“south caucasus” has always been part of the most challenging regions of the world and it is considered very crucial for europe to maintain its security.“eastern partnership plan” (eap), which is part of neighborhood policy of eu (european :union:) started in the country a short time after the war between georgia and russia in 2008, in fact, it was interpreted as the europe’s response to russia...

* University Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law and Research Associate, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute. ** Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, National Taiwan University; formerly Research Fellow, Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University. *** Geldards LLP Professor of Corporate and Insolvency L...

Although I hate to begin a serious article on an important Supreme Court case this way, the Court’s recent decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States1 reminds me of nothing so much as the old Woody Allen line that ‘‘[s]ex without love is an empty experience . . . but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.’’2 This is because for all practical purposes, Andersen is a meaningless dec...

(a) there are certain areas where the guidelines are silent or virtually silent. This is particularly notable in relation to the economic assessment of mergers in local markets and in bidding markets. These issues are described further at Section 5 below. We would welcome an extension of the guidelines to deal with these issues, which regularly impact on merger assessment by the OFT and the CC;...

INTRODUCTION Ambulatory practices that actively partner with patients and families in quality improvement (QI) report benefits such as better patient/family interactions with physicians and staff, and patient empowerment. However, creating effective patient/family partnerships for ambulatory care improvement is not yet routine. The objective of this paper is to provide practices with concrete e...

The NanoEL is an Erasmus LLP project about sharing technology and human resources. Knowledge and information made available at project partner’s universities, in order to develop teaching material in the form of courses or modules within the interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology.

Introduction: Governments and professional organizationshave called for new partnerships between health care providersand academics to improve clinical education for the benefit ofboth students and patients. To develop a substantive groundedtheory on the process of forming academic-service partnershipsin implementing clinical education, from the perspective ofacademic and clinical nursing staff...

This study aimed at investigating the Iranian undergraduate EFL students’ and teachers’ attitude towards Partnership Approach as a new way of engaging learners in the learning process. A descriptive, ethnographic research method, using a questionnaire along with focus group semi-structured interview, was employed. Seventy-two undergraduate EFL learners and 40 EFL teachers with more than ten yea...

Public-private partnership (PPP) concession agreements are awarded by National, State and local public agencies that contract with private companies to finance and deliver infrastructure as a long term service to governments and their citizens, rather than having the private firms design and build infrastructure assets to be financed, operated—and, hopefully, maintained—by government. PPPs are ...

In pursuing a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union (EU) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Obama Administration aims to create economic growth while strengthening the Western bloc to contain the rising Chinese power and the regulatory challenges posed by the expansion of the Chinese markets. In entering into such a bilateral, rather than multil...