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An evidence base of what works using high-quality evaluations in tackling societal problems has become the norm in many spheres, including tackling traditional crime. Yet, as we show in the example of fraud faced by organisations, high-quality evaluations are not always possible, or even necessary for tackling problems effectively. Drawing on a review of over 400 research studies exploring the prevention of fraud, this paper finds a paucity of studies meeting the highest quality of standards of evaluation using the Maryland Scale. This is largely because of the barriers to implementing the Maryland Scale, given the challenges of measuring fraud, rather than because of a low quality of research per se. In the absence of high-quality evaluations, this paper uses a novel alternative to the Maryland scale to identify a range of effective tools that organisations can use to prevent fraud. Finally, the paper provides practical and theoretical reflections upon a broader problem of how and to what extent scientific evaluations of high-quality evidence are necessary in combating fraud effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are a number of standards and frameworks for security risk assessment; however, it appears that their application and adaptation to real organisational practices are rather limited. This paper reports some results from inquiries into risk assessment practices of security professionals in Ireland. The key findings show a lack of consensus on basic terminology when it comes to defining risk and risk assessment. The interviewed security professionals have developed varied approaches in practice and rather refer to their intuition and previous experiences. While the paper focuses on Ireland, the lack of consensus regarding the definition, and use of security terminology and practices, especially in the area of security risk management, is not necessarily limited to Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the Silk Road closure, many studies started focusing on the trend and patterns of darknet-related crimes in the 2010s. This first study combined a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis in the field. This study clarifies 49 articles in criminology and penology among 1150 publications relating to the darknet on the Web of Science database to review and analyze the research evolutions of this topic in the last decade. The main findings point out (1) almost all leading authors with their most influential papers came from the Global South with predominant contributions; (2) unbalancing publications between regional scholars and their institutions and countries although the darknet-related criminals occurred and operated without border; and (3) some specialized themes have identified to call further extensive research such as policing interventions in the darknet and flows of the cryptocurrency in cryptomarkets, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article comments on the paper "The Canary in the Mind," by Paul Lippmann. It reflects that the paper encouraged the reader to contemplate on the tensions between memory and desires, the theories and conceptual construction. The paper showed on the relationship of dreams with culture and explained on how virtual dreams could obscure the more personal meaning of individual dreams.

The growth model (GM) programme in comparative and international political economy attempts to do three things. First, it encourages a dialogue between international and comparative political economy research through creating a shared theoretical framework that moves beyond the methodological and ontological nationalism of traditional comparative research. Second, it draws upon post-Keynesian macroeconomics to emphasise the importance of domestic demand, credit debt, and macro-financial regimes in shaping the politics of advanced capitalism. Third, it draws attention to the dynamics of political conflict, coalition building and social agency in shaping country-specific GMs. Each paper in this special issue either directly or indirectly touches on these different aspects of the nascent GM research programme. But they do so with a particular focus on the comparative political economy of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces a special issue of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis on the topic of truth and lies. The author discusses the prevalence of disinformation and fake studies in today's society and explores different psychoanalytic perspectives on truth and lies. The article provides a summary of each author's contribution to the special issue, highlighting their central themes and conclusions. The papers in the issue examine the intersection of psychoanalysis and liberalism, the role of truth and lies in psychoanalytic practice, and the interplay between reality and imagination. The authors emphasize the importance of emotional truth, mediation, and containment in distinguishing between reality and distorted perceptions. They also discuss the distortion of truth in contemporary society and the role of ideologies as defenses against uncertainty and anxiety. Overall, the papers provide valuable insights into the complex nature of truth and lies in psychoanalysis and aim to promote a culture of truth in society. [Extracted from the article]

Susan Mathews examines the complex and largely unsettled relationship between the millennium development goals (MDGs), poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) and human rights discourse, partly through analysing the proposal that PRSPs be aligned to MDGs. A major risk is that the MDGs and PRSPs aligned create an amalgam of policy formulae that bring together the goal stringency of the former and the macroeconomic and structural reform orthodoxy of the latter, which could seriously hamper poverty reduction and disempower low-income countries and its poor peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the topic of longevity risk and capital markets, focusing on the 2022-2023 update. It highlights the increasing importance of longevity risk and related capital market solutions in academic research and the life market. The article mentions various investment products created by the re/insurance industry and capital markets, such as mortality catastrophe bonds and longevity bonds. It also provides a summary of nine academic papers presented at the Longevity 17 conference, covering topics such as retirement income solutions, equity release mortgages, health inequalities, mortality forecasting, and long-term care in Taiwan. The article concludes by mentioning future conferences and their associated special issues. [Extracted from the article]

This paper explores integrating deep listening and audio technology in Latino studies courses that use Spanish-language radio as research material. The paper first develops a pedagogical framework for integrating radio into the classroom that builds off Oliveros' (2005) deep listening practices and Puentedura (2015) and Davidson's (2017) conceptualization of intentional use of technology in the classroom. From there, the paper applies this framework to two classroom examples. The first reports on their application in a research methods class that guided students to transform their research papers into public radio programs. The second uses TopoRadio, an online interactive map that allows users to discover books and articles on the history of Spanish-language radio, as the starting point for students to discover radio research and participate in scholarly conversation around Spanish-language radio's social impact. Additionally, the paper discusses how the pedagogical framework assists instructors in valuing students' personal experiences in class, anticipate inequalities with respect to access to technology, and empower students to realize their own research projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the UK, claims are often made that public support for animal research is stronger when such use is categorised as for medical purposes. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of writing from the Mass Observation Project, a national writing project documenting everyday life in Britain, this paper suggests that the necessity of using animals for medical research is not a given but understood relationally through interactions with inherent vulnerability. This paper stresses the ubiquity of ambivalence towards uses of animals for medical research, complicating what is meant by claims that such use is 'acceptable', and suggests that science-society dialogues on animal research should accommodate different modes of thinking about health. In demonstrating how understandings of health are bound up with ethical obligations to care for both human and non-human others, this paper reinforces the importance of interspecies relations in health and illness and in the socio-ethical dimensions of biomedicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the 50th Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE) and the special issue of the Geneva Risk & Insurance Review (GRIR) that was published to celebrate this milestone. The seminar featured presentations and discussions on various topics related to risk and insurance, including self-protection, adverse selection in insurance markets, evaluating sustainability actions under uncertainty, the impact of big data and AI on insurance markets, and methodological challenges in insurance experiments. The article highlights the contributions of EGRIE researchers and calls for further research in these areas. [Extracted from the article]

Nancy Krieger, a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been recognized for her work in health equity and social science. She received the 2023 Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health and the Journal of Public Health Policy Best Paper Award. In her paper, Krieger emphasized the impact of the climate crisis on health and called for civic engagement to address the links between climate change, health equity, and democratic governance. She delivered a speech at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting, highlighting the importance of fighting for health justice and acknowledging the interconnectedness of various social justice issues. [Extracted from the article]

Blockchain technology supports business processes, and several streams of research are developing on its applications in supply chain management. This paper concerns the logistics activities that take place in a port, where a variety of actors operate, interacting through an exchange of mainly paper-based documents. The most important of these is the bill of lading; a legal document defining the terms of agreement between the seller and the buyer. The bill of lading is essential to enable the flow of freight in the port of destination, from the unloading of cargo to its destination. A correct bill of lading lifecycle allows smooth terminal operations, avoiding delays and slowdowns in freight handling. Research on the impact of using blockchain technology to manage the flow of information in a port is scant and mostly theoretical. This paper analyzes the issues regarding the transmission of a bill of lading and assesses the pursuant impact of blockchain technology on the internal operations of a container terminal. The impact of blockchain technology on the bill of lading lifecycle affects crucial issues of terminal management like the enhancement of trust among parties, security and visibility. Blockchain technology-based bills of lading, compared to electronic bills of lading, enhance privacy, security, trustworthiness and flexibility. Our research methodology is based on a discrete event simulation model, built on a real-life case of the port of Livorno, Italy, where three main areas are considered: berths, ship-to-shore cranes, and container storage yards. Simulation results show that blockchain technology reduces the average container lead time in the terminal—i.e., the time from berthing to loading on rail/truck for onward transport—by 3 to 4%, reducing the maximum container dwell-time at the yard by up to 30%, thus increasing, as a consequence, the utilization rate of the equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses smart beta ETF performance and provides the first evidence on the funds' performance persistence. Our sample is comprised of 152 US equity smart beta ETFs over the period June 2000 to May 2017. We found that as per the risk-adjusted performance, about 40% of smart beta ETFs outperformed their related traditional ETFs after expenses. The analysis of performance persistence conducted based on the relative performance of smart beta ETFs showed that the performance of winners and losers does persist in the year ahead. The persistence in performance was documented in seven out of nine peer categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the primary objective of financial services organizations, such as banks, investment firms, insurance companies, and accounting service firms is maintaining financial viability and success, and risk management, current view among academics, researchers and practitioners in financial services is that provision of satisfactory services to customers and enhancing customer experience is also vitally important. Presently, academic literature and industry discussions in service management and financial services management, recognize the importance of enhancing customer satisfaction (CS) and customer experience (CX). Historically, CX was not treated as a separate concept/construct but, rather, as an element related to CS and Service Quality (SQ). Today, the importance of the construct as an integrated and self-sufficient concept is recognized. For many years, researchers and practitioners have treated CS and CX interchangeably. However, the present understanding in the field of service management is that while CS, often measured through static CS measurement surveys, is an important measure, CX defined as the sum total of conscious events, as a coordinated series of interactions between a customer and a brand, and how a customer feels about a company over time, is the real measure of how customers perceive their interactions with a company. The main objective of this paper is to ascertain the level of interest on CX and CS, particularly on issues relating to CX based on customers' dynamic total journey, in published research in key academic journals in financial services management during the period 2015–2020. Toward this objective, we want to see how many papers in these journals focus on classical CS, CX, and modern customer journey based CX, and identify issues in CS and CX addressed by them. Our second objective is to compare this research with interest and emphasis on CX in the financial services industry as indicated by non-academic industry reports, commentaries, and conference topics. In identifying research on classical CS, we have adopted a broader view that includes research on several concepts recognized in academic literature as having interactions and interdependence with CS, namely service quality (SQ), customer trust (CT), customer loyalty (CL), customer commitment (CC), customer retention (CR), and customers' perceived value (PV). We will refer to these as "CS Related Issues". On our first objective, our survey of papers in key finance management journals indicate that while nearly 25% of the academic papers focused on classical CS Related Issues, only a very small number (1%) addressed CX directly. Even among these papers, only a very few have addressed the modern customer journey based dynamic view of CX. On our second objective, we found that research reported in financial management journals do not sufficiently address CX issues considered as important by the financial management industry. This indicates a notable gap between academic research and industry directions in CX in financial services. We recommend that greater emphasis is placed by academic researchers on CX, particularly on concepts and issues relating to modern customer journey based dynamic CX. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a 'neighborhood geography' of Salvador Plascencia's 2005 novel The People of Paper, demonstrating how the author's depiction of his hometown reflects both Mexican cultural inheritances and the ongoing flows of transnational migration. The most striking aspect of The People of Paper is its formal experimentation; a visit to California's El Monte barrio reveals that its cultural practices of con safos and rasquachismo, inherited from Mexico but endemic to the region, inform the novel's unorthodox author/character relationship and physical layout. Reading locally illuminates the text's tight relationship between setting, narrative structure and transnationalism's concrete effects - a valence lost when the text is too quickly labeled protest fiction, metafiction or magical realism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What role does polyarchy (and thus increased democracy) play in aiding the development of an international financial centre? Little research has addressed to date. In this paper, we look at that literature in preparation for econometric analysis in the future. The evidence, such as it exists, suggests that some jurisdictions use autocracy (less polyarchy) to help grow out their financial centres. These results could impact decisions ranging from Brexit to Hong Kong's autonomy in its post-2047 period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the evolution of the banking system sensitivity to cross-border contagion in 2006-2011. The study is performed on the basis of the BIS data on cross-border exposures and the Bankscope data on Tier 1 capital of 20 banking systems (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK, and the USA). Since the European sovereign debt crisis took a decisive turn at the end of 2009, markets started looking at its main protagonists—Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain (GIIPS)—with a lot of anxiety. However, unexpectedly, we find that a single failure among GIIPS could be absorbed by the network. Our results reveal that the USA, the UK, France, and Germany pose the highest threat to the systemic stability. Moreover, the resilience of the banking systems to contagion risks tends to improve over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the areas in which articles published in `Staff Papers' periodical made major contributions to the literature in international economics. Absorption approach and the monetary theory of the balance of payments; Mudell-Fleming model; Foreign trade modeling; Nature of the contributions and their relationship with further developments in the respective fields.

What can’t freezing hold still? This article surveys the history of substances used to protect cells and organisms from freezing damage, known as cryoprotectants. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has since 1959 been the most widely used of these agents in cryopreservation. Here, its evolution from pulp and paper waste byproduct to wonder drug to all-but-invisible routine element of freezing protocols is used to trace the direct arc from protection to toxicity in theories of how and why cryoprotectants work, from the 1960s to today. The power of these agents to simultaneously protect and degrade is shown to reside in manipulation of chemical time via hydrogen bonding and electron exchange, thereby reframing freezing as a highly active and transformational process. Countering long-held assumptions about cryopreservation as an operation of stasis after which the thawed entity is the same as it was before, this article details recent demonstrations of effects of cryoprotectant exposure that are nonlethal but nonetheless profoundly impactful within scientific and therapeutic practices that depend on freezing infrastructures. Understanding the operationalization of chemical time in the case of cryoprotectants is broadly relevant to other modern technologies dedicated to shifting how material things exist and persist in human historical time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper dresses a literature systematic review based on 83 peer-reviewed papers studying the impact of income diversification on bank performance. This review is motivated especially by the mixed literature findings about the effectiveness of income diversification on bank performance. Findings indicate that the nature of the effect of diversification on bank performance depends on a range of factors concerning the research methodology adopted. Indeed, the results reveal that the mixed results may be caused by the fact that researchers have examined the diversification–performance relationship in different study settings (US, Europe, MENA, Asia) using different study periods, different measures of diversification, and performance, different estimation methods and different regression models including different control variables. We think that our review would be important for practitioners and regulators to assess the empirical benefits of this profound change in the traditional banking business. Also, our paper might highlight the related pertinent academic issues that should be addressed in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This symposium is presented to honour the work and life of Professor Oleh Havrylyshyn who passed away on September 20, 2020. In this introduction, we first pay tribute to Oleh's career and contributions, second, recount some aspects of the conference held in his honour and finally introduce the papers included in this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2017, China released its building list of First-class Universities and First-class Subjects (Double First classes), which should get great support for development for many years into the future. This paper examines the academic performance of eight universities that are currently listed as having First-class Subjects of economics, in international papers and domestic papers, and compares their academic performance with another eight non-listed universities. The comparison shows that in general only three listed universities have obvious advantages among the 16 sample universities, while four listed universities do not show advantages, with one of them unexpectedly lagging behind. In contrast, several non-listed universities perform obviously better among the sample universities. In addition, several other aspects of this Double First-class list are also found to be less objective, scientific, or rigorous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper critically examines the RevPASH formula used in restaurant revenue management. It highlights limitations in the formula, which combines seat count and service hours, making it difficult to discern variations in revenue drivers. To address this, the paper proposes a revised formula that separates variables for focused analysis. The new formula enhances understanding of the metrics purpose as a baseline unit of measure and reflects capacity as physical seating capacity. It also suggests pairing seat utilization for additional context and deeper insights into demand patterns, capacity utilization, and operational efficiencies. These advancements enable analysts to make more informed decisions for optimizing restaurant revenue and profit performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the stages of the digital transformational path that lies in front of incumbent banks in their conversion into digitally driven institutions and contributes by providing clarity in the parameters that define each stage and the key metrics to be tracked. It is a general review paper, with main tools employed the relevant scholar and grey literature & field observations. The paper identifies three phases for banking institutions' digital transformation and proceeds with defining the characteristics of the phases and the distinct actions required for an institution to progress through them, employing a set of proposed key tracking indicators. The outcome adds to the, rather limited, academic literature on the subject and can be applied to all relevant banking institutions. Research needs further insides to articulate better the findings and expand them on a cross-examination of relevant theories and approaches. This paper aims at contributing to a growing, contemporary discussion, hopefully assisting in greater collaboration between practitioners and academics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term 'co-production' has been used in various fields, including planning, as collaborative forms of public goods and service delivery gain significance. Co-production has two sides—the 'co' side refers to actors and their motivations, while the 'production' side refers to phases and instruments. This paper examines privately owned public space/s (POPS) based on the two sides of co-production. Thereby, it addresses two research gaps. First, less has been written to date on the involvement of actors other than local authorities and developers. Second, little attention has been paid to the phase through which POPS are co-produced. The paper fills these research gaps by presenting the empirical work undertaken in HafenCity, Hamburg. It reveals a wide range of actors engaged in four different phases through various instruments. This paper also identifies challenges of co-production of POPS, and makes recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The design of urban public space is inherently problematic because the range of its possible uses and meanings is broad and unpredictable. This paper engages this problematic through the lens of Gibson's theory of 'affordances'—the ways the material world affords for human desires. We first explore some conceptual and methodological problems of the theory of affordances and its application in understanding and designing public space. These dimensions of affordance theory are then reconceived using the relational thinking of assemblage and actor-network theory (ANT). A key contribution of the paper is an expanded typology of affordances which includes improvised and serendipitous affordances that extend beyond the intentions of designers and users. This opens new ways of thinking about the design of urban public space as a space of possibility where outcomes are open, multiple, and unpredictable. The paper suggests how urban spaces can be shaped to better support rich cultural diversity and social inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Annual reports are the primary source of information for investors. It contains all the details about the company's activities in the preceding financial year. About 80% of an annual report is text (Cheng et al. 2018); hence proper comprehension and readability enhance the usefulness of the information. Earlier researches prove the positive relationship between firm performance and annual report readability (Li 2008). Studies also find that complexity is a deliberate attempt by companies to obfuscate earnings management and poor performance (Bloomfield 2008). Against this backdrop, we investigate the relationship between firm value, financial performance and annual report readability in the Indian context. For this purpose, we use Gunning Fog Index (Flesch Kincaid index, Smog index, and File size as robustness checks) to measure the annual report readability of NSE 500 firms for the period 2016 to 2020. We find a positive relationship between firm performance (Tobin's Q, ROA, and ROCE) and annual report readability. Further, this paper finds a positive relationship between the annual report readability and firm value (Tobin's Q and ROA) in the next year. The findings will be helpful for the investors as it shows how vital is annual report readability in signaling future firm value. It shows the readability of the narrative content as an important signal about a firm's current performance and prospects. This paper recommends that the management be more cautious while preparing financial disclosures because complex disclosures may send negative signals to the investors about the firm's prospects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to find an answer to the questions of "whether chief executive officers (CEOs) are compensated for market risk", and "how the combined interaction of board size and CEO duality moderates this relationship" from the tenets of agency theory and managerial power theory. Even though the contracting view of agency theory posits that agents are neither to be punished nor rewarded for events that go beyond their direct control (market risk), the research findings in the corporate governance domain are contradictory. It was found that Chinese and American executives were paid for market risk, including oil prices and exchange rates, which was explained by retention risk and weaker corporate governance systems. To shed light on previous inconclusive research, this paper investigates the topic further in a new country setting, that of Switzerland, because the previous results were mostly related to Anglo-Saxon countries. Switzerland is also one of the exemplary countries for executive compensation. Furthermore, it investigates the combined (cascaded) interaction effects of the board size and CEO duality on CEO compensation and market risk from the perspective of managerial power theory, which has not been previously analyzed in the literature to date. For the direct effect, in contrast to previous findings in Anglo-Saxon countries, it has been found that CEOs were not paid for market risk in Switzerland, which confirms agency theory's contracting prediction. This finding outlines the future comparative research area in this domain. For the combined interaction effect, it has been found that board size incorporated with CEO duality is the significant cascaded moderator, and large boards with CEO duality are significantly more effective in controlling asymmetric compensation, which confirms the efficacy of large boards with CEO duality in coping with asymmetric compensation and managerial entrenchment (managerial power theory). These results have both practical and academic implications for boards of directors, Human Resources and corporate governance literature, agency theory, and managerial power theory, by providing further evidence on previous inconclusive findings on board size, CEO duality, and the role of market risk in the CEO pay structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in suspicious activity recognition (SAR). To better understand the research work and recent trends in AI-based SAR, the paper carries out a bibliometric study to analyze the publications based on the recent developments and contributions of authors, publication source, country, and institutions, identifying the most productive items, and the partnership among each. The search on the Scopus database retrieved 1713 documents related to AI-based SAR. In this study, all document types from Scopus were included in the analysis. VOSviewer was used to perform coupling, cluster, and co-citation network analysis to identify research hotspots, while bibliometrix was used to generate keyword analysis, including word clouds, word dynamics, theme trends, and Sankey diagrams, to understand the evolution and future direction of the research field. This paper contributes valuable insights for researchers and audiences worldwide regarding emerging research areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper conducts research on the interaction between ethnic minority group (EMG) live streamers and online consumers, aiming to present how EMG live streamers' appearance and interaction factors affect online consumers' cultural experience during live streaming shopping. Based on the social presence theory and the immersion theory, this paper explores how EMG live streamers impact online consumers' cultural experience, and it designs personal EMG knowledge as a moderating variable under specific social and cultural backgrounds. Through analysing 325 online questionnaires based on the partial least squares path modelling and variance-based structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), the study results support that both EMG live streamers' appearance and interactive content positively affect online consumers' cultural presence and cultural immersion experiences, leading to their cultural products purchasing behaviours. Meanwhile, online consumers' personal EMG knowledge would negatively moderate the relationship between online consumers' cultural experience and cultural products purchasing behaviours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eekhoff clarifies that the narrative is "not the real story...because... What we say we cannot say without our own view of it....[It is] a story that approximates and contains and symbolizes the patient's experience" (Eekhoff, [7]). Eekhoff's persistent and containing presence, and Elizabeth's courage and resilience, helped to keep them on their often-painful journey, which ultimately led Elizabeth to find a life worth living (Winnicott, [15]). Eekhoff, keenly aware of how the patient's affective discharge can overwhelm the analyst triggering untimely interventions, cautions the analyst to avoid prematurely naming things so as not to "inihibit the transformational process of figurability (Botella & Botella, 2005) and impede Tranformations in O (Bion, 1965, 1970)" (Eekhoff, [7]). [Extracted from the article]

This commentary on “Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Studies” by Stephen Frosh and Lisa Baraitser examines the relation of psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies to the social sciences and the academy, and offers some sociological explanations for the emergence of psychosocial studies today. Noting the strength of psychoanalysis as an established field of professional practice and investigation, it suggests that psychoanalysis does not depend on the emerging area of psychosocial studies for its access to the academy. It defends the “depth” model of psychoanalytic investigation against Frosh and Baraitser's critique, while accepting that constructionist perspectives do have something to offer in the clarification of psychoanalytic methods.Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2008) 13, 406–415. doi:10.1057/pcs.2008.32 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2007) 67, 312–316. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ajp.3350035 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the long-term impact of fragmented father perception in daughter emotional development. Internalization of a father who abuse daughter as part object; Effect of the diminishing and destructive father's behavior on social life and children's psychology; Suggestion on how parents should enact their role to their children.

The article discusses the evolution of revenue management and pricing beyond the airline and hotel industries. It highlights various industries that have adopted revenue management strategies, including entertainment, grocery management, the restaurant industry, electricity and energy, delivery services, the retail sector, olive oil pricing, and telecommunications. Each industry is explored through different research papers that examine specific aspects of revenue management and pricing. The article provides valuable insights into the application of revenue management in diverse sectors, offering potential growth opportunities and pricing strategies for each industry. [Extracted from the article]

Discusses the use of the written contracts for cash-based land transactions in Francophone Africa. Forms of contracts issued in land transactions; Role of the state in securing land tenure rights; Insights on the history of written contracts.

Discusses the results of a study on monetary land transactions in Burkina Faso. Structural transformations that influenced changes in land tenure; Traditions in land rights; Summary of land tenure practices.

Examines the shortcomings and negative implications of the proposals the European Commission has made on the subject of governance on policy-making. Legitimacy of the framework of governance in Europe; Unsystematic declaration of the principles of good governance.

This research aims to develop a deeper insight into the development of political science from the bibliometric perspective by analysing peer-reviewed journal articles (n = 1117) indexed in the Scopus database and published by authors from fifteen Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in the period 1996–2013. Results indicate that the majority of articles (84%) by CEE authors have been published in international journals and in the English language. The visibility of these articles in international journals, measured by the mean number of citations, is 5.2 per paper, while the same indicator for CEE journal articles amounts to 0.2. Authorship analysis indicates a gradual but continuous increase in co-authorships. Additionally, there are significant differences in citations between single-authored and co-authored articles, both in international and CEE journals. Co-authorship among CEE authors is present in only 1% of the analysed articles, confirming weak collaboration between political scientists in CEE countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What role do domestic institutional and structural factors play in the emergence of national macroprudential regimes? So far, the literature on macroprudential policy has mainly focused on transnational processes of knowledge production. We therefore still know very little about what causes the observed differences in macroprudential regimes at a country level. The paper addresses this issue by way of an examination of housing sector related macroprudential policies in the UK and Germany. It finds that part of the reason for the observed differences is to be found in the fact that macroprudential authorities in the two countries tend to construct the intermediate goals of their macroprudential interventions in somewhat different ways, with the UK paying much greater attention to broader macroeconomic outcomes. These differences themselves, however, can only be properly understood in relation to the wider institutional and structural context (including different types of growth models) within the two countries, which create different links between their housing sectors and the real economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last decade, numerous technologies and innovations enabled the emergence of new mobility services. These emerging mobility services include, but are not limited to, carsharing systems, ridesharing systems, and future Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAV). These services are highly personalized, resulting in increased operational requirement for every demand increase. As such, pricing is an effective tool for demand management and may also improve revenue and profits, reduce costs, mitigate congestion, reduce air pollution, balance systems better (e.g., vehicle relocation and personnel assignments), and even improve rider experience and reduce user's waiting time. There has been an increasing number of research activities and publications on pricing of emerging mobility systems. This paper is a comprehensive literature review of recent papers concerning pricing of emerging mobility services. Pricing problems are built upon systems' operations and objectives, and therefore depending on the system, its approach will be different. In this review, we focus on three emerging systems: ridesharing, carsharing, and SAV. With this understanding, we provide an overview of pricing typology, demand structure, objectives, operational considerations, modeling types and details, and solution methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In November 2016, The Daily Mail ran a cover story with the now infamous title "Enemies of the People" attacking the three judges of the High Court of England and Wales who had ruled that the UK Government needed Parliament's consent to give notice of Brexit. Debates on sovereignty were not only reflected on the pages of the print media but were often also steered by them as political players with their own agenda. This paper explores how the topic of sovereignty was represented by the British media using a qualitative content analysis of the most shared online articles on Brexit and a narrower subset of editorials in right-wing and left-wing newspapers. The paper shows that the left–right divide mattered greatly for how sovereignty was portrayed in pro-Leave media, but not at all in the pro-Remain media. While in the period before the referendum coverage of Brexit was marked by a conflict between national and supranational sovereignty, after the referendum the conflict between popular and parliamentary sovereignty became more prominent. Changes in the frames deployed over time suggest that newspapers instrumentalized some concepts of sovereignty to promote their agenda. Finally, the fact that some positions (such as the left-wing pro-Leave defence of democratic sovereignty) were almost absent in media discourse had important consequences for the public debate on the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While traditional and non-traditional issues of security are at the very top of the policy agenda, security studies has been subject to much criticism. These concerns have often been framed in terms of challenges to the field's relevance. This paper seeks to further the debate on relevance in security studies. Specifically, the paper examines the field in three major dimensions of relevance: responsiveness, diversity, and intellectual pluralism. Unlike previous disciplinary investigations, which have solely focused on United States (US) security studies, this paper examines trends pertaining to relevance in security studies in the USA as well as in Europe. The paper finds some evidence of responsiveness, a slight trend toward a more equitable share of female authors, and conflicting evidence when it comes to intellectual pluralism. The paper suggests that the field appears more as a 'broad church' than 'irrelevant cult' when its output in the USA, as well as in Europe, is taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this editorial is to provide guidance to aid prospective authors whilst writing and preparing their research papers for consideration within the Journal of Brand Management, and to understand what reviewers will typically be looking for in a manuscript. A number of key generic issues are considered, as well as how sections of a research paper should be structured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]