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Despite some general guidelines, tips, and calls for international engagement, there are no explicit descriptions of competencies for U.S. psychologists engaged in professional work outside of their own country. This article outli...
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Despite some general guidelines, tips, and calls for international engagement, there are no explicit descriptions of competencies for U.S. psychologists engaged in professional work outside of their own country. This article outlines the rationale for developing such competencies needed to engage effectively outside one's country and proposes broad descriptions of core competencies and specific competencies for teaching, practice,research, and consultation and policy work. This article's authors are U.S. psychologists and cannot speak from the perspective of psychologists working in other countries; thus, although competencies for engaging internationally may be helpful for psychologists in all countries, this article is explicitly written through the lens of U.S. psychologists and is focused on outlining and describing competencies applicable to U.S. psychologists working internationally (Altmaier & Hall,2008). Psychologists from other countries may use the framework developed in this article to gauge the extent to which psychology-specific competencies and examples are generalizable to their specific context.
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This descriptive study, drawing on a unique database, seeks to understand the current level of internationalization of the U.S. academy and what factors dispose individual academics to see their work as internationally linked. It ...
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This descriptive study, drawing on a unique database, seeks to understand the current level of internationalization of the U.S. academy and what factors dispose individual academics to see their work as internationally linked. It finds that there is only a weak link between the disposition of academics to engage in international teaching as contrasted to international research. Additionally some academics do not indicate a notable disposition to engage in international research, but they do engage in international practices such as international collaboration and publishing. In sum, internationalization is a multi-dimensional concept.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between selection committee rankings of internship applicants and the performance of small animal interns. The hypothesis was that there would be a relationship...
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between selection committee rankings of internship applicants and the performance of small animal interns. The hypothesis was that there would be a relationship between selection committee rank order and intern performance; the more highly an application was ranked, the better the intern's performance scores would be. In 2007, the Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery instituted a standardized approach to its intern selection process both to streamline the process and to track its effectiveness. At the end of intern years 2010-2014, every faculty member in the department was provided an intern assessment form for that year's class. There was no relationship between an individual intern's final rank by the selection committee and his/her performance either as a percentile score or a Likert-type score (p = .25, R-2 = 0.04; p = 0.31, R-2 = 0.03, respectively). Likewise, when interns were divided into the top and bottom quartile based on their final rank by the selection committee, there was no relationship between their rank and their performance as a percentile score (median rank 15 vs. 20; p = .14) or Likert-type score (median rank 14 vs. 19; p = .27). Institutions that use a similar intern selection method may need to reconsider the time and effort being expended for an outcome that does not predict performance. Alternatively, specific criteria more predictive of performance outcomes should be identified and employed in the internship selection process.
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Background: There are an imbalanced world power relationships and international knowledge system, as well as cultural differences across nations. Results: Based on the author's international experiences, this article describes the...
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Background: There are an imbalanced world power relationships and international knowledge system, as well as cultural differences across nations. Results: Based on the author's international experiences, this article describes the needs and motivations of international exchange and collaboration in nursing from the perspective of both China and Western countries, examines the ethical and cultural issues involved, and suggests winning strategies. Conclusions: Western educators and scholars must keep these issues and strategies in mind in order to build a productive, mutually beneficial, and sustainable international exchanges and collaboration.
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Outside options can induce bargaining asymmetries that influence the outcome of international negotiations. This article focuses, however, on the impact of a regime-provided inside option on the willingness to cooperate and the di...
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Outside options can induce bargaining asymmetries that influence the outcome of international negotiations. This article focuses, however, on the impact of a regime-provided inside option on the willingness to cooperate and the distributive outcomes reached. Using a new data set covering 417 maritime boundaries, that fall under the Law of the Sea framework, this article shows that the ability to find agreement is closely linked to the distributional outcomes that states are able to realize. Different potential gains from cooperation result in bargaining asymmetries that influence both the ability to settle a maritime boundary and the distributive outcome reached when cooperation succeeds. Our evidence shows that the opportunity to invest in long-term projects that require legal certainty, such as offshore oil, facilitates cooperation and is associated with smaller distributional adjustments.
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Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the nexus between banks' foreign assets and sovereign default risk in a panel of 15 developed economies. The empirical evidence suggests that banks' foreign exposure is an important determi...
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Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the nexus between banks' foreign assets and sovereign default risk in a panel of 15 developed economies. The empirical evidence suggests that banks' foreign exposure is an important determinant of sovereign default probability.Design/methodology/approach - Using data from the consolidated banking statistics (total foreign claims on ultimate risk basis) by the Bank of International Settlements, the author constructs a measure of bank international exposure to peer countries. This measure is then used as the target variable in a panel regression for sovereign credit default swaps. The model includes 15 European and non-European developed economies. Identification is discussed extensively in the paper.Findings - Quantitatively, a 1% increase in banks' cross-border claims increases sovereign default risk by about 0.19%. The relationship is weaker when banks are more capitalised. On the other hand, governments are more vulnerable to credit risk spillovers from banks' international portfolios when having higher debt to GDP ratios.Originality/value - To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the first paper that attempts explicitly to establish an empirical connection between banks' international assets and sovereign default risk. To the author's opinion, this paper represents a contribution to our understanding of how sovereign credit risk spills over across countries. It also extends significantly the existing literature on the determinants of sovereign risk (that primarily focused on fundamentals, market characteristics - such as liquidity - and global factors). This paper ultimately sheds some new light on the role of intermediaries in the international transmission of credit risk, also adding to today's discussion about the linkages between banks and sovereigns.
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Patterned on the highly successful International Geophysical year (IGY, 1957), in 1962, the International Council of Scientific Unions met in Switzerland and established the International Biological Programme (IBP). The basic obje...
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Patterned on the highly successful International Geophysical year (IGY, 1957), in 1962, the International Council of Scientific Unions met in Switzerland and established the International Biological Programme (IBP). The basic objective of the IBP was "to understand the biological basis of productivity and human welfare in the context of global ecological problems" (Worthington, E.B., 1975, The Evolution of IBP, Cambridge University Press). It was at this time in the early 1960 s that the importance of complex ecological systems was being recognized by biological scientists. "Biological productivity" in the IBP was later investigated by multidisciplinary teams of several major ecological systems (biomes) including: tropical forests, deciduous forests, Arctic tundras, grasslands, and Mediterranean systems. At that same 1962 IBP meeting, Joseph Weiner, a prominent English physiologist and anthropologist, proposed a research endeavor to include human populations and their patterns of adaptation to different environments. This proposal for the inclusion of human populations was made with the argument that all global ecosystems were being modified by human populations that had, in turn, adapted to these ecosystems. Weiner's proposal was adopted and, with Weiner as its international Convener (Director), the "The Human Adaptability" (HA) section became a component of the IBP.
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The International Conference, Light and Particle Beams in Materials Science, has grown out of the international series, Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science, which started in Chester, UK in 1994. The last meeting was held in...
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The International Conference, Light and Particle Beams in Materials Science, has grown out of the international series, Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science, which started in Chester, UK in 1994. The last meeting was held in Oxford in 2010, hosted by Diamond Light Source. In view of the increasing complementarity of the scientific programs at Synchrotron Radiation and Coherent Light Sources, and at Neutron and Muon Sources, it was decided by the International Advisory Committee in 2010 that the scope of the conference be enlarged to embrace Materials Research emanating from all of these sources from across the world. LPBMS2013 held at Tsukuba International Congress Center, Japan, between August 28-31,2013 was the result.
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This Article identifies the problems of an Appellate Mechanism for ISDS Tribunals in relation with its possible benefits. We propose the inclusion of certain design features to improve the working of an eventual Appellate Mechanis...
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This Article identifies the problems of an Appellate Mechanism for ISDS Tribunals in relation with its possible benefits. We propose the inclusion of certain design features to improve the working of an eventual Appellate Mechanism and help mitigate problems related to procedural, conflict resolution, and substantive concerns. We finish by identifying the most central problems with a possible Appellate Mechanism, which helps to narrow down options within the ongoing reform process at UNCITRAL. Overall, we illustrate how institutional choice is always contextual and that all institutional options are imperfect and subject to important trade-offs.
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Die Erfolgswirksamkeit der internationalen Standardisierung des Marketing-Mix wird in der Marketingforschung seit einigen Jahren intensiv diskutiert. Die Auswirkungen der Standardisierung internationaler Marken auf den internation...
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Die Erfolgswirksamkeit der internationalen Standardisierung des Marketing-Mix wird in der Marketingforschung seit einigen Jahren intensiv diskutiert. Die Auswirkungen der Standardisierung internationaler Marken auf den internationalen Markenerfolg blieben bislang dagegen weitgehend unbelichtet. Die Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet des internationalen Marketing legen allerdings die Vermutung nahe, dass sowohl positive als auch negative Auswirkungen internationaler Markenstandardisierung auf den internationalen Erfolg von Unternehmen auftreten. Vor dem Hintergrund des bislang geringen Kenntnisstandes zur Erfolgswirksamkeit der internationalen Markenstandardisierung liegt das zentrale Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags in der theoretischen Erklärung und empirischen Analyse der Relevanz der internationalen Markenstandardisierung für den internationalen Markenerfolg.
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