Financial Sustainability and Value of Joint-Stock Companies from Food Industry in Central and Eastern Europe by Serhiy Zabolotnyy, Natalia Wasilewska, Mirosław Wasilewski

“…Joint-stock companies demonstrated a robust capital structure with a minor decrease of corporate debt in 2011-2015. …”
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L’établissement routier de la Goudagne (Auch, Gers) : une hôtellerie ? by Fabien Colleoni, Catherine Petit-Aupert

“…Further north in Limoges, this joins the bypass mapped out by Agrippa between Lyon and Saintes, as well as the capital of Gaul by veering eastward from Agen. Second, it could be seen in the administrative importance of the principal towns of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (Auch and Lectoure), which were milestones in the Itinerary. …”
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Re-evaluation of Public Companies from a Jurisprudential and Legal Point of View by Amirhossein Esesami, Zahra Shiri

“…During the last few decades, significant inflations in Iran's economy have doubled the need to reassess the assets of companies, especially public companies and capital market asset-based companies. In inflationary conditions, if the assets are not reassessed, the company's financial statements will not be a favorable report of the company's current situation. …”
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Does a non-performing assets disposal fund help control systemic risk? Evidence from an interbank financial network in China by Lei Song, Yu Chen

“…Supported by policies related to the Chinese insurance market, this study proposes the establishment of a non-performing assets disposal fund backed by insurance capital. This fund will invest in the non-performing assets of financial institutions with the aim of mitigating systemic risk. …”
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Contrarreformas e Recuo Civilizatório: Um Breve Balanço Do Governo Temer by Giselle Souza, Morena Gomes Marques Soares

“…Para tanto, apresentamos as principais medidas para a retomada das taxas de lucro do capital: o desmonte das políticas sociais; o avanço privado sobre os recursos do fundo público, em especial no que tange à dívida pública e às desonerações tributárias, e a consequente agudização das expressões da “questão social”. …”
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Spatial analysis of socioeconomic data and its relationship with illicit crops in Nariño-Colombia. by Andrés Fernando Grajales-Marín, Fabio Humberto Sepúlveda-Murillo, Alex Tapia, Alexander Tabares

“…Grounded in conflict economics, social capital, and social marginalization theories, the research constructs composite indices representing education, health, public services, economic conditions, and vulnerability. …”
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Trasplantes complicados. Nueva York en el urbanismo de la Ciudad de México by Antonio Azuela

“…Se parte de un hecho conocido (la influencia de la ciudad de Nueva York a nivel mundial) para examinar las diversas formas en que esa influencia se hace sentir en una ciudad determinada, en este caso la capital mexicana. Se concluye que es preciso incorporar estos temas a la agenda de investigación urbana con el fin de mejorar nuestro conocimiento sobre los orígenes de las ideas y las instituciones que rigen los procesos urbanos en contextos periféricos.…”
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Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon by Matthieu Adam, Georges-Henry Laffont

“…To attract the investors for whom they compete in the urban market, cities aim after making themselves desirable for national and global capital seeking locations to increase profitability. …”
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Vienna’s Resistance to the “Neoliberal Turn" by Florian Urban

“…Upholding the system of state-subsidised housing, the Austrian capital supported new architecture as a means to regenerate the inner city and to promote innovative social policy. …”
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Banks' Use of Derivative Products and Sectoral and Macroeconomic Factors: An Application on the Turkish Banking Sector by Ali Hepşen, Yusuf Pala

“…To counteract this trend, regulators could impose limits on how much banks can use derivative products, with the limits varying based on the bank's size, thereby reducing the incentives for large banks to engage in such practices.…”
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“La República Celestial”. El Centenario de la batalla de Boyacá en Tunja (1919) by Abel Fernando Martínez-Martín, Andrés Ricardo Otálora-Cascante

“…Este artículo relata la celebración del centenario de la batalla de Boyacá en 1919 en la ciudad de Tunja, Colombia. La capital de Boyacá culminaba una década de Fiesta Nacional y reforma urbana en donde aparecieron parques, plazas, avenidas y monumentos en honor a los héroes de la Independencia, que complementaron los hitos coloniales de la ciudad. …”
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Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73 by Mark Swenarton

“…While it began in what Hobsbawm called the ‘golden age’ of postwar capitalism, the Cook years (1965-73) saw the onset of the crisis of the 1970s and with it the rise of the New Right and the Hard Left, both of which viewed the Camden housing projects as a legitimate target for attack. …”
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Assessing vulnerability and framing adaptive options of two Mediterranean wine growing regions facing climate change: Roussillon (France) and McLaren Vale (Australia) by Anne-Laure Lereboullet, Douglas Bardsley, Gérard Beltrando

“…Implementing new strategies of adaptation to uncertainty in climate, as well as in economy, depends on: a sufficient financial capital, a sustainable management of water resources, and flexibility in legislation. …”
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The return of the property question in the development of Alpine tourist resorts in Switzerland by Christophe Clivaz, Stéphane Nahrath

“…Faced with the failure of planning and zoning to limit these trends whose negative effects on the development of tourism seriously begin to be felt in the 1990s, we encounter, now in recent years, the post-eradication of the real estate question in discussions concerning the development of tourist resorts particularly in implementing real estate instruments, such as quota systems, moratoriums or taxes, intervening so much more directly than only zoning on land and real estate owners, contingency arrangements initially excluded from spatial planning policy.…”
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Heat integration retrofit for a sustainable energy-efficient design: a case study of Aramco’s refinery by Abdulrahman Hazazi, Zeeshan Farooq

“…The study included several energy efficiency enhancement approaches to reach the optimum utility-process systems integration of existing refineries at minimum capital cost. The analysis started by identifying the major equipment, the heat exchanger network (HEN), and the overall site plot plan. …”
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Characterization and Digital Restauration of XIV-XV Centuries Written Parchments by Means of Nondestructive Techniques: Three Case Studies by L. Pronti, M. Perino, M. Cursi, M. L. Santarelli, A. C. Felici, M. P. Bracciale

“…In particular, all manuscripts have been written with iron gall inks, while the capital letters have been realized with cinnabar and azurite. …”
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Developing “learning society” as a basic condition for perfect management education in China by M. Yu. Zakharov, A. V. Shishkova

“…The article analyzes the Chinese educational system historical formation as an instrument of human capital development. Using the historical retrospection method and hermeneutic method, the authors, based on the works of ancient Chinese thinkers, study the development and formation of management education as a core element of the Chinese educational system. …”
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The Efficacy of Predictive Methods in Financial Statement Fraud by Mahdi Omidi, Qingfei Min, Vahab Moradinaftchali, Muhammad Piri

“…The existence and persistence of financial statement fraud (FSF) are detrimental to the financial health of global capital markets. A number of detective and predictive methods have been used to prevent, detect, and correct FSF, but their practicability has always been a big challenge for researchers and auditors, as they do not address real-world problems. …”
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Newborn Care Practices among Mother-Infant Dyads in Urban Uganda by Violet Okaba Kayom, Abel Kakuru, Sarah Kiguli

“…A community based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in the capital city of Uganda from February to May 2012. …”
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"The World is too much with us:" The Character of Literary Studies Today by Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu

“…Literary studies in the new millennium are described as “post-theoretical,” which implies a paradigm shift from the deconstructive linchpin of capital-t Theory, to a more socially, politically and environmentally engaged, future-oriented, and reparative drive in our discipline. …”
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