Alternative farming and collective goals: Towards a powerful relationships for future food policies

Based on the significant amount of literature on the concept of spatial, ecological, and social embeddedness in the Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) research, this study describes the main dynamics related to the involvement of non-conventional farmers in their collective ideas and actions.With a comparison between two European regions: Sardinia and the Community of Madrid, the paper identifies different styles of behaviour among organic producers, whether or not supervised by a control body, and highlights the differences and similarities regarding their ideas about how alternative agriculture has an impact on the environment as well as society. Eco-economies and ecopreneurship are also considered. The aim is to see if, and to what extent, these ideas have a collective character, going beyond the limits of the single farm to reach a regional scale and, thus, if there is a basis for the development of future food-related planning policies. Through the information provided by semi-structured interviews, farmers have been divided into categories according to their degree of embeddedness, described through the main themes that emerged during the interviews. Every farmer has been included in only one category according to his or her main preference, which does not imply the ab-sence of a positive attitude towards other categories.The study aims to contribute to the understanding of how AFN values and methods can boost the improvement of biodiversity and landscape conservation through collective actions which have the power to boost and develop rural initiative at a regional scale.     

Effective Post‐Signing Market Check or Window Dressing? The Role of Go‐Shop Provisions in M&A Transactions

This paper examines the use of go‐shop provisions in M&A. We find that go‐shop deals tend to have higher deal premiums and receive more competing bids while the length of the go‐shop period does not affect deal premium and competition. Also, deals are less likely to be completed when a go‐shop provision is included and when the go‐shop length is longer. However, go‐shops have no effect on the completion of high premium deals. We also find that the presence of a go‐shop provision leads to a positive market reaction to deal announcements. Overall, our findings support the proposition that go‐shops reflect the efforts of target managers to fulfill the Revlon duties in the form of a post‐signing market check, which is consistent with stewardship theory.     

证券市场上中小投资者权益保护机制初探

保护投资者的合法权益是证券法的立法宗旨，然而近几年证券市场上侵犯投资者权益的事件不断发生，在一定程度上已经影响到证券市场的稳定。《证券法》等法律法规中的诸多缺漏，使得其未能充分有效地发挥出保护中小投资者的合法权益、遏制违法行为的作用。应不断完善法律法规，强制信息公开制度，规范信息披露方式，并通过设立法律责任维护中小投资...     

金融危机下经济民族主义的回归与思辨

在介绍经济民族主义起源与思想本质的基础上,阐述了金融危机下经济民族主义的三种主要手段:保护贸易、保护资金、保护就业。在对经济民族主义展开理性分析的同时,结合金融危机下国际经济民族主义现状提出了我国的应对建议。     

中国商业保险滞后原因分析

文章简要回顾了中国商业保险的发展历程,并从商业保险的需求和供给两个方面探究了滞后的原因,最后给出了政策性建议。     

中小型企业消防安全现状及解决策略

随着经济的飞速发展,以及政府给予的各项有利政策,中小型企业特别是以生产加工为主的中小型企业更是如雨后春笋般迅速崛起壮大,但也随之带来了诸多消防安全问题。据统计,近年来发生在中小型企业的火灾、爆炸事故占火灾总数的40%左右,群死群伤事故时有发生。文章就中小型企业在消防方面存在的各种问题及应对方法做简要的分析。     

How to estimate market concentration given grouped data

A novel method is proposed of estimating market concentration for the census case in which firms are grouped into size classes and all that is known about the firms in each category is their number and aggregate size. The formula arises as a way of applying an alternative expression for the concentration ratio based upon the original and first moment size distributions of firms. The semi-parametric technique, which includes a method of interval as well as point estimation, is derived, applied and validated using actual and simulated data. It is anticipated that the estimator will be of use in competition analysis as well as in academic research.     

长株潭地区失地农民权益保障现状、问题及对策

伴随长株潭城市群的发展,不可避免地产生了失地农民这一弱势群体。对长株潭地区失地农民的生活、工作、保险与医疗保障方面的现状调查与分析表明,失地农民保障存在方式单一,力度不够,内容和体系不健全,保障缺乏长远性、层次性与差异性等问题,需要采取多元化的保障方式,提高保障力度、完善保障体系等措施加以解决。     

锂离子电池组充放电设备的设计与实现

锂离子电池组组合充电一直是锂离子电池的瓶颈问题,为了提高锂离子电池的性能,采用锂离子电池组串充分流的方式,并且设计完善的锂离子电池组充放电维护系统,实现过流、过压、过充、过放、欠压、短路、反接及平衡电压等多重保护功能;同时完成自身电量检测并以灯显及编码方式给出,上位机显示充放电过程状态及充放电历史数据查询。     

燃气管道防雷设计的基本原则和方法

本文首先分析了燃气管道可能遭受雷击的主要通道,然后提出了堵塞这些主要危害通道的基本思路和基本技术要求,并对燃气管道防雷设计的基本原则和方法作了详尽的论述,为燃气管道的防雷设计提供了实践依据。