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Correction: The Role of Attachment Styles on Quality of Life and Distress Among Early-Stage Female Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review (Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, (2023), 10.1007/s10880-023-09940-w)
No full textDue to an oversight by this article’s authors, the orders of authors’ first and last names are given incorrectly in the original publication. The authors’ names should be listed as follows: Spyridoula Karveli, Petros Galanis, EiriniMarina Mitropoulou, Evangelos Karademas, & Christos Markopoulos. Likewise, the citation should be as follows: Karveli, S., Galanis, P., Mitropoulou, E. M., Karademas, E., & Markopoulos, C. (2023). The role of attachment styles on quality of life and distress among early-stage female breast cancer patients: A systematic review. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. https:// doi. org/ 10. 1007/ s10880- 023- 09940-w. © 2023 The Author(s)
Market Discipline and EU Corporate Governance Reform in the Banking Sector: Merits, Fallacies, and Cognitive Boundaries
No full textMuch contemporary analysis has concluded that the recent financial crisis and bank failures were, inter alia, the result of a breakdown in corporate governance regimes and market discipline. New EU regulations strongly advocate market-based remedies such as tighter investor monitoring and greater control over executives' remuneration, in order to safeguard financial stability. We argue that this approach largely ignores three very important aspects of modern financial markets that cannot be constrained through market discipline: (a) socio-psychological phenomena; (b) the epistemological properties of financial market innovation; and (c) the inherent inability of market participants to predict uncertain risk correlations. Therefore, this article argues that excessive EU focus on corporate governance reforms, as a means to improve financial stability, detracts attention from much more significant concerns, chiefly the issue of optimal bank structure
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Baby Teeth, Flamingo Feet--All the Flesh That's in Between
No full textThis body of work, Baby Teeth, Flamingo Feet—All the Flesh That’s in Between, began with a poem titled HAUNCHES: Form
Bottom form
Legs, Thighs, Haunches
Thunderous
Power
Voluminous, delicate
Support, movement
Power
Ripples, Grooves, Tendons,
Stretch, Adjust, Move
Power
Haunches
What I see when I look up
A Mothers legs
Rippled, speckled thighs
PowerIt grew, as all bodies do, into a a form embodying memory, energy, the collective, the powerful and abject nature of the flesh body. It is an exploration of the corporeal female form, the lower half of the body, the haunches, reproductive organs, both the internal and external of these appendages. I view the body as a physical entity, formed in a hyper specific manner, but material in its existence and limitations none the less. The material existence of bodies gives rise to the question of energy, inherent and imbedded within, providing what is considered “life” to an otherwise stagnant form. I am interested in this contradiction, the simultaneous presence of power and strength in the legs of an animated body, while possessing a sense of fragility, able to somehow maintain an ephemeral and seemingly contradictory state. I explore the abject nature of materials and forms created and exuded from the body, hair, teeth, nails and cysts. I relate this to the experience and perspective of being raised by strong powerful women. In my sculptural work I use scale, form and gesture to recreate these specific feelings
Bootstrap-Based Hypothesis Testing
No full textIn this thesis, we explore the structure of consistent bootstrap statistics in hypothesis testing. Bootstrap, as a very useful technique when theoretical distributions are not available or when the sample size is small, enjoys a lot of interest from applied statisticians. Historically, guidelines for performing Bootstrap have been proposed. One of the guidelines proposed is to center the bootstrap statistic around the true statistic, calculated from the original sample. The second, is to perform resampling in a way such that the new sample reflects the hypothesis tested. However, both of the guidelines are proposed based mostly on an empirical point of view. In this project, we show that the calculation of the bootstrap statistic is directly related to the way the new sample is generated. We describe the specific conditions under which the Bootstrap statistic should or should not be centered around the true. As mentioned the resampling scheme that is picked directly influences this choice. The motivation is derived from the independence test and the same arguments apply to the regression slope test. Finally, we provide a generalized setting where a consistent bootstrap statistic is provided, based on the resampling scheme that is picked.Applied Mathematic
Translation and Validation of the Greek Version of the Antipsychotics and Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (ASFQ)
No full textIntroduction: Sexual dysfunction in patients with psychoses may be associated with the psychiatric illness itself (negative symptoms, such as apathy, and avolition), comorbid somatic health, psychosocial factors (stigmatization, discrimination), and the use of psychotropic drugs. In Greece, research into the study of antipsychotic-induced sexual dysfunction is not sufficient. Aim: This study was conducted to translate and validate the Greek version of the Antipsychotics and Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (ASFQ) in a sample of patients receiving antipsychotic treatment. Methods: A “forward-backward translation” method was applied. A pilot study was conducted with 15 outpatients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder under antipsychotics treatment. Patients also completed the “Subjects’ Response to Antipsychotics (SRA)” questionnaire in order to assess the validity of the ASFQ. The ASFQ and the SRA questionnaire were completed twice within 2 weeks. Main outcome measures: Reliability (internal consistency and test-retest) and validity were assessed. Results: The Greek translation of ASFQ was reliable, with excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's a = 0.90 for men and 0.95 for women in both measurements). In addition, the Spearman correlation coefficient was 1 (P< .001) in all Likert-type questions in both assessments. Finally, Spearman correlation coefficients between ASFQ and SRA were moderately positive to strongly positive (between 0.25 and 1) in both assessments, demonstrating moderate to high validity. Conclusions: The Greek version of the ASFQ has proved to be a reliable and valid clinical instrument, hence it can be used in further studies in the Greek population. M Angelaki, P Galanis, A Igoumenou, et al. Translation and Validation of the Greek Version of the Antipsychotics and Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (ASFQ). J Sex Med 2021;9:100334. © 2021 The Author
Heat-flow data from southeastern Oregon
No full textTitle from PDF title page (viewed on Feburary 27, 2019).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-52).Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Vicious spirals in corporate governance: Mandatory rules for systemic (re)balancing?
No full textUntil recently, as market forces gradually prevailed over government intervention, the contractarian view had emerged as a preferred method of economic governance due to its attractiveness for business. Following the recent collapse of financial markets and the resulting recession, however, this structural form is now being called into question as the calls for more regulation and government intervention increase. In this context, this article revisits the law versus contract debate in the field of corporate law and governance. Following a theoretical framework utilizing elements of game and resource-based theory of the firm, the company is envisaged as a central counterparty in repeated bargains with its stakeholders. It is shown that power dynamics, which are inherent in the repeated bargains between stakeholders and the company, are prone to imbalance rather than balance by causing cumulative increases in the relative power of stronger parties and vicious spirals of relative power loss for weaker ones. This cumulative power imbalance is then reflected in the organizational rent appropriation process, as weaker parties are eventually expropriated by stronger ones. It is therefore argued that since the contractual model is inherently prone to instability, mandatory power-balancing rules are necessary. Such (re)balancing regulation, however, would need to follow a systemic approach because stakeholder and company power is drawn from, and affected by numerous structural arrangements in the legal and economic system. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
THE RHETORIC OF CELEBRITY HUMANITARIANISM: THE CASE STUDY OF LESVOS
No full textCelebrities participate in performances from the zones of suffering in order to trigger
emotions to their audiences and engage them in such causes. In this combination of critical
discourse analysis and rhetoric analysis, the author analyses four cases of celebrities:
Angelina Jolie, Mandy Patinkin, a group of actors form the popular series Game of Thrones
and Susan Sarandon who visited refugee camps in the island of Lesvos to see the conditions
under which, the refugees were living. The combination of those methods with Chouliaraki's
(2013) work on humanitarian celebrities and Goffman's (1959) work about the presentation
of the self in everyday life, is used to unveil how celebrities communicate and use their
political power in order to evoke participation in the global north
The impact of EMU on corporate governance: Bargaining in austerity
No full textCorporate governance in the European Union (EU) has been traditionally seen as a problem of harmonizing or co-ordinating national systems. Here the focus is on the interactions between corporate governance on the one hand and macroeconomic policy on the other. It is argued that the function of corporate governance is a process determined by a structurally embedded dynamic game between major stakeholders and the corporation. The article argues that Economic Monetary Union (EMU) institutions and policymaking, as elements of the institutional environment in which this game is embedded, determine particular parties' bargaining power and through this the outcome of the corporate governance game and its trajectory. The main focus is on the bargains between labour and financial capital with the corporation, which is mostly destabilized in the EU-EMU environment. The findings carry an important message for postcrisis restructuring. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
The impact of EMU on corporate governance: Bargaining in austerity
No full textCorporate governance in the European Union (EU) has been traditionally seen as a problem of harmonizing or co-ordinating national systems. Here the focus is on the interactions between corporate governance on the one hand and macroeconomic policy on the other. It is argued that the function of corporate governance is a process determined by a structurally embedded dynamic game between major stakeholders and the corporation. The article argues that Economic Monetary Union (EMU) institutions and policymaking, as elements of the institutional environment in which this game is embedded, determine particular parties' bargaining power and through this the outcome of the corporate governance game and its trajectory. The main focus is on the bargains between labour and financial capital with the corporation, which is mostly destabilized in the EU-EMU environment. The findings carry an important message for postcrisis restructuring. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
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