indicating an amplification of light absorption for internally mixed rBC. For rBC cores  < 170 nm, Eabs was negatively correlated with MMD, but it was nearly constant for rBC cores  >  170 nm. Our study provides insight into the sources and evolution of rBC aerosol on the TP, and the results should be useful for improving models of the radiative effects of carbonaceous aerosols in this area.
Antimicrobial Substances for Food Packaging Products: The Current Situation
Authors: Pellerito Alessandra , Ameen Sara M , Micali Maria , Caruso Giorgia 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Antimicrobial substances are widely used in many anthropic activities, including sanitary and military services for the human population. These compounds are also known to be used in food production, agricultural activities, and partially correlated industrial sectors. However, there are concerns regarding the link between the abuse of antimicrobial agents in these ambits and the possible detection of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms. Modern food and beverage products are generally found on the market as prepackaged units, with several exceptions. Consequently, positive and negative features of a specific food or beverage should be considered as the result of the synergic action of different components, including the container (or the assembled sum of packaging materials). At present, the meaning of food container also includes the creation and development of new packaging materials that are potentially able to interact with the contained food. “Active” packaging systems can be realized with antimicrobial substances. On the other hand, a careful evaluation of risks and advantages correlated with antimicrobial agents is needed because of possible negative and/or unexpected failures.