In this article we examine the encounter between global human rights ideas and domestic discourses of civil rights and social justice, focusing on processes of translation and adaptation of women’s human rights in two ethnographic sites in New York City. The first site is a citywide coalition...

Is the pricing of index and individual stock options consistent with a factor model of stock returns? To answer this question, we use returns and option prices for a cross-section of stocks and a market index to carry out an integrated estimation of a multivariate stochastic volatility models...

This paper tries to provide a better understanding of the relation between financial audit and information systems audit and to assess the influence the change in financial audit methodologies had on IS audit. We concluded that the COSO Internal Control – Integrated Framework was the...

This paper examines the survival of private property during the early transition to communism in Romania at the intersection of state policies, ideologies, and legal practices. It focuses on petitions contesting urban housing nationalization in the city of Timisoara between 1950 and 1965. I...

Emotions play a fundamental role in the emotional life of an individual because they are closely related to the needs, motivations and may be the origin of mental or psychosomatic disorders. Some studies tend to confirm Darwin's hypothesis that the facial expressions of emotions are used as if...

„Children need to find out how their brain function in order to achieve and process more efficiently new information, what skills are necessary in order to learn, how to approach an exam, how to solve a problem, how different people learn in different ways.” ( Dennis W. Mills, 2002 ) The...

Anxiety is also called “the dissease of the century” because it can be present in each and everyone of us. It is characterized by excesive fear and worries about events in daily life. It was defined by P. Janet as “the fear without reason”. The present paper rewiews the main resulf of a...