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[Typewritten copy] Includes bibliography. 1. National self-consciousness -- 2. The development of autonomy in external affairs (until 1914) -- 3. The war and the League (until 1935) -- 4. The influence of trade -- 5. Recent foreign policy and politics.

Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Also available in print.

This research studies the effect of corruption on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in various industries. We use industry level data of US Investments abroad in 60 host countries from 1990 to 2002. We explore the questions of whether corruption is an impediment to FDI and if so, how does this effect translate to different industrial sectors. The main element of interest is to see whether the impact of corruption is uniform across all industries or whether corruption affects various sectors differently depending on the nature of the sector. We conduct our study using a panel data model and find that the industry response to corruption is actually dissimilar across our given set of industries, based on the nature of the industry. Furthermore, we divide our dataset into sub samples of Less Developed Countries (LDC) and Developed Countries (DC) using GDP per capita as our basis for the distinction. We find corruption to attract FDI in our group of DC. In the case of LDC, we find the impact of corruption on FDI to vary from industry to industry. / Graduation date: 2006

This study examined graduate international students' knowledge, attitudes, experiences, practices, and satisfaction relating to credit cards. Based on the literature, international students attending U.S. colleges and universities were considered an important population to study because of: (1) internationalization of credit cards and (2) the lack of credit card research on this group. The sample was selected from graduate international students attending Colorado State University. A questionnaire was mailed to 623 students during Summer, 1992. Completed questionnaires were returned by 261 students (46.2 percent response rate). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, correlation analyses, and canonical correlation analyses. Findings showed that respondents' credit card knowledge was low, attitudes were favorable, and pre-U.S. experiences limited. Since living in the U.S., respondents had become regular users with a mean of 3.3 cards and a majority charging more than $200 per month. They followed commonly recommended practices, and eight of ten were satisfied with their credit card use. Several statistically significant relationships were found among the credit card variables, and between these variables and socio-demographic characteristics such as country of origin and length of U.S. residency. A conceptual model was also tested, showing that experiences influenced practices, which in turn influenced satisfaction. Implications and research recommendations were developed for international students, credit card issuers, providers of credit card education, and researchers. Based on credit card needs of international students, card qualifications and education programs should be developed and evaluated. / Graduation date: 1993 / Figures in original document are black and white photocopies. Best scan available.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1981. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-52). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Mi mamá es cuatro pies: A study of the use of calques in Hondurans and Salvadorans in Southern Louisiana Keywords: calques, language proficiency, bilingual, lexical borrowing, arrival age In this study, I explored calques among Hondurans and Salvadorans in Southern Louisiana. The study has a total of twenty-four Spanish-English bilinguals separated into three groups based upon their age of arrival to the United States. Similar to but modified from that of Silva-Corvalán (1996), group I, is comprised of participants who arrived to the United States after the age nineteen. The participants in group II immigrated to the United States between the ages of eleven and eighteen, while the participants in group III were born in the United States or immigrated to the United States before the age of ten. The following research questions motivated this study: 1. Is there a difference in the frequency of calque use among the three arrival groups? 2. Is there a difference in calquing frequency between sequential and simultaneous bilinguals? 3. Does dominant language significantly influence calque frequency? (i.e., English dominant, Spanish dominant or dominant in both) 4. How do the social factors contribute to the frequency of calque use? 5. How do the linguistic variables of the collocation of calque, the word prior to calque and the word after the calque contribute to the use of calques? In this study each participant completed two tasks; t an open-ended sociolinguistic interview and a question-answer activity. An analysis using Goldvarb X was performed and the social factors that condition the use of calques are age, formal instruction in English, socioeconomic status, and dominant language and the linguistic factors of word class of the word prior to the calque, collocation, and word class of the calque affect calque frequency. It was also discovered that the participants who moved to the U.S between the ages of eleven and eighteen produced the most calques, while those who moved to the U.S after the age of nineteen produced the least.

My thesis examines the literary portrayal of women in Dominican politics as historical figures/actors and how Dominican women have also used the medium of literature to draw attention to these lesser known heroines and inspire future participation and involvement in public life. The creation of fiction out of history, through which authors imagine the inner lives and feelings and motivations of Dominican women protagonists, can add a new dimension to the study of women and gender in the Dominican Republic, especially when written by Dominican women authors. More specifically, I will explore the following issues and areas: 1) how the works revise or expand on the traditional interpretation of political activism 2) how the works honor women historical actors, giving them a voice and 3) what the works reveal about the gendered nature of political activism. The novels I will be analyzing are Julia Alvarezs novels In the Name of Salome and In the Time of Butterflies, as well as Charamicos by Angela Hernandez. These works are based on real women activists who have been fictionalized in the novels, such as Salome Urena de Henriquez and the Mirabal sisters, as well as imagined or fictional women who are not based on specific Dominican women, but rather a fictionalized compilation created to embody the experiences of many, such as the characters in Charamicos. My analysis of the literary representation of womens activism draws from the fields of gender, political, historical and literary studies, however Joan W. Scotts discussion of her-story and social history, as well as Paul Ricoeurs theories on the relationship between memory and history are especially useful. In conclusion, I show that these novels have created a space for the imagined experiences of these women and given them a voice which was lacking, since these women activists have been left hidden in the pages of history, without detailed autobiographies or much more than a paragraph even in recent historical publications. I will also explore future research considerations that would build on the work in this thesis and further contribute to the expansion of the field of Dominican womens studies.

This thesis explores the transgressive representations of gender in the works of Emilia Pardo Bazán. In her short story Cuento primitivo (1893) and her novels Memorias de un solterón (1896), La quimera (1905), and Dulce dueño (1911), the myths and images that surround the figures of New Woman, femme fatales, and dandies expose the fear fin de siècle Spanish society felt toward these models that did not conform to the gender stereotypes expected of them. Their straying from the established norm was seen as the symptom of decadence and the herald of the destruction of the race. Each of the characters are marginalized in some way because of their gender or because they do not conform to the established gender order. Therefore, much of the theory used in this thesis is drawn from feminist sources including Elaine Showalter, Gilbert and Gubar, Laura Mulvey, and Hélène Cixous. I also incorporate psychoanalytic theory and its relationship to the preoccupation concerning masculinity and degeneration from the work of Freud, Neil Hertz, and Max Nordau. My analysis of the representation of these transgressive figures extends to art as well as many of the cultural myths or images that surrounded these men and women can be found in the paintings of the time, such as those from Santiago Rusiñol, Franz von Stuck, and Hermen Anglada-Camarasa. As a response to this problem of fin de siècle Spanish decadence, Pardo Bazán offers Spanish society a fairly unusual solution. She proposes a combination of the traditional in the form of the Catholic faith and the modern in the form of equality of the sexes. It is through this unique combination that she is able to integrate these foreign, subversive images of gender into Catholic Spanish society. She particularly celebrates the New Woman who demands to be seen as equal to man. Yet, the New Woman is foreign concept that she does not merely import to Spain; instead, she adapts her to fit within her culture. At the same time, she can promote a modern Spanish society without strict gender hierarchy yet still retain the essential Spanish-ness of Catholicism.