The American bison—also known as the buffalo—holds great significance to many Native people and cultures. Although bison populations have grown since their near destruction in 19th century, last remaining wild are under threat by National Park Service’s Yellowstone management plan. representatives had only a limited advisory role creating plan, number of individuals advocacy groups spoken out a...

We document here the in vivo transfer of bla(KPC-2) between intensive care unit-acquired and a commensal strain of K. pneumoniae in a French patient after his repatriation from Greece. This first report of an emerging KPC-producing strain in France raises further concerns about the spread of carbapenem resistance among Enterobacteriaceae.

Recent crises signal a timely consideration of how sending state regimes can be understood in their complexity beyond the dominant themes labour brokerage and export existing literature. This article calls for an expanded analysis states by attending to understudied role disruption-induced returns, particularly repatriation. Examining case Philippines, it argues that interplay actors, instituti...

At the end of May, 1945, we were seconded from Mill Hill Emergency Hospital to start a neurosis centre for repatriated prisoners of war at Dartford, Kent. During the following eight months 811 repatriates from the North-west Europe sector passed through the unit. This paper describes the clinical characteristics of these men, their treatment and rehabilitation, and the results of a short-term f...

I present a theory of the optimal capital structure and dividend policy for family business groups expanding in countries where the private control benefit is substantial and the market for corporate control is active. Here, issuing debt overcomes the limited dilution capacity of equity, but reduces the expected control benefit by increasing the probability of default. When family business grou...