A shortage of suitable franchisee applicants has been identified by franchisors as a major hindrance to franchise sector growth in Australia. However, there has been little investigation into this issue within organisational choice research. This represents an important gap in the literature. In order to explore the issue of franchisee shortage it was first necessary to determine what prospecti...

This article provides practical ethical guidance for clinicians making decisions after a nuclear detonation, in advance of the full establishment of a coordinated response. We argue that the utilitarian maxim of the greatest good for the greatest number, interpreted only as "the most lives saved," needs refinement. We take the philosophical position that utilitarian efficiency should be tempere...

On the basis of a liquidity management model, liquidity risks, defined as the probability of payment failures in a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) payment system, may either stem from liquidity management inefficiencies or insufficient cash balances. I will show that penalties charged on the amount of payment failures minimise liquidity risks without interfering with the bank’s technology pre...

„reactionary‟) theories identify with the backward facing form and look to recover original truth or original authorial intent or original audience response as governing protocols that will yield readings more or less impervious to change. They argue that anything departing from or adding to original authorial intent and original audience reception is an inauthentic, contaminated reading. More ...

Today, Internet users are much more willing to express themselves on online social media channels. They commonly share their daily activities, their thoughts or feelings, and even their intention (e.g., buy a camera, rent an apartment, borrow a loan, etc.) about what they plan to do on blogs, forums, and especially online social networks. Understanding intents of online users, therefore, has be...

a 38 years old male worker presented with an advanced left side retroperitoneal mass, with metastatic involvement of 11th thoracic vertebra (t11) and resultant paraparesia and paresthesia . the histopathologic examination and immunohistochemical analysis confirmed the diagnosis of paraganglioma. decompression laminectomy and fixation of involved vertebra resulted to considerable symptomatic rel...

As the global financial crisis dethrones the developed world from its economic supremacy, by leading the global economic recovery and growth, the global growth generator (3G) countries are expected to fill the vacuum. Capital market i.e. stock market development can play a crucial role in augmenting such growth in these 3G countries. This study aims at augmenting the determinants of stock marke...

Pranab Bardhan ([email protected]) is with the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, US. Sandip Mitra ([email protected]) is with the Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Dilip Mookherjee ([email protected]) is with the Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, US and Abhirup Sarkar ([email protected]) is with the Economic Rese...

„Patriotism‟ and the term „Patriot‟ refer to a new awareness of Irishness that emerged toward the end of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century. The birth of Patriotism was as a result of several contributory factors following the Jacobite wars at the end of the seventeenth century. Ireland‟s constitutional status as a separate kingdom had been supported by opponents of T...