The Results of the Second International Competition “Slavery in the Past and Present”

By most measures, the United States is the most unequal of the world's advanced capitalist economies, and inequality has increased substantially over the past 30 years. This article documents trends in the inequality of three key economic distributions—hourly earnings, annual incomes, and net wealth—and relates these developments to changes in economic and social policy over the past three decades. The primary cause of high and rising inequality is the systematic erosion of the bargaining power of lower- and middle-income workers relative to their employers, reflected in the erosion of the real value of the minimum wage, the decline in unions, widescale deregulation of industries such as airlines and trucking, the privatization and outsourcing of many state and local government activities, increasing international competition, and periods of restrictive macroeconomic policy.

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Les alliances technologiques stratégiques: de la théorie à la situation canadienne

Études internationales ◽

10.7202/702793ar ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 63-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jorge Niosi ◽

Maryse Bergeron ◽

Michèle Sawchuck

Keyword(s):

Imperfect Competition ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Business Administration ◽

International Competition ◽

Perfect Competition ◽

Processing Technologies ◽

The Past ◽

Technological Cooperation ◽

Japanese Corporations ◽

Informal Cooperation

Technological cooperation between business enterprises has become common-place over the past ten years or so, following an increase in the uncertainty, risk, and costs of research and development brought about by growing international competition and the unsettling impact of data processing technologies (and to a lesser degree biotechnologies) throughout the entire industrial sector. Strategies in R&D cooperation, first adopted by Japanese corporations, were copied by European firms in the early 80s and then by American and Canadian corporations later on. Governments have got in on the action through policies for encouragement of collective R&D. Current theories in economies and business administration are not very useful for understanding this phenomenon. Neo-classical economies' assumption of perfect competition, as well as dissertations on product obsolescence and transaction costs, permeate theories in business administration and do not help us comprehend this new organizational phenomenon. We have, however, come across some crucial leads towards an explanation in certain models of imperfect competition and in managerial studies on informal cooperation by businesses in R&D.

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Race, Class and Place

Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-042-4.ch001 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Gregory Pappas ◽

Mohammod Akhter

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Science ◽

The Past ◽

Practice Community ◽

Second International

In this chapter we discuss the importance of community in public health science and practice. Community is —first and foremost— place. The science of place and its implication for health has made major strides over the past decade. The first and second international conferences on health geographics marked an achievement in that development. The argument in this chapter draws out the implication of place and community for public health science and practice.

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A Study on the Structural Reform of the Korean Public Prosecutor's Office with a view to Lifting International Competitiveness

Korean Journal of Policy Studies ◽

10.52372/kjps13008 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 13 (0) ◽

pp. 173-186

Author(s):

Jeong Ho Lee

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

21St Century ◽

Korean War ◽

International Competition ◽

Way Of Life ◽

New Era ◽

The Past ◽

National Economic ◽

The Republic ◽

To Receive

Although the Republic of Korea has recovered from the ruins of the 1950's Korean War and achieved a remarkable economic growth during the past 40 years, it is now, at the threshold of 21st century, faced with the great national economic crises which led us to receive the IMF's rescue fund. To make a long story short, I presume the cause of the economic tragedy mainly originated from the fact that the frame and habitude of our way of life were not so changed suitably as to accommodate the new era of unbounded international competition.

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State of the nation: Australia's upstream industry in 2014

The APPEA Journal ◽

10.1071/aj13124 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 551

Author(s):

Chris Graham

Keyword(s):

Oil And Gas ◽

International Competition ◽

The Past ◽

Production Ratio ◽

The World ◽

Unconventional Oil And Gas ◽

To Come ◽

Gas Potential ◽

Energy Companies ◽

Exploration Activity

Australia has emerged as a major international upstream player during the past few years. Record investment recently is set to transform Australia into one of the world’s leading gas exporters by the end of this decade. The significant unconventional oil and gas potential continues to attract major international energy companies to these shores, while exploration activity remains buoyant despite a reserves to production ratio (R/P) of more than 65 years. Australia has the resources and the skill set to remain at the forefront of the industry for years to come. Growing international competition, cost, regulatory, and productivity challenges, however, are beginning to blot the landscape for future investment of a similar scale. Drawing on the commercial challenges of operating in Australia, the author explores whether the returns of offer in Australia stack up against some of the opportunities elsewhere in the world, and what can be done to keep Australia’s resources industries competitive.

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On the Results of the First International Competition for the Best Research Work among Scientific and Pedagogical Staff “Slavery in the Past and Present”

Slavery Theory and Practice ◽

10.13187/slave.2020.1.3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Keyword(s):

Research Work ◽

International Competition ◽

The Past

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Soviet Attitude Towards the Acquisition of Territorial Sovereignty in the Antarctic

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2195509 ◽

1956 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 611-626 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Peter A. Toma

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

International Competition ◽

World War ◽

Chronological Order ◽

The Past ◽

Territorial Sovereignty ◽

Antarctic Continent ◽

The Antarctic ◽

Second World

The Antarctic Continent, with its wind- and snow-swept islands, appears at first sight an uninviting prize for international competition. Yet in the past fifty years, and notably after the second World War, claims and counterclaims to sovereignty over these bleak lands have been numerous. In a chronological order Soviet Bussia is considered to be the most recent among the rivals.

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Plagiarism Meets Paraphrasing: Insights for the Next Generation in Automatic Plagiarism Detection

Computational Linguistics ◽

10.1162/coli_a_00153 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 917-947 ◽

Cited By ~ 54

Author(s):

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño ◽

Marta Vila ◽

M. Martí ◽

Paolo Rosso

Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

High Density ◽

International Competition ◽

Next Generation ◽

Plagiarism Detection ◽

Detection Systems ◽

Its Analysis ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship ◽

Second International

Although paraphrasing is the linguistic mechanism underlying many plagiarism cases, little attention has been paid to its analysis in the framework of automatic plagiarism detection. Therefore, state-of-the-art plagiarism detectors find it difficult to detect cases of paraphrase plagiarism. In this article, we analyze the relationship between paraphrasing and plagiarism, paying special attention to which paraphrase phenomena underlie acts of plagiarism and which of them are detected by plagiarism detection systems. With this aim in mind, we created the P4P corpus, a new resource that uses a paraphrase typology to annotate a subset of the PAN-PC-10 corpus for automatic plagiarism detection. The results of the Second International Competition on Plagiarism Detection were analyzed in the light of this annotation. The presented experiments show that (i) more complex paraphrase phenomena and a high density of paraphrase mechanisms make plagiarism detection more difficult, (ii) lexical substitutions are the paraphrase mechanisms used the most when plagiarizing, and (iii) paraphrase mechanisms tend to shorten the plagiarized text. For the first time, the paraphrase mechanisms behind plagiarism have been analyzed, providing critical insights for the improvement of automatic plagiarism detection systems.

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Two Unpublished Manuscripts by Karl Marx

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938900018240 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 294-297

Author(s):

Norman Levine

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Karl Marx ◽

Marxist Theory ◽

Marxist Philosophy ◽

The Past ◽

Friedrich Engels ◽

Marxist Humanism ◽

Unpublished Manuscripts ◽

First Time ◽

Second International

In the past forty-three years Marxologists were compelled to absorb two new manuscripts of extraordinary significance. Although prepared in Moscow by D. Rjazanov, the Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe was issued in Berlin in 1932 and contained the first publication of Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts In 1939 and 1941 respectively, single volumes of a limited two-volume edition of the Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie were published by the Foreign Language Publishers in Moscow. Generally, this edition went unnoticed until a single-volume publication of the Grundrisse was issued by Dietz Verlag of Berlin 1953. and shortly thereafter the Grundrisse became a manuscript of enormous importance to Marxist theory. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and the Grundrisse caused a revolution in the interpretation of Marxism. The Marx of the Second International, of Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky, the Marx of Bolshevism, of Lenin and Stalin and “Diamat,” was completely revised. In essence, the publication of these new sources commenced forty-three years of extensive revision and intensive contention which still continue. This was not surprising, because the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and the Grundrisse proved to be major repositories of Marxist philosophy: they revealed for the first time the full amplitude of Marxist humanism.

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On the Design and Performance of Radical High-Speed Sailing Vehicles

Marine Technology and SNAME News ◽

10.5957/mt1.1980.17.1.50 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 17 (01) ◽

pp. 50-55

Author(s):

W. S. Bradfield

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

International Competition ◽

The Novel ◽

The Past ◽

Straight Line ◽

Performance Predictions ◽

Drag Racing ◽

And Performance ◽

Short Courses ◽

Design Factors

A recently established international competition has encouraged straight-line yacht racing over very short courses in flat water with the strongest winds available. The object of this activity is to stimulate the quest for unrestricted sailing vehicle designs which will produce flat-out speed under relatively safe and controlled conditions, thereby pinning down and quantifying design factors governing high-speed yacht performance. This competition has produced a few surprises and some novel and ingenious designs—some successful. The object of the present paper is to discuss and compare some of the novel ideas which have developed into successful drag-racing yachts during the past five years. Performance predictions are compared with measured performance in outstanding cases.

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