BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical industry involvement in biomedicine has produced major benefits but has also caused concern. At present, there is no consensus as to how medical and government organizations should relate to the pharmaceutical industry and this is partly due to the absence of systematic study of the various alternatives. In Australia industry cooperation has been elicited through the '...

Article history: Received 7 August 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2015 Accepted 29 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 This study investigates whether a firm with strong corporate governance (CG) requires political connections (PCs), that is, we examine whether CG and PC substitute for or complement each other. Using 71,069 individual bank loan contracts from Taiwan, we examine how lo...

This article examines the GameStop episode by contextualising discussion in structure-agency interplay to understand role of social news sites informing, mobilizing, and giving voice different political actors. First, squeeze might be conceived as both an individual collective agency-led form resistance domination elite power represented hedge funds. Second, it interpreted expression empowermen...

Legal proof and scientific have similarities differences. is a customary affair, while the nature of separates it from general custom, burdensome methodological affair. Philosophical issues proof, including induction transcendence inherent in any description, can penetrate legal cases turn into seemingly reasonable grounds for suspicions abuses. Disregarding proving laws difference between clai...

In one of the last paragraphs his Tractatus theologico-politicus (1670), Spinoza extolls harmony between people a diversity faiths, maintained by magistracy Amsterdam. However, he also seems apprehensive about possibility return chaos, such as during Arminian Controversies in Dutch Republic 1610s and English Civil War 1640s 1650s. The so-called Wolzogen affair 1668 probably rattled him. Spinoza...

Agriculture resources and agriculture industrialization support information service platform is an important part of Agriculture affair support platform of west part national area of P. R. China, a key projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program in the Eleventh Five-year Plan Period. The system is designed as a 3 layers structure. Database support subsystem is the base layer. T...