Top management departures in cross-border acquisitions: Governance issues in an international context

This study examined top management team departures in U.S. manufacturing firms acquired by a foreign multinational during the six-year period following acquisition. Results indicated that greater cultural distance between the United States and the home country of the foreign multinational, higher levels of international integration in the target industry, and poor preacquisition performance in the U.S. target company were related to greater postacquisition top management departures. These effects were moderated significantly by the foreign acquirer’s international business and U.S. acquisition experience and showed different patterns over the short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term. Implications for future research on top management teams involved in cross-border acquisitions are discussed.     

英语语言变异的视觉修辞效果论析

语言变异是偏离语言常规的一种语言形式,这种语言形式是对语言的创造性使用,往往有着特殊的修辞效果。本文着重探讨了英语语言变异中词汇变异和书写变异所产生的视觉修辞效果。     

WORK AND THE CITY IN THE e-SOCIETY A critical investigation of the sociospatially situated character of economic production in the digital content industries in the UK

The aim of this paper is to ground debates about the 'new economy' or 'e-society' in the practice of individuals and companies producing 'new media'. The uncontroversial starting point is to question the generalization in much theorizing, and the tendency to technological reductive accounts of social and economic change. The focus here is to point to the intellectual sources of much policy in this field. The authors present case study material of three very specific parts of the new media/digital content industries (film special effects, computer games and web design). The paper concludes that both technological reductive and agentic accounts have underplayed the continuing importance of the social and economic embeddedness of production, and of the situated co-constitution of technologies, people and places. The differences between industries associated with labour processes, labour markets, users and markets for goods are highlighted. These particularities begin to offer more robust accounts of location and organization.     

Random regression models for human immunodeficiency virus ribonucleic acid data subject to left censoring and informative drop-outs

Objectives in many longitudinal studies of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) include the estimation of population average trajectories of HIV ribonucleic acid (RNA) over time and tests for differences in trajectory across subgroups. Special features that are often inherent in the underlying data include a tendency for some HIV RNA levels to be below an assay detection limit, and for individuals with high initial levels or high ranges of change to drop out of the study early because of illness or death. We develop a likelihood for the observed data that incorporates both of these features. Informative drop-outs are handled by means of an approach previously published by Schluchter. Using data from the HIV Epidemiology Research Study, we implement a maximum likelihood procedure to estimate initial HIV RNA levels and slopes within a population, compare these parameters across subgroups of HIV-infected women and illustrate the importance of appropriate treatment of left censoring and informative drop-outs. We also assess model assumptions and consider the prediction of random intercepts and slopes in this setting. The results suggest that marked bias in estimates of fixed effects, variance components and standard errors in the analysis of HIV RNA data might be avoided by the use of methods like those illustrated.     

新疆对外贸易与环境保护协调发展思路探析

国际贸易与环境的协调发展问题越来越引起人们的关注。近年来新疆对外贸易连续增长，成为新疆经济增长的动力，但同时我们也不应忽视对外贸易所带来的环境污染问题。文章运用对外贸易的环境效应分析方法．得出新疆对外贸易的环境总效应为负的结论，认为，要扭转这种负效应局面，必须从转变经济增长方式、调整进出口商品结构、以环保为基点培育外贸竞争优势这几个方面做好工作。     

中华菜名比喻艺术管窥

中华菜名中的比喻精巧优美、形神兼备,既有语言精炼、结构紧凑的暗喻,又有惟妙惟肖、独具特色的借喻,其民俗喻体熔铸、凸显了中华文化神韵,包含有取形寓意、雅致高洁的植物类喻体,动静融合、风情万种的动物类喻体,源远流长、底蕴涌动的神异类喻体等,它们既能提升菜肴的审美情趣,提高菜名的艺术品位,又能激发食用者的心理想像,表现汉民族的具象思维特色,从而产生了彰显人文魅力,取得多重效应的功能。     

关于徽州古村落保护的若干问题

徽州古村落保护的实质在于维持古村落文化的原生性与整体性，保护的关键在于处理好以徽州古村落为焦点的两对基本矛盾。其保护的基本理念为：分级保护、科学规划，经济效益与文化效益并重，“保”与“破”有机统一。其保护的重点内容为：自然生态保护，建筑遗产保护，历史文脉保护，人口与社会保护。     

敦煌吐鲁番文献所见回鹘古代历法

关于古代回鹘历法 ,史书少有记载 ,幸赖敦煌、吐鲁番回鹘文写本的发现与解读 ,为这一问题的研究提供了丰富而珍贵的资料。通过这些文献 ,我们可以看出 ,古代回鹘人曾使用过多种历法 ,既有来自中原的生肖纪年法、干支纪年法、建除满历法及年号纪年法 ,又有来自波斯的七曜历和来自于阗的于阗历 ,更有古回鹘人创造的具有民族特色的以五行与十二生肖相配的纪年方法 ,后者对藏族时轮历的形成可能有所影响。     

An individual treatment programme for sexually abused adult males: description and preliminary findings

Growing recognition of male sexual abuse and its potentially debilitating effects has underscored the need to develop effective treatment interventions for this population. The present study describes an individual treatment programme that was developed for adult males who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. The treatment programme focused on three areas related to sexual abuse, specifically feelings of self‐blame, anger and anxiety. The study also presents preliminary findings on treatment effects, using self‐report measures that five participants completed prior to treatment and at various assessments following treatment termination. Overall findings indicated improvements in behavioural self‐blame, anger, state anxiety and trait anxiety. Treatment did not appear to have an effect on characterological self‐blame over the long term. The study's findings are limited by the reliance on self‐report data and the absence of a comparison group. As such, our findings should be viewed as an initial contribution to the currently limited empirical data on treatment effects for sexually abused adult males. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.