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Graebner, William. "Gateway to Empire: An Interpretation of Eero Saarinen's 1948 Design for the St. Louis Arch." Prospects 18 (October 1993): 367–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300004956.
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In 1948, a unanimous jury awarded the $40,000 first prize in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Competition to a design team headed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. Competitors had been charged with memorializing Thomas Jefferson, his Louisiana Purchase, and the expansion of the American nation by creating a national park and monument on the West bank of the Mississippi River at St. Louis.
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Stewart, R., J. Piburn, A. Sorokine, A. Myers, J. Moehl, and D. White. "WORLD SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYTICS AND MAPPING PROJECT (WSTAMP): DISCOVERING, EXPLORING, AND MAPPING SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS ACROSS THE WORLD’S LARGEST OPEN SORUCE DATA SETS." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences II-4/W2 (July 10, 2015): 95–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-ii-4-w2-95-2015.
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The application of spatiotemporal (ST) analytics to integrated data from major sources such as the World Bank, United Nations, and dozens of others holds tremendous potential for shedding new light on the evolution of cultural, health, economic, and geopolitical landscapes on a global level. Realizing this potential first requires an ST data model that addresses challenges in properly merging data from multiple authors, with evolving ontological perspectives, semantical differences, and changing attributes, as well as content that is textual, numeric, categorical, and hierarchical. Equally challenging is the development of analytical and visualization approaches that provide a serious exploration of this integrated data while remaining accessible to practitioners with varied backgrounds. The WSTAMP project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has yielded two major results in addressing these challenges: 1) development of the WSTAMP database, a significant advance in ST data modeling that integrates 10,000+ attributes covering over 200 nation states spanning over 50 years from over 30 major sources and 2) a novel online ST exploratory and analysis tool providing an array of modern statistical and visualization techniques for analyzing these data temporally, spatially, and spatiotemporally under a standard analytic workflow. We discuss the status of this work and report on major findings.
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Perrett, Graham, and Patrick Dodson. "ROAD RULES FOR OUR COUNTRY - AUSTRALIA’S CONSTITUTION AND AUSTRALIA’S FIRST PEOPLES." Denning Law Journal 30, no. 2 (August 8, 2019): 179–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v30i2.1702.
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There was a time when most Australian drivers would encounter a particular kind of defaced road sign in their travels. Speeding along the National Highway near the Broome turn-off in Western Australia or dodging kangaroos on the back roads of western Queensland around St George, drivers could see a sign urging them to “FORM ONE LANE” transmogrified by some local wit to read “FORM ONE pLANEt”. Graffiti on signs in a vain attempt to make them say something else can be mildly amusing but completely ineffective. However, while it is dangerous (and illegal) to interfere with road signs, sometimes tinkering with an original symbol can achieve something worthwhile, and substantial.
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Piburn, J., R. Stewart, A. Myers, A. Sorokine, E. Axley, D. Anderson, J. Burdette, et al. "The World Spatiotemporal Analytics and Mapping Project (WSTAMP): Further Progress in Discovering, Exploring, and Mapping Spatiotemporal Patterns Across the World’s Largest Open Source Data Sets." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences IV-4/W2 (October 20, 2017): 199–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-iv-4-w2-199-2017.
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Spatiotemporal (ST) analytics applied to major data sources such as the World Bank and World Health Organization has shown tremendous value in shedding light on the evolution of cultural, health, economic, and geopolitical landscapes on a global level. WSTAMP engages this opportunity by situating analysts, data, and analytics together within a visually rich and computationally rigorous online analysis environment. Since introducing WSTAMP at the First International Workshop on Spatiotemporal Computing, several transformative advances have occurred. Collaboration with human computer interaction experts led to a complete interface redesign that deeply immerses the analyst within a ST context, significantly increases visual and textual content, provides navigational crosswalks for attribute discovery, substantially reduce mouse and keyboard actions, and supports user data uploads. Secondly, the database has been expanded to include over 16,000 attributes, 50 years of time, and 200+ nation states and redesigned to support non-annual, non-national, city, and interaction data. Finally, two new analytics are implemented for analyzing large portfolios of multi-attribute data and measuring the behavioral stability of regions along different dimensions. These advances required substantial new approaches in design, algorithmic innovations, and increased computational efficiency. We report on these advances and inform how others may freely access the tool.
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Kraiński, Maciej, and Mirosław Piotr Kruk. "Ikona św. Mitrofana z Woroneża w zbiorach Muzeum Tradycji Szlacheckiej w Waplewie." Porta Aurea, no. 19 (December 22, 2020): 158–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/porta.2020.19.08.
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In the collection of the Museum of the Noble Tradition in Waplewo, a branch of the National Museum in Gdańsk, there is an icon of St Mitrofan (Russ. Митрофан; Greek Μητροφάνης), Bishop of Voronezh (1632–1703), of Russian provenance, a quite exotic work in the artistic landscape of Gdansk Pomerania. Images of Saint Mitrofan of Voronezh spread in the first half of the 19th century, undoubtedly in connection with his canonization in 1832. His connection with this event is indicated by the date of the goldsmith’s stamp ‘1835’ under the hallmark ‘НޞД’ (Nikolai Lukič Dubrovin, d. 1862), a Moscow sampling master active in 1822–1855. The contractor was ‘A T’ (Afanasij Tikhonov), a Moscow goldsmith active in 1820–1839. It was marked in Moscow (stamp of St George piercing the dragon), silver test: ‘84’. Mitrofan belonged to a group of monks devoted to a harsh life in isolation, ‘holy elders’ whose lives and instructions were to strengthen the faith of laymen and clergy through asceticism, prayer, fasting, and penance. The icon of St Mitrofan preserved in Waplewo is one of the unique and very early testimonies to the newly canonized monk depicted without a nimbus in the icon. The clergy costume indicates the highest third level of the life of the monk, so - -called the great schimnik, so in an extremely ascetic version, without any signs of episcopal dignity, in which even the cross hung on his neck was obscured by a gesture of his hands folded in prayer. From the information recorded on the back of the icon, corrected on the basis of the oral tradition, it follows that the icon had successively been in possession of the representatives (essentially women) of five generations of Polish families: Branicki, Potocki, and then Ogończyk -Sierakowski, the owners of the Waplewo residence from 1759 to 1933. However, the first owner of the icon seems to have been Aleksandra Wasiliewna Engelhardt (1754–1838), wife of Franciszek Ksawery Branicki (1730–1819), Hetman (Commander) of the Great Crown, and the alleged daughter of tsarina Catherine II, who probably gave it to her daughter Zofia.
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Deng, Wensheng, and Ke Zhang. "Translation Idea: What Is Under-appreciated by a Teacher of Scholar." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 7 (July 1, 2020): 777. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1007.08.
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The time of “China’s culture going to global” has new idea for a translator, which refers to that translation is supposed to both highlight Chinese culture and to be readily accepted by others. Drawn on particular part of translation history dating back from Ezra Pound to Howard Goldblatt, first, the paper has explored translation paradigm, strategy and relations centered on translation idea. And then, an intermittent line hidden beneath the translation could be sketchily found in subsequent order: poem-composing upon the original image, national-character-reforming by relying on foreignization, Chinese-culture-transmitting on ST-oriented, Chinese-culture-introducing on TT-oriented, and Chinese-culture-transmitting on writer-translator-receptor balance. They have given rise to various paradigms and strategies in translators’ practice respectively; corresponding with the ideas, the paradigms could be roughly as: monadism, i.e. one-pole oriented, dualism, two-pole oriented and tri-party negotiated, three-poled. Third, among the three patterns: writer-, translator- or receptor-oriented, writer-receptor-oriented and tri-party-negotiated, writer-translator-receptor-oriented, the first two are a kind of problematic, judged by either cultural theory or conventional one; the latter, relatively speaking, is well balanced up to today, which is recognized by three parties. Regrettably, some unfair interpretations or criticism usually fall upon the works translated before translation ideas are made clear. In the end the author suggests that translation idea not be under-appreciated and a historical perspective be a must for scholar to appraise.
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Lê, Phu-Quoc, Alina Ferster, Françoise Vertongen, Christiane Vermylen, Anna Vanderfaeillie, Catherine Heijmans, André Efira, Ba-Cuong Nguyen, Malou Ngalula Mujinga, and Beatrice Gulbis. "National Clinical Data Base for Sickle Cell Disease In Belgium." Blood 116, no. 21 (November 19, 2010): 2659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v116.21.2659.2659.
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Abstract Abstract 2659 Sickle cell disease (SCD) has polymorphic manifestations, it is not well known by many physicians, and patients have often a precarious status. So despite enormous improvements in the understanding of the pathogenesis of SCD, patient care remains difficult.The objectives of this work were to create a clinical data base in order to learn the characteristics of this population, to create a network between practitioners (general, emergency and specialist practitioners), to provide state-of-the art and guidelines, it could be a tool to disseminate information, for education projects and for research; it could also represent a pilot project for other chronic diseases. A practical aspect of this data base is to improve follow-up and treatment of SCD patients by “online access from everywhere”. The SCD clinical data base was a national project and was approved by each local ethic committee; informed consent of each patient was obtained. The first step was to create the electronic database with several security measures (i.e. login, password, and separate administrators). The second step was to introduce patient's data. Patients were followed in different Academic and Secondary Care Centers. Data were collected from the initial contact until December 31, 2007. The data collection included parents' origin, hemoglobin phenotype, origin of diagnosis, clinical events, biological and radiological data, hospitalizations, and types of treatment. Up to date, we introduced 280 medical records (146 diagnosed by neonatal screening). The median age and follow-up of the cohort was 9.3 year (range, 0–44) and 6.5 year (range, 0–32), respectively. The first information provided was the predominance of patients from DR Congo (67.5 %), the occurence of severe events in 84 % of patients (Table 1), the predominance of Hb SS phenotype (90 %) and its severity, the report of septicemia which remain still very worrying (8.2 %), but also that clinical and radiological neurological events are sizeable, and that there is a good response to treatment intensification, particularly to bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and hydroxyurea. Table 1: SCD related events reported in the Belgian data base SCD related events Patients,%(n) Dactilytis 24.3 (68/280) Acute Chest Syndrome 18.9 (53/280) Recurrent Vaso-occlusive Crisis 61.8 (173/280) Anemia ≤ 6 g/dl 51.8 (145/280) Septicemia 8.2 (23/280) Splenic sequestration 7.9 (22/280) Stroke/TIA 3.9 (11/280) Osteonecrosis 5.0 (14/280) Osteomyelitis 2.5 (7/280) The main pathogen remained Streptococcus pneumoniae with no resistant strain despite regular prophylaxis. The second most common germ was Salmonella. Haemophilus influenza concerned older patients and disappeared since the introduction of the vaccination. The incidence of death was 2.86% (8/280). All of them were homozygous for Hb S. Two deaths occurred in the very early childhood due to the no compliance to antibio-prophylaxis in the first patient and poor follow-up in the second one. One death was very sudden after meningeal hemorrhage. Two other deaths happened in the adulthood, one after cerebral hemorrhage and the other one of unknown cause after going back to native country. The last three deaths were due to BMT complications (Table 2). Table 2: Causes of death reported in the national data base Patient Sex Phenotype Age at event Origin 1 F SS 18 m Cardiopulmonary arrest - Severe anemia 2 M SS 26 m Septic shock on St pmeumococcus septicaemia 3 M SS 7 y Secondary Leukemia after BMT 4 F SS 11 y 9 m Obliterans bronchiolitis/MOF* post BMT 5 M SS 14 y 3 m Meningeal hemorrhage 6 F SS 14 y 9 m Hemorrhage diathesis/MOF post BMT 7 F SS 18 y 9 m Cerebral aneurysm rupture 8 M SS 24 y 3 m Return to native country * Multiple Organ Failure In conclusion, the preliminary results confirmed the still high morbidity and mortality of SCD. It is not only a precious practical tool, but it also helps to improve clinical management of patients with SCD, it is a tool to identify risk factors and to tailor treatments. In this perspective, it constitutes a basis for prospective studies in view to validate criteria of disease severity and to adopt guidelines for adequate treatment. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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GILES, PAUL. "Virtual Eden: Lolita, Pornography, and the Perversions of American Studies." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 1 (April 2000): 41–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002187589900626x.
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Native of St. Petersburg, author of works in Russian and French as well as English, and sometime goalkeeper for Trinity College, Cambridge, soccer team, Vladimir Nabokov would not appear to be the most obvious avatar of American Studies in the subject's nationalist phase of the 1950s. My argument, however, is that Lolita, which first appeared in 1955, can be seen as symbiotically intertwined with various classic texts of American Studies that helped to invent and define the field during the Truman and Eisenhower years. At times, the dream of Eden that permeates Nabokov's narrative impels it towards becoming a parody of the early American Studies movement, which harboured within its collective consciousness similar vestiges of an imaginary paradise. More dexterously, though, Lolita makes the theoretical parameters of this movement visible, so that Nabokov's novel might more accurately be described as a metafiction of area studies: a text which holds up a mirror to the implicit assumptions of American Studies and renders them translucent. Just as the process of metafiction can reilluminate ways in which more traditional artefacts have been constructed, so Nabokov's virtualization of American Studies also reflects back upon the established boundaries of other national formations and nation-states, foregrounding the contingent status of their supposedly naturalized values and social markers. In particular, by focusing upon the cultural reception of Lolita in Britain, we will see how the book brings into play troublesome questions about the relationship between formal aesthetics, public morality, and social power. In this sense, Nabokov's perverse reinscription of American Studies might be seen ironically to highlight the multiple dilemmas involved in circumscribing specific national territories for academic study or political jurisdiction.
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Zhdanov, D. A. "Trust as the basis of Partnership between small Enterprises and banks." Finance: Theory and Practice 25, no. 2 (April 29, 2021): 96–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.26794/2587-5671-2021-25-2-96-113.
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The presented study touches upon two groups of problems that significantly affect the development of the Russian economy. The first of them is the creation of conditions for the expansion and formation of small business, which, in particular, is a priority area of one of the national projects. The second problem is the establishment of relations of interfirm trust in the domestic business environment, which is in demand in various sectors of the economy and has become, for example, the dominant topic of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Hence, the paper aims to form, on the basis of trust relations, a model of interaction between small enterprises and banks, which makes it easier to obtain loans. The object of the paper is intercorporate (B2B) trust, and the subject is the improvement of relationships between small businesses and banks on the basis of trust. The methodological basis of the study is an integral approach that combines both institutional and sociological views on the phenomenon of trust, and the traditional economic analysis of the relationship between banks and their clients, small enterprises. The analysis showed, on the one hand, the complexity of the relationship between banks and small enterprises, and on the other hand, the prospects of these clients for banks. There was also demonstrated the role of the B2B trust as a tool for establishing steady mutually beneficial contacts of the subjects under consideration. The author concluded that the model of partnership between small enterprises and banks, based on the establishment of relations of trust between the parties, will stimulate investment processes in small business and support its development. The study presents the organizational solutions for the establishment of the proposed model.
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Norrie, Caroline, Jenny Weinstein, Ray Jones, Rick Hood, and Sadiq Bhanbro. "Early experiences in extending personal budgets in one local authority." Working with Older People 18, no. 4 (December 2, 2014): 176–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wwop-07-2014-0019.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the introduction of individual personal budgets for older people and people with mental health problems in one local authority (LA) in 2011. Design/methodology/approach – Jenny Weinstein is a Hon Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, Professor Ray Jones and Rick Hood are based at the Joint Faculty of Health and Social Care, St George's, University of London and Kingston University, London, UK.A qualitative study is described in which structured interviews were carried out with participants belonging to each service user group. The study aimed to explore the following issues: first, service users’ experiences of the assessment process, second, whether service users wanted full control of their budgets and third, if personal budgets make a difference to quality of life. Findings – xService users (n=7 older people and carers; n=7 people with mental health problems) found the personal budgets system and assessment process difficult to understand and its administration complex. Older people in particular were reluctant to assume full control and responsibility for managing their own personal budget in the form of a Direct Payment. Participants in both groups reported their continued reliance on traditional home care or day care services. These findings were reported back to the LA to help staff review the implementation of personal budgets for these two user groups. Research limitations/implications – Study participant numbers are low due to difficulties recruiting. Several potential participants were not interviewed due to their frailty. Practical implications – Studies of this type are important for constructing local knowledge about national policies such as the implementation of personal budgets in social care. Originality/value – Studies of this type are important for constructing local knowledge about national policies such as the implementation of personal budgets in social care.
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Canady, Valerie A. "First national eating disorders brain bank launched." Mental Health Weekly 28, no. 10 (March 5, 2018): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mhw.31374.
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Morozova, Anna V. "Home Education and Schooling in Russia in the 1910s–1920s: Memoirs of T. Znamerovskaya Stored in the Fonds of the Russian National Library." Herald of an archivist, no. 1 (2021): 301–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2021-1-301-312.
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The article is devoted to the problem of home education and schooling in Russia in the 1910s–1920s. The author draws attention to the fact that this topic has not been sufficiently covered in the study of Russian society, although it deserves to be studied no less than history of various educational institutions. Memoirs remain the main source, as features of family education simply can’t be studied on the basis of official documentation. In this regard, the collections of the Manuscript Department of the Russian National Library are of great use to the historians specializing in the history of childhood, for instance, the recently discovered fond of T. P. Znamerovskaya (1912–77) – Ph. D in History of Art, assistant professor of the history of art department at the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University, researcher, author of numerous publications on the history of Spanish and Italian art of the 15–17th centuries, a woman of many accomplishments, poet, indefatigable traveler, memoirist. The article analyzes her memoirs, which describe the events from her birth to 1929, when she graduated from the “Znamerovsky school.” It uses the methods of source analysis, grouping facts related to the problem of educational activities in the family, comparing them, and producing typological generalization. Drawing on archival materials, major factors of upbringing and education have been identified, which dated back to scientist's childhood and contributed to the comprehensive development of her personality. In the case-study of the Znamerovsky family the author studies the nature of home education in the Russian intellectual’s families in the 1910s–20s. The article demonstrates the primary role of the family in the education, its main pedagogical strategies and specific trends in the educational tactics, which became uncharacteristic in the Soviet education. The emphasis was placed on the humanitarian sphere in order to educate a person with significant creative and intellectual potential. First of all, the children were to study literature, history, geography, foreign languages (in their spoken form), music, and theater. Exact sciences took a back seat. In early childhood, the education took form of games, theater performances, walks, and reading. The school was to systematize the already accumulated store of knowledge. According to the author, the new archival materials bring it home that the Russian intellectuals of the early 20th century developed and battle-tested a tradition of family education and schooling methods that produced humane, creative, and independently-minded people.
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Eggertson, L. "National cord blood bank opens first sites in Ottawa." Canadian Medical Association Journal 185, no. 17 (October 21, 2013): 1481–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4630.
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Twombly, Robert. "Louis Sullivan's First National Bank Building (1919-1922), Manistique, Michigan." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 60, no. 2 (June 1, 2001): 200–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/991704.
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Louis Sullivan's proposals for remodeling the First National Bank Building (1919-1922) in Manistique, Michigan, were executed in part. They reveal his underappreciated ability to bring order to someone else's design chaos by skillfully manipulating the tiniest of details. They also suggest that after his partnership with Dankmar Adler ended in 1895 he refined a vocabulary of façade composition meant to differentiate commercial structures according to program. When newly available archival material is fully exploited, it will likely reveal a good deal more about this neglected building, which was not only Sullivan's sole bank remodeling but also proof that as his career came to a close his ornament remained as powerful as ever.
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Murray, Cathy, and Nicki Mertes. "Swimming upstream—breakthrough productivity gains at seattle first national bank." National Productivity Review 8, no. 3 (1989): 261–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/npr.4040080306.
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Mullan, F. "The National Practitioner Data Bank. Report from the first year." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 268, no. 1 (July 1, 1992): 73–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.268.1.73.
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Morozan, Vladimir V. "The Staff of the St. Petersburg Office of the State Bank and Their Salaries." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History 65, no. 4 (2020): 1044–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.402.
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The article deals with the problems of staffing of the St. Petersburg office of the State Bank and their employees’ salaries. This topic has not been researched in the national and foreign historiography, which excluded the possibility of referencing previously published works. The article is based on the record keeping documents from the Russian State Historical Archive. St. Petersburg office of the State Bank was established in 1894, being a part of the Corporate Administration of the main credit institution of the country. It was one of the largest local branches of the bank that executed the largest credit operations in the country. For this reason, the staff of this office was the most numerous and the most compensated in terms of pay. At the end of 1896 it comprised 463 full-time employees, while 54 more candidates were on the wait list for possible vacancies. Meanwhile the remaining branches and offices of the bank together had a staff of slightly less than 700 people. In addition to full-time employees, there were in the capital branch of the State Bank numerous support staff, including information security workers, brochure makers, janitors, security guards, laundresses and others. Salaries of officials of this unit were the highest. Although formally the official payment in the bank was established by law and in general was the same for all employees of the bank in all its branches; the corporate office of this institution paid their employees more generously by means of bonuses.
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Bostwick, Eric D. "The Little Bank That Could: An Examination of the Historical and Financial Records of One Bank That Survived the Great Depression." Accounting Historians Journal 46, no. 2 (August 1, 2019): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/aahj-52528.
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ABSTRACT Founded in 1910, The First National Bank of Oxford had been in existence for only about 20 years when the Great Depression struck. While other banks failed, this small bank in rural Mississippi survived, and it is still in operation today as FNB Oxford Bank. But beyond merely surviving, the First National Bank of Oxford appears to have thrived in this harsh financial climate: it doubled the balance of its individual depositors' accounts in the midst of the darkest months of the Great Depression. Using historical documents and extant accounting records, this paper examines how the First National Bank of Oxford was able to persist and prosper through the Great Depression. JEL Classifications: E02; G01; G21; G33; M41; N21. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text.
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Klubes, Benjamin B. "The First Federal Congress and the First National Bank: A Case Study in Constitutional Interpretation." Journal of the Early Republic 10, no. 1 (1990): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3123277.
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Bezhoska, Anita Angelovska. "Central Bank Independence - the Case of the National Bank of Republic of Macedonia." Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 6, no. 3 (September 26, 2017): 35–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcbtp-2017-0020.
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AbstractThis paper explores the level of independence of the National bank of the Republic of Macedonia by primarily focusing on the legal provisions that pertain to the key aspects for achieving and maintaining price stability. It provides a historical perspective of the evolution of the independence since the first years of transition. The assessment of the independence of the NBRM is based on the index of Cukierman, Webb, and Neyapti (1992), as one of the most commonly used indices, and the index of Jacome and Vazquez (2005), which incorporates some specific aspects relevant for transition economies. Both indices indicate that the legal independence of the NBRM has increased over the years and that the current legal framework provides a high level of independence. Yet, it should be emphasized that there is a room for further strengthening, in particular in the areas of policy formulation and the process of appointment of the non-executive members of the council of the NBRM. As the indices are based on the legal provisions, they can serve only as an indication of the actual independence of the central bank.
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Jegerson, Devid, and Syed Zamberi Ahmad. "National bank of Fujairah’s digital platform “NBF Connect”." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 11, no. 2 (August 16, 2021): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-02-2021-0048.
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Learning outcomes To understand the goals and key performance indicators of online social media marketing and the primary drivers of interaction in a social community. To analyze the challenges faced by the team during the launch of the new digital platform National Bank of Fujairah (NBF) Connect, interacting with an already online present small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) community. To analyze the concept of community marketing in an emerging country and appreciate the value of digital platforms in customer relationship management. To identify and critically evaluate insights on which ideas for marketing communication activities for NBF Connect can be built upon. To build an operational plan for NBF Connect customer engagement on online social communities. Case overview/synopsis In 2020, NBF launched a new digital platform for SMEs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) called “NBF Connect” with the purpose of redefining banking services for the small businesses sector. The digitalization wave in the UAE was revolutionizing various industry sectors. The global banking industry was already impacted by digitalization and some banks in the UAE, especially in the retail segment (Emirates NBD, 2017), had already introduced many technology-led innovations bringing more effectiveness in the processes and better customer experience. However, the SME banking segment was lagging in terms of innovation. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic situation, with compulsory lockdowns and social distancing, changed the way of doing business for entire industries and increased the pressure on banks for the provisioning of new digital products. Rose joined NBF in the first part of 2020 as Product Owner of the project NBF Connect. The new digital platform was ideated by NBF to be differentiated from other banking products. It was co-created with insights from and regular interaction with the SME community. After the deployment of the first version of the platform in April 2020, Rose realized that the user adoption and commercial results were below par. Over the next three months, only a few users were using the platform with shallow interactions. This case study looks at Rose’s journey as NBF refined and evolved its SME banking platform, including developing and positioning the digital platform in the market, identifying competitive advantages and developing the right commercial strategy to monetize NBF’s investment in the digital platform’s development. Complexity Academic Level Students are expected to have knowledge of the issues relevant to marketing and communication management, product management and business development. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 8: Marketing
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Bielik-Zolotariova, N. A. "Choral dramaturgy of the opera «The Way of Taras» by O. Rudianskyi: symbolism of chronotope." Aspects of Historical Musicology 18, no. 18 (December 28, 2019): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-18.02.
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Background. The last quarter of the 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century, marked in Ukraine by significant social changes, actualized the necessity to turn to eternal spiritual values of national culture, among which Taras Shevchenko’s creativity takes leading positions. During this time, a number of works appeared in Ukrainian musical and stage art that supplemented the domestic “Shevchenkiana” (a total of the works devoted to Shevchenko): the operas by O. Zlotnik, V. Gubarenko, H. Maiboroda, L. Kolodub). The tradition of embodying the image of T. Shevchenko was creatively developed by O. Rudianskyi. The significant role of choral scenes in his opera “The Way of Taras” led to their involvement in revealing the leading idea of the work: to show the main periods of the life of the great poet. Choral scenes are peculiarly organized in the time-space of the opera, gaining symbolic meaning. The disclosure of this symbolism becomes the key to understanding in the modern context of the historical role of T. Shevchenko’s life and work. The purpose of this study is to identify the symbolism of chronotope in the choral dramaturgy of the opera by O. Rudianskyi. The following events from the life of Shevchenko are presented in the opera «The Way of Taras» by O. Rudianskyi (1992, 2nd ed. 2002: the libretto by V. Yurechko & V. Reva): his arrival to Kiev from St. Petersburg after the graduation of the Academy of Arts, the activity in The Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, finally, the arrest and the exile. The composer uses the choral factor in full – almost every stage of the opera has choral episodes, which receive various functions depending on the development of the dramaturgy of the opera. O. Rudianskyi created the images of the Ukrainians peasants, young men and women, children, members of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood, prisoners, soldiers -- by the use of male, female, children and mixed choir compositions. The opera includes: the "Ukrainian world", which obtains its characteristic precisely due to the presence of choral singing; the "Kazakh world", which is represented mostly by solo and dancing episodes; the "Russian world", which is presented through the spoken dialogues, orchestral fragments, choral recitation. The radical contrast in the depiction of Ukraine, the Kazakh steppes, and the St. Petersburg world creates to the chronotope changes in connection with the plot: Taras Shevchenko is free in Ukraine, he is not free in Russia and Kazakhstan. The opera-biography “The Way of Taras” almost for the first time at the Ukrainian musical stage emphasizes in the image of Shevchenko, who was a poet and a painter, the versatile of his creative personality. O. Rudianskyi introduces the method of artistic documentalism in revealing the events of T. Shevchenko’s life path, but along with the real people (Kostomarov, Petrov, Veresai), there are also fictional characters (the caretaker of the steppe – «Berehynia stepu»). Each of the pictures of the opera highlights a certain episode of the biography of the hero. The fragmentary character inherent in the opera by O. Rudianskyi makes it similar the opera “in four novels” «Taras Shevchenko» by H. Maiboroda and the opera-phantasmagoria «Poet» by L. Kolodub. Two female characters in the opera, Oksana and Zabarzhada, presents as a symbol of Taras’s unrealizable love. The image of Oksana – the first love of the poet – is created due to choreography, that makes it possible to define a ballet as another genre component of the composition. The development of the female theme involves both the women’s and the mixed choirs. O. Rudianskyi found a new approach to embodiment of the personality of the artist and poet in the first picture of the opera. This is the moment when T. Shevchenko is painting one of his picture on the bank of the Dnieper, reciting, at the same time, the lines of his immortal verse «Reve ta stohne Dnipr shyrokyi» («The broad Dnieper is roaring and moaning»), which became a folk song. In the fifth picture of the opera it is being sung powerfully by the choir – all Ukrainian people. So, the poet is presented as a prophet and spiritual leader of the people. Inspired by the Poet, people spoke out against the tyranny of the authorities. T. Shevchenko’s prayer with a mixed choir «To me, O God, give love on Earth» («Meni zh, mii Bozhe, na zemli podai liubov») is the reminiscence of the first picture, where the Poet created his immortal verse (its reciting with the vocalization of the choir basses). Conclusions. Thanks to choral scenes in the opera “The Way of Taras” by O. Rudiiyansky, a single space-time is created, in which the composer gives to the choir a symbolic meaning. In the choral presentation, the song about Dnieper River sounds as a symbol of freedom of the Ukrainian people; the effect by choir “church bells” symbolizes the conciliarity of Ukraine; the Marche funebre is the personification of the soldier serve, and the words-symbols “path”, “movement” embody Poet’s fate, inextricably linked with the fate of the Ukrainian people. The symbol of the opera whole is the word-image “path”. The semantics of the path, the moving is revealed both on the stage and on the mental levels: the Dnieper waves are constantly moving, the peasants are going to work, the path of prisoners is endless, and human life itself is the Path...
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Collins, Stephen M., Kevin McHugh, Ken Croitoru, and Micheal Howorth. "The Establishment of a National Tissue Bank for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research in Canada." Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology 17, no. 2 (2003): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2003/589245.
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The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada (CCFC) has established a national bank for tissue, serum and blood from patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Investigators from across the country submit material to the bank together with clinical data. Investigators may access their own patient information from the bank for their own study purposes, but the distribution of tissue is restricted to specific CCFC-funded projects. Currently, tissues are being collected from newly diagnosed, untreated IBD patients to support a recent initiative aimed at characterizing microbes in colonic and ileal biopsies from such patients. In the future, criteria for the submission of tissue will be tailored to specific research questions. This bank is believed to be the first national bank of its kind dedicated to research in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Hansen, Peter. "The World Bank Administrative Tribunal's External Sources of Law: A Retrospective of the Tribunal's First Quarter-Century (1981–2005)." Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 6, no. 1 (2007): 1–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156918507x193113.
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AbstractThe jurisprudence of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal has grown and evolved dramatically over its first quarter-century. Mr. Hansen's study comprehensively surveys the numerous doctrinal contributions provided by external sources during this time. Organized under rubrics suggested by Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, which sets out that Court's sources of law, Mr. Hansen's study reviews: (i) the roles of the contract of employment, Bank rules, international treaties and national laws in the composition of the pactum established between a staff member and the Bank; (ii) the development of binding custom from the practices of the Bank, other institutions and national governments; (iii) the Tribunal's use of general legal principles drawn from other legal systems; and (iv) the Tribunal's use of international and domestic tribunal precedents. Extensively footnoted, Mr. Hansen's study is intended for both academics and practitioners specializing in international administrative law and dispute settlement.
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Rendleman, Richard. "First Derivatives National Bank: a case problem in the management of interest rate risk." Journal of Risk 1, no. 3 (1999): 63–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21314/jor.1999.012.
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Bahls, Loren, and Tara Luna. "Diatoms from Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, USA." PhytoKeys 113 (December 6, 2018): 33–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.113.29456.
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As a contribution to our knowledge of diatom biodiversity and biogeography in the United States, high resolution light microscope images are provided for 139 diatom taxa recorded from lake, stream, spring and glacier habitats in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska. The spring had the highest taxa richness of the four habitats that were sampled, likely owing to the relative stability of this habitat compared to the others. Most of the taxa were described from northern and alpine locations in Europe and North America and are typical of habitats in the northern Rocky Mountains, with two notable exceptions. Surirellaarctica had been reported previously only from locations in the High Arctic of North America, north of 68°N latitude. Gomphonemacaperatum has a disjunct distribution in montane regions of the eastern and far western contiguous United States. This may be the first record of this taxon from Alaska.
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Stern, Karl. "Valuutakontrolli rakendamine Eestis 1930. aastatel [Abstract: Implementation of exchange control in Estonia in the 1930s]." Ajalooline Ajakiri. The Estonian Historical Journal, no. 1 (May 3, 2017): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/aa.2017.1.03.
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Exchange control is generally managed by the national bank. Exporters have to transfer all of their earnings from foreign exchange to the national bank. The national bank considers different factors in redistributing foreign exchange among importers.
After the devaluation of the British pound in the autumn of 1931, cash cover for Estonia’s currency decreased rapidly. The leaders of monetary policy ignored the statutes of the National Bank of Estonia and urgently decided to implement exchange control.
The implementation of exchange control did not go very smoothly during its first years. Hurried implementation and lack of preceding explanation caused problems for entrepreneurs and citizens who were in need of foreign exchange. At first there was a great deal of dissension between the National Bank of Estonia and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The ministry issued import licenses to importers but often the National Bank did not want to sell them any foreign currency (to be used to pay for goods) regardless of their legitimate licenses. The bank’s rationale for this course of action was the low level of cash cover for Estonia’s currency. This fact confirms the opinion prevalent in previous historiography that in its first years, exchange control was implemented for monetary policy purposes. Exchange control influenced almost everybody who needed to use foreign currency. Reasons had to be given even for the purchase of smaller amounts of foreign exchange.
After the devaluation of Estonia’s currency in the summer of 1933, exchange control was used to protect the interests of Estonian foreign trade. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and the National Bank started collaborating more efficiently. National Bank Exchange Commission decisions approving exchange applications demonstrate this as well. The commission accepted almost all applications for foreign exchange after the devaluation. The number of applications nearly doubled during the second half of the 1930s. Cash cover for Estonia’s currency increased and the National Bank’s exchange policy became more liberal. After the devaluation, one of the important criteria for giving foreign exchange to importers was the trade balance between the source country and Estonia. Preference was given to traders who imported goods from countries with which Estonia had a positive trade balance. Comparison of export and import in the 1930s shows that in general, Estonia managed to maintain its trade balance. At the same time, exchange control had a negative effect on incentives. In countries where exchange control was implemented, trade volume recovered more slowly in the latter half of the 1930s than in countries where it was not implemented.
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Rosenberg, Philip S., Neelam Giri, Sharon A. Savage, and Blanche P. Alter. "Cancer Epidemiology in the National Cancer Institute Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes Cohort: First Report." Blood 112, no. 11 (November 16, 2008): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v112.11.40.40.
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Abstract It is now recognized that Fanconi anemia (FA) is both an inherited bone marrow failure syndrome (IBMFS) and also a highly penetrant cancer susceptibility syndrome associated with leukemias and specific solid tumors. However, the spectrum of cancer susceptibility in other IBMFS remains unclear. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) IBMFS Cohort is the first prospective/retrospective study to follow patients with diverse IBMFS using a comprehensive and unified protocol. During 2002–2007, 66 patients with FA, 55 with Dyskeratosis Congenita (DC), 63 with Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), and 16 with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) enrolled in the study and contributed a combined total of 4113 person-years of follow-up. Adverse outcomes ascertained for all patients included bone marrow failure (BMF) leading to death or bone marrow transplant, acute leukemia (AL), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and development of a solid tumor (ST). For each syndrome, we calculated the ratio of observed (O) numbers of cancers versus expected (E) numbers in a demographically matched cohort from the general United States population (O/E ratio). We also calculated cause-specific hazards and cumulative incidence by age of BMF, AL, and ST. For FA, the first adverse event was BMF in 25 patients, AL in 4, and ST in 11; 8 developed MDS. The FA experience was broadly consistent with published reports from our prior North American Survey (NAS) and an independent FA cohort in Germany. In the NCI FA cohort, the O/E ratio was 37 for all ST (versus 48 and 26 respectively in previously analyzed cohorts) and 311 for AL (versus 785 and 868); these increased risks compared with the general population were statistically significant. The O/E ratio for MDS was 4910 (also significant). In time-dependent analysis, the MDS hazard was stable at 0.6%/year. For SDS, no patient has yet developed an adverse event. For DBA, the first adverse event was BMF in 4 and ST in 3 (1 colon and 2 lung cancers); no DBA patient has yet developed AL or MDS. The cumulative incidence of BMF in DBA was 10% by age 30 years. For DC, the first adverse event was BMF in 15, AML in 2, and ST in 5; 5 developed MDS. For DC, the O/E ratio was 10 for all cancers, 7 for all solid tumors, 897 for tongue cancer, and 188 for AL; these increased risks were statistically significant. The O/E ratio was also significantly elevated for MDS (2362). To gain statistical power, we compared DC patients to a pooled cohort of 458 FA from 4 cohorts (NAS, Germany, Israel, and NCI). For DC, the cumulative incidence by age 50 years was 50% for BMF, 10% for AL, and 22% for ST, broadly similar to corresponding values of 56%, 13%, and 30%, respectively, in the pooled FA cohorts. In DC, the cause-specific hazards of ST and AL increased significantly with age, but had a later rise than in FA. The hazard of BMF in DC also increased significantly with age, but lacked the early hazard peak seen in FA. This initial analysis from the NCI IBMFS cohort reveals that as for FA, DC is a highly penetrant bone marrow failure syndrome and a major cancer susceptibility syndrome with numerous events occurring in young adulthood and early middle age. This is the first study to quantify the risk in DC in this way. Continued follow-up of the cohort should clarify the spectrum of cancer susceptibility in each syndrome.
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Jemović, Mirjana, and Borko Krstić. "Comparative Analysis of Financial Stability Policy of The National Bank of Serbia and The European Central Bank." Economic Themes 53, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 142–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ethemes-2015-0009.
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AbstractThe Republic of Serbia has successfully completed the first part in the European Union integration process, being granted candidate status for membership in the European Union (EU). The stage of accession negotiations is in progress, and it includes the full harmonization with the EU acquis, whereby the analytical review of legislation, the so-called screening is being carried out in 35 chapters. The global financial crisis that affected our country in 2008 has required a timely reaction of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) in order to preserve the financial system stability, especially the banking sector as its most important segment. As the financial services sector adjusts within chapter 9, the aim of this paper is to assess the level of compliance of national legislation with the EU legislation regarding banking sector. Along with the regulatory initiatives in the field of preserving financial stability in the EU countries, the NBS has paid great attention to the harmonization of its financial stability policy with the financial stability policy of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB).
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Wasilewska, Barbara, Janusz Najdzion, Maciej Równiak, Krystyna Bogus-Nowakowska, Jacek J. Nowakowski, and Anna Robak. "Morphometric Comparative Study of the Striatum and Globus Pallidus of the Common Shrew, Bank Vole, Rabbit, and Fox." Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy 56, no. 3 (September 1, 2012): 411–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10213-012-0072-7.
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Abstract The morphology of the striatum (St, caudoputamen complex) and globus pallidus (GP) was studied by stereological methods in representatives of four mammalian orders (Insectivora, Rodentia, Lagomorpha, Carnivora). The aim of our study was to give the first detailed morphometric characteristics of the St and GP in the animals. The paraffin-embedded brain tissue blocks were cut in the coronal plane into 50 μm sections, which were stained for Nissl substance. The morphometric analysis of the St and GP has included such parameters as the volume, numerical density, and total number of neurons. The increase in the volume of the St and GP was accompanied by an increase in the total number of neurons and a decrease in their numerical density. The percentage contribution of the GP volume in the corpus striatum shows progressive traits in the common shrew and fox.
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Kohavi, Itai, and Wojciech Nowiak. "THE IMPACT OF WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS ON ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY." Przegląd Strategiczny, no. 10 (December 15, 2017): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ps.2017.1.8.
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Since the 1967 war in the Middle East, The Israeli settlements in the West Bank have always been one of the most controversial topics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article deals with the question: What is the impact of the West Bank settlements on the national security of Israel? The approach used to explore these issues is face-to-face in-depth interviews, during 2016, with 27 high-ranking Israeli Generals from the Military Intelligence (Aman), the National Intelligence Agency (Mossad), the Internal Security Agency (Shabak), the National Security Council (Malal), the Planning Branch of the General Staff (Agat), and the Prime Minister’s close circle of advisors. The interviews revealed three perspectives on the importance of the settlements for the Israeli national security. The first, views the settlements as a contribution to the national security of Israel, the second, views the settlements as a heavy national security liability, and the third, views the question as an irrelevant one, explaining that no one asks if Tel Aviv is important for the national security of Israel. As securitization of political messages is arguably at least as common in Israel as in other countries, with immediate national security challenges, the detailed perspectives of the Israeli National Security Elite (INSE) helps to extract the professional security rationales from the misleading political clatter. The article can be of interest to policy makers and researchers who deal with national security in general and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular.
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Pokoj, Jakub. "Organization of Branches of the National Bank of Poland after World War II in the So-Called “Regained Territories” as Illustrated by the Bank’s Branch Office in Racibórz in the Years 1945–1947." Roczniki Nauk Prawnych 28, no. 2 ENGLISH ONLINE VERSION (October 28, 2019): 53–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rnp.2018.28.2-4en.
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the issues regarding the process of organising branches of Narodowy Bank Polski in the so-called “Regained Territories” based on the example of the National Bank of Poland’s branch office in Racibórz. First, the communist authorities’ attitude towards the banking system was discussed. Secondly, the legislation in the field of banking was analysed, especially the Decree on the National Bank of Poland of 15 January 1945. Then, the archival sources regarding the Racibórz branch of NBP were analysed. The final part of the article was devoted to conclusions based on the research.
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Kharchuk, Roxana. "Shevchenko’s Grateful Readers from Dnieper Ukraine: Volodymyr Antonovych and Mykola Lysenko." Академічний журнал "Слово і Час", no. 3 (March 30, 2019): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.03.33-41.
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This paper outlines the portrait of Shevchenko’s reader from the Dnieper Ukraine in the first half of the 19th century based on the example of two prominent figures of Kyiv (Old) “Hromada” Volodymyr Antonovych and Mykola Lysenko. The first one represented the intellectuals from the Right Bank Ukraine, the second one ‒ from the Left Bank part. Under the influence of the Ukrainian national renaissance Volodymyr Antonovych became de-Polonized. He was the first political Ukrainian who understood the significance of Shevchenko’s poetry for the formation of Ukrainian national identity (this is evidenced by his memoirs and promoting Shevchenko’s works). According to M. Starytskyi, Mykola Lysenko perceived “Kobzar” passionately. Not only did he become de-Russificated under the influence of Shevchenko’s poetry, but also made the music to “Kobzar” a matter of his life.
The author of the paper emphasizes that Shevchenko’s works urged the intellectuals from the Right and Left Bank Ukraine, disconnected after the Truce of Andrusovo, to unite in “Hromada” movement. At the same time the Left Bank intellectuals dominated in “Hromada”. On the researcher’s opinion, this fact may be explained by the high level of education in the Cossak Hetmanate Ukraine. “Kobzar” was a cornerstone for the educational program of Ukrainian ‘narodnyks’ and this whole intellectual movement was based on it. Shevchenko’s works essentially contributed to spreading the Ukrainian idea in Galicia.
There is an opinion, that it was the Galician people who separated the Ukrainian national identity from Russian, while in the Left Bank Ukraine both of these identities coexisted. The author of the paper believes that the intellectuals in both parts of Ukraine in 1860s-1870s had an indistinct national identity. Unlike the Galicians the intellectuals from Ukraine under Russian rule, in particular Volodymyr Antonovych, could not speak openly about Ukrainian self-sufficiency. However Shevchenko (born in the Right Bank Ukraine) was first among Ukrainian intellectuals to voice a thesis about the separation of Ukrainians from Russians, about the distinctive Ukrainian history, language and literature that differ from the Russian ones.
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Smith, M., and S. J. Bentley. "Sediment capture in flood plains of the Mississippi River: A case study in Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana." Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 367 (March 3, 2015): 442–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/piahs-367-442-2015.
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Abstract. To plan restoration of the Mississippi River Delta, it is imperative to know how much sediment the Mississippi River currently provides. Recent research has demonstrated that between Tarbert Landing and St Francisville on the Mississippi, as much as 67 million metric tons (Mt) per year is lost from river transport, of which ~16 Mt is muddy suspended sediment. So where does this sediment go? Two pathways for loss have been proposed: riverbed storage, and overbank deposition in regions that lack manmade levées. Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge, on the unleveed Mississippi River east bank near St Francisville, Louisiana, consists of undisturbed bottomland forest that is inundated most years by river flooding. To determine fluvial sediment accumulation rates (SAR) from flooding, pushcores 40–50 cm long were collected then dated by Pb-210 and Cs-137 geochronology. Preliminary data suggests that muddy sediment accumulation is 10–13% of muddy suspended sediment lost from river transport along this river reach.
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Naicker, Bathmanathan Vasie, and Md Humayun Kabir. "Implementation of South African national credit act and its impact on home loans market: The case of First National Bank." Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets and Institutions 3, no. 2 (2013): 18–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/rgcv3i2art1.
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Since it has been observed that credit granting is a serious problem across the entire credit market, South Africa introduced National Credit Act 34 of 2005 in order to regulate the credit industry and protect credit consumers from becoming over-indebted. The study highlights and examines the implementation of the Act in relation to the South African home loans market, focussing on First National Bank home loans portfolio. The study documents that the current state of consumer indebtedness shows that both credit institutions and consumers were responsible for over extending retail credit. The study noticed that credit industry has significantly managed to regulate the retail credit through the implementation of the Act. Furthermore, the study finds that a new stakeholder such as a debt counsellor has been introduced into the retail credit value chain for debt counselling for over-indebted clients. However, the study recommends that internal forums within banks as well as industry-wide forums should be used in order to ensure that the implementation of a regulation that impacts the entire credit industry is implemented with all stakeholders to limit any possible misinterpretation of key sections of a new regulation.
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Dmitriev, A. L. "Pages of History of the Library for the Employees of the State Bank of the Russian Empire." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 4 (August 28, 2014): 102–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2014-0-4-102-107.
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For the first time there is described the history of creation of the Library for employees in the State Bank of the Russian Empire. The paper presents the experience of reconstruction of the book holding, part of which is preserved in the Library of St. Petersburg State University of Economics.
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Komierzyńska-Orlińska, Eliza. "The Origin of the Polish National Loan Fund and Its Operation on the Polish Lands." Roczniki Nauk Prawnych 28, no. 3 ENGLISH ONLINE VERSION (October 28, 2019): 45–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rnp.2018.28.3-4en.
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The idea of establishing the Bank of Poland as the central bank of the Second Polish Republic and introducing a new currency appeared shortly after Poland regained its independence. At the beginning of 1919, in the economic circles it was believed that one of the initial steps taken by the government would be to establish a new issuing bank in place of the Polish National Loan Fund, which had appeared on the Polish territory in an emergency situation—during the First World War, and which, contrary to the original (both German and Polish) plans survived for 7 years and was transformed after the war into the first bank of issue in the now independent Polish State.
The Polish National Loan Fund established by the Germans as an issuing institution by way of the ordinance of December 9, 1916 establishing the Polnische Landes Darlehnskasse was granted the privilege of issuing a new currency, that is a new monetary unit under the name marka polska. The German authorities were guided by various objectives when creating the new issuing institution—first of all, the aim was to limit the area of circulation of the German mark and to create an instrument that would draw in the occupied area of the Polish territory to finance the war, contrary to the assurances of the occupying authorities that the PKKP would be an institution supporting the economy and banking system of the country—the Kingdom of Poland, whose creation was envisaged after the end of World War I.
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Anatoliev, Mitko. "Some Public Buildings of Vasilyov-Tsolov Architectural Bureau." Sledva : Journal for University Culture, no. 41 (August 20, 2020): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.33919/sledva.20.41.15.
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After a short survey of influences of German architecture on the formation of Bulgarian architectural scene after the Liberation (1878), the paper focuses on the interwar period known for its architectural practices, consisting of two leading architects. The influence of the modernist movements from this period on the classical architecture of the state and public buildings in Bulgaria is traced through the history of Vasilyov-Tsolov Architectural Bureau, its formation and philosophy. The article presents four examples of their significant projects, which are the pinnacle of their careers and largely shape the urban look of Sofia city center, having become its symbols, namely: St. Nedelya Church, Sofia University Library, the National Library, and Bulgarian National Bank.
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Jarova, Olesia, and Mykola Fedoronchuk. "The first in the Left-bank of Middle Cis-Dnipro Area the National Natural Park "Biloosersky"." Chornomorski Botanical Journal 9, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 139–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.14255/2308-9628/13.91/12.
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Webster, D. R., and J. A. C. Humphrey. "Experimental Observations of Flow Instability in a Helical Coil (Data Bank Contribution)." Journal of Fluids Engineering 115, no. 3 (September 1, 1993): 436–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2910157.
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Experimental observations were made for the nominally fully developed flow through a helically coiled pipe of circular cross-section with a curvature radius to pipe radius ratio Rc/a = 18.2. Laser-Doppler measurements of the instantaneous streamwise velocity, uθ, and the cross-stream circumferential velocity, uφ, components were obtained along the midplane of the pipe cross-section. The Reynolds number range explored was 3800 < Re < 10500 (890 < De < 2460) and spans the laminar and turbulent flow regimes. Time integration of the velocity records has yielded previously unavailable mean and rms velocity profiles. In the range 5060 < Re < 6330, the time records of the velocity components reveal periodic flow oscillations with St ≈ 0.25 in the inner half of the pipe cross-section while the flow near the outer wall remains steady. A frequency doubling (St ≈ 0.5) is also observed at some midplane locations. This low frequency unsteadiness is distinct from the shear-induced turbulent fluctuations produced with increasing Re first at the outer wall and later at the inner wall of the coiled pipe. Simple considerations suggest that the midplane jet in the recirculating cross-stream flow is the source of instability.
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A.A.Beksultanov and Z.T. Duyshenalieva. "PROBLEMS IN THE BANKING SECTOR OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC AND THEIR SOLUTION." Herald of KSUCTA n a N Isanov, no. 4 (December 16, 2019): 686–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.35803/1694-5298.2019.4.686-692.
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In each developed state, the Central National Bank is considered the main element of financial resources. It is a legal and authorized, legal and monetary policy. Effective work of the Central National Bank, close cooperation with commercial banks, tightened control over financial markets, leads to the effective development of the banking system. To date, control over the banking system, the role of the National Bank, relations with commercial banks have not been fully studied. This, in turn, is part of the problem of economic and financial sector development and requires comprehensive study. First, changes in the macroeconomic situation in the future will depend on the characteristics of the banking system. Secondly, the speed of introducing new technologies and their distribution in the global financial markets, changes in the financial sector is happening at a high speed. In this connection, the risk of "obsolescence" is growing.
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Bowie, Nikolas. "Corporate Democracy: How Corporations Justified Their Right to Speak in 1970s Boston." Law and History Review 36, no. 4 (August 28, 2018): 943–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248018000160.
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AbstractIn the early 1970s, the executives of the First National Bank of Boston spent hundreds of thousands of the bank's dollars on ads opposing statewide efforts to raise their personal income taxes. When frustrated Massachusetts legislators banned this sort of corporate spending, the executives sued, arguing that “corporations have the same First Amendment rights as individuals.” In First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, the Supreme Court held for the first time that the First Amendment protects all political speech, even ads paid for by a corporation. Surprisingly, the first corporation to take advantage of this decision was not the bank, but the city of Boston--a municipal corporation that spent nearly a million dollars on a new referendum in the fall of 1978.This article discusses the history of the 1978 referendum, one pitting municipal corporations against business corporations. It argues that the referendum and the discourse surrounding it made it intuitive for Bostonians that all corporations, banks and cities, are representative institutions. Corporations can “speak” only by spending money, and the leaders of Boston and the bank justified spending other people's money by pointing to the internal elections that put them in office. But voters were skeptical of the argument that “corporate democracy” alone could guarantee that elected executives spoke with the consent of the people they purported to represent. The article offers a novel contribution to the historiography of modern business and politics: a legal history of how corporations--municipal and financial--became politicized in the wake of evolving First Amendment free-speech doctrine.
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Toan, Vo Phuc. "Efforts of the Vietnamese in finance sector in Cochinchina during the colonial period: the case of Vietnam Bank (Société annamite de crédit)." Science & Technology Development Journal - Social Sciences & Humanities 5, no. 1 (April 19, 2021): first. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdjssh.v5i1.651.
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In feudal society, Vietnamese spent the most care on study Confusim to become courting and agriculture production. Trade and handicrafts were considered secondary in the economic thinking of Vietnamese. When capitalism followed France's conquest path into Vietnam, Vietnamese became a community that adapted slowly to change in the economy. Among difficulties of the reforming thinking and economic activities process, the finance sector was considered the most restrictive field of Vietnamese. In 1912, the Association of Mutual Agriculture was born in Cochinchina became the first experiment of Vietnamese in the finance sector. However, due to the limited financial potential, these agricultural associations depend on loans from Indochina Bank. In 1919, with the rising national spirit in the movement to boycott Chinese overseas, the plan to set up a financial association named the Vietnam Bank had appeared but unsuccessful. Eight years later, the first bank of the Vietnamese was established and called by Vietnam bank, reflecting Vietnamese's efforts to build the financial association independent from foreign businessmen. That is the result of combining the economic strength and national spirit rising in the patriotic movement of indigenous elites in the late 1920s.
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Yaseen, Ayesha, and Sehrish Afghan. "Determinants of Performance Management Practices: A Case Study of National Bank of Pakistan." International Journal of Human Resource Studies 6, no. 1 (February 28, 2016): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijhrs.v6i1.9113.
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There is drive and momentum to implement changes in the public sector organizations and for such changes it is first and foremost dilemma to analyze the performance management system and practices implemented in such organizations. This study explores the performance management system at National bank of Pakistan. It’s a descriptive study and main focus of this study is to identify the flaws in performance management system that are currently prevailing at National bank of Pakistan and suggesting new ideas to bring positive changes ultimately getting competitive advantage through Human Resource Management (HRM). For analyzing the study, a sample of 100 employees has been selected on convenient basis form Bahawalpur Region and reposes are obtained on the fully structured questionnaires and analyze the results through Chi-Square technique.
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Ndaita, Paul Mumo, Thomas Gachie, and Christopher W. Kiveu. "The implementation of Lean Six Sigma concept at national bank of Kenya-operation division." TQM Journal 27, no. 6 (October 12, 2015): 683–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tqm-06-2015-0078.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the level of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) implementation at National bank Operations Division by utilizing the five stages of progress identified by Gygi et al. (2005), namely, initialize, deploy, implement, expand and sustain. A further aim was to determine the impact of implementation so far on various operations within the division. Design/methodology/approach – The study was conducted within the head office. Data were gathered through a questionnaire distributed to all employees working in the operations division via e-mail. Responses were analyzed using SPSS v20. Findings – The results obtained indicated that 99 percent of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the bank has past stages 1 and 2 and are now implementing stage 3. The finding also showed that there was a significant impact on a number of operations including reductions in average process cycle times, reductions in costs, reductions in turnaround times and reductions in error rates. Research limitations/implications – The research findings are limited to National Bank of Kenya Ltd and may not be generalized to other organizations. Further research will have to be carried out to cover other types of organizations to establish general impact. Practical implications – The findings of the study provide evidence of the practical benefits of LSS as well as justification for the adoption and implementation of LSS principles and techniques in the National Bank of Kenya with possible similar benefits for other financial services organizations. Originality/value – This study is the first to report on the implementation of LSS in a Kenya bank.
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Lavrov, L. P., and E. G. Molotkova. "Development of a spatial planning framework on the southern bank of the Neva." Вестник гражданских инженеров 17, no. 5 (2020): 12–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.23968/1999-5571-2020-17-5-12-19.
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The evolution of the system of public open spaces in the historical core of St. Petersburg is considered, taking into account the gradual expansion of their network and the development of the nomenclature of constituent elements. It is shown how a local network, formed south of the Admiralty on the basis of a three-beam highways (P.M. Eropkin, the 1730-s) and orderly watercourses (A. V. Kvasov, from the 1760-s) in the first third of the XIX century got a connection with the central open space of the city, namely, the water surface area of the Neva. It is emphasized that the inept landscaping of the territories around the Admiralty in the second half of the XIX - the beginning of XX centuries not only closed the main facade of the outstanding architectural monument and destroyed the system of squares around it, but also disrupted the cohesion of the citywide system of public open spaces. Insufficient attention to the resulting defect in the urban planning framework is noted, which may be explained by the wish to achieve idealization of the process of urban planning in St. Petersburg and the undeveloped conceptual comprehension of open spaces in the city.
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Zewi, Tamar. "MS St. Petersburg RNL Yevr. II A 640: A Possible Remnant of Another Copy of Saadya Gaon’s Tafsīr by Samuel ben Jacob." Vetus Testamentum 71, no. 1 (January 8, 2021): 120–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12341445.
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Abstract The article discusses one Genizah fragment from the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, MS St. Petersburg RNL Yevr. II A 640, which contains a remnant of Saadya Gaon’s translation of the Pentateuch possibly copied by Samuel ben Jacob in the first quarter of the 11th century.
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Nikitishin, Andrіy. "Influence of monetary policy on the modern mechanisms of tax regulation." University Economic Bulletin, no. 41 (March 30, 2019): 195–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.31470/2306-546x-2019-41-195-202.
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This study examines theoretical and applied problems of the influence of monetary policy on the modern mechanisms of tax regulation. The goal of the study is to determine the connection between the instruments, channels, mechanisms and regimes of the monetary policy of the National Bank of Ukraine and the instruments and mechanisms of the tax regulation, their monetary transmission influence on the budget architectonics. Methods of the study. In order to achieve the goals specified in the academic article a systemic approach has been used to determine the connection between the instruments, channels, mechanisms and regimes of the monetary policy of the National Bank of Ukraine and the instruments and mechanisms of the tax regulation, their monetary transmission influence on the profitable part of the state and local budgets of the country. Study results: the study has shown the influence of instruments of the monetary policy of the National Bank of Ukraine (official exchange rate, bank rate), emission channel of the national currency of Ukraine, organization mechanism of cash and noncash money turnover and the regime of inflation targeting on the tax regulation mechanisms (planning, forecasting, accounting, control, administration) and their elements (taxpayers, taxation basis, tax rates, process of tax calculation, tax payment procedure) which on the whole determine their influence on the budget architectonics (correlation of the profitable part of the state and local budgets) over a short period of time through the mechanism of impulse transmission. Application area of results: organizing and conducting scientific research and ensuring the coordination in the sphere of tax, budget and monetary policy. Conclusion. The results of the study show that the monetary policy of the National Bank of Ukraine, by implementing monetary transmission mechanism as a process of transmitting changes in the use of its instruments, has a significant influence on certain mechanisms and elements of the tax regulation at the first stage of its implementation, and at the second stage the changes in the tax regulation are introduced into the budget regulation and influence the budget architectonics. The whole correlation between the profitable part of the state and the local budgets is the result of influence of the totality of instruments, channels, mechanisms and regimes of the monetary policy of the National Bank of Ukraine on the instruments and mechanisms of the tax regulation at the first stage of implementation of the monetary transmission mechanism.
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Andreev, A. "Calvi nist population of Saint Petersburg in the first half of the 18th century acc ording to the registers of Church parishes." Bulletin of the South Ural State University Series «Social Sciences and the Humanities» 20, no. 04 (2020): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.14529/ssh200402.
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The article presents the results of new study of the St. Petersburg foreigners’ database compiled on the basis of register of Petersburg Calvinist parishes for the first half of the 18-th century. It identifies the national and social structures of Calvinist population, determines some demographic indicators (such as child mortality, national and religious parameters of kinship, the percentage of illegitimate children). The author believes that in the mid-1730s there were more than two hundred adult Calvinists of both sexes in St. Petersburg. The Calvinist population of the capital was approximately 40 % Dutch, 30 % Germans, 20 % French, and 8 % English. It was found that among the St. Petersburg Calvinists there were many people of intellectual professions, such as doctors, scientists, and teachers, who made up at least 7 % of all men in the parishes. The social composition of these parishes was not homogeneous, but it was balanced, because the main categories of city dwellers (artisans, merchants, and military personnel), judging by their minimal shares, were distributed evenly. The article suggests that interethnic and interfaith ties of the St. Petersburg Calvinists contributed to the large-scale Western European acculturation for many Russians without their traveling abroad.
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Cho, Moon-Kyung, Ho-Young Lee, and Dan-Bee Song. "KB Kookmin Bank in Korea." Asian Case Research Journal 20, no. 02 (December 2016): 283–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218927516500103.
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KB Kookmin Bank (KB) was the most prominent commercial bank in Korea. However, KB faced two challenges: declining firm performance and a lack of transparency in corporate governance at the level of its financial group, KB Financial Group (KBFG). By the end of 2012, KB was not a market leader in Korea any more. In addition, a conflict arose between the CEO and some members of the board of directors (BOD) of KBFG when an insider leaked private information to the International Shareholders Services (ISS). The insider reported that certain BOD members decreased firm value by disrupting the senior management’s strategic plan to increase the firm’s long-term competitiveness, which required attention from institutional investors. KBFG had three issues based on the inside information provided and an independent analysis. First, its CEO had been selected from outside KBFG, and he was under pressure to improve firm performance before his term was over. Second, some KBFG BOD members did not represent the interests of the company’s general shareholders, including foreign institutional investors and the National Pension Services of Korea. Finally, the heavy influence of the Korean government was culturally ingrained within the corporate governance structure of KBFG.