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Composition of KBO (50000) Quaoar

Aims. The objective of this work is to investigate the physical properties of objects beyond Neptune – the new frontiers of the Solar System – and in particular to study the surface composition of (50 000) Quaoar, a classical Transneptunian (or Kuiper Belt) object. Because of its distance from the Sun, Quaoar is expected to have preserved, to a degree, its original composition. Our goals are to...

The institutional transfer from the European Union member states to the former Soviet Union countries

1991 is a strategic year for former Soviet Union countries, representing the end of a system. A major historical change took place when Soviet Socialist Republics have decided to become independent states. But what happened to the institutions of these countries? Did they develop similar orientations of change or did they keep the previous models? Is it an exogenous induced change? Where did th...

Implications of Monetary Union for Catching-up Member States

4 Non-technical summary 5 7 2 10 2.1 Sectors and aggregation 10 2.2 Relative prices 11 2.3 Real exchange rate and sectoral productivity shocks 12 2.4 Nominal rigidity and aggregate supply 14 3 Autonomous monetary policy 15 4 The currency union 17 4.1 Determination of union-wide output and prices 18 4.2 Currency union’s welfare 19 4.3 Reference member state’s welfare 20 5 Relative performance an...

The EU as a Confederal Union of Sovereign Member Peoples

Union leadership and member attitudes: a multi-level analysis.

Analyses of union leadership roles show that union presidents should have both a within-union focus and an external focus. The authors combined multi-level survey data from 3,871 union members in 248 local teachers' unions with archival and field staff data to examine relationships between leadership and members' perceptions of union instrumentality and justice, union commitment, and participat...