The present contribution is a modest and original proposal for studying organizations that once interested Veblen and that interest all of us and that could respond to the continuous, recent and not so recent, appeal that the work of a central figure of American institutionalism. Veblen can be considered in the present research as much as a source of inspiration for fresh and good ideas and wor...

BACKGROUND Circles of Tobacco Wisdom (CTW) was an elder-led, community-based project that aimed to enhance tobacco control in the American Indian community. Its goal was to provide elders with the knowledge, opportunities, and support to enable them to assume leadership of a tobacco control movement that was grounded in the ceremonial traditions of tobacco use. PURPOSE The purpose of this stu...

This note contains two results on the distribution of crossing numbers and nesting numbers in permutations of type B. More precisely, we prove a Bn-analogue of the symmetric distribution of crossings and nestings of permutations due to Corteel [Adv. Appl. Math. 38(2)(2007), 149–163] as well as the symmetric distribution of k-crossings and k-nestings of permutations due to Burrill et al. [DMTCS ...

one of the complicated debates in international commercial arbitration law is the matter of judicial competence for examination of challenge over arbitral awards and annulment proceedings. in the first part of this essay, i have tried to clarify that judicial competence on annulment proceedings is limited to national or domestic arbitral awards and then, to give main criteria for determination ...