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No / This article examines the different ways in which the dynamics of civil war economies have been represented and the influences this has had on post-conflict peacebuilding (PCPB). The article suggests that regulation to address the dynamics of war economies and shadow trade has been asymmetric in its focus and its effects. It also argues that, particularly post-9/11, there has been a convergence in the discourse on weak states and shadow economies. While ostensibly promising a progressive fusion between solidarism and security, this monolithic discourse may well produce policy that prioritizes policing and hermetic protection for the developed world at the expense of effective strategies to address the dynamics of war economies and shadow trade.

Yes / Uses new C14 chronology to chart the burial sequence within and the development of the iconic round barrow.

Master of Science / Department of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design / Joy M. Kozar / Within the global marketplace, the production and consumption of counterfeit goods represents a serious social problem. Scholars continue to suggest anti-counterfeit education as a means to resolve this global problem and curb the demand for counterfeit goods, but no scholarly research has empirically evaluated the effectiveness of anti-counterfeit education. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to draw upon such suggestions within the literature, and quantitatively assess the effectiveness of anti-counterfeit education on consumers' perceived knowledge, attitudes, and purchase intentions of fashion counterfeit goods. Convenience samples of male and female college students participated in this study. Utilizing a one-group pretest posttest, quasi-experimental design, the findings from a series of paired samples t-tests revealed a positive, significant change in consumers’ perceived knowledge of fashion counterfeit goods after viewing the anti-counterfeit educational unit. Negative, significant changes in consumers’ favorable attitudes and purchase intentions of fashion counterfeit goods were also revealed after the anti-counterfeit educational unit had been administered. Findings from this study provide relevant implications toward academicians, government officials, fashion retailers, and anti-counterfeiting organizations, such as how to develop effective anti-counterfeit educational content. Such parties with a vested interest in deterring the demand of fashion counterfeit goods should focus on formulating and implementing anti-counterfeit educational tools, such as campaigns and advertisements, which focus on the negative factors and consequences associated with the fashion counterfeit industry.

Diploma thesis topic deals with air transport of dangerous goods. In the beginning part it describes air cargo transportation itself as well as the main characteristics. Thesis introduces organizations involved in international transport of dangerous goods. Next part of diploma thesis reveals project analysis of air transportation of dangerous goods in respect of IATA Dangerous Goods regulations and procedures. Thesis also covers introduction to air transportation of dangerous goods in specific conditions of DHL Express Company.

Thesis advisor: Christopher Bruell / This dissertation is an approach to Plato’s longest political work, The Laws, with a view to the problem of the harmony of the goods. Since I understand the problem of the harmony of the goods as a universal one, i.e., as a problem stemming from human condition rather than from the reading of Plato, the first task is to present what it means to adopt a Platonic perspective on this problem. This is what I do in the first chapter through a discussion of the Euthydemus and the Statesman. This discussion leads me to these three questions: (1) What is the relation between the happiness of the individual and that of the city? (2) What is the model that guides the statesman’s work of harmonizing the goods in one whole? (3) How can the knowledge of harmonizing the various goods be passed to the citizens? Since these three questions concern the city, it is the city that I examine next. But since there are two cities in the Platonic corpus, I thus turn to a brief exposition of the Republic (Books I-VII) and the Laws (Books I-III). From my discussion of the Republic, in the first part of chapter two, I draw the conclusion that the happiness of the city and that of the individual may not necessarily coincide. This conclusion justifies my turn to the Laws in the second part of chapter two, for in the Laws the emphasis is more on individual happiness than on that of the city, as it is in the Republic. I then show that the first Books of the Laws provide an answer to the central question phrased at the end of chapter one, namely that it is by translating the natural hierarchy of the goods into a coherent and harmonized way of life that the good lawgiver can pass his knowledge to the citizens. Yet, since this solution is challenged in the sequel, I then move on in that dialogue. The third and last chapter is devoted to the Books IV and V of the Laws. The core of that chapter consists in a close analysis of the general prelude to the law code of the city to be built in the Laws. I show that the aim of the prelude is to educate the citizens and that the prelude is therefore the means by which the lawgiver passes on his knowledge to them. Yet, since the prelude is a twofold speech which conveys a teaching that can be understood in accordance with the power of the listener’s soul, I come to the conclusion that the answer to the question about the lawgiver’s solution to the problem of the harmony of the goods is inseparable from my own interpretation of the prelude. My interpretation of the prelude is that the harmony of the goods will always remain partly imperfect and that this is why the knowledge of the hierarchy of the goods is, ultimately, more important than that of the harmony of the goods. This I take to be Plato’s position. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science.

by Wong Ming-kuen. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Bibliography: leaves 47-48. / INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / PURPOSE OF STUDY --- p.3 / Objective --- p.3 / Hypothesis --- p.3 / Definition of Consumer Product --- p.3 / LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4 / METHODOLOGY --- p.11 / Literature Survey --- p.11 / Field Trip --- p.11 / Screening Telephone Interview --- p.12 / Structured Questionnaire --- p.12 / Additional Open-ended Questions --- p.14 / Design of Questionnaire --- p.15 / RESEARCH FINDINGS --- p.19 / Sample Profile --- p.19 / Importance of Marketing Elements --- p.21 / Effectiveness of Advertising and Promotion --- p.23 / Trade-Off among Advertising Tools --- p.24 / Different Promotion Activities --- p.27 / SUMMARY --- p.31 / Appendix --- p.32 / Biblography --- p.47

O setor público brasileiro tem grande influência na economia, considerando o volume de tributos que arrecada e também pelo volume de bens públicos que administra, os quais, em matéria contábil, em parte, representam ativos patrimoniais. Este trabalho teve como objetivo propor um modelo de identificação e de classificação de Ativos para as entidades do setor público, harmonizando os conceitos constitucionais, legais e normativos, especialmente com as Normas Brasileiras de Contabilidade Aplicáveis ao Setor Público. Procurou-se evidenciar a possível convergência de conceitos de Ativos para entidades do setor público, as definições de bens da União e dos Estados, assim definidos no artigo 20 e 31 da Constituição Federal de 1988, bem como a convergência de conceitos de Ativos de entidades setor privado para com os de bens públicos. Para tanto, realizou-se uma revisão bibliográfica quanto à conceituação de bens, de bens públicos, de ativos e do patrimônio público, previstas nos diversos regramentos constitucionais e legais do país e na literatura. O trabalho resultou na identificação das diversas classes de ativos públicos, na estruturação de um modelo de identificação e classificação dos bens, com exemplos de utilização, visando a facilitar e qualificar os procedimentos de registro e o relevo dos bens públicos. O que, o caso, poderá ser útil para o entendimento dos eventos contábeis relacionados à identificação e sua classificação. / The Brazilian public sector has great influence on the economy, considering the amount of taxes it collects, and also by the volume of public goods that manages, which in accounting matters partly represent corporate assets. This study aimed to propose a model for the identification and classification of assets for the public sector entities, harmonizing the constitutional, legal and regulatory concepts, especially with the Brazilian Accounting Standards applicable to the Public Sector. It was essayed to evidence the possible convergence of Assets concepts for public sector entities to the (União) Federal Government and States assets definitions, as delineated in the Article 20 and 31 of the 1988’s Federal Constitution and the convergence of assets concepts of entities from private sector towards public goods. For that a literature review was conducted on the concept of goods, public goods, assets and public property, under the various constitutional and legal specific regulations of the country and in the literature. The work resulted in the identification of several classes of public assets and in the structuring of a model for identification and classification of goods, with examples of use, in order to facilitate and qualify registration procedures and disclosure of public goods, which could be useful for the understanding of accounting events related to their identification and classification.