Minimalist Orientations in Romanian Music: Corneliu Dan Georgescu and the Concept of ‘Archetypal Monotony’

Progress of migration scholarship over 60 years of <i>International Migration</i>

This doctoral thesis focuses on the role of cities in immigration, particularly in Québec. The literature shows that cities can, and are progressively, intervening in order to ensure a complete offer of services to newcomers, in particular in the coordination of local actors. Thus, this research aims to answer the following question: How do local communities in mid-sized Québec cities welcome and integrate immigrants? This research seeks to understand the capacity of local communities to mobilize stakeholders, coordinate services dedicated to immigrants and deliver them. The research builds on the lessons learned across the rest of Canada. Two case studies are conducted, in Gatineau and Québec City. The analysis is based on multilevel governance theoretical framework, where immigration is a responsibility increasingly shared between various orders of government. This present study leads to empirical and theoretical contributions. At the empirical level, the two case studies make it possible to trace the contours of the Québec model of governance in terms of immigration. They show that the communities have taken responsibility for themselves and that the cities have assumed leadership to ensure the coordination of local actors and to meet the needs of newcomers although the institutional arrangements remain sub-optimal. The theoretical contributions of this thesis are twofold. First, the case studies conducted in this thesis improves an analysis grid developed by other authors. Two elements of analysis are added, analyzing the engagement of the political side versus the administrative side, as well as sufficiency of financial resources. These two elements of analysis have the potential to enrich the understanding of the portrait as well as the evaluation of institutional arrangements. Second, the other theoretical contribution is the development and definition of the concept of 'governance void'. Governance void is defined as an absence of clearly stated policies on the sharing of responsibilities between orders of government and other stakeholders. This absence of policy gives way to all types of structures, often suboptimal, that vary depending on regions and through time. In a context of multilevel governance, the roles and responsibilities of the actors must be clearly defined and understood.

Sutirtha Chatterjee) join the editor-in-chief (Robert Davison) to craft a position statement regarding the ISJ's view on theory. It is applicable, with sensitivity, to the empirical research articles that we consider for publication.

Objective: This article aims to investigate the impact of the innovative concept of Smart Cities on the patent system, comparing the economies of a developing country such as Brazil and that of a developed country such as the United States of America (USA). Methodology: The research constitutes an exploratory stage of data collection, adopting a quantitative-qualitative approach. Data was collected from 2015 to the present day. The research design is bibliographic, investigating the Web of Science and Scopus databases, as well as patent bases. Relevance: Relevance consists of the need for in-depth studies on the impacts generated on a country by the economic development through the perception of the importance of adopting innovative technologies to change technological paradigms. Main results: In both countries, the results show the concentration of patent applications in the IPC (International Patent Classification) H04, focusing on technologies linked to the Internet of Things (IoT). However, in Brazil the concentration of patent applications intended for application in Smart Cities had a small increase from 2021 onwards, while in the USA there was an exponential increase from 2019 onwards. Theoretical Contributions: The influence of the technological trajectory of the countries analyzed can be seen, making it clear that in a country with a production economic matrix there is no significant impact on the patent system, while in a country with an economic matrix of knowledge, there is a large increase in patent filings.

IntroductionExecutive planning represents significant challenges for most nonprofits (e.g. Bear & Fitzgibbon, 2004; Carman, Leland, & Wilson, 2010; Coltoff, 2010; Dym, Egmont, & Watkins, 2011). As a body of research, executive has been seriously neglected for many reasons: time and finance constraints, lack of administration and coordination abilities, and interests on the part of executive directors (EDs) and boards of directors (Santora, Sarros, & Esposito, 2010). Accordingly, Peters and Wolfred (2001, p. 32) recommend that succession planning should shift from being a taboo topic to a fact of life that makes things easier for an outgoing executive, a board, and an organization. Failing to plan for a successor can create organizational chaos. As Peters and Wolfred (2001, p. 32/33) contend, who don't plan [for succession] put their organizations at considerable risk for turbulent transitions. Boards should expect that the executives will eventually move on, and be prepared to manage those turnovers successfully.The aim of this paper is to compare the findings of recent nonprofit research (Bassi, 2013; Bozer & Kuna, 2013; Comini, Paolino, & Feitosa, 2013; Santora, Sarros, & Cooper, 2011; Santora et al., 2013) on six countries (Australia, Brazil, Israel, Italy, Russia, and the United States) to determine the degree to which they have planned for executive and whether internal or external candidates have been selected as executive directors (often also referred to as chief executive officers (CEOs)/presidents). The countries involved this study were chosen based on their representation of cultural values that were different from each other on some attributes, such as power distance and similar to each other on others, such as individual collectivism (Hofstede, 1980, 2001; House et al., 2004). Generally, Western democracies (the United States and Australia) and Israel form a discrete group with similar culture orientations, while Russia, Brazil, and Italy form another less heterogeneous grouping. Specifically, Australia, Israel, and the United States are low power distance societies, while Russia, Brazil, and Italy are high power distance societies (House, et al., 2004). According to House et al., (2004, p. 166), in high power distance societies, power holders are granted greater status, privileges, and material rewards than those without power. Power distance relates to decision-making styles of bosses, the ability to influence, the opportunity to have independent thought and express opinions, deference to authority, and the use of artifacts such as titles, ranks, and status. Accordingly, practices the Western-based countries should theoretically be more transparent and externally focused than those the European/South American group.This article provides a major contribution to the extant nonprofit literature the field by building on an important organizational issue: planning, organizational sustainability, and its attendant issues. It also fills a major gap the nonprofit literature by comparing executive issues multiple countries, thereby alleviating the largely American focus. Bassi (2013) and Santora and Sarros (2013) have sought to address the imbalance between research based the United States and that of other countries by challenging researchers to conduct comparative analyses on nonprofits delivering services to constituents countries other than the United States to determine the degree of similarities and/or differences on executive issues. This article also provides a theoretical contribution, as it broadens our understanding of the myriad ways nonprofits encounter similar challenges planning and insider-outsider appointments, regardless of geographic location the world.First, we provide a brief overview of planning nonprofit organizations, followed by a discussion of insider-outsider selection issue. …

With the rising numbers of prisoners in Australia and the recognition of prisoners as parents across policy and academic domains, an increased interest in children affected by parental incarceration has emerged. Such interest focuses on three areas of inquiry: psychological impacts of parental incarceration on children and young people; links to intergenerational crime; and current responses to children and young people with a parent in prison. Much of this research about children has been undertaken with adults; it is often unclear whether researchers spoke with children and young people about the issues they reported on. Where children and young people have participated in research, it generally focused on data collection from surveys and other measurement tools. Research that explored children and young people’s experiences of parental incarceration, as perceived by them, is limited. A small number of international studies, predominantly from the United Kingdom (UK) and United States of America (US), have spoken with children directly about this issue; however, there is a considerable gap in research that considers the Australian context, particularly the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). This study aimed to fill this gap. It explores the self-reported experiences of children and young people living in the ACT who have or have had a parent in prison. All participants experienced paternal incarceration; three experienced maternal incarceration. This thesis analyses the results of qualitative interviews with children aged 8–18. Employing a childhood studies framework, this research highlights the voices of children and young people, emphasising their own perspectives and meaning-making. A reference group comprising five young people provided guidance at the commencement of the study. Sixteen children and young people participated in semi-structured interviews. Participants were recruited from a range of services across Canberra, including prison, statutory child protection services, youth work services and other non-government services. Data were analysed using an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach. This approach illuminated the complexity of the meanings children and young people placed upon their experience of parental incarceration. This analytical method also ensured that children and young people stayed at the forefront of the findings. The findings highlight that, when a parent commits a crime, the adult criminal justice system institutes a process in which the children of prisoners may, or may not, actively participate. From the point of arrest to the release of their parent, children and young people describe how their everyday lives were influenced by the criminal justice system and how they in turn managed and responded to the challenges that arose. Children and young people spoke about a diverse range of experiences at different points across the criminal justice process, which lasted for different periods of time. Children and young people described how the adult criminal justice system frequently created or exacerbated experiences of instability and uncertainty across specific life domains. They reported challenges with family relationships, housing, caring responsibilities, finances and education. They also described distinct differences in the types of relationships they had with their parent before, during and after incarceration. Consistent with childhood studies, children and young people described how they would meet these challenges and work to change them. Children and young people also experienced a range of emotions. Feelings of loss, stress, disconnection, shame and stigma were present for many participants. The feelings they described were not necessarily associated with the level of involvement they had with their incarcerated parent. In exploring children and young people’s understanding of parental incarceration, this research adds to the emerging body of work about children of prisoners in the Australian context. Children and young people’s participation has allowed their experiences of parental incarceration to be considered beyond the criminological and developmental psychology perspectives that have traditionally dominated much of the research in this field. This thesis provides a theoretical contribution by considering the tensions that exist in how children enact agency and the way they influence and are influenced by the social process and structures around them. In better understanding the experiences of children and young people, this thesis makes an important contribution to the development of sensitive and appropriate policy and practice within social work and more broadly so that children with a parent in prison may be better responded to.

Despite extensive research on Chinese international students in North America, there is a lack of studies that compare students’ choices between the United States (U.S.) and Canada. In this study, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 55 Chinese international undergraduate students in two case institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Drawing on the Push-Pull model and the Purchase Intention model, our study explains how the intense Chinese education system under Gaokao (National College Entrance Examinations) pushes students to pursue higher education abroad. The findings also reveal factors that attract Chinese students to foreign countries and institutions, such as the superior position of the U.S. ( 高大上 gaodashang ), the welcoming culture in Canada ( 包容 baorong ), and the institutional reputation ( 名气 mingqi ). Theoretical contributions and recommendations for scholarship and practice are provided in the article.

Over the past 60 years, metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, has been among the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States, and this rapid urbanization has resulted in an urban heat island (UHI) of substantial size and intensity. During this time, an uncommon amount of UHI-specific research, relative to other cities in North America, occurred within its boundaries. This review investigates the possible reasons and motivations underpinning the large body of work, as well as summarizing specific themes, approaches, and theoretical contributions arising from such study. It is argued that several factors intrinsic to Phoenix were responsible for the prodigious output: strong applied urban climate research partnerships between several agencies (such as the academy, the National Weather Service, private energy firms, and municipal governments); a high-quality, long-standing network of urban meteorological stations allowing for relatively fine spatial resolution of near-surface temperature data; and a high level of public and media interest in the UHI. Three major research themes can be discerned: 1) theoretical contributions from documenting, modeling, and analyzing the physical characteristics of the UHI; 2) interdisciplinary investigation into its biophysical and social consequences; and 3) assessment and evaluation of several UHI mitigation techniques. Also examined herein is the successful implementation of sustainable urban climate policies within the metropolitan area. The authors note the importance of understanding and applying local research results during the policy formation process.

Intersectionality has become a widely used theoretical lens through which scholars examine women’s political and economic participation. Intersectional frameworks analyze the ways in which formal state structures produce gender inequalities. It is precisely this conceptual and empirical strength that make a theory originally rooted in the experiences of Black women in the United States, applicable to other groups of women in a range of national contexts. Extensive debates surround the generalizability of intersectional theory. Using my work on gender inequality as a predictor of state fragility in the African region, this piece addresses these questions both conceptually and methodologically. My larger project is a cross-national study; however, I will use original country case study datasets from women’s local civil society organizations in Nigeria and Ghana to illustrate the relationships between institutionalized inequalities and the mobilization efforts of different groups of women. First, I begin by defining intersectionality. Next, I combine African feminists and African Muslim feminists’ theoretical contributions which extend and expand intersectionality. This piece contributes to conversations about the ways in which intersectionality can be applied to other groups of Black women outside of the United States. Third, I demonstrate how intersectionality is used to capture the range of priorities and strategies activists used to define and promote gender equality within formal state structures.

This study establishes that when social media advertisements appear with disclosures, featuring friend recommendations can result in diametrically opposite effects on advertising effectiveness in the United States and Korea. While friend recommendations reduce perceived credibility, brand attitude, and purchase intention for disclosed advertisements in the United States, they increase advertising effectiveness in Korea. The findings shed light on important distinctions between how Western and Asian consumers evaluate friend recommendations and advertising disclosures on social media that were heretofore absent. Theoretical contributions and practical implications for social media advertising and digital consumer behavior are discussed.

Objective: Analyze the panorama of international scientific productions on Sustainability Indicators for Agriculture in Irrigated Areas, from 1945 to 2024, available in the Web of Science (WoS) database. Theoretical Framework: presents the concepts of sustainability, family farming and irrigated areas, theories that underlie the topic and its direct relationship with the environment, providing a theoretical support for a better understanding of the context of the investigation. Method: the bibliometric review method was used to interpret the evolution and development of scientific research carried out on sustainability indicators for family farming in irrigated areas, using the Web of Science (WoS) database through the CAPES journal portal and the VoSviewer. Results and Discussion: The results obtained a total of 685 articles, presented as highlights: Gomez-Limon, J.A. for the author with the most publications, total of 13 articles. The journal Agriculture Water Magment, with 54 publications, was the one that published the most, the area most used for publications was Agriculture with 47% (319) of publications, and the country that stood out the most was the United States with 162 publications. English was the predominant language in 92.6% of publications. In the network of co-citations by authors, the most referenced in publications was Singh, A., with 159 citations, and a strength ratio of 710. Research Implications: The contribution of this study is to present an overview of international scientific production on sustainability indicators for agriculture in irrigated areas, serving as a theoretical contribution that will support future research on the topic. Originality/Value: The relevance and value of this research are evidenced by identifying the most relevant works, the authors who do the most research and the most emerging themes that need to be explored by academia.

Introdução: Como organizações responsáveis por disponibilizarem informações precisas e atualizadas, as bibliotecas estão continuamente experimentando novos recursos tecnológicos e remodelando seus serviços para atender expectativas de seus usuários. No início do século XXI, as mídias sociais surgiram como mais uma oportunidade para eles se conectarem a esses espaços e acessarem seus recursos informacionais. Objetivo: Diante disso, este estudo busca identificar as características de investigações sobre mídias sociais e bibliotecas na produção científica estadunidense, de modo a acompanhar sua evolução e apontar tendências. Metodologia: Para tanto, optou-se pela pesquisa descritiva, de natureza qualiquantitativa, fundamentada na análise de domínio, proposta por Hjørland. O corpus é constituído por 69 artigos, publicados em periódicos científicos da Ciência da Informação dos EUA. Nesse sentido, constatou-se que a temática mídias sociais e bibliotecas tem sido discutida no contexto observado desde 2006, principalmente no âmbito das bibliotecas universitárias. Resultados: Identificou-se, ainda, uma possível comunidade epistêmica em formação. Por sua vez, o conceito Library 2.0 surgiu como uma das contribuições teóricas que influenciou bibliotecários e impactou serviços realizados no segmento. Além da Ciência da Informação, o conhecimento produzido sobre o interdomínio analisado circula por vários campos, como Comunicação Social, Educação, Ciência da Computação, Sociologia, dentre outros. Fora o termo Web 2.0, redes sociais é o mais usado por essa comunidade discursiva, embora mídias sociais se destaque como uma tendência. Há também uma predisposição para pesquisas de aplicações práticas, seguida de estudos teóricos. Conclusão: Foram identificados termos emergentes e representantes do interdomínio analisado ainda não contemplados nos principais tesauros utilizados por pesquisadores da área.

We extend the extant research on neutral recommendation agents (RAs) to those that lack recommendation neutrality and are biased toward sponsors. We first investigate the effects of recommendation neutrality on users’ trust and distrust in RAs by comparing a biased RA with sponsorship disclosure with a neutral RA. We then apply a contingency approach to examine the effects of sponsorship disclosure on users’ trust and distrust in biased RAs, with explanations for organic recommendations as a contingent factor. A laboratory experiment was conducted in the United States. We determine that users’ trust in the biased RA with sponsorship disclosure is lower and that their distrust is higher than that in the neutral RA. Results also show that user trust in a biased RA increases only when explanations for organic recommendations and sponsorship disclosure are both provided. Users’ perceived psychological contract violations of an RA have been verified as a key mediator of the examined effects. However, explanations for organic recommendations, sponsorship disclosure, or their combination fail to significantly lower users’ distrust in a biased RA. A second experiment conducted in Hong Kong confirms the major findings of the experiment conducted in the United States. Theoretical contributions and practical implications for e-commerce RAs are discussed. This paper was accepted by Anandhi Bharadwaj, information systems.

This paper documents and articulates Murray N. Rothbard’s contribution to our understanding of the theory and practice of socialism. We summarize his theoretical contributions and then turn to his explanation of the operation of socialism in the Soviet Union. Moreover, we make and support the conjecture that Rothbard, writing in the 1950s and 60s, anticipated all the major subsequent developments in the economic analysis regarding the problems of the Soviet economy and all the major works in comparative political economy for real-existing socialism in the Soviet Union. [T]he extent of socialism in the present-day world is at the same time underestimatated in countries such as the United States and overestimated in Soviet Russia. It is underestimated because the expansion of government lending to private enterprise in the United States has been generally neglected, and we have seen that the lender, regardless of his legal status, is also an entrepreneur and part owner. The extent of socialism is overestimated because most writers ignore the fact that Russia, socialist as

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